Professor Mohammad Akbar Ansari has done his M.Sc. & M. Phil. (Statistics) from AMU Aligarh and M. Phil. and Ph.D. (Entrepreneurship) from JNU, New Delhi. He is a scholar, consultant and teacher/trainer in the strategic management & Entrepreneurship area of IIM Lucknow for last 26 years with 31 years’ experience of teaching/ training in Indian and foreign Institutions . Currently he professor and chair of IIM Lucknow incubator. He has conducted/participated and consulted with top 100 company management programmes in India. About 12 students have completed / or are in the process of completing their thesis work. He teaches Strategy at Doctoral and Postgraduate levels. He has authored two books on entrepreneurship and strategy. He has written over 60 articles, research papers and 40 case studies published in refereed national & many top tier international journals and conferences. He is editor on 4 academic journals, and is a reviewer in top tier national/ international journals/ conferences like SMS, AIB, AOM. The key areas of interest are the strategy, entrepreneurship, new ventures, family business, emerging markets, diversification and internationalization.