Teaching
I have extensive experience teaching business and policy practitioners, including senior executives and policymakers. At CEIBS, I taught in the Global EMBA program for over five years and was recognized for my teaching excellence. Prior to CEIBS, I regularly gave talks to senior government officials in Australia and in Singapore. I also have extensive experience teaching MA and PhD courses.
My teaching is best represented by the following two courses:
China Within the World: Business-Government Strategy in the Global Arena
The rules of the global economy are changing. They were last written by the United States at the end of World War II. Countries with the most extensive business ties to the United States experienced one of the longest sustained periods of prosperity in world history. Those countries now comprise many of today’s advanced economies; their businesses are among the world’s largest and most profitable.
Today, China is vying with the United States for global leadership and drafting a new set of rules, as manifested by the Belt and Road Initiative. A new group of emerging economies and businesses are poised to reap tremendous rewards, but only if they correctly identify the opportunities and minimize the risks.
As geopolitical competition intensifies, the changing opportunities and risks in the global business environment are being shaped by two fundamental differences between these great powers:
1) The predominant role of state-owned organizations versus private firms
2) Autocracy versus democracy
This course examines how these differences impact: (1) the control and structure of the corporate sector, (2) public-private partnerships and implications for economic development and sustainability, (3) domestic and international sources of political risk, (4) China’s foreign infrastructure and digitalization initiatives, and (5) where some of the biggest opportunities are emerging. While each of these topics is important in its own right, the first three are necessary building blocks to understand the opportunities and risks associated with China’s growing presence in the global economy.
Social Science Research Methods
This course provides a PhD-level introduction to and overview of approaches to social science research. The course covers topics such as, but not limited to, the generation of theories and research questions, measurement, research designs (quantitative and qualitative), and mixing methods.
