Sri Zaheer holds the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Global Corporate Social Responsibility, and is Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the Carlson School. Sri has a Ph.D. in International Management from the Sloan School at MIT, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and an Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.

Sri’s research focus is on international strategy and organization, and she has published extensively on international business in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. She is currently working on how technology changes the international location and organization of firms worldwide, and on the legitimacy of multinational enterprises. Her research honors include the Eldridge Haynes Award from the Academy of International Business for “the best interdisciplinary work in International Business” in 1994 and awards for best dissertation from the Academy of International Business and from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management in 1992.

Sri has served as a visiting faculty member in the NYU-HEC-LSE TRIUM Global Executive MBA program in Brazil, and in Executive MBA programs at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China and in Executive programs at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, apart from teaching regularly in Carlson’s Executive MBA programs in Warsaw and in Guangzhou.

Sri was elected to the executive committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management from 1999-2003, serving as the Division Chair in 2001-2002. She is a founding member of the International Academic Council of the Indian School of Business, set up by McKinsey, Kellogg and Wharton in Hyderabad, India.

Before she discovered academics, Sri worked for major multinational corporations, including Novartis and the Tatas in India. Sri also lived and worked for several years in Nigeria as the Nigerian correspondent for Business International. Sri is fluent in French, Tamil and Hindi and can get by in several other languages including Italian.

PhD, 1992, international management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, 1975, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
BS, 1973, physics, Madras University

Expertise

• Technology and global organization
• The legitimacy of multinational enterprises
• Knowledge management
• Time-based strategies
• Globalization
• Cross cultural merger and acquisition
Current Research

• International location decisions
• Legitimacy and the liability of foreignness
• Business process offshoring and the software industry