Ashish Nanda is an Indian educationalist who is Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, a position he assumed in September 2013. He was hired for the post by A. M. Naik, chairman of Larsen & Toubro and of the board of the institute.
Nanda graduated from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad before working for Tata Motors. He was then recruited toHarvard Business School's economics PhD program.
He is a coauthor with Tom DeLong of Professional Services: Cases & Text, published in 2003
Education
Nanda has studied at two of India's best known institutions. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1976 for a four-year degree course in Electrical Engineering, which he successfully completed in 1981. In the same academic year, he joined IIM, Ahmedabad, for a two-year post-graduate diploma in management.[6]
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.
His appointment to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad was delayed for six months as the overseas background check took more time than expected.[4]
Personal Life
He is married to Shubha Nanda, a dentist and dental teacher. They have one son who is now attending Columbia medical school in New York, New York. 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.
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