Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Dr. Tailan Chi is Richard C. Notebaert Distinguished Professor of International Business & Global Studies the Lubar School of Business at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Kansas. He received his B.E. from the University of International Business & Economics, Beijing, China, his MBA from University of San Franc...

Dr. Jennifer Oetzel is a Professor in the Kogod School of Business at American University. She received her Ph. D. degree in Business Strategy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching broadly focuses on the competitive implications of social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges. More specifically, she studies how multinational enterprises (M...

Birgitte Grøgaard holds a PhD from the Norwegian Business School BI, an MBA from University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. Birgitte teaches courses in the Strategy and Global Management program, including: strategic management, international strategic management and strategic management in the global energy industry. Prior to her PhD studies, Birgi...

Robert Grosse is Professor of International Business and Director for Latin America at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona.  He joined the University in August of 1994, and rejoined in 2016.  He was Director of Leadership Development at Standard Bank in South Africa during 2006-9, Dean of the graduate business school, EGADE, at Monterrey Tec in Mexico after that, and then D...

Elizabeth is the Chair of International Business, at the University of Liverpool and has previously held appointments at the Universities of Melbourne and New South Wales, in Australia. Working at the intersection of strategy, international business (IB) and health care management, her research currently focuses on individual cognition and decision-making, in three specific areas: (1) the nature o...

Paul M. Vaaler is the John and Bruce Mooty Chair in Law & Business, a joint appointment to the University of Minnesota’s Law School and Carlson School of Management.  He previously served on faculties at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Paul has also held visiting appointments at Harvard University where he was a Research Fellow, at Oxford University where he w...

Dr. Newburry is Chair of the Department of International Business and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University. Bill is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets. He earned his PhD from New York University, co-majoring in international business and management. His research focuses on how multination...

Joan E. Ricart, Fellow of the SMS and EURAM, is the Carl Schrøder Professor of Strategic Management at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. In this school, he has also Director of the Doctoral Program (1995-2006), Associate Dean for Research (2001-2006), and Associate Director for Faculty and Research (2006-2014) and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department (1993-2016). He was t...

Prof. Zeynep Aycan holds Koc Holding Chair in Management and Strategy at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has dual-appointment in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Management. She is the founder and academic director of the  Leadership Lab . Aycan received her Ph. D. from Queen’s University, Canada and conducted postdoctoral studies at McGill University. Her research interests inclu...

Desislava Dikova is Professor of International Business at WU Wien/ Vienna University of Economics & Business, head of the Competence Center for Emerging Markets and CEE at WU and an entrepreneur. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of East West Business (Taylor Francis), senior editor of European Management Review (Wiley), editor of Journal of International Management (Elsevier), a member o...

Pierre Dussauge is a Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He is a graduate of the HEC Paris “Grande Ecole” (Masters in Management) program and earned a PhD. in management science from the Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1991 to 2003. He has...

Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Alcacer’s research and course development interests are in strategy, growth and innovation. His recent research focuses on growth and exit strategies, strategies to cope with major shifts in the environment (such as Brexit) and strategic decision-making under geopolitical and technological...

Felipe Monteiro is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and the Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) at INSEAD. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before joining INSEAD, he was a standing faculty member at The Wharton School. Prior to that, he taught at the London School of...

Cristina B. Gibson is Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Management in the Applied Behavioral Science group at Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business, Pepperdine University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, American Psychological Association, and Academy of Social Science Australia. Cristina is an expert on inclusion, technology-enabled collaboration...

Paula Caligiuri is a D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University.  She is a work psychologist dedicated to helping companies, business teams, and executives become effective in today’s complex global environment. Researching in the areas of expatriate management, global leadership development, and cultural agility, Paul...

Born in Canada with degrees in economics from three Canadian universities, Lorraine Eden  joined the Management Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 1995. She now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Management and a joint appointment as Research Professor of Law in the TAMU School of Law. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Eden held positions as a tenured professor in the E...

Dana Minbaeva is a Professor of Strategic and Global Human Resource Management at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, and the Vice-President for International Affairs at Copenhagen Business School. Her research on strategic international HRM has appeared in such top international journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management,...

Dr. Sharon Alvarez is the Thomas W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She previously served as the Walter Koch Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, and, prior to that Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management and the Academic Director of the Center...

Jonathan Doh is Associate Dean of Research and Global Engagement, Rammrath Chair in International Business, Co-Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business.  He teaches and does research at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate sustainability.  He has been a visiting professor at nume...

Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe has a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and at the Shidler College of Business at University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States.  Previously, he held the Washburn Chair Professorship at the Fox School of Business at Temple University in 1998-2021, and the Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow a...

Ravi Ramamurti is University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy and Founding Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern U. Ravi obtained his BSc (Physics) from Delhi University, his MBA from IIM-A, where he graduated at the top of his class, and his DBA from HBS. Besides Northeastern U, Ravi has been a visiting professor at HBS, Wharton School, MIT-Sloan,...

Pervez Ghauri completed his PhD at Uppsala University (Sweden) where he also taught for several years. After Uppsala, he joined Oslo Business School (later merged into Norwegian School of Management – BI), as Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) with main responsibility to develop an MBA program. He thus started the first English speaking MBA and Executive MBA programs in Nordic countries that were h...

Tina C. Ambos is Professor of International Management and the Director of the  i2i Hub for Intrapreneurship and Innovation  at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva. She is a also a member of the Expert Network at the World Economic Form. Before joining the University of Geneva, Tina was a professor at the University of Sussex and the management faculty’...

Andrew Delios is Professor and Vice-Dean, MSc Programs at NUS Business School. He was Head of the Department of Strategy and Policy for 8 years. His research looks at strategy and global competition in emerging economies. Andrew has authored six books and more than 100 journal articles, case studies and book chapters. He has been an Editor for several leading journals. From 2011-2013, Andrew serve...

Subi Rangan received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph. D. in political economy from Harvard University. His current work explores how enterprises may better integrate performance and progress, and how scholars may help evolve the paradigm and practice of capitalism. In 2013 he initiated the  Society for Progress , a fellowship of eminent philosophers, social scientists, and...