Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Sea-Jin Chang is a Lim Kim San Chair Professor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore and also a Techno-SK Chair Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (joint appointment). He received his BA and MA in economics from Seoul National University, and Ph. D. in strategic management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a f...

Anne-Wil is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University London, and a visiting Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research interests include international HRM, HQ-subsidiary relationships, language in international business, the international research process, and the quality and impact of academic research. She has published more than 85 refereed journal artic...

Arvind Parkhe is a Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Fox School of Business, Temple University.  Prior to joining Temple in 2003, he was on the faculty of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University [Bloomington], 1989-2003.  He holds a B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay [India], MBA from Georgia State University, and Ph. D. from Temple University.  He is the recipient of numerous...

Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide faculty chair) at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. VG is a Faculty Partner at Mach49, a Silicon Valley incubator. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chi...

Lilac Nachum’s current research interests include global supply chains and value creation in a global world, emerging market MNEs, and the relationship between firms, society and governments as they shape the international strategies of firms. Her research in these areas and others appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and the Journal of I...

Torben Pedersen is professor of International Business at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, and was previously professor at Copenhagen Business School. His research interests are in the interface between strategy and international management and he has published over 100 articles and books concerning the managerial and strategic aspects of globalization. His research has appeared in prominent...

Klaus Meyer is a Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School, London, Ontario, Canada. Until 2017, he spend six years at China Europe International Business School, where he was the Philips Chair and Professor of Strategy and International Business. Previously he has also been full-time faculty member at Copenhagen Business School, the University of Bath, England and University of...

Ravi Madhavan is a Professor of Business Administration and the Alcoa Foundation International Faculty Fellow at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He earned his Ph. D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and served on the faculty of Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1995 to 2001. Prior to his Ph. D., he spent e...

 Helena Barnard completed her PhD at Rutgers University, and then returned to South Africa. She has been working at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), the Johannesburg-based business school of the University of Pretoria since then, and is a full professor and director of the doctoral program there. She is interested in how knowledge (and with it technology, organizational practices a...

Gabriel Robertstad Garcia Benito (PhD, NHH Norwegian School of Economics) is Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway: www.bi.edu. He has extensive international experience from research, teaching, and academic community service. He has held visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), Henley Business School/University of Reading (...

Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. An expert on global market trends, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and...

George Yip is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School. He has also received the following professional titles and distinctions: Distinguished Visiting Professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University; Fellow of the Academy of International Business; Thinkers50 Hall of Fame; Editorial Advisory Boards Member of California Management Revi...

Africa Ariño is Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra (Spain), where she holds the Joaquim Molins Figueras Chair of Strategic Alliances. She received her Ph. D. in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At IESE, she has served as Deputy Dean for Faculty, Head of the Strategic Management Department, and Director of the Ph. D. Pro...

Dr. Kwok is Research Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina. From 1996-2017, he was a Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor in the International Business Department. He received a Ph. D. degree with a major in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin. His research concentrates on international finance and internatio...

Timothy Devinney (BSc CMU; MA, MBA, PhD Chicago) is Chair and Professor of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School.  He is also the Director of the DBA programme and the A/Dean (International). He has held positions at U. Chicago, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Australian Graduate School of Management and the University of Leeds and been a visitor at many other universities across the...

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of International Business, and the (American) Academy of Management.  He has PhD and MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, Canada, and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Durham, UK. He was awarded Honorar...

Elizabeth L. Rose is Chair and Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds, and Adjunct Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. She has held academic appointments in the U.S., New Zealand, and Finland.    Beth’s research addresses various aspects of how firms internationalize and compete across borders. Working at the intersection...

Paul Beamish is Director of the International Business Institute at the Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over 60 books, 140 refereed articles and 150 published teaching cases. His books are in the areas of International Management, Strategic Management, and International Joint Ventures.  His articles have appeared in AMR, AMJ, SMJ, JIB...

Rajneesh Narula is the John H. Dunning Chair of International Business Regulation at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research and consulting have focused on the role of multinational firms in development, innovation and industrial policy, R&D alliances and outsourcing. He has published over a 100 articles and chapters in books on these themes. He is currently an Editor o...

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at The University of Utah. Professor Barney’s research focuses on the relationship between firm resources and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He has published over 100 articles and seven books. He has been on the editorial boards...

Nicole Coviello is Professor of Marketing and the Lazaridis Chair of International Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Previously, she was the Research Director of the Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises. Nicole’s other academic appointments have been in New Zealand (University of Auckland; University of Waikato), Canada (Un...

Shaker A. Zahra is  Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota. He  has served as the department chair (9 years), Director of the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship (10 years), and the Academic Co-Director of Carlson Ventures Enterprises. He also served as the Founding Co-Director of the Center...

Charles Dhanaraj is Evelyn & Jay G. Piccinati Endowed Chair in Teaching Excellence, professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. Dhanaraj previously served at Temple University, where he was the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Strategy at Fox School of Business, executive director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administrati...

Dr. Sumit K. Kundu is a Professor and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business in the College of Business, Florida International University. He is the Associate Dean for International in the College of Business. Dr. Kundu has taught several international business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Florida International University, Saint Louis University...

Donald R. Lessard is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Professor of Systems Engineering, Emeritus, at MIT. He advises companies, governments and universities and continues his research on global strategic management and large-scale (infrastructure and energy) project management. Lessard joined the MIT faculty in 1973 after three years at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School. A...