New World, New Opportunity, and New Approaches to Building World-Class Business Schools
Theme of the 2011 IACMR Business Meeting and Reception
San Antonio, Texas
August 14, 2011, Sunday
5:30 – 8:30 pm
Dear IACMR members:
With great excitement we invite you to attend the 2011 IACMR Annual Business Meeting and
reception at the incoming Academy of Management (AoM) convention on Sunday, August 14,
2011 in San Antonio, Texas.
The Business Meeting will be held between from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm in Salon K at Marriott
Rivercenter. It will start with a brief report of the major IACMR activities occurred in 2010-2011.
We have important and interesting news to share with you!
The highlight of the evening is the featured Dean’s Summit entitled “New World, New
Opportunity, and New Approaches to Building World-Class Business Schools”. Mr. Shi Wang,
the founder and Chairman of the Board of Vanke Co., Ltd. will share with us his experience of
developing and leading the largest residential real estate developer in China, and his
perspectives on how to synergize the management theories and practices. Five deans from
leading business schools in China and North America will share their views about how the
changes occurring in the contemporary business world have brought new challenges and
opportunities for business schools, and highlight the vision and strategies their schools have
taken in seizing the opportunities. This Summit will be a very insightful, informative, and
interesting event!
The following people are our honored speakers at the Dean’s Summit:
Mr. Shi Wang, founder and Chairman of the Board, and former chief executive officer of
Vanke Co., the most well-known and largest residential real estate company in the
People’s Republic of China.
Dr. P. Christopher Earley, Dean of the School of Business, University of Connecticut;
former dean of the business school at the National University of Singapore. He also held
academic chairs at Nanyang Business School, London Business School.
Dr. Bill Glick, Dean of Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University; former
chair of management department at Arizona State University; AACSB International - The
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Board Member.
Dr. Yingyi Qian, Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. He
also held academic positions at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the
University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. John A Quelch, Dean of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS); former
dean at London Business School. He was also the former senior associate dean and CoChair of the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Lin Zhou, Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University; former Deputy Dean of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance. He also held
positions at Yale University, Duke University, and Arizona State University.
After the panel, please join us for a reception hosted by IACMR and Wiley-Blackwell (publisher
of MOR) to interact with one another and make connections. The reception will be held from
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm in Salon L at the same hotel.
Do not miss the opportunity to interact with the legendary business leader, deans from the top
business schools, IACMR officers and fellow members!
We are looking forward to seeing you on August 14, 2011.
Jia Lin Xie and Jing Zhou
Presidents, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR)