Topic: Research System Structuring and Paper Publishing: Reflections by an Overseas Management Researcher.

Speaker: Ming-Jer Chen, Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration in Darden School of Business at University of Virginia.

Briefing of Speaker: Professor Ming-Jer Chen is a leading authority in strategic management.　 Chen is known for his pioneering work in competitive dynamics and for his expertise in Chinese-Western business strategy and execution.　 He has published numerous articles in premier management journals and twice received the Glueck Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division, as well as the 1996 Academy of Management Review and the 2008 Journal of Management Inquiry Best Paper Awards.

In August 2009, Chen assumed the post of vice-president-elect (a five-year track toward the presidency) of the Academy of Management, with an international membership of 18,000.　Speaking regularly to prominent business groups and the media, Chen has contributed to the global strategy and East-West business dialogues through keynote addresses at summits in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America sponsored by such organizations as the World Economic Forum and HSM. He has also taught in a variety of executive programs at Darden, Columbia, and Wharton over the past two decades. His corporate clients include FedEx, Merck, United Technologies, Timken,　Morgan Stanley, BOC Gases, Munich Re, BenQ, AUO, and Rolls-Royce. In 2008 he was selected by Commonwealth magazine (Taipei) as one of seventy-two role models from the international business, cultural, and social arenas.

Before joining Darden, Chen was founding director of the Global Chinese Business Initiative at the Wharton School and a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School.

He has held affiliations with the Imperial College of Science, Technology, & Medicine in the U.K., the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National University of Singapore.

MC: Professor Yong Su, Chair of Department of Business Administration.

Time: 14:30 – 16:00, November 10, 2009 (Tuesday).

Venue: Room 303 in Starr Building.

Faculty members and graduate students who are interested in the topic are welcome to attend.