Spring 2007 GMSC Speakers
Speakers:
George Yip
Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, UK.
He manages the research and innovation process to develop the intellectual capital of the company. Capgemini is a 7 billion euro global company, headquartered in France, active in consulting, technology, and outsourcing. He is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, internationalization, and multinational strategies for the Asia-Pacific region. He has spoken at many major corporate events and conferences, including those held by Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and the World Economic Forum. He was previously Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, and the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University, and has also held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. His book, Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage (Prentice Hall, 1992) was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992; has been published in ten languages, and updated as Total Global Strategy II (2003).
Ernest Scalberg, PhD
Dean
Fisher Graduate School of International Business
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA
Ernest J. Scalberg, PhD, has been Dean of the Fisher Graduate School of International Business and Associate Vice President at the Monterey Institute of International Studies since August 2001. The Fisher School has been subsequently awarded accreditation by AACSB International, and was recently included in MBA rankings by the Financial Times, Princeton Review, and Beyond Grey Pinstripes. Dr. Scalberg has also expanded the Institute's specialized non-degree programs in the areas of language training, translation and interpretation, international policy, and business. These new programs include an on-going series of credit option courses for Beijing Municipal Government officials and enterprise managers related to trade and business issues. Prior to his appointment at the Monterey Institute, Dr. Scalberg was Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and Dean of Faculty of the Schools of Business at Fordham University from 1994 to 2001. Under his Deanship the Fordham MBA became nationally ranked including top 15 in US News and top 50 in Forbes. He also led a consortium of Universities to establish the Beijing International MBA program at Peking University. Prior to joining Fordham, he was Associate Dean of UCLA's business school. In the 1980s he established UCLA's Executive MBA Program and a new style of MBA program for the fully employed professional, both nationally ranked in the top five. In 1990 he moved to Hong Kong for three years where, in a partnership agreement between UCLA and the Hong Kong government, he created a new school of business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Scalberg is the recipient of six U.S. Government research and project grants and has published on a variety of higher education and business issues. He consults for Business schools in the United States, Canada, South America and China, and for the beverage industry, having had his own wine-exporting business. He has served as a director, advisor, or trustee for nine non-profit organizations and is listed in Who's Who in Hong Kong and Who's Who in the World. He is currently a trustee for Select Sector SPDR, an S&P 500 Index Investment Fund on the American Stock Exchange. He also serves on the Boards of the United States and China Foundation and the International University of Geneva in Switzerland.
David McHardy Reid, PhD
Thomas F. Gleed Chair of Business Administration
Co-Director of the Albers Center for Global Business
Seattle University
David is a visiting professor at ESCP-EAP in Paris and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.
David has been the Director of the Center for International Business and Benjamin Forman Chair of International Business at Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York, where he remains a tenured full professor.
For five years prior to October 2000 he held the Malayan United Industries (MUI) Chair of International Business at Curtin University - the largest business school in Australia and before that he was the Director of the Doctoral Program at the University of Hong Kong School of Business. Previously, as Director, he headed up the full time MBA at the University of Edinburgh School of Management. In an earlier phase of his career he worked in international marketing with Unilever.
Professor Reid obtained his doctorate from The University of Edinburgh. He has published around 100 papers and three books: two for The Economist on Japan and Thailand and one for the Financial Times on Korea, as well as articles in management journals, mainly on international strategy. He is currently working on intellectual property protection strategy for China.
Dr Reid has worked in 30 countries. In the last decade and a half he has been researching the strategies of foreign companies in Asia, and has met with and interviewed over 400 CEO's and other senior officers in: Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma including over 100 recently interviewed in China.
He has acted as a strategy consultant around the world to: Adam & Co. Ltd., Arthur Young Management Consultants, BBDO Asia and Greater China, Betts Bros. Ltd, British Telecom Scotland plc, Electrolux Far East Ltd., International Computers Ltd., Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc, McLaren Group, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries plc, Tayside Regional Council, Visa International, BBDO Hong Kong Ltd., Charles Barker, Cooper Research and Marketing, D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles, Foote Cone and Belding, The Leith Agency, Loganair, The Robertson Group, TBWA Chiat Day, Standard Life Assurance Co., Swire Pacific, Woolward Royd Advertising.
For several years, prior to relocating to Seattle, he held a board appointment with Gorbel, an engineering company in New York, and influenced its market entry strategy into China. Since the beginning of 2006 he has been a consultant to SHIFF (Shanghai International Fashion Federation). In mid-2006 he was invited by the First Minister of Scotland to become a consultant in the GlobalScot network of support to Scottish companies developing international market positions.
Michael Gendron
Partner, Tatum LLC, Cincinnati, OH.
Michael P. Gendron is a Tatum LLC Partner who works out of the Cincinnati office. His career spans more than 30 years and includes CFO responsibility in Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Medical Devices and Industrial Instruments, working in more than 20 countries. Companies range in size and complexity from small entrepreneurial publicly traded high-growth companies (…a Business Week Hottest Growth Company) to $1 billion + mature global operations.
He has written three books (Integrating Newly Merged Organizations, – Quorum Press; and Creating the New E-Business Company: Innovative Strategies for Real World Applications – Southwestern Publishing; and A Practical Approach to International Operations Quorum Press), and numerous journal articles discussing International Operations, Organization & Management, E-Business and Lean Business.
He is a CPA (Inactive - New York State) and holds BS and MBA degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Yuwei Shi
Associate Professor
Fisher Graduate School of International Business
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA
Yuwei Shi is a professor of global strategy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has also taught at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was the deputy director of the MBA Management of Technology program and founding director of the Nanyang Executive Program at the Nanyang Business School. He also taught MBA and doctoral courses and seminars in major universities in the U.S., China, and Singapore. Prof. Shi specializes in corporate- and business-level strategic planning, organizational diagnosis and design, and strategic planning leveraging emerging business technologies. His consulting and executive management training clients range from hi-tech startups to global Fortune 200 companies and governments in North America, Europe and Asia.
Stan Crock
Senior Editorial Director
U.S. Federal Client Group, Accenture, USA
Stan Crock has been Accenture's Senior Editorial Director since January 2006. He leads a team of five writers who help compose bid proposals in response to government requests for bids on a variety of contracts.
Before coming to Accenture, a global leader in consulting, systems integration, and business outsourcing, Mr. Crock was Business Week's chief diplomatic correspondent. Between May 1995 and December 2005, he covered the State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council, and defense companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. In addition to his work for the magazine, he wrote a semi-monthly column, Affairs of State, for Business Week Online. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and the Northwestern Journal of International Affairs. He has appeared on Court TV, CNNfn, CSPAN, White House Chronicles, Fox News, and National Public Radio's To the Point, On Point, and Here and Now. Mr. Crock has addressed defense-industry symposia at the American Enterprise Institute and Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and has delivered the Irving lecture on Russia at Phillips Exeter Academy. In January 2004, Mr. Crock was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He also taught a Leadership Scholars Seminar at Georgetown University for The Fund for American Studies' Institute on Political Journalism.
Mr. Crock holds a B.A. in political science from Columbia College, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
David Richins
MIIS, GLOBE Center
David Richins has played a key role in establishing the Center for Globalization and Localization of Business Exports (GLOBE) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 2005. He is also founding editor at the GLOBE Management Review, an online publication addressing the needs of companies taking their business global. David has consulted several businesses on global strategy development, including Hunter Technology, Twin Industries, Boma Systems and Select Sector SPDRs. In addition to facilitating a partnership between GLOBE and the Globalisation Management Strategies Group to put on the GMSC conference, David has been engaged in various other projects at MIIS, including surveys, training programs, and research. David holds an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA in Linguistics from Brigham Young University. He speaks Estonian and Russian.
Michael G McKenna, P.E.
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
Michael provides leadership in building and managing a suite of services establishing the primary technical infrastructure for digital content repositories for the California Digital Library. He is a specialist in globalization of applications and distributed systems with over one and a half decades of internationalization experience. He is a licensed professional engineer with extensive experience consulting or leading globalization projects for a number Fortune 500 companies and has a background in global e-commerce, application design, database internals, distributed bibliographic systems, test engineering, and ethnographic research.
Nitish Singh
Associate Professor of Marketing and head of the Localization Certification Program at California State University, Chico, USA
Professor Nitish Singh heads the Localization Program at California State University Chico. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business from Saint Louis University, USA. Most of his undergraduate and post-graduate (MBA and MA in Marketing) work was done in India and the U.K. He is the author of the book titled The Culturally Customized Web Site. He has published or presented more than 60 studies in the areas of global e-commerce, e-marketing, and cross-cultural consumer behavior in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review etc. He teaches and consults in the area of global e-commerce and international business."
Mohan Subramaniam
Associate Professor of Strategy, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, USA.
Dr. Mohan Subramaniam is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College. He has a DBA in Management Policy from Boston University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore. Prior to his DBA, Dr. Subramaniam worked for several years in the Sales, Marketing and Engineering functions of multinational companies including Asea Brown Boveri and Sanyo.
Dr. Subramaniam's research focuses on the strategic management of knowledge and innovation. He has published several studies on how multinational companies transfer and deploy knowledge across borders for competitive advantage and how organizations create different profiles of intellectual capital for superior performance. His current research projects include examining how variations in the nature of an organization's intellectual capital influence the type of its innovative capabilities and how organizations effectively integrate knowledge stemming from multiple functional and geographic sources. He has published his research in The Academy of Management Journal, The Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Management Studies, The Journal of Business Research, The Journal of Product Innovation Management and Management International Review. His writings have also appeared as book chapters in Dynamic Strategic Resources, and The Handbook of Strategy and Management. His research has won awards from the Strategic Management Society, McKinsey Corporation, Academy of Management and The Decision Sciences Institute. Dr. Subramaniam's research has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Carnegie Bosch Institute.
At the Carroll School, Dr. Subramaniam teaches courses on strategic management and managing global businesses in the full-time and evening MBA programs. He has also taught in the Executive MBA program at the University of Connecticut and has lectured in executive programs for several companies such as General Motors, Nextel, Voestalpine and Hamilton Sunstrand.
Joseph H. Hester
Senior Attorney
Legal and Corporate Affairs
Microsoft Corporation
Douglas Val Ziegler, Ph.D.
Idea Connection Systems
Val has over twenty years experience and world-class expertise in languages, cultures, computer systems, global and virtual organisations, and business processes. He has been a leader in providing globalisation services to product development organisations, both on-shore and off-shore. He is known as a visionary global leader and an "out of the box" thinker - a master of bringing order out of chaos and translating vision into implementation.
At Idea Connection Systems (ICS), Val's current focus is the globalisation of ICS products and services, and their adaptation to the ethnolinguistic and sociocultural situations in areas such as United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
He has had a life-long passion with languages and cultures. His educational odyssey has included SUNY Brockport, the University at Buffalo, the University of Rochester, Universidad de Puerto Rico, and the University of Ghana, West Africa; in addition to extreme amounts of corporate and executive training in global leadership and global business. Val's academic focus was the sociocultural and computational aspects of language, especially the area of cultural and linguistic diversity and oneness, which has involved study and research on more than 30 languages. Val was as a pioneer researcher on Spanish dialect spoken by Cuban slaves and their descendants; and the pidginized English spoken in Ghana, West Africa; as well as the languages of the Saramaccan Bush Negroes, descendants of runaway slaves who, for three hundred years, have lived in semi-autonomous societies in the jungles of Suriname, South America.
Professionally, Val has spent the past 25 years in the field of globalisation, i.e. the internationalisation (making them universal in their usability and applicability) and localisation (translation plus cultural adaptation) of products, computer systems, processes, and organisations. He has held leadership positions up to Sr. Director of Globalisation at companies such as Computer Consoles, Eastman Kodak, Xerox and Nortel Networks. He created and managed highly diverse, award winning teams; and has been a key figure in defining and implementing corporate level global product development processes, and technical globalisation strategies.
Some of his most interesting achievements were a patent on the use of 3D imaging technologies for displaying multilingual and multimedia content; computers that speak several Chinese dialects; computer systems that can support the creation of multilingual and multimedia documents; and a Team Excellence award in the Xerox Research Labs.
For ten years, Val was a Commissioner on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Greater Rochester Commission and recipient of the MLK, Jr. Freedom Award in 2004; he was also a Board Member of the Institute for Ethical Leadership, affiliated with the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School.
Val is currently on the Editorial Board for Globalization Management Review, a new journal serving as a source of knowledge for key managers concerned with international business; and is one of the founders and organisers of the Globalisation Management Strategies Conferences, part of an effort to foster the development of a cross-industry network of leaders responsible for managing various aspects of corporate globalisation, such as international product development and managing global and virtual multi-functional, multi-cultural and multi-national teams
Bev Corwin
President, Enso Company Ltd
Bev Corwin is President of Enso Company Ltd based in Seattle, Washington. Enso Company is a multilingual enterprise solutions consulting firm specializing in language automation, knowledge systems, localization, data center design and managed web services. Bev manages data centers with a team of enterprise architects, developers and specialized consultants. Bev specializes in designing servers, global web services and enterprise workflow processes that integrate legacy systems with language automation and other web based technologies. Bev also consults for specialized technical learning systems with a unique focus on the relationship between machine learning and human learning.
Prior to creating Enso Company, Bev was a language and technology teacher, translator and interpreter. She was a pioneer in cyber teaching and online learning. As a Technology Manager for language service companies, she managed and designed technologies for global accounts. Bev has worked in international health, global communications, e-commerce, medical device and diagnostics and consulting.
Bev teaches for the University of Chicago's Translation Technology in Business Program. In addition to her work in learning and language technologies, Bev is active in non profit fundraising, business development and international conference events. She has coordinated language and technology services for international conferences, and organized global business leadership events such as the Executive Speaker Series for the Seattle University Albers School of Business and Economics.