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2014
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
Jim Bennett earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and spent the first three years of his teaching career at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He returned home to Maine in 2005, where he currently teaches courses in Financial Management, Corporate Valuation, and Financial Modeling at the University of Southern Maine, and works as a consultant in the investment management industry. His research focuses on the role of institutional investors on asset prices and the measuring and management of market risk. He has published his work in various top journals, including the American Economic Review, The Review of Financial Studies, and the Financial Analysts Journal. He earned the CFA designation in 1999 and currently serves as the President of the CFA Society Maine. Lars Bergkvist has held academic positions at universities in Sweden, Australia, Singapore, and China, and visiting positions at universities in Korea, China, and Malaysia. His experience includes teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate programs as well as MBA programs. He is an active researcher with publications in journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Advertising, and the International Journal of Advertising. Before the start of his academic career he worked for a number of years as a marketing professional. He holds a PhD in Marketing from the Stockholm School of Economics. Glen Brodowsky has been Professor of Marketing at California State University San Marcos since 1996. He earned a PhD in Marketing from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he also earned his MBA. He holds a BA in Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and speaks Mandarin Chinese. He teaches courses in Marketing, Marketing Research, Global Marketing, and Consumer Behavior at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in the International MBA program at National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan since 2007. His publication record covers various facets of marketing research and marketing education. Joe French is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Northern Colorado and he works as an adjunct professor in the graduate schools of the University of Maryland and the International School of Management Paris. He has had the opportunity to lecture and do research in a number of countries including Japan, China, Germany, Thailand, the Philippines, Lithuania, South Africa, Denmark, and Kazakhstan. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of New Orleans and an MBA from Clemson University. He has presented his research at top international conferences and publishes his work in various refereed academic journals. Bill Gartner holds a joint appointment with California Lutheran University and Copenhagen Business School, where he is Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Art of Innovation. He has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, San Francisco State University, the University of Southern California and Clemson University. He is the 2005 winner of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Foundation International Award for outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship research. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Small Business Journal, Small Business Economics and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal among others. His current scholarship focuses on entrepreneurial behavior, the rhetoric of entrepreneurial practice, and the hermeneutics of possibility and failure. Ginger Grant is currently Professor in the Faculty of Business at Sheridan Institute of Technology and has over 20 years’ experience in due diligence and competitive intelligence working with law firms and the stock exchanges in Canada. In 1998 she returned to graduate school to develop a cultural due diligence system. She carried out her graduate research in mythology and depth psychology ‐ the study of belief systems in a global perspective ‐ and brings her industry experience together with her academic research to provide a unique perspective on understanding the world of competitive intelligence and mergers and acquisitions. In 2010 she received an Award of Excellence for innovation based on a project on generational diversity and visual analytics. 1 Erik Hansen‐Hansen is an Assistant Professor and academic course leader for the Master of Design program at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen. His primary research area is contemporary luxury fashion. He has published on subjects that include global fashion cities, flagship stores, luxury handbags, fashion blogging, and design‐led innovation in luxury fashion. He teaches on design subjects such as Design Thinking and Design Management as well as on innovation, entrepreneurship, branding and design, fashion, luxury, and design values. He has a BA (Honours) in Film, Video & Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster (London), an MSc (IT) from the IT University (Copenhagen), and a PhD from The Danish Design School. Since 1994 he has worked concurrently in his own firm with services related to photography, fashion and luxury consultancy, and video and multimedia productions. Shannon Hessel (formerly Shannon O’Donnell) is an Assistant Professor of Art, Leadership and Entrepreneurship at the Copenhagen Business School’s Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy. Her research focuses on collaborative creativity, innovation management, and the role of aesthetics and arts‐based practices in processes of business value creation; she regularly teaches courses for masters and executive students in these areas. She has coauthored, with Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan, the Harvard Business Press books Harder Than I Thought: The Adventures of a Twenty‐First Century Leader and The Adventures of an IT Leader, articles related to the special pedagogical approach developed for the latter book, as well as several Harvard Business School teaching cases. She earned her doctoral degree from CBS in 2013; as part of her study, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation awarded her an Elite Research Travel Stipend in 2010. Originally from the United States, she spent eight years working as a director and dramaturg in professional theater, in Seattle, Washington and Malvern, Pennsylvania. Brad Hobbs is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida and spent the previous academic year as the FA Hayek Visiting Scholar at Clemson University. His research interests are wide in range encompassing property rights, economic freedom, economic growth, financial markets, economic and intellectual history, the philosophical foundations of markets, and teaching methodologies. Since completing his PhD in Economics in 1991 he has published papers in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, Journal of Real Estate Research, Laissez‐Faire, Journal of Executive Education, Journal of Private Enterprise, Financial Practice and Education, Research in Finance, among others. He may be the only professor who you ever meet who has successfully hunted a black bear with a traditional muzzle loader in the Canadian wilderness. Bill Holmes is the Vice‐Provost and Associate Vice President of Sheridan Institute of Technology and the former Dean, Faculty of Business. Previously he served as Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and as the Dean of Business for a network of colleges in the United Arab Emirates. His career includes corporate and education assignments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He holds a DBA from the University of Southern Queensland, an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and both an MA in Philosophy (Ethics) and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. He is both a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Human Resource Professional. He serves on the Sheridan Institute of Technology Board of Governors and on the NAFSA Association of International Educators Board of Directors. His research interests include ethics in business, corporate environmental policy, sustainability in business and social entrepreneurship. John Hulpke is a native Californian who has been teaching in Asia for more than 15 years. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he has taught a range of courses and has twice in recent years been voted as one of the top ten instructors for the university as a whole. His academic career includes a long‐standing working relationship with University College Dublin in addition to positions at various American and other universities. His Chinese experience includes the position of MBA director for the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and has a substantial publication record that reflects his wide‐ranging research interests including business ethics, eco‐entrepreneurship and knowledge management in addition to a substantial background in executive education and consulting. 2 Kinga Konczey was Graduate Program Director at ESSCA School of Business (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers, France) and a lecturer at Monash University’s Department of Management prior to her current position with Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary. She has been involved with Copenhagen Business School’s Summer University for the past four years and has held short‐term visiting teaching positions at various universities world‐wide, e.g., at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA), ITESM (Mexico), and the Monash MBA Program (Australia). Her teaching and research interests focus primarily on the psychology of decision‐making, conflict and negotiation, crisis management, and cross‐cultural management. Her PhD studies were undertaken at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne Business School and Department of Psychology). Vinod Jain served as Chair of the Department of International Business and Management at Nottingham University Business School China during 2012‐2013. Prior to this appointment he was a faculty member for seven years at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, where he also founded and was Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research. He is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at an emerging markets think tank funded by Ernst & Young, the Skolkovo‐E&Y Institute for Emerging Market Studies, in Moscow and Beijing. He holds a PhD in Strategy and International Business from the University of Maryland, an MS in Management from UCLA, and Honors Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has also worked in industry, holding positions with various multinational corporations including MacMillan Publishers (Vice President), Molins PLC (Manager Coordination), and Coca‐Cola (Marketing Research Executive). Stefan Meisiek is Associate Professor of Leadership at Copenhagen Business School, Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and Senior Research Associate at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He received his PhD in Management Science from the Stockholm School of Economics and his MA from the Free University in Berlin. He has been a Visiting Scholar at NYU Stern, ESADE, Stanford University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests concern leadership and business innovation. He has also worked with a number of companies on process innovation and helped to raise €25 million in start‐up capital. He has created the Studio at CBS, an innovative learning concept and environment for management inquiry and leadership development. Jakob Müllner is Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), a university with the largest number of business faculty in Europe. He has taught International Financial Management and Hedging since 2006 and he has received “innovative” and” excellent teaching” awards at the WU for this course. He is a member of an e‐learning development team and is committed to highly practical, interactive and IT‐supported teaching. As a researcher he has presented his research at international conferences and was nominated for the Haynes Prize as “most promising scholar” by the Academy of International Business in Rio de Janeiro in 2010. He has published his research in peer reviewed journals. Jayce Naidoo is a Senior Lecturer at College of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne. He received is PhD from North West University in South Africa and was awarded the prestigious Nelson Mandela AusAid scholarship in 1999‐2000 to complete his Master’s degree in Accounting. His current research interests include private higher education management systems, costing systems, management control, issues in accounting education and computerized accounting systems focusing on ERP systems. He publishes his research in management accounting journals. He has worked extensively in South Africa at several large tertiary institutions including the University of South Africa and has taught in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and India. He is currently the site coordinator for the Australian College of Kuwait for Victoria University. René Ordoñez has been a member of the faculty of the Southern Oregon University School of Business since 1988 and served as the School’s chair from 2004 to 2011 when he spearheaded the School’s successful Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) accreditation. Currently, he teaches Applied Business Statistics and Operations Management in the undergraduate business program and Strategic Operations Management in the MBA Program. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of the Philippines, an MBA from the University of Akron, and a PhD in Management Science (with Academic Distinction) from Illinois Institute of Technology. The use of technology in pedagogy is his focus and he has been actively involved in the design, development, and implementation of course curricula that incorporate technology in the delivery of course content. In the last five years he has worked on a variety of projects involving development of supplemental teaching materials for business statistics textbooks published by McGraw‐Hill. 3 Gizelle Perretti is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf State University where she currently teaches Business Finance and Financial Management. She has also taught courses in Securities Analysis and International Finance. She was previously Planning and Research Economist focusing on tax research for the Florida Department of Revenue. She holds an MS in Economics from Florida State University and a PhD in Finance from Florida International University. Her dissertation research focused on contemporary aspects of dividends before and during the financial crisis and her research interests focus on dividend policy, international finance and derivatives. Michael Kai Petersen has 30 years of experience in digital media engineering and has been associated since 2004 with the Technical University of Denmark where he received his PhD degree in 2010 and was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor in Cognitive Systems and Head of Studies for the Digital Media Engineering MSc program at DTU Compute. His research is focused on combining natural language processing elements of embodied semantics with cognitive neuroscience to model how we perceive actions and emotions ‐ an approach that might be used as a basis to develop new types of brain‐machine interfaces as exemplified by the DTU "Smartphone Brain Scanner" and HTF Advanced Technology Foundation "Eye Control of Smartphones" projects. As an entrepreneur he has founded three high tech start‐up companies and has produced 100 plus CD albums for labels including Chandos and Naxos. Patricia Plackett holds PhDs in business strategy from Copenhagen Business School and in anthropology from the University of Toronto. Her background includes management, research and teaching positions in the public and private sectors. She is currently Academic Director of the International Summer University Program at Copenhagen Business School where here research and teaching interests are focused on sustainability issues. Earlier positions include Assistant Director of a global executive MBA program, Project Manager of an EU Asia Link Project and Research Associate with two research think tanks in Denmark and also Executive Director of a professional education network for the forest sector of British Columbia. She was previously Technology Marketing Manager for New Zealand’s Forest Research Institute and subsequently Director of Marketing and Business Development for the New Zealand Ministry of Forestry following several years with the management consulting arm of a multinational engineering company. In 2012 she was nominated for The Economist ‘Business Professor of the Year’ award. Brad Potter is a Director of the Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships at the University of Melbourne and an Associate Professor of Accounting. His diverse teaching experience encompasses undergraduate, graduate and executive education, both in Australia and overseas. His industry consulting and research encompasses financial accounting and disclosure for both private sector and public sector entities. Current projects examine the financial reporting of small and medium‐size organizations and the application of conventional accounting and reporting techniques to natural resources, water and carbon accounting in particular. His research priorities involve a range of industry partners, including the Royal Botanic Gardens, the National Water Commission, CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants. Jay Rubin teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational communication and public relations at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and its School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He was the recipient of the New York University/School of Continuing and Professional Studies “Award for Teaching Excellence.” He also guest lectures at The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and is a corporate communication consultant to various media, entertainment and consumer products companies including such major organizations as ABC and its parent organization, The Walt Disney Company. Jerry Schaufeld is currently Professor of Practice in Innovation/Entrepreneurship and Commercialization with dual appointments in the School of Business and Department of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds a graduate engineering degree and an MBA and was a Special Student at the MIT Sloan School where his studies focused on management of R&D, technology transfer and entrepreneurship. His current research is in the area of improving the probability of success in early‐stage ventures. He has been involved with a wide range of entrepreneurial activities, including founding and serving as the first Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a resource group for early‐stage companies with global outreach. He has co‐published a section of a book on Technological Innovation with Curt Carlson, CEO of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and at present is co‐authoring a text on the strategy of technology commercialization with a Swiss colleague in Fribourg. 4 Gary Schwarz is a Fellow at Harvard University and a faculty member at the Nottingham University Business School China. He received a Dean’s Award for Excellence in teaching at Harvard University and the Lord Dearing Award for outstanding achievements in enhancing the student learning experience at the University of Nottingham. Previously, Dr. Schwarz worked as the Serviceline Leader Performance Management at Deloitte. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Lars Stentoft is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and an invited Associate Professor at CBS and was previously on faculty at HEC Montreal. He earned his PhD degree in economics from Aarhus University in 2004. His field of research is concerned with financial econometrics and option pricing where he has published in journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Management Science, and Review of Derivatives Research. He also works on longevity risk and on the pricing of longevity risk derivatives. He is a Research Fellow at CIRANO (international project on risk tolerance, time preference and risk/return relationship), an International Research Fellow at CREATES (Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series), and Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Finance. Carol Stivender is Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina’s Belk College of Business where her research interests include public policies related to income inequality, poverty and other social issues. Her teaching includes Economics of Social Issues, Principles of Macro/Microeconomics, Managerial Economics and International Business Economics, Economics of Poverty, Fundamentals of Economics, Econometrics and Economics of Decision‐Making (in Taiwan). She holds a PhD and MS from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is the recipient of an Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and an Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award. Jim Stock is Distinguished University Professor and Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing at the University of South Florida. He has received the Outstanding Professor Award from the Graduate Business Association multiple times in recognition of excellence as an educator. He has authored 150+ publications in supply chain management, logistics, and reverse logistics/product returns, and is on the review board of several international journals. He has authored or co‐authored several books, including Strategic Logistics Management, Fundamentals of Logistics Management, Development and Implementation of Reverse Logistics Programs, and Reverse Logistics. He received the 2011 CSCMP Distinguished Service Award, the 1988 Armitage Medal, and the 2003 Eccles Medal in recognition of his contributions to logistics. He holds a PhD from The Ohio State University and has previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Oklahoma, Air Force Institute of Technology and Michigan State University. Betty Tsakarestou is Assistant Professor and Head of the Advertising and Public Relations Lab at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. She serves as Vice‐President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Communication and she is a member of the Governing Board of the Technological Institute of the Ionian Islands. Since 2011 she has participated as an expert in EU media literacy projects representing the Greek Ministry of Education. In June 2012 she became a partner in the CCEBI [Co‐
Creating Experience‐Based Innovation] research team at Copenhagen Business School and organized the Athens Co‐
Creation Workshop in November 2012. Tamás Vámosi is Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School where his PhD thesis focused on the role of management accounting and rationality in transition companies from plan to market economy. He has been teaching courses in Managerial Economics, Management Accounting, Organizational Economics and Performance Management. His main research interests are related to Management Accounting and Control Systems, Organizational Economics and Incentive Systems and Performance Measurement Systems in practice. In these areas he has published articles in national and international journals. He was awarded the Tietjens Prize for excellence in teaching in 2013. Daniel Veit is a Professor and Chair in Information System Management at the School of Business and Economics of University of Augsburg, Germany. Previously he was a Professor at the Business School of the University of Mannheim where he held the Dieter Schwarz Endowed Chair of e‐Business and e‐Government. He received a diploma (MSc equivalent) in Mathematics from University of Giessen in 1999, a doctorate in Economics and Business Engineering in 2002 and a habilitation (second doctorate) in Business Administration from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 2006. 5 He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His work has been presented at international conferences and has been published in leading journals of the Information Systems, Marketing, and Operations disciplines. His current research interests are focused on adoption‐ and diffusion‐oriented questions regarding innovative technologies in businesses and society. Max Winchester has consulting experience as a marketing researcher in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe. In addition to his industry experience, he has many years of academic teaching experience globally, having held permanent faculty positions in Australia, Canada and the UK complimented by visiting faculty positions in France, Germany, Austria, China, Malaysia and Kuwait. His research interests include reflective learning and reflective practice; qualitative and quantitative research methods; empirical generalisationalist research methods and behaviourist consumer behaviour theories. He has published articles on student evaluations of teaching and reflective practice, as well as on negative brand beliefs. Rodrigo Zeidan is Associate Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil, an Executive Education program ranked currently among the top 10 globally by the Financial Times, and is Affiliated Assistant Professor at Nottingham University Business School China. He has papers published in top journals such as Economic Letters, Review of Industrial Organization, Applied Financial Economics and European Journal of Health Economics, as well as many book chapters and newspaper and magazine articles. He has taught and developed projects with many medium and large‐
sized companies, including Kraft Foods, Vale, Petrobras, EBX, and Skanska. Dr. Zeidan has been awarded a number of prizes as an instructor for various universities where he teaches at different levels, from undergraduate to MBAs and top‐level customized executive education. In 2008, he was a keynote speaker at the first Conference on Social Entrepreneurship and Complexity, hosted by Adelphi University in New York. In 2011 he won the best paper award at the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance. 6