Farrokh Langdana

Dr. Langdana's areas of specialization include monetary and fiscal policy implications and 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 research deals with macroeconomic experimentation and the role of stabilization policy in an expectations-driven economy. He has published several articles as well as five books in this area. His new book, co-authored with Peter Murphy and published by Springer Press, is titled "International Trade and Global Macropolicy."

Most recently, Prof. Langdana's Macropolicy course and Prof. Ignacio (Nacho) Vijil-Cabrera’s course in Pricing Strategy (Managerial Econ) were both ranked #2 by Financial Times in Economics in EMBA programs worldwide, for the fourth time in succession, in 2020. Economics has been in the Top 10 in the FT global rankings, over 8 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.

In a recent interview Langdana said, "This is actually the fourth time in 10 years that Rutgers EMBA Economics was ranked #2 in the world by the Financial Times, and the 8th time that Economics has been in the global FT Top Ten in Executive MBA Programs worldwide." He adds, chuckling, "In fact this is reassuring--the University of Chicago has 30! Nobel laureates in their Economics Department. If we were to be ranked ahead of that team, Nacho and I would surely conclude that something was off with the FT rankings!"

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 RBS Dean's Professor of Business title.

Dr. Langdana's Fire Side Chats can be watched on YouTube. All his blogs can be read by scrolling down this page.

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