Cambridge Judge Business School is sad to announce that Professor Sucheta Nadkarni passed away last weekend after a short illness.
Professor Sucheta Nadkarni arrived at Cambridge Judge Business School in 2014 to take up the position of Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management. Sucheta was also Head of the Strategy and International Business subject group and a Professorial Fellow of Newnham College.
Sucheta achieved much in her sadly shortened life. She was a force of nature, with enormous energy and drive and a great love for her work, publishing consistently and regularly in the top journals in her field. Sucheta served as the Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal (2016-2019) and as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Management (2011-2016) in addition to serving on several editorial boards. Sucheta was active in projects with companies such as Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Newton Asset Management and BNY Mellon in the areas of strategic change and leadership.
Sucheta’s main research interests were in strategic leadership and competitive dynamics, as well as gender diversity. In addition, with great enthusiasm, Sucheta embraced the Women’s Leadership Initiative, initially as faculty lead, becoming the Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre in 2017. She established the consistently oversubscribed Executive Education Rising Women Leaders programme that focused on supporting women to aspire and achieve in their professional lives, with the goal of fostering the next generation of women leaders. In addition, Sucheta was Gender Equality Champion at the University of Cambridge (2016-2019). She was very generous in including PhD students and other colleagues in her research and mentoring her students.
Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Sucheta was an Associate Professor at Drexel University and before that Sucheta was Assistant then Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her PhD from the University of Kansas in 2001.
Sucheta won many awards for her work and undertook pioneering work on gender diversity, including the representation of women on corporate boards and in senior executive positions.
Cambridge Judge and Newnham College are working together to plan a memorial service. Details will be made available at a later date, once arranged.
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Firms that boost female representation at the top often use such 'organisational licencing' to become complacent in recruiting more women, says study presented at the inaugural Professor Sucheta Nadkarni Research Seminar. The study was presented 13 October at a webinar by co-author Dr Lionel Paolella, University Lecturer in Strategy & Organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School, in honour of a co-author of the paper, Professor Sucheta Nadkarni of Cambridge Judge, the Director of the Business School's Wo+Men's Leadership Centre who sadly passed away in October 2019. The webinar was the inaugural event in the Wo+Men's Leadership Centre Professor Sucheta Nadkarni Research Seminar Series. Here's an opportunity to see his presentation and read key findings: Firms that increase female representation at top levels often use such a "good deed" as an organisational crutch to become complacent in addressing gender inequality at lower levels, says a study presented at the inaugural Professor Sucheta Nadkarni Research Seminar. The study, which focuses on the top 200 US law firms over a nine-year period, finds that such "organisational licencing" reduces employment offers to women at lower levels and creates only an "illusion of fairness" that merely addresses pressure from external shareholders. The study also finds that the presence of male leaders in organisation-wide diversity committees lessens such detrimental effects. "We demonstrate that the presence of male leaders on diversity committees reduces the organisational licensing effects of gender parity at the top on the recruitment…
Sucheta Nadkarni, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, has been awarded an Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Academy of Management Journal. Sucheta has sat on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal since 2011. Each year the the journal chooses the winners of the award for exceptional service. Sucheta received a plaque to commemorate the award, which reads: "For exemplary performance as editorial board outstanding reviewer" for 2014. The Academy of Management Journal is a flagship management and business journal, and has been published for more than 50 years. The peer-reviewed journal covers all aspects of management and is regularly cited in major business media outlets.…