Speaker Bios

Anup Srivastava holds the prestigious Canada Research Chair at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Previously, he worked at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) for six years and Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College) for four years. Anup holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, MBA in Finance from the University of Delhi, and PhD in Accounting from Texas A&M University.

Anup brings vast corporate experience of almost fourteen years. He worked as a banker, consultant, and corporate executive in the East and West Coast cities of the United States and India. He has worked at billion-dollar conglomerates as well as cash-strapped startups.

His research interests lie in business strategy, hyper competition, corporate survival, earnings quality, management forecasts, CEO pay, executive stock options, intangibles, financial risks, immigration, and credit default swaps. He has not only published in elite scholarly journals, such as Management Science, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies but has also published seven articles on new-economy firms in Harvard Business Review.

He is one of the foremost researchers on the changing economics of listed companies. He examines how knowledge-based companies, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Microsoft, supplant asset- and infrastructure-intensive companies, such as Walmart, General Motors, and Exxon-Mobil, in capital creation and employment generation. His research highlights key elements disrupted by this progression: accelerating corporate demise and emerging hyper-competition; changing role of the board of directors; shifts in executive incentive plans; new auditing and financial reporting requirements; the necessity of incessant innovation to survive; and a growing need for highly skilled human capital.