His industry focus includes entertainment (movie and music industries), automobile and healthcare. Dr. Kuppuswamy also explores firms’ choices made in contexts where institutions are weak and market failure is prevalent. For example, he examined how the value of corporate diversification differs across the world, as well as the effect of corruption on local firm strategy and on firm competitiveness, more generally. He teaches courses in corporate strategy, technology strategy, and strategy in entertainment industries. He worked at the IBM Toronto Lab for a year as a DB2 Performance analyst. He received his DBA from Harvard Business School and an Honors Bachelors of Science with high distinction in computer science from the University of Toronto.