DIRECTORS
Mary Ann Von Glinow, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Chair
in International Management

email: vonglino@fiu.edu
Phone: 305-348-4218
Sonia Verdu
Assistant Director

email: Sonia.Verdu@fiu.edu
Phone: 305-348-6834

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.

 

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