R. Kabaliswaran

– Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Joined Stern 2006

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 7-56
New York, NY 10012

Biography

Professor R. Kabaliswaran ('Kabi') has been with the faculty of Management at NYU since 2002.

Professor Kabaliswaran had his initial education in India. A National Merit Scholar, he had his undergraduate education in engineering at IIT Madras. Subsequently, based on his undergraduate thesis, he was invited on a full scholarship to pursue his Master's degree in Engineering in U.S.A. There he was engaged in a two-year research project constructing a mathematical model of the Great Lakes Water System for the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S. Government. Based on the strength of his early research as well as academic credentials, he was awarded a full scholarship to pursue further studies in business administration by New York University Stern School of Business. He received both his masters and doctoral degrees in Management from New York University.

Professor Kabaliswaran is a specialist in organizational design. He has had long and productive record consulting and offering workshops and seminars on strategy and structural aspects of managing large and complex organizations. The participants are typically senior managers from some of the largest global corporations. His audience includes senior executives from manufacturing as well as service and technology industries. His students and workshop participants come from all the continents and have varied backgrounds and titles: C.E.O.s, doctors, lawyers, accountants, scientists, engineers and Ph.D.s.

Professor Kabaliswaran is very active in the NYU Stern Executive M.B.A. program. He has previously taught at NYU a smorgasbord of management courses including hard skill courses such as Strategy and Advanced Strategy Analysis. More recently, he has designed several soft skill MBA courses such as Strategic Design, Power & Politics, and Leadership. The most recent course he has designed and rolled out at Stern is ISIS (International Social Impact Strategies), an MBA elective focusing on melding economic value creation with social value creation, the marriage of compassion with commerce.

A popular professor with students, Professor Kabaliswaran has served as Chairman of the Departmental Leadership Committee at the NYU Stern School of Business and is a member of the Curriculum Committee that advises on course design. He is also the Departmental Faculty Advisor to the Undergraduate College of Business at Stern.