Executive Board
XIAOHUA YANG
Founding Director, Professor of International Business
(415) 422-4330
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Professor Xiaohua Yang has been recognized in both the international academic community and media for her research on Chinese enterprises in the U.S. and the globalization of Chinese business. As an award winning scholar, she explores the relationship between brand recognition and firm performance, internationalization of Chinese firms, R&D strategic alliances, and foreign market entry strategies. She is very active in the business community and has served on many boards.
LIANG WANG
Director, Professor of Strategy
(415) 422-5801
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Professor Liang Wang brings a wealth of cross-cultural experience to USF. His esteemed research, published in leading academic journals, focuses on the interplay between strategy and geography, with an emphasis on local competitiveness within a global context.
ROGER CHEN
Associate Director of Research and Industry Outreach
(415) 422-6546
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chenr@usfca.edu
Professor Roger Chen brings to USF forward-thinking expertise in the fields of corporate innovation and growth, competition and global strategy – areas he views as entirely interdependent. By developing a balanced approach to his research endeavors – devoting equal time and effort between pure quantitative/academic research and case research methods – Dr. Chen embodies academic rigor, benefiting his students, fellow academics, global corporations and communities with his egalitarian work philosophy.
WILLIAM KTSANES
Associate Director of Operations
William Ktsanes has taught graduate-level finance and ethics as an adjunct professor in the School of Management since 2010. He has an MBA with a concentration in global business from the University of California, Berkeley; an MPA with a concentration in international development from Rutgers University; and is nearing completion of a doctorate in the USF School of Education’s Organization and Leadership program. His research interests relate to the intersection of housing economics and educational policy. He is a former US Peace Corps volunteer (Thailand) with an extensive background in community development finance and international education. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktsanes
SUPARNA CHAKRABORTY
Professor
(415) 422-4715
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Dr. Chakraborty received her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of specialization include: applied macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, international finance, and development economics. Dr. Chakraborty has published research articles in the Journal of International Business Studies, Economics Letters, and the Journal of World Economic Review.
RICHARD GREGGORY JOHNSON III
Department Chair & Full Professor | Program Director, Business Minor | Professor (415) 755-7187
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Richard Greggory Johnson III is a tenured Full Professor and Department Chair for the Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration, School of Management, University of San Francisco. He is also Director of the Business Minor in the School of Management as well.
PETER LORENTZEN
Associate Professor
(415) 422-4744
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Professor Peter Lorentzen is a member of the Economics Department at the University of San Francisco and director of the Master’s of Science in Applied Economics. He was previously on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at Stanford University.
STEPHEN RODDY
Professor
(415) 422-6080
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Stephen Roddy is Professor and Chair of Modern & Classical Languages at the University of San Francisco. His research focuses on premodern East Asian literary history and cross-border cultural exchange. He has recently held research fellowships at Sogang University (Seoul), the National Library (Taipei), Nanjing University, Peking University, and the International Research Institute for Japanese Studies (Kyoto).
POONAM KAKODKAR
Administrative Assistant
(415)-422 2584
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Poonam is the administrative assistant for event management of CBSI. Poonam is a doctoral student of Learning and Instruction with a concentration in Educational Technology. She was in the first cohort of the Asia Bridge Graduate Fellow for 2022-23.
CBSI Founding Executive Board Members (in 2013)
Founding Director and Professor of International Business
Co-Director and Professor of Finance, former Associate Dean (Retired)
Associate Director, Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Professor of Law (Retired)
Adjunct Faculty
OTHER FORMER EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS
Gleb Nikitenko
Assistant Professor
Campus Director, Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts
Gleb Nikitenko has worked in various director-level capacities at the University of San Francisco and currently at the Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts since 2001. He has also taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in business and public management since 2004. His current research interests are in the areas of cross-sectoral management and corporate governance, Silicon Valley entrepreneurship and innovation, international politics and business, and contemporary developments in learning and assessment.
SUN-YOUNG PARK
Professor
Sun-Young Park draws from her extensive academic and professional expertise in strategy, service management, corporate social responsibility, business branding, and marketing. She strives to help her students develop more sustainable business models for various firms.
Associate Professor
Xiaoya (Sara) Ding is an associate professor of finance in the School of Management. Her
research interests are primarily in international finance, empirical corporate finance, and asset
pricing.
CBSI EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE
Ker Gibbs
Economic and Technology Consultant
to the Wuxi Municipal Government in China.
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Ker Gibbs has served in executive and board level positions with public and privately held companies. He was most recently the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, where he focused on US-China relations and business issues facing American companies operating in Asia. Mr. Gibbs has lived in Asia for more than two decades and is a Mandarin speaker.
CBSI RESEARCH FELLOW
PETER PING LI, PH.D
Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business (209) 505-3930
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As Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business, Dr Peter Ping Li is also part-time Research Director for the Greater China Region of US-based Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and part-time Professor of Chinese Business Studies at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Further, he is former Professor of International Business at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, and retired Professor of Management at California State University.
REGULAR MEMBERS
Professor
School of Management, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Strategy
Assistant Professor
Zifei “Fay” Chen is an assistant professor of public relations and strategic communication in the
Communication Studies department. Specifically, her research focuses on public relations, social media,
corporate social responsibility, crisis communication, and consumer psychology.
Adjunct Professor
Vivian Faustino is a multi-awarded educator specializing in international business, entrepreneurship, and marketing.
Associate Professor
Department of Accounting, School of Management
Assistant Professor and Director of Master of Sciences in Financial Analysis
Department of Finance, School of Management
Associate Professor and Director of Gallert Family Business Center
Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Strategy, School of Management
Associate Professor
Department of Organization, Leadership, and Communication, School of Management
Assistant Professor
Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Strategy, School of Management
SUSAN STRYKER
Department of Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Strategies, School of Management
MANASSERIAN TATOUL, PH.D
Part-Time Professor of International Business
School of Management
CEO, SDG.Services – President, SCI-Institute
Program Director, Professor, USF School of Management
AFFILIATE MEMBERS
- Muhammad Al-Abdullah, PH.D
- Richard Carney, Ph.D.
- Bruce Cuthbertson
- George Fang
- Vivian R Faustino-Pulliam
- Robert Ferguson
- Vanessa Hasse, Ph.D.
- Isabelle Lescent-Giles, Ph.D.
- Na Li, Ph.D.
- Jonathan Littman
- Kim Nevinger
- Gleb Nikitenko, Ed. D.
- Ziecheng Ma, Ph.D, Sun
- Elisabeth Merkel
- Stanley Kwong
- Cindy Qin, Ph.D.
- Elizabeth(Liz) Wilp
- William Xiaojun Wei, Ph.D.
- Zaiyang Xie, Ph.D.
- Jessica Xu, Ph.D.
- Ruiqiong Zhong
- Xuezhen Zhu