Ranjay Gulati  is the Michael L. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is the incoming President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management, the leading global academic forum for research and scholarship in Business Strategy. He is also a fellow of the World Economic Forum.

Professor Gulati is a widely recognized specialist on strategic and organizational issues in firms, including the creation and management of intra and inter-firm partnerships and achieving short term and long term growth by organic means, as well as through mergers, acquisitions, and alliances. He is the co-author of two books – “Techventure: New Rules

for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley” (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), and “Kellogg on Innovation and Technology” (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). His next book, "A Blueprint for Building Customer Focused Organizations" focuses on the transformation processes that enable firms to engage with their customers more effectively.

Professor Gulati’s research has been published in leading journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategy and Business, and Academy of Management Journal. Professor Gulati sits on the editorial board of several leading business journals and was the editor of a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on Alliances and Strategic Networks in 2000.

Professor Gulati teaches several courses in his areas of expertise including Leading Market Driven Organizations and Strategy Implementation. He has also directed several successful executive programs on such topics as – Managing Strategic Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions, Managing Customer Relationships, Sustaining Competitive Advantage, and Winning Strategies for E-Business.

Professor Gulati has received several awards for his research and teaching. In 2003 he received the Professor of the Year Award for his teaching in the Kellogg-HKUST executive MBA program. In 1998-1999 he received the Chairs' Core Teaching Award at Kellogg. In 1994, he received the Free Press Award for the best dissertation in Business Policy and Strategy and in 1996 the West Press Award for the best research in Organization and Management Theory at the Academy of Management. He was a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and also a Sloan Foundation Fellow.

Professor Gulati advises and speaks to major corporations worldwide. Some of his speaking and consulting clients include: General Mills, Abbott Laboratories, Moore Corporation, Mitchell Corporation, Swissair, Discount Bank and Trust Company, Walter Kluwer Publishing, Credit Suisse First Boston, Baker and McKenzie, Honeywell, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Corn Products International, Microsoft, and April Group. He also serves on the advisory boards of several startup companies.

Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard Business School, a Master’s Degree in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively.