Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Jagadeesh Sivadasan is currently serving as the Interim President of the William Davidson Institute. He is also the Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration in the Business Economics and Public Policy group of the Ross School of Business, and a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan.

His recent research is focused on understanding the drivers of firm growth and productivity, and worker performance and mobility.  Ongoing and recent research topics include the relationship between fertility and female entrepreneurship, effect of e-networks adoption on worker mobility, effect of commute improvement on worker performance,  decomposition of US firm growth patterns, and the effect of non-compete laws on worker mobility. 

Jagadeesh teaches the core applied microeconomics course in the full-time and executive MBA programs. His MBA elective course, Incentives and Productivity, presents an economics-grounded approach to human capital management. He has also taught in the PhD program at Ross, and has served as the director of the FTMBA program, and as the chairperson of the Business Economics and Public Policy group.  He was the recipient of the 2018 Victor L Bernard Teaching Leadership award, and the 2019 Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award (from the FTMBA class of 2019).

Jagadeesh is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, where he completed a PGDM after a BTech at IIT Madras. He then worked as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen, before completing PhD from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.