Doing Business & Managing
Enterprises in China

Anil Gupta, Guest Speaker

Anil K. Gupta is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization, Research Director-Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, and Research Director-Center for International Business Education & Research at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland-College Park. During 2000-01, he also served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. He earned a Doctor of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.

Professor Gupta specializes in the field of strategy, globalization, innovation & entrepreneurship, and organization design. He has published over 60 papers including several in major journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Strategy, Academy of Management Executive, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Venturing, and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.

Professor Gupta is currently writing a new book titled The Battle for China and India (coauthored with Haiyan Wang; expected publication in 2008). He is the coauthor or coeditor of three books: Smart Globalization (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Global Strategy and Organization (John Wiley, 2003), and The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage (Jossey-Bass, 2001). He has been recognized by Business Week as an Outstanding Professor in its Guide to the Best B-Schools.

He has also worked as a consultant with several corporations including National Semiconductor, IBM, Marriott, First Data Corporation, Monsanto, ABB, Lockheed Martin, McCormick, Norrell Services, TeliaSonera, Metso, UPM-Kymmene, Raisio, Finnair, Cemex, Penoles, and IRI Group, Italy. He is an elected member of the board of directors of NeoMagic Corporation (NASDAQ, a semiconductor company) and TiE-DC, the premier organization of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has earlier served on the boards of directors of Omega Worldwide (NASDAQ, an asset management company) and Vitalink Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (NYSE). He is also a member of the board of advisors for Asia Silicon Valley Connection (San Mateo, CA), RavGen (a Maryland-based biotechnology venture), Zolon Tech (a Virginia-based software and services venture), and VennWorks (a New York based creator of new technology companies).

Besides Stanford University, Professor Gupta has also served as a visiting professor at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, Bocconi Business School (Milan, Italy), Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), and IPMI (Jakarta, Indonesia) and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Red Herring, ComputerWorld, CIO Magazine, Geomarkets.com as well as the leading business journals in Finland, Italy, India, and China. During January-February 1998, Financial Times published four of Professor Gupta's papers in a series on "Mastering Global Business."