Faculty & Alumni – Center for Global Business

Greg 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. During 1994, he also was a Fulbright Scholar in Portugal at the University of Oporto. He has conducted executive education programs or workshops in several countries, including Australia, China Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, and Switzerland.

Greg has primary research interests in 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).

Dr. 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 most influential scholars in global business. Both the United Nations and the World Bank have cited his work. He is also 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).

Charlie is clinical professor, executive in residence and director of the Center for International Accounting Development, which runs an oil-and-gas executive training program every year. He is a retired executive vice president, Administration, for OxyChem, the chemical operations of Occidental Petroleum.

Charlie has had 33 years of executive experience at Fortune 500 companies. At UT Dallas, he won the 2011 President’s Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2001, he won the prestigious Dallas/Fort Worth YWCA “Mentors and Allies Award” given each year to a DFW executive “who has shown exceptional commitment to eliminating glass ceilings and creating better opportunities for women.” He received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Monica is an associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Dallas and the director of the Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives. She specializes in the history of Mexico, Latin America and U.S.-Latin American relations. She completed her PhD in Latin American history from the University of Arizona in 2004. She is the author of ¡México, la patria! Propaganda and Production during World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2010); The History of Costa Rica (Greenwood Press, 2012); and Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: The Search for National Identity, 1820s-1900 (Facts on File, 2010). In addition, her general textbook on Latin American history, Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance: Three Centuries of Latin American History (Oxford University Press) and her primary document reader Problems in Modern Mexican History (Rowman & Littlefield) were published in 2017. She has written several chapters and articles on various aspects of Mexican foreign policy, gender and popular culture during World War II. Her current project, a history of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs during the 1940s, is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. She is the recipient of research grants through the Fulbright Program, the Roosevelt Institute, the Truman Institute and the UT Dallas Center for U.S.-Latin American Initiatives. Other research projects continue to examine popular culture and nationalism in 20th century Mexico and Latin America. In the area of pedagogy, she was the winner of a2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from The University of Texas System. She is known for her use of Twitter, animation and other forms of emerging media in the classroom. Currently, Dr. Rankin is leading several study abroad programs in Mexico and South America for UT Dallas students.