Charles Dhanaraj

Charles Dhanaraj is J. Mack Robinson Professor of International Business and Academic Director of the DBA Program at Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

Dhanaraj is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. His research focuses on strategic partnerships, innovation, leadership, and digital globalization. He has published in top academic journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, and Harvard Business Review.

He has written several award-winning cases that are used in classrooms across the globe. In his current research, Dhanaraj is studying how digital innovation ecosystems evolve in differ, how multinational companies overcome discrimination in foreign countries, and more importantly how leaders drive purposeful strategy in their organizations.

As a strategy and international business expert, he has taught in executive education programs at the University of Denver, Temple University, IMD Switzerland, Indian School of Business (ISB), Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC, Brazil), Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Denmark), and Ivey Business School (Canada). He has worked with several global organizations such as Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Cummins, Danske Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Saudi Arabia British Bank (SABB), Unicredit, Pernod Ricard, Maersk Drilling, Arla, Valmet, Deloitte, Sika, Hilti and several Indian corporate groups, such as Tata, Birla, and Mahindra.