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Chuck Kwok

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Professor Kwok is Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina. He received a Ph.D. degree with a major in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin. His research concentrates on international finance and international business education. He is one of the pioneers conducting interdisciplinary research on how national culture influences various financial practices around the world. He has published over seventy refereed journal articles as well as five books and monographs. His articles appear in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics and so forth. He is a frequent contributing author to the Journal of International Business Studies, the flagship journal of the Academy of International Business. His academic papers have received a number of awards, including the prestigious Moskowitz Prize, given by the Center for Responsible Business, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Kwok is the President-Elect of the Academy of International Business. He was the AIB Vice President-Administration in 1995-1996. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He has served on eight journal editorial boards. He has served as a member of the editorial board of Journal of International Business Studies under different editors-in-chief. At the University of South Carolina, he served on the 24-Person University Tenure and Promotion Committee from 2007-2009. He was the coordinating director of the Ph.D. program in International Finance from 1995-2008. He was a recipient of the International Advocate Award of the University of South Carolina in 2009. Professor Kwok has been teaching various international finance and China business courses at both master and doctoral levels at the University of South Carolina since Fall, 1984. He received numerous teaching awards within the College of Business Administration, including the Alfred Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching. Besides teaching at the University of South Carolina, he has been consistently invited as a visiting professor at prestigious institutions around the world, including the Peking University (Beijing University, PRC), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, PRC), Jiaotong University (Shanghai, PRC), Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Austria), and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, Mexico). He was given the International Professional Award by the South Carolina Governor, David Beasley, at the Governor’s International Gala in 1998. In December 1999, he was awarded the honor of Guest Professorship by the Peking University, PRC. In 2007, he was invited to join as a member of the Center for China Financial Research at the Peking University.

 

In 2012, he was given the Best Teaching Award of the Beijing International MBA program of the Peking University. In 2015, he was given the “Teaching Excellence Award” of the Vienna Executive MBA program jointly offered by the University of Minnesota and Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien. Besides teaching regular full-time business students, he also conducts seminars for multinational corporations such as Verizon, Westinghouse, International Paper Corporation, Sonoco, Milliken, Flour and so forth. He was interviewed by the National Public Radio (“All Things Considered” program), China’s CCTV (national TV channel of China), and WIS-TV on Newswatch program.

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Chuck Kwok

Visiting Professor
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Biography

Professor Kwok is Distinguished Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina. He received a Ph.D. degree with a major in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin. His research concentrates on international finance and international business education. He is one of the pioneers conducting interdisciplinary research on how national culture influences various financial practices around the world. He has published over seventy refereed journal articles as well as five books and monographs. His articles appear in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics and so forth. He is a frequent contributing author to the Journal of International Business Studies, the flagship journal of the Academy of International Business. His academic papers have received a number of awards, including the prestigious Moskowitz Prize, given by the Center for Responsible Business, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Kwok is the President-Elect of the Academy of International Business. He was the AIB Vice President-Administration in 1995-1996. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He has served on eight journal editorial boards. He has served as a member of the editorial board of Journal of International Business Studies under different editors-in-chief. At the University of South Carolina, he served on the 24-Person University Tenure and Promotion Committee from 2007-2009. He was the coordinating director of the Ph.D. program in International Finance from 1995-2008. He was a recipient of the International Advocate Award of the University of South Carolina in 2009. Professor Kwok has been teaching various international finance and China business courses at both master and doctoral levels at the University of South Carolina since Fall, 1984. He received numerous teaching awards within the College of Business Administration, including the Alfred Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching. Besides teaching at the University of South Carolina, he has been consistently invited as a visiting professor at prestigious institutions around the world, including the Peking University (Beijing University, PRC), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, PRC), Jiaotong University (Shanghai, PRC), Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Austria), and the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, Mexico). He was given the International Professional Award by the South Carolina Governor, David Beasley, at the Governor’s International Gala in 1998. In December 1999, he was awarded the honor of Guest Professorship by the Peking University, PRC. In 2007, he was invited to join as a member of the Center for China Financial Research at the Peking University.

 

In 2012, he was given the Best Teaching Award of the Beijing International MBA program of the Peking University. In 2015, he was given the “Teaching Excellence Award” of the Vienna Executive MBA program jointly offered by the University of Minnesota and Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien. Besides teaching regular full-time business students, he also conducts seminars for multinational corporations such as Verizon, Westinghouse, International Paper Corporation, Sonoco, Milliken, Flour and so forth. He was interviewed by the National Public Radio (“All Things Considered” program), China’s CCTV (national TV channel of China), and WIS-TV on Newswatch program.