World’s Best B-School Professors: Sridhar Balasubramanian

UNC’s Sridhar Balasubramanian is one of the world’s best business school profs

Sridhar Balasubramanian

Kenan-Flagler Business School

Claim to Fame: Marketing expert; outstanding teaching

Age: 43

Education:

Yale University, PhD, Management

Indian Institute of Management, MBA

Indian Institute of Technology, BTech

At Kenan-Flagler Since: 2001

Before Kenan-Flagler: University of Texas at Austin

Fun Fact: My name is the telemarketer’s worst nightmare

If I wasn’t teaching, my dream job would be: Living in a cottage on the beach in Goa, India, writing hardcore pulp fiction while surrounded by sun, sand, and sea.

Best part of the job: Being paid to think, and to shape minds and lives.

Worst part of the job: Not finding closed-form solutions to my game-theoretic models!

Sridhar Balasubramanian, or Dr. B as he is commonly known, is associate dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School and a university appointed distinguished scholar and professor of marketing. Dr. B, as he is called, pursues research interests that are wide-ranging; touching on the areas of marketing strategy, customer focus, innovation, growth strategy, and the management of competition. His specialty lies in merging tools and concepts of market-focus and customer-focus with other functional business areas such as human resource management.  More than anything, Professor Balasubramanian is an all-star teacher. He has been designated an MBA Master Teacher, has been honored for excellence in PhD teaching, and he received a similar award for outstanding dedication in Kenan-Flagler’s MBA core. At the Executive MBA level, he was the recipient of the Best Teacher award four times.

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