Professor of Management
Fulbright Scholar to Thailand, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia
Honorable Professor of Karaganda University of Economics,
Kazakhstan PhD advisor, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
Editor, Journal of Global Awareness
Dr. Jay Nathan has earned MBA and PhD degrees from the University
of Cincinnati; he has been teaching as a full time faculty at St.
John’s University since 1993; previously, he was a tenured faculty
at the Kania School of Management at the University of Scranton,
having taught there for ten years. In addition to his full-time
teaching of more than thirty-five years, Dr. Nathan has done
research and worked in business for several years, before becoming
a professor of management, in multinational corporations with
responsibilities for corporate strategy and planning, forecasting
and quality management for both United States and International
markets. Author/co-author of several books and has published more
than one-hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and
proceedings. His peer-reviewed articles include top-tier
journals.
His recent research book is on Kazakhstan’s New Economy,
Post-Soviet, Central Asian Industries in a Global Era, published by
the University of Scranton Press, distributed by the University of
Chicago Press in December of 2012. He also has a book chapter in
Doing Business with Kazakhstan, published by Kogan Page, London, in
2004.
Since 2005, Dr. Nathan has been serving as PhD advisor to the
Eurasian National University of the Republic of Kazakhstan; in
addition, he has been appointed as an external examiner for a PhD
thesis by the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dr. Nathan has lectured under various fellowships and sponsorships
in Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, England, France, India, Finland,
Germany, Singapore, Sweden, Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Russia,
South Africa, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, and
Lithuania.
Dr. Nathan has been on the editorial boards of several academic
journals and continues to review manuscripts for international
management, strategic and operations management divisions of the
Academy of Management.
In 2009, the Peter J. Tobin College of Business Alumni Association
honored Dr. Nathan as one of the outstanding business professors of
St. John’s University. At the University of Scranton, Dr. Nathan
was honored for excellence in teaching, research, and service;
there, he also received several Ben Franklin Research Grants.
He was elected to Sigma Iota Epsilon, Pi Sigma Epsilon, and Beta
Gamma Sigma honor societies. Dr. Nathan is passionate about
business education and contextualizing his international travel
experiences to teaching, service and research in various business
decisions, management strategies, international business, human
resource capacity and economic developments.
E-mail: nathanj@stjohns.edu