The Brand Called You Making India a great nation | Prof Pradip Khandwalla | Former Director | IIM Ahmedabad | Author and Poet |
Prof. Pradip N Khandwalla is an eminent management thinker and writer. He has authored books of poems in English and Gujarati and has translated several volumes of poems and stories from English into Gujarati and vice versa.
00:37- About Prof Pradip Khandwalla and his journey.
Prof Pradip Khandwalla is an organization theorist and a management expert by training.
Born in Mumbai, India, he became a chartered accountant in 1964, did his MBA from Wharton School, US, his PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University, and then taught at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, for a few years.
His avid interest in India's socio-economic transformation led him to return to India in 1975 to teach at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).
He later held the L&T Chair in Organizational Behaviour at IIMA and served as its director.
He retired from IIMA in 2002. Khandwalla has authored over a dozen books, notably on the design of organizations, turnaround management, styles of management, effective management of state-owned enterprises, corporate greatness and excellent management of the government.