Faculty Highlights

Faculty Focus

The Brightest Minds in Global Leadership 2018-19 Faculty Highlights

New Faculty

Mark Esposito, Clinical Professor of Global Shifts and Founding Co-Director of Thunderbird’s Globalization 4.0 and Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative, will be teaching courses on global leadership, strategy, digital transformation, and circular economy. Mark comes to Thunderbird from Harvard University. He 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 all industries. He will continue to serve as a global expert for the World Economic Forum.

Ann Florini, Clinical Professor, will be serving as the academic lead for one of Thunderbird’s new degree programs, the Executive Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management in Washington, DC. Ann is a renowned educator, scholar and practitioner focused on innovations in the governance of both the public and private sectors. In addition to academic and think-tank work, she designed and ran the Global Governance Initiative on behalf of the World Economic Forum. Ann will continue to serve as our lead expert on governance for the Global Commission on Adaptation.

Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice, will be teaching courses on global technology entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, family business, and Latin America. She is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, which invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Hwang also co-founded the startup YouNoodle, which connects startups with opportunities for growth, as well as Kalei Ventures, a venture fund focused on Latin American startups, and Cleantech Open, which has helped more than 1,000 “cleantech” startups raise more than $1 billion in external funding.

Landry Signé, Professor and Founding Co-Director of Thunderbird’s Globalization 4.0 and Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative, will be teaching courses on global governance and disruptive technologies. Landry is a world-renowned professor, leading practitioner and senior adviser to business and government leaders in the areas of global political economy and public policy, global business and emerging markets, global governance and development, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Globalization 4.0. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University’s Center for African Studies, chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Distinguished Professor of Practice, will be teaching a new course titled Webcraft: The Craft of Global Networks in Global Affairs. The course will cover basic principles of network theory as applied to the design, development, and management of networks involving business, NGOs and government. Anne-Marie is currently the CEO of New America, a “think and action tank” dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age.

With a background in chemical and civil and environmental engineering from MIT and Stanford, Hwang’s work has garnered three US patents, and she has other pending patents in her portfolio. She has been recognized as one of MIT Tech Review’s “Top 35 Global Innovators under 35” and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Other new Thunderbird professors of practice (and their areas of specialization) include: • Gunjan Bagla (global supply chain, healthcare technology, manufacturing, and India) • Bas Boorsma (global digital transformation, smart cities, and urban innovation) • Chris Campbell (global finance, trade, and public policy) • Nicholas Davis (Fourth Industrial Revolution, innovation, agile governance, sustainable development, and human-centered technology) • Glen Edens (global digital transformation, technology, and innovation) • Amanda Ellis (global sustainability, international development, public-private partnerships, and diversity and inclusion) • Doug Guthrie (Global Leadership, China) • Monica Kerretts-Macau (governance, strategy and change management, and Africa) • Roland Kupers (global complexity, systems, scenarios planning, futures) • Martin Oduor (leadership and finance, and Africa) • Hernan Saez (global digital transformation, and Latin America) • Henrik Scheel (global entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation) • Matt Spence (national security, foreign policy, and the Middle East)

Awards and Other Recognitions

Mary Sully De Luque, Professor of Management and ASU Senior Sustainability Scientist, received tenure. In addition, one of her articles, “Executives’ Stakeholder Values in the Prediction of Work Process Change” was nominated for the Best Paper Award by the Journal of Management Studies (JMS). Andrew Inkpen will serve as editor for a special issue of Journal of International Management. The issue is titled “Thirty Years Later: A Fresh Look at the Central and Eastern Europe Transformation and Its Implications for Institutions, Organizations and Organizational Actors.”

Andrew Inkpen and Allen Morrison were awarded the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Silver Medal – a formal recognition of their intellectual contributions published in JIBS. Over the journal’s 50-year history, the Silver Medal has been awarded to just 105 scholars who have published at least five significant papers in JIBS. Mary Teagarden was appointed for a second term as editor of the human resource management area for Journal of International Business Studies. Mansour Javidan will serve as advisor and editor of the international management department for Management and Business Review. Richard Ettenson will serve as advisor and editor-at-large for Management and Business Review. Mark Esposito’s article, “Is the Circular Economy a New Fast-Expanding Market?” was the most-cited article in Thunderbird International Business Review (TIBR) during 2018.

Doug Guthrie

Publications

Mark Esposito, with co-authors Terence C. M. Tse and Danny Goh, published a book titled The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation. Jonas Gamso and Roy Nelson published “Does Partnering with the World Bank Shield Investors from Political Risks in Less Developed Countries?” in Journal of World Business.Jonas Gamso also published “China’s Rise and Physical Integrity Rights in Developing Countries” in Review of International Political Economy.

Mansour Javidan and Aks Zaheer published “How Leaders Around the World Build Trust Across Cultures” in Harvard Business Review. Allen Morrison and Stewart Black published “The Rise and Demise of Chinese Global Firms” in Harvard Business Review.

Seigyoung Auh, Bulent Menguc, Constantine Katsikeas and Yeon Sung Jung published “When Does Customer Participation Matter? The Role of Customer Empowerment in the Customer Participation–Performance Link” in Journal of Marketing Research.

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