Dipak C. Jain

Dipak C. Jain is the Director (Dean) of Sasin GraduateInstitute of Business Administration of ChulalongkornUniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. The announcement ofhis appointment as Director of Sasin was made on June7, 2014.[1]

He is also INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing.He had served as Dean of INSEAD since his appoint-ment from May 2011 to March 2013. He was Deanof Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Manage-ment from 2001-2009.He was also Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor ofEntrepreneurial Studies & Professor of Marketing at theKellogg School of Management, where he had been amember of the faculty since 1987. Jain has been a visit-ing professor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Gradu-ate Institute of Business Administration at ChulalongkornUniversity in Bangkok.Jain’s areas of research include the marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation and competitivemar-ket structure analysis; cross-cultural issues in global prod-uct diffusion; new product diffusion; and forecastingmodels. He has had more than 50 articles published inleading academic journals.A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics,Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serv-ing for five years as the school’s associate dean for aca-demic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs.[2][3]

After 13 years in the Dean’s office, Jain stepped down onSeptember 1, 2009 to devote more time towards familyand teaching commitments. From March 2011, he tookoffice as Dean of INSEAD, one of the world’s most pres-tigious business schools, with campuses in France, Sin-gapore and Abu Dhabi.Dipak C. Jain also serves as an Independent Directoron the Board of Indian Conglomerate Reliance Indus-tries Limited which is also the largest refiner in the worldat a single location. He has served as a consultant toMicrosoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan,Eli Lilly and Company, and Hyatt International. He alsoserves as a member of the board of directors of Deere& Company and Northern Trust Corporation. He is alsoa former director at United Airlines, Hartmarx Corpora-tion and Peoples Energy.Dean Jain has served as the departmental editor for thejournal Management Science, the area editor for Market-ing Science and associate editor for the Journal of Busi-ness and Economic Statistics. He is also a formermember

of the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Re-search.

1 Early life and education

Jain was born on June 9, 1957, in a small town calledTezpur, Assam, a state in north-eastern part of India.He did his schooling from Rastrabhasa Hindi School atTezpur, Assam.He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in Statistics(Hons.) in 1976 from Darrang College, Tezpur (affili-ated with Guwahati University) and his master’s degreein Statistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India.He taught at Gauhati University for the next five yearsbefore coming to US to pursue his PhD in Marketing atthe University of Texas at Dallas under the direction ofFrank M. Bass.

2 Awards and honors

Dean Jain’s teaching honors include: 1. The Sidney LevyAward for Excellence in Teaching in 1995; 2. The JohnD.C. Little Best Paper Award in 1991; 3. Kraft researchprofessorships in 1989-90 and 1990–91; 4. The Beat-rice research professorship in 1987-88; 5. The Outstand-ing Educator Award from the State of Assam in India in1982; 6. The Gold Medal for the Best Post-Graduate ofthe Year fromGauhati University in India in 1978; 7. TheGold Medal for the Best Graduate of the Year from Dar-rang College in Assam in India in 1976; 8. The GoldMedal from Jaycees International in 1976; 9. The YouthMerit Award from Rotary International in 1976; and 10.The Jawaharlal Nehru Merit Award, Government of In-dia in 1976.

3 Personal life

He is married to Sushant Jain and they have three chil-dren: Dhwani, Kalash and Muskaan.

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4 References[1] “Sasin Appoints NewDirector from INSEAD”. MBATo-

day. Retrieved 9 June 2014.

[2] Dipak C. Jain’s INSEAD Web Profile

[3] More biographical details may be located in chapter 6 ofWide Awake in the Windy City (NU Press, 2008)

5 External links•

• Jain’s INSEAD Web Profile

• Jain’s Business Educators Member Profile

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