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Ramanan is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Indian School of Business. Before joining ISB, he served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis and at SUNY, Binghamton.
Professor Ramanan’s research focuses on the role of accounting in management decisions. Specifically, he examines the incentive effects of financial reports and disclosures on various managerial decisions both inside an organisation and within supply chains. His work has been published in leading academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, and Production and Operations Management.
At ISB Professor Ramanan teaches the core Managerial Accounting course and the Strategic Performance Management elective.
Professor Ramanan earned a PhD in Accounting from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is also a Chartered Accountant.
Arya, Anil., Ramanan, Ram. (2024) "Long-term firm gains from short-term managerial focus: Myopia and voluntary disclosures", Journal of Accounting and Economics Arya, Anil., Ramanan, Ram. (2023) "Endogenizing Discretion in Disclosure.", Management Science , 69 (6), 3730–3747 Arya, Anil., Mittendorf, Brian., Ramanan, Ram. (2022) "Tax-favored Stock Donations by Corporate Insiders and Consequences for Equity Markets", Management Science , 68 (11), 8506–8514 Arya, Anil., Ramanan, Ram. (2022) "Disclosure to Regulate Learning in Product Markets from the Stock Market", The Accounting Review , 97 (3), 1 - 24 Arya, Anil., Mittendorf, Brian., Ramanan, Ram. (2022) "In Defense of Limited Manufacturing Cost Control: Disciplining Acquisition of Private Information by Suppliers", The Accounting Review , 97 (1), 29–49 Arya, Anil., Ramanan, Ram. (2021) "Voluntary Disclosure in Light of Control Concerns", Contemporary Accounting Research , 38 (4), 2824–2850 Arya, Anil., Mittendorf, Brian., Ramanan, Ram. (2019) "Beyond Profits: The Rise of Dual-Purpose Organizations and Its Consequences for Disclosure", The Accounting Review , 94 (1), 25–43 Arya, Anil., Mittendorf, Brian., Ramanan, Ram. (2017) "Synergy between Accounting Disclosures and Forward-Looking Information in Stock Prices", The Accounting Review , 92 (2), 1-17 Ramanan, Ram. (2015) "Promoting informativeness via staggered information releases", Review of Accounting Studies , 20 (1), 537–558 Arya, Anil., Gong, Ning., Ramanan, Ram. (2014) "Quality Testing and Product Rationing by Input Suppliers", Production and Operations Management , 23 (11), 1835–1844 Ramanan, Ram., K. Bhargava, Hemant. (2014) "Stimulating Early Adoption of New Products through Channel Disintegration", Production and Operations Management , 23 (10), 1681-1689 Ramanan, Ram. (2014) "Corporate Governance, Auditing and Reporting Distortions", Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance , 29 (3), 306-339