Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Asli Colpan

Asli M. Colpan is Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Graduate School of Management and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. She held the Alfred Chandler Visiting Scholar position at the Harvard Business School. Previously, she was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University and MIT, and visiting professor at Koc University’s College of Administrative Science and Economics.
Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance, business history, and especially the evolution of large enterprises in developed and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Business History and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; and Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, 2020.
She was awarded the Tachibana Prize for the most outstanding female scholar at Kyoto University. She is currently the Area Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organizational History. She also sits on the boards of Sumitomo Rubber Industries and NISSHA as an external director.
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Pavida Pananond

Pavida Pananond is Professor of International Business at Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, where she has been based upon completing her graduate studies at McGill University in Canada (MBA) and the University of Reading in England (PhD). Her main research interest is global strategy, particularly with reference to how companies in emerging markets develop and expand overseas. She also studies the governance of global industries and the upgrading of emerging market firms in global value chains.
Pavida has authored a host of academic articles, book chapters, books, and opinion editorials in media outlets such as Bangkok Post and Nikkei Asia. Her academic publications have appeared in California Management Review and Global Strategy Journal, among others. Her views have also been sought from international media including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, and Financial Times. Pavida also serves as consultant for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and as editorial board member of several international academic journals, including Global Strategy Journal and Journal of International Business Policy. 
Since 2017, she has been one of the Honorary Advisers to Asia New Zealand Foundation, an authority in helping New Zealanders build their knowledge and skills to thrive in Asia. In 2018, she was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote closer links between New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Her corporate role includes board membership of Precious Shipping Public Company Limited, Thailand’s leading dry bulk carrier. Pavida is a frequent speaker at national and international public forums and conferences.
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Ingo Walter

Ingo Walter has been based almost all of his professional career at New York University, in a hub-and-spoke strategy that included periods of residency at Insead, the University of Mannheim, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, IESE in Spain, the University of Western Australia and others.
At NYU he chaired several academic departments, directed the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions for thirteen years, and served two four-year sentences as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and more recently Dean of Faculty. For almost 20 years he held a co-appointment at INSEAD. Since 2015 he has been an active Professor Emeritus at Stern.
His early academic and consulting work focused on international trade policy, notably the impact of tariffs and non-tariff barriers on developing country trade and growth. This led to work on trade and the natural environment – how environmental policy developments can be built into the generally accepted models of global production in a book titled International Economics of Pollution (McMillan)1975) – and a Bellagio conference on international trade in recyclables. A bit later he focused on non-market constraints facing foreign direct investment in a co-authored volume Multinationals Under Fire (Wiley, 1980) which covered many of the ESG concerns widely discussed today.
The focus on trade and investment led him naturally to market-access issues in the financial services industry, and an effort to understand the structure, conduct and performance of its main functional pillars – commercial banking, securities, insurance and asset management – in all their complexity considered in Street Smarts (Harvard Business School Press, 1997).
The work had both firm-specific and public policy dimensions, including systemic and firm-specific risk control issues and problems that surfaced in the Global Financial Crisis. This included a major NYU faculty team effort on crisis forensics and remediation to achieve a sustainable balance between financial efficiency and stability. Most recently he has been engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of infrastructure finance, as well as extending his work on reputational risk.
Ingo has served on a number of boards, currently the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has advised various industrial and financial firms and government agencies.
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Aida Hajro

Aida Hajro is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL), and a Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is also affiliated with the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development at the World Bank.
Aida’s general interest lies in sustainable development, with a focus on its social aspects, as embedded in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as No Poverty, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Decent Work, Reduced Inequalities, and several others. More specifically, her research addresses these topics by zooming in on the global phenomenon of migration.
Aida’s work has been published in journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Journal of World Business. It has been also recognized by several awards including the Academy of Management Review Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management IMD Robert H. Schaffer Award, and the British Academy of Management Award. Aida’s research has been profiled in a wide range of outlets, such as the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, World Bank Blog, and B the Change.
Aida has served on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management and Journal of World Business. She is also a co-founder of the “Migration, Business and Society” global network initiative.
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JT Li

Jiatao (JT) Li is Chair Professor of Management, Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business, Director of the Center for Business Strategy and Innovation, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He served as the Senior Associate Dean of the HKUST Business School from 2013 to July 2017; and Associate Dean (Faculty) from 2009 to 2013.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and an editor of the Journal of International Business Studies. His current research interests are in the areas of organizational learning, strategic alliances, corporate governance, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on issues related to global firms and those from emerging economies. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He also served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal from 2009 to 2016. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial boards of leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Policy, Global Strategy Journal, and Long Range Planning, among others.
He served as Vice President and Program Chair of the 2018 Academy of International Business annual conference in Minneapolis. Earlier in his career, JT worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Hong Kong.
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Anthony Goerzen

Anthony Goerzen is the D.R. Sobey Professor of International Business at Smith School of Business of Queen’s University. Prior to academia, Anthony Goerzen spent 15 years in management positions in both small firms and MNCs. His research interests relate to the behaviour and performance of MNEs with a focus on location strategy, cooperative strategies (e.g., JVs, alliances, and networks) as well as social and environmental issue management within the context of global value chains. His research is published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Peking University Business Review, Ivey Business Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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Maria Tereza Leme Fleury

Professor Maria Tereza Fleury is a full-time professor in the area of International Strategy, director of FGV SP, and of the Center for International Competitiveness, FGV. She is a Fellow at the Academy of International Business and President of AIB. She was previously dean of FGV EAESP – School of Administration of São Paulo at the Getulio Vargas Foundation and  FEA- School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of São Paulo.
She is a member of international councils: Instituto de Empresas, Madrid, Tshinghua Latin America Center, among others. She was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, UK, Sussex University, UK, IDE, Japan, and a professor at ESSEC, France.
In the past, she was the director of ANPAD, BALAS,  a member of the CNP Advisory Committee, FAPESP, FAPESP, editor of RAUSP; currently, she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal International Business Policy, International Business Studies, and RAE. She published more than one hundred articles and 25 books.
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Robert Weiner

Robert J. Weiner is professor of international business, public policy & public administration, and international affairs, at the George Washington University School of Business, Washington DC. He serves concurrently as Director of the Master of Science in International Business (MSIB) program. He has been a member of the Editorial Board, Area Editor (Energy, Environment & Natural Resources), and Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS).
Prof. Weiner’s research interests and projects focus on economic, financial, and managerial aspects of energy, including resource nationalism & political risk; oil, transparency, & corruption; petroleum fiscal vulnerability; dynamics of energy crises; foreign investment; oil speculation and market turbulence; and privatization & the behavior of state-owned enterprises in the world petroleum market.
Prof. Weiner served twice as Chairman of the GW Department of International Business, building its research-oriented faculty and national ranking. He was a research fellow in the International Energy Program, JFK School, Harvard University and consultant to companies, NGOs, IGOs, and governments. Before joining the professoriat, he was an energy and environment consultant at ICF Inc.
Prof. Weiner testified before the U.S. Congress (Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade of the House Small Business Committee, 2011), and U.K. Parliament, Commons Treasury Select Committee, Panel on Regulation of Oil Markets (2008). He served as an eminent person on commodities for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2003).Prof. Weiner received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics, and Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Business Economics, all from Harvard University. He has coauthored four books and many articles, focusing on natural resources, especially petroleum.
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Edward Snyder

Edward A. Snyder is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. His research and teaching are focused on industrial organization, antitrust economics, law and economics, and financial institutions. His recent research includes work on antitrust policy and enforcement as well as on the development of major digital platforms. He teaches Economic Analysis of High-Tech Industries, a course that applies industrial organization concepts and valuation frameworks to high-tech industries in China, EU, and US.
During Snyder’s tenure as dean of the school from 2011 to 2019, the school developed the first global network of top business schools, introduced its Master of Advanced Management degree for graduates of the Global Network for Advanced Management, introduced its Master of Management Studies degree with tracks in Asset Management, Systematic Risk, and Global Business and Society, and broadened its MBA for Executives program.
Snyder began his professional career as an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He earned a PhD in Economics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan where he developed programs in Central Europe, China, India, and Russia.
Prior to coming to Yale in 2011, Snyder was the Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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David Griffith

David A. Griffith is Professor of Marketing, the holder of the Hallie Vanderhider Chair in Business, and Associate Director of Research of the Center for International Business Studies, in Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. In 2022, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
David’s research focuses on the areas of strategy, global marketing, innovation, and international business. He has published over 125 articles, in outlets including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, etc. He is ranked among the most productive and impactful scholars in the international marketing discipline. He is the recipient of the 2021 S. Tamer Cavusgil Award, the 2021 Louis W. Stern Award, the 2019 Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award presented by the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group, a two-time recipient of the Hans B. Thorelli Award (2018, 2015), as well as a two-time recipient of the AMA Global Marketing Special Interest Group’s Excellence in Research Award (2018, 2014). In 2019 he was awarded a Silver Medal by the Academy of International Business for his contributions to the Journal of International Business Studies.
David is serving as Editor for Global Marketing at the Journal of International Business Studies (2023-2025). He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing. Prior to these editorial roles, he served two terms as the Editor-in-Chief of the AMA’s Journal of International Marketing (2008-2010, 2011-2013).
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