Rate My Professor Rajeev Sooreea

Rajeev Sooreea serves as Associate Dean and Professor of International Business in the Barowsky School of Business at Dominican University of California, where he led the school to AACSB accreditation. He founded the Healthcare MBA program as its director and established the Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor. Previously, Sooreea taught at Pennsylvania State University and University of California Berkeley, advised senior money managers in New York City, and accumulated over ten years in management consulting. As a Harvard University alumnus, he advises Bay Area companies, small businesses, and global multinationals. His academic background includes a PhD in Applied Economics from Western Michigan University, an ALM in Management & Finance from Harvard University, an MA in Economics from Leeds University Business School in the UK, and a BA (Honors) in Economics from Bombay University in India. He also completed executive education in Business Analytics at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Sooreea's research specializations encompass emerging markets entry strategy, foreign direct investment, national systems of innovation and entrepreneurship, stock markets, trade and economic policy, and biotechnology business strategy. He has published award-winning research in peer-reviewed journals, including "The Impacts of COVID-19 on Business Practice: Some Key Insights" (2022, with Brinda Sooreea), "Does Economic Freedom Matter to Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa?" (2020, with Brinda Sooreea-Bheemul and Uzma Shataz Rasool), "The FDI-Political Risk Nexus: Some New Insights" (2016, with Meghan M. Nelson and others), and "Are Taylor-Based Monetary Policy Rules Forward-Looking? An Analysis Using Real-Time Data" (2007). Sooreea has presented at Stanford, Oxford, and international conferences such as the Academy of International Business. In 2020-2021, he received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program fellowship to teach and research innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Mauritius, focusing on business incubators and entrepreneurial universities. Among his honors are five teaching excellence awards, including the Best Professor Award from the X-Culture Project (2019, selected from 186 professors across 148 universities in 41 countries) and three Outstanding Teacher Awards from the Barowsky School of Business (2013, 2017, 2018).