|
|
|
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr.
Larson Ng,
Director of
Research
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Topic:
The Legal Status of Hawai‘i and What It Means to International Trade
and Commerce
Larson Ng is an Educational Specialist in the College of Education
at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. As a researcher, he actively
conducts and publishes research in the fields of business and
economic sustainability literacy and curriculum development; Native
Hawaiian education policy and program evaluation; and community
leadership and management. He also has and continues to teach
courses in research methodology, which he incorporates leadership
and economic concepts in the College of Education’s graduate
programs. Larson rounds his academic regimen by occasionally serving
as a board member in both the business and education arena.
Outside of academia, Larson spends a great deal of time serving the
Native Hawaiian community. As an advocate of sustainable economic
growth, he frequently gives guest interviews on local community
television sharing how Hawai‘i can ensure its 21st century long-term
prosperity by simply taking those steps to re-engineer its current
economic base. Larson also serves as a strong advocate and proponent
of utilizing those pedagogies and content-based curriculum
responsive of the educational needs of Native Hawaiians.
|
|
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr.
Shigeru Matsumoto, Professor
Kyoto
University, Graduate School of Management, Japan
Professor
Matsumoto obtained his Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan by
conducting an in-depth study of Japanese cross border M&A.
He obtained his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management on
the US Fulbright program. His main research area is cross border M&A
and post-acquisition management. Before joining Kyoto University, he
was an associate professor at Doshisha Graduate School of Business.
He teaches Business Analysis and Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions
and Corporate Strategy.
He
also has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and
advisory as a managing director at global institutions, including
HSBC (The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.), Macquarie Capital, and
PwC. He advised more than 50 Japan related cross border transactions
in 20 countries including US, UK, France, China and Vietnam. In
2015, he won the 9th M&A Forum Grand Prize with his recent
publication about Japanese outbound acquisition. His new book
“Japanese outbound acquisitions, Explaining What Works” (in English)
will be published from Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
|
|
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Tony
Carter, Professor and Director
University of New Haven, CT
Topic:
Contemporary Issues in Business
Tony
Carter, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A. is a Professor of Management and
Director at the School of Business at the University of New Haven.
In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University,
Graduate School of Business, where he teaches in the M.B.A. program
and has taught in the Executive M.B.A. program. At Columbia
University, Dr. Carter was also the Associate Faculty Director for
the Executive Management Programs in Sales Management and Key
Account Management. He was the General Mills Visiting Professor at
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. He has over 20
years experience teaching in top ranked Executive M.B.A. and
Executive Management programs. He is a Professor at Linyi University
in China and has been a Visiting Professor of International
Management at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius,
Lithuania. He was Academic Director and Professor at the Christos M.
Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University, and
founding faculty member of the Russ Berrie Institute of Professional
Sales, known for its innovative technology management lab. He has
also done extensive work in “Management Coaching” which includes
publications and consulting. The author of the seven books:
Contemporary Sales Force Management, The Aftermath of Reengineering:
Downsizing and Corporate Performance, Customer Advisory Boards: A
Strategic Tool for Customer Relationship Building, Sales Force
Management: A Contemporary Approach, Many Thin Companies: The Change
In Customer Dealings and Manager’s Since September 11, 2001, The
Encyclopedia of Strategic Marketing Management and Globalization and
The Economic Geography of Globalization. Dr. Carter has had his
research published in Harvard Business Review and has had his
work published in the Columbia Journal of World Business, the
Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Journal of Marketing
Management in Customer Service, Services Marketing Quarterly,
Journal of Strategic Marketing, Selling Power Magazine, Asia Journal
of Entrepreneurship, American Journal of Economics and Business
Administration and Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management
, International Management Review, Journal of Management Policy and
Practice. He has also been interviewed in Business Week
and numerous television and radio programs and he is the
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hospital Marketing and Public
Relations. He had a feature article done about him in
Investor’s Business Daily the premiere investor’s newspaper
circulated worldwide. Dr. Carter has worked as a manager for
several corporations and has been a Professor at Linyi University in
China and guest lecturer at Universities overseas, such as the
Caucasus School of Business in Tbilisi, Georgia, University of
Bologna and University of Vilnius in Lithuania. His case studies and
research on management, sales and sales management have been adopted
and used by various Universities and organizations around the world.
Dr. Carter has conducted research in the European Union, the
People’s Republic of China and Eastern Europe. He has also
collaborated with such notables, as Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001
Nobel Prize winner in economics. Still an active consultant, he
works on management, sales and sales management issues for a variety
of companies worldwide, including Fortune 500 corporations, such as
American Express, SONY Corporation, Dun & Bradstreet, Digital
Equipment, Guardian Life Insurance Company, the United Nations ,
NAACP and Lubrizol Corporation. Dr. Carter was the recipient of the
“2004 Stillman Award for the Best Business Book of New Jersey
Business Faculty" and also received the “2006 Stillman Award for the
Best Business Case Study” and is currently a FULBRIGHT SPECIALIST
SCHOLAR.
|
|
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Jacqueline Hood, Chair
University of New Mexico, NM
Topic: Effective Leadership: Understanding Power and
Influence
Dr. Jacqueline Hood is Chair of the Department of Organizational
Studies and Creative Enterprise Endowed Professor at the Anderson
School of Management at the University of New Mexico.
In addition, Dr. Hood is the Director of Curriculum for the EMBA and
the MBA ED programs at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Hood earned
her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, College of Business
Administration; her MBA from Northern Illinois University, College
of Business; and her BA in Sociology and Psychology from Northern
Illinois University.
Dr.
Hood has authored over 60 publications in management, healthcare,
and psychology journals in the areas of cross-cultural
organizational behavior, leadership, bullying, and
entrepreneurship. Her publications have appeared in academic and
professional journals including: Journal of Business Research,
Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Society,
Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Managerial Issues,
International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Journal of
Applied Social Psychology, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences,
Journal of Nursing Administration, Journal of Business and
Psychology, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Transportation
Research Record, and Psychological Reports. In addition, she has
made over 60 presentations of her work at national and international
academic conferences. In
addition to her academic research and teaching, Dr. Hood has served
as an organizational behavior and organizational development
consultant to a variety of organizations. Her consulting activities
have included facilitating team building sessions, executive
coaching, assisting strategic management initiatives, mediation, and
leadership training for executives. Dr. Hood was honored as a New
Mexico Power Broker in 2007 and as one of the Women of Influence in
2006 by the New Mexico Business Weekly, and received the Anderson
School Foundation Board Community Leadership Award in 2006.
|
|
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. John R. Wingender, Jr., Chair
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Topic:
Creighton University Student Managed Investment Fund.
Dr. John R. Wingender, Jr. is the Chairman of the Department of
Economics and Finance and a Full Professor of Finance at Creighton
University in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
He previously served as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs
at Creighton University. He taught at Oklahoma State University for
twelve years where he was named the Ardmore Professor of Business
Administration. In 1993 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach
and to conduct research at the International Management Center, now
the Central European University Business School, in Budapest,
Hungary. In 2005 he was a Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin,
Ireland in the Institute of International Integration Studies. He
is a Visiting Faculty member at Peking University in its Beijing
International MBA (BiMBA) program since 2004. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Nebraska in 1985. He teaches managerial
finance, international financial management, investment analysis,
and portfolio management.
Dr. Wingender has published more than 40 articles in various
refereed business journals, such as the Journal of Financial and
Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance,
Management Science, Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, Journal of Financial Research, The
Financial Review, and the Journal of Business Research.
He is an Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Finance and
Accounting and an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Review
of Economics and Finance. He has served as the President of the
Midwest Finance Association and of the Association of Business
Simulation and Experiential Learning. His research interests
include the distribution of stock returns, the use of financial
derivatives, counter cyclical hiring, and the decertification of
unions.
Dr. Wingender is currently the Treasurer of the Creighton Federal
Credit Union Board of Directors. He serves on several non-profit
boards. At Creighton University he is the Faculty Advisor for the
Financial Management Association (FMA) Student Chapter and the Phi
Kappa Psi Fraternity. He has consulted internationally for many
businesses such as Ernst and Young, Ely Lily, Coca Cola, Conoco
Phillips, Dell Computers, and the World Bank, most recently
conducting a Financial Analysis training program for Pfizer, China
in Beijing.
Dr. Wingender has been awarded several teaching and research awards.
In 2008 he was honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award at the
Beijing International MBA program from 2004 to 2008. He has earned
several national FMA Superior Faculty Advisor Awards. In 2007 he
was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Teaching Award, the
top teaching award at Creighton University. He won a similar award
at Oklahoma State University in 1990.
|
|
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Dr.
Igor M. Paramonov
Southern
Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada
Topic:
Gated Globalization and North American Economic Integration: The
Choice of Reason.
Dr.
Igor M. Paramonov has over thirty years of research, teaching, and
consulting experience in North America and the former USSR.
His academic activities have resulted in close to forty publications
and numerous presentations covering regional economic integration,
foreign direct investment, marketing channels for industrial
products, economic geography, and business education. Born and
educated in Russia, Dr. Paramonov received a grant from the
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada to participate in
the 1991-1992 Canada-USSR Academic Exchange Program at the
University of Western Ontario. In 1996 he was selected by the
Fulbright Office in Moscow for a research and faculty development
program at the University of Montana in association with the United
States Information Agency. Since 1998, Dr. Paramonov has lived and
worked in Calgary, Canada. He is a faculty member at the Southern
Alberta Institute of Technology and has also been affiliated with
the University of Calgary. His consulting experience involves a
variety of projects in the fields of international business,
regional economic development, and higher education, dealing with
marketing research, feasibility studies, and market entry
recommendations for small and medium-size firms and non-for profit
organizations in the U.S, Canada, Russia, and Ukraine. Dr. Paramonov
teaches traditional courses in management, marketing, and
international business as well as custom-made courses such as
Business under NAFTA. He has also received awards for teaching
excellence including the Mortar Board’s Professor Award from the
University of Montana’s Pentralia Chapter. |
18th
