
Why the Smartest Companies Now Pay People to Leave
Layoffs vs voluntary exits: Dr. Madhukar G Angur on survivor loyalty, Microsoft's buyout offer, Indian IT job cuts and a three-step prescription for CEOs.
Read articleEducational excellence
Dr. Madhukar G Angur is the Founder and Chancellor of Alliance University. An educator, researcher and institution-builder, he has spent five decades turning ideas about learning into places where people learn.


Education should change lives, be accessible, and match the world students are walking into.
Dr. Angur
Dr. Madhukar G Angur is an academic and entrepreneur whose career spans continents. Trained in electrical engineering and marketing, with a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Texas at Arlington and a postgraduate diploma from IIM Ahmedabad, he brings an engineer's rigour to questions of strategy.
For nearly two decades he was Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he held the David M. French Distinguished Professorship and was named a Distinguished Michigan Professor. He went on to found Alliance University, and his work with the Social Systems Research Institute and the Alliance Business School Research Institute applies research and technology to hard societal problems.
Services
Advisory, speaking and programme design for universities, schools, governments and industry partners.

Advice on educational strategy and leadership, drawn from five decades of building and running institutions.
See details
Practical leadership workshops for educators and administrators, from department heads to vice chancellors.
See details
Long-term plans that give an institution clear goals, a realistic budget and a way to measure progress.
See details
Seminars on bringing new teaching methods and technology into classrooms, based on research.
See details
Programmes that connect universities with industry, so students learn on real problems and leave ready for work.
See details
Keynote talks on education, leadership, AI and the future of learning.
See details
Help writing and adapting policy, so an institution stays compliant and is ready for regulatory change.
See details
Online programmes designed so that learners finish them and the learning holds up.
See detailsMilestones
Founded SSRI, a consortium that provides customised social research and planning services to a range of sectors.
Awarded by the Michigan Association of University Governing Boards for Dr. Angur's contributions to marketing education and research.
Founded Alliance University and became its first Chancellor. The university set a benchmark for private higher education in India.
Started the ABS Research Institute, which focuses on Technological Readiness Audits (TRA) and links academic work to what industry needs.
Research published in
Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Marketing Management, and others.
From the blog

Layoffs vs voluntary exits: Dr. Madhukar G Angur on survivor loyalty, Microsoft's buyout offer, Indian IT job cuts and a three-step prescription for CEOs.
Read article
A simple two-minute stress buster: brush aside, then focus on the half-full glass. Dr. Madhukar G Angur on gratitude, burnout and what we still have.
Read article
Why nursing must stay high-touch as healthcare goes high-tech. Dr. Madhukar G Angur on Nurse + Robot, the humanities of care, and Social or Rural Nursing.
Read articleKeynotes, strategic planning, policy advice or a new programme: tell Dr. Angur's office what you have in mind.