Associate Professor of Management

Anurag Sharma

Associate Professor of Management

Telephone: 413-545-5682

Email: shrmn@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 352

Education:

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
M.B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
B.S., Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Research/Teaching Interests:

Crowds/Collective Behavior
International Business
Competitive Strategy
Business Analysis

Publications/Presentations:

Lacey, N. & Sharma. A. 2008. Market Response Around FDA Announcements. Business Quest.

Braun, M. R. & Sharma, A. 2006. Divisional Reverse Leveraged Buyout: Finishing School or Financial Arbitrage?. Journal of Corporate Finance, Special Issue Workshop on "Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts, and Corporate Governance" at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (near Albany, NY) on April 21-23

Braun, M. R. & Sharma. A. 2007. Divisional Reverse Leveraged Buyout: Finishing School or Financial Arbitrage? The Journal of Private Equity, Winter, Lead Article.

Braun, M. R. & Sharma, A. 2007. Should The CEO Also Be Chair Of The Board? Family Business Review, 20, 11: 111-126.

Branch, B., Sharma, A., Gale, B., Chichirau, C. Proy, J. 2005. A Price to Book Model Of Stock Prices. Business Quest.

Sharma, A. and Lacey, N. 2004. Linking Product Development Outcomes to Market Valuation of the firm: The case of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 21: 297-308.

Latham, S. & Sharma, A. 2004. Strategic Investments and the market value of the firm. The National Academy of Management Meetings in New Orleans, LA. August, 2004.

Branch, B., Sharma, A. Bradley, G., Chichirau, C., & Proy, J. 2003. A price-to-book model of stock prices. Presented at the 39^th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association, Lake Buena Vista, Fl.

Professional/Academic Activities:

Editorial Board Irish Journal of Management (accepted invitation but have not seen action).

Editorial Board B>Quest, An Online Journal.