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M.Shahadat Hossain

Shahadat Hossain has taught marketing in Canada and the United States for over 14 years both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has taught at Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He then went on to teach at the State University of New York, Potsdam till 2015. During this period he has also taught at Clarkson University, NY as an Adjunct Professor

Prior to his academic career he worked in various sales and marketing positions both in the service and manufacturing industries. He has held senior executive positions in multinational companies and ran a public limited company with over 400 employees as its acting Managing Director. He has owned and operated his own businesses in Dhaka Bangladesh. He is a marketing consultant in the hospitality industry and is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Astute Horse Business and Marketing Solutions.

His research interest are in the following areas: Entry Strategies in Global Business; New Service Development; Consumer Behavior in the digital environment.

Shahadat Hossain has taught the following courses during his academic career:

  1. Principles of Marketing
  2. Principles of Advertising and Promotion
  3. Global Marketing Management
  4. Marketing Research
  5. Business to Business Marketing

Education:

MBA: (1999) International Business. Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands.

Major in International Business. Graduated top of class with distinction.

B.A. (Honors): (1989) English Literature. Dhaka University, Bangladesh

High School: (1985) Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Professional degree:

PDP: (1992) School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

Academic Awards:

Recipient of the following at Carleton University: International Student Award, Graduate Student Scholarship, Sprott Scholarship. Nominated for the Indira Ghandi Award in 2001.

 

Publication:

  1. Innovation Process in Canadian and US Hotels. Global Journal of Business Research

Co Authors: Vinod Kumar and Uma Kumar Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 127-137, 2010

2.Sources of Information Students Use to Select Colleges – A Proposed Study using Multiple Response Analysis. Presented at the American Association of Business and Behavioral Sciences,  Feb 23rd – Feb 26th 2012, Las Vegas

  1. “Application of International Business Expansion Theories in Explaining Channels of ITT”. Presented and published in the proceedings of ASAC 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Co- authors: Vinod Kumar and Uma Kumar.

 

Research Award:

  1. Received Outstanding Research Award from The Institute for Business and Finance Research for: “Innovation process in Canadian and US Hotels” presented and published at the Global Conference on Business and Finance, Jan 6-10, 2009, Atlantic City, USA.

Academic Reviewer: (2009- 2013)

Ad-Hoc Reviewer in the areas of marketing, hospitality and international business for The Institute for Business and Finance Research.

The Institute for Business and Finance Research publishes the following journals: The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, Global Journal of Business Research, Business Education & Accreditation, Review of Business & Finance Case Studies and Agribusiness Research.

Grants:

Title III Strengthening Institutional Grant, US Department of Education – 2012

Professional membership:

Member:  American Marketing Association (since 2007)