Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Reading (UK). He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). His research focuses on the geography of innovation, with a recent emphasis on issues of migration, ethnicity, and gender. He is currently a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of World Business, and an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Policy. He previously served as a Co-Editor of the Global Strategy Journal.
His research has been published in major academic outlets including the Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Geography, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His articles for practicing managers have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review. His media appearances include the New York Times, The Atlantic magazine, and numerous radio and TV programs including National Public Radio.
He writes fiction under the pen name R.M. Burgess and has published several novels.