Patricia APANGU is an assistant professor within the ICN Business School teaching primarily in the management of organizations, and new organisational forms. Before beginning her doctoral studies and joining the ICN, she worked in the telecommunications and consulting sectors. Patricia is a member of a research team working on two contracts related to competitive clusters and creative industries. Top

Gerlinde BERGER-WALLISER is of German nationality. She has a Doctorate in Law from the University of Bielefeld in Germany. She has been a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Bielefeld and Heidelberg (Germany) and the University "Robert Schuman" (Strasbourg). Her teaching and current research areas are French Business Law,Comparative Law, Private International Law, International Commercial Law, and German Law. Top

Clarice holds a Master in Business Administration, a Research Master in Information & Communication Sciences and a Research Master in German Studies from Nancy University. Her areas of specialization are Economic Intelligence, Information Retrieval and Management, Knowledge Management, IT and Project Management. Clarice worked for different sectors, such as Media Industry (Radio), Metal Industry, Training and Sport. She is currently Information Manager for Research at ICN Business School. Top

Christian is an Associate Professor at ICN Business School. He has always designed his research and pedagoigical activities with a strong creative dimension. He has also designed heavy emotional and logical decision making courses. In his research, he founded an observatory of feedback on behavioral and managerial activity using over 3000 lifestories. As a researcher, he has produced about 200 publications. In 2005, as the Editor in Chief, he refounded the editorial policy of an academic journal addressing the managerial psychology through organizational behavior. As director of the ICN Business School, he founded some heuristics séminariales activities : rafting, crossing the desert, etc. He has also created a new method based on symbolic representations to select new students. Christian is also a sculpter. He has created hundreds of artworks and manages an art domain which hosts art exhibits. He has traveled extensively and was an ardent practitioner of informational modern time sports such as: windsurfing, hang-gliding, Ulm , etc.. Top

David DUCHAMP has a Doctorate in Management Sciences. His teaching activities focuses on Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Prospective and Change Management. His thesis dealt with change management within health institutions. His research interests are : Change Management, Communicational approaches and the profil of the Deliberative Manager, Links between Strategy and HRM, Communicational prospective, Links between Consulting and Research. For about ten years, David has also acted a consultant for public and private organizations. Top

Yves HABRAN is an Assistant professor at the ICN Business School. He lectures and has research interests mainly in Performance Measurement and Performance Management. He has more than 12 years experience in the Banking Sector in Luxemburg as Auditor, Chief Financial Officer and Consultant. Yves is also a university lecturer, on both post-graduate programs and Executive MBA Programs. Top

Silvester IVANAJ has multidisclipinary background (Msc in(Engeneering from the Plytechnic University of Tirana, Doctorate in Applied electrochemistry from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy. Since 1996 he works in mangement field. He has expert experience in the fields of consulting and new educational technologies. He teaches management information systems, staistics, dataa analysis, eco-technologies and emerging technolofies. His areas of research are web-based training, emerging technologies and sustainability. Top

Vera is an Associate Professor of Management Sciences in the Chemical Engineering School (ENSIC) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Loraine University, France. She received her M.S. in Economic Sciences, from the University of Tirana and her PhD in Management Sciences, from the University of Nancy II. Prior to joining ENSIC, she was a faculty member of the ICN Business School and the Business Administration Institute at the University of Metz. She developed curriculum and activities increasing students' attentiveness to cultural, economical, environmental and social issues they will face in their future professions. She teaches courses in Strategic Decision Making, Change Management, Human Resource Management, Project management, Conflict Resolution, Corporate Culture and Leadership for managers and engineers. She is also actively involved in the executive education courses, conducting sessions on such topics as strategy formation, individual and team performance, empowerment, compensation and benefits and other organisational performance issues. Her current research interests include strategic decision making, art and sustainable development, management education and diversity. She has published several articles and chapters on enhancing capabilities of organizations to take decisions and to perform more effectively. Recently, she worked on a major international research project on “Multinationals and Sustainable Development”, leading to two major publications: “Multinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development”, Northampton: Edward. Elgar Publishing, 2009; “Sustainable Development and the “Multinational Corporation as a Tool of Competitiveness”, Special issue, Multinational Business Review, 2007. Vera Ivanaj is also a contemporary painter (www.pika7.com) and works for public and private organizations with aesthetic practices and creativity methods to resolve management problems. Top

Doctor in Management Science from University of Luxembourg, her research focuses primarily on outsourcing, SMEs and innovation in transition and emerging economies. In particular, she studied the Bulgarian information technology, wine and rose oil sectors. She teaches International Marketing, Marketing of Innovations and Strategic Management. In addition, Olga is a member of Academy of Management (AMA), European Academy of Management (EURAM) and European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS). Top

Joubert was born into a large family in Narbonne dans l’Aude in 1952, of a Beirut-born father who lived in the Middle East, and a mother from a family of market gardeners in the Var. His art education in Paris started at l’école des Arts appliqués et des métiers d’art, which was followed with time at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He travelled throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, at a time when society, following the Beat Generation to the road as a goal, or a life plan. Joubert developed projects in different parts of the world: “Des Fleurs fauchées” in Japan, “Courtyard” in South Africa, “Blanket Project” in North Africa, “Hirsch Farm Project” in North America, and recently “Cavaliere y Nansha” in the Pearl River delta in China . This intermingling of experience to what characterizes his current art practice: a sensitivity to history, memory, wanderlust, travel, and a certain difficulty to lay claim to a country or territory, as well as a great curiosity for the development of a culture of peace. Top

Jacky KOEHL is a university Senior Lecturer. He teaches Finance (Financial Management, Portfolio assessment and management) and Corporate strategy at Masters level at the University of Nancy 2 and at the ICN Business School where he is the Head of the Department of Finance and Strategy. His research and his studies have led him to lecture in many French institutions (e.g. ENA, Pantheon Sorbonne University…). Outside France he has been a visiting professor at Parma University, Moscow Academy of Sciences, MGIMO of Moscow, Aim Sham University at Cairo and Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. He has published widely in his specialist fields. He is also a consultant with a number of companies on issues concerning the definition and implementation of strategy, and the nature of discourse in negotiation between management and the trades unions. Top

Christine Kratz, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Sales and SCM at the ICN Business School . Christine Kratz holds a Master's degree in the Science of Management from the University of Nancy . The main themes she lectures on are marketing, innovation, design and product portfolio management. In order to create a tight link between lecturing and applied research, she has designed and led an ARTEM workshop - an innovative multidisciplinary approach bringing together students from the schools of business, engineering and art - in partnership with the French crystal producer DAUM. Her recent research in the field of Design is centred around sensorial and product configuration, particularly in the context of luxury marketing. She has conducted studies in the sectors of champagne, crystal and fashion: she has presented papers on these subjects at international conferences including British Academy of Management and European Academy of Management . She is currently involved in a PhD, linking design, fashion and marketing subjects. Top

John R. McIntyre is the founding Director of the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), a  national center of excellence. He is a Professor of International Management and International Affairs with joint appointments in the College of Management and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He received his graduate education at McGill, Strasbourg and Northeastern Universities, obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia.  He was appointed a Trade Advisor (Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur de la France ) on issues of trade and investment in the U.S. in 1988.   Served as president of its Section Sud-Est des Etats-Unis 2000-2010.   Ordre National du Merite.  Author or co-author of ten books and some 85 publications.  Interests:  trade and innovation, comparative management,  foreign direct investment,  sustainable development in multinational enterprises.  He is a consultant to international companies focusing on trade and investment strategies... Top

Sandrine PENEY has a Doctorate in Economic sciences from the University of Nancy and a DEA from the same university. Her research interests cover the notion of Event in econometric models applied to finance, and to individual behaviour. Sandrine is Special option leader for Audit and Finance, and ARTEM workshop leader for financial modelling. She was invited as a Fellow to give classes in the residential seminars on Art, Science and Business at the Schloss Akademie Solitude at Stuttgart. In addition to her teaching activities, Sandrine has acted as consultant on a number of cultural projects, notably by helping the project leaders to draw up their business plans. Top

Sybil PERSSON has a Doctorate in Management Sciences from the University of Nancy. She leads the School of Coaching at the ICN Business School. Sybil has significant experience in counselling and company training, and specialises in mentoring leaders of companies going through a process of change. Her areas of research include executive coaching and the values of thought leaders by addressing innovative epistemological issues. Sybil's lecturing style stresses the anthropological approach to management, taking into account the multidisciplinary theoretical contributions of the social sciences in the West but also the traditional Chinese thinking. Top

E. Günter SCHUMACHER has a Doctorate in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Cologne, Germany, and a DEA from the same university. He is Head of the Department of Business Environment at the ICN Business School. He is a member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) and of the ICN think tank for sustainable development. His areas of teaching and research specialization are economic ethics, international economy and the development of the European Union, seen under its economic, political, social, cultural, and ethical aspects. Since 1999, he has been leading a French-German academic network looking at the question of the future of Europe. His personal commitment in this field shows itself in the organisation of different Franco-German conferences and the publication of books and articles. As his recent article underlines, E. Günter Schumacher is committed to creating European economic ethics. Top

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David completed his doctorate in Business Environment and Public Policy in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. in Economics and a Certificate Degree in Accounting from Pitt, and an M.B.A. from Duquesne University. For eight years, he worked as a marketing representative in the housing industry. His academic research focuses on natural science approaches to understanding ethical decision-making and the formation of social contracts within organizational contexts. He also studies cognitive biases on decision-making and behavior in workplace environments. His article (with Sefa Hayibor), "Evolutionary Psychology and Business Ethics Research" won the Article of the Year in Business Ethics Quarterly for 2009. At Duquesne, he teaches business ethics, organizational behavior, and public affairs. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Business and Society and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics Education, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Moral Psychology. As a member of the Academy of Management, he reviews papers for the Organizational Behavior Division (received the Best Reviewer Award in 2007), the Social Issues in Management Division, and the Management and Organization Cognition Division. He served as Chair of the Book Award Committee of the SIM Division (2008-2009), and was Chair of the Membership Committee of the SIM Division (2009). He has participated in the SIM Doctoral Student Consortium and organized and ran the "Cognition in the Rough" workshop for the Management and Organizational Cognition Division from 2007-2010. In Pittsburgh, he serves on the New Leadership Board of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and volunteers with various charitable organizations around the city. Top

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