Arvind is on the faculty of the Graduate Business School at the University of Southern California, a position he has held since 1983. He specializes in competitive strategy, international business, new business development, and strategic change. He has co-authored three books and written several articles and case studies on these subjects. Consulting extensively with CEOs and senior executives at some of the world's largest business and professional services organizations, Arvind has worked with Chevron, IBM, Xerox, Kinko, GE, Times Mirror, Daimler Benz, Honeywell, Montgomery Watson, Nestle Foods, American Automobile Association, and Ernst & Young.

Arvind obtained his Doctorate in Business from the Harvard Business School, and was awarded the McKinsey Prize for Best Paper at the Strategic Management Society conference in Berlin, in 1999.

In a 2008 special report on executive MBA programs by the Wall Street Journal, Professor Bhambri was profiled as one of fourteen best Executive MBA professors worldwide and USC’s program was ranked fourth internationally.