Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Desislava Dikova

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 of the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review and others.
Her research has been published in highly ranked international journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Business Research, and others.
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Juan Alcacer

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 uncertainty. His early research examines location strategies, outsourcing, management of value chains across countries and global supplier-buyer relationships. He also studies cluster-based innovation and global intellectual property (IP) issues, with emphasis on the patent systems across countries. He has published his research in the American Journal of Sociology, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and Journal of International Business.
Professor Alcacer received a PhD in International Business and Strategy from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He also received a MA in Economics from University of Michigan, an MBA from IESA and a Computer Engineering degree from the Universidad Simon Bolivar. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within HBS Executive Education, he teaches in open-enrollment programs and chairs custom programs on competitive advantage, global strategic management, and corporate-level strategy. Before HBS, Prof. Alcacer was part of the Faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2003.
Professor Alcacer is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, has served on numerous boards of academic journals and is an associate editor of Management Science. He has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects.
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Felipe Monteiro

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 Economics (LSE) and worked as a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School’s Latin American Research.
His research, which was published in top journals (Organization Science, Strategic  Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, among others), focuses on global open innovation and the role of boundary spanners in multinational corporations. Professor Monteiro received important awards from the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the Strategic Management Society. He received six times INSEAD Deans’ Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching and four times Wharton’s “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Teaching Award. He is also a prolific and award-winning case writer. Felipe consults and gives talks for companies and governments worldwide. His new textbook on Global Strategy (co-authored with Philippe Lasserre) will be published in 2022.
Professor Monteiro obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also has a LL.B. (JD equivalent) degree, cum laude, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ, Brazil and a MRes in Business Studies from London Business School.
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Cristina Gibson

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 and innovation, and corporate-community partnerships. She works at the nexus of organizational science, international management, and cross-cultural psychology. Her work gives voice to those with differing approaches, perspectives and knowledge, and provides evidence regarding practical techniques for acknowledging, celebrating and bridging differences that coincide with ethnicity, national culture, functional disciplines, and value systems.
Cristina also addresses the manner in which culture, organizational structures, and technology serve as key influences on shared use of information and knowledge, and she has demonstrated that such processes are critical for subsequent behavioral and organizational outcomes, including innovation and collaboration.  Dispelling conventional assumptions that collaborative phenomena operate the same way across contexts, her work identifies intercultural variations, impacts of geographical dispersion, and technology factors that are important in gaining a full understanding of how to increase the effectiveness of collaborations.
Cristina strives for real world impact.  For three consecutive years she has been awarded the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Distinction, indicating that she is among the top 1% in the world in terms of impact in the fields of Economic and Business based on citation counts.  This award is an honor reserved for only 95 academics in this discipline across the world.
Cristina’s other work has informed organizational policy, structure, training and development agendas improving operational efficiency, innovation, resource allocation, and well-being, in non-profits, entrepreneurial firms, and large multinationals such as IBM, HP, Oracle, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, British Aerospace, Alcoa, Qantas and Westpac, across 30 countries.
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Paula Caligiuri

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, Paula has authored or co-authored several articles and books – including Cultural Agility:  Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals and Build Your Cultural Agility.  Her research is published in international business, human resource management, and psychology journals, including Journal of International Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations.  She has served as an International HRM Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies and as a Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business.
Through TASCA Global, Paula works extensively with leading organizations and universities on the development of individuals’ culturally agility.  She has been a frequent expert guest on CNN and CNN International and is an instructor for a LinkedIn Learning course entitled Managing Globally.   Paula holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and is a Fellow in both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of International Business.
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Lorraine Eden

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 Economics departments at Mount St. Vincent and Brock universities and the School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
Eden’s research  lies at the intersection of economics, international business, and public policy. Core areas are: transfer pricing (the pricing of related party  transactions); strategies and structures of multinational enterprises (MNEs); and shocks and responses (how policy and technology shocks affect firm strategies and structures). She is considered one of the founders of the field of transfer pricing economics and is best known for her transfer pricing publications. Her research, which appears in more than 200 scholarly publications, includes books such as Taxing Multinationals (1998), Multinationals in North America (1994), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985, 2017), The Economics of Transfer Pricing (2019), and Research Methods in International Business (2020). Her current research focuses on transfer pricing and the strategies and structures of MNEs in the digital economy.
Over her career, Eden taught economics and international business courses to thousands of  undergraduate, masters and PhD students, and chaired several PhD dissertations at Texas A&M. She started and ran the Transfer Pricing Aggies program at Texas A&M from 2007 to 2019; her former students now work all over the world in this field. She has also taught transfer pricing courses for the US and Canadian governments. Eden currently guest lectures on transfer pricing in the TAMU School of Law.
For many years, Eden’s professional service home has been the Academy of International Business (AIB). She was elected to two terms on the AIB Executive Board, including AIB President  2017-2018. She was also 2008-2010 Editor-in-Chief of AIB’s Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the top-ranked international business journal, after many years as a JIBS Area Editor. In 2004, she was elected an AIB Fellow; in 2012, she received the AIB President’s Award; and in 2016, WAIB (Women in the AIB) awarded her its inaugural Woman of the Year award. In 2019, she received JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medals for Scholarship and Scholarly Service. Currently, she is the 2020-2023 Dean of the AIB Fellows.
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Dana Minbaeva

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, and many others.
Professor Minbaeva published around 50 articles in international peer reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and reports.  She received several national and international awards to research achievements, including the prestigious 2013 JIBS Decade Award.
Professor Minbaeva has extensive editorial experience and currently serves as Journal of International Business Studies’ Area Editor. She is also on the Editorial Boards for top international journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, among others.
Professor Minbaeva is actively involved in the MBA and executive teaching at CBS and other European business schools. Previously, she has taught in Kazakhstan, Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Finland and Germany as well as having held visiting research positions in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada.
Dana Minbaeva is the founder and the director of the Human Capital Analytics Group at CBS.
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Sharon Alvarez

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 for Entrepreneurship at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.
A Max Planck Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Systems Research, Alvarez has been a visiting professor at Sun-Yet-Sen University in China, the University of Alberta, and the University of Utah. Her current research includes entrepreneurship theory of opportunities, firm, and market emergence.
Elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management in 2020, Professor Alvarez is currently Vice President Elect and Program Chair and will serve as President in 2023; she is Past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and was the 2015 Denver Program Chair for the Strategic Management Society as well as Representative at Large for the SMS Entrepreneurship Interest Group.
She is associate editor for the Academy of Management Review and past associate editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Her work has been published in a multitude of journals and outlets, including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Journal.
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Professor Alvarez’s paper (with Barney) “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action” won the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division 2019 Foundational Paper Award as well as the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Award; her paper (with Barney) “Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research” was the runner-up for the INFORMS award; and her paper (with Barney) “How Entrepreneurs Organize under Conditions of Uncertainty” won the Journal of Management Best Paper Award. Her work in the Journal of Management is the 27th most cited article in the last 50 years; she has currently close to 13,000 citations overall. To this day, the paper “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action” is the most cited paper in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
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Jonathan Doh

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 numerous universities in Europe and Asia, and is an occasional executive faculty member at the Wharton School. Previously, he was on the faculty of American and Georgetown Universities and a trade official with the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibilities related to NAFTA.
Jonathan has published more than 90 refereed articles, 40 chapters, a dozen teaching cases, and nine books. Recent articles appear in AMR, AMP, AMLE, BEQ, JIBS, JOM, JMS, MISQ, OS, and SMJ. His books include Globalization and NGOs (with Hildy Teegen, Praeger, 2003), Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business (with Steve Stumpf, Elgar, 2005), Multinationals and Development (with Alan Rugman, Yale, 2007), NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (with Michael Yaziji, Cambridge, 2009), Aligning for Advantage: Competitive: Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas (with Thomas Lawton and Tazeeb Rajwani, Oxford, 2014), and he is co-author of International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior (with Fred Luthans, McGraw-Hill/Irwin), now in its 11th edition.
He has presented more than 100 papers at international conferences, and served AOM, AIB, and SMS in numerous capacities, including Chair of AOM’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division. He has served as Associate Editor and Special Issue Editor of several journals, including JIBS, was Editor- in-Chief of Journal of World Business from 2014-2018, and is currently General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. He was ranked the 12th most prolific IB scholar for the period 2001-2009 (Lahiri & Kumar, 2012) and among the top one percent of scholars in business and management globally (325 out of 36,319). His cases, simulations, and articles are used at leading business schools. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic and international management from George Washington.  He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2021, only a handful of scholars to serve as both AOM and AIB Fellows.
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Mike Kotabe

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 and Professorship in Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990-98. Dr. Kotabe also served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-7.
He has written over 150 scholarly publications in such journals as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal.  He has also published more than 20 books, including Global Sourcing Strategy (1992), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), MERCOSUR and Beyond (1996), Market Revolution in Latin America (2001), Emerging Issues in International Business Research (2002), Global Supply Chain Management (2006), and Global Marketing Management, 8th  ed. (2020).
Dr. Kotabe was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 1998 and a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies in 2017, for his significant contribution to international business research and education.  He has been recognized as one of the most prolific and influential researchers in international business / marketing / strategic management in a number of circles.  Most recently, he received a Gold Medalist award from the Academy of International Business as one of the most published researchers in the world over the Past 50 Years in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2019.
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