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RAM CHARAN
Subjects
leadership, management consulting, leadership,
management
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Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and
author.
Ram has coached some of the worlds’ most successful CEOs. For 35
years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, KLM,
Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Novartis, 3M and Verizon.
Ram started his business career as a teenager working in the family
shoe shop in India. He went on to earn an engineering degree and
then MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School. He
graduated from Harvard with high distinction and was a Baker
Scholar. He then served on the Harvard Business School faculty.
Ram is known for his practical, real world perspective. His
expertise runs deep in several areas of business:
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Organic Growth
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Succession & Leadership Pipeline
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Leadership
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Tools for Changing a Business Culture
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Corporate Governance
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Building Top Management Teams
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Execution: Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Business Acumen
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Culture of Innovation
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Slowing of the Economy
Ram is a favorite among executive educators. He has taught for 30
consecutive years at GE's famous Crotonville Institute and is the
recipient of their Bell Ringer award (best teacher). He won the
Best Teacher Award at Wharton and Northwestern. He was among
Business Week’s top ten resources for in-house executive
development programs.
Ram is a well-known author, whose books include Execution,
co-authored with Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of Honeywell.
Execution reached number one on the Wall Street Journal
list, and has been on the New York Time’s best-seller list
for more than one hundred and fifty weeks. Ram's other books
include Boards That Deliver, What the CEO Wants You to Know,
Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business,
Profitable Growth, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People
Who Perform From Those Who Don’t and What the Customer
Wants You to Know. His latest book, The Game Changer,
co-authored with A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble,
came out April 8, 2008. He also tailors his books for specific
client companies such as Gateway, Ford and EDS.
He's written articles for Business Week, Harvard Business Review,
Fortune, Time, Information Week, Leader to Leader, Director's
Monthly, Directorship, The Corporate Board and USA
Today
Ram is a director of Austin Industries, The Six Sigma Academy
and Tyco Electronics. He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the
National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. He serves as a co-host
for the Fortune Forum on Corporate Governance and also serves on the
National Association of Corporate Directors’ Blue Ribbon Commission
on Corporate Governance. Ram is based in Dallas, Texas.
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56 Poquonock Avenue
Windsor, Connecticut 06095
Voice: 800-875-2893
Fax: 860-687-1062
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