HEIDI VERNON

Heidi Vernon is a Senior Consulting Associate of Global Resources and has designed, managed, and taught executive and staff level courses in a range of global business planning subjects for a variety of international clients.

In addition to her work with Global Resources, Dr. Vernon is a Professor of Management and Director of International Alliances at Northeastern University. As a specialist in the strategic and cultural aspects of international business, she also serves as Senior Professor at Prasetiya Mulya Graduate School of Management in Indonesia and has taught in the Global Senior Managers Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has consulted to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Harvard Institute for International Development in addition to her many years spent traveling, consulting and teaching in other parts of Asia.

Dr. Vernon has presented papers at numerous conferences around the world and has done research on the role of women in international business, the role of culture in business, and in related issues of international management. She specializes in analyzing challenges that industrializing country firms encounter as they try to develop export capabilities. Dr. Vernon is the author of three books: Strategic Management in the Global Economy, Business & Society: A Managerial Approach and Lowell: The Corporations and the City. She is on editorial and review boards of professional journals and is also the author of numerous articles and papers.

Dr. Vernon received her B.A. from Rutgers University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. She is a member of the Academy of Management and Academy of International Business and has held many offices in both organizations, and is a Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management. Dr. Vernon is also a graduate of Cordon Bleu in Paris and prior to her academic career, owned and managed her own gourmet cooking school.