Welcome to Praveen Parboteeah’s Website


Professor Parboteeah was the inaugural COBE Distinguished Professor (2015-2021) and currently serves as the Chair of the Management Department and Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration program at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. He teaches in the areas of business policy and strategy, business ethics, international management, and scientific method in business at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. He has received numerous teaching awards and is included in multiple editions of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Additionally, he is a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Master Teacher and Teaching Scholar. He was recently featured in the ‘Why I Teach‘ series.

He has published over 60 articles in the field’s top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Science.  He reviews regularly for many of the field’s top journals and is a member of the editorial board of the  International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management and Management International Review.  He is also a senior editor at the Journal of Business Ethics and Business and Society, the leading business ethics journals.

Parboteeah has received many research awards, including the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management and the 2015 Research Award in the College of Business & Economics.   In a recent ranking of business ethics scholars, Parboteeah was ranked 8th in the world for his publications in the field’s leading journals. He also ranks 20th in the International Management category on Google Scholar. He is also among the only two faculty members to have won the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Research Award twice. He recently reached 10,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Parboteeah has been very involved on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus.  He has served on numerous committees in various leadership capacities.  Parboteeah’s academic and practical experience has also been instrumental in developing the only doctoral program on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus, namely the Doctor of Business Administration.  His practical experience with other doctoral programs has helped develop a strong curriculum that enables students with significant practical experience to learn about advanced research methodologies for solving real-world problems.  The program will soon welcome its thirteenth cohort under Parboteeah’s leadership.