According to a social network, Poets & Quants, “the highest paid professor at the Thunderbird makes more than the dean of the Harvard Business School. Or his boss. Or, for that matter, President Obama. Yet, he is little known outside his Glendale, Arizona-based school, not widely quoted in the media, nor broadly recognised as an expert in his field. He doesn’t even make the list of the top 50 business thinkers in the world.”

It also adds ‘He is hardly alone in getting big pay at Thunderbird. In fact, the highest paid ten professors alone in fiscal 2011 were paid some $4.3 million, more than the $4 million deficit reported by the school, red ink that forced it into a highly controversial partnership with for-profit educational provider Laureate Education.’

The areas of expertise of Ramaswamy, an MBA graduate from University of Madras, include Energy Sector, Oil and Gas, Global Strategy, Emerging Markets, India, South Asia, Mergers and Acquisitions, Top Management and Corporate Governance.