Sanjay Sharma is the Dean of the Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont since 2011. Prior to that he was the Dean of the John Molson School of Business in Montreal and the Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability. He is a pioneer in corporate sustainability research with nine books and several articles published in top tier business journals including the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, and Academy of Management Perspectives. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award in Organizations and the Natural Environment from the Academy of Management in 2016. His book Competing for a Sustainable World: Building Capacity for Sustainable Innovation was a runner up for the Best Book Award at the Academy of Management in 2015 and his recent research monograph Patient Capital: The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business is published by the Cambridge University Press in 2019. Before pursuing an academic career, he was a senior manager and CEO with multinational corporations for 16 years.
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