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Sanjay Sharma

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SANJAY SHARMA, Ph.D.

Home address: 6135 Mt Philo Road Phone: 802-881-4250

Charlotte, VT 05445 Email: [email protected]

USA

Administrative/Business Leadership

I have over thirty-five years of academic and institutional leadership experience. My administrative

experience includes an ongoing term as the Dean of the School of Business Administration,

University of Vermont, USA, and a term as a very successful Dean of the John Molson School of

Business at Concordia University, the largest business school in Canada, sixteen years (nine of

which were as CEO or General Manager) as senior manager in multinational corporations, three

years as the Director of Executive MBA program at Saint Mary’s University, and one year as

founder and Director of a university-wide interdisciplinary research centre (Centre for Responsible

Organizations) at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Academic

2011 onward

Dean, School of Business Administration (BSAD), University o Vermont, (UVM) USA

UVM is a comprehensive small premier research university in the US. I took on the challenge of

transforming its business school into a world class ranked school. Some of the achievements of

the school during my first year include:

AACSB re-accreditation: BSAD at UVM was one of the last AACSB accredited schools

on a 10-year re-accreditation cycle. In the previous review cycle it was put on a 5 year

continuing review due to significant and major problems and issues. AACSB switched in

the early 2000s to a 5 year cycle since several business schools tended to lose momentum

for continuous improvement during 10 year cycles. In spite of the 5 year continuing

review during 2002 to 2007, BSAD lost momentum and the continuous improvement

processes stopped. We kick started the process and put into place several key indicators

in order to achieve re-accreditation.

Updating the Undergraduate Curriculum: The undergraduate curriculum had not been

reviewed since 1974 and lacked distinction and was out of touch with organizational

needs. I struck an ad hoc committee that spent 750 collective hours benchmarking against

the most innovative programs, obtaining feedback from alumni/ employers/ students, and

examining courses and program offerings at other colleges at UVM. The revised

curriculum received a unanimous vote from the faculty and positions BSAD for the 21st

century in offering a distinctive program. The revision comprised consolidation and

reconfiguration of the current concentrations and drawing on more electives from other

colleges. The students will opt for one of three strategic themes: sustainable business,

global business and entrepreneurship and one of five concentrations: accounting, finance,

marketing, business analytics, and management. This eliminates several of the earlier 9

concentrations which are less relevant academically and for which we had chronically

low enrollments. The curriculum also emphasizes experiential learning, career

development, and business communications. Even though the new curriculum has not yet

been rolled out, the 2012 entering class has the highest average SAT score in UVM’s

history.

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Developing a Differentiated and Relevant MBA Program: Another ad hoc committee

struck by me has recently revamped the MBA program following a process identical to

the review of the undergraduate program. The MBA program had not been reviewed for

38 years and lacked distinction. The revised curriculum will be effective for students

entering in the fall of 2014. This 12 month program will work in partnership with several

leading businesses and will be focused on sustainable entrepreneurship and differentiate

us in the market.

Career Management Services: BSAD did not have a career development function. I

engaged the Board of Advisors to take on this challenge and they helped raise funds to

hire a career development professional (and we continue to raise funds to hire employer

relations professionals) to build this area. Students are being prepared for successful job

searches through career advice, resume writing, dress and etiquette workshops, mock

interviews, and networking events. The business community and alumni have been

actively engaged in our career management process.

Experiential Learning and Community Engagement: The revamped curriculums include a

large component of experiential learning. Significant new experiential learning

components were added to the program. This helped us engage our alumni and the

business community as well as provide practical knowledge to students. The initiatives

include (i) a major boost in internships, (ii) live projects with organizations, (iii) students

developing experience in organizing and managing events (business pitch competition,

family business case competition, family business awards), (iv) coaching and sending

students to national and international case competitions, (v) executive special topic panels

(e.g., financial regulations, interactive marketing, careers in finance, careers in

sustainability, etc..), (vi) networking events with alumni visiting campus and networking

on sector specific roundtables with students and students visiting New York and Boston

to be hosted by alumni and networking with groups of alumni, and (vii) inviting a large

number of guest speakers in classes, at the school, and at the campus level.

Faculty and Staff Recognition and Retention: I instituted awards for staff recognition and

outstanding scholarship to recognize and reward staff and faculty members who excelled

in their respective domains. We are working on revising our lists of target journals to

recognize and reward excellence and balancing workloads to ensure more equitable

distribution of effort by faculty members.

Reputation Building and Alumni Engagement: I worked actively to engage alumni and

the Vermont community in the business school. This has involved writing to,

telephoning, emailing, and personally visiting alumni, companies, and state government

officials. Several of the new initiatives that I have started at BSAD involve active

engagement by alumni, business community and state officials. These include:

1. Business Idea Pitch Competition: Competition open to all UVM students,

organized by BSAD students, funded by BSAD alumnus, judged by alumni and

members of the Vermont business community (entrepreneurs and venture

capitalists). The winners work with the ecosystem of support created at the school

in the past year: venture capitalists, incubation at the Vermont Center for

Emerging Technologies, business acceleration at MassChallenge in Boston, and a

crowdsourcing funding platform.

2. Family Business Awards: To recognize and honor family businesses set up by our

alumni that have achieved economic success and have given back substantially to

the community. The judges for this competition include prominent donors and

alumni.

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3. The First Global Family Enterprise Case Competition. This will be the first ever

global family enterprise case competition in the world. The competition is in

January 2013, we closed entries in September 2012 and we have 14 schools

already registered for the 2014 competition! The top family business and

entrepreneurship programs all over the world have signed up for this competition.

The first competition in January 2013 will put BSAD on the global map with

teams from Sweden, Germany, Spain, Italy, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico,

US, and Canada.

4. Deans Leadership Speaker Series: In addition to many guest speakers in classes

and at the school level, this brings prominent corporate CEOs and business

leaders to talk to the entire campus.

5. Vermont Investors Forum: This forum will be held at UVM for the first time and

hosted by the business school students. The forum enables our students and

faculty to interact with leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, state

government officials, businesses, and listen to new business ideas.

Fundraising: I have met over a hundred alumni and donors over the past year to update

them on our progress (curriculum review, careers, internships), and get them behind the

vision and goals of the school. During the past year, fundraising receipts amounted to

around $1 million but we have proposals worth $20 million in the pipeline and expect a

great deal of success during the next year.

2007 to 2011

Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

JMSB is the largest business school in Canada with over 9,000 students in undergraduate,

graduate, and doctoral programs and over 350 full-time and adjunct faculty, and 120 staff

members. The JMSB is a diverse workplace with 67% of the faculty members being born outside

Canada. The student body exhibits a similar diversity. The large size of the school reflects the

complexity and multiplicity of stakeholders that who need to be engaged and whose concerns

addressed for organizational success. Some of the achievements of the school during my tenure

as Dean are highlighted below. These achievements were made possible by an effective and

dedicated leadership team that we were able to forge.

Fundraising: Over $50 million from private donors for research chairs/ professorships,

research centers, graduate student scholarships, student initiatives and to partially fund

the new business school building. Successful management of the transition from multiple

locations to the new $120 m seventeen floor LEED silver certified business building. The

new Research Centers included the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and

the Bell Centre for Business Process Innovation. Thirteen new chairs and professorships

included those in sustainable enterprise, entrepreneurship & family business social/

environmental accounting, relationship marketing, consumer behavior, strategic

management information systems, financial derivatives, integrated risk management,

financial planning, employee motivation, evolutionary consumer behavior, and corporate

governance.

Engaging the Business Community: The success in fundraising was been based on the

close interactions that we developed with the business community and alumni and on the

confidence and excitement generated about the strengths, successes, and the academic

potential of the school. The business community and alumni were actively engaged by

creating multiple interfaces between prominent members of the business and the school

and showcasing the faculty’s research and the talent of our students. The profile of the

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school’s advisory board was raised and they were more effectively engaged as the

school’s ambassadors, influencers, connectors, and fundraisers.

Financial Viability: Quebec universities are funded for each full time equivalent (FTE)

student by the provincial government. While the provincial funding is in constant decline,

we were constrained by a cap on tuitions at unrealistic levels of $1600 per year. In this

extremely difficult financial situation, the school had suffered large deficits in past years.

We significantly improved the financial viability of the school by changing the mix of

undergraduate and graduate students. The provincial funding is higher for graduate

students and even higher for thesis based research students and doctoral students. As

such, we raised FTE funding by 50% and enrollments by 40% by increasing the

proportion of graduate/doctoral students to enable the school to benefit from funding

priorities of the provincial government. At the same time we improved the viability of

private programs and started successful new programs. The school now has a healthy

surplus of revenues over expenses.

Academic vision and Strategic Planning: Initiated the school’s strategic planning process

with a shared vision to educate business leaders with excellent foundations in traditional

management knowledge and the ability to manage in future complex, multi-stakeholder,

sustainable global business environments. The school signed on to the UN Principles for

Responsible Management and this helped guide curriculum revisions to strengthen our

strengths in traditional disciplines and add ethics, sustainability, globalization,

entrepreneurship, and management of emerging technology to the curriculum. At the

same time, we raised admission standards, improving academic quality of the student

body.

Rankings: We worked on the academic quality of, and student experience in, our MBA

program and for the first time JMSB was ranked in the Financial Times top 100 EMBA

programs in 2010 and The Economist top 100 MBA programs during 2010 and 2011,

rising in the rankings. We improved our benchmark indicators on traditional disciplines

(Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Entrepreneurship, and Management) while

increasing focus on sustainable operations of the school, sustainability in our academic

curriculum and in student initiatives/conferences including community/social

entrepreneurship and international development internships. This helped us improved our

rankings in Corporate Knights to 3rd

in Canada and Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey

Pinstripes to #34 in the world and helped our students win international competitions in

CSR, ethics and sustainability. This also helped us impart a more holistic education to our

students while they remained rooted in traditional disciplinary knowledge. We created a

new MBA Community Service Initiative and also an International Co-op focused on

sustainable development. These initiatives helped students develop strengths in

social/sustainable entrepreneurship.

New Programs: Based on discussions with the local community, other universities, and

graduate programs in non-business disciplines, we undertook the development of a

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in 2009. This program was successful

beyond our expectations. In its second year (fall 2010), the program accepted 120

students from an applicant pool of 350. The first entering class of 2009 included 60

students from an applicant pool of over 200. These included 12 Ph.D. students in

medicine from McGill, and graduate students in engineering, natural sciences, social

sciences, and fine arts. The entering class of 2010 included 22 Ph.D students from McGill

in medicine and natural sciences. The average GPA of the entering class is above 3.75. In

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2011, we finalized a new joint graduate degree in business and law with the University of

Montreal.

Existing Programs: We significantly improved the financial viability of the academic

programs by managing the process of closing chronically losing executive programs and

energizing high potential private and executive programs such as the MBA, EMBA, CA,

CMA, and MBA/CFA, to improve enrollments and generate healthy surpluses. We also

put into place faculty workload and class size guidelines and consolidated operations to

reduce inefficiencies.

Accreditation: The school had been put on notice by AACSB due to lack of progress on

the assessment of learning, academically qualified faculty ratios, and the lack of strategic

planning. When I joined in 2007, the situation was unchanged and the school was on the

verge of losing its AACSB accreditation. We persuaded AACSB to give us an extension

and we put into place a process for implementing Assessment of Learning, initiated and

implemented the process for strategic planning, implementation, and monitoring. We

were able to secure internal and external funding to hire 30 new full time faculty

members to improve our Academically Qualified faculty ratios. AACSB reviewed our

progress in 2008 and re-accredited the school in January 2009.

Student experience: We created a sponsorship program for undergraduate and graduate

case competitions to coach students for national and international case competitions and

fund travel. During my tenure, the students attained over 95 podium finishes in national

and international case competitions. This helped raise the national and international

reputation and profile of the school.

Cultural change: When I interviewed for the position as Dean of the John Molson School

of Business, I was told that due to historical reasons, the biggest challenge I faced was a

faculty that was “divided, demoralized and de-motivated.” I believe that I successfully

seized that challenge and restored a collaborative spirit in the school. I believe that my

most significant contribution was the implementation of a positive operating culture of

the faculty, restoring transparency, fairness, impartiality, due process and equity.

2005-2007

Director, CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo,

Canada Conceived and founded the cross-university centre for knowledge leadership, program development

and community outreach in responsible organizations.

1998-2001

Director, Executive MBA Programs, Saint Mary’s University, Canada

Improved the national ranking of the EMBA program in Canadian Business from 10th out of 12

Canadian EMBA programs to 3rd

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University/Departmental administrative committees

UVM

2012 Chair, Search Committee. Dean, College of Engineering and

Mathematical Sciences

2011 onward Strategic Initiatives Committees: Cost Structure and

Rationalization; Internationalization and Diversity

Concordia University

2008-09 Collective Bargaining Committee with Faculty Union

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Member, Search Committee for the Dean of Arts and Science at

Concordia

2007 onward University Sustainability task Force

2008 onward University Information Technology Task Force

2008-09 Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Science

2008-09 Member, Search Committee for President of Concordia

2007 onward Member, University Senate

2007 onward Member, University Academic Cabinet

2007 onward Member, University President’s Cabinet

Wilfrid Laurier University:

2006 Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee

2006 Member, Ph.D. Advisory Board

2003 Member, MBA Program Curriculum Review Committee

Saint Mary’s University:

2000-01 Member, University Senate Promotion and Tenure Review Committee

1998-01 Member, University Graduate Studies Committee

1998-01 Member, University Environmental Studies Committee

1998-01 Member, Faculty of Commerce Executive Committee

1996-97 Member, Ph.D. Program Planning Committee

1996 Member, Small Business/Entrepreneurship program Planning Committee

1996-99 Departmental Representative, EMBA Council

1998-01 Departmental representative, Library resources

1996-98 Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee

Board Memberships

Member, Board, Network for Business Sustainability

Member, Board, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan

Member, Board, Enterprise for a Sustainable World

Member, Burlington Council of Arts, Vermont (2012 onward)

Member, Board of Governors, Marianopolis College, Montreal (resigned 2012)

Member of the Board of Directors , The Institute for Governance of Public and Private

Organizations, Montreal (resigned 2011)

Member of the Board of Directors, The Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management

Foundation (resigned 2011)

Member of the Board of Directors, eConcordia Inc. (resigned 2011)

Member of the Board of Directors, Knowledge One Inc. (resigned 2011)

Business Leadership

During the 16 years of my business career, I navigated complex multi-stakeholder and multi-

cultural situations in Asia and Africa to successfully initiate and build new businesses. In

addition to developing and implementing several new projects, I was a member of the team that

helped pioneer the franchising concept in India. The sales revenues of the company I headed as

CEO at that time grew by 900% during my tenure.

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1986-1992

Managing Director, Chanrai International Plc. UK I was responsible for West African operations, which included cotton/cashew plantations &

processing plants, textile and edible oil manufacturing, commodity trading and exports. This job

involved multi-stakeholder collaboration with federal/provincial/local governments, local

communities and indigenous people/tribes, special interest groups, international development

agencies, and international banks and financial institutions. Annual sales revenues of operations

managed US$500 million.

1981-1986

Chief Executive Officer, Sanraj Group Ltd., India

The company manufactures processed foods, soaps, chemicals, food processing plant and

equipment and franchising operations in processed foods. I helped establish the company’s

pioneering franchising operations and was awarded the Federation of Indian Chambers of

Commerce national award for innovative marketing. The sales revenues of the company grew by

900% during this period. Approximate annual sales revenues of operations managed: US$200

million.

1979-1981

Financial Controller, Vardhman Spinning and General Mills Ltd., India.

Company manufactures cotton/synthetic fibres, textiles, garments, and steel. Approximate annual

sales revenues US$ 2 billion.

1976-1979

Assistant Manager (Finance), J.K. Synthetics Ltd., India.

Company manufactures synthetic fibres, cellulose fibres, tire cord, textile machinery,steel

pollution control equipment, and garments. Approximate annual sales revenues of company:

US$ 5 billion.

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Academic Experience and Research Leadership

My research was recognized via the award of the federally funded Canada Research Chair (CRC)

in Organizational Sustainability. This was the first CRC in sustainability in a business school.

My research has been published in the top ranked management journals (such as Academy of

Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal

of Marketing, Academy of Management Executive, and Business Ethics Quarterly. I have worked

with other leading scholars to co-found and build the credibility of a new field of scholarship at

the Academy of Management: Organizations and the Natural Environment. In 2002, I co-

founded a community of scholars, Group of Researchers on Organizations and the Natural

Environment (Gronen) that brings together North American and European scholars to develop

research agendas and foster collaboration across the two continents. This community meets

every two years in Europe.

I have won several peer awards for my research including Best Dissertation Award, Social Issues

in Management Division at the Academy of Management 1996, two Best Paper Awards at the

Academy of Management 1997 and 2005, and a Best Paper Award at the Administrative

Sciences Association of Canada 2003. I was a Fulbright Fellow in 2001-2002 and I served on

research adjudication committees of councils such as Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Council of Canada for three years. In my role of institutional leadership in helping develop a new

field of scholarship, I have been invited to participate in a number of international and national

research bodies such as the Canadian National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment

(Greening of the Curriculum Committee); the US National Academies (including the National

Science Foundation) Taskforce on Environmental, Social and Behavioral Research; the Research

Advisory Board of the Oikos Foundation for the Economy and Ecology at University of St.

Gallen, Switzerland; and the Corporate Sustainability Advisory Committee at the Houston

Advanced Research Centre, among others. I have been invited to advise several corporations and

not-for-profit organizations such as the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation,

Coke, and SNC Lavalin, among others. I serve on the Boards of eConcordia, Knowledge One,

and Marianopolis College in Montreal.

July 1st 2011 Professor of Management (with tenure), School of Business

Administration, University of Vermont, USA

July 1st 2007 Professor (Management), (with tenure) The John Molson School of

Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2006 Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability

2004 Professor (Policy) (with tenure), School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid

Laurier University, Canada

2001-2004 Associate Professor (Policy) (with tenure), Wilfrid Laurier University

1998-2001 Associate Professor (with tenure), Saint Mary’s University

1996-1998 Assistant Professor (tenure track), Saint Mary’s University

1992-1996 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Calgary

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International and National Academic Committees

2008 onward AACSB Academic Task Force on implementing Principles for

Responsible Management Education

2007 Chair, Greening of Industry International Conference, Waterloo, Ontario

2006 onward Chair, Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest Group

Membership and Nomination Committee

2001-2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research

Grants Adjudication Committee

2003-2004 The National Academies (National Research Council/National Science

Foundation-USA) Taskforce on Environmental, Social and Behavioral

Sciences Research for the National Science Foundation, USA

2004 onward Research Advisory Board, Oikos Foundation for the Economy and

Ecology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

2002-2003 Chair, Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest Group,

Academy of Management

2001-2002 Program Chair, Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest

Group, Academy of Management Annual Meetings

2000-2001 Professional Development Workshops Chair, Organizations and the

Natural Environment Interest Group, Academy of Management Annual

Meetings

1997-1998 Canadian National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment,

Greening of Curriculum Committee

1996-1999 Chair, Internationalization and Integration Team, Organizations and the

Natural Environment Interest Group, Academy of Management

1998-2000 Member, Publications Team, Organizations and the Natural Environment

Interest Group, Academy of Management

2000-2003 Member, Greening Team, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy

of Management

2000 Track Chair, Atlantic Schools of Business Annual Conference

Awards and Honours

2009 Inducted into the India Abroad Power List of prominent members of the Indo-

Canadian community for contributions to Canadian and global society

2009 Sustainability Leadership Award from Sustainable Concordia

2005 Barrett & Koehler Award for Best Academy Paper on Organizations and the Natural

Environment, Academy of Management

2005 Runner-up, Faculty Pioneer (Sustainability) Award, Aspen Institute

2003 Outstanding Service Award, Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest

Group, Academy of Management

2003 Best Paper, Strategy Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

2003 Business School Faculty Rising Star Award by the “Corporate Knights” Magazine

for establishing the triple-bottom line as a standard business practice.

2005 Wilfrid Laurier University research merit award




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2001-02 US Fulbright Scholar (at UNC-Chapel Hill)

1996 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy

of Management

1997 Jossey-Bass/New Lexington Award for Best Academy Paper on Organizations and

the Natural Environment, Academy of Management

1999 ANBAR Citation of Excellence for research impact

1976 Panjab University, India Gold Medal for finishing first in the MBA program

1974-76 Escorts-Goetze (corporate) merit scholarship for finishing first in all semesters of the

MBA program at Panjab University, India

1974 University of Delhi, India merit list of top 10 students in the B.Com. (Honours)

program

Research Grants

2009 $43,280: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for “Green Alliances:

Strategies, Alliance Portfolios, and Performance Implications.” With Ulrich

Wassmer and Raymond Paquin (co-investigator).

2006 $500,000: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant for

Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability

2005 $160,603: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard

Research Grant for “Organizational capabilities, institutional influences, and

environmental management systems: A comparative study of the NAFTA

countries.” (Principal Investigator).


Research Grant for “A Longitudinal Analysis of Technical and Administrative

Environmental Innovations.” (Co-investigator).

2004 $28,100: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic

Research Cluster Design Grant for “Building Canadian Corporate

Competitiveness through Sustainable Development” (co-applicant).

2002 $49,800: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research

Development Grant for “The Sustainability of Canadian Business in the New

Economy” (Collaborator)


Research Grant, for “Sustainability Strategies in the Canadian Forest Products

Industry” (Sole applicant)

1994 $26,852: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral

Fellowship.

2005 $1,500: Wilfrid Laurier University Research Travel Award

2000 $2,500: Senate Research (Internal SSHRC) Grant, Saint Mary’s University for

“Stakeholder influences on sustainability in the Canadian forest products industry”

1998 $2,550: Senate Research Grant (Internal SSHRC), Saint Mary’s University for

“Environmental responsiveness in the Canadian forestry industry.”


“Environmental responsiveness in the Canadian forestry industry.”


“Biodiversity conservation strategies in the North American biotechnology

industry.”

1995 $1,500: Dissertation Research award from the University of Calgary.

1995 $3,000: Research funding from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

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Teaching Awards

2000-2002 “Professor of the Program” voted by the EMBA Class of 2000-2002 at Saint Mary’s

University

1996-97 “Professor of the Year- Award for Teaching Excellence”, voted by the MBA Society

at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

Nominated for executive MBA, MBA and undergraduate teaching awards six times

at Saint Mary’s University

Local Community Service

1996-2001 Rotary Club of Halifax

Chair, Environment Committee; Chair, International Programs Committee;

Member, Scholarships Committee; Member, Four-Way Test Committee

Educational Qualifications

1996 Ph.D., Faculty of Management, University of Calgary.

1976 M.B.A., Panjab University, India (University Gold Medal).

1974 B.Com. (Honours), The University of Delhi, India (University Merit list).

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Academic Publications

I. Books

Marcus, A., Shrivastava, P., Sharma, S. & Pogutz, S. 2011. Cross-sector Leadership for a Green

Economy: Integrating Research and Practice on Sustainable Enterprise. Palgrave

Macmillan: New York, NY.

Wüstenhagen,R, Sharma, S., Starik, M. & Hamschmidt, J. 2008. Sustainability, Innovation and

Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 978-1

84720 037 2.

Sharma, S., Starik, M. & Husted, B. (Editors). 2007. Organizations and the Sustainability

Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions. Edward Elgar

Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 1 84542 005 5.

Sharma, S. & Aragón-Correa, J.A. (Editors) 2005. Environmental Strategy and Competitive

Advantage. Edward Elgar Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 1 84542 005 5.

Starik, M ., Sharma, S. & Egri, C. (Editors) 2005. New Horizons in Research on Sustainable

Organizations: Emerging Ideas, Approaches, and Tools for Educators and

Practitioners. Greenleaf Publishing, UK. ISBN: 1 874719 77 2

Sharma, S. & Starik, M. (Editors) 2004. New Perspectives on Research in Corporate

Sustainability: Stakeholders, Environment and Society. Edward Elgar Academic

Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 1 84376 459 8.

Sharma, S. & Starik, M. (Editors) 2002. Research in Corporate Sustainability: The Evolving

Theory and Practice of Organizations in the Natural Environment. Edward Elgar

Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 1-84064-906-2.

II.Refereed Journal Articles

Wassmer, U., Paquin, R. and Sharma, S. 2012. The Engagement of Firms in Environmental

Collaborations: Existing Contributions and Future Directions. Business & Society,

Published online on March 28, 2012. Forthcoming in print in 2013.)

Sharma, P. & Sharma, S. 2011. Drivers of Proactive Environmental Strategy in Family Firms.

Business Ethics Quarterly. 21(2): 309-332.

Sharma, S. 2009. The Influence of Organization Design, Information and Benchmarking on

Environmental Practices in the Canadian Hotel Industry. Business Strategy and the

Environment, 18:266-276.

Sharma, S. 2009. The ecological antecedents of terrorism: A critique of Shrivastava.

International Journal of Strategic Sustainable Management, 1(2): 124-126.

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Manzanares, A.R., Aragón-Correa, J.A., and Sharma, S. 2008. The Influence of Stakeholders on

Environmental Strategy of Service Firms: The Moderating Effects of Complexity,

Uncertainty and Munificence. British Journal of Management, 19: 185-203.

Aragón-Correa, J.A., Hurtado-Torres, N. Sharma, S. & Garcia-Morales, V.J. 2008.

“Environmental strategy and performance in small firms: A resource-based perspective.”

Journal of Environmental Management, 86(2008): 88-103.

Sharma, S., Aragón-Correa, J.A., & Rueda, A. 2007. The Contingent Influence Of Organizational

Capabilities On Proactive Environmental Strategy In The Service Sector: An Analysis Of

North American And European Ski Resorts. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences,

24(4): 268-283.

Sharma, S. 2007. “Integrated social and ecosystem stewardship.” Business Strategy and the

Environment. 16 (1): 90-91.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2005. “Pathways of stakeholder influence in the Canadian forest

products industry.” Business Strategy and the Environment. 14: 384-398.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2005. “Stakeholder influences on sustainability practices in the

Canadian forest products industry.” Strategic Management Journal, 26(2): 159-180.

Joshi, A. & Sharma, S. 2004. “Customer Knowledge Development: Antecedents and Impact on

New Product Performance." Journal of Marketing, vol. 68 (October): 47-59.

Hart, S.L. & Sharma, S. 2004. “Engaging fringe stakeholders for competitive imagination.”

Academy of Management Executive, 18(1):7-18.

Sharma, S. & Ruud, A. 2003. “On the path to sustainability: Integrating social dimensions into

the research and practice of environmental management.” Business Strategy and the

Environment, 12: 205-214. Lead article.

Aragon-Correa, A. & Sharma, S. 2003 “A contingent natural-resource based view of proactive

environmental strategy.”Academy of Management Review, 28(1): 71-88.

Sharma, S. 2001. "L'organisation durable et ses stakeholders." Revue Francaise de Gestion,

13 (November-December): 154-167.

Sharma, S. 2001. “Different strokes: The effect of different regulatory styles on environmental

strategy in the North American oil and gas industry.” Business Strategy and Environment

10(6): 344-364.

Sharma, S. 2000. “Managerial interpretations and organizational context as predictors of firm choice

of environmental strategies.” Academy of Management Journal, 43(4): 681-697

Sharma, S. & Vredenburg, H. 1998. “Proactive environmental responsiveness strategy and the

development of competitively valuable organizational capabilities.” Strategic Management

Journal, 19(8): 729-53.

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(“Building organizational capabilities in the Canadian energy sector.” Research translation of the

above article, Academy of Management Executive, 13(2): 88-89. 1999)

Sharma, S, Pablo. A.,and Vredenburg, H. 1999. “Corporate environmental responsiveness

strategies: The role of issue interpretation and organizational context.” Journal of Applied

Behavioral Science, 35(1): 87-109.

Sharma, S. & Nguan, O. 1999. “The biotechnology industry and biodiversity conservation

strategies: The influence of managerial interpretations and risk propensity.” Business

Strategy and the Environment. 8 (Jan-Feb): 46-61.

Sharma, S. 1999. “Trespass or symbiosis: Dissolving the boundaries between marketing strategy

and strategic management.” Journal of Strategic Marketing. 7(2): 73-88

Sharma, S., H. Vredenburg, & F. Westley. 1994. “Strategic bridging: A role for the multinational

corporation in Third World Development”, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol.

30(4): December 1994, pp. 458-476.

Hung, C.L. & Sharma, S. 1999. “Canadian cooperative alliances in Pacific Asia: An overview of

strategic orientation and performance.” Journal of Asian Business ̧15(2): 61-77.

III. Other journal publications

Book review of “Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic

Perspectives” in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 20(2): 181-182, 2004.

“Living Corporate Citizenship.” In Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 14: 116-118, 2004.

Guest editor for special issue on Corporate Social Responsibility of Business Strategy and the

Environment, volume 12, June 2003.

IV. Book Chapters

Marcus, A.A., Shrivastava, P. Sharma, S. & Pogutz, S. 2011. “Introduction: Cross Sector

Leadership for Green Economy.“ In Marcus, A., Shrivastava, P., Sharma, S. & Pogutz,

S. 2011. Cross-sector Leadership for a Green Economy: Integrating Research and

Practice on Sustainable Enterprise, Pages xi-xvi. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY.

Wüstenhagen, R., Sharma, S., Starik, M. & Wuebker, R. 2008. Sustainability, Innovation and

Entrepreneurship: Introduction and review. In R. Wüstenhagen, S. Sharma, M. Starik, &

J. Hamschmidt (Eds.) 2008. Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, pages 1-

23. Edward Elgar Academic Publishing, Northhampton Edward Elgar Academic

Publishing, Northhampton, MA.

Husted, B., Sharma, S & Starik, M 2007. “Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting

Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions.” In Sharma, S, Starik, M. & Husted, B.

(eds.) Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological

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and Societal Solutions. Edward Elgar Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA. ISBN: 1

84542 005 5.

Sharma, S. 2005. “Through the lens of managerial interpretations: Stakeholder engagement,

organizational knowledge and innovation.” In Sharma, S. & Aragón-Correa, J.A. (Eds.)

Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage, pp 49-70. Edward Elgar Academic


Sharma, S. & Aragón-Correa, J.A. 2005. “Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive

Advantage: A Review from the Past to the Future.” In Sharma, S. & Aragón-Correa, J.A.

(Eds.) Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage. Edward Elgar Academic


Sharma, S. and Starik, M. 2004. “Stakeholders, Environment and Society: Multiple perspectives,

emerging consensus." In Sharma, S. & Starik, M. (eds.) New Perspectives on Research in

Corporate Sustainability: Stakeholders, Environment and Society: 1-22. Edward Elgar

Academic Publishing, Northhampton, MA.

Starik, M. and Sharma, S. 2005. “Sustainable organizations: Emerging approaches for strategic

change.” In Starik, M. and Sharma, S. (eds.) New Horizons in Research on Sustainable

Organizations: Emerging Ideas, Approaches, and Tools for Educators and

Practitioners. Greenleaf Publishing, UK.

Sharma, S. 2002. “What really matters: Research on corporate sustainability.” In Sharma, S. &

Starik, M. (eds.) Research in Corporate Sustainability: The Evolving Theory and

Practice of Organizations in the Natural Environment: 1-29.. Edward Elgar Academic


V. Teaching Cases

“Triba Water: A Business Model for Developing Nations.” #120042-G. Laurier Institute, 2003.

VI. Work in Progress

Hamprecht, J. & Sharma, S. “A resource based view of institutional entrepreneurship: The context

of sustainable development. Under review at the Academy of Management Review.

Dentchev, N. & Sharma, S. “The instrumental importance of secondary stakeholders.” Under

review at the Academy of Management Review.

Hart, S.L. & Sharma, S. “Base of the Pyramid: Predicting MNC entry and success.” Under review

at the Journal of International Business Studies.

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VII. Refereed Conference Proceedings.

Sharma, S. 2009. Drivers of Sustainability Strategy in Family Firms. Proceedings of the 20th

Annual Conference of the International Association of Business and Society. Snowmass,

CO: June 18-21.

Sharma, S., Aragón-Correa, A. & Rueda, A. 2006. The contingent effect of uncertainty on

proactive sustainability in North American and European ski resorts. Proceedings of the

17th

Annual Conference of the International Association of Business and Society, Merida,

Mexico, March.

Manzanares, A.R., Aragón-Correa, J.A., Sharma, S. & Sanchez, R.L. 2006. The Moderating

Effect Of The General Business Environment On The Relationship Between Stakeholder

Integration And Environmental Strategies. 2006. Proceedings of the Group on

Organizations and the Natural Environment Second Research Conference, St. Gallen,

August.

Bowen, F. & Sharma, S. 2005. Resourcing Environmental Strategy: Behavioral and Resource-

based Perspectives. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, Hawaii, August.

Barrett and Koehler Best Paper- Academy of Management, Organizations and the

Natural Environment,

Sharma, S. & Aragon-Correa, A. 2004. Editors. Research on advanced environmental management:

Opportunities and capabilities. Gronen (Group on Organizations and the Natural

Environment) Research Workshop.

Sharma, S., Aragon-Correa, A. & Rueda, A. 2004. “A Contingent Resource-Based Analysis of

Environmental Strategy In The Ski Industry.” Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences

Association of Canada Annual Meetings, Quebec, June.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2003. “Stakeholder influences and sustainability practices in the

Canadian forest products industry.” Best Paper, Strategy Division, Administrative Sciences

Association of Canada Annual Meetings, Halifax, June.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2002. “Stakeholder pressures and sustainability strategies in the

Canadian forestry industry.” Proceedings of the Greening of Industry Network Annual

Conference, Gotenburg, Sweden, June.

Sharma, S. 2001. “Stakeholder influences and sustainability knowledge creation.” Proceedings of

the Eleventh Meeting of the International Association of Business & Society, Sedona, AZ,

March

Sharma, S. 2000. “Differences in regulatory styles and environmental strategies in the U.S. and

Canadian energy sectors.” Proceedings of the Eleventh Meeting of the International

Association of Business & Society, Burlington, Vermont, March.

Sharma, S. 1999. "Sustainability thinking and practices in the Canadian forest products industry.” In

Best paper Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Greening of Industry Network,

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, November.

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Sharma, S. 1999. “Sustainability strategies in the forestry industry.” In Wood, D.J. & Rehbein, K.

(Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of the International Association of Business &

Society, Paris, June.

Joshi, A. & Sharma, S. 1999. “Environmental Turbulence and Firm Performance: The Mediating

Role of Market Orientation Processes” Proceedings of the Annual Summer Educators

Conference of the American Marketing Association.

Sharma, S. & Nguan, O. 1998. “Biodiversity strategies of biotechnology companies in developing

countries.” In Calton, J. & Rehbein, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of

the International Association of Business and Society, pp. 229-234, Kona, Hawaii, March

Sharma, S. 1997. “A longitudinal investigation of corporate environmental responsiveness:

Antecedents and outcomes.” In Dosier, L. N. J.B. Keys. Best Paper Proceedings, Academy

of Management Meetings, Boston, MA.: 460-464. Jossey-Bass/ New Lexington Press Best

Award for Best Academy Paper on Organizations and the Natural Environment.

Sharma, S. & St. Cyr, A. 1997. “ A resource market approach to micro and small enterprises

development.” In Weber, J. & Rehbein, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual

Meeting of the International Association of Business and Society, pp. 314-319, Sandestin,

FL, March

Sharma, S. 1997. “Trespass or symbiosis: Dissolving the boundaries between marketing strategy

and strategic management.” Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business Annual

Meetings, October 1997, Fredericton.

Sharma, S. 1996. “An empirical investigation into the influence of managerial cognitions and

organizational context on corporate environmental responsiveness.” In Logsdon, J. &

Rehbein, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the International

Association of Business and Society, pp. 386-391, Santa Fe, NM: March.

Sharma, S., & H. Vredenburg. 1994. “Environmental Response in the Canadian oil and gas

industry.” In S. Wartick & D. Collins (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of

the International Association of Business & Society, pp. 448-453., Hilton Head, S.C.:

March.

Sharma, S. 1994. “Environmental management - Global interconnections and the Third World

perspective: A role for private business”, in S. Wartick & D. Collins (eds.), Proceedings of

the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association of Business & Society, pp. 505-

510., Hilton Head, S.C.: March.

Sharma, S. & H. Vredenburg. 1994. “Stakeholder relations and environmental response in the

Canadian oil and gas industry”, in A. Rahim (ed.), Proceedings of the Second Biannual

International Conference on Advances in Management, Calgary, AB: June.(abstract)

Sharma, S., H. Vredenburg, & F. Westley. 1993. “Strategic bridging: A role for the multinational

corporation in Third World Development”, in S. Wartick & D. Collins (eds.), Proceedings

of the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association of Business & Society, pp.

103-108., San Diego, CA.: March.

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Sharma, S. & H. Vredenburg. 1993. “Incorporating environmental concerns into strategy: A source

of competitive advantage”, in Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Administrative

Sciences Association of Canada, Lake Louise, AB: May-June.(abstract)

VIII. Refereed conference presentations:

Sharma, S and Sharma, P. 2012. Sustainable Innovation in the Canadian Winery Industry. Sixth

Bi-annual conference of the Group of Researchers on the Natural Environment (Gronen),

June 2012, Marseilles, France.

Sharma, S and Sharma P., 2012. Sustainability across generations: Family influences on a

proactive environmental strategy. 72nd Annual Conference of the Academy of

Management, August 2012, Boston, MA

Tsai, M., Mathews, D., Myrtle, R. and Sharma, S. 2012. Leadership and Management: A

crucible experience. Society of Education in Anesthesiology, May 2012, Milwaukee, WI

Tsai, M., Mathews, D., Myrtle, R. and Sharma, S. 2013. Leadership and Management: A

Crucible Experience. American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Conference. Orlando,

FL

Sharma, P. & Sharma, S. 2010. The influence of familiness on proactive environmental strategies

in family firms. Presentation at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management,

Montreal, QC, August 2010.

Sharma, S. 2010. Sustainable Global Enterprise: Building Research on Caring and Daring

MNEs. Presentation at the Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal,

QC, August 2010.

Wassmer, U., Sharma, S. & Paquin, R. 2010. Environmental sustainability and

interorganizational collaboration: A review and research agenda. Presentation at the

Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management, Montreal, QC, August 2010.

Sharma, P. & Sharma, S. 2010. Drivers of proactive environmental strategies in family firms.

Paper presented at the Fourth Gronen Conference, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy,

June 2010.

Wassmer U., Paquin R. & Sharma S. 2010. What We Know And Don’t Know About

Environmentally Focused Partnerships. EURAM 2010, May 19-222nd

, Rome, Italy

Ratiu, C., Sharma, S. & Molz, R. 2009. Developing capabilities for proactive sustainability

strategies. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management,

Chicago: IL, August 6th-11th

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Sharma, S. 2009. Finding the balance between reliability and validity: What is measured? All

Academy Symposium at the 73rd Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management,

Chicago: IL, August 6th-11th

Ratiu, C., Sharma, S. & Molz, R. 2008. “Evolutionary change of organizations in the natural

environment” The 3rd

Gronen Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, May.

Manzanares, A.R., Sharma, S., Aragón-Correa, J.A., Sanchez, R.L., & Tapia, I.M. 2006. The

Relationship Between Stakeholder Integration Capability And Environmental Strategy.

The European Academy of Management Conference, Oslo, May.

Sharma, S. 2005. Sustainable Organizational Innovation via Stakeholder Engagement. Presented

at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, ONE, Honolulu, August.

Sharma, S. 2005. Strategic competences for environmental strategy. Presented at the Academy of

Management Annual Meetings, BPS and ONE, Honolulu, August.

Bowen, F. & Sharma, S. 2004. “The role of slack, resources, and dynamic capabilities in

innovation.” Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual Meetings, Puerto

Rico, October.

Sharma, S. 2004. “Stakeholder engagement, innovation and competitive advantage.” Paper

presented at the Greening of Industry Conference, Hong Kong, November 9th.

Sharma, S., J. Aragón-Correa and A. Rueda (2003), ‘Gestión medioambiental proactiva:

validación de un instrumento de medida’, Paper presented at the XIII annual meeting of

ACEDE, Salamanca, Spain.

Sharma, S., Jones, L. & Simanis, E. 2003. “Business Strategies for the base of the economic

pyramid.” Presentation at the Greening of Industry Conference, San Francisco, October.

Sharma, S., Jose, P.D. & Sankaran, K. 2003. “Developing a Canadian-Indian Network for

Sustainable Development. “Presentation at the Greening of Industry Conference, San

Francisco, October.

Sharma, S. 2003. “Stakeholder integration and organizational innovation.” TIM and ONE. Academy

of Management Annual Meetings, Seattle, August.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2003. “Stakeholder influences on sustainability practices in the

Canadian forest products industry.” ONE, Academy of Management Annual Meetings,

Seattle, August.

Sharma, S. & Henriques, I. 2003. “Stakeholder influence strategies in the Canadian forest

products industry.” SIM, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Seattle, August.

Hart, S.L. & Sharma, S. 2002. “Radical transactiveness and competitive imagination.” ONE, SIM

and BPS. Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Denver, August.

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Hart, S.L. & Sharma, S. 2002. “Stakeholder engagement and knowledge creation.” Paper presented

at the Strategic Management Society Annual Meetings, Paris, September.

Sharma, S. 2000. “Different strokes: Differences in regulatory styles and environmental strategy in

the Canadian and U.S. energy sectors.” ONE, Academy of Management Annual Meetings,

Toronto, 2000.

Sharma, S. 2000. “Sustainability strategies in the Canadian forest products industry: An

exploration.” ONE, Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Toronto, 2000.

Sharma, S. & Nguan, O. 1998. “The biotechnology industry and biodiversity conservation

strategies: The influence of managerial interpretations and risk propensity.” ONE, Academy

of Management Annual Meetings, San Diego, August.

Sharma, S. & Vredenburg, H. 1998. “Proactive environmental responsiveness strategies and the

development of competitively valuable organizational capabilities. “ Paper presented at the

Spring 1998 meeting of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Science

(INFORMS), Montreal, April 26-29th.

Sharma, S. 1996. “Proactive environmental responsiveness: Catalysts for changing organizational

paradigms and organizational capabilities.” BPS, ONE, and SIM. Academy of

Management Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996.

Sharma, S. 1995. “Proactive environmental response: Trigger for organizational learning and

organizational capabilities.” ONE, Academy of Management Annual Meetings at

Vancouver, BC: August.

Sharma, S. 1995. “Environmental strategies and organizational capabilities.” Proceedings of the

Fifth Greening of Industry Network Conference, Toronto, ONT: November.

Vredenburg, H. & Sharma, S. 1995. “Anticipating strategic outcomes as a function of legislation

mandating plain packaging.” Paper presented at the Society of Consumer Psychology

Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA: May.

Hung, C.L. & Sanjay Sharma. 1995. “ Factors affecting the success of strategic alliances

between Canadian and Pacific-Asian companies: An exploratory study.” Paper presented

in the International Business division of the Annual meetings of the Administrative Sciences

Association of Canada, Windsor, Ontario: June 1995.

Sharma, S. 1994. “Opportunity framing of environmental issues: The role of visionary

leadership in issue construction”, OMT, MOC, and SIM divisions

of the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Dallas, TX: August.

IX. Research Workshops

2010: Panelist, ONE Doctoral Consortium, Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management,

Montreal, QC, August 2010.

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2010: Panelist, SIM/ONE Junior Faculty Consortium, Annual Meetings of the Academy of

Management, Montreal, QC, August 2010.

2009: Facilitator, workshop on “Becoming Embedded: Co-Creating Business With the

Community” at the Annual Form for the Clinton Global Initiative chaired by President

Bill Clinton. Workshop participants included heads of state, Nobel Prize winners, former

US Secretaries of State and diplomats, and academics. September 2009.

2009: Facilitator, workshop on “Integrating Clean Technologies and Base of the Pyramid

Business Model” at the Cornell Global Forum. Workshop participants included CEOs of

several Fortine 500 companies.

2009: Sharma, S. 2009. Preparing for an academic career in sustainable business. 2009.

Presented at the ONE Doctoral Consortium at the 73rd Annual Meetings of the Academy

of Management, Chicago: IL, August 6th-11th

2005: Presented “Developing a Research Program and Crafting Theoretical Papers” at the

Organizations and the Natural Environment Junior Faculty and Doctoral Consortium at

the Academy of Management Annual meetings, Honolulu.

2005: Presented “Developing strategies for capacity building at the Base of the Pyramid” at the

Academy of Management Annual meetings, Honolulu.

2004: Invited faculty at the Oikos Academy, St. Gallen University, Switzerland to run a one

week international workshop on developing a winning dissertation. 17 doctoral proposals

have been selected from dozens of international applicants.

2003: Organized a workshop (with Mark Starik) “New Horizons and New Prespectives in

Research on Corporate Sustainability.” Academy of Management Annual Meetings,

Seattle.

2003: Panelist in the Junior Faculty Consortium, SIM and ONE, Academy of Management

Annual Meetings, Seattle.

2003: Panelist in the Doctoral Consortium, ONE, Academy of Management Annual Meetings,

Seattle.

2002: Facilitated the Organizations and the Natural Environment Junior Faculty and Doctoral

Consortium at the Academy of Management Meetings, Denver, August

2002: Facilitated a research workshop on “The evolving theory and practice of organizations in

the natural environment” at the Academy of Management Meetings, Denver, August

2002: Conducted a workshop on developing research proposals and dissertations on

environmental strategy and sustainability at IIIEE, Lund University, Sweden, June

2001: Facilitated the Organizations and the Natural Environment Junior Faculty and Doctoral

Consortium at the Academy of Management Meetings, Washington DC, August

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2001- “Teaching a mandatory course on environmental management” Presentation made a

workshop on Advances in teaching environmental subjects, Academy of Management

Meetings, Washington DC, August

2000- Participated in a workshop of international experts on Trade and the Environment "A letter

to the World Trade Organization Commission on Trade and the Environment (CTE)" at

Burlington, Vermont, March.

1999- Ran a workshop "Conducting Quantitative Research in Sustainability" at the Eighth

Annual Greening of Industry Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

November.

1999- One of the 10 academics invited to the Annual Leaders Conference jointly hosted by the

Boston College Center for Corporate Community relations and the Aspen Institute for

Corporate Leadership in Orlando in March. The academics facilitated knowledge

building and dissemination of cutting-edge research in social innovations and

competitiveness to over 300 corporate presidents and vice-presidents of the world's

largest companies.

1998- Co-organized the workshop "Internet Based Teaching of Global, Technological, and

Environmental Issues: A Workshop for Web-Shy Faculty" at the Academy of Management

meetings in San Diego, 1998.

Organizers: Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University; Paul Meising, SUNY,

Albany; Sanjay Sharma, St. Mary's University, Canada.

1998- Invited to participate in a workshop on “Greening the Business Curriculum: Integrating

sustainability into the core”, held by the National Roundtable on the Environment and

Economy, Ottawa, March 11-12.

1997- Co-organized and facilitated a two day session at the 1997 Annual Academy of Management

Meetings at Boston, MA titled, “Seeing 20/20: Setting the research agenda for the next

millennium.” This session included noted management scholars including Stuart Hart, Jim

Walsh, Alan Rugman, Jane Dutton, Bruce Kogut, Tom Donaldson, Afred Marcus,

Hayagreeva Rao, among others.

1996- Organized a preconference session at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings,

Cincinnati, Ohio titled, “Learning from Personal Sustainability Initiatives.” Participants:

Mark Starik (George Washington U.), Harrie Vredenburg (U. of Calgary), Gordon Rands

(Penn. State), and Gary Throop (Clarkson).

1995- Session Chair and Coordinator for two academic sessions and one academic workshop at the

Fifth Greening of Industry Network Conference in Toronto, November 1995.

1994- Academic session chair and discussant for the Second Annual Meeting of the International

Conference on Advances in Management.

1994- Invited to attend the doctoral consortium of the Business Policy and Strategy division at the

Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Dallas, Texas, 1994.

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X. Technical Reports

1994- Prepared a report under contract to the Ministry of Health, Government of Canada, “Strategic

Adaptation Scenarios in the Canadian Tobacco Products Industries Consequent to

Introduction of Plain Packaging for Cigarettes.” This constituted a portion of the final report

issued by the Auditor General of Canada on the implications of the introduction of plain

packaging for cigarettes in Canada.

XI. Invited Research Talks

“Sustainability in a Transition Economy.” Keynote Speech at the 21st Annual Conference of

the International Association of Business and Society, Banff, AB March 25-28th , 2010.

“Energy and the Future of Sustainable Business.” At Advancing Canada’s Competitive

Advantage Conference: A National Forum on Management, Montreal, September 30th to October

2nd

, 2009.

“The environmentally sustainable (family) business: Does the family matter?” Keynote

address at the 5th Annual Family Enterprise Research Conference, April 24-26

th, 2009, Winnipeg,

Manitoba.

“Integrating sustainability into business education” invited talk at the meeting of the

Canadian Federation of Business School Deans, November 28tgh 2008, Montreal.

“New directions in research on corporate sustainability” invited keynote talk at the 3rd

Gronen conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2008

“The spirit and philosophy of Gronen” invited keynote talk at the 3rd

Gronen conference,

Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2008

“Sustainability and Competitive Advantage” keynote talk to the Montreal business

community at the Desjardin Financial celebration of Earth week, April 2008

“Lean, Mean and Green” Invited keynote talk at the Evolution of Innovation 2007 Tech

Leadership Conference, Communitech, May 10th

2007, Waterloo

“Guiding Your Organization Toward Green: Implementing a Corporate Sustainability

Strategy” Invited keynote talk at Energy Matters 2007, organized by the Region of Peel, March 27th

2007, Mississauga

“Adopting an integrated perspective on sustainability via a stakeholder perspective.”

Invited talk at the Faculty of Forestry Studies, University of Toronto, February 2007.

“Drivers of sustainability for the Canadian economy.” Invited talk at the Ontario Premier’s

Research and Innovation Forum, October 2006.

“The UN Education for Sustainability Decade: What does it mean for Business?” Invited

panelist at a Showcase session organized by the United Nations Development Program and United

Nations University at the Greening of Industry Network Conference, Hong Kong, November 2004.

“What is good research in corporate sustainability.” Invited talk at the Oikos Sustainable

Academy, St. Gallen University, August 2004.

“Research in sustainability: Personal experiences.” Invited talk at the Oikos Sustainable Academy,

St. Gallen University, August 2004.

“Policy drivers for sustainable organizations.” Invited by the Environmental and Social

Sustainability Department of the World Bank Group, Washington DC, May 2004.

“Stakeholder engagement and disruptive innovation.” Invited by the Gronen Expert Scholars

Workshop on Environmental Management at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, April

2004

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“Teaching strategy using the triple bottom line.” at a invited panel in the Triple Bottom Line

Conference organized by Schulich School of Business, Toronto and the McConnel Foundation,

November 2003.

“A Contingent Natural Resource-Based View” at the Research Seminar series at UNC, Chapel

Hill, November 2001

“Competitiveness through sustainability” at the Saint Mary’s University Business Breakfast

Series, 2001

“Stakeholder integration and sustainable knowledge creation.” At the Woodlands Conference,

Houston, Texas, January 2001.

"Sustainability and Competitiveness" at Dalhousie University, February 2000.

“Managing for the Triple Bottom Line” at the Ivey Business School Speaker Series, January 2000.

“A Theory of Corporate Environmental Responsiveness.” at the Research Seminar Series, Faculty

of Commerce, Saint Mary’s University (1996).

“Environmental Management and Sustainable Development: A Distinction.” at the Research

Seminar Series, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary (1995).

“Corporate Environmental Responsiveness in the North American Oil and Gas Industry.” at the

Research Seminar Series, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary (1995).

XII. Academic editorial and review

Journals:

Editorial boards:

Organization Studies

Business and Society

Business Strategy and the Environment (resigned)

International Journal of Business Environment

Ad-Hoc reviewer for the following journals:

Academy of Management Executive

Academy of Management Journal

Academy of Management Review

Alternatives

British Journal of Management

Business and Society

Business Strategy and the Environment

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Corporate Environmental Management

Ecology and Society

Ecological Economics

European Journal of Management

Family Business Review

International Journal of Operations Research

International Journal of Production Economics

Journal of Business Research

Journal of International Business Studies

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Journal of Management Studies

Organization Science

Sloan Management Review

Strategic Management Journal

Meetings:

Academy of Management (Business Policy and Strategy, Social Issues in Management and

Organizations and Natural Environment), 1994-2010.

Administrative Sciences Association of Canada - Marketing, Business Policy, and International

Business Divisions, 1993-2007.

International Association of Business & Society, 1993-2010

International Conference for Advances in Management, 1993, 1995.

Granting Committees

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Reviewer for research proposals

1999, 2000, 2001, 2006

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Adjudicator for research

proposals 2002-2004

Teaching and Student Advising

Courses designed and taught

John Molson School of Business

EMBA 672: Strategic Management

EMBA 699: Sustainable Strategy

Wilfrid Laurier University

BU 801: Doctoral Seminar in Foundations of Management Thought (Ph.D.)

BU 701: Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable World (MBA elective)

BU 601: Strategic Management (MBA integrated core)

BU 661: International Strategy (MBA elective)

BU491: Strategic Management in the Changing Social, Environmental and Ethical

Context of Business (BBA Core)

At Saint Mary's University

Sustainability Strategies for Business (MBA core)

Strategic Management (MBA and EMBA capstone)

International Business (MBA and EMBA elective)

Strategic Marketing (MBA elective)

Marketing Management (B.Com core)

Executive Development Programs:

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2012: Building Competitive Imagination for Sustainable Innovation (Johnson School of

Management, Cornell University)

2012: Opportunity Framing for Sustainable Innovation (Institute for Sustainable

Enterprise, Bangalore, India)

2012: Building a Sustainable Enterprise (Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Bangalore,

India)

Learning in a Global Environment (Saint Mary’s)

Global Strategies for Business (Saint Mary’s)

Base of the Pyramid Strategies (Sustainable Enterprise Academy)

Building Better (Sustainable) Businesses (International Finance Corporation/World Bank)

Developing Strategic Leadership Thinking and Execution (Nova Scotia Public Service

Commission)

Strategic Leadership (Saint Mary’s- Maritime Life Insurance Company)

Developing a Sustainable Enterprise (At over 20 Fortune 500 corporations)

Other universities

Sustainable Enterprise (UNC-Chapel Hill- team taught)

Strategic Leadership and Change (Designed capstone course for Dalhousie University’s

Financial Services MBA Program and wrote course content).

Organizations and the Natural Environment (Athabasca University distance education

course)

Student Supervision and Advising activities

Doctoral Dissertation Committees

Dissertation Advisor for Julie Nash, Ph.D student at the Gund Institute for

Ecological Economics, University of Vermont (2012 onward)

Dissertation Supervisor for Catalin Ratiu in the Joint Montreal Ph.D. Program

(Concordia, McGill, HEC and UQAM), 2007-2011. Defended in August 2011. Dr.

Ratiu is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Marcos.

Dissertation committee of Ted London, doctoral student at the University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill for his dissertation “How are Capabilities Created? A Process

Study of New Market Entry” Advisor: Stuart Hart. Dissertation successfully

defended on March 28th

2005 and now a faculty at University of Michigan.

Dissertation Committee of Antonio Rueda at University of Granada, Spain for his

dissertation in the area of Business Strategy and the Environment. Advisor: Alberto

Aragön-Correa. Successfully defended April 2005 and now a faculty at University

of Granada, Spain.

External examiner for Adam Nguyen’s doctoral dissertation defence

“Interorganizational favour exchange: Definition, types and outcomes” at York

University, Schulich School of Business, September 2005.

External examiner for oral defence of Ph.D dissertation defence at the following

universities:

o York University (Schulich School of Business), Canada

o University of Aalborg, Denmark,

o University of Granada, Spain,

o Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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o University of Waterloo, Canada;

Masters Thesis Committees

Advisory committee for Tom Berkhout’s thesis, The Voluntary Adoption Of Green Electricity

by business organizations in Canada, Environmental Studies Department University of Waterloo,

Canada (Advisor: Ian Rowlands). Successfully defended, May 2005.

Advisory committee for Anika St. Cyr, for her graduate thesis “ A resource market approach to

micro and small enterprises development” in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s

University.

Advisory committee for Dalhousie University Library Science student David McDonald

(advisor: Dr. Larry Amey) for his thesis “Developing a sustainable collection: Sustainable

development and sustainable environmental management.

Masters Research Projects

Supervisor and Advisor for the following Masters Major Research Projects at Saint Mary’s

University and Wilfrid Laurier University:

BU 690R: Deering, Darren. 2007. “Strategic Management: A Survey of the Field” (in-

progress)

BU 690: Raghuram, Ashwini. 2007. “Life cycle analysis of a sustainable restaurant.” (in

progress)

BU 690: Yognath, Janana. 2007. “Stakeholder integration and sustainable performance in

the oil and gas industry.”

BU 690R: Marcus, Joel. 2007. “Strategic Mode: An Integration of Behavioural and

Economic Perspectives on Strategic Management.”

BU 480: Javed, Humera. 2007. “Sustainable leadership: Building Creative Capabilities of

Social Enterprise Leaders.”

BU 690: Harris, Joanna. 2006. “Factors affecting success and failure of corporate BOP

strategies.”

BU 690: Dattani, Kalpa. 2006. “The Role of Canadian Stakeholders in Achieving the

United Nations Millennium Development Goals.”

BU 690: Van Dorsser, Andrew. 2004. “Institutional and organizational barriers to the

adoption of renewable distributed generation options by Ontario businesses.”

BU 680: Strauss, Lisa. 2004. “Drug pricing strategies of pharmaceutical firms for

developing countries.”

BU 680: Deering, Darren. 2004. “Strategic Responses to the Kyoto Accord and the

Effects on Organizational Context.”

BU 690: McDoom, Siddiq. 2003. “Measurement and Evaluation of Carbon Emissions for

a Viable Trading System under the Kyoto Protocol.”

BU 690: Gawne, Brad. 2001-03. “Siberut Island: A Proposal for Implementing Sustainable

Development Activities Inside Siberut.”

BU 690: Goris, Steve. 2001-03. “Siberut Island: A Marketing Plan for Implementing

Sustainable Development Activities on Siberut.”

Duffett, Harold. 2000-2001. “Building an Institutional Framework for Organic Farming in

Nova Scotia.”

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Ranelli, Michael. 2000-2001. “Developing a comprehensive model for organizational

learning.”

Carey, Ryan. 1999-2000. “The forecast growth of regional gas markets and the competitive

positioning of PanCanadian Resources Limited”

Ferguson, Scott. 1999-2000. “A strategic growth plan for the Metro Centre.”

Countway, Norm. 1999-2000. “Identification of applications for new technology diffusion

in spectral imaging.”

Sadek, Joseph. 1999-2000. "How to do business in Egypt."

Smith, George. 1998-99. “Public policy implications: Deregulation of the Canadian energy

industry.”

Papadopoulos, Yusef. 1998-99. “Diffusion of agricultural innovations: A conceptual model

for Atlantic Canada.”

Kato, Hiroyuki. 1998-99. “Implications of mass customization strategies.”

Gorla, Daniele. 1998-99. “A study of the gaps between corporate image and corporate

reputation.”

Mander, Mark & Douglas, Tim. 1998-99. “Lifelong Learning Online”

Nguan, O.Y. 1996-97. “The biodiversity industry and biodiversity conservation”

Managerial determinants of responsiveness.”

Morrison, K. R. 1996-97. “ A market opportunity analysis for a cultured eel industry in

Nova Scotia.”

Lee, B. 1996. “Seniorcare: A Business Plan.”

Coldwell, D. 1997-98. “The impact of advertising on perceived service quality in electronic

banking.”

Coaching students for case competition

Coach: Saint Mary’s Senior undergraduate team for the Bristol Case Competition for Atlantic

Canadian Business Schools. Saint Mary’s team were finalists and runners up.

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