NAKİYE BOYACIGİLLER
DEAN OF Graduate School of Management
Ph. D. Haas School, University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Boyacıgiller spent 18 years as
Professor of International Management at San Jose State
University in California. Her current research funded
by the National Science Foundation, is a study of organization
culture and human resource management practices in multinational
corporations and their influence on corporate performance
(with S. Beechler, S. Taylor and O. Levy). She also recently
edited a book titled Crossing Cultures: Insights from
Master Teachers (with R. Goodman and M. Phillips). Her
work has appeared in numerous journals and research compendiums,
including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of
International Business Studies, Research in Organizational
Behavior, and International Business: An Emerging Vision,
among others. Prof. Boyacigiller has held leadership positions
in both the Academy of Management and the Academy of International
Business and sits on six editorial boards She has taught
at the Anderson School at UCLA, the Haas School at University
of California, Berkeley, the Stockholm School of Economics'
Institute of International Business, Bilkent University,
and Bogazici University.
MELTEM DENİZEL
Associate Professor of Operations Management
PhD, Florida University
Meltem Denizel is professor of operations
management. She is teaching in MBA, EMBA, Ph.D. and Executive
Development programs. Her research is in the areas of
flexible manufacturing, mathematical modelling, and production
lot sizing. She has published in journals such as Operations
Research, Naval Research Logistics, Production and Operations
Management, Operations Research Letters, Computers and
OR, European Journal of Operations Research and Journal
of the Operational Research Society. She is currently
involved in interdisciplinary research in organization
studies and technology management. Another recent project
she has been involved in is customer base analysis in
grocery retailing.
AHMET ÖNCÜ
Associate Professor of Organisational Studies
Ph. D. University of Alberta
Ahmet Öncü is professor of Organizational
Studies at Sabanci University His main teaching and research
activities focus on sociology of organizations, political
economy, and social theory. Ahmet Öncü is awarded Andrew
Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize for Excellence in Research
(1993-1994), and Jordin Kaplan Graduate Award (1995).
ATTİLA YAPRAK
Professor of International Business and Marketing
PhD, Georgia State
Dr. Attila Yaprak is a Professor of International Business and Marketing at Wayne State University. He has served as the Associate Dean for Research at the Business School at Wayne State (1994-1998) and as the Executive Secretary of the Academy of International Business (1992-1995). In these roles, he managed the Business School's scholarly and funded research effort, and the Academy's secretariat and its Foundation, respectively.
Dr. Yaprak's research has appeared in prestigious scholarly journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Political Psychology, International Business Review, Management International Review, and the Journal of International Marketing. He is the winner of several teaching excellence awards, including the prestigious Wayne State University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has taught in the undergraduate, graduate/MBA, doctoral, executive development/executive MBA, and faculty development programs of several universities in the United States and abroad, including the Universities of Michigan, South Carolina, Memphis, Munich (Germany), Lyon (France), and XianXi (China), and Michigan State and Sabanci Universities (Turkey). His consulting service to the International Trade Center of the World Trade Organization (United Nations) has taken him to China, Nepal, Thailand, and the Philippines. He is a winner of several federal research grants, including those from the US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation.
HAKAN ORBAY
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics
Ph. D. Stanford University
Hakan Orbay is professor of finance and economics, teaching in the MBA, EMBA, PhD and Executive Education programs. His main research interests are firm theory; corporate finance and corporate governance. He is currently the Director of MBA programs at Sabanci University and Academic Coordinator of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey.
CAN AKKAN
Associate Professor of Operations Management
PhD, Cornell University
Can Akkan is teaching in the undergraduate, EMBA and Executive Education programs at Sabancı University. Before joining Sabancı, he worked at Koç University’s Graduate School of Business. He has taught Project Management at MBA and Executive Education programs. His main research interests are production scheduling, project scheduling, and design and planning of discrete parts manufacturing systems. He is currently working on design and planning problems encountered in systems that process end-of-life products. He has published several articles in European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society. He is also serving as the Academic Director of the MBA Programs at Sabancı University.
JASJIT SINGH ( Visiting Faculty from INSEAD)
Professor of Strategy
PhD. Harvard University
Prof. Jasjit Singh has been a faculty member with the Strategy group at INSEAD since August 2004, and has actively taught in several MBA, PhD and Executive Education courses since then. He is normally based on INSEAD’s Singapore campus, but often travels to the Fontainebleau campus for teaching and research.
Jasjit earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics (Strategy) at Harvard Business School. He also holds an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University, and M.S. degrees in both Management and Computer Science from Georgia Tech (Atlanta). He also holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi).
Jasjit’s research interests center on Innovation, Knowledge Management & Diffusion, and International Business Strategy. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and Industry and Innovation. His contribution to management research has been recognized through numerous awards by the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics.
Prior to joining academia, Jasjit worked as a senior consultant with Accenture Consulting in Europe and India. He also has internship experience with Intel and AT&T in the U.S., and with Cadence Design Systems in India.
Jasjit, an Indian citizen, is married to Pia, a Swedish citizen. They have two little kids, Pawan and Basant, with confused identities and nationalities. When not working, Jasjit can usually be found chasing his kids in the Singapore zoo or splashing with them at a water theme park (like http://www.wildwildwet.com).
AMITAVA
CHATTOPADHYAY
Programme Director
Amitava Chattopadhyay is The L’Oreal Chaired Professor in Marketing-Innovation and Creativity—Professor of Marketing at INSEAD. Prior to joining INSEAD, he has been a faculty member at The University of British Columbia, Canada and McGill University, Canada.
Professor Chattopadhyay is an expert on branding. His research has focused primarily on branding and communication from the perspective of consumer information processing. He also works on issues related to creativity and improving the new product development and marketing process. Professor Chattopadhyay’s research has appeared in several journals including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Management Science and Long Range Planning. He is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Social Science Research Network, International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, and the International Journal of Marketing Education. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Association for Consumer Research. For his research, he has been the recipient of the Robert Ferber Award.
Professor Chattopadhyay has developed and taught courses on branding, marketing strategy, communication strategy, consumer behaviour, marketing in emerging economies and international marketing for MBA and Ph.D. students. He has taught in executive programs in Europe, North America and Asia. He is on the board of directors/advisory boards of several companies and a consultant to several multinational firms.
Professor Chattopadhyay holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Sc. (Honours) degree from Jadavpur University, India.
JOSE SANTOS
Professor José F. P. dos Santos (or Joe, as he prefers to be called) started an academic career in the early seventies, but he moved into the managerial world a couple of year later. His twenty-year career as an executive included almost all forms of international business and international management from licensing agreements, joint ventures, and cross border M&A, to the top management of a multinational corporation. When Joe retired from his career as an executive in 1994 he had had for ten years the position of MD of an Italian multinational.
Since 1995, Joe devoted himself again to an academic career, the dream of his youth. He keeps a very international approach to his academic life: Joe is a professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (where he centers his research and executive teaching) but he has also lectured as Guest or Visiting Professor in Portugal, Brazil, Italy, and Slovenia. He regularly presents in conferences around the world and to top management teams of multinational corporations from Europe, America, and Japan. Joe researches in the area of the multinational organization, and has focused on innovation, knowledge management, and global customer management. The book “From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy”, co-authored by Yves Doz, Joe Santos and Peter Williamson, was published in November 2001 by Harvard Business School Press. His most recent article, on global innovation, was published by the MIT-Sloan Management Review in 2004.
Here are some of Joe’s remarks about his research:
“Many of my research interests share an implicit motive. I had a rather successful career as an executive, namely as MD of a multinational corporation. However, during those ten years until my ‘retirement’ in 94, I only recall a couple of instances of having slept a full week in the same bed. Flying around and living in hotels was the norm. Comfortable and luxurious as those planes and hotels may have been, I feel that it is ridiculous that both professional and corporate success be achieved with so much of an uncivilized way of life (and mind you, I do love to travel - but too much is too much). I hope I can help future generations of international executives live a more civilized life.”
Joe was born in Porto, Portugal. He speaks four languages and has traveled extensively since his youth. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering by the University of Porto and an MSc, with Distinction, in Management Science by the University of London.
GUENTER
STAHL
Günter K. Stahl is Assistant Professor of Asian Business at INSEAD. Before joining INSEAD, he was Assistant Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has been a fellow of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Japan and of the German Academic Exchange Service in the United States, and held visiting positions at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Stahl has (co-)authored several books, including Developing Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes, and Innovations, as well as numerous journal articles in the areas of leadership and leadership development, cross-cultural management, and international human resource management. His current research interests also include international careers, trust within and between organizations, and the management of mergers and acquisitions. Currently, he is editing a new book, Mergers and Acquisitions: Managing Culture and Human Resources, which will be published at Stanford University Press.
Professor Stahl is recipient of a number of research awards, including the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award of the Academy of Management 2000, the Academy of Intercultural Studies and Daimler Chrysler Award 1999, the Bayerische Landesbank Best Dissertation Award 1998, and the Stinnes Foundation Best Dissertation Award 1998. He has taught MBA students and senior executives on various topics, including leadership and leadership development, strategic human resource management, business ethics, cross-cultural management, and management of mergers and acquisitions. He has also acted as a consultant for a number of corporate clients, and was involved in the design of innovative leadership development systems and cross-cultural training tools that are used by several multinational corporations.
LUK VAN WASSENHOVE
Professor Van Wassenhove’s research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, quality, continual improvement and learning. His recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). He is a senior editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and associate editor for Production and Operations Management, Technology and Operations Review and International Journal of Production Economics. He publishes extensively in Management Science, Operations Research, The International Journal of Production Research, The European Journal of Operations Research and in many other academic as well as management journals (like Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and the like). He is the author of many teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations. Before joining INSEAD, he was on the faculty at Erasmus University and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. At INSEAD he holds the Henry Ford chair in Manufacturing.
KEVIN KAISER
Kevin Kaiser joined the finance faculty at INSEAD in 1992 where he is currently Affiliate Professor of Finance and Director of the International Executive Programme. Kevin teaches extensively in the executive and MBA programmes at INSEAD and has twice received the MBA award for Best Teacher for Electives (Fontainebleau campus, 2004 and 2005). He also teaches at numerous institutes and for private clients throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and was Adjunct Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1995-96 and 2005). His research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and value creation in corporate restructuring and value-based management.
In the classroom, Kevin combines his deep knowledge of academic theory together with the first-hand practical knowledge he has gained through real-world experience. Kevin worked in the Corporate Finance and Strategy practice of McKinsey & Co., based in Amsterdam and Paris from 1997-1999, where he led and participated in a wide variety of studies involving companies across Europe, the U.S.A., Asia and Africa addressing value creation, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate strategy. Kevin is also a principal in bfinance.com, a web-based marketplace for business finance which manages multi-billions of Euros in transactions annually between thousands of corporations and hundreds of participating financial institutions.
Kevin holds a BA (Honours) in Economics from The University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
ERIN MEYER
Erin MEYER specializes in the field of Cross-Cultural Management, Intercultural Negotiations, and Multi-cultural Leadership. Erin teaches in over a dozen INSEAD Executive Management programs including the Advanced Management Program, the International Executive Program and the Executive MBA program. In addition Erin is the National Director for MeridianEaton Global, an internationally positioned cross-cultural management firm. Erin’s consulting services focus on training and coaching expatriates, senior-level executives and multi-national teams to work more effectively in a cross-cultural environment. Her primary work is in the area of cross-cultural leadership development, assisting global leaders to adapt their management style to better motivate teams and achieve business objectives in a wide variety of cultural contexts. Her training programs vary from preparing individuals and teams to work in a specific cultural environment (i.e. Leading Teams in China) to working with multi-national groups of globally based managers to improve their overall cross-cultural leadership and team effectiveness.
Erin studied cross-cultural communication at Northwestern University and international business at INSEAD. Her business experience includes leading multi-cultural teams as the Director of Training and Development at HBOC and as the Regional Director of Business Operations at McKesson Corporation. Other experience includes running a training organization for Asian immigrants in the United States and teaching English students in Botswana. Her clients include companies such as L’Oreal, Caterpillar, MPSA Peugeot Citroen, AIG, Michelin, LVMH, and Alcatel.
ANDREW SHIPILOW
Andrew Shipilov is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. He is an expert in the areas of strategic alliances, inter-firm collaboration and social networks. A separate and equally important area of his interests involves Value Innovation and Blue Ocean Strategy. His current academic examines how inter-firm relationships influence firms' performance. His work is published (or forthcoming) at the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics as well as in other journals and edited books. His dissertation proposal was recognized as a finalist at the INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and one of his papers has been published in the Best Papers Proceedings of the Academy of Management. Most of his current research has been focused on the investment banking industry, particularly on the processes of public offerings' syndication and the functioning of M&A advisory teams.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Prof. Shipilov has taught International Business at undergraduate, graduate and executive education programs at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He holds Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization Theory from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. At INSEAD, Prof. Shipilov teaches for MBA and Executive audiences.
HORACIO FALCÃO
Horacio Falcão is an Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences with INSEAD where he has been teaching both Negotiation and International Management at the MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programs. He was also a partner with Cambridge Negotiation Strategies, with whom he still collaborates as well as with other negotiation consulting firms such as Sea-Change Partners, Vantage Partners, CommonOutlook and ThoughtBridge. He conducts negotiation and mediation training, facilitation and consulting to both the private and the public sector. Before joining INSEAD, Horacio worked at Cambridge Negotiation Strategies and CMI International Group (a spin-off from the Harvard Negotiation Project) and previously at two prestigious law firms in Brazil. He founded and was the first Vice President of the Harvard Latin America Law Society. He has worked for the International Court of Arbitration in Paris and as a Harvard-trained mediator he has mediated cases at the Small Claims courts of Massachusetts. A lawyer trained in both civil and common law systems, Horacio graduated as an LL.M. from Harvard Law School with a concentration on alternative dispute resolution in 1997.
Since then, Horacio has been traveling all over the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia mediating complex disputes, facilitating dialog, developing negotiation and consensus building strategies. He has worked with clients such as the President of Costa Rica, Discovery Networks, DKSH, Visa, Ford, ATKearney, Alianza Hispana, LLoyds TSB Group, UDV, Andersen Consulting, BMC Software, Search for Common Ground - Angola, Coats Viyella, The Government of Paraguay, PwC FAS, Temasek, ST College, FreeMarkets.com, MasterCard, London School of Economics, AOL-Brasil and the Harvard Mediation Program. Horacio has also taught negotiation at the Program of Instruction for Lawyers (PIL) at Harvard Law School and mediation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He combines this diverse and intense practice with a strong interest in keeping himself constantly updated by writing and publishing several articles on the fields of international arbitration, mediation and negotiation. He received his MBA from INSEAD in 2002.
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