Jaideep Prabhu
Encyclopedia
Introduction
Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has held positions at Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and UCLA, and was an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research Innovation Fellow (2007-2009). He has a BTech from IIT Delhi, and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and has been a Fellow of Clare College since 2009.
Research
Professor Prabhu has published on topics related to marketing, innovation, strategy and international business in leading international journals. His current research is on the globalization of innovation, and the role of emerging economies in this process. He is particularly interested in how multinationals and domestic firms are using emerging markets as a lab to do affordable and sustainable innovation for global application. His book on this subject, Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, co-authored with Navi Radjou and Simone Ahuja and published by Jossey-Bass, is due out in April 2012.
Editorial Positions
Professor Prabhu is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the senior advisory board of the European Journal of Marketing.
Consultancy
Professor Prabhu has consulted with or taught executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, British Telecom, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), EDS, Egg Banking, IBM, ING Group, Laird plc, NHS, Nokia, Oce Copiers, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, and Xerox among other organisations in Colombia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, UK and US.
Media Coverage
He has been interviewed by or has had his work profiled on BBC News 24, The New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Times, The Times of India, The Economic Times, Anglia News, The Asian Age, The Deccan Chronicle, The Statesman, The Calcutta Telegraph and Exec Digital, I: Global Intelligence for the CIO and HBR.org.[5] [6]
Selected Awards and Honours
Professor Prabhu’s awards include: Runner-up for the Harold H. Maynard Award, 2009; IBM faculty award for research into the impact of new technology on Indian retail, 2009; Winner, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2008; Runner-up, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2007; and Winner, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2004.
Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has held positions at Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and UCLA, and was an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research Innovation Fellow (2007-2009). He has a BTech from IIT Delhi, and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and has been a Fellow of Clare College since 2009.
Research
Professor Prabhu has published on topics related to marketing, innovation, strategy and international business in leading international journals. His current research is on the globalization of innovation, and the role of emerging economies in this process. He is particularly interested in how multinationals and domestic firms are using emerging markets as a lab to do affordable and sustainable innovation for global application. His book on this subject, Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, co-authored with Navi Radjou and Simone Ahuja and published by Jossey-Bass, is due out in April 2012.
Editorial Positions
Professor Prabhu is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the senior advisory board of the European Journal of Marketing.
Consultancy
Professor Prabhu has consulted with or taught executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, British Telecom, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), EDS, Egg Banking, IBM, ING Group, Laird plc, NHS, Nokia, Oce Copiers, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, and Xerox among other organisations in Colombia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, UK and US.
Media Coverage
He has been interviewed by or has had his work profiled on BBC News 24, The New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Times, The Times of India, The Economic Times, Anglia News, The Asian Age, The Deccan Chronicle, The Statesman, The Calcutta Telegraph and Exec Digital, I: Global Intelligence for the CIO and HBR.org.[5] [6]
Selected Awards and Honours
Professor Prabhu’s awards include: Runner-up for the Harold H. Maynard Award, 2009; IBM faculty award for research into the impact of new technology on Indian retail, 2009; Winner, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2008; Runner-up, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2007; and Winner, AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2004.
External Links
- http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/jugaad_a_new_growth_formula_fo.html Harvard Business Review Blog on Jugaad, January, 2010
- http://blogs.hbr.org/finance-the-way-forward/2010/06/do-we-really-need-banks.html Do we really need banks?
- http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20/america-must-embrace-global-innovation/ America Must Embrace Global Innovation
- http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/indian_firms_plug_into_the_glo.html India Remakes Global Innovation
- http://www.csom.umn.edu/Assets/71621.pdf Sources and Financial Consequences of Radical Innovation: Insights from Pharmaceuticals
- http://www.esmt.org/fm/479/ESMT-08-002.pdf Legacy Effects in Radical Innovation: A Study of European Banking