AIB 2009 San Diego Conference Program - Academy of ...

Keynote Speakers
AIB Fellows’ Opening Plenary – June 27, 16:30-19:00, Grande Ballroom C
Pankaj Ghemawat
Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School
Pankaj Ghemawat earned his A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, where
he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D in Business Economics from Harvard University.
He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London before joining the Harvard
Business School (HBS) faculty in 1983. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full professor
in HBS’s history. Since 2006, Ghemawat has been the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global
Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Ghemawat’s award-winning book, Redefining Global Strategy, was published in 2007 by
Harvard Business School Press. His other books include Commitment, Games Businesses Play
and Strategy and the Business Landscape, of which a new edition—with a new chapter on global
strategy—will be released later in 2009. Ghemawat is also one of the world’s best-selling writers
of teaching cases. He served as the editor of the Business Strategy department of Management Science from
2003 to 2009 and is a member of the AACSB’s Globalization of Management Education task force. Recent honors
include the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review, the IESE-Fundacion
BBVA Economics for Management Prize and the Irwin Award for the Educator of the Year from the Business Policy
and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. Ghemawat is a Fellow of the Academy of International
Business and the Strategic Management Society.
For more information, visit www.ghemawat.org.
Udo Zander
Ragnar Soderberg Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm School of
Economics
Udo Zander is the Ragnar Soderberg Professor of Business Administration at the Stockholm
School of Economics, SSE, and currently visiting at SMIB, Victoria University of Wellington.
His research interests are international management, including change and learning in the
multinational company, and knowledge and the theory of the firm. His most recent areas of
research are knowledge and learning among the top echelons of multinational companies,
and the impact and power of ideas on international firms and society where he addresses the
myth of unidirectional and smooth globalization. He has published in journals like the Journal
of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Management Science, European
Management Review, and American Sociological Review. His academic background includes
studies at the Stockholm School of Economics (M. Sc. –86; PhD –91) and as a Fulbright Scholar
at the University of California, Berkeley (IB/OB –86-87) and Stanford University (OB –87). He is an
elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business and was recently elected Member of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Sciences and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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