BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Paul Shrivastava, has a unique background that combines academic scholarship and teaching with significant entrepreneurial and senior management experience. Currently he is the David O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal. He also serves as Senior Advisor on sustainability at Bucknell University and the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, India, and he serves on the Board of Trustees of DeSales University, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Shrivastava has over 25 years experience in management education, entrepreneurship, and as a consultant to major multinational corporations. He has launched several entrepreneurial ventures. In 1976 he was part of the management team that launched Hindustan Computer Ltd., which today is one of India's largest computer companies.  In 1985 he founded the non-profit Industrial Crisis Institute, Inc. in New York, to mediate the industrial crisis between Union Carbide Corporation and the Government of India, and published the Industrial Crisis Quarterly.  He founded Organization and Environment, a journal published by Sage Publications.  In 1998 he founded and till 2004 was President and CEO of eSocrates, Inc., a knowledge management and online training/education software company based in Allentown, PA. 

Dr. Shrivastava received his Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh.  He was tenured Associate Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business,  New York University.  He has published 15 books and over 100 articles in professional and scholarly journals.  He has served on the editorial boards of leading management education journals including the Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization, Risk Management, and Business Strategy and the Environment.  He won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and studied Japanese management while based at Kyoto University.  His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, and on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

He is a consultant to numerous companies, co-organizer of the Steelman Triathlon races, (he is a certified USATriathlon Coach), and DJed a World Tango Music weekly radio show on WVBU 90.5FM Lewisburg, PA.