Hitendra Wadhwa
Hitendra Wadhwa | |
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| Born | January 25, 1967 Chandigarh, India |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, academic, professor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Known for | Creator of the Mentora Institute |
Hitendra Wadhwa (born January 25, 1967) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and academic, currently serving as a professor at Columbia Business School. He is the creator of the Mentora Institute.
Early life and education
Wadhwa was born in Chandigarh, India and obtained his undergraduate degree in mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi in 1988. He pursued graduate studies at MIT Sloan, earning both an MBA and a PhD in management science by 1996, with his doctoral dissertation concentrating on pricing optimization for retail products exhibiting seasonal demand patterns.
Career
Starting his professional journey at McKinsey & Company in 1996, Wadhwa went on to secure $10 million in venture capital funding in 1999 to launch Paramark, a Silicon Valley-based marketing optimization technology company that was acquired by NewWorldIQ in 2002. In the same year, he founded Delphinity, which later merged with other entities to form the Mentora Institute.
Wadhwa began teaching while still a doctoral candidate at MIT and held an adjunct marketing professor position at Wharton School from 2004 until 2006. He joined Columbia Business School as a faculty member in 2006. The following year, he spearheaded Columbia’s collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, expanding its influence in global business education.
Mentora Institute
The Mentora Institute was established by Wadhwa in 2011 to provide leadership development programs for corporate leaders through both face-to-face and virtual formats. The institute’s training framework is grounded in Wadhwa’s Inner Mastery, Outer Impact methodology, which originated at Columbia Business School. In 2021, Wadhwa and the Mentora Institute launched the Mentora Foundation to advance leadership growth initiatives further.
Publications
Wadhwa authored Inner Mastery, Outer Impact, released on June 7, 2022. The book explores how fundamental personal energies influence leadership effectiveness and overall success.
External links
- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Chandigarh
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American people of Indian descent
- American business executives
- Businesspeople from Chandigarh
- McKinsey & Company people
- Indian company founders
- Delhi University alumni
- St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni
- MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
- American bloggers
- American motivational writers
- 21st-century American writers
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- Columbia Business School faculty