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Doing Business in Emerging Markets Series Faculty
Doing Business in China
Karen S. Walch, Nandani Lynton, C. Roe Goddard
Doing Business in India
Sundaresan Ram, Kishore C. Dash, Karen S. Walch
Doing Business in Russia
Olufemi Babarinde, R. Terry Stockham, Karen S. Walch
Doing Business in Latin America
Roy Nelson, Humberto Valencia, Karen S. Walch
Multicultural Negotiations
Karen S. Walch
Karen S. Walch, PhD
Dr. Walch is an Associate Professor of the Garvin Center of Culture and Languages at Thunderbird School of Global Management. She received her PhD and MS in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a BS in Social Change and Development at UW-Green Bay. Dr. Walch is certified to administer the Cultural Orientations Indicator, the Emotional Competency Inventory, and Expert Negotiator, the Latz Institute’s negotiation planning software. She has received numerous teaching awards, and has been invited to serve on several research projects including Bertelsmann’s Corporate Cultures project and the National Science Academy publication on the impact of culture for neuroscience research. In addition to teaching at the Glendale campus, she has taught courses in Mexico, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea and Cuba. Her executive education clients include Exxon/Mobil, Delta Airlines, SK Korea, Honeywell, Kellogg, Acer Taiwan and many others. She is author of Self-Interest and Collaboration: The CBI Experience and co-author of Understanding Negotiation (translated in Chinese).
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Nandani Lynton, PhD
Living in China since 1993, Dr. Lynton is Vice President of Corporate Learning Asia and Clinical Professor of Global Business at Thunderbird. She leads the executive education activities in Asia, and designs and delivers senior executive programs. Dr. Lynton holds an MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and has applied anthropological insights to business consulting with Fortune 500 multinationals and governmental organizations around the world. Together with professors and graduate students of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Management, she designed training programs for joint venture operations. Dr. Lynton was an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, responsible for the joint UNC and Peking Union Medical College medical-management training program. A frequent public speaker and author, her recent publications include an article on the dilemmas facing Chinese executives, a chapter on trends and practices in management development in China, as well as a regular column on Businessweek.com.
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C. Roe Goddard, PhD
Dr. Goddard is an Associate Professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His areas of teaching and research are international monetary/financial relations and globalization, and foreign direct investment management in China. Dr. Goddard received his MBA in International Business from the University of Denver and his PhD in International Political Economy from the University of South Carolina. After receiving his MBA, Dr. Goddard taught at several universities in China and was a consultant with Arthur Andersen’s Shanghai, China office. He teaches in the EMBA program at the Southwest University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, and is Senior Advisor to the Chengdu Investment Promotion Commission. He is author of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Latin American Debt Issue and co-editor of International Political Economy-State-Market Relations in the Changing Global Order. Dr. Goddard recently published case studies on China’s economic reform process and the management of manufacturing enterprises in China.
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Sundaresan Ram, PhD
Dr. Ram is Associate Professor of Marketing, Department of World Business at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has served on the marketing faculty at UCLA, University of California at Irvine, and University of Arizona prior to joining Thunderbird. Dr. Ram is the multiple recipient of the Outstanding Professor Award for teaching excellence at Thunderbird, in both the MBA and Executive MBA programs. Dr. Ram has published extensively in the area of new product management. His research and corporate consulting address issues such as customer resistance to innovations, usage of high-tech products, global product development, and expert system design for new product screening. He is the co-author of Bringing Innovation to Market: How to Break Corporate and Customer Barriers.
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Kishore C. Dash, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dr. Dash’s major areas of teaching and research are international political economy, contemporary business and political risk management in Asia, and telecommunications and foreign direct investment management in India and Asia. He is the winner of Thunderbird’s prestigious William Hacker Faculty Award for excellence in research and teaching. Dr. Dash holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Delhi and a PhD in International Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has taught graduate courses at the University of Delhi and the University of Hawaii at Manoa for several years. Before joining the Thunderbird faculty in 1996, Dr. Dash served as a Research Fellow in the Education and Training Programs of the East-West Center (EWC) at Honolulu, Hawaii. As a research Fellow at EWC, he worked closely with the World Bank group and Asian Development Bank on foreign direct investment issues in Asia. At the East-West Center, he has designed and conducted training programs for business executives and government officials from Korea, Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Kampuchea and Vietnam.
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Olufemi Babarinde, PhD
Dr. Babarinde is Academic Director for MBA and Associate Professor of Global Studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He received his PhD from Miami University where he specialized in political science and economics. Dr. Babarinde’s major areas of teaching and research are international political economy, European business, the European Union and Africa. A native of Nigeria, Dr. Babarinde spends his winter breaks in South Africa teaching Thunderbird students about the market opportunities that exist in the South African economy. He has organized international conferences that focus on Africa’s challenges and investment opportunities, as well as conferences on opportunities in the United States and the European Union. Dr. Babarinde teaches at both the Glendale and Prague Thunderbird campuses. He is a member of the European Union Studies Association, the International Studies Association, the Academy of International Business and the African Studies Association.
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R. Terry Stockham, HCS, SPHR, GRP
Mr. Stockham is Adjunct Professor of Global Human Resources Leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Center for Business Skills Development in Moscow, Russia. Mr. Stockham is also Executive Director of the Human Capital Institute Eurasia and the Center for Talent Solutions and Chairman of the Board of The Marten Group, Russia. He is an organizational development consultant and coach and has extensive experience in human resources, strategy and organizational development in Russia.
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Roy Nelson, PhD
An Associate Professor of International Studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dr. Nelson holds a PhD and MA from Cornell University, an MA from Yale University, and a BA from Stanford University. His major areas of teaching and research are Brazil / South America, business-government relations, foreign direct investment and international political economy. Dr. Nelson was Academic Director of Thunderbird’s Executive MBA program in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 2000-2004. His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries has made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He is the author of Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial Policy in Brazil and the forthcoming Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America.
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Humberto Valencia, PhD
Dr. Valencia is Vice President for Distance Learning and Associate Professor of Marketing at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He holds a PhD in Marketing from Georgia State University, an MBA from Louisiana State University, an MA in International Affairs from Ohio University, and a BS in Business Administration and Economics from Carroll College. Dr. Valencia is an expert in the USA Hispanic market, global marketing strategy, and international consumer marketing. He has authored more than 25 scholarly articles published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising Research and the Journal of Advertising. He co-founded the Global MBA for Latin American Managers program, a distance-learning master’s degree in international management offered via satellite classes in six countries and 15 sites. In September 2006, under the direction of Dr. Valencia, Thunderbird launched the Global MBA On-Demand program, a blended, web-based, asynchronous distance-learning program.
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