Christopher A. Bartlett is the Thomas D. Casserly Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, and both masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University. Prior to his academic career, he was a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, a management consultant in McKinsey and Company’s London office, and the country general manager of a subsidiary company of Baxter Laboratories in France.

He joined the faculty of Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1979, and over the following 30 years, his research, teaching, and consulting interests have focused on strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in multinational corporations and on the process of managing transformational change. While at HBS, he served as chair of the International Senior Management Program, area head of the General Management Unit, faculty chairman of the Program for Global Leadership, and chair of the Humanitarian Leadership Program.

He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal), which was named by Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential business books of the century. The Individualized Corporation, another subsequent major research book that he co-wrote with Ghoshal, was the winner of the Igor Ansoff Award for the best new work in strategic management and was named one of the Best Business Books for the Millennium by Strategy Business magazine. Both books have been translated into over 10 foreign languages.

His articles have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. He has also researched and written over 100 case studies and teaching notes, and their sales of over 4 million copies make him Harvard’s best-selling case author ever. He has been elected by his colleagues as a fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, and the World Economic Forum.

Paul W. Beamish is the Donald Triggs Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Ivey Business School, Western University. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, articles, contributed chapters, and teaching cases. His articles have appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Organization Science, and elsewhere. He has received best research awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business (AIB). In 2008, he was recognized in International Business Review as the second most productive international business scholar worldwide in the previous decade. He served as editor-in-chief of JIBS from 1993–1997 and worked for Procter & Gamble Canada and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey’s faculty in 1987.

He has supervised 27 doctoral dissertations, many involving international joint ventures and alliances. His consulting, management training, and joint venture facilitation activities have been in both the public and private sector.

At Ivey, he has taught in a variety of school programs, including the Executive MBA offered at its campus in Hong Kong and in the MSc in International Business program. In 2012, he was the recipient of the International Management Outstanding Educator Award from the Academy of Management. From 1999–2004, he served as associate dean of research. He currently serves as director of Ivey Publishing, the distributor of Ivey’s collection of over 4,600 current cases; Ivey’s Asian Management Institute (AMI); and the cross-enterprise center, Engaging Emerging Markets.

He is a fellow of the Academy of International Business, Royal Society of Canada, and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.