IESE Business School

The teaching faculty, drawn from CEIBS, HBS and IESE comprises a team of educators who have distinguished academic and professional reputations. Through their research on business issues, teaching in executive programs and hands-on experience as business executives, consultants, advisers, corporate board directors, and members of professional associations, they remain connected to the business community worldwide and make significant contributions to the practice of management. As authors and co-authors, program faculty members have produced volumes of books, cases, articles and academic papers, many of which are global in both outlook and content and have been published internationally.

Professors from IESE Business School

Jaume Ribera is Program Co-director and Professor of Production and Operations Management at IESE in Barcelona, Spain. He is also the Port of Barcelona Professor of Logistics at CEIBS. He had already worked as an industrial engineer before earning his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and his Doctorate in Engineering in Spain. He became a registered professional industrial engineer in Spain in 1975. He is a Member of the Board of the European Operations Management Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Harvard Business Review (China). He is the author of several books and research papers. He has extensive consulting experience with private and public companies in Europe, America and Asia; his consulting clients have included the European Union and the World Bank. His work concentrates on the design and improvement of operations systems in manufacturing and service operations, with special emphasis on healthcare systems. He has been collaborating with Chinese corporations since 1987.

Antonio Dávila is director of IESE's Ph.D. program and professor of Entrepreneurship and Accounting and Control. He has held teaching and assistantship positions at the Universities of Stanford and Harvard.
Prof. Dávila earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Business School and his MBA from IESE. His teaching and research interests focus on management systems in entrepreneurial firms, new product development and innovation management, and performance measurement.

José Luis Nueno is Professor in the Marketing Department at IESE. He received his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, Master of Business Administration degree from IESE and his Bachelor Degree in Law from the University of Barcelona. His areas of specialization include manufacturer/distributor relationships, business to business and industrial marketing, distribution, market research, brands and luxury goods.

Professors from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Zhang Weijiong is Professor of Management, Vice President and Co-Dean at CEIBS. He is also the Director of the Centre of Chinese Private Enterprises at CEIBS. Before joining the school, Dr. Zhang was Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Management School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Zhang received his MSc in Marketing and his Ph.D. in strategy from the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His bachelor's degree is from the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Zhang's research has been published in Management Engineering, the Journal of Asian Business, the Journal of Pacific Affairs, Shanghai Management Science and the Journal of Advertising Research. His current research is focused on Chinese private enterprises, business environmental uncertainty and strategy, and internal price transfers.

Willem Burgers is Professor of Marketing at CEIBS. He teaches marketing and strategy courses for Executive Education, MBA and EMBA programs at CEIBS. He also teaches an industrial marketing course for executive programs at Columbia University in New York. His research focuses on the areas of strategy, marketing, and international business. He came to Asia to work in 1994. He was on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 1996. His latest works can be found in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, California Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and China Business Review. He has provided consulting services as well as designed and delivered in-company programs for a number of companies, in China and elsewhere.

Dr. Dingbo Xu is Professor of Accounting at CEIBS. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a visiting professor at Peking University teaching MBA and EMBA courses and also taught for the University of Minnesota's China EMBA program. He has been actively involved in several executive training programs both in Mainland China and in Hong Kong. He is a financial management advisor to some local governments and several top multinational corporations. He is also an advisor to China MBA magazine. He has received several teaching awards, including the CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award in 2004 and 2005.Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Minnesota. He earned both his master's degree in Management and bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Wuhan University. His research focuses on mechanism design, the role of accounting information disclosure on management decision-making, performance evaluation and incentive. His research has been published in the Journal of Economic Theory and several books.

Ding Yuanis Associate Professor of Accounting at CEIBS. He also serves on the faculty of HEC School of Management in Paris, France. He is the Academic Deputy President, Research Center of Complex Data Analysis of Beihang University, Beijing, China, and member of European Accounting Association, French Accounting Association and American Accounting Association. He is also Board Member of the journal Global Perspectives on Accounting Education. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the Montesquieu University of Bordeaux, France, and his Master in Enterprises Administration from the University of Poitiers, France. His current research is focused on intangibles, international accounting harmonisation, corporate governance issues and accounting reform in China. His research has been published in Abacus, The International Journal of Accounting, Advances in International Accounting, Managerial Finance and several leading French academic journals.

Pedro Nueno is Executive President at CEIBS, Bertran Foundation Chair Professor for Entrepreneurial Management and Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship at IESE. He received his Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University. As a founding member of CEIBS, he was instrumental in soliciting support from the European Union and the Shanghai municipal government for the establishment of the school. To recognize his outstanding contributions to business education in China, the Shanghai municipal government awarded him the White Magnolia Award, the highest honor for a foreign expert in China. He was the Spanish Program Executive Co-Director for "China from Inside," a joint program launched by CEIBS and IESE in the early years. Besides, he is Vice-Chancellor of the International Academy of Management. He has published over 70 articles in periodicals, university journals and a collection of research papers. His Reflotando la Empresa has been translated into French, English and Dutch. Other recent works of his include Entrepreneuring, and The Light and The Shadow: How Breakthrough Innovation is Shaping European Business. The latter was co-authored with Otto Kalthoff and Ikujiro Nonaka, and was translated into Spanish, Japanese, German and Chinese. He has been a consultant for domestic and international institutions and corporations in many industries and serves on the board of several companies.

Wu Jinglian is Bao Steel Chair Professor of Economics at CEIBS. He graduated from Fudan University and is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Senior Research Associate at the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. As one of the most senior and respected economists in China, he was previously Executive Director at the Development Research Center of the State Council and Deputy Director of the Programming Office for Economic Reform of the State Council. Besides, he was a Visiting Fellow and Professor at Yale University, MIT and Stanford University, USA, and Oxford University UK. He has extensive research interests has penned numerous articles for renowned journals.

Arthur Yeung is Philips Chair Professor of Human Resource Management, Director of the Center of Organization and People Excellence and Academic Advisor of Executive Education at CEIBS. He is also Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. He holds a Ph.D. from the same University. Prior to his recent return to academia, he was CHO and Corporate VP for the Acer Group. He is the founding Executive Director of three executive learning consortia in the US, Asia Pacific and Taiwan. He has published more than 20 articles in leading HR journals and is also co-author of three books on strategic human resource management and organizational learning capability. He was awarded the title "Researcher of the Year" by the Society of Human Resource Management and also received the "Paper of the Year" award from the Human Resource Planning Society. He was recognized by Business Horizon Magazine in 1999 as a next-generation "Executive Development Guru" in honor of his outstanding contributions to executive education, and was featured as "Excellent CHO of the Year" by Smart Fortune Magazine in China for his contribution to the management and structural reforms implemented by Acer Group. In addition to research and teaching, he has also been involved in training and consulting projects for corporations in North America and Asia.

Xu Xiaonian is Professor of Economics and Finance at CEIBS. He has worked as Managing Director and Head of Research for China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) since 1999. In 2002, his research team was ranked number 1 among domestic brokerage firms by Chinese institutional investors. In the same survey, he was voted "Best Researcher of Economics." Prior to CICC, he was Senior Economist with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific (1997-1998). In 1996 he worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington DC. From 1991 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He was employed by the Chinese State Development Research Center as a Research Fellow from 1981 to 1985. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, in 1991. In 1996 he received the Sun Yefang Economics Prize, the highest Chinese award in the field, for his research on China's capital markets.

Professors from Harvard Business School (HBS)

Richard Vietor is the co-faculty director and is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he teaches courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy. For his courses in business-government relations and environmental management, he has published more than three dozen case studies on international energy issues, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, as well as on strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications and financial services. Professor Vietor's research on business and government policy has been published in numerous journals and books. His books include Contrived Competition (1994), Business Management and the Natural Environment (1996) and Globalization and Growth: Case Studies in National Economic Strategies (2001).

Boris Groysberg is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches the Managing Human Capital course in the second year elective course of the MBA program and in several Executive Education programs. Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related papers, he examines how firms develop, hire, retain, and utilize star knowledge workers. By focusing on the performance of these highly skilled professionals, his research contributes to the human capital theory, the theory of allocation of talent, the theory of labor market competition, and human research management studies. Boris Groysberg has won, for two consecutive years, the Strategic Management Society PhD Fellowship (Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS fellow) for his research on talent management. In 2001, he was also named runner up for the Best Conference Paper Prize.

Li Jin is an associate professor in the finance area at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches the required finance course in the first year MBA program. His primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance and asset pricing. His current researches study trading patterns of institutional investors such as hedge funds, mutual funds and pension. He has also studied compensations of corporate managers and the comparison of securities markets across countries. Professor Jin received his Ph.D. in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2001, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Fudan University in 1992. Before entering graduate school, he was a full time faculty member at Fudan University, and has worked as a part time consultant in the Investment Banking Division of Shanghai International Securities Co. Ltd.

James K. Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. He holds the first Gordon Donaldson Professorship of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In 1993, he took the lead in the School's decision--unique among major business schools--to make negotiation a required course in the MBA Program and to create a Negotiation Unit (department) which he headed for several years. The Negotiation Unit grew to eight full-time negotiation faculty teaching the required course to over 800 students per year as well as offering advanced dealmaking and negotiation courses to MBAs, doctoral students, and executives. The Negotiation Unit subsequently merged with the School's Organization and Markets Unit to form a new Unit, "Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets (NOM)." Formerly an Associate Professor on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Sebenius also currently serves as Vice Chair and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School. At PON, he has taken the lead role in the University's annual Great Negotiator Award program, which has intensively engaged with and brought negotiators such as George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke to campus.