Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Donald Lessard

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. At MIT, he has taught international financial management and global strategy, and has led numerous academic and executive programs. He served as Deputy Dean of the Sloan School with responsibilities for research, international programs, and executive education. He was co-chair of the MIT Energy Education Task Force that launched the Institute-wide undergraduate energy minor, for which he was recognized as Class of 1960 Professor. He also was the founding faculty director of the MIT Executive MBA, and pioneered its signature GO-Lab.
A leader in international management education, Lessard has served as President of the Academy of International Business and Dean of the Fellows of the Academy. In 2014 he received the Pathfinder Award from the Engineering Projects Organization Society for his lifetime contributions to the field.
Lessard has led major consulting assignments with firms, banks, and government agencies throughout the world. He currently is a founding advisor to Promethean Energy Corporation, a member of the Advisory Board of 4DPath, and a senior advisor to the Brattle Group. He also is a member of the expert group on resource management of the UNCE.
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Michael Hitt

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 Education listed him among the top scholars in economics, finance and management. An article in the Academy of Management Perspectives lists him as one of the top two management scholars in terms of the combined impact of his work both inside (i.e., citations in scholarly journals) and outside of academia.
He is a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal, a former co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the current editor-in-chief of Oxford Research Encyclopedia. He is a Fellow in the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management, and the Strategic Management Society. He is a former President of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. 
He has received honorary doctorates from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Jonkoping University. He has received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award from the BPS Division and the Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in the Web of Science (top 2% in citations) each year since 2014.
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Kathleen Eisenhardt

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 strategy in distinct economic “games” like 2-sided marketplaces, cognitive processes, and strategy in nascent markets, particularly using multi-case methods. She has recently blended multi-case theory building with machine learning for more robust theory build. Her most recent book (w/Don Sull) is Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, designated a top business book by the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
Kathleen has worked extensively with firms in sectors, ranging from Internet, clean tech, software and semiconductor to agribusiness and biotech. She has been a Fellow at the World Economic Forum (Davos), and won numerous awards including AIB’s John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award, Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, SMS’ career C.K. Prahalad Award, and AOM’s career Scholarly Contributions to Management Award. Her papers have won the Schendel Best Paper Prize and ASQ’s Scholarly Contribution Award (twice).
Kathleen is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management. She holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. Her PhD is from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

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 capabilities; and governance challenges, focusing on state ownership and corruption.
In 2016, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and in 2019 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School and a JIBS Silver Medal for intellectual contributions to Journal of International Business Studies. Alvaro is co-editor of Global Strategy Journal, consulting editor of Journal of International Business Studies, in which he previously acted as reviewing editor, and a member of the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He served in the Executive Committee of the International Management division of the Academy of Management, as representative-at-large in the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and trice as Program Track Chair at the Academy of International Business. He has received twelve best reviewer awards.
Alvaro has provided consulting and training on global strategy for owners and top managers of firms in Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Poland, and the USA; on how to facilitate internationalization for government agencies in Brazil and Thailand; and on how to build research capabilities for universities in Brazil, Kuwait, Mexico, Spain, and Thailand.
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Herman Aguinis

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. His research addresses global talent management and research methods.
Professor Aguinis has written about 180 refereed journal articles, published nine books, and delivered 300 conference presentations and about 150 invited presentations in all seven continents except for Antarctica. The 2020, 2019, and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports ranked him among the world’s 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business and his work has received about 36,000 Google Scholar citations (h-index = 87) and about 11,500 Web of Science citations.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and received the Losey Award by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for lifetime achievement in human resource research, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Scientific Contributions Award for lifetime contributions, AOM Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions, and AOM Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing outstanding impact on policy making and managerial and organizational practices. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods, as President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, and serves or has served on the editorial board of 26 scholarly journals.
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Mary Teagarden

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 an international consultant, Mary had advised technology-intensive manufacturing and service firms in China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and the United States.
Dr. Teagarden received her Ph.D. in Global Strategic Management from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on global competitiveness and capability building with an emphasis on offshoring, innovation dynamics, value creation, and talent acquisition and development. Mary has published more than 135 articles, books, chapters, and case studies in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of World Business, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management and Organizational Dynamics among others.
Dr. Teagarden has taught or consulted with over sixty public and private sector international organizations. She has appeared in top media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, CCTV, ABC, NBC, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, CIO and IEEE Spectrum. Mary serves on the American University of Rome Board of Trustees; Arhaus University School of Business and Engineering Board of Advisors; and the University of San Francisco’s China Business Studies Initiative Advisory Board. Mary describes herself as an applied teacher/scholar.
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John Child

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 Studies and Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. He was Dean of the Aston Business School from 1986 to 1989 and then Dean and Director of the European Union’s management programme in China before being appointed to the new Diageo Professorship of Management at the University of Cambridge. John’s papers have appeared in many international journals including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Organization Studies. He has over 50,000 Google Scholar citations.
Among his 27 books, Corporate Co-evolution (Wiley) co-authored with Suzana Rodrigues, won the 2009 Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management. His 2019 book on Hierarchy (Routledge) won the 2020 Best Book Award of the European Academy of Management. In the same year John co-authored a substantial new edition of the leading textbook on Cooperative Strategy (Oxford University Press).
Recently his research has focused on the internationalization of SMEs. He is currently investigating the process of cooperation in China’s hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle ecosystem, and opportunities to open up hierarchies through local participation.
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Myles Shaver

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-St. Paul Headquarters economy has helped guide talent attraction and retention initiatives in the region and is presented in his book: Headquarters Economy: Managers, Mobility, and Migration. Myles presents this research to audiences in Minnesota and to audiences in other states and countries.  
 Myles is recipient of the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award – the most prestigious international teaching award in Strategic Management and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business Distinguished PhD Alumni Award. A recent study identified Myles as one of the most prolific management scholars in the world and Poets and Quants profiles Myles in their compilation of the “World’s 50 Best Business School Professors.”  
 Myles is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and is a Senior Editor at Strategy Science. 
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Mark Casson

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. He is a freeman of the City of London and chair of the Trustees of the Business Enterprise Heritage Trust. 
He has written or edited books on a range of topics relating to economics, history and culture. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (2006). His recent books include The World’s First Railway System (2009), Entrepreneurship: Theory, Networks, History (2010), Markets and Market Institutions (2011), The Entrepreneur in History (2016), Multinational Enterprise: Theory and History (2018) and Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval Cambridge (2020). He is consulting editor of Journal of World Business and International Business Review and a member of the editorial advisory boards of the various journals, including Business History, Journal of International Business Studies and Multinational Business Review. 
His hobbies include art, railways and local history. He is a member of the Oxford Historical Society, the Railway and Canal Historical Society, the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, the Suffolk Records Society and the Pipe Roll Society. He has also served on the Oxford Diocesan Synod of the Church of England.  
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Bernard Yeung

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 at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and the NYU China House Director. From 1988 to 1999, he taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of Alberta from 1983 to 1988.
Bernard Yeung has published widely in top tier academic journals covering topics in Finance, Economics, International Business, and Strategy. He won the Public Administration Silver Medal (2018) in Singapore, Irwin Outstanding Educator Award (2013) from the Academy of Management, an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Bernard served in the Economic Strategies Committee in Singapore (2009), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in Singapore (2016-2018), and the Financial Research Council of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2010 -2013).
Bernard Yeung received his BA (Economics and Mathematics) from the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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