Professor of Management
Dr. Jay Nathan holds MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Cincinnati; he has also earned a life-time certified fellowship, CFPIM from the Association for Operations Management; and life-time certifications, CPM and APP from the Institute for Supply Management. Prior to his full-time teaching position at St. John’s, Dr. Nathan was a tenured professor at the University of Scranton; in addition to his full-time teaching of more than thirty-five years, Dr. Nathan has consulted and worked several years for multinational corporations with responsibilities for corporate strategy and planning, forecasting, quality management, and scheduling of products and services to a variety of markets. Author/co-author of several books and has published more than one-hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings.
Dr. Nathan is a recipient of Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards: to Thailand in 1991-92, to Poland in 1998-99, 1999-2000, to Kazakhstan in 2002-03, 2004, 2005; and to Mongolia in 2008. He has also 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 was Conferred Honorable Professor of Karaganda University of Economics; Visiting Professor of Eurasian National University and National University of Mongolia; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Awareness; 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, supply chain management and economic development.
E-mail: nathanj@stjohns.edu