B.S., National Chung-Hsing University, Taipei; M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
Ming-Jer Chen, Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration, is a leading authority in strategic management. Chen is known for his pioneering work in competitive dynamics and for his expertise in Chinese-Western business strategy and execution. He has published numerous articles in premier management journals and twice received the Glueck Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division, as well as the 1996 Academy of Management Review and the 2008 Journal of Management Inquiry Best Paper Awards.
In August 2009, Chen will assume the post of vice-president-elect (a five-year track toward the presidency) of the Academy of Management, with an international membership of 18,000. Chen has served as an associate editor of Academy of Management Review, the chair of the Academy’s BPS Division, and on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review (China). Chen is the author of Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide (Harvard Business School Press, 2001/3) and Competitive Dynamics: A Research Odyssey (in Chinese) (Peking University Press, Beijing and Bestwise, Taipei, 2008).
Speaking regularly to prominent business groups and the media, Chen has contributed to the global strategy and East-West business dialogues through keynote addresses at summits in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America sponsored by such organizations as the World Economic Forum and HSM. He has also taught in a variety of executive programs at Darden, Columbia, and Wharton over the past two decades. His corporate clients include FedEx, Merck, United Technologies, Timken, Morgan Stanley, BOC Gases, Munich Re, BenQ, AUO, and Rolls-Royce. In 2008 he was selected by Commonwealth magazine (Taipei) as one of seventy-two role models from the international business, cultural, and social arenas.
Before joining Darden, Chen was founding director of the Global Chinese Business Initiative at the Wharton School and a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School. He has held affiliations with the Imperial College of Science, Technology, & Medicine in the U.K., the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National University of Singapore.