J Ramachandran was a

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of corporate strategy at the

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. He teaches corporate strategy and policy making. He was named as one of the nine best business school professors in India by ''Business Today'' in 2006. He is the first

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fellow in India.

Education

Ramachandran is a certified chartered accountant and cost accountant. He is an Associate Member (ACA) of

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(ICAI) and Associate Member (ACMA) of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICMAI) and

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(ICSI). He is a fellow of IIM Ahmedabad.

Career

Academic positions

He joined

IIMB Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore or IIMB) is a public business school and Institute of National Importance located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and IIM ...

in 1992. He is currently a senior professor of corporate strategy. He is the Harry Reynolds Visiting International Professor,

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and a Visiting Fellow at INSEAD,

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and Carlson School of Management,

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Corporate positions

He served as the

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at Reddington India and Aditya Auto Products and Engineering. He also served in the boards of

Reliance Communications Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) was an Indian mobile network provider headquartered in Navi Mumbai that offered voice and 2G and 3G and 4G data services. In February 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy as it was unable to sell asse ...

, Sasken Communication Technologies, MVA Group International, All Cargo Logistics,

Antrix Corporation Antrix Corporation Limited ( ISO 15919: ) is an Indian government-owned company under the administrative control of the Department of Space. It was incorporated in September 1992, as a commercial and marketing arm of ISRO by prompting, comme ...

and Tejas Networks. He is a member of the editorial Board of Journal of Entrepreneurship and Governance Council of Mudra Institute of Communications,

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Cases and papers

He has authored more than 100 papers and cases which have been published in journals across the world including

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References

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