Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Fiona Moore is Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She received her doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, in 2002. Her research on identity in German multinational corporations has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies among others. She has written a monograph, Tra...

Dan Li is the L. Leslie Waters Chair and Professor of International Business at the Kelley Business School, Indiana University. She received her Ph. D. in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching focus on global strategy, particularly in the areas of international strategic alliances, and institutional influences on activities of both established multinational enterprises an...

Sergio G. Lazzarini (PhD, 2002, Washington University in St. Louis) is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper Institute of Education and Research. He does research on how public and private actors interact and organize their activities to improve economic and social performance. He is founder of Insper Metricis, a center for the study of impact measurement and investing. Sergio has hel...

Gary Knight is a professor of international business and resides near Portland, Oregon, USA. He has co-authored several books, including two textbooks on international business. He has won teaching awards and led many study abroad programs, in international business. He has been a keynote speaker or invited speaker at some 35 conferences or universities worldwide. Gary has provided significant ser...

René Belderbos is full professor of Strategy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and part-time professor of International Corporate Strategy at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT (The Netherlands). He received a doctoral degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on innovation strategies and international business strategies of multinational firms, including real option theory...

Ulf Andersson (PhD, Uppsala University) is Professor at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. He has extensive international experience from research, teaching, and academic community service. Ulf has held professorial positions at Uppsala University and Copenhagen Business School and visiting positions at, among others, Leeds...

Mila Lazarova (Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Canada) is a Professor of International Business. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Workforce Management and her research interests include global careers, organizational career development and mobility practices; career impact of global assignments; and HR issues related to integration of skilled migrants. Mila has pub...

Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. His research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. He has published over 100 articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing...

Currently, Raj Aggarwal is with the Kent State University Foundation serving as a member of its Board of Directors. In addition to a mechanical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA and a PhD in Business from Kent State University, Raj is also a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Dr. Aggarwal is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland, class of...

Len J. Treviño is the SBA Communications Distinguished Professor in International Business and Director of International Business Programs in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Ph. D. degree in international business and strategic management from Indiana University Bloomington. Prof. Treviño’s research focuses on the multinational enterprise, foreign direct inv...

Daniel M. Shapiro (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Global Business Strategy at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, Multinational Business Review; and co-director Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies. He has worked for forty years as an educator, researcher, and academic administrator, most recently he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business. As an aca...

Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Fellow of Jesus College. Peter divides his time between teaching, research and consulting on leadership, multinationals (with a special interest in emerging market firms), M&A, and business ecosystem innovation and serving as non-executive director of several companies spanning finan...

Hildy Teegen is USC Education Foundation Chaired Professor in International Business and former Executive Director of the Folks Center for International Business after serving six years as the Dean of the Moore School of Business, all at the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining UofSC in September 2007, she was founding director of The George Washington University’s Center for Internation...

For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed, having also completed five years as the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale School of Management and two years as a professor at Columbia Business School. The winner of the 50th Ann...

Harry Sapienza is Professor Emeritus at the Carlson School of Business, University of Minnesota. Harry grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He played drums in a rock band while in high school, received an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in mediaeval literature from Boston College. After teaching English for 10 years in the Boston area, Harry retur...

Ajai Gaur is a Professor of Strategy and International Business in the Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University. He is also an affiliate faculty member with the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University. He completed his Ph. D. in 2007 at the National University of Singapore. Ajai is an AIB Fellow. He has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of th...

Helen De Cieri is a Professor of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She has held previous appointments and visiting positions at universities in several countries. Helen’s current research activities combine her interests in international HRM and workplace health and safety. Helen’s recent research projects include studies of how employers and their HR teams can de...

Ronaldo Parente is the Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar in International Business and Professor of Strategy at Florida International University. His research focus is on the overlap between strategy and international management, with special attention on emerging economies, strategic decisions with regards to innovation ecosystems, the sharing economy, knowledge transfer, global supply chains, and mu...

Agnieszka Chidlow is Professor of International Business at the University of Birmingham in the UK and one of the co-founders of the Academy of International Business-Shared Interest Group. Agnieszka is interested in examining the internationalization processes and location strategies of firms. In addition to that she is also interested in methodological issues with a specific focus on using surve...

Grazia D. Santangelo is professor of Strategic and International Management at Copenhagen Business School and visiting professor at Henley Business School (UK). She earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Reading (UK) and, before joining Copenhagen Business School, held a Jean Monnet Chair in International Business at the University of Catania (Italy). She researches across the fields of...

Snejina Michailova (born in Bulgaria, PhD from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) joined The University of Auckland, New Zealand, as a Professor of International Business in 2005. Her research interests include people in multinational enterprises, knowledge processes, talent management, and modern slavery. Her academic work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Exec...

Prof. Ursula F. Ott is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business Strategy and Decisions (CIBSD) at Nottingham Business School, UK. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Vienna and was afterwards in academic positions at the University of Vienna, London School of Economics as Schrödinger Fellow, Loughborough University...

Mitchell P. Koza is Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick. He has previously served as Vice Dean of Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick and Dean of the Rutgers School of Business-Camden. While Dean, the Rutgers-Camden MBA achieved a ranking of top 15 nationally in the field of Global Management, in a survey cond...

Jane Lu is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong. She received her MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Ph. D. from the Ivey School of Business, Western University. She started her academic career at National University of Singapore where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She served as James Riady Chair Prof...

Mansour Javidan is Garvin Distinguished Professor and Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. He received his MBA and Ph. D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. Mansour was recently recognized as among the top 100 most influential (i.e., top 0.6%) authors in Organization Behavior in the world.  He...