About the Speaker

SANJAY GOEL, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
Department of Management Studies
Labovitz School of Business and Economics
University of Minnesota Duluth

Dr. Goel came to UMD from Suffolk University in Boston. He also worked as a management consultant to rural organizations for two years in the areas of business planning and financial appraisal in the largest management and financing organization for rural cooperatives in India before joining the Ph.D. program.

His current research interests are corporate governance and its effect on strategy and firm performance and other outcomes (e.g. alliance quality), especially in knowledge intensive contexts, comparative corporate governance systems, and effect of governance and firm level factors in knowledge acquisition in young firms.

His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, as well as key academic conferences such as Academy of Management's Annual Conference, the Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, and European Academy of Management.

His theoretical model on superior corporate governance is being tested in New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, and Spain. He was a Visiting Professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Karlskrona, Sweden in Fall 2001. He currently teaches strategic management, organization studies, international management, management of innovation and technology at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He serves on two non-profit boards at city and state levels.