Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Attila Yaprak

Professor Attila Yaprak is a Professor of Marketing and International Business and Director, Doctoral Programs at the Ilitch Business School at Wayne State University. He teaches MBA and doctoral program courses in international business, international marketing, and marketing theory and strategy. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, International Business Review, and Political Psychology. He has served as an associate editor at the Journal of Business Research and on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Business Review and International Marketing Review, among many other journals. He has been listed among the most prolific contributors to international business and international marketing journals.   
Dr. Yaprak is a winner of several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award given by the Academy of Marketing Science and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Wayne State University. He has taught at, or has had research visits to, business schools in Austria, England, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, and Turkey. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, and Michigan State, and in faculty development programs at S. Carolina, Memphis, and Georgia State. His consulting work for the World Trade Organization has taken him to China, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand.  
Dr. Yaprak is the current Historian and has served as the Executive Secretary of the Academy of International Business. He has served on funded research review panels in the United States, Canada, and Israel. Dr. Yaprak earned BS and MBA degrees at Indiana University (1971 and 1973) and a PhD degree at Georgia State University (1978). 
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Sergio Lazzarini

Sergio G. Lazzarini (PhD, 2002, Washington University in St. Louis) is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper Institute of Education and Research. He does research on how public and private actors interact and organize their activities to improve economic and social performance. He is founder of Insper Metricis, a center for the study of impact measurement and investing. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), and the University of Utah (2019), and is currently visiting the University of Toronto. His research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best 
Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), and Distinguished Paper Award of the Strategy Division (Cooperative Strategy Track)of the Academy of Management (2020). Sergio also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (2008-2010) and as a board member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (2009-2011), and is currently Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal.
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Dan Li

Dan Li is the L. Leslie Waters Chair and Professor of International Business at the Kelley Business School, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching focus on global strategy, particularly in the areas of international strategic alliances, and institutional influences on activities of both established multinational enterprises and international new ventures. Dan’s work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Management International Review, among others. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Business Horizons and an Associate Editor and Special Issue Editor of Global Strategy Journal. She has also served on the editorial review boards of many journals, including the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of International Business Studies.
Dan has been a longtime and active AIB member, serving as Track Chair/Co-Chair for the AIB annual conferences in Istanbul (2013) and in Minneapolis (2018), and on the Local Arrangements Committee for the AIB conference in Indianapolis (2007). She has also co-chaired doctoral consortia, organized panels/PDWs, and served as a panelist for many AIB events over the years. Being on the executive board of the Women in AIB (WAIB), Dan served WAIB in various roles including faculty-at-large and secretary-treasurer, between 2007 and 2015.
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René Belderbos

René Belderbos is full professor of Strategy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and part-time professor of International Corporate Strategy at Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT (The Netherlands). He received a doctoral degree in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on innovation strategies and international business strategies of multinational firms, including real option theory in international business, location strategies, global knowledge sourcing, top management teams and internationalization, international R&D collaboration, intellectual property rights and innovation, and knowledge spillovers.
He has published widely in economics and management journals such as the European Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, World Development, the Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, and Environment and Planning, among others.
His work has received more than 10000 citations and he is on the Stanford University list of most cited scholars in the business and economics domain. He is an associate editor of the Global Strategy Journal, an editorial board member of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS,) and serves as consulting editor to JIBS. He has been consultant to the European Commission, the OECD, the Flemish, Belgian and Dutch governments, and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP, Japan).
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Gary Knight

Gary Knight is a professor of international business and resides near Portland, Oregon, USA. He has co-authored several books, including two textbooks on international business. He has won teaching awards and led many study abroad programs, in international business. He has been a keynote speaker or invited speaker at some 35 conferences or universities worldwide.
Gary has provided significant service to the Academy of International Business (AIB), including Vice President; Chair of the AIB US-West chapter; inaugural chair of the ‘SMEs, Entrepreneurship, and Born Global’ track of the AIB annual conference; and chair of the AIB annual dissertation award.
Gary’s research emphasizes ‘born globals’, international entrepreneurship, internationalization, and technology’s role in international business. He has authored more than 100 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings, including Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), International Business Review, Journal of World Business, and others. His co-authored article on born global firms won the 2014 JIBS Decade Award. Gary is ranked one of the top cited scholars in international business and international marketing in various rankings.
Prior to academia, Gary was an executive in international business, focusing on Europe, Japan, and Mexico. He has provided expert testimony on international business at the U.S. House of Representatives. Gary earned his Bachelors at Washington State University, his MBA at the University of Washington, and PhD at Michigan State University. He also attended the University of Paris in France and Sophia University in Japan.
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Mila Lazarova

Mila Lazarova (Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Canada) is a Professor of International Business. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Workforce Management and her research interests include global careers, organizational career development and mobility practices; career impact of global assignments; and HR issues related to integration of skilled migrants.
Mila has published in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Organizational Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Journal. She is a Consulting Editor at Journal of World Business and sits on several other editorial boards.
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Ulf Andersson

Ulf Andersson (PhD, Uppsala University) is Professor at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. He has extensive international experience from research, teaching, and academic community service. Ulf has held professorial positions at Uppsala University and Copenhagen Business School and visiting positions at, among others, Leeds University Business School (UKJ), Bocconi (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium).
Ulf is Senior Editor of Journal of World Business (2017 –) and formerly an Area Editor of Journal of International Business Studies (2011 – 2016). He is a member of the editorial boards of, among others, International Business Review, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies & Transnational Corporations Journal.
Ulf has researched the HQ – Subsidiary relation with a particular focus on subsidiary embeddedness in external networks, subsidiary influence, knowledge governance, and subsidiary strategy and evolution. His research is published in books and journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, California management Review, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and International Business Review. In 2010 he published the book (w/U. Holm) Managing the Contemporary Multinational: The Role of Headquarters.
Ulf has served in various roles in AIB (particularly the chapters WE and UK&I), EIBA, and SMS. He is a founding member of the Nord-IB PhD school. He was elected Fellow of AIB in 2016 and Fellow of EIBA 2021.
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Raj Aggarwal

Currently, Raj Aggarwal is with the Kent State University Foundation serving as a member of its Board of Directors. In addition to a mechanical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA and a PhD in Business from Kent State University, Raj is also a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Dr. Aggarwal is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland, class of 2004 and is an experienced academic, executive, and board member. His career includes successful stints both in business and academia.
He serves on or has served on business boards that include (until change of control) Manco/Henkle DIY Inc. (Duck, LePage, and Loctite brands) for a quarter century, Ancora Trust/Mutual Funds and Maxxus Investments, also for a quarter century. He has also served on the boards of the Flood Company (CWF and Penetrol Brands) and ERC Inc. He has worked at Dana Corporation (International Finance) and Owens-Illinois Inc. (International Strategy), and been a consultant to the UN, the World Bank, and Fortune 100 companies and Commercial Banks. His non-profit board service includes the Kent State University Foundation, Goodwill Industries, Financial Executives Research Foundation, Hawken School, and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
He has won many awards for his teaching and scholarly work.  He is included in the Nature/Stanford University list of the top 2% scientists globally in Finance and Economics and has been cited and quoted over 9000 times by other scholars (h index of 50). He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and has been a Fulbright Research Scholar and the editor in chief of scholarly journals. He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the SEC, and the Comptroller of the Currency. Aggarwal is also widely quoted in the local, national, and international print and broadcast media.
He has been the business dean at the University of Akron and an Endowed Chaired Professor at three Universities, John Carroll University, the University of Akron, Kent State University. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Michigan, South Carolina, University of Hawaii, and overseas at Lund (Sweden), IUJ (Japan), Trinity College (Ireland), Griffith (Australia), and NUS (Singapore). He was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a Larosier Award for the best international finance essay at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Prague.
He has been elected or appointed to many leadership positions serving as President or Vice President of the Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Academy of International Business, Financial Executives Research Foundation, and Financial Executives International's Northeast Ohio Chapter. He has served as the Editor in Chief for Corporate Finance Review, FMA's Financial Practice and Education, Journal of Teaching International Business, and the Finance and Accounting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. In addition, he serves or has served as Associate Editor for many scholarly journals.
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Garry Bruton

Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. His research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. He has published over 100 articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In addition, he has co-authored three textbooks.
He is currently an Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Previously he was also President of the Asia Academy of Management and former General Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Management Studies.
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Daniel Shapiro

Daniel M. Shapiro (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Global Business Strategy at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, Multinational Business Review; and co-director Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies. He has worked for forty years as an educator, researcher, and academic administrator, most recently he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business. As an academic, he has published five books and monographs and some 100 scholarly articles on international business and strategy, corporate ownership and governance, foreign investment and MNEs, industrial structure, and various aspects of public policy.
His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among others. His articles have been cited over 11,000 times and have won several awards, including the Barclays Global Investors Canada Ltd. Research Award and the Mike Peng best paper award in Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
In 1995 and again in 2002 he was awarded the TD Canada Trust Teaching Award, and in 2014 was named the Academy of International Business (AIB) Educator of the Year. He has been visiting professor at McGill University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Rotterdam School of Management, Monash University, and CEIBS. As an administrator, he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business where he successfully developed a strategic position for the school, raised the money to name it, and led it through successful accreditation rounds with AACSB and EQUIS.
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