Shashank Shah

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Shashank Shah
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Born
🏡 Residence	Mumbai, India
🎓 Alma mater	Harvard University,Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, University of Mumbai
💼 Occupation	Author, Editor, Management Researcher
Known for	Corporate Stakeholder Management, Corporate Responsibility, Values Based Leadership
Notable work	The Tata Group, Win-Win Corporations, Soulful Corporations
🌐 Website	www.shashankshah.com

Shashank Shah is a management researcher and published business author in the areas of Stakeholder Management Strategy, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. He has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, USA where he worked in collaboration with Professor Kasturi Rangan, Professor of Marketing and Co-Chairman of the Social Enterprise Initiative.

He held a joint appointment as Project Director and Fellow at Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI), USA  where he worked with the Director Professor Tarun Khanna and led the project on ‘Livelihood Creation in India Through Social Entrepreneurship and Skill Development. For a brief period, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for CSR, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He also served as Editor-in-Chief, Postdoctoral Editors Association at Harvard University.

Early Life and Education

Shah was born in Mumbai. He completed his schooling at St. Xavier's Boys' Academy and attended junior college at H.R. College, where he topped Class XII exams. He completed his graduation in Commerce from University of Mumbai, where he received the ‘Mr. Mumbai University’ Award at the 33rd Annual Youth Festival of the University in 2001.

He completed his post-graduation in and doctoral studies in Business Management from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where he was awarded the President of India and Governor's Gold Medals for standing first in the MBA and M.Phil programmes. He was awarded the 'AIMS International Outstanding Doctoral Management Students Award 2010' at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Research and Publications

Shashank has published over 100 research-based papers, articles, case studies and technical notes in peer-reviewed national and international journals in the areas of Stakeholder Management, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics, Integral Education, Humanized Healthcare and Social Entrepreneurship. These have been published by eminent publishers including Harvard Business School, Springer, Sage, Emerald, and Macmillan Publications. He has also co-authored/co-edited five books and four monographs in these areas.

Books

His first book ‘Soulful Corporations: A Values-Based Perspective on Corporate Responsibility’ was published by Springer as part of the India Economy Series in 2014  and has been reviewed in leading management journals in India  and Europe.

His second book ‘Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies’ was published by Penguin Random House in December 2016, and was featured for a special book launch at the Confederation of Indian Industry-Govt. of India’s International Partnership Summit and the Kolkata Literature Festival 2017.

His third and most recent book ‘The Tata Group: From Torchbearers to Trailblazers’ is published by Penguin Random House. It captures the 150 years of India’s largest and most globalized conglomerate – The Tata Group; and was selected for an exclusive cover launch at the Tata Lit. Fest 2018.

In his Foreword to the book, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata observed, 'The author’s first-hand interactions with an impressive number of Tata leaders, his visits to Tata plants and archives and honest conversations with employees across all hierarchies add much deserved credibility and authenticity to the already well-composed narrative.'

Review

Win-Win Corporations (Penguin Random House India)

"This book adds considerable value to the bleak storehouse of contemporary Indian management literature. All inputs are authentic. There are no assumptions and conjectures. Every single attributed quotation, statement and datum carries an endnote. There are hundreds of them, neatly and methodically indexed chapter wise to provide a gold mine of reference material for researchers in subjects related to management."

-Sujoy Gupta, Hindustan Times

The Tata Group (Penguin Random House India)

"Shah has provided an incredible and exceptionally well-researched, historical

narrative. He does not submit to a pie-in-the-sky evaluation, but notes that even with its failed industries, Tata has striven to learn from its mistakes and continues to be respected for its working principles of transparency, accountability, desire for diversity in its workforces, and fashioning working partnerships with its stakeholders."

- Elizabeth Gingerich, Journal of Values Based Leadership

Bibliography

Articles/Cases:

• Shah, Shashank and Sudhir Bhaskar, “Corporate Stakeholder Management: Western & Indian Perspectives – An Overview”, Journal of Human Values, Sage Publications, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Vol. 14(1), April 2008, pp. 73-93.
• Shah, Shashank, “Employee and Labour Welfare at the Tata Group Companies: A Case Study”, Management and Labour Studies, Sage Publications, Xavier’s Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, August 2010, Issue, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 311-336.
• Shah, Shashank, “Proposing a Welfare Framework for the Society and Local Community: A Mixed Method Study”, Journal of Human Values, Sage Publications, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Vol. 18 (1), January 2012, pp. 53-71.
• Shah, Shashank, Ajith Sankar, and David J. Sharp, “Hindustan Unilever Limited: Meeting Employee Expectations”, Richard Ivey School of Business - Case Study Series (University of Western Ontario, Canada), December 2013, Product No. 9B13C036.
• Shah, Shashank, “Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study”, Journal of Human Values, Sage Publications, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Vol. 20 (2), October 2014, pp. 129-151.
• Rangan, Kasturi and Shashank Shah “An Overview of Corporate Social Responsibility in India (A) & (B).” Harvard Business School Background Note 515-080, May 2015.
• Sunder, Vijay and Shashank Shah, “A structured approach to managing stakeholders in lean Six Sigma projects”, Quality Progress, American Society for Quality, February 2016, pp. 45-49.

Monographs:

• Khaire, Mukti, Shashank Shah and Kundan Madireddy, Innovation in Tradition: Rural Livelihood Creation in the Indian Crafts Sector, Harvard University South Asia Institute - Tata Trusts Publication, January 2017.

• Khanna, Tarun, Shashank Shah and and Kundan Madireddy, Science for Society: Science and Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship, Harvard University South Asia Institute - Tata Trusts Publication, January 2017.

Academic and Professional Contribution

His work and interviews have been featured in leading Indian dailies including The Mint , The Hindu, The Hindu BusinessLine,The DNA , The Financial Express, The Hindustan Times, The LiveMint,The Statesman, The Free Press Journal, The Tribune,The Pioneer, Business Standard, Quartz India, International Business Times, and leading business magazines such as Business India, Business Today and Business World . A TEDx speaker, Dr. Shah has given invited lectures at several professional platforms including the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad,BITSPilani, SPJIMR, Tata Sons, Google, TCS, Delhi Management Association, Madras Management Association, NASSCOM Foundation,Rajasthan IAS Association, Kolkata Literature Festival, Tata Literature Festival, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Tata Trusts, Reliance Foundation, and many others. An active member and Keynote Speaker with the Sathya Sai International Organisations, Shah has addressed hundreds of gatherings across India and overseas on themes connected with Indian ethos, values, culture, scriptures and spirituality. He has also authored/edited over 30 books on these topics.  

He was also interviewed for the prestigious programme ‘State of the Economy’ on the theme of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Livelihood Creation in India’ on the Rajya Sabha TV channel of the Indian Parliament in January 2017.

He serves as Fellow, European SPES Institute, Belgium; International Editorial Board Member, Journal of Values-Based Leadership, Valparaiso University, USA; and Reviewer for leading publications including Cambridge University Press, Sage, Emerald, Taylor and Francis and Palgrave Macmillan. He is Advisory Board Member of the IIB Council, and Consulting Editor at The Business India Group.

Through his research, he has interviewed over 200 senior executives, heads of companies, industry captains and subject experts across reputed national and multinational corporations and industries in India and top academics from USA and Europe including the Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Sloan Business School, Boston University, New York University’s Stern School of Business, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, INSEAD, Copenhagen Business School, and experts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the United Nations.

Through his decade-long research, Shah has curated best-in-class practices in Strategy, Sustainability and Social Responsibility, and a knowledge base of multi-sectoral, multi-industry and multi-stakeholder leadership insights of a collective experience of 5,000 years, which he presents at diverse platforms.

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