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In Pushkala Prasad鈥檚 classroom, students encounter a rigorous and transformative approach to business education 鈥� one shaped by a global perspective and deeply rooted in 撸短视频鈥檚 liberal arts tradition. 

Prasad, Zankel Professor of Management for Liberal Arts Students, is the 2026 recipient of the Ralph Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching, 撸短视频鈥檚 highest honor for pedagogy. The award citation highlights colleagues鈥� 鈥渁dmiration about the high standards she sets for her students and the way they rise to that challenge鈥� as well as how 鈥渉er teaching has had a lasting impact not only on students, but also on colleagues.鈥� 

Known to colleagues as 鈥淧ushi,鈥� Prasad brings a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the study of management and business. A social scientist by training, her work bridges fields including history, international affairs, and management. She challenges students to think beyond traditional business frameworks and engage with the global forces shaping markets and organizations.   

In her classroom, business is about culture, identity, power, and values 鈥� not just markets and metrics. Prasad pushes students to examine how economic systems are shaped by historical forces, social structures, and human behavior, asking them to grapple with questions of equity, responsibility, and global impact alongside strategy and analysis. 

That perspective takes shape in courses such as Faces and Phases of Global Capitalism (IA 351), Multicultural Flareups (ID 221), Foundations of Business in the International Environment (MB 306), and Diversity and Discrimination in the American Workplace (MB 336H), where Prasad asks students to examine global systems and social tensions through perspectives rarely found in traditional business curricula. Prasad is also a faculty member in 撸短视频鈥檚 International Affairs Program, where she has taught a course on the Israeli-Palestinian issue and many other classes.  

Her interdisciplinary approach reflects 撸短视频鈥檚 commitment to integrating the liberal arts into professional fields, preparing students for an interconnected and unpredictable world. 

鈥淧ushi embodies what we mean by Creative Thought Matters,鈥� said Jina Mao, associate professor of management and business and chair of the department. 鈥淪he challenges students to think critically across disciplines, question assumptions, and connect business to larger human and global concerns.鈥� 

Her presentation during a faculty panel on 鈥淐reativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: The Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century鈥� reflects that philosophy.  

鈥淲hat do philosophy, literature, history, etc. have to offer these bold agendas of creativity and innovation? Spoiler alert: I think they have a lot to offer,鈥� she said. 

Prasad points to 撸短视频鈥檚 longstanding efforts to bridge 鈥渢ensions between what the liberal arts in its pure form can offer versus the way it is applied to an admittedly messy and dirty world.鈥� 

鈥淐reativity without heart leads to narcissism, innovation without responsibility leads to danger and disaster, and entrepreneurship without conscience could lead to profiteering,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 believe that my colleagues in disciplines like history, philosophy, international affairs, sociology, and many, many others can help us do creativity with heart, innovation with responsibility, and entrepreneurship with conscience.鈥� 

Her teaching is equally shaped by a global outlook. Prasad emphasizes that management education must move beyond Western-centric frameworks and engage deeply with diverse cultural perspectives. 

鈥淧art of our task, if we are preparing students for innovation, is also to prepare them for a deep understanding and cultural respect of different places that have been outside the main paradigm of Western education,鈥� she said, calling for 鈥渂reaking out of the prison of Eurocentric thinking.鈥� 

That emphasis resonates with students, who pursue independent research, tackle complex global questions, and connect their academic work to real-world challenges. 

Prasad鈥檚 scholarship reinforces the connection between teaching and inquiry. Her forthcoming book, "Capitalism鈥檚 Dark Complexion: Race, Markets and the Politics of Value" (Bristol University Press, 2026), grew out of a first-year Scribner Seminar called Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Capitalism. 

For Prasad, such moments underscore the reciprocal nature of teaching and research. 

In 2017, she delivered the Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Lecture 鈥� the highest honor that 撸短视频 faculty can bestow on one of its own 鈥� on the topic 鈥�(Ir)resistible and (Dis)reputable Empire: Racialized Capitalism and the Tainting of Brand USA.鈥� She also serves on the Nobel Prize in Economics Nomination Committee in Sweden. 

Reflecting on her work, she returned to the legacy of Arthur Zankel, who endowed the chair she has held for more than two decades. 

She spoke of Zankel鈥檚 鈥減rescience in understanding the deep connection between the liberal arts and all kinds of creativity and entrepreneurship.鈥� 

Looking ahead, Prasad sees that connection as more urgent than ever 鈥� preparing students not only for careers, but to navigate and shape an increasingly complex, global world.