Usha Haley
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Usha C. V. Haley (born Usha Venkatesan) is an American author and academic, and currently tenured Professor of International Business and the Director of the Global Business Center at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Born in Bombay, India, she received a Bachelor's degree in Politics at Elphinstone College, Bombay and then went on to graduate degree programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mass Communications and New York University, where she received Master's and PhD degrees in International Business and Strategy from the Stern School of Business. Dr. Haley has lived and worked in Mexico, Singapore, Australia, China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Finland and several other countries.
An expert on Asian and Emerging Markets, Dr. Haley's extensive research includes over 100 articles and presentations and 5 books that explore companies and business environments in India, China, Southeast Asia and Mexico. She has also looked at the effects of sanctions on the behaviors of companies and nations. Her latest book, The Chinese Tao of Business [1] provocatively highlighted the Chinese business environment and the fate of companies that operate there.
She is a frequent public speaker and expert on the talk and press circuit. Her research has been regularly profiled in the major media including The Economist [2]("Survey of Asian Business", April 7-13, 2001), CNN [3](Special Report: Eye on China, May 18-19, 2005), Barron's Magazine ("Foreign Carmakers keep up the Pressure on Detroit", October 22, 2001), USA Today [4] ("Tech Start-Ups Don't Grow on Trees Outside USA", June 28, 2006) the Wall Street Journal [5] ("The Time to Give", November 26, 2004), The New York Times [6] ("With New Urgency US and South Korea Seek Free Trade Deal", January 16, 2007) and BusinessWeek [7] ("The Art of Chinese Relationships", January 6, 2006).
Dr. Haley has received a life-time award for her contributions to the understanding of Business in the Asia-Pacific and serves on several corporate and governmental boards as well as academic journal editorial boards. She has also testified several times before US Congress on her research on China and emerging and transitional economies. Included in these testimonies, in April 2006 she testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the effects of Chinese government subsidies on US business operations in China [8]. In March 2007, she testified before the United States House Committee on Ways and Means in support of the ground-breaking, US federal trade legislation, The Nonmarket Economy Trade Remedy Act of 2007[9].
[edit] Books by Haley
New Asian Emperors: The Overseas Chinese, their Strategies and Competitive Advantages (Butterworth-Heineman, 1998)[10]
Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organizational Change for Competitive Advantage (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000) [11]
Multinational Corporations in Political Environments: Ethics, Values and Strategies (World Scientific, 2001, 2004) [12]
Asian Post-crisis Management: Corporate and Governmental Strategies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Palgrave, 2002) [13]
The Chinese Tao of Business: The Logic of Successful Business Strategy (John Wiley & Sons, 2004, 2006)[14]
