Rollins College

Dr. Ilan Alon is Rollins College Petters Chair of International Business and Executive Director of Rollins China Center, and Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Visiting Scholar & Asia Fellow. He has published 19 books (3 authored), 66 peer-reviewed articles, and numerous chapters, conference papers, and trade articles. His four recent books on China include Chinese Culture, Organizational Behavior and International Business Management (Greenwood, 2003), Chinese Economic Transition and International Marketing Strategy (Greenwood, 2003), and Business and Management Education in China: Transition, Pedagogy and Training (World Scientific, 2005), The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises (2007, Forthcoming). Dr. Alon established the Rollins China Center in 2005, one of few such Centers in academic institutions worldwide. The Center has hosted international conferences, seminars and visiting scholars, as well as helped organize trips for faculty, students, and alumni from Rollins. Dr. Alon is a recipient of the Chinese Marketing Award, a dual award from the Tripod Marketing Association (China) and the Society for Marketing Advances (USA), and the prestigious Rollins College McKean Award for his work on education in China. He has taught courses in top Chinese MBA programs including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and China Europe International Business School. He is also an international business consultant, with experience in China as well as other countries, and a featured speaker in many professional associations.

Dr. Marc Fetscherin is a Harvard University Kennedy School Visiting Scholar and Asia Fellow. He is also an Assistant Professor of the Crummer Graduate School of Business and the International Business Department at Rollins College as well as an Associate of the Rollins China Center. He teaches various courses related to International Business and International Marketing. Dr. Fetscherin was already a Fellow at Harvard University (2005) as well as a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley (2004). He received his Ph.D. in Economics and Social Science from the University of Bern, Switzerland . He also holds a master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK; as well as a Master in Management (MIM) from the University of Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Switzerland.
He has published over 40 publications ranging from Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings, Presentations. The most relevant for this project are China's cross-boarder M&A in the 21st Century, The Globalization of Chinese Brands, and The Chinese Automotive Industry is Driving West among. Dr. Fetscherin has extensive international experience and speaks 6 languages. He is a former McKinsey & Company consultant. He is also member of various review boards and professional associations.

Potsdam University

The German project partner focuses on issues such as corporate governance, internationalization and intra-organizational aspects. Dr. Lattemann published several books and over 60 articles in the mentioned research field. His recent book is about governance of institutions (2007). The latest articles are about virtual corporations, multinational corporate governance, and international corporate social responsibility (Lattemann, C., Kupke, S. 2007, Kupke, S., Schneider, A.-M., Lattemann, C. 2007, Lattemann, C., Kupke, S., Stieglitz, S., Fetscherin, M. 2007, Lattemann, C. 2007, Lattemann, C. 2006, Kupke, S. Lattemann, C. 2006. Lattemann, C. 2005a, Lattemann, C. 2005b, Lattemann, C., Köhler, T. 2005, Lattemann, C., Niedermeyer, P. 2003). Prof. Lattemann was honoured several times for his research by e.g. best paper awards on conferences. Four years ago, Prof. Lattemann established with 12 other colleagues from different faculties the Potsdam University PhD Program “Modern Governance”. He was the chair of this program in 2004 and 2005. Prof. Lattemann is member of the scientific committee for international management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB).

Harvard University

Dr. Julian Chang is the Executive Director of Asia Programs which is part of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is committed to advancing the public interest by training skilled, enlightened leaders and solving public problems through world-class scholarship and active engagement with practitioners and decision-makers. Asia Programs is a school-wide initiative at the Kennedy School that focuses on questions concerning public networks, public-private sector cooperation and public administration in Asia. Asia Programs convenes multiple conferences, conducts training programs and conducts research and teaching on the public sector in Asia and its international profile. It has an extensive array of programs that examine the changing role of government in China.
Mr. Chang received his Ph.D. in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University. His dissertation examined the marketing of the Soviet Union in China in the 1950s as a case study of the evolution of the Chinese propaganda system. At Harvard, Chang taught several courses, served as residence dean of Cabot House from 1993 to 1996, and worked in the University Development Office. He received his B.A. from Yale University and was a Yale-China “ELI” at Wuhan University, China, where he taught English and American history. In 1996, Dr. Chang became the assistant director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. He left CEAS in 1997 to establish the Asia/Pacific Scholars Program, a university-wide fellowship program for graduate students from Asia. He joined Stanford’s Asia Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) as deputy director in the fall of 1998. His publications include “The Mechanics of State Propaganda: The People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union in the 1950s” in Timothy Cheek and Tony Saich, eds. New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997) and, with Steven Goldstein, eds., Economic Reform and Cross-Strait Relations: Taiwan and China in the WTO (Singapore: World Scientific, 2007) and Presidential Politics in Taiwan: The Administration of Chen Shui-bian (Norwalk, CT: Eastbridge, April 2008). His research interests include Sino-Soviet/Russian relations, communications, and mass media in China.