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Ariff Kachra

Assistant Professor, General Management

  • Director of India Development

Education

  • BBA
  • IMBA
  • PhD

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Profile

Ariff Kachra is Assistant Professor of Strategy and General Management. In his first year at Richard Ivey School of Business, Dr. Kachra was the recipient of the David G. Burgoyne award for teaching excellence. Dr. Kachra has served as the Academic Director of the Ivey Consulting Program, HBA and has recently been appointed Ivey's Director of India Development. Ariff teaches in Ivey's HBA and MBA programs.

Prior to joining Ivey, he taught Strategy to MBA and Executive MBA students at Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management in California. During his 7-year career at Pepperdine, Professor Kachra was the recipient of multiple teaching awards and served as the Academic Director of the MBA program. Professor Kachra started his academic career at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, where he also earned his BBA and International MBA degrees. He holds a Ph.D. from the Richard Ivey School of Business. In addition to teaching in the US and Canada, Ariff has also recently taught at the Indian School of Business (ISB), ranked #15 among the top 100 global schools. Ariff is also actively involved in delivering case teaching and case writing workshops to business school faculty across India. Over 100 Indian faculty have gone through Ariff's workshops which have been held at ISB, IIM-Bangalore, and IIT-Bombay.

Ariff's research interests include knowledge management, decision making, top management teams, improvisation, ethics in strategic management, and international joint ventures. He has published in top journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Education. Ariff is also a regular presenter at conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Professor Kachra is a sought-after consultant, trainer and executive coach working with a number of medium and large sized companies in Canada, California and across the United States. Companies such as Brinks, Amgen, Kinecta Federal Credit Union, Autoland, UCLA, and Southern California Edison are among Dr. Kachra's clients. He is an expert facilitator with specific interests in strategic facilitation. To Ivey, Ariff brings with him several years of management consulting and senior management experience in Canada and abroad.

In his spare time Dr. Kachra volunteers with the Agakhan Foundation, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, and helps many of the alumni from his classes with career coaching.

Teaching

  • MBA, Strategy Implementation
  • HBA, Ivey Consulting Project
  • HBA, Decision Making to Lead Organizations
  • HBA, Strategy

Selected Publications

  • Kachra, Ariff & White, R.E. 2008. Know-How Transfer: The Role of Social, Economic and Organizational Factors. Strategic Management Journal. 29(4): 425-445.
  • Kachra, Ariff & Schnietz, Karen. 2008. "The capstone strategy course: What might real integration look like". Journal of Management Education. 32: 476-508.
  • Kachra, Ariff. 2005. "The practical nuances of leadership: Interview with Jim Kouzes". Graziadio Business Review. 8(5).
  • Beamish, P.W. & Kachra, Ariff. 2004. "Number of Partners and Joint Venture Performance". Journal of World Business. 39(2): 107-120.

Expertise

  • Management Consulting
  • Decision-Making in Top Management Teams
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Knowledge Management
  • Executive Education
  • International Joint Ventures
  • Executive Coaching
 

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