Dr. Krishna Palepu

Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration,
Senior Associate Dean for International Development
Harvard Business School

Krishna G. Palepu joined the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1983. He is currently the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to assuming his current administrative position, Professor Palepu held other positions at the School, including Senior Associate Dean, Director of Research, and Chair, Accounting and Control Unit.

Professor Palepu’s current research and teaching activities focus on strategy and governance. Professor Palepu has published numerous academic and practitioner-oriented articles and case studies on these issues.

In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western investors and multinationals, and for local companies with global aspirations. He is a coauthor of the book on this topic, Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution

In the area of corporate governance, Professor Palepu’s work focuses on board engagement with strategy.

In his prior work, Professor Palepu worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate disclosure. Based on this work, he coauthored the book, Business Anaysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements: Text and Cases which won the American Accounting Association’s Wildman Award for its impact on management practice, as well as the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award for its impact on academic research. This book, translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish, is widely used in leading MBA programs all over the world. It is accompanied by a business analysis and valuation software model published by the Harvard Business School Publishing Company.

Professor Palepu has served on a number of public company and non-profit Boards. He currently serves on the boards of Brooks Automation, BTM Corporation, Exeter Group, and Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI). Professor Palepu has a Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors. He has also been on the Editorial Boards of leading academic journals, and has served as a consultant to a wide variety of businesses. He is a member of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Krishna Palepu is a researcher on the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Professor Palepu has a doctorate in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (now Aalto University).

Please visit his personal website at: http://krishnapalepu.org