Ming-Jer Chen

Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration Ming-Jer Chen is a leading authority in strategic management and is also 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.

Chen is an elected Fellow and Vice President of the Academy of Management, with an international membership of 19,500, and will assume the presidency in 2012. He has served as an associate editor of the 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). He is the author of Competitive Dynamics: A Research Odyssey (in Chinese) (Peking University Press, Beijing and Bestwise, Taipei, 2008).

Chen has taught in a variety of executive programs at Darden, Columbia and Wharton over the past two decades. His recent corporate clients include FedEx, Merck, Untied Technologies, Timken, DuPont, Morgan Stanley, BOC Gases, AIG, BenQ, Munich Re, Taiwan Mobile, Rolls-Royce, and the executive program of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of China’s State Council. Author of Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide (Harvard Business School Press, 2001/3), Chen has contributed to the East-West dialogue through his addresses to international business groups, including his keynote speech at the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit in 2000 and HSM forums in Argentina, Brazil and Italy in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he was selected by Commonwealth Magazine (Taipei) as one of 72 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 honorary appointments at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, & Medicine (London), Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University (Taipei), Fudan University (Shanghai), and National University of Singapore.