Shahid Ansari

Academic Division: Accounting & LawDr. Shahid Ansari is a faculty member in the accounting division at Babson College and is currently assigned to be the CEO of Babson Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of Babson College. He has previously served as the Provost and Dean of Faculty of Babson College. Dr. Ansari received his MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and his Ph.D. in Accounting and Organizational Behavior from Columbia University. He has been a faculty member at UCLA, NYU, the Naval Postgraduate School and California State University Northridge before coming to Babson. He has also been a visiting faculty at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, Macquarie University, Australia and Pretoria University, South Africa, Marshall School at USC, Rice University and Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Dr. Ansari has won several awards and honors for distinguished teaching during his career. The Consortium for Advanced Management International (CAM-I) awarded Dr. Ansari the prestigious Bob Bonsack Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Advancement of Cost Management for his thought leadership. He also received the Jim Bulloch Innovation in Management Accounting Education Award from the American Accounting Association. Dr. Ansari''s has extensive consulting and executive education experience with major national and multi-national firms including several years as a faculty for Shell Learning Center in Houston and Holland. He has served on the Board of Directors of many new start-ups, some of whom have grown into significant mature businesses.

Academic Degrees

• Ph D, Columbia University
• MBA, Karachi University
• B. Com., Karachi University

Academic Interests

Cost Managerial Accounting; Management Accounting; Management Control Systems; Strategic Cost Analysis

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Awards & Honors

2003 - Institute of Management Accountant’s Certificate of Merit for Best Paper, Institute of Management Accountants

1999 - Bob Bonsack Award for “Distinguished Contribution to the Advancement of Cost Management., Consortium for Advanced Management (CAM-I)

1999 - Best Paper Award, Society for Cost Estimators (SCEA)

1998 - Best Applied Research Project Publication, College of Business, CSUN

1998 - Best Selling New Title, Irwin/McGraw Hill

1997 - Jim Bulloch Innovations in Management Accounting Education Award, American Accounting Association and Institute of Management Accountants

1997 - Distinguished Visitor, Pretoria University, South Africa

1991 - Ernst & Young Visiting Scholar, Macquarie University, Australia

1987 - Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University Northridge (CSUN).

1976 - Graduate School of Management Student Association Teaching Award, GSM Student Association, UCLA.

1976 - George Robbins Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate School of Business, UCLA.

1976 - Outstanding Teacher Award, Management Alumni Association, UCLA.