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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Management, Organizational Theory, International Business

Degrees

PhD in Business Administration, Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada
MBA in International Business, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, India
BSc in Engineering, Aligarh University, India

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Bapuji, H. and Riaz, S. 2012. Occupy, Economic Inequality and Business Initiatives: Insights from India. Ivey Business Journal, Ivey Publishing Product Number 9B12TA02.
• Bapuji, H. and Riaz, S. 2011. Occupy Wall Street: What Businesses Need to Know. Harvard Business Review blog network.
• Riaz, S., Buchanan, S. and Bapuji, H. 2011. "Institutional Work Amidst the Financial Crisis: Emerging Positions of Elite Actors." Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society. Special issue on 'Capitalism in Crisis: Organizational Perspectives', 18(3): 187-214.
• Riaz, S. 2009. "The Global Financial Crisis: An Institutional Theory Analysis." Critical Perspectives on International Business, Special issue on The Global Financial Crisis, Volume 5, Issue 1, 26-35.
• Riaz, S. 2009. "Exploring Institutional Realities: The Economic Crisis as a Time for International Business to Lead." Academy of International Business Insights, Number 9, Issue 3, 4-7.
• Giambatista, R., Rowe, G. and Riaz, S. 2005. Nothing Succeeds Like Succession: A Critical Review of Leader Succession Literature Since 1994. The Leadership Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 6, 963-991.

Additional Information

Courses Taught:

Strategy (MGT 490)

Research Interests:

Organizational change, institutional maintenance and change, business and society.

Media Coverage:

Interview and research reported in Public Purpose magazine of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Graduate Management News, Businessweek, Forbes, Huffington Post, CBS-BNET, Canadian Business, etc.

Cases

Immunovaccine Inc.: Preparing to Cross the “Valley of Death”. Case and associated Teaching Note (with E. Korets-Smith).
Published in Beamish, P. Cases in Strategic Management, Tenth Edition, 2011, McGraw-Hill.
Ivey Publishing, 2010 (Case No. 9B10M072).
Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 (Case No. 910M72).

Strategic Leadership at Coca-Cola: The Real Thing (with G. Rowe). Case and associated Teaching Note.
Published in Beamish, P. Cases in Strategic Management, Tenth Edition, 2011, McGraw-Hill. Published in Rowe, G. and Guerrero, L. Cases in Leadership, Second Edition, 2010, Sage.
Ivey Publishing, 2008 (Case No. 9B08M040).
Harvard Business Publishing, 2008 (Case No. 908M40).

Professional Activities:

• Co-Editor, "Economic Inequality and Management", special issue of Human Relations.
• Co-Organizer, "Occupy, Economic Inequality and Business: Setting the Agenda", Professional Development Workshop at Academy of Management, Boston 2012.
• Reviewer, Discussant and Chair at major conferences.
• Reviewer for major academic journals.
• Strategic Advisor / Executive experience at multiple organizations
   

Honors:

• Joan Moon Award for Teaching Excellence, UMass-Boston, 2012. 
• SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) standard research grant, 2011.
• Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award, 2008-2010.
• Highly Commended Doctoral Research, Emerald/EFMD Award, 2010.
• Highly Commended Paper, Emerald Literati Network for Excellence Award, 2010.
• Best Paper Awards at Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (2009, 2006).
• Best Reviewer Awards at Academy of Management (2009), Academy of International Business (2007), Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (2007).
• Professor of the Year Award (MBA program), Dalhousie University, 2008.

Personal Activities:

Sports - Squash, Tennis, Table Tennis; Translating South Asian poetry into English; Blogging on business and society issues

Personal Website:

www.suhaibriaz.org