Executive Education
Faculty

Dr. Arvind Bhambri teaches strategy & organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, which he joined after obtaining his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1984. He specializes in strategic change, competitive strategy, global business development, and leadership. Before coming to the U.S., Arvind studied engineering at Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani and Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda and did his MBA at Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. In addition to USC, Arvind has been on the faculty of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Bocconi University in Milan, the University of Hawaii’s Advanced Management Program, and the Owner Managed Business Institute in Boston. During 2000-2002, Arvind took a sabbatical from USC to lead strategy and business development at a global web-based e-commerce company in food and agricultural products. From 2001 to 2023, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Trianz, Inc., a global provider of digital transformation solutions. He has also served on the Board of the Music Circle, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to classical Indian music in Southern California.

During his time at USC’s Marshall School of Business, Arvind was a member of the task force that designed and launched the top rated EMBA program in 1986, which received wide recognition for its innovative thematic structure. As faculty director of Executive Education, he co-designed and helped launch the only Master of Business for Veterans program in the US in 2013. He was the primary consultant to then Provost Lloyd Armstrong in developing USC’s seminal 1994 strategic plan and its 1998 update that led to USC’s transformation and its selection as TIME magazine’s College of the Year in 2000.

Arvind has received more than 15 teaching awards at USC, including multiple Golden Apple awards, MOR awards for Excellence in Teaching, and was profiled by The Wall Street Journal as one of fourteen best EMBA professors worldwide. He has also received the Evan C. Thompson Award for Learning and Teaching Innovation. He was a member of the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal from 1990 to 2007 and was elected a Representative at Large for the Strategy Process group of the Strategic Management Society for 2007 – 2009. Arvind is a past recipient of the McKinsey Prize for Best Paper at the Strategic Management Society, the Best Paper in Social Issues at the Academy of Management, and the Ascendant Scholar Award at the Western Academy of Management.

An active consultant and executive educator, Arvind has co-authored three books and more than thirty articles and case studies, including Harvard best-sellers on IBM and Johnson & Johnson. He has consulted and lectured at several companies, including Allergan, Amgen, AAA, TransDigm Group, CoorsTek, Chevron, IBM, Xerox, Kinko’s, Ernst & Young, General Electric, Cedars Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, Deutsch Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, State Farm, Times Mirror, Daimler Benz, Honeywell, House of Fuller (Mexico), Medtronic, Montgomery Watson, Nestle, ViaSat, and Volt Services.