| Dr.
Von Glinow is Director of the Center for International Business
Education and Research (CIBER) and is Knight Ridder Eminent
Scholar Chair in International Management & Research Professor
of Management and International Business at Florida International
University. She also is the Vice President of the Academy
of International Business (AIB) and an editor of JIBS. Previously
on the Marshall School faculty of the University of Southern
California, she has an MBA and Ph D in Management Science
from The Ohio State University. Dr. Von Glinow was the 1994-95
President of the Academy of Management, the world’s
largest association of academicians in management and is a
Fellow of the Academy, and the Pan Pacific Business Association.
She sits on eleven editorial review boards and numerous international
panels. She teaches in executive programs in Latin America,
Central America, the Caribbean region, Asia and the U.S.
Dr. Von Glinow has authored over 100 journal
articles and eleven books. Her most recent include Managing
Multinational Teams by Elsevier, 2005; Organizational
Learning Capability by Oxford University Press, 1999 (in
Chinese and Spanish translation) which won a Gold Book Award
from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan in 2002. She
also has a popular textbook: Organizational Behavior,
2004, Irwin/McGraw Hill. She heads an international consortium
of researchers delving into “Best International Human
Resource Management Practices,” and her research in
this arena won an award from the American Society for Competitiveness’
Board of Trustees. She also received an NSF grant to study
globally-distributed work. Dr. Von Glinow is the 2005 Academy
of Management recipient of the Distinguished Service Award,
one of the Academy's 3 highest honors bestowed.
Mary Ann consults
to a number of domestic and multinational enterprises, and
serves as a mayoral appointee to the Shanghai Institute of
Human Resources in China. Since 1989, she has been a consultant
in General Electric’s “Workout” and “Change
Acceleration Program” including “Coaching to Management.”
Her clients have included Asia Development Bank, American
Express, Diageo, Knight-Ridder, Burger King, Pillsbury, Westinghouse,
Southern California Edison, The Aetna, State of Florida, Kaiser
Permanente, TRW, Rockwell Int’l, Motorola, N.Y. Life,
Amoco, Lucent, and Joe’s Stone Crabs, to name a few.
She is on the Board of Friends of WLRN, the Fielding Graduate
Institute, Friends of Bay Oaks, Pan-Pacific Business Association
and Animal Alliance in Los Angeles. She is actively involved
in several animal welfare organizations and received the 1996
Humanitarian Award of the Year from Miami’s Adopt-a-Pet. |
Sonia Verdu is the Assistant Director
of the Center for International Business Education and Research
at Florida International University. Sonia, a native of Barcelona,
Spain received her law degree at the Universidad de Barcelona
and a Masters in International Business Law at American University
in Washington D.C.
After graduating, Sonia worked in Beveridge
& Diamond, LLP as Counsel Assistant where she collaborated
in U.S. Federal Court fraud cases analyzing the enforcement
of international law. In 1998, while a consultant for the
World Bank, she was appointed Director of Research of First
Renaissance Ventures, an international consulting firm with
offices in Europe and the US. As Director of Research, Sonia
procured finance for U.S. companies through government agencies,
developed business plans for construction and infrastructure
development sectors in Mexico, Honduras, Bahamas, Turkey and
the U.S., and directed “Promoting U.S. Wood Housing
Products in Post Earthquake Turkey,” a U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture project to advocate the use of U.S. wood products
in earthquake sensitive areas. She was also the supervisor
of the academic internship programs for graduate international
business students.
In March 2003, after moving to Miami, Sonia
became the Program Coordinator for FIU-CIBER, where she assisted
the Center in developing and structuring outreach research
and educational activities. In 2008 Sonia became the Assistant
Director of the CIBER from where she is creating and organizing
programs to improve US economic competitiveness and promoting
business language projects. |
