Dipak C. Jain Dean, Kellogg School of Management Center Advisory Board

Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management and the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and professor of marketing.

Jain has taught courses in strategic marketing research, new products and services and quantitative marketing models. His research areas include marketing of high-tech products, market segmentation and competitive market structure analysis and new product diffusion and forecasting models. He has been recognized for his outstanding teaching, both at Northwestern and as a visiting professor at the Koblenz Business School in Germany and Nijenrode University in The Netherlands.

In addition to his teaching at Kellogg, he has served as a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Nijenrode University, Koblenz, IIT Delhi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tel Aviv University. Jain has been instrumental in the development of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. He, along with his predecessor Donald Jacobs, has been involved in all academic aspects of the school since the very first day the idea for it was conceived by Rajat Gupta, managing director of McKinsey & Co.

He currently is researching cross-cultural global product diffusion, marketing of high-tech products, new product forecasting models and market segmentation and positioning.

Jain received his undergraduate and master's degrees in statistics from Gauhati University in India. He then earned an M.S. in operations research and a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas before joining the Kellogg faculty.