Don A. Ball
Don A. Ball, a consultant to multinational corporations, was a professor of marketing and
international business for several years after leaving industry. He has a degree in mechanical
engineering from Ohio State and a doctorate in business administration from the University
of Florida. Ball has published articles in the Journal of International Business Studies and
other publications. Before obtaining his doctorate, he spent 15 years in various marketing and
production management positions in Mexico, South America, and Europe. Wendell H. McCulloch, Jr. Wendell H. McCulloch, Jr., has been a professor of international business, finance, and law
and is the former director of international business programs at California State University,
Long Beach. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at George Washington University
and a JD from Yale University. He has published articles in The Wall Street Journal,
the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Collegiate Forum. The results of
McCulloch’s research have appeared in publications by the Joint Economic Committee of
the U.S. Congress and the Heritage Foundation. Before beginning his academic career,
McCulloch spent 19 years as an executive for American and European multinationals that
offered banking, insurance, and investment products in many countries. He was associate
general counsel of International General Electric, headquartered in New York; member of the
board of directors and general counsel of International General Electric, S.A., headquartered
in Geneva; and cofounder and president of Trust of Properties, an investment fund, headquartered
in London and Zurich. J. Michael Geringer J. Michael Geringer is a professor of strategy and international management at California
Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. He earned a BS in business at Indiana University
and MBA and PhD degrees at the University of Washington. He has authored or edited
14 books and monographs, over 110 published papers, and over 35 case studies; he serves on
the editorial boards of several leading international academic journals; he served as the Saastamoinen
Foundation Chair at the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland; he was the
founding chair of the Strategic Alliances Committee of the Licensing Executives Society; he
served as the chair of both the International Business and the Strategy and Policy divisions
of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada; and he is past chairperson of the
Academy of Management’s International Management division. His research has appeared
in the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International
Management, Columbia Journal of World Business, Management International Review,
Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management Journal, Long Range
Planning, Organisation Studies, and Journal of Applied Psychology, among others. He has
received 11 “best paper” awards for his research, including the Decade Award for most influential
article from the Journal of International Business Studies. His teaching performance
has earned numerous awards in the United States, Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia, and
Europe, including the University Distinguished Teacher Award. He was the first recipient of
the International Educator Award from Cal Poly, and he endowed a scholarship for students
to work and study internationally. He has been active in a range of charitable and service activities,
including spearheading the adoption of a school in Soweto, South Africa, and fundraising
for public radio. In addition to working with universities around the world, Geringer
is active in consulting and executive development for multinational corporations and executives
from six continents. His clients have included Nokia; Lucent; Eastman Kodak; Sonera; Northern Telecom; Rautaruukki; Eastman Chemical; UPM Kymmene; Industry, Science & Technology Canada; Jiangsu Telecom Industrial; California Highway Patrol; Economic
Council of Canada; Perlos; YIT; California Department of Transportation; and Okobank,
among others. For relaxation, he enjoys daily Stairmaster workouts, along with hiking,
camping, gardening, cooking spicy vegetarian foods, and music. Michael S. Minor Michael S. Minor is a professor of marketing and international business at the University of
Texas, Pan American. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, American University,
and Cornell and holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on
comparative consumer behavior, international marketing strategy, political risk, and the consumption
of high-technology experiential products. He has published in the Journal of International
Business Studies, the Journal of Consumer Marketing, International Studies of
Management and Organization, the Journal of Services Marketing, International Business
Review, Journal of Interactive Advertising, and elsewhere. He has written for business and
popular media from PCWeek to Tennessee Business Magazine. He is past chairperson of the
Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group and past vice chair of the Technology and Marketing
Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association, as well as a former
member of the Global Marketing SIG’s board of directors. He is active in DOCNET, the association
of business doctoral program administrators. He serves on multiple editorial advisory
boards and is the coauthor with John C. Mowen of several consumer behavior books.
He has won multiple master’s-level teaching awards and was recently the doctoral program
professor of the year. His consulting experience includes work for UNCTAD’s Division on
Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development and several U.S. and state government
agencies. He has reviewed grant proposals for the Research Council of Norway as well as
several U.S. agencies. He lived in Asia for a number of years and speaks Chinese. He relaxes
by playing the mandolin and harmonica for the country/classic rock groups RiverRock and
Coastlands. Jeanne M. McNett Jeanne M. McNett is a professor of management at Assumption College, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
She earned a PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MBA at the
Cass School of Business, City University, London. She has had expatriate assignments in
Germany, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Korea. Her interests include the
role of culture in international business and the pedagogy of international management. Her
publications include the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Vol. VI: International
Management, second edition (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), and the Blackwell
Handbook of Global Management (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Her teaching,
research, and presentations have received many awards, including the Roethlisberger Best
Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of Management Education and the Alpha Phi
Alpha Teacher of the Year Award. Her articles have been included in journals and collections
focused on teaching in the area of international business. She is an avid master rower and
enjoys running, reading, and gardening. |