Ravi Dharwadkar

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence & Professor of Management

Ravi Dharwadkar is the Whitman Advisory Council Professor of Management and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He served as the chair of the Management Department from 2015-2024. Professor Dharwadkar is a recipient of numerous awards including Whitman’s Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship, 2002, the inaugural Whitman Research Fellowship (2004-2006), the Teaching Recognition Award of the Meredith Professorship, 2003, the Whitman Teaching Fellowship (2006-2008), Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, 2007, Syracuse University, Poets and Quants 2017 Top 40 Undergraduate Professors, and XLRI (Jamshedpur, India) Distinguished Alumni Award, among others. Professor Dharwadkar received his B.Sc.(Mathematics) from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India, his MBA in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree in Management from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Dharwadkar’s research interests include corporate governance, corporate strategy, and international business. His research articles appear in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Review of Accounting Studies, among other journals. Dr. Dharwadkar teaches courses in international business, organization theory, and strategy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Dharwadkar has served on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal for four terms. He recently served as a co-chairperson of SU’s Internationalization Council and SU’s Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Gender Pay Equity. He has also been a member of SU’s Faculty Salary Pay Review Committee, Sesquicentennial Celebration Steering Committee (2017-2019), and University Lecture Series Committee (2019). Prior to joining academia, Professor Dharwadkar worked for Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company.

Dr. Dharwadkar teaches courses in international business, organization theory, and strategy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was recently recognized as a Top 40 Undergraduate Professor in the U.S. by Poets and Quants. He has been deeply involved in teaching the undergraduate core international business course (SOM 354, Managing in a Global Setting) and the organization theory Ph.D. seminar (SHR 855, Organization Theory) over the last decade. Dr. Dharwadkar has also enabled his doctoral students to publish articles in Strategic Management Journal (Hadani, corporate political activity and firm performance), Strategic Management Journal (Goranova, institutional ownership), Organization Science (Goranova, Khan, institutional ownership), Strategic Management Journal (Goranova, managerial ownership), Journal of Accounting and Economics (Duellman, board characteristics), Review of Accounting Studies (Linna Shi), Journal of Management Studies (Coombes, boards and entrepreneurship), Business and Society (Hadani, family ownership), Journal of Business Research (Hadani and Goranova, stock options repricing), Journal of Business Research (Khan, institutional ownership), Human Relations (Das: social identity)and Human Resource Management Review (Das: stock options) and received numerous awards for his co-authored research (Das: Best International Paper, OB, AOM 2007; Goranova: Distinguished Paper, BPS, AOM 2008; Mullins: Bill Nobles Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2011; Arora: Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award, BPS, AOM 2012, and Shi: Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association (MW), 2013).

Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, International Business

Research Impact (1/30/2025)

UTD Publications: 11
Web of Science: 2,372 citations, 2,354 without self-citations
Scopus: 2,716 citations
Google Scholar: 8,208 citations