Dipak C. Jain

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Dipak Jain
Born
Dipak Chand Jain

(1957-06-09) 9 June 1957 (age 66)
Tezpur, Assam, India
Education Darrang College Gauhati University (BS, MS)
University of Texas at Dallas/UTD (PhD)

Dipak Chand Jain is Co-President and Global Advisor of China Europe International Business School. [1] He previously was the Director (Dean) of Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The announcement of his appointment as Director of Sasin was made on 7 June 2014. [2] He stepped down in 2017. [3]

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He is also INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing. He had served as Dean of INSEAD since his appointment from May 2011 to March 2013. He was Dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 2001-2009.

He was also Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies & Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1987. Jain has been a visiting professor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Jain’s areas of research include the marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation and competitive market structure analysis; cross-cultural issues in global product diffusion; new product diffusion; and forecasting models. He has had more than 50 articles published in leading academic journals.

A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. [4] [5]

After 13 years in the Dean's office, Jain stepped down on 1 September 2009 to devote more time towards family and teaching commitments. From March 2011, he took office as Dean of INSEAD, one of the world's most prestigious business schools, with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

Jain also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Indian Conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited which is also the largest refiner in the world at a single location. He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan, Eli Lilly and Company, and Hyatt International. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Deere & Company and Northern Trust Corporation. He is also a former director at United Airlines, Hartmarx Corporation and Peoples Energy.

Jain has served as the departmental editor for the journal Management Science, the area editor for Marketing Science and associate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is also a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Early life and education

Jain was born on 9 June 1957 in the town of Tezpur in Assam, a state in north-eastern part of India. He did his schooling from Rastrabhasa Hindi School at Tezpur. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree in statistics (hons.) in 1976 from Darrang College, Tezpur (affiliated with Gauhati University) and his master's degree in Statistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India. He taught at Gauhati University for the next five years before coming to US to pursue his PhD in Marketing at the University of Texas at Dallas under the direction of Frank Bass.

Awards and honors

Dean Jain’s teaching honors include:

Personal life

He is married to Sushant Jain and they have three children.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Executive Profile Dipak Chand Jain Ph.D. Director, Deere & Company". bloomberg. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Sasin Appoints New Director from INSEAD". MBA Today. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sasin School of Management » Paron Israsena Na Ayudhya named Director of Sasin". www.sasin.edu. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Faculty". INSEAD. 19 May 2015.
  5. ↑ More biographical details may be located in chapter 6 of Wide Awake in the Windy City (NU Press, 2008)
  6. ↑ "Himanta Biswa Announces Names of 19 Awardees in 3 Categories, Assam Baibhav, Saurav & Gaurav Award". The Sentinel. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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