Soumitra Dutta Biography

Soumitra Dutta is a recognized expert on all areas of innovation in the knowledge economy, with a unique global viewpoint. Throughout his remarkable career, he has focused on how to create corporate innovation and growth by combining smart people with innovative technology. This is especially true in the present crisis, when innovation is the greatest way to thrive now while also emerging stronger in a post-crisis future. Soumitra has co-authored a number of notable works on technologically enabled corporate innovation. Soumitra offers secrets of successful innovation in his book, "The Bright Stuff: How Innovative People and Technology May Make Old Businesses New," (coauthored with Arnoud De Meyer and Sandeep Srivastava) so that you can master the talents and mindsets of digital economy innovators. Not only is innovation necessary for growth, but it is also necessary for survival. In "Innovating at the Top," he distills from conversations with the CEOs of nine highly inventive worldwide firms proven techniques for senior executives to increase innovation performance. His most recent book, "Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom," demonstrates how online social networking is changing our personal lives, corporations, and consumer and citizen behavior. Soumitra has also co-edited the World Economic Forum's yearly studies on the influence of information technology on development and national competitiveness, which are the most authoritative and thorough analyses available. He is one of just a handful faculty members from all disciplines who has been invited to Davos for more than ten years. He is one of just two academics invited to more meetings in the elite "Davos Circle" group of attendees. Soumitra Dutta is the eighth Dean of Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. This is the first time a major business school in the United States has hired a dean from a business school outside the nation. Previously, Dutta was the Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology and Founder and Academic Director of ELab at INSEAD, voted the #1 international business school in the world by BusinessWeek. Soumitra is a lively, personable, and confident speaker with extensive expertise in executive education.

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