Faculty Biographies

Dual EMBA 2015 - 2016

South Africa Module January 17 to 23, 2016

PHIL ROSENZWEIG

Phil Rosenzweig is professor of strategy and international business. Since 2009, he is

Director of IMD’s Executive MBA Program. Professor Rosenzweig's areas of expertise

include strategy, firm performance, and complex organization design. He has written

extensively on the management of multinational firms, with articles published in

Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, The

International Executive, Academy of Management Review, Management Science,

California Management Review, and the European Management Journal. He is also

the author of numerous case studies on firms including Microsoft, Daimler Benz,

Matsushita, Renault, Heineken, Rhône-Poulenc, Accor, MTN, Dubai Aluminium, and

Vodafone.

More recently, Phil Rosenzweig has focused his attention on critical thinking and

managerial decision making. His 2007 book, The Halo Effect and the Eight Other

Business Delusions that Deceive Managers (Free Press, 2007), takes a critical look at

the errors that pervade much business thinking. It was named Best Business Book of

the Year by get Abstracts, and was favorably reviewed in Harvard Business Review,

the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and dozens of other

newspapers and magazines. To date, it has been translated into 14 languages. An

article based on the book, “Misunderstanding the Nature of Firm Performance: The

Halo Effect and Other Business Delusions,” received the Accenture Award as best

article of 2007 in California Management Review.

Drawing on 25 years of business and academic experience, Professor Rosenzweig has

consulted with numerous firms in Europe and North America, and has taught

executive courses in North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, and

the Middle East. Prior to joining IMD, Phil Rosenzweig was assistant professor at

Harvard Business School from 1990 to 1996. In addition to his academic experience,

he worked with Hewlett-Packard Company in California from 1979 to 1986.

He received his PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1990;

MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1980; BA in economics from

the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976.

Dual EMBA 2015 - 2016

South Africa Module January 17 to 23, 2016

BINGSHENG TENG

Professor Teng is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at CKGSB and

the Associate Dean of CKGSB European Campus. He formerly served as a

tenured Associate Professor of Strategic Management at George Washington

University (GWU), where he was a doctoral advisor and lead professor of the

departmental doctoral program.

Achievements

Professor Teng has published over 20 articles in academic journals including

Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. His research is

included in most textbooks on strategic management.

An authority on strategic alliances, he has been interviewed by media such as

The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Professor Teng is a member of the Academy of Management and serves on the

editorial board of International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. He

has received many rewards for his research, including the Wendell and Louis

Crain Research Scholar at the GWU School of Business.

His biography appears in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American

Higher Education.

AIMIN YAN

Dual EMBA 2015 - 2016

South Africa Module January 17 to 23, 2016

Dr. Yan Aimin is Professor of Management at CKGSB. He served as Professor

of Organizational Behavior at Boston University School of Management (with

tenure), where he also held positions of Faculty Director of International MBA,

Faculty Liaison of Organizational Behavior Ph.D. Program, and Research

Director of Human Resources Policy Institute. As one of the founding faculty,

Prof. Yan participated in the founding of CKGSB in 2002 and has been a visiting

professor till May 2014. He has taught Introduction to Management and

Organizational Behavior for EMBA, MBA and FMBA, from the first class to now.

Prof. Yan sits on the editorial board of several academic journals, including

Journal of International Management, Journal of Management and

Organization, Harvard Business Review (Chinese edition), and Journal of Asia

Business Studies.

Achievements

Prof. Yan has published widely in leading academic journals such as the

Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of

International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of

Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of

International Management, and Human Relations. He was ranked by Journal of

International Management one of the Top 9 scholars in the Global Strategic

Management area based on “productivity” and “scholarly impact”.

MARTHA L. MAZNEVSKI

Martha Maznevski is Professor of Organizational Behavior and International

Management at IMD.

She teaches courses and modules spanning a broad range of organizational

behavior topics, including teams and leadership in global and virtual (distance)

contexts, diversity and inclusiveness, and the relationship between

organizational and national culture. She leads company programs for Skanska,

Adecco, Maersk and other companies. From 2009-2013 she directed IMD’s

globally recognized full-time MBA program. She has served as a consultant and

advisor to public and private organizations in North America, Europe, Latin

America and Asia on challenges and opportunities of managing people globally.

Professor Maznevski has presented and published numerous articles on these

subjects, including the popular textbook International Management Behavior,

currently in its seventh edition (Wiley). Her current research focuses on the

on-going dynamics of high-performing teams and networks in multinational

organizations, and leading people in global complexity. Martha Maznevski co-

developed the Cultural Perspectives Questionnaire, an instrument that

measures individuals’ cultural orientations and is widely used as a diagnostic

tool in global teams and organizations.

Before joining IMD, Professor Maznevski served as Faculty at the University of

Virginia (USA) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and as a

visiting researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). She

earned degrees in education from the University of Toronto (Canada), and in

anthropology (undergraduate) and business administration (PhD) from the

University of Western Ontario.