User:Docsejmsb/Paul Shrivastava

Academic and Professional Background

Dr. Paul Shrivastava, is the director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and a Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business, within Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He also serves as a Senior Advisor on sustainability at Bucknell University and the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, India. Not to mention he serves on the Board of Trustees of DeSales University, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Shrivastava received his Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh and was tenured Associate Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Dr. Shrivastava has published 15 books and over 100 articles in professional and academic journals. He served on the editorial boards of several leading management education journals, including:

- The Academy of Management Review

- The Strategic Management Journal

- Organization

- Risk Management

- Business Strategy and the Environment.

Dr. Shrivastava won the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and studied Japanese management while based at Kyoto University. In addition, he founded the Organization and Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). His work has even been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer and on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

History

Dr. Shrivastava has over 30 years experience in entrepreneurship, management education, and serves as a key consultant to major multinational companies. During his early career (1976), Dr. Shrivastava was part of the leading management team that launched Hindustan Computers Ltd., one of India's largest computer companies. He founded the non-profit Industrial Crisis Institute, Inc. in 1985 to mediate the industrial crisis between the Government of India and the Union Carbide Corporation, and published the Industrial Crisis Quarterly. In 1998 he founded a knowledge management and online training/education software company, as President and CEO of eSocrates, Inc.,. He also served as a consultant to AT & T, FMC Corp, Baker Hughes, Johnson and Johnson, Ketchum Communications, Wartsila, Scott Paper, Oy, and MEC RASTOR. Dr. Shrivastava also designs and presents strategic summits and training workshops for upper management; where he focuses on corporate and competitive strategy, crisis management, and sustainable management.

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