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Chunghuang Ma, Faculty

Chunguang Ma is a professor of international business at the School of Business, University of International Business & Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China, specializing in international business and strategic management. He graduated from Nankai University with his Bachelor's degree in Tianjin, China in 1975 and obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of San Francisco, the United States of America in 1985. In addition, he completed all the courses required for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) and was half way through with his DBA degree on campus of George Washington University in Washington DC in 1991 when he was called back to his university in Beijing to be the Director of the Department of International Business Management, and two years later, the Dean of the School of Business until 1999.

Having been in the teaching field for over 32 years at UIBE, he has offered six courses including International Business, Corporate Strategy, Organization Theory and Change, Organizational Diagnosis, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior both for regular graduate programs and executive training programs, and supervised more than 500 graduates of Master of Business Administration (MBA) and dozens of DBA graduates. Moreover, he has been actively involved in academic research activities heading several research projects such as "Transfer Pricing of Multinational Firms and Governmental Intervention Mechanisms" and "Cross-Cultural Comparison of Managerial Styles of Foreign Multinational Enterprises and Chinese Firms", etc. He is the author of more than 10 books on international business, including Globalization and the Organizational Change of enterprises, International Business Management, Internationalization of Enterprises, Cross-cultural Management in the Context of Globalization, and Case Studies of Sino-Foreign Enterprises (in English). In addition, he is the author of nearly 50 papers published in managerial journals and magazines. In the past 10 years, he has lectured extensively in MBA and EMBA programs in foreign universities including the National Graduate School of Management of Australian National University (ANU) and the Business School of Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Having worked in both Chinese and American companies at home and in California for several years, plus 5 years of working experiences in diplomatic circles in South American countries in late 1970s, he is quite experienced in practical managerial skills and cross-cultural management. He used to be the consultant for China National Oils & Foodstuff Import & Export Corporation (Group), the Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen, and China General Technology (Group) Holding Corporation. In addition, he is a director sitting on board of Zoomber Advanced Materials Company in China.

He became a member of the National Supervisory Committee of the MBA Education in China under the Degree Conferring Committee of the State Council of China in 1999 and was also a member of the National Supervisory Committee of the Business Administration Programs under the Ministry of Education of China in the same year. He was awarded by the State Council of China in 1996 as "an academic specialist with outstanding contributions to the country", the highest award conferred to intellectuals in China.