Aks Zaheer

Aks Zaheer received his PhD in strategic management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Master's in Business from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. His current research examines the antecedents and consequences of interfirm and organizational networks, the antecedents and consequences of trust in organizations and in interfirm exchange, phenomena such as innovation and strategic alliances, in contexts such as healthcare and medical devices, among others. He has published in many journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal, receiving the School's Outstanding Research Award in 2014 and in 2021. He is an elected Fellow of  the Strategic Management Society (elected in 2014) and has served as Deputy Dean of the SMS Fellows (2018-2020) and as Dean of the Fellows  (2020-22). He was voted Outstanding Core Teacher of the Year for the Full-Time MBA Program in 1995, 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2011; received the Curtis Cup Outstanding Professor Award in 2006, 2015 and 2020 for Carlson Executive MBA teaching, in 2018 for the Outstanding Professor in the Carlson School's Vienna Executive MBA Program, in 2023 for Outstanding Teaching in the Carlson School's Global Doctorate in Business Administration (GDBA) program, School-wide Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2004, 2009, 2012 and 2014, in 2022 and in 2023 for outstanding teaching in the Indian School of Business' Masters in Business  PGP PRO program (Bangalore and Mumbai cohorts) as a Visiting Professor, commended for teaching excellence in Business Week's guide to the 50 Top Business Schools in 1997 and named one of the World's 50 Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants in 2012. In 2023 he was awarded the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award for Excellence in PhD mentoring from the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.