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Kannan Ramaswamy is the William D. Hacker Chair Professor of Management in global business at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is world-renowned for his expertise on global strategy, emerging markets 鈥� including India and South Asia, the energy sector, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and global management. A native of India who is now a U.S. citizen, Ramaswamy has consulted for several U.S. and European multinationals. He is an award-winning executive educator whose teaching and research interests span emerging market multinationals, business groups and corporate diversification, mergers and acquisitions, privatization, and joint ventures.

In addition to teaching in Thunderbird鈥檚 full-time programs, Ramaswamy teaches extensively in the school鈥檚 executive education programs. He has participated in programs with multinational companies including American Express, EDS Corp. (now part of Hewlett-Packard Co.), Dow Chemical, General Motors, Mattel, Brasil Telecom, Delta Air Lines, Astellas Pharmaceutical (Japan), LG Electronics (Korea), Ericsson, Motorola, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, ONGC (India), Integra (Russia), and SK Corp. (Korea). Ramaswamy also directs several Thunderbird programs including the program on Globalization: Merging Strategy with Action that deals with global strategy issues, and the Advanced Management Program for Oil and Gas Industry Executives dealing with contemporary issues in oil and gas.

Ramaswamy鈥檚 research 鈥� which has appeared in distinguished journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Management International Review, Journal of Management and Journal of Business Research 鈥� focuses on a broad range of topics: challenges facing emerging market multinationals, the performance impact of corporate diversification; competitive consequences of privatization; the role of strategic fit in mergers and acquisitions; and equity vs. operational-control issues in joint ventures. Much of his recent research in these areas has centered on emerging markets. Ramaswamy鈥檚 work has been featured among the best papers at these prestigious national meetings eight times; his work was chosen 鈥渂est paper鈥� twice at the Academy of Management national meetings. As a faculty member at the academic institutions he has served, Ramaswamy has won numerous awards for research excellence.

A member of the Board of Reviewers of the Journal of International Business Studies and the editorial board of the Journal of International Management, and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Dr. Ramaswamy has also served as guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Operations Management on 鈥渒nowledge offshoring.鈥� With Thunderbird professor Andrew Inkpen, Ramaswamy co-authored the book Global Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Advantage across Borders published by the Oxford University Press. 

Education
Ph.D. Strategic Management, Virginia Tech
M.B.A. University of Madras, India
B.S. Physics, University of Madras, India

Nicole Gislason is the Executive Director of the University of West Florida Haas Center, part of UWF's Division of Academic Affairs. The center鈥檚 team supports communities with market research, workforce development and industrial innovation. The Haas Center鈥檚 information products and services are designed to inform strategic decision-making processes, enhance operational effectiveness, and improve the tactical performance of the region鈥檚 workforce. Gislason鈥檚 overall goal is to accelerate technology adoption, talent development, and business growth in an effort to enhance the region鈥檚 competitiveness. Her primary aptitude in higher education is an ability to communicate effectively with educators, business leaders, and government officials. This allows her to connect people who have common needs but different missions.

Gislason has been the principal investigator on numerous UWF research projects. She is the Vice Chair, of Florida鈥檚 Great Northwest and a Trustee with the Florida Chamber Foundation. She serves on the board of the Northwest Florida Manufacturers鈥� Council, and she is a member of the Rotary Club of Pensacola and Pensacola IMPACT 100. Her previous work includes a public-private partnership between Florida鈥檚 manufacturing sector, the State, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology鈥檚 (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). The MEP National Network, which operates in all 50 states, partners with organizations like the Haas Center to increase the productivity and technological performance of the region鈥檚 manufacturing firms. In just 21 months of regional operations with FloridaMakes/NIST, UWF achieved $118.2M in economic impact. Gislason's early grant experience includes a Department of Labor $3.9M award that enabled UWF to recruit, train and develop the IT workforce in a project known as Florida HireEd.

Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of West Florida鈥檚 College of Business. She has completed numerous executive education programs including two certificates in Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production from MIT. 

Gislason鈥檚 talented team of professionals and students operates a unique additive manufacturing laboratory, known as Sea3D. Housing state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment, the Sea3D lab provides a space for students, industry partners and community members to collaborate on the creation and printing of 3-D products. The business students and research staff work inside Pensacola's oldest schoolhouse at 212 Church Street.  

Tippie DEI Faculty Fellow, John L. Miclot Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, and Associate Professor Current Positions Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship Tippie DEI Faculty Fellow, Management and Entrepreneurship John L. Miclot Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Management and Entrepreneurship Education PhD in Business Administration, University of Michigan MA in Education, Columbia University BA in Psychology, Johns Hopkins University Selected Awards & Honors Gender and Organization Science - Organization Science, 2018 Old Gold Summer Faculty Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2017 John L. Miclot Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship - John Pappajohn Entrepreneurship Center, 2017 Scholar in Family Business - Smith Family Business Initiative, Johnson College of Business, 2016 Selected Publications Williams, M., Ghoribani, M., & Kalnins, A. (2023). Moving to the big city: Temporal, demographic, and geographic influences on the perceptions of gender-related business acumen among male and female migrant entrepreneurs in China. Academy of Management Discoveries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0191. Li, H., Wang, X., Williams, M., Chen, Y., & Brockner, J. (2023). My Boss is Younger, Less Educated, and Shorter Tenured: When and Why Status (In)congruence Influences Promotion System Justification. Journal of Applied Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001086. Kalnins, A. & Williams, M. (2021). The Geography of Female Small Business Survivorship: Examining the roles of Proportional Representation and Stakeholders. Strategic Management Journal. pp. (Online Fi. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3266. Williams, M., Belkin, L., & Chen, C. (2020). Cognitive Flexibility Matters: The Role of Multilevel Affect and Cognitive Flexibility in Shaping Victims’ (Un)Cooperative Behavioral Responses to Trust Violations. Group & Organization Management. Ancona, D., Williams, M., & Gerlach, G. (2020). The Overlooked Key to Leadership Leading Through Chaos. Sloan Management Review. Joseph, M. L., Blair, H., Williams, M., Huber, D. L., Moorhead, S., Hanrahan, K., Butcher, H., & Chi, N. (2019). Health Care Innovations Across Practice and Academia: A Theoretical Framework. Nursing Outlook. 57 (5) pp. 604. Williams, M. (2018). Four Research-based Paradigms for Teaching Trust In The Routledge Companion to Trust. Searle, R. S., Nienaber, A. I., & Sitkin, S. B. (Eds.) Williams, M. (2016). Being trusted: How team generational age diversity promotes and undermines trust in cross-boundary relationships. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 37 (3) pp. 346-373. DOI: 10.1002/job.2045. Little, L. M., Gooty, J., & Williams, M. (2016). The role of leader emotion management in leader–member exchange and follower outcomes. Leadership Quarterly. 27 (1) pp. 85–97. DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.08.007. Williams, M. & Polman, E. (2015). Is it me or her? How gender composition evokes interpersonally sensitive behavior on collaborative cross-boundary projects. Organization Science. 26 (2) pp. 334–355. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0941. Show all Selected Presentations "When No Is Better Than Yes," Accepted Speaker at Annual Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference, April 2021. "Own Your Leadership," Keynote/Plenary Address at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2021. Editorial & Review Activities Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Venturing, January 2017. Associate Editor, Journal of Trust, January 2010. Editorial Board Member, Organization Science, January 2009.

Dr. Kamorski received his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in management from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Massachusetts. He also holds two master’s degrees; one in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont., and another in strategic military studies from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. He earned a doctorate in higher education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Professor Kamorski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 24 years of active duty service, including a combat tour in Afghanistan as the lead investigator for the 82nd Airborne Inspector General and four years at the Pentagon, where his duties included working as the chief of counter weapons of mass destruction, and preparing Congressional testimony for the U.S. Air Force director of operations. He has served on faculty at the US Air Force Academy, the University of Virginia, Liberty University, James Madison University, and Piedmont Virginia Community College. Professor Kamorski retired from military service in 2014 and settled in Maine, where he became a full time faculty member for Husson University in Fall of 2014.
 
While he is an expert in military affairs and criminal justice and could comment on the Russia-Ukraine war, he doesn't have any specific research to share about this conflict. Given his extensive military background and his legal insights as an associate professor in the School of Legal Studies here at Husson University, he could potentially be an outstanding source for reporters working on stories about the rules of engagement, war crimes, and atrocities committed against civilians.

Jagadeesh Sivadasan is the Buzz and Judy Newton Professor of Business Administration in the Business Economics and Public Policy group of the Ross School of Business, and a faculty associate at the Institute of Social Research, at the University of Michigan. His recent research is focused on understanding the drivers of firm growth and productivity, and worker performance and mobility.  Ongoing and recent work include analysis of the effect of commute improvement on worker performance, review of the recent evolution of the retail sector in the US,  analysis of firm growth patterns using a novel decomposition and data on the universe of US employers, evaluation of frictions from acquisitions-related legal doctrine on firm dynamics, and examination of the effect of non-compete laws on worker mobility. 
Jagadeesh teaches the core applied microeconomics course in the Full-Time, Global and executive MBA programs. His MBA elective course, Incentives and Productivity, presents an economics-grounded approach to human capital management. He has also taught in the PhD program at Ross. Jagadeesh has served as the director of the FTMBA program, and as the chairperson of the Business Economics and Public Policy group.  He was the recipient of the 2018 Victor L Bernard Teaching Leadership award, and the 2019 Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award (from the FTMBA class of 2019).
Jagadeesh is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, where he completed a PGDM after a BTech at IIT Madras. He then worked as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen, before completing PhD from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.