Background

Professor Gupta holds a DBA from Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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 (Jossey-Bass, 2001).

Professor Gupta has been recognized as Outstanding Faculty in Business Week's Guide to the Best B-Schools. In 2000, he was listed in The Academy of Management Journal's Hall of Fame under the honorable mention category. He also received the campus-wide 1997-98 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award from The University of Maryland at College Park. In 1994, he was ranked by Management International Review as one of the "Top 20 North American Superstars" for research in strategy and organization. Professor Gupta received the 1991 Glueck Best Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management, the 1989 and 1998 Allen Krowe Award for Excellence in Teaching from The University of Maryland, and the 1984 Broderick Prize for Excellence in Research from Boston University.

Professor Gupta's professional interests center on innovation and entrepreneurship, managing globalization, managing in the digital age, and managing intra- and inter-firm alliances.

He has published over 60 papers, including several in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Strategy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Venturing, and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.

Professor Gupta has worked as a consultant with several corporations including IBM, National Semiconductor, Marriott, First Data Corporation, Monsanto, ABB Group, Lockheed Martin, McCormick, Norrell Services, Sonera, Metso, UPM-Kymmene, Raisio, Finnair, Cemex, Industrias Peñoles, and IRI Group Italy. He is an elected member of the board of directors of NeoMagic Corporation (NASDAQ) and has earlier served on the boards of Omega Worldwide (NASDAQ) and Vitalink Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE).