Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Anil Gupta

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 strategy and globalization. Ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s “most influential management thinkers,” he has been named by The Economist as one of the world’s “superstars” in a cover story on “Innovation in Emerging Economies.” He has also been inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame. In 2017, Anil received the Outstanding Educator award from the Academy of Management’s International Management Division. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He has also served on the editorial boards and/or as Guest Editor for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and Information Systems Research.
Anil is the author of 40 papers in academic journals as well as over 60 other articles, columns, and op-eds in top-tier outlets such as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Chief Executive Magazine. He is also the coauthor of several books including The Quest for Global Dominance, Smart Globalization, Getting China and India Right, Global Strategies for Emerging Asia, and The Silk Road Rediscovered. He also serves (or has served) as a keynote speaker and adviser for a number of Global Fortune 500 companies as well as technology ventures and accelerators in the US, China, and India.
Anil is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Expert Network. He has been a frequent participant at the Forum’s annual summit in Davos. He is also a member of The Bretton Woods Committee and the CNBC Disruptors Advisory Council.
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Sarianna Lundan

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 Economy (ETLA), a think-tank focused on economic policy. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University in Finland.
She has published widely in journals and books, and has co-authored with John H. Dunning the second edition of Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, which continues to be an influential reference work in the field of international business. She is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP) and member of seven other editorial boards. She has participated extensively in the work of UNCTAD in connection with the World Investment Reports and the Investment Policy Reviews, and served briefly as a Senior Economic Officer there. She has also worked on diverse policy-related projects for the World Bank, OECD and European Commission.
She is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB).
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Mike Peng

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 of the institution-based view of strategy and his insights about the rise of emerging economies in global business.
With over 160 journal articles, five books, and over 50,000 Google citations, he is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and most influential scholars in global business strategy. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have cited his work. Every year since 2014, he has been found among Highly Cited Researchers, a list compiled by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics, which tracks the top 0.1% most cited researchers worldwide. In 2020, he is one of the only 101 scholars in the field of economics and business on the list.
His best-selling textbooks—Global Strategy, Global Business, and Global—are used in over 40 countries, and are available in Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. His consulting clients include AstraZeneca, Berlitz, Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and UK Government Office for Science. He has been quoted in The Economist, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Dallas Morning News, Texas CEO, The Exporter Magazine, The World Journal, Business Times (Singapore), CEO-CIO (Beijing), Sing Tao Daily (Vancouver), and Brasil Econômico (São Paulo). 
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Srilata Zaheer

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 on international strategy and organization, and she has published extensively on global strategy, location, and organizational legitimacy. In 2018, she received the PwC Strategy& ‘Eminent Scholar’ Award for lifetime achievement in thought-leadership from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management.
During her tenure as dean, Sri introduced new degrees in business analytics, supply chain management, finance, and new partnerships with Tsinghua and Tongji Universities in China, as well as online and hybrid programs.
Prior to academia, Sri worked in several multinationals, including at Sandoz, at Tata Consultancy Services, and as an economic correspondent on India and Nigeria for Business International.  She serves as a Charter Trustee of Hamilton College, and has served on several non-profit boards, including the Greater Twin Cities United Way, the Guthrie Theater and Mayo Clinic’s Economic Development Agency.
Sri received her Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School.  She has a Corporate Director’s Certificate from Harvard Business School, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and a B.Sc. in Physics from Madras University.  She has lived/worked in India, China, Nigeria, France, Italy, Poland and Brazil, and loves to dabble in languages.
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Oded Shenkar

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 Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, where he heads the international business area, and is also a member of the Centers for Chinese Studies and for Near East Studies. Professor Shenkar has been a Senior Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Peking University, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), and the International University of Japan, among others. 
Professor Shenkar has published more than hundred scholarly articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations,Journal of International Business studies,  Strategic Management Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, among many others. His books include Organization and Management in China 1979-1990 (M.E. Sharpe), International Business in China (Routledge, w. L. Kelley), Global Perspectives on Human Resource Management (Prentice-Hall), The Handbook of International Management Research (Blackwell/ University of Michigan Press, with B.J. Punnett), International Business (Wiley/Sage, with Yadong Luo), the Handbook of Strategic Alliances (Sage, with Jeff Reuer), The Chinese Century (Wharton School Publishing; 12 foreign editions), The Great Deleveraging (Financial Times Press, with H. Dickson), and Copycats: how smart companies use imitation to gain a strategic edge (Harvard Business Press; 11 foreign editions). 
Prof. Shenkar’s work has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Daily Mail (UK), Liberation (France), International Herald Tribune, Time, Business Week, Compass, the Economist, Chief Executive magazine, Associated Press, Reuters, Nikkei Financial Daily,China Daily, Reference News (China), and China Business Weekly, as well as on radio (e.g., NPR, CBS) and TV (BBC, CNN, CCTV, Reuters, ABC, Canada Business TV, Bloomberg). 
Professor Shenkar has been an advisor to firms (e.g., Battelle, Citigroup, Diamond Power International, Discern, Ford Motor, Geely /Volvo, Netafim, OEConnection, PIC, Shepherd Coloring, Wal-Mart Stores, Zeraim Gdera / Syngenta), governments (e.g., Department of Business and Economic Development, State of Hawaii; USPS / OIG), international institutions (e.g., ILO) and universities (e.g., Chinese University of Hong Kong) worldwide. He appeared before the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission, among others, and is a past Vice President and Fellow of the Academy of International Business. 
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Marjorie Lyles

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 Emeritus Professor of Global Strategic Management at Indiana University Kelley School of Business and was an Adjunct Professor at Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. At IU she was awarded the Ryan Award for exceptional contributions to the university’s international programs and engagement.  
She is a Fellow of the Strategy Management Society and the Association of International Business.  Her teaching and research focused on emerging economies since the mid-1980s. She worked on  projects in China since 1985 when she was a consultant with the U.S. Department of Commerce Dalian programs.   
Her mixed method and longitudinal research required her to seek research grants which included 2 National Science Foundation grants that developed organizational learning and the knowledge-based perspectives by studying alliances in emerging economies. 
Her work has appeared in top academic journals such as SMJ, ASQ, JIBS, AMR, AMJ, and OSci. Lyles has worked with governmental, non-profit, and corporate entities across the globe.  She has consulted with the USIS, World Bank, and UNDP.  
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Tarun Khanna

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 most popular, has been taken by ~600,000 students in over 200 countries. A recent book, Trust, and an earlier one, Billions of Entrepreneurs, chronicle creative ventures in China, India and beyond. 
In 2007, he was nominated to be a Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2016, he was recognized by the Academy of Management as Eminent Scholar for Lifetime Achievement in the field of International Management. The Government of India appointed him to lead several national committees connected to entrepreneurship and higher education. In 2020, he was charged by  The Lancet, the world’s leading global health journal, to co-chair a commission to re-imagine the future of India’s health system. 
Outside Harvard, he serves on the boards of the Washington-based global power company, AES Corporation, the global adtech company and India’s first unicorn, InMobi, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, PRS India, a non-profit dedicated to India’s parliamentary governance, is a cofounder of Axilor, a Bangalore-based incubator, and of several for-profit and non-profit ventures across the developing world. 
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Mary Yoko Brannen

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 are noted for contributing the constructs of negotiated culture, recontextualization, and biculturals as natural boundary-spanners to the field.  
 She was appointed Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2016 having served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for two consecutive elected terms (2011-2016).  At a time when large-scale, cross-sectional, quantitative studies were the norm in the field’s leading journal, Professor Brannen is credited with broadening the range of research methods recognized by IB scholars to include qualitative mixed methods studies, ethnography, semiotics, and linguistical analysis.  
 Professor Brannen previously held the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) Chair of Cross-Cultural Management at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and has served as a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, Stanford University, California, U.S.A, and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.  She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Department of International Economics, Government and Management at CBS in 2016. She currently sits on the Advisory Boards of the Master of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, the Groupe d’Études Management & Langage (GEM&L) in France, and the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University in the U.S.   
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Jean Francois Hennart

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 University, Osaka City University, Copenhagen Business School, Singapore Management University, Queens University Belfast, the University of Pavia, University College Dublin, and BI Norwegian Business School.  
His research focuses on the comparative study of international economic institutions such as multinational firms (MNEs) and their contractual alternatives, on modes of foreign market entry, and on equity joint ventures. His Theory of Multinational Enterprise (University of Michigan Press, 1982) pioneered the application of transaction cost theory to international business. He is presently working on MNEs from emerging countries, Born Globals, the internationalization of family firms, and the measurement of MNE activity. His articles in top journals have garnered more than 18,000 citations.  
He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the European International Business Academy for which he co-chairs the annual doctoral tutorial. He is consulting editor at the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and serves on the editorial boards of most major IB journals. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa, was elected in 2010 Booz&Co/Strategy+Business Eminent Scholar in International Management. In 2019 he received a Gold Medal for his publications in JIBS. 
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David Teece

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 extraordinary.
David Teece almost singlehandedly invented the ‘dynamic capabilities’ approach in strategic management that has become a core paradigm in this field of academic inquiry and is also used extensively by international business scholars. Teece’s main piece on this subject has earned 15,500+ citations on Google Scholar (he has twelve other pieces with 1,000+ citations each). The main focus of this work is value creation and capture through innovation, taking into account that protecting the fruits of innovation requires a threshold level of ‘inimitability’ by competitors, as well as ‘complementary assets’.
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