Farok J. Contractor

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT FAROK J. CONTRACTOR

Dr. Farok Contractor is Distinguished Professor in the Management and Global Business department at Rutgers Business School. During 20••••22 he is serving on the Board of the Academy of International Business as President Elect (2020) and President (2021-22). He has also taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institutes of Management (IIM-A, B, C), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Lubin School of Business, Theseus, EDHEC and conducted executive seminars in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D.(Managerial Science and Applied Economics) and MBA, and the University of Michigan, where he received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering. Farok Contractor’s research has focused on corporate alliances, outsourcing and offshoring, valuation of intangible assets, the technology transfer process, licensing, and foreign direct investment. He is particularly focused on the negotiated, inter-firm aspects of International Business such as alliances between firms from different nations, including joint ventures, and licensing, as well as negotiations between investors and governments. His work treats the strategic implications of companies sharing their expertise and markets with other firms, and has involved gathering data from a large number of companies. Dr. Contractor has written over a hundred and fifty scholarly papers on these topics, and ten authored or edited books. He has chaired or been on the supervisory committees of 19 doctoral dissertations.In 2021 he will be President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) where previously he was also elected Fellow of the AIB. He has also held other term fellowships such as the Fulbright Fellowship and Unilever Fellowship. Before his academic career, Prof. Contractor was an executive with the international arm of the Tata Group of Companies, an India-based multinational group.