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Bruce McKern
Honorary Professor, Business School; Recently Visiting Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Oxford University, University of Sydney Bruce McKern is a researcher, educator and corporate advisor on innovation, strategy & international business. He is a Visiting Professor of International Business, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, Honorary Professor of International Business, University of Sydney Business School and Adviser to the Maritime Silk Road Society in Hong Kong. Recent: Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2007- 2015); Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation and Professor of International Business at CEIBS, Shanghai (2011-2013) Other appointments 2015-2016: Visiting Research Fellow, The Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2016) Visiting Research Fellow, Technology & Management Centre for Development, University of Oxford (2015) Visiting Research Fellow, INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2015) Research & Teaching Interests: Research and writing in the fields of innovation, strategy and international business. Recent work on innovation in China. Previous appointments Director of the Stanford Sloan Master's Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2001-2007) President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute & Professor of International Business, Carnegie Mellon University Director of Merck Innovation Research Program, United States Studies Centre University of Sydney Dean, Monash Mt Eliza Business School, Melbourne, and Founding Dean, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, SydneyPublications Author or editor of numerous academic papers and nine books, including: China’s Next Strategic Advantage: from Imitation to Innovation, (with George Yip). MIT Press, April 2016; Managing the Global Network Corporation; Transnational Corporations in the Exploitation of Natural Resources Education BE Chem Eng Hons. Sydney; Doctorate in International Business, Harvard Board & Public Appointments: MIT Enterprise Forum, Pittsburgh US-Korea Business Council, Washington DC Board Director, State Rail Authority of NSW (1988-1990) Ministerial Inquiry into Postgraduate Education in the Australian Defence Force (2000-2001) Voluntary appointments-current: Editorial Board Member of Management International Review (2006 to present). Adviser, Maritime Silk Road Society, Hong Kong Previous: Founding Member, Global Trade Institute of Pennsylvania National Gallery Society of Victoria, Member of the Board Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Member of the Board Executive programs and talks for international companies: Clients include Goodyear China, Nestlé China, Schneider, Bayer, Philips, GE China, the Bosch Group, Element 6, Nitto Denko, E&Y, Rio Tinto, Shandong Gold, Symantec, Google. Executive and graduate programs at INSEAD, CEIBS, Berlin School of Creative Leadership, University of Sydney. Talks to universities and institutions world-wide, including NYU, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, ANU; Imperial College, Oxford, Bocconi, and Sydney Business Schools; Google US and Philips Netherlands; CEIBS in Shanghai and Beijing; Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, Savantas Institute Hong Kong, Asia Society Sydney, CEDA, government departments; and conferences of international academic societies, including AIB and SMS. Commentator in international media on issues of MNC strategy and China
