Mohanbir Sawhney
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Prof. Mohanbir Sawhney is a management consultant, author
Author
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 and a McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology at the Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management
The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...

. He advises on 25 companies about their e-commerce strategies.

Personal life and education

Sawhney was born in West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

, India.

He holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is an institute of management located in Kolkata , India giving diplomas in management...

; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Sawhney is married to Parminder and they have four children, Haki and Bundev, and daughters Sunaina and Asha.

Career

Sawhney is a professor at Northwestern University. He became popular after publishing a seminal article, Lets get vertical published in Business 2.0
Business 2.0
Business 2.0 was a monthly magazine publication founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson, Mark Gross, and journalist James Daly in order to chronicle the rise of the "New Economy"...

 Magazine.

He co-authored Innovation capitalist
Innovation capitalist
An Innovation Capitalist is a type of innovation intermediary.Innovation capitalists are firms, often with a particular industry expertise, that seek out and evaluate ideas and technologies from the inventor community and other external sources...

, an innovation intermediary.

He gives talks around the world, advising companies on their online strategies.

External links

  • http://mohansawhney.com/
  • http://www.icanpilot.com/DesignYourValueProposition
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