The Academy of Management has awarded Sanjay Sharma, dean of the Grossman School of Business, the Distinguished Scholar Award for Lifetime Achievement for his contributions to the academic field of organizations and natural environment/corporate sustainability.

The award, given annually at the Academy of Management’s Annual Meeting in August, recognizes recipients for their distinguished scholarship and long-term and enduring impact on shaping scholarship and research throughout their career.

“Sanjay is one of the founding figures in the field of organizations and the natural environment,” said presenter Michael V. Russo, the Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management in the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. “His studies, many published in the finest management journals in the world, have been cited in thousands of subsequent studies. They have also provided real guidance for practicing managers and policymakers. Sanjay also can rightfully claim to be the dean of scholars in this field, having served in that capacity at two major universities. We are lucky to have him as a colleague and I am honored to call him my friend.”

Sharma is no stranger to winning major awards from the Academy of Management. In 1996 he won the Best Dissertation Award in the Social Issues in Management Division, followed by two Best Paper Awards in 1997 and 2005. His latest book, Competing for a Sustainable World: Building capacity for Sustainable Innovation (2014), was the runner-up for the Best Book on Organizations and the Natural Environment Award at the Academy’s 2015 Annual Meeting.

In addition to his latest book, Sharma, a Fulbright Scholar, has co-edited seven books on corporate environmental management and sustainability. He has won the Corporate Knights Rising Scholar Award, the Aspen Institute Pioneer Award, and inclusion in India Abroad’s Power List of prominent Indians contributing to Canadian and global society.

Since Sharma’s arrival at UVM in 2011, the Grossman School has made Bloomberg Business’ “Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2016” list as well as the Princeton Review's list of the “Best 295 Business Schools” in the U.S. Its one-year MBA in Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SEMBA) program was ranked as the nation's 4th “Best Green MBA” by the Princeton Review and also made the list of top MBA programs in North America by CEO Magazine.

PUBLISHED

08-21-2016
Jon Reidel