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Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses field experiments to understand how firms can use incentives and performance feedback to improve performance. VG is studying how financial incentives can be used as a catalyst to form desirable habits and to harness other motivators such as peer pressure and frequent feedback.
Education- Phd in Business, Graduate School of Businessat Stanford University, June 1995
- MA in Economics, Economics Department Stanford University, June 1994
- MS in Statistics, Statistics DepartmentStanford University, June 1993
- MBA, IIMA, India, March 1990
- Chartered Accountancy, Madras, India, May 1988
- Bachelors in Commerce, University of Madras, May 1988
Work Experience
- September 1994 to present - Professor, Harvard Business School. I have taught Financial Reporting and Control (a first-year required course), Measuring and Driving Corporate Performance (a second-year elective), Management Control and Performance Measurement (a doctoral course), and several executive education courses.
- March 1985 to May 1988 - Audit Assistant with J. Gowrikanthan & Co., Chartered Accountants, Madras.