Dr. Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Biography

Jagadeesh Sivadasan is the Buzz Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration and a faculty member in the Business Economics and Public Policy group at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. His recent research is focused on understanding the drivers of firm entry, growth, productivity, worker performance, and mobility. Ongoing work includes an analysis of the response of Chinese firms to the 2018 trade war, the influence of reduced fertility on female entrepreneurship in China, and the effect of commute improvements on worker performance. He teaches a core applied microeconomics course in the Full-Time and Weekend executive MBA programs, along with an elective course, Incentives and Productivity, which presents an economics-grounded approach to human capital management. Jagadeesh has also served as the director of the Full-Time MBA program and as the chairperson of the Business Economics and Public Policy group. He has received various teaching awards, including the 2018 Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award and the 2019 Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award from his MBA class. An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, he completed his PGDM and BTech at IIT Madras, and previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen before earning his PhD from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

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