J Ramachandran

J Ramachandran was a professor of corporate strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. 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 Bain fellow in India.

Education
Ramachandran is a certified chartered accountant and cost accountant. He is an Associate Member (ACA) of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Associate Member (ACMA) of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICMAI) and Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He is a fellow of IIM Ahmedabad.

Academic positions
He joined IIMB in 1992. He is currently a senior professor of corporate strategy. He is the Harry Reynolds Visiting International Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Fellow at INSEAD, France and Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Corporate positions
He served as the Chairman of Board of Directors at Reddington India and Aditya Auto Products and Engineering. He also served in the boards of Reliance Communications, Sasken Communication Technologies, MVA Group International, All Cargo Logistics, Antrix Corporation and Tejas Networks. He is a member of the editorial Board of Journal of Entrepreneurship and Governance Council of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad.

Cases and papers
He has authored more than 100 papers and cases which have been published in journals across the world including Harvard Business Review.