HARRY LANE

Harry Lane is a Senior Consulting Associate with Global Resources in addition to his position as Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in International Business at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern University in September 1999, Professor Lane was at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada for 23 years. He was the Associate Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for five years when it was located at Ivey. He has been a Visiting Professor at Groupe HEC in France, the Koblenz School of Corporate Management in Germany, the Helsinki School of Economics and Business administration in Finland and IPADE in Mexico. He teaches courses in Cross-Cultural Management, Valuing and Managing Diversity, and Organizational Renewal and Change. He is certified in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and is functional in Spanish. Professor Lane received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, MBA from Boston College and DBA in Organizational Behavior from the Harvard Business School.

He has authored or co authored four books and numerous articles, and in the area of international business and cross-cultural management he has written over 70 case studies. The fourth edition of the text International Management Behavior (with J.J. DiStefano and Martha L. Maznevski) was published in 2000. His articles have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Management International Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Ethics, International Studies of Management and Organization, Journal of Management Development, R & D Management and International Journal of Organizational Analysis.

Professor Lane's research interests are intercultural management and diversity management as well as organizational learning and strategic renewal. He is currently conducting research focusing on global new product development. Professor Lane has been a consultant and faculty member for numerous university and corporate courses and has engaged in varied assignments and projects around the world. In addition to Canada, Mexico, and Europe, he has completed projects in Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. He has conducted diversity and cross-cultural training for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Exxon Company International, Rensaeleer Polytecnic Institute, Groupe Schneider North America and a consortium of Mexican companies including Cemex, Modelo, Alfa, IMSA and AXA.