Pratima Bansal

Pratima (Tima) Bansal FRSC is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School and Director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the Founder and Executive Director (and Founder) of the Network for Business Sustainability, a vehicle aimed at sharing academic research on business sustainability with managers. In April 2020, she was appointed to chair the expert panel on the Circular Economy by the Council of Canadian Academies.[1]

Pratima Bansal
Academic background
EducationB.A., University of Calgary
M.A., University of Western Ontario
DPhil., University of Oxford
ThesisWhy do firms go green?: the case for organisational legitimacy (1996)
Academic work
InstitutionsWestern University

Before entering academia, Bansal worked as a government economist and management consultant for Nicholls Applied Management. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.

Education

After graduating from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Arts, Bansal attended the University of Western Ontario and the University of Oxford.[2]

Career and work

Before entering academics, Bansal worked as a government economist and management consultant for Nicholls Applied Management.[3]

In 2005, Bansal founded and directed the Centre on Building Sustainable Value at the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business.[4] She also founded the Network for Business Sustainability, which links researchers and managers to challenge current ideas of sustainability.[5] As a result, in 2007 she was nominated for the YMCA Women of Distinction Award[6] and was the recipient of the Faculty Pioneer Award in Academic Leadership by the Aspen Institute the following year.[7]

Bansal served as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal from 2010 until 2013.[8] In 2011, Bansal was appointed to the inaugural Clean50 with 49 other Canadians for her contributions to improving sustainability and clean capitalism.[9] In her final year as an Associate Editor, Bansal was named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability.[10][11] She was also named the 2013 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow by the Sustainable Enterprise Partnership.[12] In 2015, Bansal was honoured with the two Best Paper awards from the Academy of Management.[13]

From 2016 until 2019, Bansal served as a Deputy Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.[14] While in this position, Bansal received accolades for her contributions to improving sustainability. In 2017, a year after her promotion, Bansal was selected to lead a group of researchers from the Ivey Business School, University of Alberta and the University of Quebec at Montreal to collaborate with Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA).[15] In August, Bansal was honoured with the Distinguished Scholar award by the Organizations and Natural Environment division of the Academy of Management.[16] The next year, Bansal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[17] and was one of two Canadians to receive the Ideas Worth Teaching Awards from the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program.[18]

In her last year, Bansal received the 2019 Best Article Award in the California Management Review for her article "CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics."[19] She also received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for her research with Diane-Laure Arjaliès.[20]

Bansal's research focuses on how organizations can manage sustainability issues and challenges such as climate change.

References
  1. "CCA Appoints Expert Panel on the Circular Economy in Canada". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  2. "Tima Bansal". ivey.uwo.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  3. "Tima Bansal, Richard Ivey School of Business". ft.com. October 7, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  4. Anderson, Mark (September 21, 2009). "The future is in sustainability". Calgary Herald. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  5. Pearson, Glen (March 13, 2014). "Pearson: Good idea; we should use it". The London Free Press. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  6. "Sustainability and CSR Sessions". tavaresgroupconsulting.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  7. "Aspen Institute Names Baron Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award". gsb.stanford.edu. November 1, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  8. "Current Editorial Team". aom.org. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  9. "Dr. Tima Bansal". asean-csr-network.org/. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  10. Kilcoyne, Jessica (March 15, 2013). "NBS Executive Director Awarded Canada Research Chair". nbs.net. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  11. "Ivey Professor Award". ivey.com. May 20, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  12. "Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow Pratima Bansal to Visit SU Campus March 19–21". news.syr.edu/. March 7, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  13. "Dr.Tima Bansal honoured at Academy of Management Conference". .ivey.uwo.ca. August 25, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  14. "Prospering Over the Long-Term". ideasworthteachingawards.com. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  15. "Teaming up to accelerate sustainability-focused innovation in Canada's oil sands". ivey.uwo.ca. September 19, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  16. @IveyResearch (September 25, 2017). "Congratulations to Professor Tima Bansal for receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award at #AOM2017" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  17. Mayne, Paul (August 31, 2018). "Western elite among Royal Society Fellows". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  18. "Ivey Professor Tima Bansal honoured for innovative teaching". ivey.uwo.ca. May 8, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  19. "Professor Tima Bansal and co-authors win 2019 best article award". ivey.uwo.ca. June 14, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  20. Mine, Dawn (September 10, 2019). "Ivey receives funding for social sciences and humanities research". ivey.uwo.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
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