Shripad Pendse, Ph.D.
Professor
Management
T (902) 491-8651
F (902) 420-5119
Sobey Building 310
shripad.pendse@smu.ca
Shripad Pendse earned his master's degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management and his Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. In addition to teaching at Saint Mary's University, he has also taught at Dalhousie University, I.I.T. in Chicago, and Deakin University, Griffith University and Southern Cross University in Australia. He directed the Doctor of Business Administration program at Southern Cross University from 1996 to1999. He has also taught in short-term courses in China, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Kuwait, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. His teaching interests are now primarily in Strategic Management although he has also taught Organizational Behavior, Interpersonal Behavior and Performance Management. He was honored by the Commerce Society as the Professor of the Year in 2004. He has served as Department Chairperson and a member of the University Senate and the Board of Governors.
Shripad's research interests cover a wide range. He has published research papers on the effectiveness of profit sharing in firms; information processing limits and how they affect our perception and categorization of situations; the impact of information processing limits on the specialization among the two hemispheres of the brain; how and why a classroom can be treated as an organization; how self-understanding can help managers to identify and solve problems better; and how characteristics such as initiative, creativity and producing results can be utilized in improving decisions on which employees are promoted. He co-authored and edited “Perspectives on an Economic Future: Forms, Reforms and Evaluations” (Greenwoood Press) which develops various models for better economic designs for societies. He has also published cases, some of which have been published in several management textbooks.
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