 Research Director - Program on the Legal Profession
Faculty Director – Executive Education
Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: +1 (617) 495-6506
Fax: +1 (617) 496-8489
E-mail: ananda@law.harvard.edu
Ashish Nanda is the Program’s Research Director and an Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Law School, Professor Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years. He taught Professional Services in the MBA program and the HBS executive education program Leading Professional Service Firms. A recipient the Henry B. Arthur Fellowship and the Center in Ethics and the Professions Fellowship, he has published numerous case studies and Harvard Business Review articles and is a co-author (with Tom DeLong) of Professional Services: Cases & Text. Professor Nanda has produced over 50 case studies, the most recent of which was entitled Linklaters (A): Seeking Clear Blue Water (July 2007).
Professor Nanda is the Faculty Director of Harvard Law School's Executive Education courses. As the Program's Research Director, he also plays a leading role in the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, which is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of how corporations procure legal services. Professor Nanda also teaches a course entitled Professional Services in the JD curriculum at Harvard Law School.
Professor Nanda has advised law, accounting, investment banking, management consulting, advertising, and executive search firms. His law firm clients include global law firms, AmLaw 20 law firms, Magic Circle firms, focused firms, regional firms, and international law firms outside the US and UK. His work with these firms has spanned strategic planning, review of specific organizational practices and systems, leadership programs, and personal coaching. Before coming to Harvard, he was an executive with the Tata group of companies in India.
With his dual functions of Research Director and Faculty Director of Executive Education, Professor Nanda is an integral part of the Center’s research and educational priorities. He will continue to play a key role in bringing existing research projects to a successful conclusion, moving new research priorities forward, and disseminating the results of those analyses – both to law students and professionals already in practice.
PhD in Business Economics, Harvard Business School, 1993
AM in Economics, Harvard University, 1990
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (First Rank) from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad.
Bachelor of Technology (First Rank) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi
Linklaters (A): Seeking Clear Blue Water (July 2007) order case study
Professional Services, Fall 2007
Risky Business: Some Lessons From Professional Service Firms Applicable to Not-for-Profit Professional Service Organizations, Willow Creek Leadership Summit, Barrington, IL, August 11, 2007
Leading and Leveraging Your Star Professionals, Law Firm Leaders’ Council, Vail, CO, August 3, 2007
Co-chair, American Lawyer, Managing Partners’ Forum, October 26-27, 2006
Leading Professional Service Firms, MRI Network, Southfield, MI, October 24, 2006
Motivating and Developing Your Star Professionals, The Lawyer Conference, London, UK, September 27, 2006
Leading Change in Professional Service Firms, Legal Leaders’ Forum, Montreaux, June 14-15, 2006
Client Service in Professional Service Firms, Council of Public Relation Firms, New York, NY, May 7, 2006
Leadership in Professional Services, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Leading a Real Estate Company, April 27, 2006
New Insights on Work Organization, Sloan Industry Studies Annual Conference, April 26, 2007 (chaired session)
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