Ravi Dharwadkar

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence & Professor of Management
Ravi Dharwadkar
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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. His academic leadership interests center on advancing research and teaching excellence, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, preparing students for an increasingly complex global business environment, and building effective partnerships among faculty, students, alumni, employers, and the broader university community.
Professor Dharwadkar served as Chair of the Management Department at Syracuse University from 2015 to 2024. His university service includes co-chairing the Internationalization Council and the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Gender Pay Equity, as well as serving on the Faculty Salary Pay Review Committee and other university-wide committees. These roles have informed his perspective on faculty development, academic governance, institutional priorities, and the challenges of leading complex academic organizations.
His research focuses on corporate governance, international business, and corporate strategy. His publications appear in leading scholarly journals, including 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. His current research includes work on the sources and modes of firm growth and mis-measurement of research and development intensity. His teaching increasingly focuses on the implications of geopolitics for corporate strategy, connecting business education to changes in the global economic and political environment.
Professor Dharwadkar has received numerous awards for research, teaching, and graduate education, including Whitman’s Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship, the Meredith Professorship Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University’s Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, and recognition among Poets&Quants’ Top 40 Undergraduate Professors in 2017. He is also a recipient of the XLRI Distinguished Alumni Award.
Before entering academia, he worked for Reliance Industries in India. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Cincinnati.
Ph.D., Management, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Dharwadkar teaches international business, organization theory, and strategy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His newest course, MGT 400, examines the geopolitical implications for strategy. He was named one of the Top 40 Undergraduate Professors in the U.S. by Poets & Quants in 2017.
Over the past decade, Dr. Dharwadkar has been closely involved in teaching the undergraduate core course in international business (SOM 354, Managing in a Global Setting) and the doctoral seminar in organization theory (SHR 855, Organization Theory).
He has also mentored doctoral students whose research has appeared in leading journals, including:
Strategic Management Journal: Hadani (corporate political activity and firm performance); Goranova (institutional ownership); Goranova (managerial ownership)
Organization Science: Goranova and Khan (institutional ownership)
Journal of Accounting and Economics: Duellman (board characteristics)
Review of Accounting Studies: Shi (board characteristics)
Human Resource Management: Mullins (institutional & family ownership)
Human Relations: Das (social identity)
His students have earned numerous honors, including:
Das: Best International Paper, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management (AOM), 2007; Goranova: Distinguished Paper, Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division, AOM, 2008; Mullins: Bill Nobles Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2011; Arora: Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award, BPS Division, AOM, 2012; Shi: Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association (Midwest Region), 2013
Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, International Business

Research Impact (1/27/2026)

UTD Publications: 11
Web of Science: 2,533 citations, 2,483 without self-citations
Scopus: 2,932 citations
Google Scholar: 8,617 citations

Papers

  • Principal costs under common agency

    Basu, A., Goranova, M.

  • Firm growth and governance: Running to stand still?

    Balasubramanian, N.

Publications

  • Dec 10, 2022

    Received - Distinguished Alumni Award

    XLRI, Jamshedpur, India
  • Dec 01, 2022

    Received - Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal

    Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2021

    Received - Whitman Advisory Council Professor

    Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 2020

    Received - 4th Term Membership of ERB of Academy of Management Journal

    Academy of Management
  • Dec 17, 2018

    Received - Invited Panelist for Showcase Governance Panel

    Strategic Management Society
  • Dec 01, 2018

    Received - Highly Cited Papers

    Academy of Management
  • Sep 18, 2017

    Received - Poets and Quants Top Forty Undergraduate Professor 2017

    Poets and Quants
  • Jan 01, 2017

    Received - Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

    Syracuse University
  • Feb 01, 2016

    Nominated - Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award

    Journal of Academy of Marketing Science
  • Mar 15, 2015

    Received - Academy of Management Journal, Best Paper Selection Committee, 2015

    Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2013

    Received - Best Paper Award

    American Accounting Association, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meetings
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Received - Whitman Teaching Fellow

    Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Nominated - Distinguished Paper Award and Nominee for the Glueck Best Paper Award

    Academy of Management
  • Aug 01, 2007

    Received - Best International Paper & Nominee for the Dexter Award

    Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2007

    Received - Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award

    Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 2004

    Received - Whitman Research Fellow

    Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 2003

    Received - 2002-2003 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award

    Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 2002

    Received - Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship

    Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
  • Jan 01, 1999

    Received - Outstanding Empirical Paper Award

    Eastern Academy of Management

  • Viscerally Aware

    April 17, 2019 Daily Orange

  • Syracuse University women faculty generally earn less than men faculty, report shows

    January 18, 2018 Daily Orange

  • Five Top Professors, Five Cool Summer Vacations

    October 11, 2017 Poets and Quants for Undergraduates