Ashish Nanda

Ashish Nanda
Director
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Assumed office
September 2013
Personal details
Nationality American
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Harvard University
Occupation Professor

Ashish Nanda is an educationalist who is Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad,[1] a position he assumed in September 2013.[2] He was hired for the post by A. M. Naik, chairman of Larsen & Toubro and of the board of the institute.[3]

Nanda graduated from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad before working for Tata Motors.[4] He was then recruited to Harvard Business School's economics PhD program.[4]

He is a coauthor with Tom DeLong of Professional Services: Cases & Text, published in 2003.[5]

Education

Nanda has studied at two of India's best known institutions. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1976 for a five-year degree course in Electrical Engineering, which he successfully completed in 1981. He received the President of India Gold Medal twice. In the same academic year, he joined IIM, Ahmedabad, for a two-year post-graduate diploma in management.[6] He received his A.M degree in Economics and Ph.D in Business Economics, both from Harvard University. Nanda worked for five years at Tata Motors, prior to his Ph.D.

Professional life

Nanda taught at Harvard Business School for 13 years before moving to Harvard Law School to design and lead an executive business program for lawyers.[4][7]

His appointment to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad was delayed for six months as the overseas background check took more time than expected.[4]

He was also appointed to be a member of the Executive Council of the Gujarat National Law University

Awards and recognition

Nanda received the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award in October, 2015 for his work in the field of Management Education.[8]

In February 2016, he received Acharya Shreshtha Award for Best Teacher in Management from MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions, Pune.[9]

In March 2016, IILM conferred its 10th Distinguished Global Thinker Award on Prof. Ashish Nanda.[10]

Personal life

He is married to Shubha Nanda, a dentist and dental teacher.[4] They have one son who is now attending Columbia medical school in New York, New York.[4][11] Shubha played a key role in his taking up the assignment as the director of IIM, Ahmedabad, as initially Nanda was unsure of leaving his established career in the US and return to his alma mater.[12]

References

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  3. ↑ The Economic Times
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shyamal Majumdar & Vinay Umarji (September 27, 2013). "Lunch with BS: Ashish Nanda". Business Standard. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  5. ↑ DeLong, Thomas; Nanda, Ashish (2003). Professional Services: Text and Cases. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN 9780072559200. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Business-school professors in Mint
  7. ↑ http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10612/Nanda
  8. ↑ http://iitdalumni.com/node/93831
  9. ↑ "Bharat Asmita National Awards-2016 held". The Indian Express. 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  10. ↑ "IILM confers 10th distinguished Global Thinker Award on Professor Ashish Nanda, Director IIM Ahmedabad". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  11. ↑ "Ashish Nanda: IIM-A Director". Times of India. 2013-03-18.
  12. ↑ "Ashish Nanda’s global blueprint for IIM-Ahmedabad" in The Economic Times

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