Frontline IB: Conversations With International Business Scholars

Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London and has held these positions since July 2014.  In August 2019 he became the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Business School and in August 2020 the Vice-Dean (Research & Faculty) there.  In September 2023 he became Interim Dean.  He was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of P...

Dr. Alain Verbeke is a Professor of International Business Strategy and the McCaig Chair in Management at the University of Calgary. He also serves as the Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the University of Reading. 

He is associated with the Solvay Business School (VUB) and has been a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and an Associate Fellow of Templeton College. He has served two full terms as Editor-in-C...

Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School (where he teaches a seminar on FDI and public policy); Fellow, Academy of International Business; and Honorary Fellow, European International Business Academy. He is a national of Germany, married to Silvana F. ...

Lemma W. Senbet is the William Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland and a former ED/CEO of African Economic Research Consortium, the oldest and largest economic research and training network in Africa. Prior to Maryland and AERC, he held endowed chaired professorship at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prof Senbet has achieved global recognition for his widely cited contributions to corporate finance, inte...

Professor Christopher Bartlett is the Thomas D. Casserly Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He received a B.Econ. degree from the University of Queensland and both an MBA and DBA from Harvard University.

Prior to his academic career, he worked as a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, a management consultant in McKinsey's London office, and general manager of Baxter Laboratories' subsi...

Ingmar Björkman is Rector (President) of Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Before joining Hanken, Björkman was Dean (2012-19) as well as Professor (2020-22) at Aalto University School of Business in Finland.

Ingmar’s research interests focus on people management issues in international organizations. Ingmar is a winner of the JIBS Decade Award (with D. Minbaeva, T. Pedersen, C. Fey & H-J. Park). His most recent artic...

Jan-Erik Vahlne is an award-winning international business scholar whose distinctions include:

• Journal of International Business Studies, Decade Award, 1987 and 2019
• International Marketing Review, Best Paper Award 1990
• International Business Review, Best Paper Award 2012

Over the course of his career, Dr. Vahlne has served in variety of professional positions, including:

• 1978-83: Secretary, Governmental Committee on ...

Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing (Emeritus) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.  He has been honored as one of the world’s leading marketing thinkers and has been called The Father of Modern Marketing.  He received his M.A. degree in economics (1953) from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. degree in economics (1956) from the M.I.T.

He has received h...

Ilan Vertinsky is Vinod Sood Professor of International Business Studies, Strategy and Business Economics in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also an associate of the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies and a former Distinguished Scholar in Residence of the Institute. He previously served as director of the Center for international Business studies, Associate director of the Inst...

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 t...

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 Colum...

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, ...

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 Ad...

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 globa...

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 s...

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 thirt...

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 th...

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 ...

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 ma...