Ram Charan (consultant)

Ram Charan (Hindi राम चरण; born December 25, 1939 in Uttar Pradesh ) is an American business consultant and best-selling author of Indian origin.

Life

Charan studied engineering science in India. He then worked in Australia. He earned an MBA and received his doctorate from Harvard Business School. Subsequently, he taught at Harvard and Northwestern University.

In Dallas (Texas ) He then founded the consulting firm Charan Associates. He has advised many CEOs and companies (including Bank of America, DuPont, Novarti ); for its deliberations, he has won several awards.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance. Ram was a member of the Board of Directors of Hindalco Industries, Emaar Properties, Austin Industries and Tyco Electronics Fischer & Porter. He also wrote for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Business Week, Time, and USA TODAY. His book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done was No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and was also on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Awards

  • 2010: Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award from the American Society for Training & Development
  • 2010: " Global Indian of the Year 2010 " by the Economic Times

Publications

  • 2000: Every Business is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year
  • 2000: The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
  • 2001: What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works
  • 2002: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
  • 2004: Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning
  • 2004: Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
  • 2005: Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive
  • 2007: What the Customer Wants You to Know
  • 2007: now -How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Do not
  • 2008: The Game - Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
  • 2008: Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times
  • 2009: Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask
  • 2010: The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
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