Workshop Participants

Khaldoun Abou Assi is a PhD student in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He has built a diversified professional experience in a variety of fields: public service, diplomacy, human and institutional development. He was country participatory researcher on Lebanon’s first report on the State of Civil Society for 2006- part of an international Civil Society Index action-research project coordinated by CIVICUS. His fields of interests include NGO management, Civil Society impact on public policies and its relationship with government and donor agencies, development policy and administration, governance.

Chi Anyansi-Archibong received her PH. D. in Strategic Management, with minors in International Management and Entrepreneurship, an MBA and a BS degree in Accounting and Management from the University of Kansas. She is currently a professor at North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro. She has been an active participant in organizing and implementing several management education programs and workshops in China, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Nigeria, St. Kitts, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The U.S Virgin Islands and the United States. She has participated in several international faculty developments in Senegal, South Africa, Hungary, Czech Republic, India, Morocco, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Ireland, etc. in addition to many others in the United States. As a veteran Faculty Liaison (1989-1999) for the North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (NCSBTDC), she worked with many area small businesses under the University outreach programs. Research/contract projects include the determination of appropriate budget system for the IT division of North Carolina Department of Corrections; Strategic Panning for The East Market Street Development ( EMSD) Corporation; program development for Students In Free Enterprise ( SIFE) Global in Africa; Role of entrepreneurship in building and sustaining economic development in developing economies; framework for developing cooperative organization for mushroom growers in three North Carolina counties; Development of Minority entrepreneurship cases with HBCU/Babson Consortium; etc. Dr. Anyansi -Archibong is the author of four Research and Business Case Books; Over 112 journal and proceedings articles and cases; fifteen grant proposals and reports; and numerous teaching materials such as “experiential exercises” and skills development materials for Strategic, International, Ethics, and Business Environment courses (Instructional Materials). She has appeared as an invited speaker in several national and international conferences as well as held leadership roles in case research, Faculty short-term study abroad, cultural competency and case teaching workshops for both professional organizations and universities. She served as the president of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA), (a 550 member international organization). She was the president and founder of the Southeast Case Research Association (SECRA), the founder of North Carolina A&T SIFE organization, founder of SIFE Nigeria, founder of North Carolina A&T Rotaractor, and has served as the program chair, session chair, and discussant for several international and national professional organizations and conferences. Invitations for speaking engagements came from diverse organizations including Initiative for competitive Inner City, Association of NISSAN/HBCU Fellows, Institute for Global Leaders in the Caribbean, Women Leadership Forum, National Association of Women Business Owners, etc. Dr. Anyansi-Archibong served as a reviewer for several professional proceedings, journals, and book manuscripts. She has served on the editorial review board for The Case research Journal, and The journal of Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, and The International Review for Third World Issues. She is currently on the editorial review board for The Journal of SMET Education: Innovations and Research, The Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, The Case research Journal, and the Southeast Case Research Journal, The Open Seminar Ethics Education. She was an Associate Editor for PINNACLE, A McGraw-Hill Publication (1990-2002) and an author for the Weekly Wall Street Journal In education (International Business Issues-1997-2004). She has served as a manuscript reviewer for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Prentice Hall, Sage Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin, etc. Dr. Anyansi-Archibong serves on several organization boards including the NACRA past presidents’ Advisory Council, the NACRA Board, the National Business School Network (NBSN) Steering Committee, The Southeast Case Research Board, The Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Academic Board, Who is Who in professions board, Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) board, and Bishop McGuiness High School Board, Industry of the Blind (IOB) board. She is a SIFE Consultant, a member of the National Academy of Management, International Council for Small Business (served as International Liaison) , a member of the Small Business Institute Directors Association, a member of the Triad World Affairs Council and the U. S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), Global business Association, World Case Research and Application (WACRA). She was also on the Advisory Board of the Wall Street Journal in Education (1998-2004) and an ex-officio member of SIFE Nigeria Board. She served on the Greensboro United Way Council for Self-Sufficiency, Employment and Positive Life (1992-2003). Dr. Anyansi-Archibong has received several recognitions and awards. She is currently listed in the 2000 Notable American Women, in the 1995 Who is Who World Wide, 1996 Sterling Who is Who, and 1995 Harvard Directory of Who is Who in International Management Research. She is a Nissan Fellow, A Samuel Walton Fellow for Free Enterprise Education, A Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary International), a SASAKAWA-Japanese Institute Fellow, an ExxonMobil Fellow, an Institutional Leader for Land Grant Universities Research Ethics (LANGURE). She was a National President for SIFE Global, the Faculty Director for the University of Michigan-Center for International Business/ HBCU Collaboration, A Champion of SIFE, A Double Eagle Champion of SIFE, The Leavey Award Recipient for Excellence in Entrepreneurship education, the Distinguished Case Research Contributor Award and the Beyond Pinstripes Award for External Impact. She has received several Teaching Excellence awards including the AMOCO teaching excellence. Dr. Anyansi-Archibong was the chair of the University environmental Scanning Committee for several years and a member of the committee for the 1890s University Planning ( a federal government Committee). She was chair of the Department of Business Administration Curriculum Committee for eleven years and currently chairs the School of Business and Economics curriculum committee. She has served for several years on the School of Business and University Promotion and Tenure committees. She was the Chair for Faculty Grievance committee. She has authored several courses at the school and university level and supervised the development of three other international related courses in the Business School. She served as the Coordinator for the University Interdisciplinary Global Studies Certificate Program (GSCP) 2001-2006 and the School of Business and Economics Business Environment Course, 2003-present. She also currently serves as a member of the UNC Tomorrow Team for Global Competency and the University System ORP Investment Advisory Committee.

Mary-Ellen Boyle researches and teaches about corporate citizenship, university-community partnerships, social entrepreneurship, and private sector approaches to poverty. An associate professor at Clark University’s Graduate School of Management, she is the author of The New Schoolhouse: Literacy, Managers, and Belief (Praeger, 2001), an analysis of workplace literacy. She has also presented papers and written articles about service-learning, managing ethics across cultures, corporate community relations, corporate change and the arts, the social responsibility of business schools, organizational aesthetics, workforce development, social health indicators, and immigrant education policy.

Peter Gallo is a doctoral candidate at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; where he also holds an M.B.A. His primary research interest is the integration of social and ecological sustainability principles with management practice. To this end, his research focuses on organizational perception, organizational adaptation, and strategy implementation. Peter holds a B.S.E. in Environmental Energy Engineering from Stanford University and he still maintains a significant interest in energy. This interest is manifest in both his teaching and research; particular areas of inquiry include: renewable energy innovations, energy markets, and electric utility deregulation.

Ben Graham is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include civil conflict, formal institutions and investment, unrecognized states, and the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on a dissertation on foreign direct investment in post-conflict states. Prior to graduate school, Ben spent two years in the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan.

Jason Jackson is currently a doctoral student in international economic development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research at MIT is on the political economy of institutions and lies at the intersection of industrial policy, international business and strategic management. It seeks to understand how political economic relationships in developing countries shape key institutions that govern firm-level learning, upgrading and competitive dynamics between indigenous and multinational firms. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University, a master’s in development economics from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a masters in public administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Phillip Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. He earned his MA and PhD in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his BS (Economics) and BAS (Materials Sciences) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include entrepreneurial team and social network configurations, political economy of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship in highly regulated industries. His research has been published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, and American Behavioral Scientist. He has received a Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of Business Venturing. Professor Kim is also a faculty member of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. Through the Center, he advises entrepreneurs on issues related to launching and establishing their businesses, coaches student entrepreneurs as they start their businesses, and teaches service-based entrepreneurship classes. He has also worked as a management consultant advising businesses in the manufacturing, agriculture, professional services, retail, and non-profit sectors.

Ke Li is currently a Ph.D. student at Fox School of Business, Temple University. Her research interests include innovation of institutions in developing and emerging markets, offshore outsourcing, marketing communications, branding and brand management, consumer learning and decision process.

Holger Meyer is a 2nd year Ph.D student in International Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs at The University of Georgia. He holds a Magister Artium (“with distinction”) degree in Political Science and English Philology from the Georg-August-Univesität, Göttingen, Germany. His general research interests include the impact of economic globalization on national and international institutions and post-Cold War political transformation processes. His current projects focus on the interaction of international trade, democratization and domestic conflict.

Scott Minto is currently in his second year as director of the Sports Business MBA program at San Diego State University. A 2006 graduate of the program’s first graduating class, Minto has held previous positions in sports (Washington DC Sports & Entertainment Commission) and academia (Georgetown University). A native of Rhode Island, Minto graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he studied Science & Technology in International Affairs. Since taking over the Sports MBA program in late 2007, Minto has worked with colleagues in the SDSU College of Business and SDSU CIBER to focus the program on international sports business. This effort has resulted in an upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic, where Sports MBA students will be implementing a microfinance initiative in the community that hosts the San Diego Padres developmental complex. Minto is an avid fan of the Padres (by association), Red Sox (from birth), FC Barcelona and the Georgetown Hoyas, and enjoys riding beach cruisers and playing disc golf.

Sarath Nonis a Professor of Marketing at Arkansas State University where he has worked since 1991. He holds his BBA, MBA, and Ph.D. from University of North Texas. He has published in The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and Journal of Marketing Education among others. He has taught International Marketing at the undergraduate level for almost 20 years.

Daniel Ogbaharya is currently a Dissertation Fellow and Instructor of African Politics in the department of political science at Western Illinois University, and a doctoral candidate in International Relations and Comparative Politics at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. He earned a Master of Science in Environmental Studies and a Master of Arts in International Development from Ohio University-Athens. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Asmara, Eritrea. His recent publications have appeared in Journal of Third World Studies (2009); Development in Practice (2008); Peace Review (2007); and The International Journal of Humanities and Peace (2006). His research and teaching areas include African Politics as well as issues of political development, environmental sustainability and peace building.

Joël Luc Raveloharimisy is a doctoral candidate in Political Science with a concentration in Comparative Politics at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. His interests include institutions and entrepreneurship, political economy of developing countries, Africa sub-Saharan politics, and diaspora investments. His dissertation research focuses on the effect of the interactions of formal and informal institutions on entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA from Eastern Washington University (EWU), Spokane, WA; a BA, Summa Cum Laude in Interdisciplinary Studies from (EWU), and a Licence et Lettres from Antananarivo University of Madagascar.

Elzotbek Rustambekov is currently a PhD student in Strategic Management at Old Dominion University. He is originally from Uzbekistan where he earned his BBA in Finance Cum Laude from Tashkent State Technical University. Elzotbek holds an MBA in Finance from Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University, New York, and MSc in International Strategy and Economics from School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Elzotbek’s research interests include enterprise wide risk management, risk contingency allocation, dynamic capabilities, liability of multinationality and accounting manipulations.

Massoud Saghafi is a professor of marketing at the San Diego State University, San Diego California, specializing in international business and marketing focusing on the Asian markets, pricing strategy, and telecommunications management. Massoud has published in academic journals and industry and trade publications and has been a contributor to popular periodicals. Dr. Saghafi received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California where he was also a post-doctorate scholar in marketing during the 1986-87 academic year. He has offered academic programs in Albania, China, France, Mexico, Portugal and Spain over the past ten years and has served as the guest speaker in many international conferences and meetings in the United States and abroad. Dr. Saghafi has been a consultant to the telecommunications and information services industry since 1987 and has received research awards from the Telecommunication Association for his work on the future of the telecommunications industry.

Sandra Santamaria is a head of the International Business Undergraduate program at EAFIT University (Medellin, Colombia). MBA, postgraduate studies in Project management. Courses taught: International business, Global Markets, International procurement, International Physical Distribution. Research areas: International business, International Logistics, Multiculturalism, Globalization

Gladys Torres-Baumgarten is an associate professor of International Business at Kean University in New Jersey. She previously taught marketing and international business at Rutgers University (while pursuing her doctoral studies), and subsequently at Hofstra University and Montclair State University. She has published in the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Targeting, Measurement & Analysis for Marketing, and the Business Case Journal among others. She is fluent in Spanish, and has studied Italian and French.

Pierre Yourougou research and teaching interests are in the areas of corporate finance, banking, financial markets and institutions, and emerging markets. He has refereed articles in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Economics and Business, and Review of Futures markets, Global Finance Journal, Journal of African Economies, Actualité Économique, and Analyse Financière. Prior to joining The Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, in 2006, Professor Yourougou worked for the World Bank and the African Development Bank where he held various senior level positions in the Corporate Finance, in the Treasury and in the Public Debt Management departments. Before joining the World Bank in 1992, Professor Yourougou was an Associate Professor of Finance at Université Laval in Quebec (Canada) and a consultant at the Institute of Canadian Bankers. He has also served as visiting faculty at New York University, Nankai University in Tianjin (China), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal and Baruch College of City University of New York. Professor Yourougou was recipient of several government research grants and academic and professional awards, including Title VI grant from US Department of Education (for Africa Business Program), President’s Award for Excellence at the World Bank, Best Paper Awards in Canada and Dissertation Award at NYU. He received an Executive Training in Project Finance at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Congcong Zheng researches about decision making process, learning and related firm behaviors among entrepreneurial firms. Her work extends the behavioral theory of the firm (March and Simon, 1958; Cyert and March, 1963) in organizational theory and entrepreneurship field. The questions that interest her are: what are the motivations of a particular type of strategic behavior (such as internationalization, branching, product diversification or acquisition) among young entrepreneurial firms? What is the difference between and linkage of entrepreneurial team learning and lead entrepreneur’s individual learning? How do firms learn from environmental, social and organizational experiences? How do managers’ previous experience, biases and political dynamics among management team affect the decision making process and subsequent firm behavior? How do entrepreneurial firms allocate managerial attention among various activities and how does such allocation affect the firms’ short-term performance and long-term survival? She is interested in utilizing several research methods in her work, particularly experiments, modeling, survey and case methods. Context-wise, she is interested in high technology industries (including consumer electronics, biotechnology and technical service industries among others) and cultural industries (independent motion picture industry and music industry). She has studied emerging market settings and contextualize organizational learning theory to international new ventures from emerging markets (South Africa, Mexico, India and China specifically). Professor Zheng has presented at numerous academia conferences and has published in two refereed books. Her academic article is forthcoming at Management International Review. Prior to academia, Zheng was a consultant in BDA China Ltd., specializing in advising clients on market entry and investment decisions in China’s Internet and Telecom sector. She holds a BS in Business Administration from University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in China and Ph.D. from London Business School. She joined the Management faculty in San Diego State University in August 2005.