College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ravi Shanker Gajendran

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Biographical Sketch

I have a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to my PhD, I worked in industry for over six years in sales, marketing and market research. I also have an MBA from IIM Calcutta and an undergraduate engineering degree from Osmania University. My research interests include virtual work arrangements such as telecommuting, virtual teams, distributed teams and computer mediated communication. I am also broadly interested in studying teams. My dissertation examines how teams can leverage communication technologies to capitalize on diversity.