Faculty

Faculty

Drawing on a faculty with wide international experience in both international business and academia, courses are offered introducing students to underlying theory, best practice and recent developments in international business. The notes below identify some the UvA academics who are expected to teach on the programme during 2015/2016.

Alan Muller (International Business)

Dr Alan Muller is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the MBA program at the University of Amsterdam Business School. From 2008 through 2010 he taught International Business at the University of Washington’s Michael G. Foster School of Business, where he continues to hold an affiliate professorship. Alan holds degrees from RSM Erasmus University (PhD in Management), University of Amsterdam (Masters in International Relations) and University of Washington (Bachelor in History), all cum laude. He has received numerous additional awards, and was invited as a Visiting Scholar to Simon Fraser University (Vancouver BC) in 2008 and Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010 and 2011. Alan’s philanthropy research focuses on the underlying aims and enabling organizational processes that underlie social behaviors like corporate philanthropy, as well as on its outcomes, particularly in the area of firm value. Recent work has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Management Studies.

Personal website: Alan Muller 

Alexander Rinnooy Kan (Strategic Negotiations)

Dr A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan was appointed unsalaried Professor of Policy Analysis in the Private and Public Sectors in the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 1 September 2007. This is a new research chair. The appointment marks Rinnooy Kan's return to the university where he obtained his doctorate in 1976. The chair, which is housed within the Amsterdam Business School at the FEB, is aimed at fostering a better understanding of the effectiveness of negotiation processes, including how they operate in the public and private sectors, and at national and international levels. With his in-depth knowledge of socio-economic issues gained from work in both the private and the public sector, Alexander Rinnooy Kan will be able to make a valuable contribution to education and research at the business school. His activities will include giving lectures and classes, and acting as a link between the academic and corporate worlds.

Rinnooy Kan graduated cum laude in Mathematics from the University of Leiden in 1972, and obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the UvA in 1976. He has been Crown-appointed member and chair of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) since 2006. He previously served in various academic functions, including as Professor of Operations research and Rector Magnificus at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Following this appointment he held various administrative functions in the public and private sectors. These included membership on the Board of Governors of the ING Group and chairmanship of the corporate association VNO-NCW. Rinnooy Kan received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1994. Rinnooy Kan will provide lectures for the Amsterdam Leadership Programme and will be involved in the elective Negotiations.

Personal website: Alexander Rinnooy Kan 

Arno Kourula (Business & Sustainability)

Arno Kourula (D.Sc. Econ, Helsinki School of Economics, 2009) is an Assistant Professor of strategy at the University of Amsterdam Business School. Prior to ABS, Arno was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University in the U.S. and a project manager at Aalto University in Finland. His primary research interests are cross-sector interaction and corporate responsibility. More specifically, Arno’s research projects have focused on corporate management of stakeholder relations with nongovernmental organizations, practices at the base of the pyramid, inter-organizational roles in environmental networks, sustainability of public-private partnership infrastructure projects, and the political role of corporations. His articles have appeared in such journals as Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, Corporate Governance, Energy Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of World Business. Arno has taught courses in international business, business ethics and corporate responsibility at the bachelor, master, doctoral and executive MBA levels. In addition to academia, he has worked as a technical advisor for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, a corporate relations planner for Save the Children, a corporate responsibility consultant for various companies, and at the United Nations headquarters’ and field offices. 

Personal website: Arno Kourula  

Claudia Buengeler (Human Resource Management)

Claudia Buengeler is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the ABS. She received her Ph.D. from the Free University Amsterdam and Jacobs University Bremen in 2013. Before joining the ABS, she worked at Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Mannheim. She taught courses on Leadership, Motivation, and Evidence-based Human Resource Management at different universities, such as the University of Cologne and the University of Mannheim. She also worked for a large multinational corporation, and was responsible for consulting projects for small and medium-sized organizations. Currently, Claudia teaches courses on the topics of Teams and Diversity, Human Resource Management, and Organization and Management. Her current research interests include leadership, team diversity and demographics, and team effectiveness.

Personal website: Claudia Buengeler

Corine Boon (Human Resource Management)

Corine Boon is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at ABS. She holds a master’s degree in Business Economics (cum laude) and a PhD in Human Resource Management, both from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Corine teaches courses in the area of (strategic) human resource management and research methods for BSc, MSc, and MBA students.

Her current research interests include strategic human resource management, fit in HRM, and person-environment fit. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Personal website: Corine Boon 

David Laws (Fundamentals of Negotiations)

David Laws (Ph.D. 1998, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Before coming to Amsterdam, he worked at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Sloan School of Management at MIT and with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the relationship between negotiation and conflict resolution, public administration, and democratic governance. He has worked as a consultant for the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Air National Guard, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the Ministry of VROM.

Personal website: David Laws 

Doron Hacmon (Innovation Management)

As the managing director of the products and Online Media Group, Doron Hacmon is responsible for LGI’s video-TV, Internet-Data, Telephony and Online Media products as well as bundling, research and strategic planning. Doron has been with LGI since 2000, and in his previous role as a Senior VP, led the Strategic Marketing and Products team since 2003. Prior to this, he served as a Vice President of the telephony business line and Director of Business Development and Analysis.

Before joining LGI, Doron worked as a partner in a business consultancy firm that specializes in telecommunications, as well as other infrastructure industries for eight years. He also served as an officer in the army, responsible for the design and development of an operational IT system. Doron received a B.A. degree in Economics and Computer Science in 1990 and an MBA degree in 1995, both from Tel Aviv University. 

Edward Huizenga (Marketing Strategy)

Dr. Edward Huizenga is currently partner at the consulting firm Altuïtion. He is responsible for the Strategy, Innovation & Co-creation and Customer Retention & Loyalty business lines. His client engagement is at board room level with the top 100 companies to achieve breakthroughs in strategy and business innovation. Together with companies he initiates innovation and growth opportunities. Edward holds a Ph.D. in Innovation Management from University of Maastricht (2001), and an MA in Economics from the University of Maastricht, and business administration from Universidad de Zaragoza. Edward Huizenga is the author of numerous management bestsellers like Innovation Management - How Frontrunners Stay Ahead (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004), The Knowledge Factor (Kluwer) and The Knowledge Enterprise (Imperial College Press, 2005). He wrote several scientific publications on the success factors of innovation management. His research expertise includes strategy design, strategic planning and implementation, marketing and new business development, M&A, the effectiveness of product development processes, innovation and co-creation. At the Amsterdam Business School he teaches the MBA program on Marketing Strategy. He is a member of the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management. His consulting expertise include of strategy design and implementation, growth strategies, innovation management, new business development, technology start up ventures, open innovation, customer insights, service design and business modeling.

Personal website: www.altuition.nl 

Hans Schenk (Strategic Negotiations)

Hans Schenk is professor of economics and Fellow of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute at Utrecht University’s School of Economics (USE) of which he was founding director. Before accepting the professorship at USE, he was a professor of economics and business at Tilburg University and an associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Groningen.

Hans has held chairs at several foreign institutions, among which the China-Europe Management Institute in Beijing and Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He currently is a fellow of CIBAM at Cambridge University (UK).

He was a consultant to more than a dozen multinational enterprises, employers’ federations as well as trade unions, the United Nations, the Dutch and English parliaments, the European Commission, and the governments of the Netherlands, Vietnam and South Africa. He directed the family business firm in Maastricht for five years and acts on various supervisory boards.

He has been Chief Advisor to the Royal Dutch Economic Society and is an associate editor of the International Journal of the Economics of Business and the International Review of Applied Economics. 

Personal page: Hans Schenk 

Hans Strikwerda (The Executive Process)

Hans Strikwerda is Professor in Organisation and Organisational change. He is an international expert on the organisation of multinational and other complex organisations, esp. their internal governance. His expertise especially focuses on re-designing organisations and their corporate strategies due to fundamental changes in their environments, market structures, technologies, consumer preferences. Hans has a solid track record of proven innovative solutions, based on in depth knowledge of both organisation and management theory and on empirical developments in market and economies.

For his publications on internal governance he received the national Professional Publication Price (1996) and on shared service centres the Best Management Book Award (2004). In addition Hans publishes on new developments in the field of new organisations, governance, strategy and management consulting. He is also a member of the Programme Committee of The Amsterdam MBA.

Personal website: Hans Strikwerda; http://www.strikwerda.org/ 

Inez Zwetsloot (Quantitative Methods)

After her bachelor in econometrics at the University of Amsterdam, Inez started her research master at the Tinbergen Institute. She wrote her research thesis under the supervision of Prof.dr. Ronald J.M.M. Does and Dr. Marit Schoonhoven. The title of her thesis is: “The effects of non-normally distributed data on the performance of the EWMA Control Chart”, in which she investigated the effect of an estimator on the efficiency of EWMA Control Chart. She finished her studies in the Fall of 2012. Since 1 November 2012, Inez Zwetsloot works for IBIS UvA as a consultant and PhD student. 

Personal website: Inez Zwetsloot 

Jack van der Veen (Operations & Supply Chain Management)

Jack van der Veen is Professor of Supply Chain Management and holder of the EVO Chair for SCM at Nyenrode Business Universiteit sponsored by EVO, the Dutch shipper association. Also Jack is Cluster lead ‘Lean at SME’ at the Nyenrode Lean Education and research network (LEArN).

Jack’s areas of interest include Operations Research, Production & Logistics Management, Operational Excellence, Lean management, Social Innovation and Supply Chain Collaboration. Courses taught by him include ‘Operations Management’ and ‘Supply Chain Management’. He also gave many seminars and workshops for industry and taught in many (executive) programmes, primarily on Supply Chain Management related issues. 

Jack has published numerous articles both in international research journals and in managerial journals and regularly writes columns for various Dutch websites. Jack is also chairman of Vereniging Logistiek Mangement, vLm (the Dutch Association for Logistics Management).

Personal website: Jack van der Veen 

Jens Martin (Corporate Finance)

Personal website: Jens Martin 

Jeroen Kraaijenbrink (Competitive Strategy; Strategy Execution)

Jeroen Kraaijenbrink is an independent strategy lecturer, consultant, and writer. He has MSc degrees in public administration and industrial engineering & management and a PhD in management from the University of Twente. He also has been visiting scholar at the University of Virginia and the University of Minnesota.

As lecturer Jeroen teaches the executive MBA courses Competitive Strategy and Strategy Execution at the Amsterdam Business School. He also teaches Entrepreneurship in the executive program in Management Studies. Next to this, Jeroen has a part-time position as associate professor at the University of Twente, and a position as senior lecturer at TSM Business School where he studies and teaches strategy.

As consultant, Jeroen supports large and medium-sized organizations in strategy generation and execution. Based on scientific insights into strategy, entrepreneurship, and business modeling, and his own experience with for-profit and non-profit organizations, Jeroen has developed a new approach to strategy, which he applies in his consulting activities. Unlike conventional approaches, this approach is based on a creative, interactive, and emergent view on strategy rather than based on extensive analysis and planning.

As writer, Jeroen has published internationally in various books and journals including Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Journal of Management. His most recent book, The Strategy Handbook, is a practical and refreshing guide for making strategy work.

Personal webpage: www.kraaijenbrink.com

The Strategy Handbook: www.thestrategyhandbook.com

Jeroen Ligterink (Valuation)

Jeroen Ligterink is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and a PhD in Finance from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has been a visiting lecturer in Prague and St. Petersburg. Jeroen Ligterink has also been co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance - a think tank specialising in the financial management of corporations and the operation of the financial sector. He has acted as a consultant for the government and several corporations. His research interests are corporate finance, risk management and bankruptcy procedures.

Personal website: Jeroen Ligterink 

Johan Lindeque (Capstone Simulation)

Dr Johan Lindeque is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the University of Amsterdam Business School. Between 2008 and 2011 he taught at Queen’s University Management School, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Johan holds degrees from the University of Bath, UK (PhD and a BSc (Hons) Business Administration). While completing his doctoral research in the United States Johan was a visiting scholar at MCIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Johan's research interests include non-market strategies related to the political economy of international trade and the energy sector and seeks to understand firm performance at the intersection of the competitive and political environments at the domestic, regional and multinational levels of analysis, with the firm as primary unit of analysis. His research draws on the resource-based view and institutional theory and to date has primarily made use of qualitative case study designs. His published research appears in the Business and Politics, European Journal of International Management, Journal of Common Market Studies,  Journal of World Trade and Management International Review. 

Personal website: Johan Lindeque 

Joris Nuijten (Amsterdam Leadership Programme^®)

Joris Nuijten holds MSc degrees in Applied Physics (Eindhoven) and Petroleum Engineering (Rueil-Malmaison, France), and an Executive MBA from RSM Erasmus University (Graduated with Deans' honours). He is accredited as certified Co-Active coach at International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Coaches Training Institute (CTI). He is currently programme manager for the Strategic Leader programme (Senior Executive Leadership Development) at Royal Dutch Shell in The Hague, Netherlands. He has worked for 20 years at Royal Dutch Shell in various roles in engineering, economics, business planning, strategy and leadership development. He has experience training and coaching Senior Leaders in over 20 countries across 5 continents.

 

Marcel de Lijster (Leadership)

Marcel de Lijster has a background in the banking industry. For over 23 years he held leadership positions within Rabobank Group. The last position he held was Manager Control at Rabobank Westland one of the top 5 local branches of Rabobank. Next to his work at Rabobank he is a lecturer since 2004 at Webster University in Leiden. He has taught courses in Leadership & Management, Organizational Behaviour, Judgement and Decision Making and Strategic Management. At ABS Marcel teaches Leadership in the MBA program. His focus is on the behaviour of people in organizations. For the last 5 to 6 years he build specific expertise in forming self-managed teams.

Marcel holds an MBA with an emphasis in Management from Webster University and is educated as a Coach at the School for Coaching.

Personal page: LinkedIn: Marcel de Lijster

Martijn F.L. Rademakers (Corporate Strategy)

Dr. Martijn F.L. Rademakers is managing director at the international research and consulting company  Center for Strategy & Leadership, Executive Fellow at the Rotterdam School of Management , and board member of the Dutch Foundation for Corporate Universities (NSCU).

Martijn has extensive experience in directing and co-creating company specific programs to renew, implement and optimize strategy for innovation and growth. He also teaches strategy and leadership in executive and in-company programs across a variety of  business schools, industries, and countries. Martijn is a strategy counsellor for several CEO’s and boards of global companies.

His current research is focused on the strategic role of corporate universities. His most recent book on this topic was published in 2012, and a book on international corporate universities is forthcoming in 2013. In addition, Martijn is the author of  a range of Harvard-style cases about  strategic challenges faced by company boards of directors.

Martijn holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, an MA in Policy and Organization Sciences from Tilburg University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from The Hague Polytechnic in the Netherlands. 

Blogs: Grip op strategische analyse;  Een nieuwe strategie. Hoe implementeer je die?

Personal website: Center for Strategy & Leadership

Roger Pruppers (Consumer Behavior)

Personal website: Roger Pruppers 

Rui Oliveira Vieira (Financial Accounting; Strategic Performance Management)

Rui Vieira is Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management Control at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.  

Dr Vieira’s research focus is on Management accounting, especially in the fields of management control systems, cost accounting, performance measurement, and the organisational and behavioural aspects of management accounting systems, in which he has several publications. During his lectures, he emphasizes the importance of understanding both the strengths and limitations of accounting information and its proper use relative to other information for decision-making. 

Personal website: Rui Oliveira Vieira

Tom Geurts (Real Estate: International Study trip to George Washington University)

Dr. Tom Geurts is currently an Associate Professor at the George Washington University, where he is teaching various Real Estate and Finance Classes.

Dr. Geurts taught both at the undergraduate and graduate level for the California State University in San Bernardino, Marist in Poughkeepsie, and at NYU in New York. During the academic year 1999-2000 he took a leave of absence and worked in New York City as Director of Research for the second largest real estate company in New York City. He also teaches each year one seminar for the Masters of Real Estate program at the University of Amsterdam and two for the Technical University of Berlin. He has given guest lectures at a number of other universities, including five overseas. He was one of the founding partners of Cadence Capital Group, a boutique real estate capital advisory and investment management firm.

The main research interests of Dr. Geurts are Risk and Portfolio Management for (International) Real Estate and Finance. He has published twenty one articles in peer-reviewed journals like the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, the Multinational Business Review, Journal of Real Estate Research, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and a book on Public-Private Partnerships. He has presented at a large number of academic conferences, both national and international and his research has been supported by a number of grants.

Published by  ABS

The Amsterdam MBA

3 March 2015