Farrokh Langdana
Dean's Professor of Business, and Rutgers Executive MBA Director
Dr. Langdana is the Director of the Rutgers Executive MBA Program – The Powerhouse and the Dean’s Professor of Business at Rutgers Business School. His areas of specialization include monetary and fiscal policy implications, international trade, and global macroeconomic policy. All his widely-read blogs and articles, including his Fireside Chats, pertaining to current global fiscal and monetary policy analyses, can be read by scrolling down or clicking here.
Prof. Langdana's Macropolicy course and Prof. Ignacio (Nacho) Vijil-Cabrera’s course in Pricing Strategy (Managerial Econ) have both been ranked in the Top Five in the World by Financial Times for five years in a row and in the Top 10 over eight times. In 2021, Prof. Langdana was featured as the lead story in the article "15 Executive MBA Professors who made a Difference in 2021" by Poets and Quants. More recently, Langdana was featured in an interview with CEO Magazine (London) that has consistently ranked Rutgers EMBA in the Top 10 in the world.
Dr. Langdana is the recipient of the Horace dePodwin Research Award and more than 30 teaching awards, including the highest possible teaching award at Rutgers University -- the Warren I. Susman Award. He also has received Rutgers Business School's Paul Nadler Award for Excellence in Teaching and was named in Business Week as one of the two Most Popular Business Professors at Rutgers University (BusinessWeek, Oct. 2nd, 2000). From 2011 to 2013, the Award for Excellence in Teaching in the MBA Program was named the Farrokh Langdana Teaching Excellence Award. In 2015, soon after Rutgers Business School moved into its current new location at 1 Washington Park, Prof. Langdana was honored by Dean Lei and the Faculty and Alumni of Rutgers Business School with a classroom named after him.
In October 2022, Prof. Langdana won the Dean's Meritorious Service Award, and then later that month, he was also awarded the highly prestigious title of RBS Dean's Professor of Business.
Dr. Langdana's Fire Side Chats can be watched on YouTube. All his blogs can be read by scrolling down this page.
Prof. Langdana to Rutgers EMBA Powerhouse alumni and current student:
So I finally managed to get the famous Langdana Sound Effects on PBS, to explain the Fisher Effect (link below). As you should all remember, from the Fisher Effect in my Macro course, as the Deficit/GDP ratio increases in the near term, the need to monetize (print money) to fund the future spending will surge, and this will cause inflation to increase in the future—-in the future---before any Trump-induced supply-side effects might materialize. This future (expected) inflation would mean that lenders today, lending over the long-term—-the 30 year mortgages, for example---will start charging more today to compensate for the lack of purchasing power due to inflation in the future. This, after all, is our Fisher Effect. And yes, on cue, 30-year average mortgage rates have already gone up to 6.8% today (November 2024) from 6.1 in September 2024. This is the warning light with sound effects, below.
Thanks to my Robert Shultz, Emba 2025, and his classmates of Powerhouse 2025, for letting me know of "Langdana-With-Sound-Effects" in the news, this morning! 🙂 Susan Todd of Team Dan Stoll at RBS, thank you again for connecting me! Now see below, everyone, and C-bar up. Welcome to the Rutgers EMBA Powerhouse, Farrokh
Langdana Again on PBS: Trump Tax Cuts, Budget Deficits, and Mortgage Rates
Prof. Langdana in USA Today, May 24, 2023, on inflation.
When will inflation slow down? Here's what to know about where consumer prices are headed.
Interview with Poets&Quants
EMBA Spotlight: The Benefits Of Rutgers’ Academic-Run EMBA Powerhouse
Interview with CEO Magazine
I am very pleased to share that due to the program quality and reputation reflected in the ranking of our Rutgers Executive MBA program as No. 8 globally by the prestigious CEO Magazine [released 2/16/22], Alexandra Skinner, editor of the London-based publication, conducted an interview with Farrokh Langdana for its Spring 2022 issue [see “Rutgers: More than just an EMBA Powerhouse”]. CEO Magazine has been widely circulated among CEOs and business opinion leaders around the world and can be found in Business Class lounges in major airports globally.
The strength of a large public business school like RBS depends, to a great extent, on student satisfaction and program reputation. Thank you Farrokh, your EMBA team, and many of our faculty and staff members who taught and supported the Rutgers EMBA Powerhouse, for your continued effort and excellence in putting RBS on the global map!!!
- Dean Lei
Academic degrees
Ph.D., Virginia Tech; Economics
M.A., Virginia Tech; Economics
M.B.A., Virginia Tech; Finance
B.Tech, Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, India
Trump's Tariff Debacle: Liberation Day? Liberation from our Senses!
Webinar: All about tariffs with Prof. Langdana
Insights
Demystifying Inflation: What Will Drive US Inflation in the Near Future?
Related News
Media Mentions
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Student Testimonials
I am not a prior student nor have I met you; however I have been very interested in the current economic conditions ever since my farm business went under early 2020. I was searching for information on inflation and found your youtube lecture titled, "Upcoming Inflation, The Biden Stimulus, and will America Overheat the Planet?" viewable at URL: https://youtu.be/mXZWauv_59Y . I have a bachelors in mathematics so my econ understanding is very rudimentary. Your lecture on youtube did a fantastic job of putting the current economic context into perspective for me, so thank you!
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Michael Rivera
Thanks again for a great semester, Prof. Langdana! I’ve learned more economics (and history) in this one class than I have throughout my entire undergrad and graduate level education. Please let me know if there are any other classes I can take with you!
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Dana Salizzoni, Rutgers MBA
I can honestly say that you are one of the best professors I have had. Your insight and your careful, thoughtful explanation made a complex subject easy to understand. It is the first time I have heard a foreign professor impart fair comments on China's past, present and future.
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Frances Xu
When I applied to REMBA, I was initially rejected ......I sent you a personal letter and asked you to reconsider and I will never forget your response, "Fortune favors the bold.... see you at the week in residence.” You took a chance on me.
6 years after graduation, I was named Vice President of Operations at my company. I owe much of my success to you and the entire REMBA family. The skills I learned allowed me to be "bold". To take the plunge into that next challenge, suggest things that were outside the status quo, to refer back to my cohort and to my lessons for advice and guidance.
It all started with you. You took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity, then you and your program provided the knowledge that I needed to be successful. I am eternally grateful and hope you continue to be an educator and mentor for a long time.
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Lester Parada
6 years after graduation, I was named Vice President of Operations at my company. I owe much of my success to you and the entire REMBA family. The skills I learned allowed me to be "bold". To take the plunge into that next challenge, suggest things that were outside the status quo, to refer back to my cohort and to my lessons for advice and guidance.
It all started with you. You took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity, then you and your program provided the knowledge that I needed to be successful. I am eternally grateful and hope you continue to be an educator and mentor for a long time.