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Majid
Eghbali-Zarch
Majid is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management, specializing in
strategy and international business.
Before pursuing an academic career,
he had 10 years of experience as an
entrepreneur and executive of an
engineering company, a university
lecturer, and a construction
manager. Majid holds an
undergraduate and a Master degree in
engineering, as well an MBA from
Sharif University in Iran. His
research interests are focused on
international joint ventures and
alliances as well as learning and
knowledge transfer in international
context. He is a fan of economic
theories in business, especially
transaction cost economics theory.
Rida Elias
Rida is a Ph.D. candidate in general
management, specializing in
strategy. Before pursuing an
academic career, Rida had 12 years
of experience as a management
consultant in the Middle East area
and a university lecturer at several
universities in Lebanon. Rida holds
an undergraduate and a Master degree
in Business from the American
University of Beirut. Her research
interests are focused on intra and
inter organization knowledge
transfer.
Bassam Farah
Bassam
is a Ph.D. candidate in general
management, specializing in strategy
and international business. His
research interests are in
international strategy and global
leadership. Most of his previous
research focused on leadership. He
holds a Master's and a Ph.D. in
psychology from the Lebanese
University and an MBA from the
American University of Beirut.
Vanessa C. Hasse
Vanessa
is a Ph.D. student in general
management, specializing in strategy
and international business. Prior to
pursuing an academic career, she
gained experience in German banking
and management consulting firms. She
holds a Master of Arts in
International Business from the
University of Florida and her
primary research interests include
the international service industry,
foreign direct investment in the
context of emerging markets as well
as social intrapreneurship.
Yanfei (Clara) Hu
Clara is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management. She is
interested in developing a deep
understanding of how corporations
manage uncertainty. Clara graduated
from Ivey's MBA program in 2004, and
had worked in the business media and
education sectors before joining the
Ivey PhD program.
David Maslach
David is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management, specializing in
technical entrepreneurship. He is
broadly interested in economic
sociology and applied econometrics.
His research investigates how
organizations learn from failure and
how rivals exploit uncertainty
surrounding failure, especially in
international markets.
Yves Plourde
Yves is a Ph.D. candidate in general
management, specializing in
international management and
strategy. He holds a Master of
Science (M.Sc.) in International
Management from HEC Montréal. His
primary research interests include
headquarters-subsidiary
relationships, the management of
capabilities within the MNE, and
strategic alliances involving MNEs
and SMEs.
Michael Roberts
Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management. His
research is in the area of
leadership; with a particular
interest in leading change in
multinational organizations. Michael
is a University of Western Ontario
graduate, and has a Master's degree
in education from the University of
Toronto. Michael taught at the
KAIST Graduate School of Management
in Seoul, Korea before joining Ivey.
He hopes his research will have a
direct positive impact on people in
organizations; making their work
lives more productive, meaningful,
and fulfilling.
Michael Sartor
Michael is a Ph.D. candidate in
strategic management specializing in
international management and
strategy. He received his M.B.A.
from the Ivey School of Business and
his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law
School at York University in
Toronto, Canada. He is interested in
a wide range of strategic and
managerial phenomena and issues
pertaining to foreign direct
investment in emerging markets,
including among others, the impact
of institutions on the
decision-making processes of MNEs,
the corporate governance of MNEs, as
well as expatriate management,
innovation management and the impact
of corruption on foreign investment
behaviour. His research is
characterized by a strong bent
towards risk management strategies.
Francis Sun
Francis
Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in general
management. Prior to pursuing an
academic career, Francis was an
executive officer at China Unicom.
His current research is focusing on
comparative institutional studies
between market economies and
emerging markets, business practices
in East Asia, and business strategy
in emerging markets.
Min (Megan) Zhang
Megan is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management. Her
research interests include
intropreneurship and strategic
management in MNEs, especially their
business models’ for
innovation in emerging markets.
Megan worked in the IT industry for
more than ten years prior to joining
Ivey. She received her MBA degree
from the China Europe International
Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai
in 2009.
Fei (Sophie) Zhu
Sophie is a Ph.D. candidate in
general management. Her research
interests include comparative
studies of corporate
entrepreneurship in Chinese and
US/Canadian companies, corporate
social responsibility in the Chinese
context, and strategic leadership.
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