Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Len Treviño

Len J. Treviño is the SBA Communications Distinguished Professor in International Business and Director of International Business Programs in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Ph.D. degree in international business and strategic management from Indiana University Bloomington. Prof. Treviño’s research focuses on the multinational enterprise, foreign direct investment, institutional theory, internationalization process theory, cross cultural management, gender, diversity and inclusion, and COVID-19. His work has been published in Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, and Academy of Management Learning & Education, among other outlets.
Dr. Treviño has been a long-time member of AIB and he contributes regularly to AIB’s conferences.  In addition, he has held various positions at such organizations as Whirlpool Corporation, Leo Burnett Advertising, and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).  He serves as an Editorial Board member at Journal of World Business and was an Associate Editor at Cross Cultural and Strategic Management.
Prof. Treviño current research is focused on resolving some of society’s grand challenges, including gender inequality, immigration, sustainable investment, and curbing the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics. He has taught international business and strategic management classes at universities in Spain, Norway, Ukraine, Thailand, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Dr. Treviño has also given presentations and consulted on international business issues around the globe.
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Hildy Teegen

Hildy Teegen is USC Education Foundation Chaired Professor in International Business and former Executive Director of the Folks Center for International Business after serving six years as the Dean of the Moore School of Business, all at the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining UofSC in September 2007, she was founding director of The George Washington University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Teegen also held a joint appointment at GW as Professor of International Business at the School of Business and Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School.
Dr. Teegen is a member of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management, and was a member of the Continuous Improvement Review Committee and of the Globalization of Business Education task force of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business and co-author of the Globalization of Management Education report of the AACSB. She served for six years on the Sustainability Advisory Panel of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group (through 2020). She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at ESAN University in Lima, Peru in 2013.
Her research concerns how businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations negotiate partnerships for business and societal success. She is a former director for the corporate boards of Cox Industries and Premo Ventures and for the Center for International Private Enterprise (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Teegen is a Liberty Fellow (SC), a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and was inducted into the Young Presidents Organization in 2010.
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Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Fellow of Jesus College.
Peter divides his time between teaching, research and consulting on leadership, multinationals (with a special interest in emerging market firms), M&A, and business ecosystem innovation and serving as non-executive director of several companies spanning financial services through whisky to green energy and digital transformation. He has held professorships at London Business School, Harvard Business School and INSEAD (in Fontainebleau and Singapore). Formerly with Merrill Lynch and The Boston Consulting Group, he earned his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.
Peter has also been visiting China regularly since 1983, assisting numerous multinationals, Chinese joint ventures and Chinese companies venturing abroad.
Peter’s ten books include: Ecosystem Edge: Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption; The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Multinationals; Dragons at Your Door; Winning in Asia; and From Global to Metanational.
His more than 60 other articles include “Ecosystem Advantage: How to successfully harness the power of partners”, one of the ten most cited articles in California Management Review. Other recent articles include: “The New Mission for Multinationals”, “Accelerated Innovation”, “Strategies for Competing in a Changed China” and “Is Your Innovation Process Global?” (all in the MIT-Sloan Management Review) — The latter received a Sloan-PwC Award honouring those articles that have contributed most to the enhancement of management practice; “How China Re-Set Its Global Acquisition Agenda”, “China’s Hidden Dragons” (all in Harvard Business Review).
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David Collis

For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed, having also completed five years as the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale School of Management and two years as a professor at Columbia Business School. The winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 2008, and a Harvard Business Review best-selling author, he is an expert on corporate strategy and global competition, and is the author of the recent books International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Choices; Corporate Strategy (with Cynthia Montgomery); and Corporate Headquarters (with Michael Goold and David Young).
As the author of over thirty articles and book chapters, his work has been frequently published in the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and in many books including Managing the Multibusiness Company, International Competitiveness, and Beyond Free Trade. The over one hundred cases and articles he has authored have sold nearly 2.5 million copies, with over 14,000 citations.
David Collis received an M.A. (1976) with a Double First from Cambridge University where he was the Wrenbury Scholar of the University. He graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, MBA (1978), and received a Ph.D. (1986) in Business Economics at Harvard University where he was a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow. From 1978 to 1982 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London.
He is currently a consultant to several major U.S. corporations, and on the Board of Directors of Cambridge in America, the Board of Trustees of the Hult International Business School, and the Advisory Boards of Vivaldi Partners, Muzzy Lane and formerly of Walter Scott, PICIS, Ocean Spray, and WebCT. He is also the cofounder of the elearning company E-Edge, and the advisory firm Ludlow Partners.
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Harry Sapienza

Harry Sapienza is Professor Emeritus at the Carlson School of Business, University of Minnesota. Harry grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He played drums in a rock band while in high school, received an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in mediaeval literature from Boston College.
After teaching English for 10 years in the Boston area, Harry returned to the University of Maryland to obtain a Master’s and a PhD in Business. He spent ten years at the University of South Carolina, one year at the London Business School, and 20 years at the University of Minnesota, including a sabbatical in Sevilla, Spain.
His early scholarship examined relationships between entrepreneurs and investors in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Inspired by emerging research on “born global” firms, he developed an interest in the internationalization of entrepreneurial ventures. This work utilizes knowledge and learning theories to study the effects of early internationalization on the growth and the learning trajectories of entrepreneurial firms.
Harry has published over 60 papers with colleagues from across the U.S., Finland, England, Canada, Belgium, Spain, and other countries. His greatest joys as an academician have been mentoring doctoral students and enjoying friendships with colleagues and co-authors all over the world.
Harry and his wife live in Portland, Oregon, where his daughter (Julianna), son-in-law (Eric) and granddaughter (Lelea) also reside. Harry teaches the occasional poetry class, plays bridge competitively, is an avid baseball fan and a lover of blues and R&B music.
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Helen De Cieri

Helen De Cieri is a Professor of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She has held previous appointments and visiting positions at universities in several countries. Helen’s current research activities combine her interests in international HRM and workplace health and safety. Helen’s recent research projects include studies of how employers and their HR teams can design innovative solutions to non-routine issues, to support employees’ wellbeing and respond to new demands. Current research projects include designing and evaluating interventions to address psychosocial hazards and to foster thriving at work. Helen’s publications include a textbook on HRM in Australia and articles in academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management, and Safety Science. Helen is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Review and serves on several editorial boards including Journal of International Business Studies. Helen has received recognition with several awards for her research. She currently serves as an elected member of the Academy of Management’s HR Division Executive Committee.
Over her career, Helen has taught HRM and international HRM courses to undergraduate and masters students as well as supervising more than 20 doctoral students. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and practitioner forums. In addition to her academic activities, Helen has contributed to gender equality initiatives in many organizations, for which she received the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s award for social inclusion in 2010.
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Ajai Gaur

Ajai Gaur is a Professor of Strategy and International Business in the Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University. He is also an affiliate faculty member with the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2007 at the National University of Singapore.
Ajai is an AIB Fellow. He has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business since 2019 and a consulting editor at the Journal of International Business Studies since 2017. Previously, he served as a senior editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2014-2018), a senior editor of the Journal of World Business (2014-2018), and the President of the Asia Academy of Management for two terms from 2015 to 2019.
Ajai is an author or co-author in more than 75 journal articles, case studies, and book chapters. In his research, Ajai studies the distinct institutional influences on firms’ geographic and product growth strategies in diverse institutional contexts. A related focus of his research is to study institutional influences on various firm-level governance mechanisms and their strategic and performance consequences. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, and the USA.
Ajai has been an eight-time winner and nineteen-time finalist or nominee for various awards based on scholarship. He has won both the Richard N. Farmer Best Dissertation Award (in 2008) and SAMS/AIB Best Dissertation Proposal Award (in 2006). In the 2014 AIB conference, he won the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award.
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Agnieszka Chidlow

Agnieszka Chidlow is Professor of International Business at the University of Birmingham in the UK and one of the co-founders of the Academy of International Business-Shared Interest Group.
Agnieszka is interested in examining the internationalization processes and location strategies of firms. In addition to that she is also interested in methodological issues with a specific focus on using survey “big” data as well as the application of both responsible qualitative and quantitative methods in the international business scholarship and practice. In her work she not only studies how decision-makers undertake their investment and organizational preferences in different national and international markets at supra-national, national and sub-national levels but also what type of data they use to make such decisions to maximize their returns. By blending theoretical lenses and business models from international business, economic geography, management and strategy fields with computer sciences and data analytics she aims to help and assist businesses, governmental organizations, charities, policy makers and individuals to better understand how to optimize decisions using credible, rigorous and trustworthy data to achieve higher returns and socially responsible outcomes.
Agnieszka’s work has been published in the leading peer reviewed academic outlets such as, for example, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Management International Review, Journal of International Business Policy. She is a Working Board Member of the Responsible Research in Business and Management network, an assessor for the Accreditation of MBAs, a Senior Editor of International Business Review and a member of numerous editorial boards of nationally and internationally recognised journals. She is recognised as an impact capacity builder and a promoter of innovative knowledge exchange activities promoting responsible and impactful scholarship.
Before joining the University of Birmingham, she held various positions at numerous higher education institutions in Europe, America and Asia.
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Ronaldo Parente

Ronaldo Parente is the Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar in International Business and Professor of Strategy at Florida International University. His research focus is on the overlap between strategy and international management, with special attention on emerging economies, strategic decisions with regards to innovation ecosystems, the sharing economy, knowledge transfer, global supply chains, and multinationals’ internationalization strategies in the context of platform business and digital industries. Dr. Parente’s research has appeared in many leading academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Industrial and Corporate Change, among others.
Dr. Parente is currently one of the VPs of the Ibero-American Academy of Management, a senior editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets and an associate editor for the Cross-Cultural Strategic Management Journal. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board of JIBS, GSJ, TIBR, JWB, and JIM. Dr. Parente served as an elected board member for the European International Business Association (EIBA) for six years. He also served two three-year leadership position with SMS’s Global Strategy Interest Group and the Teaching Community. He chaired and organized two SMS Special Conferences in Brazil: the 2018 SMS Conference in Sao Paulo and the 2011 SMS Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
On the professional side, Dr. Parente has more than 25 years of work experience and has worked for, managed, and consulted with several private and public institutions in Brazil, the United States, and Bulgaria. Dr. Parente has experience designing and teaching programs for C-level executives in Brazil, Colombia, and United States.
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Snejina Michailova

Snejina Michailova (born in Bulgaria, PhD from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) joined The University of Auckland, New Zealand, as a Professor of International Business in 2005. Her research interests include people in multinational enterprises, knowledge processes, talent management, and modern slavery. Her academic work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, AIB Insights, California Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, Management Learning, Management and Organization Review, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Studies, R&D Management, Technovation, and others.
Snejina has co-authored Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies (Emerald, 2019). She has co-edited The Routledge Companion on Cross-Cultural Management (Routledge, 2015), Research Handbook on Women in International Management (Edward Elgar, 2014), Knowledge Governance (Oxford University Press, 2010), Human Resource Management in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2008) and Research Methodologies in Non-Western Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
She served as Editor Europe for Journal of World Business (2001-2007) and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of critical perspectives on international business (2017-2019). She is currently Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Management. She serves as Associate Dean (Research) at The University of Auckland Business School, a role she took in 2018.
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