Ravi Ramamurti is CBA Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy, and Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, Boston. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He obtained his B.Sc. (Physics) from Delhi University, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, where he graduated at the top of his class, and his DBA from Harvard Business School. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, CEIBS-China, IMD-Switzerland, and the Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania. Ravi Ramamurti’s research and consulting have focused on firms operating in, or from, emerging economies. His most recent book, Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets was published by Cambridge University Press, 2009. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and has been a consultant to firms and governments in more than a dozen emerging economies.

Felipe Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. He obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also has a LL.B. (JD equivalent) degree, cum laude, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ, Brazil and a MRes in Business Studies from London Business School. Before joining Wharton, Felipe Monteiro was a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to that, he was a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School's Latin American Research Center. His research focuses on how multinational corporations access external knowledge across organizational, technological and geographic boundaries. He is also studying the knowledge sharing strategies of multinational corporations from emerging markets. Both in 2009 and 2010, Felipe Monteiro received Wharton's "Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty" Teaching Award for his outstanding contributions and commitment to educational excellence.

Ram Mudambi is Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. Previously he served at Case Western Reserve University, University of Reading and University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University and Uppsala University. Ram Mudambi is an Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal and the Book Review Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, where he also sits on the Editorial Board. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Management International Review, the Journal of World Business, Industry and Innovation and the Journal of International Management. His work has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Political Economy and Journal of Economic Geography. He holds a London School of Economics Master’s degree. His current research focuses on innovation and governance in knowledge-intensive firms.

Mike W. Peng received his PhD from the University of Washington. He holds the Provost’s Distinguished Professorship at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UTD, Mike Peng was an associate professor at Ohio State University. His work has been cited by both the United Nations and the World Bank in major publications. Truly global in scope, his research focuses on firm strategies in regions such as Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America, covering countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. He has published approximately 60 articles in leading academic journals and authored four books. Mike Peng has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Strategic Management Journal.

Valery Yakubovich is Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the role of social relations in organizations and markets. He has studied the impact of managerial interest groups on price formation in the late 19th century electricity industry in the US; informal exchange networks of Russian households during the transition from state socialism; social networks among employers and employees in real and virtual job markets. The results of these studies have been published in leading journals in management, organization theory, and sociology, as well as numerous edited volumes. His current projects explore innovative social structures of virtual organizations, the impact of task interdependence networks on career outcomes in large Russian firms, and coproduction of knowledge and social relations in a workplace. Valery Yakubovich received a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and previously taught at the University of Chicago GSB.

Bill Newburry is an Associate Professor and SunTrust Bank Professor at Florida International University in the Department of Management and International Business. He was previously employed at Rutgers Business School. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from New York University's Stern School of Business. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he worked six years in the Contracts and Pricing Department at McDonnell Douglas Corporation. His current research interests focus on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries, employees and other local stakeholders, with a particular focus on how these local stakeholders perceive issues related to firm globalization. He has published over 25 papers in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals, such as theStrategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and multiple others. Bill Newburry recently served as the SMS Global Strategy Interest Group Chair, and also co-chaired and organized the 2011 SMS Special Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is a faculty member in the Sonoco International Business Department of the University of South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another from the University of Salamanca. He studies the internationalization of firms with a special interest in developing-country multinational companies. He also analyzes governance issues with a special interest in corruption in international business. His research appears in leading academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal and in several edited books. He serves on the editorial boards of leading journals such as Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Studies, among others. His geographical area of expertise is Latin America.

Robert Grosse is the Director (Dean) of the EGADE graduate business school at Monterrey Tec in Mexico. He joined the Tec in early 2009, after teaching in a videoconference joint venture MBA between Thunderbird and the Tec since 1998. He oversees the EGADE campuses in Monterrey and Mexico City. Robert Grosse was the founding Director of Standard Bank Group’s (South Africa) executive education program, the Global Leadership Centre, and became the overall head of Leadership Development and Learning in July of 2007. He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, both in international economics. He has taught international finance in the MBA programs at Thunderbird, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), as well as in many universities in Latin America.

Manuel Olave is President of “Universidad Privada Boliviana - UPB” since May 2000, where he teaches graduate courses in Development Economics and International Business. He held visiting professor positions at the Netherlands International Institute of Management, Universidad Autonoma de Nicaragua and La Verne University, California. At INCAE Business School in Central America he was Adjunct Professor, and Director of the Public Management Program and the Consulting Division. Before joining UPB he was President of the Consulting firm “The Development Group Inc.” in Miami, Florida and formerly he worked as a management consultant for public and private organizations in Developing Countries. He was Senior Advisor at the International Center for Public Enterprises in Slovenia. In Bolivia he was Vice President of Finance at the Bolivian Oil Company (YPFB), Chief of Staff at the Office of the Vice-president of Bolivia and Vice Minister of Inter-sector Coordination at the Ministry of Finance.

Raymond Schefer is a Professor of Marketing and the VP of Marketing at the ADEN Business School at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina. He is responsible for the specialization in sales and marketing management at the university. Raymond Schefer is a former CEO and commercial manager for European and Argentine companies, as well as a consultant in marketing and management related issues in Latin America. He received his MBA from the City University of Seattle.

Mary B. Teagarden is Professor of Global Strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management, and editor-in-chief of Thunderbird International Business Review. Mary Teagarden is an active international consultant who advises technology-intensive manufacturing and service firms in China, India, Malaysia, Mexico and Brazil. She has published more than 120 articles, books, chapters, and case studies in Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management and Organizational Dynamics among others. Top media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, CCTV, ABC, the Financial Times, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, CIO and IEEE Spectrum call on her expertise regularly. Mary Teagarden serves as an Advisor or Director on eight international corporate Boards.

Mike W. Peng received his PhD from the University of Washington. He holds the Provost’s Distinguished Professorship at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UTD, Mike Peng was an associate professor at Ohio State University. His work has been cited by both the United Nations and the World Bank in major publications. Truly global in scope, his research focuses on firm strategies in regions such as Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America, covering countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. He has published approximately 60 articles in leading academic journals and authored four books. Mike Peng has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Strategic Management Journal.

Dirk Michael Boehe is an Assistant Professor at Insper Institute of Education and Research and a researcher in international business. He holds a Doctor in business administration from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Dirk Boehe's current research projects are on multinational corporations in and from Brazil's export and internationalization strategies. Dirk Boehe has published his work in Brazilian and international journals, such as the Management International Review and Journal of International Management. He has professional work experience in international business in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela) and Europe (Germany and UK).

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is a faculty member in the Sonoco International Business Department of the University of South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another from the University of Salamanca. He studies the internationalization of firms with a special interest in developing-country multinational companies. He also analyzes governance issues with a special interest in corruption in international business. His research appears in leading academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal and in several edited books. He serves on the editorial boards of leading journals such as Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Studies, among others. His geographical area of expertise is Latin America.

Alvaro Bruno Cyrino is the vice-director of EBAPE-Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Brazil. He has a BSc. in Business and Public Administration from the Federal University of the State of Paraná - Brazil; a Diplôme d´Etudes Approfondies , from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the École de Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), France, with a major on strategy. He has worked in executive positions at universities, public sector, and private companies, including international assignments. As a consultant in the field of strategic management and international business, he has been working for major Brazilian companies. His current research interests include the field of strategy, with an emphasis on the resource-based view, and the field international business, where he has concentrated on the internationalization process of companies from emerging markets.

Antonio Gelis Filho is a Professor of Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas/São Paulo. He has a PhD in Business Management from FGV. He also graduated with a degree in law from the University of São Paulo and a degree in medicine from the University of São Paulo. Antonio Gelis Filho's main research interests are geopolitics and organizations and organizations and sociopolitical trends.

Fernando Luzio, Founder and Managing Director of Luzio Holistic Strategic Vision, majored in Business Management at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo, with specialization in Strategy by the London Business School and Harvard Business School. Fernando Luzio has been a Professor on Strategy in the University of São Paulo (FIA-USP) MBA course since 1999. He is the author of the book Fazendo a Estratégia Acontecer (Making Strategy Happen) and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Fernando Luzio has assisted companies in different industries in Strategic Planning and Execution, both in Brazil and worldwide. He became the CEO of CASA&VIDEO, one of Brazil's largest retail chains, in December 2008.

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Management and senior editor for Organization Science and has been published in numerous leading publications. In addition to his teaching and research, he presents executive training programs throughout the US and Europe. His consulting work focuses on large-scale organizational change and strategic analysis. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as well as a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Lund, the Copenhagen Business School, and Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and has honorary visiting professor positions in New Zealand and China.

Angela da Rocha is Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Director of NUPIN, the Center for International Business Research. Before joining PUC-Rio, she has been a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for 30 years before she retired, where she was the Dean of the Coppead Graduate School of Business two times. She obtained her PhD from IESE Business School, Spain. She has nine books published in Brazil and numerous articles in international and Brazilian journals including Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of International Business Studies and International Marketing Review. She is a member of CIMaR, the Consortium for International Marketing Research, and one of the top researchers in the area of Business Administration in the ranking of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq).

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Andre Carvalhal is the Head of International Capital Markets for the Brazilian Development Bank - BNDES. He holds a Post-Doctorate in Finance from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Finance from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has B.Sc. in Engineering from UFRJ and a BA in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His research has been published in top international journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Quantitative Finance, Corporate Governance, International Journal of Finance, International Journal of Business, International Review of Financial Analysis, Frontiers in Finance and Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Corporate Ownership & Control, and Latin American Business Review.

José Formigli is a Civil Engineer from Instituto Militar de Engenharia who joined Petrobras in 1983 where he specialized in Petroleum Engineering. He has a MBA in Advanced Business Management from the Coppead Graduate School of Business in Rio de Janeiro. Since May 2008 he has been appointed to a new Executive Manager position in Petrobras to manage the Pre-Salt Reserves. Responsibilities include evaluation and production development of the Pre-salt discoveries in offshore Brazil. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) from UK.

Manuel Olave is President of “Universidad Privada Boliviana - UPB” since May 2000, where he teaches graduate courses in Development Economics and International Business. He held visiting professor positions at the Netherlands International Institute of Management, Universidad Autonoma de Nicaragua and La Verne University, California. At INCAE Business School in Central America he was Adjunct Professor, and Director of the Public Management Program and the Consulting Division. Before joining UPB he was President of the Consulting firm “The Development Group Inc.” in Miami, Florida and formerly he worked as a management consultant for public and private organizations in Developing Countries. He was Senior Advisor at the International Center for Public Enterprises in Slovenia. In Bolivia he was Vice President of Finance at the Bolivian Oil Company (YPFB), Chief of Staff at the Office of the Vice-president of Bolivia and Vice Minister of Inter-sector Coordination at the Ministry of Finance.

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Management and senior editor for Organization Science and has been published in numerous leading publications. In addition to his teaching and research, he presents executive training programs throughout the US and Europe. His consulting work focuses on large-scale organizational change and strategic analysis. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as well as a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Lund, the Copenhagen Business School, and Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and has honorary visiting professor positions in New Zealand and China.

Alvaro Bruno Cyrino is the vice-director of EBAPE-Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Brazil. He has a BSc. in Business and Public Administration from the Federal University of the State of Paraná - Brazil; a Diplôme d´Etudes Approfondies , from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the École de Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), France, with a major on strategy. He has worked in executive positions at universities, public sector, and private companies, including international assignments. As a consultant in the field of strategic management and international business, he has been working for major Brazilian companies. His current research interests include the field of strategy, with an emphasis on the resource-based view, and the field international business, where he has concentrated on the internationalization process of companies from emerging markets.

Paulo Gustavo Franklin de Abreu works at Embraer as the Head of Business Strategy and Collaboration. He is an economist, with MBA and M.Sc. degrees in business administration from Fundação Don Cabral (FDC) and specialization in finance and marketing. He has served as a speaker at Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Conferences and other aerospace events in Brazil, in the US and Europe. More recently, he has been speaking in MBA courses at top business schools in Brazil. He has hands-on experience in corporate strategy, international alliances, sales, marketing, production planning and other related activities. He has served as a SCIP board member from 2008 to 2010.

Robert E. Hoskisson's research topics focus on corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, international diversification, privatization and cooperative strategy. He teaches courses in corporate and international strategic management, cooperative strategy and strategy consulting, among others. He has served on several editorial boards for such publications as the Academy of Management Journal (consulting editor), Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management (associate editor) and Organization Science. In addition to co-authoring two books, his research has appeared in numerous leading publications. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. Robert Hoskisson is also the President-Elect of the Strategic Management Society.

Mike W. Peng received his PhD from the University of Washington. He holds the Provost’s Distinguished Professorship at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UTD, Mike Peng was an associate professor at Ohio State University. His work has been cited by both the United Nations and the World Bank in major publications. Truly global in scope, his research focuses on firm strategies in regions such as Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America, covering countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. He has published approximately 60 articles in leading academic journals and authored four books. Mike Peng has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Strategic Management Journal.