Business Faculty

Regular Faculty

Canri Chan

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: canri.chan@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6501

Expertise: 

Financial and management accounting, international accounting

Eddine Dahel

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: edahel@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4602

Expertise: 

International supply chain management, logistics, management science, operations management

Sandra M. Dow

Professor of International Finance

Office: McCone 211
Email: sandra.dow@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4187

Expertise: 

Corporate Governance; International Finance; Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Management (ESG)

Kent Glenzer

Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and Development, MPA/MBA

Office: McCone 114
Email: kglenzer@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4149

Expertise: 

Organizational and institutional fields; political culture and power; evaluation; nonprofit management and organizational behavior; rights-based approaches; research methods; program strategy and assessment; ethnography of development and development agencies; neoinstitutional organizational sociology; process facilitation; management and leadership development.

Fredric Kropp

Professor and Program Chair, Fisher International MBA Program

Office: 116 McCone
Email: fredric.kropp@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Emerging Business Success Factors, International Marketing Research and Strategies, Creativity and Innovation, Cross-cultural Consumer Behavior

Ernest J. Scalberg

Research Professor and Director of the GLOBE Center

Office: Casa Fuente Building
Email: escalberg@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4148

Expertise: 

Globalization/localization of products and services, global leadership, leadership development, organizational behavior

Ron Schill

Visiting Professor of International Management

Office: Casa Fuente 300C
Email: rschill@miis.edu
Phone: (831) 647-6683

Expertise: 

Marketing feasibility and market opportunity analysis, enterprise scale-up, international marketing plans, country market selection and market entry, regional and global expansion; frontier and emerging market social impact and business enterprise decisions, enterprise development, and marketing programs; marketing and sourcing decisions and relationships between business enterprises; marketing negotiations; international strategic partnerships; the interface between marketing and corporate competitive strategy; global marketing strategies; socially and environmentally responsible marketing programs; MBA core principles of marketing and brand management.

Gireesh Shrimali

Office: McCone 118
Email: gshrimali@miis.edu
Phone: 831-647-4159

Expertise: 

My research focus is on policy for renewable energy, innovation in the energy sector, and climate change in general. My previous work has included topics such as design of feed in tariffs; impact of policy on penetration of renewable sources in the US; and analysis of the solar mission, low carbon innovation system and business models for sustainable cook-stoves in India. I am currently leading projects evaluating the impact of policy on the diffusion and cost of renewable technologies – in particular, solar and wind – in both US and India.

Lyuba Zarsky

Associate Professor

Office: 119 McCone
Email: Lyuba.Zarsky@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6436

Expertise: 

Sustainable development, business and sustainability, foreign direct investment and the environment, collaborative governance, development economics, global environmental governance, livelihood-based resource management.

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Visiting Faculty

Thomas Hout

Visiting Professor

Office: McCone M118
Email: thout@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3550 x8210

Expertise: 

Corporate strategy; International business competition at firm and country levels;  Operations link to strategy; China and Japan

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Peter Robertson

Expertise: 

Leadership, organizational growth strategies, organizational assessment, business ecology

Jay Badenhope

Adjunct Professor

Email: jbadenhope@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Business, small business, systems integration

Monica Bray, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

Email: mbray@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4155

Expertise: 

Economics, Finance, Strategy, Wealth Management

William Brooks

Adjunct Professor

Office: McGowan Building
Email: wbrooks@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4140

Expertise: 

Cross border leadership and management, leadership development, management of product development, operations management, strategic planning

Philip S Carmichael

Adjunct Professor

Office: GSIPM
Email: pscarmichael@hotmail.com
Phone: 831.647.4155

Expertise: 

China-US business issues

Vassilis Dalakas

Adjunct Professor

Email: vdalakas@csusm.edu

Expertise: 

Advertising, cross cultural consumer behavior, international marketing, marketing communications

Miguel Granier

Founder and Managing Directer, Invested Development

Expertise: 

Miguel is the Founder and Managing Director of Invested Development  which launched in July 2009. Before founding Invested Development, he was the founding Investment Manager for First Light Ventures, a seed-stage social impact investment fund affiliated with Gray Ghost Ventures in Atlanta, Georgia.

Brooke Higgins

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone 118, 460 Pierce St
Email: bhiggins@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4155

Expertise: 

Brooke Higgins has balanced a career in education, marketing and entrepreneurship with over 15 years of experience as an educator and over 10 years as both a marketing manager and entrepreneur. Brooke started his career as a teacher in the inner city of Chicago in 1996. After moving to Santiago, Chile, Brooke co-founded and managed all sales and marketing efforts for Job Express, a classified advertising publication focused on employment. Brooke later received his MBA in International Managment with a specialization in Marketing from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Thereafter, he joined the marketing team at HSBC Card and Retail Services in Salinas, CA. During his studies, Brooke founded, marketed and managed CROSSWALK Educational Services, a boutique tutoring agency which continues to serve the Monterey Peninsula. Brooke later became a franchisor in 2007 with Smoothie King #776 and then served as Brand Marketing Manager with Discount School Supply. Brooke returned to the classroom full time in 2011 but continues to serve as a marketing consultant for small businesses. He started teaching marketing in 2011 and continues to teach marketing management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

David Kyle

COO, The Calvert Foundation

Expertise: 

David Kyle was named in December 2011 to the newly-established position of Chief Operating Officer, responsible for loan origination, sales, human resources, systems, and customer service. David comes to Calvert Foundation with a long and well-traveled history of success in helping organizations get to the next stage of growth.

Hugh McAllister

Adjunct Professor

Email: hmcalli224@aol.com

Expertise: 

Corporate finance, foreign direct investment, international capital markets, international finance

Lynn Metcalf

Adjunct Professor

Email: lmetcalf@calpoly.edu

Expertise: 

International marketing

Christer Mossberg

Adjunct Professor

Email: christer.mossberg@sablaw.com

Expertise: 

Trade and trade agreements

Bruce Paton

Adjunct Professor

Email: bruce.paton@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Sustainable business, corporate social responsibility, global business strategy, social and environmental issues in management.

Luc Soenen

Adjunct Professor

Expertise: 

Corporate finance, foreign exchange management, international capital markets, international finance

Cynthia Wagner-Weick

Adjunct Professor

Email: cwagner@pacific.edu

Expertise: 

Product innovation, strategic planning, technology management, international market entry strategy, commercial development of biotechnology

Eli Zelkha

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: eli.zelkha@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Venture capital, corporate strategy, art of failure, start-ups, entrepreneurship, mergers & acquisitions, technology.

Faculty Emeritus

John R.G. Jenkins

Professor Emeritus

Email: jjenkins@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Business in Pacific Rim countries, entrepreneurship, international marketing, marketing communications

Steve Landry

Professor Emeritus

Office: McGowan Building
Email: steve.landry@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6407

Expertise: 

Cost accounting, financial and management accounting, financial auditing, government and non-profit accounting

David Roberts

Professor Emeritus

Office: McGowan Building
Email: droberts@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4156

Expertise: 

Economic theory, modeling and forecasting, monetary policy