Paul Shrivastava | |
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Born |
Bhopal, India |
August 14, 1951
Residence | State College, Pennsylvania |
Fields |
Sustainability Organizational Strategy Crisis Management |
Institutions |
New York University Bucknell University Concordia University Future Earth |
Alma mater | IIM Calcutta |
Known for | Art and Sustainable Enterprise Crisis Management |
Paul Shrivastava is Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the Sustainability Institute, at The Pennsylvania State University. Previously he was the Executive Director of Future Earth, an international sustainability research programme. Before that, he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University.
Paul Shrivastava was born in Bhopal, India, in 1951. He received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Shrivastava held the Howard I. Scott Chair in Management, a distinguished professorship at Bucknell University, and was Associate Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He was awarded a Fulbright Program Senior Scholar award to study Japanese corporate environmental management at Kyoto University, Japan. He has also taught at the Helsinki School of Economics, and IIM Shillong. He is the author of Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis (1989), a book that launched the field of organizational crisis management. He founded the Organizations and Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (the world's largest academic professional association in Management studies).
He was Distinguished Professor and Director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University, Montreal.