He was a visiting professor at Stanford University and Dartmouth College and received a doctorate from the Harvard Business School. Anil is a recipient of the 2010 “Best Professor in Strategic Management” award from CMO Asia. In addition, he was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for research in strategy and organisation. He is one of only 3 professors in the world to have been elected by his academic peers as a Lifetime Fellow of all three of the most prestigious bodies in the field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business.

Dr. Gupta studies how the rise of emerging economies is changing the structure of the global economy. He also talks about the key questions that business leaders must address in order to develop winning strategies to go global and to transform global presence into global competitive advantage.

Topics

• Global Megatrends and Game Changers
• Emerging Markets, Diverging Futures
• Asia’s Rise and Its Implications
• Getting China and India Right
• Global Strategy & Organization
• Cultivating A Global Mindset
• Smart Globalization – Building and Leveraging Global Presence
• Building and Exploiting Global Presence

Publications

• The Silk Road Rediscovered (wiht Girija Pande and Haiyan Wang) (2014)
• Global Strategies for Emerging Asia (with Toshiro Wakayama and U. Srinivasa Rangan) (2012)
• Getting China and India Right (with Haiyan Wang) (2009)
• The Quest for Global Dominance (with V. Govindarajan and Haiyan Wang) (2008)
• Smart Globalization (2003)
• Global Strategy and Organization (2003)

Awards

• Ranked in Thinkers50 2021 ranking of ‘Management Thinkers’ list.
• Ranked by Thinkers50 once again (in 2015) as one of the “world’s 50 most influential management thinkers”
• Ranked by UK-based Hot Topics as one of the world’s “100 most influential professors of entrepreneurship” (based on nominations by tech entrepreneurs)
• Named by The Economist as one of the world’s “rising superstars” for research on emerging markets “Best Professor in Strategic Management”
• Award from CMO Asia Recognized by BusinessWeek as an Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools
• Inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame
• Listed by Management International Review as a “North American Superstar” for research in strategy and organization
• Getting China and India Right received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards’ Silver Prize
• Received the Glueck Best Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management
• Received the “Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award” from The University of Maryland – the highest campus-level recognition given by the university to any of its professors
• Two-time winner of the Allen J. Krowe Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park
• Received the Broderick Prize for Excellence in Research, Boston University

Testimonials

“One of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization.”