EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
Richard Ivey School of Business (Asia) |
Kathleen
Slaughter
Professor of Management Communications |
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Kathleen
has been posted to Hong Kong as Executive Director and Associate
Dean since April 2003. She is a unique resource at Ivey, with
personal leadership achievements in the computer industry
and directorship of Ivey's renowned Honours Business Administration
program have resulted in unmatched excellence in the critical
area of management communications. A recipient of several
awards for teaching, Kathleen's boundless enthusiasm, grounded
in practical experience, makes learning fun. She has been
teaching at the Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University
in 1985, and Fudan University in Shanghai since 1986. |
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Paul
Beamish
PhD (UWO)
General Management |
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It
is no exaggeration to describe Paul as one of the world's
leading researchers and teachers of international strategic
management. The same issue of Journal of International Management
that named Ivey the #1 contributor to international strategic
management literature in the world, ranked Paul #3 among all
scholars working in the field. Paul is founding director of
Ivey's Asian Management Institute and has helped to make Ivey
the world's largest producer of current Asian-based cases.
Paul led the Ivey team that produced 32 specially edited casebooks
for the PRC's established and emerging for MBA Programs. |
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- Peter
Bell
- PhD (Chicago)
- Management
Science and Business Statistics
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Peter
is an expert on the use of management science/operations research
approaches in business decision-making and has been a pioneer
in the use of computer modeling and interactive computer graphics
for managers. A past president of the International Federation
of Operational Research Societies, Peter is currently editor-in-chief
of International Transactions in Operational Research.
Peter has been a visiting visitor at the London Business
School, Warwick Business School, Wilfrid Laurier University
and Simon Fraser University. He has been a prolific writer
of cases on the use of management science and business statistics
in North America, Europe and Asia and recently edited a casebook,
Management Science, in English and Chinese for distribution
in Asia. |
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Xiaoyue
Chen
PhD (Tsinghua)
Adjunct Professor |
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Currently
Associate Dean of the School of Economics and Management,
Tsinghua University, Professor Chen has been involved with
Ivey's MBA Program since1990 when he was visiting scholar.
His research and teaching has focused on "Doing Business in
China". He is a leader in bringing greater transparency and
accuracy to accounting information throughout China. |
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David
Conklin
PhD (MIT)
Global Environment of Business |
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Course
director for Ivey's innovative Global Environment of Business
course, David served previously as Research Director of the
Ontario Economic Council. He has written 10 books on topics
related to the adjustments that business must make to the
new international trade and investment agreements. |
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Mary
Crossan
PhD
(UWO)
General
Management |
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- Mary, also an Ivey MBA graduate,
is an expert on strategic renewal having examined the
successes and failures of companies entering new geographic
markets and strategic alliances. She has written over
20 strategic management cases and is a winner of the European
Foundation for Management Development case competition.
Mary's research and publications on organizational learning
have appeared in the world's leading journals and she
brings her insights into how corporations adapt to and
learn from major changes to her module on Strategic Action
and Analysis.
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Niraj
Dawar
PhD (Pennsylvania)
Marketing |
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As professor of Marketing, Niraj has taught PhD, MBA and undergraduate
courses in marketing management, brand management and consumer
behavior. His research currently focuses on brand equity and
management issues. Prior to joining the Ivey Business School,
Niraj was on the faculty at INSEAD (France) for five years,
and has experience in Asia as a visiting scholar at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology during the fall
of 1994 and 1995. |
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Terry
Deutscher
PhD (Stanford)
Marketing |
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A professor at Ivey for 20 years, Terry was founding director
of the School's Executive MBA across Canada.. He has a wealth
of experience in executive education that stretches across
five continents, at lvey, IMD (Switzerland) and INSEAD (France),
as well as in privately-sponsored programs for companies such
as IBM, Philips, Olivetti, Nortel, ICI, General Electric,
Bell Canada and National Semiconductor. Terry's research interests
focus on marketing strategy and advanced technology. |
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Joseph
J. DiStefano
PhD (Cornell)
Organizational Behavior
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As
the founding Executive Director of the Richard Ivey Business
School (Asia), Joe led the building of an effective staff
and faculty team, design of the program, registration of the
program in Hong Kong, and construction of outstanding facilities.
Always innovating in his own teaching and course development,
Joe was the first Ivey faculty to win the coveted Pleva Award
for Excellence in Teaching at UWO. He has written 100 cases
around the world and is co-author of many books, monographs
and articles dealing with how to manage people effectively,
particularly in multicultural settings. |
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- Fraser
Johnson
- PhD
(UWO)
- Operations
Management
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After several
years as a senior manager in the automotive industry in Canada,
the US and Mexico, Fraser completed his MBA and PhD training
at Ivey. His research and teaching have been focused on the
challenges of achieving service excellence and supply chain
management in large service and manufacturing businesses.
Fraser is an active consultant to organizations in the private
and public sectors. In addition to his years at Ivey, Fraser
was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia
where he taught operations and logistics. |
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Basil
A. Kalymon
PhD (Yale)
Finance |
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Basil
is an authority on the cost of capital, financial planning
and regulatory economics. He consults to numerous organizations
in Asia and around the world. His research interests are in
corporate finance and financial institutions with particular
focus on the financing of regulated companies and natural
resources industries. Basil sits on the boards of several
companies and previously taught at the Graduate School of
Management at UCLA and the Harvard Business School. |
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Claude
Lanfranconi
PhD (UWO)
Managerial Accounting and Control |
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Claude has a unique ability to bring complex accounting issues
alive so that they are understood by everyone in the EMBA
class. By the end of his course, participants have developed
the skills to understand financial systems, and they have
had fun along the way. A past director of the Ivey Executive
Program and visiting professor at the American Graduate School
of International Management (Thunderbird), Claude's research
interest is in the area of corporate financial disclosure.
With the clamor for more transparency echoing throughout Asia,
Claude's infectious enthusiasm matches the growing needs for
his insights in the region. |
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Mike
Leenders
DBA
(Harvard)
Operations
Management |
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- Mike holds the Purchasing Management
Association of Canada Chair in Purchasing Management and
is considered to be one of the world's authorities on
purchasing and supply chain management. Mike's textbooks
on Purchasing and Supply Management have been extremely
popular, appearing in eight languages. In addition to
his research on purchasing, Mike has built a global reputation
for writing, teaching and learning with business cases,
has written three books on the case method and conducts
case method workshops around the world. Mike has also
been an active entrepreneur, having founded six new companies.
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Peter
Newson
PhD (MIT)
Information Systems |
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Peter, an Ivey MBA himself, is the author of ESTX (a computer-based
simulation), six books, many articles and more than 60 case
studies. As well, he is Director of Leading Strategic IT
Initiatives, an executive course co-sponsored by the Canadian
Information Processing Society (CIPS). EMBA students really
appreciate his organized easy-to-understand insights into
how to achieve competitive advantage from the use of new technology. |
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Michael
Pearce
DBA
(Harvard)
Marketing
and E-Leadership |
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Also
an Ivey graduate, Michael Pearce holds the NSERC/SSHRC Chair
in Management of Technology and Eaton Chair in Retailing and
his research explores the management of information technology
in retailing. Michael is Ivey's Associate Dean for Programs
and is admired by his colleagues and students for his outstanding
skill as a teacher in marketing and retailing. Michael has
actively consulted with organizations in Canada, US, Europe,
Japan and the Middle East. He is currently leading a new stream
of learning modules on E-Leadership at Ivey in both North
America and Hong Kong. |
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R.L.
(Lyn) Purdy
PhD (Waterloo)
Organizational Behavior |
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Prior to joining the Ivey Business School, Lyn was an associate
professor at the Centre for Administrative and Information
Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her research
interests illustrate her unique combination of organizational
behavior and operational management. Specific research topics
include organizational impacts of new technologies and techniques,
performance evaluation of supplier organizations, quality
management programs and participation of employees, and decision
making and the impact of negative information. |
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David
Sharp
PhD (MIT)
Managerial Accounting and Control |
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Having studied at Oxford and MIT, David is no stranger to
great universities. As someone who has worked and done research
in England, the Middle East, Asia and the U.S., he is also
very familiar with the global aspects of business. His research
focuses on management accounting and management decision making
in an international context, and he currently heads Ivey's
Centre for International Business Studies. |
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- Dave
Shaw
- PhD
(Wharton)
- Entrepreneurship
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- Dave Shaw spent many years at Ivey
as a finance professor. In 1995, Dave became the founding
director of Ivey's Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation
and Growth and aggressively led the development of new
degree and executive programs to address the management
challenges in rapidly growing businesses. For the past
few years, he has led a research team focused on strategies
for generating and sustaining rapid growth as well as
innovative financing tactics. Dave has been a faculty
member at Dalhousie University and the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is extremely active
in entrepreneurial associations and sits on the boards
of several fast growth businesses.
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- LLB
(Osgoode Hall) and MBA (Ivey)
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- Chris Webber earned his legal credentials
in Canada and spent 14 years as legal counsel for several
US multinationals. For the last three years, he acted
as Asia Pacific Regional Counsel for NCR, specializing
in legal issues relating to doing business in China. Chris
also has an extensive record as a law professor, having
taught law to computer science and arts students for fourteen
years. Chris is a member of the first graduating class
from the Ivey Hong Kong EMBA Program.
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Larry
Wynant
DBA (Harvard)
Finance |
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Larry
Wynant, an Ivey MBA graduate, has made a very successful
career of teaching, research and consulting in commercial
lending and corporate finance. His research activities have
led to numerous articles and eleven books. Larry is known
as one of the very best teachers at Ivey. After three years
of leading Ivey's Asian Campus, he is now Associate Dean
of Programs base in Canada.
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