Leading educators and professionals in international business
The Center for Global Business maintains its academic excellence through the work of its faculty members, a group of instructors and researchers who lead their fields nationally and beyond. Jindal School alumni are also an integral piece of the Center’s mission; these are working professionals who enjoyed the Center’s benefits as students and have remained engaged to ensure that students continue to enrich their education through CGB activities.
Faculty
Gregory Dess, PhD
Professor, UT Dallas
Read MoreGreg presently holds the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair at the Jindal School. Prior to that, he spent six years as the Gatton Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky, and he had prior faculty (and visiting) positions at Florida State University, Dartmouth College (Tuck School) and the University of South Carolina. In 1994, he was also a Fulbright Scholar in Portugal at the University of Oporto. He has conducted executive education programs and workshops in several countries, including Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway and Switzerland.
Greg’s primary research interests are strategic management, entrepreneurship and knowledge management. He has published over 50 articles in many excellent academic and practitioner journals. He also served on the editorial boards of several major journals. In addition, he has coauthored several books, including Strategic Management: Text and Cases (2018, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin) as well as two books targeted at the practitioner market: Beyond Productivity (AMACOM) and Mission Critical (Irwin Business).
Greg received his Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, his MBA from Georgia State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. In December 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland).
David L. Ford, Jr. (Dave), PhD
Emeritus Professor, UT Dallas
Read MoreDave served on the Jindal School faculty between 1975 and 2016. During his more than 50 years of professional experience, Dave has worked as an industrial engineer, an educator, a trainer, a manager and an organizational development consultant. His other full-time and visiting academic appointments include UCLA, Purdue, Michigan State and Yale. Dave’s research interests cover topics such as individual and group decision-making processes, job stress, workforce diversity, knowledge management and cross-cultural management. He has more than 75 publications.
As president of his management consulting firm, D. L. Ford & Associates, Dave has consulted for Fortune 1000 clients and government agencies, including Anheuser-Busch, ExxonMobil, the Federal Aviation Administration, General Electric (GE Appliances, GE Corporate Training & Development and GE Medical Systems), Hilton Hotels, the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Commerce and Whirlpool. International assignments have included clients in China, India, Russia, South Africa, Trinidad and Turkey. Dave also has served on corporate and nonprofit boards as a director.
Dave received his BS in industrial engineering from Iowa State University, MS in industrial engineering and PhD in organizational analysis — both from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He resides in Dallas with his wife, Jackie. They have two adult children.
Mike Peng, PhD
Executive Director, UT Dallas
Read MoreDr. Mike Peng is the O.P. Jindal Distinguished Chair of Global Strategy at UT Dallas and the executive director of the Center for Global Business at the Jindal School of Management. Having written more than 140 articles, he is one of the most prolific and influential scholars in global business. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have cited his work. He is also the author of three best-selling textbooks, Global Strategy, Global Business and Global, which have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
His consulting clients include multinationals (such as AstraZeneca and Texas Instruments) and governments (such as the United Kingdom’s Government Office for Science and the United States’ National Science Foundation).
Hubert Zydorek
Director, UT Dallas
Read MoreHubert Zydorek is the director of the Center for Global Business and the director of the Bachelor of Science in Global Business program. He has more than 20 years of experience in international consulting, academic teaching, management of design, development and delivery of blended-learning solutions for international clients.
Prior to joining UT Dallas, Zydorek worked for Xerox Learning Solutions, where he oversaw global learning projects for Ernst & Young’s Advisory Practice. He has lived and worked in China, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain; and he has led offshore teams from China, India, Malaysia, Mexico and the Philippines.
Habte Woldu
Clinical Professor, UT Dallas; Director, Sustainable Global Business Initiative (SGBI)
Read MoreBorn in Ethiopia, Habte attended Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa, where he earned an undergraduate degree in social science while simultaneously working as an auditor for the National Bank of Ethiopia. From there, he went on to pursue a master’s degree program in human resource management, followed by a doctorate degree in economics from the Poznan University of Economics, Poland. After beginning his academic career as an assistant professor at Poznan University, Habte joined UT Dallas in 1993.
Habte has done extensive research and has many publications covering a wide breadth of topics, including comparative management and cross-cultural studies, empirical analysis of cultural differences and divergence, HRM in Central and Eastern Europe, and international trade and foreign direct investment in Africa. During his tenure at the Jindal School of Management, Habte has grown with the University itself and has been actively involved in the internationalization of UT Dallas. He serves as the director of the UT Dallas Sustainable Global Business Initiative (SGBI).
Seung-Hyun (Sean) Lee
Professor, UT Dallas
Read MoreAfter joining UT Dallas in 2002, Seung-Hyun (Sean) has led six study trips to China, Japan and Korea, taking students abroad to widen their views on global business. Sean is the coordinator of the Jindal School’s Organizations, Strategy and International Management Area and previously served as the PhD program coordinator. He won the Teaching Excellence Award in 2016 from the Global Leadership Executive MBA program at UT Dallas.
His research spans initial public offerings to corporate bankruptcy, mainly focusing on multinational firms. He chaired the 2017 Asia Academy of Management conference and his textbook with three other co-authors, Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages, is one of the leading strategic management textbooks in the United States. He earned his MBA and PhD from Ohio State University.
