Anand Bhardwaj

Graduate Student | Montréal, Canada | anandb@outlook.com 

PhD (Candidate) Management, McGill University

PhD Ecology, Emory University (2013)

Anand is a PhD candidate in strategy and organization studies  at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal. 

He is a former data scientist and full-stack enterprise digital transformation consultant with multiple Fortune 500 clients. He has a prior PhD in population ecology from Emory University, Atlanta.

He studies organizations, knowledge, and change.

Experience

MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, QC: 2019 - Present

Lecturer: Emerging Technologies: Organizing and Societal Stakes, Winter 2023


Teaching Assistant: Emerging Technologies: Organizing and Societal Stakes - Offered by Prof. Samer Faraj: 2022


Teaching Assistant: Social Network Analysis for Social Science Research - Offered by Prof. Brian Rubineau: 2022


Teaching Assistant: Systems Thinking for Sustainability  - Offered by Prof. Anna Kim: 2021


Guest Lecturer: Dynamic Models and Simulation Inference: Social Context of Business - Taught by Ms. Hanieh Mohammedi: 2021, 2022


Mentor: Integrated Management Student Fellowship: 2021 - Present


Facilitator: Peer Research


ACCENTURE North America: 2014-2019

Architect & Delivery Lead; Analytics Center Of Excellence - National Telecoms Client: 2018-2019


Customer Behavior Subject Matter Advisor (SMA); Various Clients: 2016-2019


Data Science Lead; Enterprise Analytics as a Service - Global Telecoms Client: 2015-2017


Analytics Architect; Various Clients: 2015-2017


Data Scientist; Small/Medium Business Customer Retention - Regional Telecoms Client: 2014


EMORY UNIVERSITY, Laney Graduate School, Atlanta, Ga: 2008-2013

Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant


 THE EMORY WHEEL, Newspaper, Atlanta, Ga: 2006-2007

Editorials Illustrator


Education

Ph. D. Management, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, Qc

Estimated Graduation: 2025

Area: Strategy and Organization 

Interests:


Ph. D. Ecology, EMORY UNIVERSITY, Laney Graduate School, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Atlanta, Ga

Graduated: December 2013

Thesis: The Impact of Demographics and Life History Characteristics on RNA Virus Evolution and Extinction


B.S Biology, EMORY UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, Ga

Graduated: December 2007


Publications

Refereed Papers

Faraj, S.; Renno, W.; Bhardwaj, A. (2021) Unto the breach: What the COVID-19 pandemic exposes about digitalization. Information & Organization, 31 (1),  [doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100337]


Book Chapters

Faraj, S.; Renno, W.; Bhardwaj, A. (2022) AI and Uncertainty in Organizing. in  Mark A. Griffin & Gudela Grote (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Uncertainty Managment in Work Organizations. Oxford Academic.


Conference Papers and Presentations

Bhardwaj, A.; Faraj, S. (2023). The AI of the Beholder: How explanations of AI produce AI. European Group on Organizational Studies Colloquium 2023: Sub-theme 11: Explaining AI in the context of organizations. Hosted by University of Cagliari, Italy

Faraj, S.; Bhardwaj, A.; Malas, K.; Brunet; F. (2023). Marching to Many Beats: Plural temporality in a hospital's COVID-19 response. European Group on Organizational Studies Colloquium 2023: Sub-theme 11: The Role Institutions, Networks, and Communities in Extreme Contexts. Hosted by University of Cagliari, Italy

Faraj, S.; Bhardwaj, A. (2023) A quality of mercy is not trained: The entanglement of AI and ethics in operating room scheduling. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2023 Presenter Symposium: Navigating the ethical terrain of AI technologies: A practice based view. Boston, Massachusets 

Bhardwaj, A. (2023) Improvising Coordination and Coordinating Improvisations during the COVID pandemic. Montreal Business Schools PhD Symposium 2023. Hosted by l'Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion, Université de Québec à Montréal.

Faraj, S.; Bhardwaj, A; Malas. K (2022) How a Major Canadian Tertiary Care Center Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2022 Presenter Symposium: Relationships and Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Seattle, Washington

Bhardwaj, A. (2022) A Rudderless Ship: How Leadership Transitions can affect Organizational Innovation. Montreal Business Schools PhD Symposium 2022. Hosted by HEC Montreal (Winner: Best Research)

Bhardwaj, A.; Faraj, S. (2021) Triaging Breaches: A hospital’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. European Group on Organizational Studies Colloquium 2021: Sub-theme 14: The Role of Temporality and Coordination in Extreme Contexts. Hosted by VU University, Amsterdam

Bhardwaj, A.; Faraj, S. (2020 - Accepted) The flow and evolution of knowlege across academic collaboration networks. European Group on Organizational Studies Colloquium 2020: Sub-theme 34: New Approaches to Organizing Collaborative Knowledge Creation. Hosted by University of Hamburg 


Other, Misc.

Bhardwaj, A. (2013) Effects of Life History and Genome Architecture on ssRNA Virus Evolution and Extinction Doctoral dissertation, Emory University. [Link]

Bhardwaj, A. (2013) Demographic and Adaptive Evolution of RNA Viral Populations. Presentation, Society for the Study of Evolution Conference Conference, Snowbird, Ut

Bhardwaj, A. (2013) Dynamics of Replication & RNA Viral Sensitivity to Demographic Extinction. Poster, Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference at Penn State University, University Park, Pa

Bhardwaj, A. (2012) Is RNA Virus Evolution Regulated by Threshold-like Phenomena? Poster, Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi

Bhardwaj, A. (2011) Evolution in RNA Viruses along a Latitudinal Gradient. Poster, Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Ca


Academic Service

Student Representative at Large: Academy of Management Communications, Digital Technology, and Organizations Divison (CTO) 2022-2024

Scientific Committee: The Montreal Business Schools PhD Symposium 2023

Vice President (Academic): Desautels Doctoral Students Society, McGill 2021-2022