Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Ravi Ramamurti

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, Fletcher School, CEIBS-Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. Prior to academia, Ravi worked in the Indian Planning Commission and as executive assistant to the CEO of a large Indian SOE, and as a UN Adviser to Bangladesh and South Korea.
Ravi works on strategy and innovation in emerging markets. He was elected as an AIB Fellow in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including three published by Cambridge University Press and one by HBR Press. He was elected in 2007 to the Executive Committee of the IM Division of AOM. In 2017, The Globals (London) named him the “most innovative thinker on strategy and innovation in emerging markets.” He is a six-time winner of the ADL Prize for teaching.
Ravi’s article “Reverse innovation, emerging markets, and global strategy,” won the 2012 EBS prize and the inaugural GSJ prize for Best Article.  His article on “What is really different about emerging market multinationals?” is the most cited article in GSJ. Ravi also published “Delivering world class health care, affordably,” in HBR (Nov 2013) “Transforming health care from the ground up,” HBR (July-August 2018), and several others in HBR Online, including two on reverse innovation to fight COVID-19. He coauthored the book, Reverse innovation in health care (HBR Press, 2018).
Ravi has done research and consulting in more than 20 emerging economies. He has been an adviser to the UN, USAID, Fulbright, World Bank, and The Economist group., and to more than two dozen companies. He is frequently quoted in the business press.
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Pervez Ghauri

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 highly successful.
After Oslo, he worked as Professor of Marketing and International Business at University of Groningen Netherland, where he also served as Academic Dean for that last three years. After moving to UK, he served Manchester Business School and King’s College London as chaired professor of International Business, for several years. Currently, Pervez is Professor of International Business at University of Birmingham (UK).
Pervez is the founding Editor of International Business Review (IBR) and Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). He also served as Editor (Europe) for Journal of World Business (JWB) for the period 2007-2014. Pervez is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB), where he was also Vice President between 2008 and 2010.
Pervez has published more than 30 books including the best seller, Research Methods in Business Studies, now in 5th edition with Cambridge University Press. He has also published more than 100 articles in top level International Business and International Marketing journals. Pervez has also been consulting and running executive training programs with several companies such as, BP, Ericsson and Airbus Industries.
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Tina Ambos

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’s Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange. Earlier she held the chair of the Department of International Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), as well as positions at WU Vienna, the University of Edinburgh and London Business School. She received a Venia Docendi (Habilitation) and a Ph.D. from WU Vienna as well as a MA in Philosophy from the University of Vienna.
Her research and teaching interests include global strategic management and innovation in the context of multinational corporations, technology start-ups and international (non-for-profit) organizations. She has published widely in the academic journals and is a regular speaker at international conferences and practitioner forums as well as leading executive programs.
Tina currently serves as the Chair of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. She has been Associate Editor for Long Range Planning, is a member of the Consulting Editors Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and on several other editorial review boards.
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Andrew Delios

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 served as the President of the Asia Academy of Management. He became a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in 1998 at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.
Andrew has lived in Asia for more than 25 years.  He has worked in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States. At NUS, he has taught in numerous programs, including executive education and EMBA programs.  He has taught Strategy and International Business at Hong Kong Baptist University for their DBA program, for the EMBA program for Chinese University of Hong Kong, for the EHL-CEIBS HEMBA program and for Tsinghua’s EMBA program, among others.
He has done consulting and educational engagements with organizations such as DBS, OCBC and SIAEC (Singapore), BCA Bank and PT Wijaya Karya (Indonesia), Awba Group (Myanmar), Thai Beverages and PTT (Thailand), Bank of China, and Aditya Birla (India).  He was an owner and director in Belgarath Investments Ltd., an international franchising company in Asia, with such brands as Chili’s, Subway and Sarpino’s Pizza. He is currently engaged with a start-up in the retail and property sectors in Vietnam.
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Subi Rangan

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 business leaders. Their first work was published as Performance & Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2015). Their second book is entitled Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? (Oxford, 2018).
In other research Subi explores the political sociology of discrimination of foreign transnational firms and these firms’ non-market strategies. In 1998 he won the Academy of International Business’ Eldridge Haynes Prize for the best original work in international business. In 1995 that academy awarded their Best Dissertation Award to his doctoral thesis. In 2010 his research won the Emerald award for Top 50 papers in management. His articles appear in the Administrative Science Quarterly; Academy of Management Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of International Business Studies; Strategic Management Journal; Sloan Management Review; and Harvard Business Review. Subi is coauthor of two other books: Manager in the International Economy, and A Prism on Globalization. He was associate editor of the Academy of Management Review; and chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals.
He is a member of the board of trustees of Fundacao Dom Cabral, a leading business school in Brazil; and member of the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He directs INSEAD’s top executive seminar AVIRA: Awareness, Vision, Imagination, Role, and Action. In 2018 he launched the Integrating Performance & Progress (IPP) executive seminar that he co-teaches with philosophers. Subi is a multiple-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher award and Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching. He is married and has a daughter and son.
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Sea-Jin Chang

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 faculty member at the Stern School, New York University and Korea University, and also had visiting appointments at Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, and Hitotsubashi University. Professor Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational firms.
His current research focuses on understanding the process of creating operating synergies among diversified lines of business and building a strong local organization after foreign entry. His other research interests include organizational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea, and China. His book, Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics’ Giants Battle for Global Supremacy (Wiley, 2008) compares and contrasts these two firms’ global strategy. His other books include The Rise and Fall of Chaebols: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups (Cambridge, 2003) and Business Groups in East Asia: Crisis, Restructuring and New Growth (Oxford, 2006), and Multinationals in China: Entry Strategies, Competition, and Performance (Oxford, 2013). He previously served as an Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, and an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.
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Anne-Wil Harzing

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 articles and several books, including a best-selling textbook in IHRM. More than a dozen of her articles have won research awards or distinctions.
Anne-Wil’s publications have been cited more than 10,000 times in journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index and more than 21,000 times in Google Scholar for a h-index of 66. Since 2007 she has been listed in the top 1% most cited academics in Economics/Business worldwide. Anne-Wil is or has been on the editorial board of 16 journals, including most IB journals and a range of HRM/management journals.
Since 1999 she has maintained a website about her research, resources for academic publishing, the assessment of research and journal quality, and free software to conduct citation analysis – Publish or Perish – used by over a million academics, librarians, students, government officials, and consultants. Anne-Wil is one of the founding members of CYGNA, a network of more than 300 female scholars. She also has an active blog, posting in these areas: Academia Behind the Scenes, Academic Etiquette, Research Focus, and Publish or Perish tips and is active on social media, sharing resources on LinkedIn and tweeting as @AWHarzing about international business, bibliometrics and gender in academia.
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Vijay Govindarajan

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 Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write, “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation – any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. HBR picked reverse innovation as one of the Great Moments in Management in the Last Century. VG is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling author and a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best article published in HBR.
VG was named by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker in the world and received the Breakthrough Innovation Award in 2011. VG was inducted into Thinkers 50 Management Thinkers Hall of Fame and was given the Distinguished Achievement Award for most contributions to the understanding of innovation in 2019. VG has been a select few who have received Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories.  
 Govindarajan has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications including: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Rising Super Star, cited by The Economist; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.  
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 50-year history of Academy of Management Journal. 
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Arvind Parkhe

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 research, teaching, and service excellence awards. 
In research, he has published articles on strategic alliances in all of the top journals in management, strategy, and international business, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of International Business Studies.  He is an impactful, highly-cited author.  He has served as a guest editor of AMR [2006] and Journal of International Management [2007].  His research excellence awards include AIB Best Dissertation Award [1990], JIBS Decade Award [2001], and several best paper awards at national and international conferences. 
In teaching, he was recognized as outstanding faculty at the Ph.D. level [Indiana University’s Doctoral Student Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997], Masters level [2006, 2012, 2017], and Undergraduate level [1994, 2000, 2004].  He has chaired several Ph.D. dissertations. 
In service, he was elected Vice President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education [2014] and served as Managing Director of the Fox MBA Programs [2005-2010].  From 2010 to 2020, he was Chair of the Strategic Management Department.  He received the Musser Outstanding Service Award [2012] and Temple University’s Faculty Service Excellence Award [2012]. 
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Torben Pedersen

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 journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Science. In addition, he has written more than 25 teaching cases published at case clearing houses. He has more than 19.000 google scholar citations and an H-index of 61 (as of 10/3-2021). 
He was Vice-President for AIB (2008-2010) and Program chair in 2009 for the AIB conference in San Diego. He was also Vice Chairman of EIBA from 2007-2010. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society, and European International Business Association. He is founding editor of Global Strategy Journal and serves on numerous editorial boards. He has directed a number of research projects and is currently one of the leaders of the Manufacturing Academy of Denmark focusing of issues of digitalization and sustainability. His latest book written for a practitioner audience is entitled: Data-Driven Innovation: Why the Data-Driven Model Will be Key to Future Success.  
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