Christopher A. Bartlett is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, he was a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, a management consultant in McKinsey and company's London office, and general manager at Baxter Laboratories' subsidiary company in France.

Since joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1979, his interests have focused on strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in multinational corporations and on the organizational and managerial impact of transformational change. He served as faculty chair of the International Senior Management Program and as area head of the School's General Management Unit, as faculty chairman of the Program for Global Leadership, and as chair of the Humanitarian Leadership Program.

He has published eight books, including (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal) Managing Across Borders:The Transnational Solution, named by Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential business books of the century; and The Individualized Corporation, winner of the Igor Ansoff Award for the best new work in strategic management and named one of the Best Business Books for the Millennium by Strategy + Business magazine. Both books have been translated into more than ten languages. His articles have appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. He has also researched and written over 100 case studies and teaching notes. He has been elected by his colleagures as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of Internet Business, The Strategic Management Sociely, and the World Economic Forum.

The late Sumantra Ghoshal was Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also served as the Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and was a member of The Committee of Overseers of the Harvard Business School. Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution, a book he co-authored with Christopher Bartlett, has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential management books and has been translated into nine languages. The Differentiated Network: Organizing the Multinational Corporation for Value Creation, a book he co-authored with Nitin Nohria, won the George Terry Book Award in 1997. The Individualized Corporation, co-authored with Christopher Bartlett, won the Igor Ansoff Award in 1997 and has been translated into seven languages. His last book, Managing Radical Change, won the Management Book of the Year award in India. With doctoral degrees from both the MIT School of Management and the Harvard Business School, Sumantra served on the Editorial Boards of several academic journals and was a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the World Economic Forum.

Paul Beamish holds the Canada Research Chair in International Business at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, articles, contributed chapters, and teaching cases. His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal,Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), and elsewhere. He has received best research awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business (AIB). In 1997 and 2003, he was recognized in the Journal of International Management as one of the top three contributors worldwide to international strategic management literature in the previous decade. He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 1993-97 and is a Fellow of the AIB. He worked for Proctor & Gamble and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey’s faculty in 1987.

Paul has supervised 18 doctoral dissertations, many involving international joint ventures and alliances. His consulting, management training, and joint venture facilitation activities have been in both the public and private sector.

At Ivey, he has taught in a variety of school programs, including the Executive MBA offered at its campus in Hong Kong. From 1999-2004, he served as Associate Dean of Research. He currently serves as Director of Ivey Publishing, the distributor of Ivey’s collection of over 2,400 current cases;Ivey’s Asian Management Institute (AMI); and the newly established cross-enterprise center which focuses on Engaging Emerging Markets.