Dr. Ankush Chopra Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Fribourg, Switzerland

• Obtained funding from the Swiss government for the research project spanning over one hundred companies across Europe and North America • As the principal investigator, led the research to understand the drivers of the life cycle of an idea and explored why some ideas die whereas others thrive within organizations. • Designed and delivered high impact executive education programs for corporate clients in Europe, Americas, and Asia.• Designed and delivered EMBA programs in Strategy and Innovation for mid career professionals across Europe and Americas. • Won ‘Best paper award’ for the research paper titled “Deer in the headlights: Response of incumbent firms in the face of profit-destroying innovations” by the international conference for innovation and management (Honolulu, 2014). • Published author of the book “The Dark Side of Innovation.” Featured in top 100 marketing books on Amazon in the US and Germany. Based on extensive research across dozens of firms in several industries, the book focuses on the cognitive barriers that often result in the death of firms. The book proposes a strategic solution for firms to deal with a rapidly changing landscape of consumers, customers, competitors, and technologies. It also proposes an effective method of generating, managing and executing a portfolio of business initiatives over short, medium and long-term. • Authored A Sixty-Minute guide to disruption – a research summary on eighty years of disruption research.• Conceptualized and designed an innovation strategy framework to be used by numerous organizations. The framework enables innovators to effectively make the most critical decisions in an innovation strategy – “where to innovate” and “how to profit from innovation”. It also enables managers to conduct an innovation audit of their innovation portfolio.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Authored The Dark Side of Innovation (2013) , a comprehensive paradigm for strategic innovations. • Authored A Sixty Minute Guide to Disruption (2017) , a synthesis of over eighty years of disruption research.• Transformed a multi-billion dollar industrial client’s business from a declining business in a declining market to a sustainable growth business. Transformed the mindset of an entrenched team from a client-focused tactical mindset to a market focused strategic mindset. • Changed the trajectory of a client's Asian business from P&L losses to profits by transforming their go-to-market approach from tactical/transactional to building strategic relationships with growing customers. Coached the regional strategy leader over six months to develop the organizational capability to execute the plan with excellence. • Mentored and coached an ambitious CEO of a global business to build a vision and strategy to move up the value chain. Results included the creation and adoption of a more choiceful strategy, clarity on how to leverage a recently acquired business, and the revitalization of a distracted and demoralized organization.• Facilitated numerous strategy development, execution, and review initiatives across several business units for clients.

• Delivered courses in strategy, strategic thinking, innovation, international business, and marketing to a diverse audience in USA, Switzerland, and Mexico. Among the highest rated professors in teaching effectiveness at Babson College, USA.• Mentored, coached, and trained entrepreneurs as well as student led corporate projects for corporations in the US and Europe. • Strategy Projects o Anticipating Strategic Threats: Advised COO of a technology company on effectively articulating core value proposition to new customers. Also enabled him to anticipate massive strategic threats. o Go to Market: Advised CEO of a technology startup on 'go to market' strategy for its platform. o Technology transition: Advised the CEO and the leadership team of a major consumer company on pitfalls in dealing with technology transition in their industry.• Delivered Strategic thinking programs: Designed and delivered programs to build strategic thinking skills for organizations in consumer goods and information technology. These programs involved need assessment, program design, and program delivery to develop organizational capabilities.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

o Research on disruption published in best paper proceedings of Academy of Management. The paper titled “Survival” was hailed as among the top 10% of all papers submitted to the Academy in 2005. o Studied the effect of organizational capabilities on business performance over the lifetime of organizations. This far-reaching research explains which capabilities firms need at different times in its evolution. o Entry strategy: Advised the CEO and developed entry strategy for a medical education company to enter the offshore clinical trial space after the sale of its core business.

Singapore, Japan, Philippines

•Delivered the Asia Organizational Transformation for P&G through a team of over 50 managers. Led the CEO sponsored multi-year, multi-country organizational transformation project, enabling consolidation of operations from all Asian countries into a new Asia service center in Manila. The project involved managing the Asia projects team, working with the global management team and gaining buy-in of Asia business leadership.• Enabled the transition of P&G from a country structure to a global management structure by eliminating resource, technical, and people based barriers in Business Intelligence Services. Solved this problem featured by the Wall Street Journal at record speed.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

•Turned around Citibank India’s Custodial Services Business by doubling the revenue -expense ratio from 1.0 to 2.0. despite industry disruption due to dematerialization of stock certificates.• Re-engineered Citibank’s management reporting process to reduce the reporting cycle from30 to 9 days and enhance data accuracy for management decision-making.

Designed and developed a simulation modeling platform for capacity planning for multi-million-dollar capital spending decisions.

Ph.D., Strategy And Innovation

Dissertation: Innovation by Established firms

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy And Finance

B.Com (H), Business

Education record