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Douglas Hales is an Associate Dean and Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Rhode Island. His primary teaching expertise is Global Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma. His research interests include Global Port Competitiveness and Applied Process Improvement. 

Hales has more than 20 years of operational and supply chain management experience for the U. S. Marine Corps as well as the plastics and construction industries. He can speak to the impact of U. S. imposed tariffs on Chinese goods and U. S. goods in many industries. He can discuss the delay between the tariffs and the arrival of goods being shipped to the U.S. and what consumers can expect, in terms of the timing of price hikes on goods purchased by Americans. He can discuss the 鈥渃old chain,鈥� agricultural goods, electronics and commodities in general that ship by container vessel.

Hales is a special issue co-editor for the Transportation Journal on Seaport Competition for 2018 and 2019, as well as the past Program Chair of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute. He is also the incoming President of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, beginning July 1, 2019.

https://web.uri.edu/business/meet/doug-hales/

Professor Ramamurti does research and consulting on strategy and innovation in emerging economies. His earlier work also focused on business-government relations in emerging economies. He has published several articles and books on multinationals from emerging markets and on the topic of 鈥渞everse innovation.鈥� He teaches courses on the global business environment and global strategy, and electives on Competing in Emerging Markets. 

Awards & Recognition
Honored as 鈥淭he most outstanding thought leader on strategy and innovation in Emerging Markets in the world in 2017,鈥� by Global Awards 2017, London (Nov 2017)
Winner, 2017 Best Paper in Global Strategy Journal Award, Strategic Management Society (at SMS annual meeting in Houston, October 31, 2017)
Elected Fellow, Academy of International Business, 2008

Dr. Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to industry.

Mark has held numerous senior positions at prestigious Institutes. He has been a member of the teaching faculty at Harvard University鈥檚 Division of Continuing Education where he has taught Economic Strategy and Competitiveness. He also has served as a Co-Leader at the Institutes Council for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at Harvard Business School. 

Besides being a Professor at Thunderbird/ASU, Mark has been a Professor of Business & Economics at Hult International Business School, globally. 

He is an appointed Research Fellow in the Circular Economy Center, at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.

He is also a Fellow for the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai.

Mark is the Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI Studio, dedicated to the productions of AI solutions. 

He is a prolific author and his articles can be found on ResearchGate and his books on Amazon.

Mark serves as a global expert for the World Economic Forum.
He is the co-author of the best seller Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership.  His latest book, The AI Republic (2019) explores the nexus between humans and intelligent automation under the dome of the 4IR.

Mark holds a Ph.D. in Business and Economics from the International School of Management in Paris/ New York and an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in Paris. 

Areas of Expertise:
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Megatrends
Artificial Intelligence/Digital
Leading change
Competitiveness
Economic Strategy
Growth and Competitive Strategy

Languages of Instruction:
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Education
Executive Doctorate of Business Administration, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech
PhD in Business and Economics, International School of Management, Paris/New York
B.A and M.A in Social Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

Mary B. Teagarden is professor of global strategy and associate dean of faculty and administration at Thunderbird School of Global Management and editor-in-chief of Thunderbird International Business Review, and Editor of Journal of International  business studies. She is a world-renowned thought leader and educator in the areas of global strategic management and strategic human resource management. Teagarden is recognized and sought after in academic, corporate and government sectors for her teaching, executive training and consulting. She is an active international consultant who advises technology-intensive manufacturing and service firms in China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, and Brazil.

She has published more than 130 articles, books, chapters, and case studies in Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, California Management Review, MIT Sloan Review and Organizational Dynamics among others. Her research focuses on global competitiveness and capability building with an emphasis on offshore manufacturing and service, innovation, high technology transfer, sustainable development, developing global mindset, and talent management.

Teagarden works with a variety of clients including AKZO-Nobel, ALFA, AMEX, Ardex,  Avnet, AT&T, Bancomext, Bank of China, Bank Negara Malaysia, Baxter International, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Mexico, CCPIT, CNOOC, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cisco, Cotemar, ExxonMobil, Fengzheng (Founders), Ford, General Motors, Honeywell, Huawei, Hyundai, Intel, International Federation of the Red Cross-Red Crescent, Intuit, Lenovo, LG Group, Lucent Technologies, Maybank, McCormick,Motorola, NCR, Northern Telecom, NZTE, Qualcomm, Reserva del Senior, Sanpower, Shanghai Automotive International Corporation (SAIC), Sony, SK Group, Televerde, Tropicana Peninsular, UTStarcom, Vitro, Xilinx, Yantian International Container Terminals, and Zhezhang Mobil, among others. Teagarden has lived or worked in 11 Latin American countries, five European countries and eight Asian countries 鈥� in addition to the United States and Canada. Mary is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

Top media outlets call on her expertise regularly, including: CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, CCTV, ABC, NBC, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, CIO and IEEE Spectrum. She previously served as a director the American University of Rome board, as an advisor to China鈥檚 Huawei, and the US Airways Educational Foundation, and as a director of the West Valley Child Crisis Center and Arhaus University. Teagarden currently serves on the Board of the China-US Business Research Center at the University of San Francisco.

Teagarden and her husband reside in Cave Creek, Arizona. In her spare time she enjoys exploring the deserts of the Southwest and rock climbing in her Jeep.

Education
Ph.D. Global Strategic Management, University of Southern California.

Kannan Ramaswamy is the William D. Hacker Chair Professor of Management in global business at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is world-renowned for his expertise on global strategy, emerging markets 鈥� including India and South Asia, the energy sector, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and global management. A native of India who is now a U.S. citizen, Ramaswamy has consulted for several U.S. and European multinationals. He is an award-winning executive educator whose teaching and research interests span emerging market multinationals, business groups and corporate diversification, mergers and acquisitions, privatization, and joint ventures.

In addition to teaching in Thunderbird鈥檚 full-time programs, Ramaswamy teaches extensively in the school鈥檚 executive education programs. He has participated in programs with multinational companies including American Express, EDS Corp. (now part of Hewlett-Packard Co.), Dow Chemical, General Motors, Mattel, Brasil Telecom, Delta Air Lines, Astellas Pharmaceutical (Japan), LG Electronics (Korea), Ericsson, Motorola, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, ONGC (India), Integra (Russia), and SK Corp. (Korea). Ramaswamy also directs several Thunderbird programs including the program on Globalization: Merging Strategy with Action that deals with global strategy issues, and the Advanced Management Program for Oil and Gas Industry Executives dealing with contemporary issues in oil and gas.

Ramaswamy鈥檚 research 鈥� which has appeared in distinguished journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Management International Review, Journal of Management and Journal of Business Research 鈥� focuses on a broad range of topics: challenges facing emerging market multinationals, the performance impact of corporate diversification; competitive consequences of privatization; the role of strategic fit in mergers and acquisitions; and equity vs. operational-control issues in joint ventures. Much of his recent research in these areas has centered on emerging markets. Ramaswamy鈥檚 work has been featured among the best papers at these prestigious national meetings eight times; his work was chosen 鈥渂est paper鈥� twice at the Academy of Management national meetings. As a faculty member at the academic institutions he has served, Ramaswamy has won numerous awards for research excellence.

A member of the Board of Reviewers of the Journal of International Business Studies and the editorial board of the Journal of International Management, and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Dr. Ramaswamy has also served as guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Operations Management on 鈥渒nowledge offshoring.鈥� With Thunderbird professor Andrew Inkpen, Ramaswamy co-authored the book Global Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Advantage across Borders published by the Oxford University Press. 

Education
Ph.D. Strategic Management, Virginia Tech
M.B.A. University of Madras, India
B.S. Physics, University of Madras, India

Mary Teagarden is recognized in academic, corporate and government sectors for her teaching, executive training, and consulting.
Teagarden is professor of global strategy and associate dean of faculty and administration at Thunderbird School of Global Management and editor-in-chief of Thunderbird International Business Review.

She is an active international consultant who advises technology-intensive manufacturing and service firms in China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, and Brazil.

Teagarden has published more than 130 articles, books, chapters, and case studies in Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management among others. Her research focuses on global competitiveness and capability building with an emphasis on offshore manufacturing and service, innovation, high technology transfer, sustainable development, developing global mindset, and talent management.

Jonathan Brand became the 15th president of Cornell College in July 2011. Under his leadership and thanks to two consecutive institutional strategic plans, the college continues to anticipate and respond to the needs and wants of students. This includes launching new academic programs, developing a , strengthening student support services, starting a , and adding intercollegiate sports. The college opened a  and renovated its Thomas Commons, first-year residence halls, numerous academic buildings, and an expanded athletics facility. The recent $80 million Greater>Than campaign resulted in gifts of $118 million. 
Before coming to Cornell, he served six years as President of Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, and seven years as Vice President of Institutional and Budget Planning and Special Assistant and Counsel to the President at Grinnell College.
Brand teaches in Cornell’s Department of Politics. His writing on higher education includes a chapter in the book “Making College Better: Views from the Top,” an ongoing , and articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Huffington Post. He has spoken at conferences sponsored by the NCAA and the Council of Independent Colleges, among others.
He is an avid runner, practicing with the college’s track and cross-country teams and competing in 12 marathons.
Brand has been involved with Cornell’s  and he is on the advisory committee for the Law School Admission Council’s  to help students develop the skills necessary for success in law. He is a member of the board of directors of the Putney Open Door Fund, which offers scholarship support for economically disadvantaged high school students, and has led the annual fundraising for the Iowa Peace Institute, a non-profit organization committed to alternative dispute resolution.
He holds a law degree from Cornell University, a master's degree in French literature from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's degree in history and French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor of Law Christine Chung draws upon her deep knowledge of and experience with financial markets, corporate governance norms, complex business transactions, and government investigations to examine financial market regulatory systems, capital markets and corporate and securities law systems, municipal finance, and consumer and investor protection. Professor Chung's teaching and research interests include regulatory architecture and regulatory reform, risk management (including systemic risk management), compliance, corporate governance, investor protection and feminist jurisprudence. She frequently presents on issues associated with securities fraud and investor protection, the recent financial crisis, and municipal financial distress.

Prior to joining Albany Law School, Professor Chung served as a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, where she was a member of the firm's securities and white collar crime practice groups. While at Goodwin, Professor Chung specialized in complex business litigation and civil and criminal securities-related enforcement matters, including proceedings involving the Department of Justice, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers (now known as FINRA) and various state attorneys general. She also specialized in compliance and risk management counseling for clients. Her clients included mutual funds, investment advisors, broker-dealers, bank holding companies, complex operating companies, officers, directors and employees.

Before joining Goodwin Procter, Professor Chung served as Branch Chief of the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, among other posts. As a member of the Enforcement Division, Professor Chung specialized in investigating and litigating cases involving a wide range of alleged securities-related misconduct, including matters involving alleged financial reporting fraud, insider trading, and professional misconduct by accounting professionals.

Professor Chung is co-director of the joint Albany Law School/UAlbany Institute for Financial Market Regulation. Professor Chung initially joined Albany Law's faculty in 2007 as director of the Securities Arbitration Clinic.

Greg Autry is an expert in entrepreneurship, macroeconomics and space policy.

His research focuses on governmental roles in the emergence of new industries especially within the global commercial space industry.

Professor Autry teaches space leadership, policy and business in the Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

He has been a notable advocate for space exploration and development, serving as Chair of the Safety Working Group in the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), and as vice president of the National Space Society and the Beyond Earth Institute. 

Dennis Hoffman closely studies the regional economy in Arizona and conducts economic research for most major businesses across the state, several state agencies and numerous foundations.

Hoffman is the Director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W. P. Carey School of Business and Director of ASU鈥檚 Office of the University Economist. 

His work includes the construction and maintenance of the tax revenue forecasting model used by the state of Arizona鈥檚 Executive Budget Office each year since 1982. 

Hoffman's research interests include defining and measuring the role of research universities in regional development, quantifying the value of education investments to the economic prosperity of a region, and measuring the impact of various fiscal initiatives on regional development.

Doug Guthrie is an expert in international business and trade, technology and society, entrepreneurship and technology transfer, and organizational development. 

Guthrie uses his past experience in his teaching at ASU since he was a senior director at Apple in Shanghai, China, where he led Apple University efforts on leadership and organizational development in China. 

Guthrie is a professor and the director of China Initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

He has spent his career researching, writing, teaching and advising companies about organizational development and the Chinese economic reforms. 

Dr. Gregory Prescott, Chair and Assistant Professor of Accounting, has taught courses in Intermediate Accounting and Managerial Accounting while at UWF. He joined the UWF faculty after retiring from the University of South Alabama (USA) in Mobile. While at USA, he was twice named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year, was honored with a number of college-wide teaching awards, was the recipient of the Andy and Carol Denny National Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, and named the Outstanding Accounting Educator in Alabama in 2016 by the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Prescott鈥檚 research interests include corporate governance of financial institutions, the impact of newly-enacted accounting standards on industry, pedagogical issues relative to business education, and communicating the results of academic research to practitioners. Prescott has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance since 2015.

He joined academe after a twenty-five year in credit risk management with a large regional financial institution. He has been a member of the faculty of the Alabama Banking School since 1998. Over the last ten years, he has taught more than 300 hours of continuing professional education classes for accountants and bankers. Prescott has the following professional certifications: CPA (Alabama), CGMA, CMA, and CFM. 

Professor Godsell's career has been split between both industry and academia. She joined WMG in October 2013 following a position as Reader at Cranfield University School of Management. She has advised government and industry on supply chain strategy and its relationship to industrial and business strategy, has served on numerous advisory boards, and is currently a member of the Made Smarter Expert Panel and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Advisory Group.

As well as academic success, Professor Godsell has held many senior positions in industry. Her career began with a role at ICI/Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, and following this she worked up to senior management level at Dyson, in both supply chain and operations management functions. Whilst at Dyson she undertook a number of operational and process improvement roles within R&D, customer logistics, purchasing, and manufacturing. Professor Godsell is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the IMechE.

Before taking up a Chair in Marketing and Service Management at Loughborough University, Professor Gruber worked as a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Manchester Business School. He received his PhD and MBA from the University of Birmingham.

Professor Gruber co-founded the Centre for Service Management (CSM) in the School of Business and Economics in 2013 and is currently the Director of the Centre. From 2015 to 2017, he was also the Anne-Marie and Gustaf Ander Foundation Visiting Professor of Service Management at CTF- Service Research Center, Karlstad University, Sweden. Among Professor Gruber鈥檚 current main research interests are service failure and recovery, service robotics and transformative service research. He regularly presents his latest research findings at leading conferences worldwide and publishes in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Service Management, and Journal of Marketing Management.

For his research, Professor Gruber has received several awards such as the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (Outstanding and Highly Commended Award) in 2007, 2010 and 2012. He is a winner of the methods@manchester Annual Competition for Innovative Methodological Developments in 2009 and winner of the Academy of Marketing Research Initiative Award in 2008. 

Artificial Intelligence, Business, and Economics

Professor Holland has worked at the interface of business and technology for over 30 years with a range of international business organizations on technology implementation, evaluation of Information Technology (IT) projects, and digital strategy.

Professor Holland has published research articles in leading strategy, management, and technology journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Decision Support Systems and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Vaziri teaches undergraduate courses in business analytics, business statistics, and management science, and graduate MBA courses in decision making and data analytics.
Vaziri’s research focuses on business analytics, ranking methods with applications to sports, and academic motivation in higher education.
Vaziri earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a doctorate in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University.

Thomas’ research explores the normative and conceptual foundations of corporate and white-collar crime. He writes on issues of corporate agency, legal personhood, and theories of punishment. He frequently comments on issues of criminal law and business, having appeared in media outlets including the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He teaches Business Law topics. Thomas holds a BA from Columbia University and earned his JD and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan.

Business strategy professor Henri Schildt, of Aalto University in Finland, researches the impact of data, digitalization, and artificial intelligence on companies. He is currently leading a 3-year research project studying how companies use generative artificial intelligence to redesign their processes and services. 

Riden teaches Individualized Behavior Interventions for Young Children, Inclusive Practices in Special Education, Foundations of Exceptional Education, Practicum in Behavior Intervention Methods, Single Case Experimentation, Systematic Behavioral Interventions
Riden’s research interests include using the principles of applied behavior analysis to support students with challenging behavior, preparing teachers to effectively manage their classrooms, and single case research design. 
Riden earned a bachelor's degree in history at Shippensburg University, a master's degree in special education at University of Utah and a doctorate in special education at the Pennsylvania State University.

Mya Pronschinske Groza is all about helping brands and people shine. As associate dean and associate professor of marketing at University of Idaho, she dives deep into what makes marketing click. Need to understand why customers respond to some brands and ignore others? Curious about how crowdfunding is giving female entrepreneurs the keys to success? Pronschinske Groza has the answers. Whether she’s exploring how personal branding can elevate leaders or how corporations can create meaningful social change, Pronschinske Groza’s research focuses on driving empowerment and impact through marketing.