Ram Subramanian

Biography

Ram Subramanian is professor of leadership in the management department in the School of Business Administration. Ram teaches courses in strategy both at the undergraduate and at the M.B.A. levels. He makes extensive use of the case method in his classes. Ram's research interests include both traditional empirical research (in various areas of strategy) as well as in the case method. In 2016, Ram was invited to serve on the editorial board of Case Research Journal, after he won an award from the journal as its "Most Outstanding Ad Hoc Reviewer." Dr. Subramanian’s academic background is in strategic management. In addition, he teaches courses in a variety of areas in the broad field of management including family business, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior. His research interest is in examining various facets of the organization-environment relationship and has published papers related to market orientation and environmental scanning in Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research and Management International Review, among others. He is deeply interested in the case methodology and has published teaching cases in Case Research Journal, Business Case Journal and Asian Case Research Journal. He has several cases in the Ivey Publishing depositary that distributes cases worldwide. In 2013, he was a Fulbright specialist scholar in case methodology and taught case writing and case teaching to faculty in two Indian business schools.

Research Interest

How organizations interface with the external environment, Shareholder rights, Case method: teaching using cases, Case method: developing teaching cases