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Jaideep Prabhu

Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise
Director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB)
Fellow of Clare College

BTech (IIT Delhi), PhD (Univ. of Southern California)

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Professional Experience

Jaideep 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 Science and the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the senior advisory board of the European Journal of Marketing.

He has consulted with or taught executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, British Telecom, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), EDS, Egg, IBM, ING Bank, Laird plc, the NHS, Nokia, Oce Copiers, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone and Xerox among other organisations in Colombia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, UK and US. He has been interviewed by or has had his work profiled on BBC News 24, The New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Times of India, The Economic Times, Anglia News, The Asian Age, The Deccan Chronicle, The Statesman, The Calcutta Telegraph, Exec Digital and elsewhere.

Previous Appointments

Prior to his current position, Jaideep Prabhu was Professor of Marketing and Director of Research at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London; University Lecturer and University Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Judge Business School (at the time the Judge Institute of Management), University of Cambridge; Assistant Professor and Fellow at the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, the Netherlands; and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA.

Awards and Scholarships

• IBM Faculty Award for Research on Innovation and Indian Retail, 2009
• Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research, Innovation Fellowship, 2007-2009
• 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
• AMA TechSIG Award for the Best Article on Technology or Innovation, 2004

Research Interests

International business, marketing, strategy and innovation. Specific interests include: cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in high-technology contexts such as banking, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; the role of firm culture in driving innovation in firms across nations; how multinational firms organise their innovation activities worldwide; the forces that drive R&D location decisions and the factors that influence the performance implications of these decisions; the internationalisation of firms from emerging markets; and innovation in emerging markets.

Jaideep Prabhu is a member of the International Business research group and the Strategy & Marketing teaching group.

Selected Publications

Prabhu, J.C., Chandy, R.K. and Ellis, M.E. (2005) "Acquisition and innovation in high-tech firms: poison pill, placebo, or tonic?." Journal of Marketing, 69(1): 114-130 (DOI: 10.1509/jmkg.69.1.114.55514)

Chandy, R., Hopstaken, B., Narasimhan, O. and Prabhu, J. (2006) "From invention to innovation: conversion ability in product development." Journal of Marketing Research, 43(3): 494-508 (DOI: 10.1509/jmkr.43.3.494)

Yadav, M.S., Prabhu, J.C. and Chandy, R.K. (2007) "Managing the future: CEO attention and innovation outcomes." Journal of Marketing, 71(4): 84-101 (DOI: 10.1509/jmkg.71.4.84)

Sorescu, A.B., Chandy, R.K. and Prabhu, J.C. (2007) "Why some acquisitions do better than others: product capital as a driver of long-term stock returns." Journal of Marketing Research, 44(1): 57-72 (DOI: 10.1509/jmkr.44.1.57)

Rao, R.S., Chandy, R.K. and Prabhu, J.C. (2008) "The fruits of legitimacy: why some new ventures gain more from innovation than others." Journal of Marketing, 72(4): 58-75 (DOI: 10.1509/jmkg.72.4.58)

Tellis, G.J., Prabhu, J.C. and Chandy, R.K. (2009) "Radical innovation across nations: the preeminence of corporate culture." Journal of Marketing, 73(1): 3-23

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