BABA PRASAD

Baba Prasad is an exciting and leading thinker in the area of innovation and leadership development. Baba Prasad’s outstanding educational career started when he finished his B.Sc. from Bangalore University (St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore) with a 100% score in Mathematics. He received his BS (Electrical Engineering) degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and his M.Tech. (with distinction) in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Hyderabad. Prasad earned a second Master's in Computer Science from Kansas State University, and worked for two years as a technology management consultant in Shearson Lehman and JP Morgan on Wall Street. Prasad received his Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School in 1997, where he continues to be a Sloan Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

After his Ph.D., Prasad taught in the business schools at Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Students in his MBA course at Purdue University noted him as insightful and inspiring and he was rated MBA faculty of distinction. At the University of Minnesota, he consistently received exceptionally high ratings for MBA teaching.

Leadership Development & Innovation Management

Prasad founded Vivekin Group based on his conviction that organizations become excellent and sustain that excellence only when leadership and innovation are organic to the firm. Through