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THE SEAT OF
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Strategy & Liberal Studies

Prof. Gerard Farias

Adjunct Associate Professor, IIM Shillong, Ph.D., Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University

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Email : gfarias@fdu.edu

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Research Interest / Areas

Research interests focuses on sustainability and the role of business in that context. His research intrest includes studying the existential challenges and tensions posed by climate change, income inequality, poverty and biodiversity loss and the limited and inadequate response by corporations.

Teaching Interest / Areas

Sustainability

Educational Qualifications:

  • Gerard Farias, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Organization Studies and his MS degree in Management from the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University in 1997 and an MBA equivalent Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations and Welfare from XLRI-Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur in 1981. He was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in 2011 at XLRI where he taught courses and did research on Social Entrepreneurship.  He travelled to Palestine in 2022 as a recipient of a Faculty Development Seminar Award from the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC).  In 2024 as a Fulbright-Hays Awardee, he travelled to South Africa on a Group Project Abroad focused on Environmental and Social Justice.  More recently, he has been invited to serve as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Management Center for Human Values at the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkota.  His main teaching and research interests focus on sustainability and the role of business in that context.  More specifically, he studies the existential challenges and tensions posed by climate change, income inequality, poverty and biodiversity loss and the limited and inadequate response by corporations.  He has published his work in a variety of academic journals and has co-authored a book titled, Improvisational Leadership. He recently co-edited two special issues, one for the journal, Sustainability and the other for the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion.