She completed her Fellow Program and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. An engineer, she has worked for 15 years in the Indian IT industry, in both Indian and multinational companies, before transitioning to academia. She teaches Strategic Management, Strategy Execution and Strategic Decision Making in International Business: Cross Cultural Perspectives – revolving around the X-culture project. Her research focuses on situational-moderators that determine when does culture matter to international business and also on the operationalization of cultural friction in entry mode.