- B.A. in Economics, SUNY at Albany, 1970
- M.S. in Elementary Education, State University College of New York at Geneseo, 1972
- D.B.A. in Strategy, University of Tennessee, 1982

Academic employment :
- Third and Fifth Grade Teacher, Newton, Massachusetts (1971-1973)
- Assistant Professor, Wichita State University (1981-1983)
- Visiting Professor: INSEAD/France (Spring, 1991)
GSBA/Zurich (9/1990; 3/1993; 3/1995; 1/1997);
Lund University/Sweden (1&10/1996; 3&10/1997; 3&10/1998; 3&10/1999; 3/2000)
IECS Strasbourg/France (3/1996; 12/1996)
Ben Gurion University/Israel (5/1999; 5/2000; 5/2001)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ Lady Davis Fellowship (10/1999 -1/2000)
Ecole de Management of Lyon (France) (1991-to Present)
Assistant (1983), Associate (1987), Full (1992), and Ackerman Professor (1994) at UCONN
Thomas John and Bette Wolff Family Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship (5/2000 to present

Research
· Inducted (8/2000) into the Academy of Management's "Hall of Fame"

- Glueck Best Paper Award - 1992 recipient of "Best Paper" submitted to the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for paper about corporate diversification theory.

- Carolyn Dexter Best Paper Award - 2001 recipient of the Academy of Management's " Best International Paper" submitted to the annual meetings for paper about achieving acculturation in cross-national mergers.

- Other "Best Paper Awards" - 1990 recipient from the Midwest Academy of Management for paper about the validity of product-count diversification measures; 1990 recipient from the Eastern Academy of Management for a theory building paper about corporate divestitures; 1997 recipient from the Eastern Academy of Management for a paper about inter-firm knowledge exchange; 1998 Finalist for McKinsey Best Paper for paper about adaptive product level strategies; 1998 finalist for AIB Best Paper for paper about neural network analysis.

- Dissertation Award - 1983 recipient of the A.T. Kearney Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of General Management, for research about merger strategies.

Teaching
- 1987 recipient of the M.B.A. Teaching Award at the University of Connecticut.
- 1992 recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award at UConn's School of Business.
- 1994 recipient of Executive MBA Teaching Award from the GSBA/Zurich (Switzerland).

Service
- Chair (1996-1997) of Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.
- Co-chaired 1988 BPP Division's Doctoral Student Consortium (Anaheim, CA) and faculty representative to 1992 and 2000 BPS Division's Junior Faculty Workshop (Las Vegas and Toronto).
- Currently on Editorial Boards of Organization Science and Journal of Management
- Associate Editor (2002-2005) on Entrepreneurship topics for Journal of International Business Studies
- Editor (2002) of special issue about stockholder risk for Long Range Planning

1985-Present : Ad-hoc reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal and Management Science

1985-1990 : Editorial Review Board for the Academy of Management Review

1987 to 2001 : Editorial Review Board for the Strategic Management Journal

1987 : Elected to Executive Board of BPS Division of Academy of Management;Co-chaired the 1988 BPS Doctoral Consortium held in Anaheim, CA

1987-1998 : Reviewer for the Business Policy and Strategy's annual dissertation competition

1988 : Invited speaker for seminar series at NYU, Temple University, and San Diego State;Invited panelist to Southern Management Association Meetings; the requested topic of discussion: "Emerging Research Designs and Methods in Strategic Management"

1989 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Yale University, Dartmouth College, Arizona State University, University of Tennessee, and University of Massachusetts

1990 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Case Western Reserve, University of Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill and Old Dominion University

1991 : Invited speaker for seminar series at INSEAD, Cranfield School of Management (England), GSBA/Zurich, Groupe ESC Lyon (France)

1992 : Editorial Review Board of Organization Science (to present)Invited speaker for seminar series at the Hebrew University (Israel), New York University, SUNY at Albany, and Northwestern University

1993 : Invited speaker for seminar series at GSBA/Zurich, University of Tel Aviv, and Hebrew University (Israel)

1994 : Assistant Program Chair for Business Policy and Strategy Division at annual meetings of Academy of Management, Dallas and Chair of 1994 Best Paper Competition;Invited speaker for seminar series at University of Cologne (Germany), Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Lund University (Sweden)

1995 : Program Chair for Business Policy and Strategy Division at annual meetings of Academy of Management, Vancouver; invited speaker for seminar series at ISIAM (Morocco), and University of Tennessee

1996 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Lund University (Sweden), IESC Strasbourg (France), UCLA, University of Jerusalem, Technion (Israel), Chair Elect for BPS Division, and Chair of 1996 BPS Best Dissertation Competition and INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Contest

1997 : Chair of Business Policy and Strategy Division of Academy of Management;Invited speaker for seminar series at University of Western Ontario (Canada)

1998 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Florida State University, UC/Irvine, Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University, and Duke University CIBER Doctoral International Consortium. Advisory Board of European Management Journal (1998 till present)

1999 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Universities of Cologne (Germany), EDHEC Nice (France), EM Lyon (France), St. Gallen (Switzerland), Lund University (Sweden), Yonkoping (Sweden), Ben Gurion, (Israel), Technion (Israel) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Editorial Review Boards of Journal of Management, Journal of World Business (1999 to present)Continuing on the editorial boards of SMJ and OS and on the advisory board of EJM

2000 : Panelist for BPS's New Faculty Consortium; Toronto

2001 : Invited speaker for seminar series at Concordia University (Montreal),Panelist for Academy's Dissertation Workshop, and Conveyer for 17th EGOS Colloquium (Lyon, France). Invited speaker to "Conversations in Business and Competitive Strategy" and Workshop on "Managing Your Dissertation" at 2001 AOM pre-convention activities.

2002 : Invited speaker to AOM's pre-convention workshop "Managing your Dissertation" and to seminar series at Syracuse University. Editor of special issue of Long Rang Planning; Associate Editor of Journal of International Business Studies; Program Chair (2003) for BPS at Eastern Academy of Management Meetings

2002 : present Appointed to Associate Editor of Journal of International Business Studies;
2003 : Program Chair (2003) for BPS at Eastern Academy of Management Meetings. Invited speaker at 2003 Family Firm Conference (Toronto) and at Doctoral Student Consortium for Entrepreneurial Division of Academy of Management (Baltimore). Appointed to editorial board of Journal of Management Studies

2004 : Faculty presented to the BPS and Entrepreneurial Division's Doctoral Student Consortiums and to the Entrepreneurial Division's Junior Faculty Workshop