Soumitra Dutta

Soumitra Dutta is an Indian academic. He was announced as the new Dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in January 2022 and is due to take up the post from 1 June 2022. He is currently a professor of management at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University in New York, where he was Dean from 2016 to 2018, and before that the Anne and Elmer Lindseth dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Before his appointment to Cornell he was the Roland Berger professor of business and technology at INSEAD. Since April 2018 he has been chair of the board of directors of the Global Business School Network in Washington, DC.[1] He has been vice-chair (2016–2017) and chair (2017 – 2018) of AACSB International in Tampa, Florida. Since October 2018 he has been co-chair of the Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems of the World Economic Forum.

Soumitra Dutta
Born
Kolkata, India
EducationIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (B.Tech.)
University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Ph.D.)
Occupationuniversity professor

Biography

Dutta was the first dean of the SC Johnson College of Business[2] at Cornell University,[3] New York, until his resignation in January 2018.[4]

His company Fisheye Analytics was acquired by the WPP group in 2013.[5] He is a non-executive director of Sodexo.[6]

Publications

Dutta is an editor of the annual Global Information Technology Report published by the World Economic Forum,[7] and an author of the annual Global Innovation Index published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.[8][9])

His books include:

  • Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World,with Matthew Fraser. Wiley 2008.
  • Innovating at the Top: How Global CEOs Drive Innovation for Growth and Profit, with Roland Berger, Geoffrey Samuels and Tobias Raffel. Palgrave MacMillan 2009.
  • Ask, Measure, Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence Customer Behavior, with Lutz Finger. Beijing: O'Reilly Media 2014. ISBN 9781449336752.
  • Entrepreneurship and the Finance of Innovation in Emerging Markets, with Lourdes Casanova and Peter Cornelius. Elsevier 2018.

Awards

Dutta received the European Case of the Year[10] from the European Case Clearing House in 2002, 2000, 1998, and 1997.

References
  1. "Home". GBSN. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  2. West, Melanie Grayce; Korn, Melissa (28 January 2017). "SC Johnson CEO Gives $150 Million to Cornell's Business College". Wsj.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  3. Byrne, John A. (7 September 2016). "The Birth of Cornell's College of Business". Poetsandquants.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. Anbinder, Mark H. (30 January 2018). "Cornell provost accepts resignation of Soumitra Dutta, first Dean of College of Business". 14850 Magazine. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  5. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  6. "Board of Directors". Sodexo Group. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  7. "The Global Information Technology Report 2014" (PDF). 3.weforum.org. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  8. "The Global Innovation Index 2015" (PDF). Globalinnovationindex.org. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  9. PULAKKAT, HARI (25 August 2016). "A look at India's 15-place jump in Global Innovation Index". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017 – via The Economic Times.
  10. fatima (21 November 2018). "IIT-Delhi signs MoU with alumnus Soumitra Dutta, establishes Artificial Intelligence Chair". The Indian Wire. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
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