Anand Narasimhan is Professor of Organizational Behavior at IMD.

He is active in the design and delivery of executive education programmes for variety of corporate, non-profit and government organizations around the world. His research interests include a number of areas of leadership including organizational change, organization design, social networks, and emotion help in organizations.

Anand Narasimhan’s research appears in publications such as Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, as special issues editor for the Journal of Management Studies, and on the editorial board of Human Relations (for which he was named ‘Reviewer of the Year’ in 2004). He is also currently an associate fellow of the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms at Said Business School, Oxford University.

Anand Narasimhan has served on the faculty of the London Business School and the Imperial College Business School (London, UK), and has had visiting appointments at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad, India) and Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management (Nashville, USA). He is a joint recipient of the Teaching Innovation Award at London Business School (2001) and the Dean’s Commendation for Teaching at the Owen Graduate School of Management (2002) and at the Imperial College Business School (2007).

He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani, India), an MBA specializing in Human Resource Management from XLRI (Jamshedpur, India), and a PhD in Management from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA).