| ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Barbara C. Crosby
Associate Professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
 Barbara C. Crosby is also a member of the Institute's Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center. During 2002-3, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Crosby was coordinator of the Humphrey Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota from 1990 to 1993 and director of the Humphrey Institute's Reflective Leadership Center from 1999 to 2002.
She has taught and written extensively about leadership and public policy, women in leadership, media and public policy, and strategic planning. She is the author of Leadership for Global Citizenship (1999) and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World of (2d. ed. 2005). The first edition of the latter book won the 1993 Terry McAdam Award from the Nonprofit Management Association and was named the Best Book of 1992-93 by the Public and Nonprofit Sector Division of the Academy of Management. She is an associate editor of Leadership Quarterly.
A frequent speaker at conferences and workshops, she has conducted training for senior managers of nonprofit, business and government organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Ukraine. She is a former gubernatorial press secretary and speech writer. She also has been a newspaper reporter and editor and has written several book chapters and articles for national journals. Dr. Crosby has a B.A. degree with a major in political science from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a Ph.D. in leadership studies from the Union Institute and University
Paul M. Vaaler
Associate Professor of International Business in the Department of
Strategic Management & Organization at the Carlson School of Management,
University of Minnesota.
 From 2005-2007, he held the same faculty appointment at the College of
Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ("UIUC"). From 1996-2005, he was a faculty member at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts where he also directed the Fletcher School's Hitachi Center for Technology & International Affairs. He teaches, researches and has consulted with businesses and
governmental agencies in the US and abroad on issues related to strategic management, international business, and competition law and policy.
Professor Vaaler's research interests span strategic management and international business. He studies risk and investment in emerging-market countries with special emphasis on the impact of democratization and elections on risk and investment behavior by foreign investing firms and individuals. He also studies business performance patterns in volatile industries with special emphasis on understanding long-term trends in the performance stability of businesses active in
purportedly "hypercompetitive" or "dynamically competitive" industries. He is the author, co-author and or co-editor of books, including Creative Destruction (MIT Press, 2001) and Financial Innovation and the Welfare of Nations (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), teaching cases published by Harvard Business School Publishing and INSEAD, and articles appearing in the Academy of Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Communications & Strategies, International Journal of Strategic Change Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Money and Finance, Organization Science, Review of Development Economics, and Strategic Management Journal. He is a member of the editorial review boards for three journals: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of
International Business Studies, and International Journal of Strategic Change Management.
Professor Vaaler received his BA in History from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, his MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, his JD from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. |
