Business
Mission
We promote our students’ success in their chosen careers with business knowledge and skills developed through engaged teaching and learning. We provide integrated, hands-on education and responsible engagement with real-world challenges. We support positive organizational outcomes and regional development through practice-based research in collaboration with community partners.
Dean and staff
Shyam Kamath, Ph.D., Dean
Dr. Shyam Kamath has more than 35 years of experience in international education, international development and management, sustainable enterprise formation, global business consulting and university teaching.
He came to CSUMB from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, where he was a professor of global business and economics and associate dean of graduate business and global programs in the School of Economics and Business Administration. As director of St. Mary’s Trans-Global Executive program, he taught graduate students to apply business solutions to social service needs in order to help people at the bottom of the economic pyramid
Prior to his stint there, he spent more than two decades as a professor of international economics and business at CSU East Bay and started the university’s Transnational Executive MBA program.
He previously taught at Dalhlousie and Simon Fraser universities in Canada and the University of Madras in India.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi, a master of business administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management, and a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Simon Fraser University.
Dr. Kamath is a well published author with over eighty articles in leading scholarly and trade journals. He is the author of three books, Excellence in Exporting (Govt. of Canada Press, 1986) as co-author, as sole author of The Political Economy of Suppressed Markets (Oxford University Press, 1994), and as co-author (with Jim Hawley and Andrew Williams) of Corporate Governance Failures: Institutional Investors and the Global Financial Crisis (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
He has served as a consultant to more than 100 firms, non-governmental organizations and nonprofits in 15 countries on four continents, and has been an economic consultant to the governments of Austria, Brazil, China, Indian and Thailand, to the United Nations Development Program, and numerous private foundations.
Elsa Johnson, Administrative Analyst Specialist
Programs
- Business Administration B.S.
- Sustainable Hospitality Management B.S.
- Business Minor
- Nonprofit Management Minor [in conjunction with the Health, Human Services, and Public Policy Department within the College of Health Science & Human Services]
- Management & Information Technology M.S. [offered in conjunction with the School of Computing & Design within the College of Science]
- Master of Business Administration
Contact
Dean's Office
Valley Hall, Suite B
100 Campus Center
Seaside, CA 93955 -8001
business.csumb.edu
Shyam Kamath, Dean
831-582-3547
skamath@csumb.edu
Elsa Johnson, College Analyst
831-582-4328
eljohnson@csumb.edu