Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Farok J. Contractor is “Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business” at Rutgers Business School, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), and author of ten books and over 150 scholarly articles. He holds a Ph. D. (Managerial Science and Applied Economics) and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, as well as two engineering degrees M.S. (Michigan), and B.S.E. (Bombay). He...

Kathleen Eisenhardt is Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. She holds the S.W. Ascherman MD Chair and is a member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Kathleen’s research sits at the nexus of strategy, organization theory and entrepreneurship where she focuses on high-velocity markets and technology-based firms. She is currently studying st...

Michael A. Hitt is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD from the University of Colorado. Over the last 30+ years, he has conducted research on the international strategies of businesses including multinational firms, family firms and new venture firms.  His work has been published in many of the top scholarly journals and the Times Higher Educa...

Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Management, and Chair of the Department of Management at The George Washington University School of Business. He has been elected for the five-year presidency track of the Academy of Management (AOM), served as Vice President and Program Chair for the AOM 2020 virtual conference and is currently serving as AOM President Elect....

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (MIT Ph. D.) is a Professor of Global Strategy and the Lloyd Mullin Research Fellow at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. He is an expert on global strategy, studying three topics in his research: the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals; capability upgrading, particularly technological capabiliti...

John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham. His degrees (MA, PhD, ScD) were awarded by the University of Cambridge. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Organization...

Dr. Mary B. Teagarden is Associate Dean of Faculty and Administration and Professor of Global Strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Mary is editor-in-chief of Thunderbird International Business Review and an editor of the Journal of International Business Studies. She is recognized in academic, corporate and government sectors for her teaching, executive training and consulting. As...

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Economic Institutions and Economic History at the University of Reading. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of International Business. He served on the council of the Royal Economic Society, 1985-90, and is a founder member of the History Committee of the Royal Statistical Society....

Myles Shaver is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where he holds the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Corporate Strategy.   Myles’ research about corporate expansion is published in leading scholarly journals and he is invited to present at conferences and universities around the world. His research about the Minneapolis-...

Anil Gupta is the Michael Dingman Chair and Professor of Strategy, Globalization, and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. He has also served as a Chaired Professor at INSEAD and as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and Tsinghua University (China). Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on...

Professor Bernard Yeung is Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore Business School and the President of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. Bernard was Dean of NUS Business School from Jun 2008 to May 2019. From 1999 to 2008, Bernard was Abraham Krasnoff Professor in Global Business, Economics, and Management...

Mike Peng (Ph. D., University of Washington) is the Jindal Chair of Global Strategy at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, where he is also Executive Director of the Center for Global Business. He is a National Science Foundation Career Award winner and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and Asia Academy of Management. He is best known for his development...

Sarianna Lundan holds the Chair in International Management and Governance at the University of Bremen in Germany. She received her PhD from Rutgers University (US), and has held prior appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). She is a Finnish citizen, and has also been an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the Finnish Econom...

Oded Shenkar holds degrees in East-Asian (Chinese) Studies and Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD from Columbia University, where his dissertation on the Chinese bureaucracy involved the department of Sociology, the Graduate School of Business, and the East-Asian Institute. He is the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management and Professor of Management and Hum...

Sri Zaheer is dean of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, where she holds the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Global Corporate Social Responsibility. Sri is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and chairs the board since January 2020.  For her service to the Minneapolis Fed, she was named an Outstanding Director by Twin Cities Business. Sri’s research focus is...

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and Director of Harvard University’s Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute. For over 25 years, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means of economic development. He currently teaches courses related to creativity in emerging economies. An online version, Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, one of Harvard’s...

Marjorie Lyles is the International Business Distinguished Research Fellow at Florida International University College of Business International. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and received her Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh.  Copenhagen Business School honored her with an Honorary Doctorate.  She is Past President of the Strategic Management Society and is a Chancellor’s...

Jean-François Hennart (Ph. D Economics, University of Maryland) is Emeritus Professor of International Management at Tilburg University. His previous full-time appointments were at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Wharton, and Florida International University. He holds and has held visiting positions at Politecnico di Milano, Aalborg University, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Kobe Univer...

Mary Yoko Brannen is Professor Emerita at San José State University and Honorary Professor of International Business at the Copenhagen Business School. Professor Brannen pioneered the use of  ethnographic methods in IB to understand and theorize from complex cultural phenomena. Her early in-depth studies of the internationalization of large multinational firms such as Disney and NSK Ball Bearings ...

Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Previously he served on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, the University of Reading in England, and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He received his M.Sc.(Econ) from the London School of Economics and his Ph. D. from Cornell University. His...

Professor David Teece from the University of California – Berkeley is the Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and Director of the Institute for Business Innovation at the Walter A. Haas School of Business.  He is one of the most influential management thinkers of our era. His influence on strategic management research and practice during the past 30 years has been nothing short of extraordin...

Peter J. Buckley’s academic credentials include: (BA (Econ), York; MA, East Anglia; PhD Economics, Lancaster; Dr hc (Uppsala); DSc hon (Lappeenranta) Dr. Merc. H.C. (Copenhagen), DBA, h.c. (Open University of Hong Kong). Professor of International Business and Founder Director of the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, (CIBUL), UK., Professor of International Business, Universi...

John Cantwell is Distinguished Professor of International Business in Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) since 2002. He was previously Professor of International Economics at the University of Reading in the UK, and he has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the University of the Social Sciences, Toulouse, and the University of Economics and Business Administr...