Ruchin Kansal , MBA
Professor of Practice
Department of Management
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Jubilee Hall
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Ruchin Kansal, MBA
Professor of Practice
Department of Management
Professor Kansal teaches Leadership and Innovation at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University. He is the founder of Kansal & Company and advises companies on digital business, growth strategy, and innovation and solves the most pressing corporate leadership challenges; and TGG that focuses on transforming specialists into special leaders.
Prior, Professor Kansal spent 20+ years in the life sciences industry, where his strategy, innovation, and digital business expertise have earned him a stellar reputation for his ability to challenge the status quo, tackle complex challenges, and deliver sustainable outcomes. He served as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Strategy for Digital Services at Siemens Healthineers, where he launched AI-enabled clinical decision support technology. He established and led the first Business Innovation & Transformation department at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he architected industry-leading strategic partnerships, commercially launched the first smart inhaler, and built AI-based predictive models and clinical decision support systems. Additionally, he has served as a management consultant at Deloitte and Capgemini/Ernst & Young. He has served on multiple Boards, and currently serves on the Board of the NJ Society for Information Management.
He received the 2016 MM&M Top 40 Healthcare Transformers Award and Boehringer Ingelheim’s President’s Award. He was invited to the Obama White House to share best practices for engaging patients in research supporting the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative.
He co-authored Redefining Innovation: Embracing The 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry, and contributed a chapter in Digital Strategies and Organizational Transformation. He is In The Lead’s founding editor and the primary investigator of the Future of Leadership Survey. He hosts 30 Minutes, a TV talk show in Connecticut.
Ruchin received his MBA from NYU-Stern, a certificate in Disruptive Innovation from MIT, and in Leadership and Performance Coaching through Brown University.
Education
- MBA, NYU-Stern
- M Arch, K-State
- B Arch, IIT - Roorkee
- ICF Accredited Certificate in Leadership Coaching
Scholarship
Books
"Redefining Innovation: Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry," Routledge, May 2018
Research
Publications
The Biopharma-Led Platform Business Model in Healthcare; PharmaExec
Growing Market Position through Strategic Partnerships in Healthcare; Wharton Healthcare
Quarterly
Biopharma needs a new R&D, innovation model; MedCityNews
Fighting the infection: How high-street pharmacies can fend off big tech; Digital
Health Age
Interviews
How Amazon is shaking up how you get prescriptions; Raconteur
Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together; Harlow On Healthcare
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Will AI Drive Human Kindness In Our Online Future?; with Bonnie Graham
Not every pivot is a bad pivot w/ Ruchin Kansal | COIQ with Dr. Roxie Podcast
Keeping it Real: Real-world experiences of leveraging data to power intelligent care
everywhere; Capsule Technologies
Stanford Medicine X 2017: Health Care’s Digital Futures – Panel Discussion