Sendil Ethiraj

Originally from India, Dr Ethiraj received his PhD in Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and served on the faculty at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, for over a decade before joining London Business School as a Professor in 2013. At London Business School, he served as Faculty Adviser for the MBA/EMBA degree programmes for two years, Area Chair for Strategy and Entrepreneurship for three years, and PhD Coordinator for Strategy and Entrepreneurship for five years. In 2021, he became Chair of the School’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Advisory Board (DIBAB), serving in this role for two years. He served as the Deputy Dean (Faculty) and was a member of the School’s Governing Body from 2022-25.

Dr Ethiraj’s teaching and research interests span core topics in strategic management, including innovation, competitive strategy, and managing human capital. Specifically, he examines the effects of interdependence in decisions on choice of strategy and organisation structure, firm heterogeneity and industry structure, as well as innovation and technology strategy. His current research, which unites deep field research with large-scale archival data, examines contemporary issues at the intersection of strategy and policy.

He has served on the editorial boards of many the top journals in his field, in addition to serving as the Department Editor of Management Science (2014-2016) and as Co-Editor of the flagship academic journal of the Strategy discipline – Strategic Management Journal – from 2016 to 2022.