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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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