YANG John Zhuang

Prof. John Yang Co-Dean, BiMBA at National School of Development, Peking University.
Professor of Management, National School of Development at Peking
University (NSD).

 

Education

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Columbia University, New York in 1991, majoring in management. He got his M.A. in Sociology from the same institution in 1985. He was also granted an MPA degree in International and Public Affairs from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University in 1984. He graduated from the English Language and Literature Department of Peking University, China.

 

Dr. Yang’s main teaching and research interests involve Fundamentals of Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Innovation and Cultural Change, MNC Operation and Management, International Leadership, etc. He has published a large number of articles and columns in leading academic journals and business press in China and the United States.

 

Research Area

Fundamentals of Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Innovation and Cultural Change, MNC Operation and Management, International Leadership

 

Education Background

1986—1991 Ph.D in Management, Columbia University

1984—1985 MA in Social Science, Columbia University

1982—1984 MPA in International Relation, Princeton University

1978—1981 MA in Journalism, Graduate School, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1971—1974 BA in English, Peking University

 

Academic experience

Sep.1992—Oct 2008    Tenured Associate Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University Graduate School of Business. Courses taught included Business Policy, Principles of Management, Cross Cultural Mindset and Human Resource Management. Researched on, lectured and gave presentations to MNC and Chinese companies on key success factors of dong business in China, comparative corporate culture, HR systems and structure, and global leadership principles and practices.

 

Work experience

Present

Dean, BiMBA of CCER/NSD, Peking University. Professor of Management, NSD/BiMBA, Peking University

 

Sep. 2001-Oct 2008

Associate Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Business.

 

U.S. Dean representing 26 consortium schools in Beijing, of Beijing International MBA Program (BiMBA) at Peking University, helping the business school establishing mission and vision, setting up school’s core courses to be taught; coordinating with leading professors from the United States to come and teach in china and going out to recruit best quality students to come and study at Bimba. In the course of development, also established relations with West Point to learn WP way of developing and training leaders of character.

 

During the past twelve years, have taught over 1000 BiMBA regular and EMBA students on principles of management, organizational behavior, global leadership and human resource management.  Have helped the training department develop Bimba’s executive training for leading MNC and SOE firms in China, including Pfizer, Siemens, Lenova, Novartis, BMW, VW and First Auto Factory, Henan Mobile, Taikang Insurance, and leading Chinese hospital managers.

 

Dean’s responsibilities include: develop the mission and strategic objectives of BiMBA, coordinate key and cross cultural issues with U.S. and Chinese partners regarding the development of Bimba, supervise the quality of the Bimba students, ensure that BiMBA program grows and develops healthily, design and modify MBA courses and contents, develop unique corporate culture for BiMBA students and staff, make the BiMBA brand name known all over China by writing articles and engaging in interviews on major local newspapers and help establish an international advisory board for BiMBA that includes senior leaders of Microsoft, Motorola, IBM, LG, Siemens, Ford, etc. In 2004 helped develop a special relationship with West Point Military Academy and developed over five years cooperative learning with West Point in learning and practicing the West Point Way of Leadership.

 

Publications

July 2012:eshengyanglou: a new pattern of Chinese Management, Business Review,Chinese

 

Feb 2009:Forging Leadership. Peking University Publisher,Chinese

 

Feb 2009:SQ (Spiritual Intelligence).  A translation, Huaxia Publisher

 

June 2008:Be a Man of Influence, China Machine Pressm Chinese

 

July 2007:Management, the Nameless Way. Peking University Publisher

 

June 2006:Becoming a Leader, The Annapolis Way. A translation. China Social Science Publisher , Chinese

 

Dec 05,06,07:Contributing authors to CCER New Year Economic Forecast.

 

Feb.2005:Managing in an age of complexity: quantum skills for the new millennium. With Professor Charlotte Shelton of Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management and Tony Liu of Peking University CCER. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (Volume 23, No.2 2005)

 

Nov. 2004:Preface to the book, Chinese edition “Successful Mergers, acquisitions and Strategic Alliances—how to bridge corporate cultures” by Charles Gancel, Irene Rodgers and Marc Raynaud, published by The McGraw-Hill companies, 2005

 

Jun-Aug, 2004:Key Factors Influencing HRM Practices of Overseas Subsidiaries in China’s Transition Economy. With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. International Journal of Human Resource Management June-August (2004)

 

Sept 2002:U.S. and Japanese Personnel Management Features and their implications to Chinese Firms (in Chinese). From: Elite Forum, 2nd Volume, collection of speeches delivered on Hong Kong’s Pheonix TV station, on the  most up-to-date and burning issues in Chinese economic reforms. Published by the Liao Ning People’s Publisher.

 

Mar/Apr, 1999:When MNCs Come, Who Changes Whom? With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. China Business Review (CBR), March/Apirl (1999).

 

Mar, 1999:Influences on MNC Strategies and performance in China. Advances in Chinese Industrial Studies, Vol. 6, JAI, Spring (1999).

 

Feb, 1999:The Evolving Face of Chinese Consumers- What Will They Want Next?With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. Harvard China Review , Winter issue (1999).

 

Feb, 1999:Human Resource Management Strategies of U.S. and Japanese Firms and their relevance to Chinese companies (in Chinese).  Comparative Economic and Social Systems, a leading Chinese research journal on critical issues of economics and business in China,

No.2 (1999).

Nov/Dec. 1998:Critical Success Factors of Multinational Firms in China, Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol.40(6) 633-668 (Nov/Dec, 1998)

 

Sept., 1994:The Transfer of Japanese-style Management to America Subsidiaries: Contingencies, Constraints, and Competencies (with Schon Beechler of Columbia University). Journal of International Business Studies, Volume 25, number 3, pp. 467-491 (1994)

 

July, 1994:The Japanese Approach to Quality Management --A Human Resource Perspective. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol.7, No.3 pp.44-64 (1994)

 

Jan. 1994:Contemporary Problems and Future Prospects of  Transforming State-Owned Chinese Enterprises into Share-holding Companies. Modern China Studies (in Chinese), No. 1, Vol. 40, the Center for Modern China, Princeton, NJ. pp. 50-56 (1994).

 

July, 1992:Americanization or Japanization of Human Resource Practices--A Study of Japanese Manufacturing Plants and Service Firms in the U.S.

Advances in International Comparative Management, 7: 77-115 (1992)

 

Jul/Aug, 1992:Organizational and Environmental Impact on the Use of Japanese-S Style HRM Policies in Japanese Firms in the U.S. The International Executive, 34:4 321-343

(July/August 1992).

 

May, 1993:(proceedings)HRM Policies and Practices of U.S. and Japanese Firms Operating in the U.S. , with David Lewin of UCLA, Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) 44th Annual conference Proceedings. Pp. 344-351

 

Research in Progress (1):A Comparative Analysis of Current and Ideal Organizational Cultures in the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Convergence, Divergence or Corssvergence? With Professors of Charlotte Shelton and Myles Gartland of Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management. Paper was sent to Journal of International Business Studies for review.

 

BY NAME

YANG John Zhuang

Prof. John Yang Co-Dean, BiMBA at National School of Development, Peking University.
Professor of Management, National School of Development at Peking
University (NSD).

 

Education

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Columbia University, New York in 1991, majoring in management. He got his M.A. in Sociology from the same institution in 1985. He was also granted an MPA degree in International and Public Affairs from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University in 1984. He graduated from the English Language and Literature Department of Peking University, China.

 

Dr. Yang’s main teaching and research interests involve Fundamentals of Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Innovation and Cultural Change, MNC Operation and Management, International Leadership, etc. He has published a large number of articles and columns in leading academic journals and business press in China and the United States.

 

Research Area

Fundamentals of Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Innovation and Cultural Change, MNC Operation and Management, International Leadership

 

Education Background

1986—1991 Ph.D in Management, Columbia University

1984—1985 MA in Social Science, Columbia University

1982—1984 MPA in International Relation, Princeton University

1978—1981 MA in Journalism, Graduate School, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1971—1974 BA in English, Peking University

 

Academic experience

Sep.1992—Oct 2008    Tenured Associate Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University Graduate School of Business. Courses taught included Business Policy, Principles of Management, Cross Cultural Mindset and Human Resource Management. Researched on, lectured and gave presentations to MNC and Chinese companies on key success factors of dong business in China, comparative corporate culture, HR systems and structure, and global leadership principles and practices.

 

Work experience

Present

Dean, BiMBA of CCER/NSD, Peking University. Professor of Management, NSD/BiMBA, Peking University

 

Sep. 2001-Oct 2008

Associate Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Business.

 

U.S. Dean representing 26 consortium schools in Beijing, of Beijing International MBA Program (BiMBA) at Peking University, helping the business school establishing mission and vision, setting up school’s core courses to be taught; coordinating with leading professors from the United States to come and teach in china and going out to recruit best quality students to come and study at Bimba. In the course of development, also established relations with West Point to learn WP way of developing and training leaders of character.

 

During the past twelve years, have taught over 1000 BiMBA regular and EMBA students on principles of management, organizational behavior, global leadership and human resource management.  Have helped the training department develop Bimba’s executive training for leading MNC and SOE firms in China, including Pfizer, Siemens, Lenova, Novartis, BMW, VW and First Auto Factory, Henan Mobile, Taikang Insurance, and leading Chinese hospital managers.

 

Dean’s responsibilities include: develop the mission and strategic objectives of BiMBA, coordinate key and cross cultural issues with U.S. and Chinese partners regarding the development of Bimba, supervise the quality of the Bimba students, ensure that BiMBA program grows and develops healthily, design and modify MBA courses and contents, develop unique corporate culture for BiMBA students and staff, make the BiMBA brand name known all over China by writing articles and engaging in interviews on major local newspapers and help establish an international advisory board for BiMBA that includes senior leaders of Microsoft, Motorola, IBM, LG, Siemens, Ford, etc. In 2004 helped develop a special relationship with West Point Military Academy and developed over five years cooperative learning with West Point in learning and practicing the West Point Way of Leadership.

 

Publications

July 2012:eshengyanglou: a new pattern of Chinese Management, Business Review,Chinese

 

Feb 2009:Forging Leadership. Peking University Publisher,Chinese

 

Feb 2009:SQ (Spiritual Intelligence).  A translation, Huaxia Publisher

 

June 2008:Be a Man of Influence, China Machine Pressm Chinese

 

July 2007:Management, the Nameless Way. Peking University Publisher

 

June 2006:Becoming a Leader, The Annapolis Way. A translation. China Social Science Publisher , Chinese

 

Dec 05,06,07:Contributing authors to CCER New Year Economic Forecast.

 

Feb.2005:Managing in an age of complexity: quantum skills for the new millennium. With Professor Charlotte Shelton of Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management and Tony Liu of Peking University CCER. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (Volume 23, No.2 2005)

 

Nov. 2004:Preface to the book, Chinese edition “Successful Mergers, acquisitions and Strategic Alliances—how to bridge corporate cultures” by Charles Gancel, Irene Rodgers and Marc Raynaud, published by The McGraw-Hill companies, 2005

 

Jun-Aug, 2004:Key Factors Influencing HRM Practices of Overseas Subsidiaries in China’s Transition Economy. With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. International Journal of Human Resource Management June-August (2004)

 

Sept 2002:U.S. and Japanese Personnel Management Features and their implications to Chinese Firms (in Chinese). From: Elite Forum, 2nd Volume, collection of speeches delivered on Hong Kong’s Pheonix TV station, on the  most up-to-date and burning issues in Chinese economic reforms. Published by the Liao Ning People’s Publisher.

 

Mar/Apr, 1999:When MNCs Come, Who Changes Whom? With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. China Business Review (CBR), March/Apirl (1999).

 

Mar, 1999:Influences on MNC Strategies and performance in China. Advances in Chinese Industrial Studies, Vol. 6, JAI, Spring (1999).

 

Feb, 1999:The Evolving Face of Chinese Consumers- What Will They Want Next?With Professors of John Farley of Dartmouth College/China-Europe International Business School and Scott Hoenig of Fordham University GBA. Harvard China Review , Winter issue (1999).

 

Feb, 1999:Human Resource Management Strategies of U.S. and Japanese Firms and their relevance to Chinese companies (in Chinese).  Comparative Economic and Social Systems, a leading Chinese research journal on critical issues of economics and business in China,

No.2 (1999).

Nov/Dec. 1998:Critical Success Factors of Multinational Firms in China, Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol.40(6) 633-668 (Nov/Dec, 1998)

 

Sept., 1994:The Transfer of Japanese-style Management to America Subsidiaries: Contingencies, Constraints, and Competencies (with Schon Beechler of Columbia University). Journal of International Business Studies, Volume 25, number 3, pp. 467-491 (1994)

 

July, 1994:The Japanese Approach to Quality Management --A Human Resource Perspective. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol.7, No.3 pp.44-64 (1994)

 

Jan. 1994:Contemporary Problems and Future Prospects of  Transforming State-Owned Chinese Enterprises into Share-holding Companies. Modern China Studies (in Chinese), No. 1, Vol. 40, the Center for Modern China, Princeton, NJ. pp. 50-56 (1994).

 

July, 1992:Americanization or Japanization of Human Resource Practices--A Study of Japanese Manufacturing Plants and Service Firms in the U.S.

Advances in International Comparative Management, 7: 77-115 (1992)

 

Jul/Aug, 1992:Organizational and Environmental Impact on the Use of Japanese-S Style HRM Policies in Japanese Firms in the U.S. The International Executive, 34:4 321-343

(July/August 1992).

 

May, 1993:(proceedings)HRM Policies and Practices of U.S. and Japanese Firms Operating in the U.S. , with David Lewin of UCLA, Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) 44th Annual conference Proceedings. Pp. 344-351

 

Research in Progress (1):A Comparative Analysis of Current and Ideal Organizational Cultures in the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Convergence, Divergence or Corssvergence? With Professors of Charlotte Shelton and Myles Gartland of Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management. Paper was sent to Journal of International Business Studies for review.