Behnam N. Tabrizi, Ph.D. Profile


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Name:	Behnam N. Tabrizi, Ph.D.
Company:	Stanford University
Title:	Professor (Consulting)
Profile:	Behnam Tabrizi is an internationally recognized expert on corporate transformation, sales excellence, benchmarking, and product life cycle. He has served as a consultant to senior executives at Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Lee & Fung, Haier, and many other major companies. Tabrizi is the author of four books on corporate transformation - the latest one, Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change, is dubbed by Harvard Business Press as the "most popular" book. Tabrizi serves as a Professor (Consulting) in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University where he received the School of Engineering Tau Beta Pi award, among over 200 Faculty members, for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He has taught "Leading and Managing Change" at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program and served as the Director of the Stanford/AEA mini-MBA executive program. He has also served on the doctoral committee at the Harvard Business School. Over the past four years, as a frequent traveler to China, Professor Tabrizi has held seminars and advised over 300 CEOs of the largest private and public Chinese companies on their Corporate Transformations. Tabrizi received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an M.S. in Engineering Management and a Ph.D. in Strategy, Organizations, and Technology Management from Stanford University.