Ram Charan What Every Company Should Know

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Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author who has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he's worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, Bank of America, DuPont, Home Depot, 3M, and Verizon.

His influential books include "Execution" and "Confronting Reality," written with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy. His other books include "Boards That Deliver," "What the CEO Wants You to Know," and "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business." Charan also tailors his books for specific client companies such as Gateway and Ford. He's also written for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Information Week, Director's Monthly, The Corporate Board, and USA Today.

Charan started his business career as a teenager working in his family's shoe shop in India. He went on to earn an engineering degree and then an MBA and doctorate in corporate governance from Harvard Business School. He then served on the Harvard Business School faculty.

Charan had taught for 30 consecutive years at GE's Crotonville Institute, where he received their Bell Ringer award for best teacher, and also won the Best Teacher Award at Northwestern.

Charan is a director of Austin Industries and chairman of its compensation committee, as well as a director of the Six Sigma Academy. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2000 and named a Distinguished Fellow in 2005. He served as a co-host for the Fortune Forum on Corporate Governance and on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance.

Learn more at Ram Charan's web site.