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I n t e r n a t i o n a l B u s i n e s s Newsletter8thNation!IB ProgramU.S. News and World Report, theleading organization ranking businessschool programs, has ranked theUniversity of Missouri-St. Louisundergraduate international businessprogram as 8th in the United States(tied with Georgetown University).This is the fourth straight year UM-St. Louis undergraduate international business has been rankedin the top twenty. Other universities in the top teninclude the University of South Carolina, NYU,the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), theUniversity of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Universityof California-Berkeley, the University of TexasAustin, Florida International University, TempleUniversity, and San Diego State University.Last year our program ranked 16th, so thisDr. Alan BirdDirector, InternationalBusiness Programs,University ofMissouri-St. Louisis a significant improvement in the rankings.As Allan Bird, director of the IB program, pointed out,the combination of a unique collaboration with our Honors College andaggressive recruitment of well-respected faculty has helped our program gainin quality as well as recognition. We will continue to improve our program andhope for even higher recognition in the future.Fa l l 2 0 0 6Our Undergraduateranksin theVo l u m e 4 , N u m b e r 2College of Business Administration University of Missouri-St. Louis
2New International Business Faculty Highlight:{ Janet Murray }University of Missouri-St. LouisJanet Y. Murray is E. Desmond LeeProfessor for Developing Women Leadersand Entrepreneurs in InternationalBusiness at the University of MissouriSt. Louis.Dr. Murray received her Ph.D. in marketingfrom the University of Missouri–Columbia in 1992.UMSL BusinessSchool HiresTwo New InternationalFaculty MembersShe has previously held faculty positions in marketingYoung-Won Her has joined us as a newand international business at Saint Louis University,Assistant Professor of Accounting this semester.Originally from South Korea, he holds a Ph.D.in Business Administration with an emphasisin Accounting from the Universityof South Carolina and a Mastersdegree in the same area from PusanNational University. Dr. Her has alsodone research at LaTrobe Universityin Melbourne, Australia and hisareas of interests include behavioraldecision research and culturaldifferences in managerial accounting.Cleveland State University, and City University of HongKong. Dr. Murray’s publications have appeared injournals such as Journal of Marketing, StrategicManagement Journal, Journal of InternationalBusiness Studies, Journal of BusinessResearch, Journal of World Business,Journal of International Marketing,Industrial Marketing Management,Management International Review,and others. Dr. Murray was arecipient of four Best Paper Awards.She has consulted with Fortune 500and other firms in the areas ofmarketing and international businessstrategies. Dr. Murray serves onthe editorial review boards forJournal of International Marketingand Journal of InternationalManagement. In October 2005,the Center for InternationalBusiness Education andResearch (CIBER) at MichiganState University identified 89most prolific researchers (outof a total of 1,908 authors) inInternational Business during1996-2005, among whomDr. Murray was ranked #21.The ranking also reflects thatDr. Murray placed #1 amongfemale IB researchers.Frank Q. Fu is a new Assistant Professorof Marketing. He received his Ph.D. in Marketingfrom the University of Houston and also holds anMBA in Marketing from the University of Rochester.His research interests focus on the relationshipbetween sales force management and new productmanagement. Dr. Fu has workedas District Sales Manager forJohnson & Johnson in Chinaand received several awardsfrom the AMA for his papers.
College of Business Administration3Japan Study TourIn May, 28 students and two facultymembers headed out to Japan fortwo weeks of intensive field study.Professor Allan Bird (Business)and Elizabeth Eckelkamp (ForeignLanguage & Literature) led studentson a fast-paced trip that was packedwith government briefings, companyvisits, tours of cultural sites, visitswith Japan-based alumni and studentexchanges at our partner universitiesin Tokyo and Kyoto. Sony, Canon,Fujitsu, Seven & i Holdings (parentof Seven Eleven Japan), Shinsei Bankand Nishijin Textile comprised the listof company visits.One of the lasting highlights of thestudy tour was an opportunity to visitwith students at Rikkyo University inTokyo. Students not only spent timelearning about campus life in Japan,they also established friendships witha number of Rikkyo students who arenow studying at UM-St. Louis as partof a newly established exchangeprogram.In 2007, faculty and students will settheir sights on a study tour to China.Faculty on the Move:Faculty Exchange with FinlandThis past May, Betty Vining, IBI Fellow and 2006 recipient of theGovernor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, spent three weekslecturing in Finland at Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences aspart of our faculty exchange program. While Betty was in Finlandteaching the art of doing business in the European Union from anAmerican perspective, Sr. Lecturer Ville-Pekka.Makelainen was atUM-St. Louis giving our students a European view of Business toBusiness Marketing. Many students at Seinajoki take advantageof the Erasmus program offered by the European Union. Erasmusallows EU students the opportunity to study in other countries withinthe Union tuition free. The class was therefore a mix of students frommany European cultures and perspectives. As Betty said, “It was veryinteresting and enlightening to have students who actually live andwork in the EU in my class. Their observations will definitely enrichmy course presentations at UM-St. Louis.”
4College of Business AdministrationOur Man in Vienna:Dr. David RicksIn May, Dr. David Ricks, Curators Professor and DistinguishedProfessor of International Business, stepped down as directorof the International Business program to take on a special assignmentin Vienna, Austria. Prior to transitioning into retirement, Dr. Ricksrelocated to Vienna where he is overseeing the College’s variousEuropean initiatives. In particular, he is focused on strengtheningour IMBA partner relationships with Vienna University and withRobert Schumann University in Strasbourg, France. He will alsofacilitate development and ongoing support of our Study Tourprograms in Europe.Part of David’s mission in Vienna is to facilitate faculty exchange.As a result, Brigitte Bojkowszky joined the College of BusinessAdministration this semester as a Visiting Assistant Professor teachingInternational Management. Dr. Bojkowszky says, “I enjoy sharing myworld travel experience with my students which helps them to betterunderstand differences in diverse cultures and, eventually, helps themto apply that in an international business context. Having taught indifferent countries such as the United Kingdom (Aston University),Ukraine (Kiev University of Economics) and Vienna (University ofEconomics and Business Administration) has helped me identifywith students from different nations.”Brigitte BojkowszkyVisiting Assistant ProfessorIMBA UpdateDr. Thomas Eyssell and studentsfrom Nanching UniversityBuilding on its top ten ranking in International Business at the undergraduate level, the UM-St. LouisCollege of Business Administration launched its new International MBA program one year ago, withconsortium partners in Austria, China, France and Japan. As UM-St. Louis’ first full-time IMBA program,it consists of a two-year course of study in which participants spend their first year studying outsideof their home countries, then come to UM-St. Louis to finish their second year.Two features distinguish this international business program from virtually every other IB program in theSt. Louis metropolitan area. First, all participants are required to complete a foreign internship arrangedby UM-St. Louis, and second, participants have the ability to complete the requirements for two Masters’degrees during their two years of study - the Master of Business Administration at UM-St. Louis, and theanalogous degree at the foreign partner institution.For further information, please contact the IMBA Program Director, Dr. Allan Bird (abird@umsl.edu;314.516.6286) or Dr. Thomas Eyssell, Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies(eyssellt@msx.umsl.edu; 314.516.5885).
Bird, A. & Osland, J.S., 2006, Globalleaders as experts, Advances inGlobal Leadership, 4: 125-145.Bird, A. & Osland, J.S., 2005, MakingGao, Gerald Yong, Yigang Pan, David K.Meznar, Martin and Julius H. Johnson, Jr.,Rottman, J., and Lacity, M., “ProvenTse, and Chi Kin (Bennett) Yim, 2006,2005, Business-Government RelationsPractices for Effectively Offshoring“Market Share Performance ofWithin A Contingency TheoryIT Work,” Sloan Management Review,Foreign and Domestic Brands inFramework: Strategy, Structure,Vol. 47, 3, Spring, 2006, pp. 56-63.China,” Journal of InternationalFit and Performance, BusinessMarketing, 14 (2), 35-51.and Society, 44: (2): 119-144.Harris, Michael, “Global Forum: Cross-Janet Y. Murray, Masaaki Kotabe, andon Hybrid Mortgage Loans in Taiwan,”Cultural Skill: An Emerging ConstructJoe Nan Zhou, 2005, “StrategicInterfaces, 35 (3), May-June, 2005,for the 21st Century,” The Industrial-Alliance-based Sourcing and Market215-229.Organizational Psychologist,Performance: Evidence from ForeignJanuary, 2006.firms Operating in China,” Journalsense of intercultural collaboration,Harris, Michael, “Global Forum: I-OInternational Studies ofPsychology and the Offshoring ofManagement and Organizations,of International Business Studies,36 (2), pp. 187-208.Smith L.D., C. Bilir, V.W. Huang, K. Hung,M. Kaplan, “Citibank Models Credit RiskSweeney, D., Campbell, J.F. andMundy, R., “Teaching with CommercialLogistics an Supply Chain Software,”Proceedings of the Thirty-FourthWork: A Debate Between Dr. QuoJanet Y. Murray and Mike C. H. Chao,Annual Supply Chain Managementand Dr. Nu,” The Industrial-2005, “A Cross-Team FrameworkEducators Conference, San Diego,Bojkowszky, B.H.T. and Bodo B.Organizational Psychologist,of International KnowledgeCalifornia, October 23, 2005.Schlegelmilch, “Drivers of ContinuousApril, 2006.Acquisition on New Product35 (4): 115-132.Resource Commitment inLin, Z., Yang, H., Arya, B., Huang, Z.,International R&D Alliances, – Anand Li, Dan, 2005, StructuralEmpirical Analysis,” Proceedings:Academy of International Business,Beijing, China, June 23-26, 2006.versus individual perspectives onthe dynamics of group performance:Development Capabilities andNew Product Market Performance,”13 (3), pp. 54-78.Campbell, J.F, “A Survey of ModelsManagement, 31 (3): 354-381.and Algorithms for Winter RoadGood News: Press Coverage andCorporate Public Affairs, Journal ofPublic Affairs: An InternationalJournal, 6 (1): 58-69.Sourcing of Business and IT Services,Palgrave, United Kingdom, 2006.Zhou, Kevin Zheng, Gerald Yong Gao,Zhilin Yang, and Nan Zhou, 2005,investigation, Journal ofand Phillip J. Mizzi. 2006, No News isWillcocks, L., and Lacity, M., GlobalJournal of International Marketing,Theoretical exploration and empirical Perrier, N., Langevin, A. andMeznar, Martin, Julius H. Johnson, Jr.5Maintenance, Part I: System Designfor Spreading and Plowing,”Computers & Operations Research,“Developing Strategic Orientationin China: Antecedents andConsequences of Market andInnovation Orientations,” Journalof Business Research, 58 (8), 10491058.33, 209-238, 2006.A full listing of publications by ourIB Fellows and Research Associatescan be found at http://ib.umsl.edu/. Profile of an International Business Major :Leah SchmidtLeah SchmidtLeah Schmidt is a second year student in UMSL’s new IMBA program. Leah first became interestedin international business and relations on her first trip to France at 15. She spent three weeks in thecountry, including a family stay of a week near Geneva, Switzerland. Learning about the culture wasa new experience for Leah, and she decided at the end of the trip that any time spent on travel andgetting to know other cultures was well spent.Upon graduation from high school in a St. Louis suburb, Leah went on to further her education atPurdue University, where she majored in Communication with an emphasis in Advertising. Unfortunately,a study abroad plan was not in the cards. After graduating in 2002, she returned to St. Louis and wasemployed first in the sales department of a local branch of a Fortune 500 company, and then at a localadvertising and marketing agency. One of Leah’s goals was to get her MBA eventually, but it was notuntil she learned of UMSL’s IMBA program that she found something that fit her needs.Leah spent the 2005-2006 school year in Strasbourg, France. Her experience included classes, writinga thesis, completing an internship and visiting 11 new countries before heading back to the U.S.to complete the last year of the program. She plans to graduate in May 2007 and would like to workin marketing strategy for a global operation.Un i ve r s i t y o f Mi s s o u r i - St . L o u i sFaculty inPublicationHighlights
6University of Missouri-St. LouisAdvisory BoardMember Spotlight:Linda BoyceLinda Boyce manages a globalinitiative in IBM’s StrategicOutsourcing organization, andis dedicated to supporting IBM’sexisting client base. She has nearly twenty-nine years with IBM andhas spent her entire career in theServices arena. Her currentposition is the result of herbreadth of sales and marketingexperience coupled with overfifteen years of executive management in IBM’s Global Services(IGS) business.Ms. Boyce works with very largeclients who have outsourcedtheir information technologyenvironment to IBM. A substantialpart of her time is dedicatedto working with client executivesin understanding their outsourcing needs and identifying thestrategic and financial valueof the partnership with IBM.Collaboratively, we look for waysIBM can bring its broad expertiseto client’s global initiatives andbusiness challenges. Theseengagements include all aspectsof IT strategy: outsourcing application and infrastructure, humanresource services, financial andadministrative solutions andbusiness functions.Ms. Boyce joined IBM in 1978 asa Customer Engineer (technician)in Seattle. She progressedthrough a series of staff andmanagement positions in Seattle,San Francisco and IBM’s ServiceHeadquarters in New Jersey beforemoving to middle management inOklahoma City in 1989. Ms. Boycethen accepted a series of newresponsibilities as a project executivein the burgeoning services arena,executing contracts with Wal-Martand Nation’s Bank, before beingselected as Vice President forProduct Support Services in 1993.Following that assignment, she spenttwo years on an international assignment (1998-99) managing an internalIBM project to deploy a suite ofapplications into 60 countries.The effort included applicationdevelopment, architecture designand deployment and consolidateda variety of disparate applicationsinto a single suite of integratedsolutions.May BadraNew Staff MemberIn 2000, Ms. Boyce then accepteda position supporting IBM’s clientelein the middle market outsourcing arena. She andher geographic partners developed over 500 milliondollars in contracted business during her tenure inthis fast-paced market segment and accepted hercurrent position in 2004.Ms. Boyce received her BA from Washington StateUniversity, majoring in English Education andPsychology. She has been active in community service,participating as a board member for the YWCA, theDallas Symphony, working with a “no-kill” animalshelter and her church leadership team. She enjoyshorseback riding and owns a Tennessee Walking Horseand an Arabian and is an avid golfer. When she can,Ms. Boyce relaxes with her sweetheart, her two dogs,two cats and a good book!
7College of Business AdministrationInternational Business Institute(IBI) ActivitiesThe Institute is currently in the midst of undergoing a significant restructuring and expansion.Due to outstanding growth in the undergraduateIB program and ongoing expansion of the IMBAprogram, the dean has asked the Instituteto take the central role in coordinating andsupervising the many IB initiatives within theCollege.IB AdvisoryBoardMembersGilles CottierRichard NavarrePresident of ResearchCFO, ExecutiveEssentials Sigma-Vice PresidentAldrich Corporationof CorporateThomas EyssellDevelopmentAssociate Dean andPeabody EnergyDirector of GraduateAl PeralesStudies, Professor ofExecutive Vice PresidentFinance and Director,& General ManagerFinancial PlanningFor Health Vision’sAllan Birdand CounselingConsumer GroupE.S.S.A. ProfessorProgram, CollegeAgnes Rey-Girardof Japanese Studiesof BusinessCollege of BusinessAdministration,Administration,University ofUniversity ofMissouri-St. LouisMissouri-St. LouisNorihito FuruyaLinda BoyceCEOIBM, Global Services,IGB NETWORK Co., Ltd.Strategic OutsourcingJoel GlassmanAdministration,Associate ViceUniversity ofChancellor,Missouri-St. LouisSteve BurrowsAcademic AffairsMike RussellCEO & PresidentDirector, CenterAnheuser-Buschfor InternationalInternational, Inc.Studies, UniversityAnheuser Buschof Missouri-St. LouisRoss BushnellTina GravelSenior Vice President,Area Vice PresidentMehak Kapur comes to us fromIndia. She was born and raisedin Bombay and is currentlycompleting a Masters inComputer Science at UniversityMissouri-St. Louis.Sales & MarketingData ReturnGeneral Manager,Keikichi HondaMicrosoft CorporationChairmanElizabeth ViningMay Badra is a PalestinianAmerican who was born inDallas, TX and raised inBethlehem, Palestine. She livedin Bethlehem for 17 years andMehak KapurLucy Zhanghas been living in St. Louis forNew Staff Membersthe past four years. Mayreceived her undergraduate degreefrom UMSL and is now studying for her MBA.Director of TechnologyThe Institute is now working closely with thePierre Laclede Honors College, the College ofLiberal Arts, the Center for InternationalStudies and the Alumni Association to promotenew initiatives around enrollment increasesand student support.To help the Institute move forward with itslarger workload, the Institute has addedadditional personnel. Dr. Janet Murray(Des Lee Professor of Developing WomenLeaders in International Business andEntrepreneurship), has replacedDr. David Ricks. Also, theInstitute welcomes three newstaff members who bring anadded international flavor —May Badra (Palestine), MehakKapur (India), and LucyZhang (China/Canada).Xilu Zhang was born in Changchun, Chinaand has also lived in Montreal, Canada beforemoving to St. Louis eight years ago. Shecompleted her bachelor’s degree inInternational Business from UMSL and iscurrently studying in the IMBA program.Business Development,Financial Services SectorClosure SystemsSilgan PlasticsNCR JapanCorporationSteven CarterSouthern Graphic SystemsAn Alcoa CompanyMichael ColeVice President, AsiaA.O. Smith CorporationExpress-ScriptsDavid RicksCurators’ Professorof Managementand InternationalBusiness, Collegeof BusinessManager,International SalesWorld HeadquartersMark Andy Inc.Donald TaylorGlobal EscalationDirector, PlatformsSenior LecturerAlan Jarvis& InternationalCommercial RiskBusiness ClubManagerCoordinatorGMACCollege of BusinessJulius JohnsonAssociate Professorof ManagementAdministration,University ofMissouri-St. LouisCollege of BusinessKeith WomerMichael CostelloAdministration,Dean, College ofFounding MemberUniversity ofBusinessAgreeco, 11cMissouri-St. LouisAdministration,Glenn KarlinseyComplex ManagerUniversity of MissouriSt. LouisDexter, MissouriPeter K. YamTyson Foods, Inc.President, Greater ChinaEmerson Electric Co.
International Business St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4400College of Business Administration University of Missouri-St. LouisOne University BoulevardIsn’t this old?Check out the QuickTime videoon our new web site to find out moreabout our program.The University of Missouri-St. Louis
UMSL Business School Hires Two New International Faculty Members Young-Won Herhas joined us as a new Assistant Professor of Accounting this semester. Originally from South Korea, he holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of South Carolina and a Ma
