Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Noel Capon

Noel Capon is R.C. Kopf Professor of international Marketing, Columbia Business School, New York, Educated in England and the United States, Professor Capon holds both a B.Sc. Special, First Class Honors and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from University College, London University, a business diploma from Manchester Business School, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and Columbia Business Schools, respectively.
In addition to Columbia Business School (Marketing Chair), Professor Capon served on the faculties at Harvard Business School, UCLA (Marketing Chair), INSEAD (France), and China European International Business School (CEIBS). Capon teaches on Columbia’s MBA, EMBA, and Executive Programs. Courses include Advanced Market Strategy, Strategic Sales Management, and Key/Strategic and Global Account Management.
Professor Capon has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and in excess of 40 books. Titles include The Marketing Mavens, Managing Marketing in the 21stCentury, Capon’s Marketing Framework, Capon’s Marketing Essentials, The Virgin Marketer, Sales Eats First, The Front-Line Sales Manager, Key Account Management and Planning, Managing Global Accounts. Local versions of Professor Capon’s books have been published in Asia Pacific, Brazil (Portuguese), China (Mandarin), Russia, Spanish Latin America (Spanish), Western Europe, Middle East. Professor Capon’s most recent book is Customers Win, Suppliers Win: Lessons from One of IBM’s Most Successful Strategic Account Managers.
Professor Capon founded and serves as board chair of Wessex Press, board chair of LunaCap Foundation, and is a longtime board member of the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA).
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Glenn Hoetker

Glenn Hoetker joined Melbourne Business School in 2018. He completed his PhD in international business at the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining MBS, he was Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar and Professor in the Department of Management of Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey school of business, where he also held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Supply Chain Management. He was also an affiliate professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and a Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, an affiliation he still holds. Prior to joining ASU, he spent 10 years at the University of Illinois, where he was a member of both the strategy and international business groups in the College of Business, with additional appointments in the College of Law and the Institute for Genomic Biology, where he was part of the BioBEL (Business, Economic and Legal Aspects of Biotechnology) research group.
He is an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and the Strategic Management Society’s new journal, Strategic Management Review. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Organization Science, Strategic Organization and Strategy Science.
His research, teaching and outreach interests are at the confluence of strategy, innovation, and globalization. Much of his recent work has explored these issues in the context of sustainability, particularly clean energy.
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Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (Ph.D., MBS, Psy.) is Full Professor of Management, Head of the Masters in Sustainability, and Coordinator of Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia). Maria Alejandra is a member of the global council of Sustainable Development Goal number 1 (SDG 1: End Poverty) of the World Government Summit (WGS) (2018-2020, 2021-2024). Alejandra was the Vice-President of Administration at the Academy of International Business (AIB) (2015-2018), the regional chapter chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (AIB-LAC) (2018-2021), and a board member of the AIB Shared Interest Group (SIG) on Emerging Markets from 2022. In addition, Alejandra is on the editorial team of the Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP), Area Editor of the Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management (CCSM) Journal, Associate Editor of Transnational Corporations; and Editor-in-Chief of the business journal AD-minister.
Prof. Gonzalez-Perez did her Ph.D. and Masters at the University of Galway in Ireland. Dr. Gonzalez-Perez has published 17 books, 79 academic peer-reviewed papers, and several book chapters on the internationalisation of emerging markets firms, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and international migration. She is a Forbes columnist and regular contributor to Latin American business media. Her research results have been presented at over 200 international academic conferences on all continents. She was also trained as a clinical psychologist at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Colombia. Maria-Alejandra has lived, studied, or worked in the UK, USA, Ireland, France, Spain, and Colombia and has traveled to 97 countries.
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Salvador Carmona

Salvador Carmona is a professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School-IE University, where he serves as Dean of Faculty and Rector, respectively. Salvador’s research focuses on the organizational and social aspects of accounting.  More specifically, Salvador examines accounting and gender; the role of accountability in the development of modern nation states; and the role of accounting discourses in religious, non-profit organizations.
Salvador has published in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Business Ethics; Organization Studies; Management Accounting Research; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Abacus; European Journal of Operational Research; and International Journal of Operations and Production Management. A former editor of European Accounting Review and senior editor of Oxford Research Reviews, Salvador is on the editorial board of fourteen international journals.
He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Almeria and Aalto University and has been granted the Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians and the Anthony G. Hopwood Award for Academic Leadership of the European Accounting Association.
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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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