Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Esteban García-Canal is Professor of Management and International Business at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he is the Director of IUDE Business School and holds the Chair in Business Growth and Internationalization. He received his PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Oviedo, after completing the PhD coursework at the University of Navarra, of whose Institute of Business...

Maurizio Zollo is professor of strategy and sustainability, head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and Scientific Director of the  Leonardo Centre  on Business for Society at Imperial College Business School. He is also founder and chairman of the  GOLDEN  (Global Organizational Learning and Development Network) for Impact Foundation. His research currently involves the active e...

Stephen Tallman is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Richmond.  He holds a PhD in international business and strategic management from UCLA, and has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, the University of Utah, the Cranfield School of Management, and a visitor at SDA Bocconi, HKUST, Copenhagen Business School, and other business schools wor...

Stefanie Ann Lenway is Dean of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. At the Opus College, Stefanie has launched the Center for Innovation in the Business of Health Care, which facilitates research and dialogue across verticals in the health care value chain with the aim to drive innovation to reduce health care costs. The Opus College also contin...

Eric W. K. Tsang received his Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge. Before joining academia, he worked as corporate banker at HSBC in Hong Kong. He is the Dallas World Salute Distinguished Professor at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and is an AIB fellow. Dr. Tsang’s research interests include foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, organizational learnin...

Professor David M. Reeb holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship. He serves as a fellow of the Academy of International Business and Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). Dr. Reeb’s academic research centers on organizational structure, firm financing, and international business. His articles appear in a wide variety of outlets, including the Administra...

Eleanor Westney is Sloan Fellows Professor of Strategy and International Management Emerita at MIT Sloan School of Management, where she taught for twenty-five years. After completing a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology and Japanese studies at the University of Toronto, she received a Ph. D. in Sociology in 1978 from Princeton University, and began her teaching career in the Department of Sociology at...

José de la Torre is the Chair and Co-Founder of the EMBA Consortium for Global Business Innovation and a professor at the Bologna Business School, Italy.  Until 2010 he was the J.K. Batten Professor in Strategy (now Emeritus) and served as the Founding Dean of the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University. Previously he served on the faculty at UCLA’s Anderson School,...

Robert E. Hoskisson is the George R. Brown Emeritus Chair of Strategic Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. Dr. Hoskisson received his Ph. D. from the University of California-Irvine. His research topics focus on corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate and international diversification, and cooperative strategy. He has taught courses...

Ben Gomes-Casseres has worked on partnership strategies for thirty years, as a researcher, teacher, and advisor. He is the Peter A. Petri Professor of Business and Society at Brandeis University, where he directs the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship and teaches courses on alliances and acquisitions, strategy, and innovation. At Brandeis, he has helped build the business programs and facult...

Dr. April Knill is the SunTrust Associate Professor of Finance and Courtesy Professor of Law at Florida State University. Before joining Florida State University, she was a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Knill currently serves as a Consulting Editor at the Journal of Internation...

Chris Pitelis is the Head of International Business Division and Professor of International Business and Sustainable Competitiveness, University of Leeds and Life Fellow, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge-founded Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), part of a registered Charity that he also Chairs. He has served as the inaugural Head...

Professor of International Business at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia, Peter Liesch has a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in Economics, Postgraduate Diploma in Agricultural Economics, Masters degree in Economics majoring in Agricultural Economics, and a Ph. D in Economics from The University of Queensland. His research interests are in firm internationalizatio...

Vikas Kumar is Head of Discipline and Professor in the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney Business School. His previous appointments were at Bocconi University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, and as Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Dunning Fellow at University of Reading. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Manageme...

Tomas M. Hult, PhD, is a worldwide thought leader in international marketing, marketing strategy, customer satisfaction, supply chain management, and international business. He regularly speaks at high-profile events (e.g., United Nations, World Investment Forum, European Commission) and publishes influential opinion articles (e.g., The Hill, Time, Fortune, World Economic Forum, Dinero). Dr. Hult...

Andrew Inkpen is the Seward Chair in Global Strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. He has a B. Commerce. degree from St. Mary’s University and MBA and Ph. D. degrees from Ivey Business School.  Prior to entering academe, Dr. Inkpen worked in public accounting and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Canada.  He has taught at Temple University, Ivey Busines...

Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Professor of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Dean of the VU School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands, as well as Research Professor in Business, Economics and Governance at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, he was affiliated with the University of Gron...

Saul Estrin is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and was the founding Head of the new Department of Management at LSE. He was formerly a Professor of Economics, and Associate Dean (Faculty and Research), at London Business School, where he served in 2001 as Acting Dean.  He also held the Adecco Professorship of Business and Society at London Business School and was the Research Dire...

Professor Daphne Yiu is the Rath Chair in Strategic Management at the Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. She was born in Hong Kong and a tenured professor in Hong Kong. Her scholarly pursuit focuses on examining how organizations make choices of organizational form, corporate and international strategy, as well as corporate governance mechanisms in relation to the instit...

Anoop Madhok is a Professor of Strategy and the Distinguished Scotiabank Professor in International Business & Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He received his PhD from McGill University, Montreal and an MA in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins University. Earlier he was a Full Professor at the University of Utah and at...

Nicolai J. Foss is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, Southern Denmark University, and External Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020-2025. Trained as an economist at the Copenhagen University (M.Sc.,1989), Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 19...

Keith D. Brouthers is Professor of Business Strategy at King’s Business School, King’s College London and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.  Professor Brouthers specializes in international strategic management, and he is the recipient of the JIBS Decade Award in 2012 as well as a JIBS 50-year anniversary award for scholarship in 2019. His current research interests include entry...

Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. Professor Jones earned his B.A. and Ph. D degrees at Cambridge University, and holds an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and an honorary Ph. D degree from the University of Helsinki. He has taught in Britain, the Netherlands and the United Sta...

Rosalie L. Tung is Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada).  She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship.  Prof. Tung has served as the 2017-2020 Dean of the Fellows, Academy of International Business; 2015-2016 President of the Academy of International Business; the 2003-2004 President of the Academy of Management.  Rosalie has been inducted as a Fello...

Dr. Axèle Giroud is Professor of International Business and Head of the Comparative and International Business Group at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (U.K.). She is Visiting Professor with the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and Rennes Business School (France). She previously held positions with Bradford University (U.K.), and the United Nations Conference on...