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Dr. Mohan Sawhney Joins WOMMA Advisory Board
Mohanbir Sawhney is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and the Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Prof. Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, consultant and speaker in strategic marketing, e-business and innovation. His research and teaching interests include collaborative marketing with customers, IT and business agility, customer-centric organization design, organic growth and business innovation. He has been widely recognized as a thought leader. Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business. Crain’s Chicago Business named him a member of “40 under 40”, a select group of young business leaders in the Chicago area. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
Prof. Sawhney is the co-author of three books - The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation, Techventure: New Rules for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley, and Kellogg on Technology & Innovation. He has also co-authored PhotoWars, a strategy simulation game. His research has been published in leading journals like California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He has also written several influential trade articles in publications like the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and Business 2.0. He has won several awards for his teaching and research, including the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper published in California Management Review in 2000 and the Outstanding Professor of the Year at Kellogg in 1998.
Prof. Sawhney advises and speaks to Global 2000 firms and governments worldwide. His recent speaking and consulting clients include ABN-AMRO Bank, Accenture, Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Dell, Denstu, Dow Chemical Company, Eli Lilly, Ericsson, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark, Honeywell, IBM Consulting Services, Infosys, Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR Teradata, Nomura Research Institute, Rockwell Automation, Sony, Telemar and Thomson Corporation. He has served as an advisor to the Government of Oman, and is an advisor to the U.S. Jordan Business Alliance. He serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology startup companies, including Edmunds.com, IntelliSeek, MarketRx and Confluent Surgical.
Prof. Sawhney holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; a Master’s degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He is married to Tia Sawhney, and they have two young children. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.