George T. Haley is an American author and academic, currently a tenured Professor of Industrial and International Marketing at the University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness. His influential research covers Industrial marketing, Emerging markets, New Product Development, Innovation and B2B Marketing. He has testified on his research on China before the United States Congress and several government agencies. In November 2009, the America. Marketing Association's Marketing News named him as one of six Marketing academics to watch based on his research, teaching and broader impact [1]. In 2010, he was named an American Made Hero for his work on the ramifications of trade for US manufacturing in a global economy.
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Haley was born in San Antonio, Texas where he attended the San Antonio Academy and the Texas Military Institute. Subsequently, he attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology and his PhD in Marketing Administration.
Haley has over 100 books, book chapters, articles, research reports and presentations on Asian business and emerging markets, new product development and innovation and industrial marketing. Haley's influential book New Asian Emperors: the Overseas Chinese, their Strategies and Competitive Advantages highlighted for the first time the informational black hole of Southeast Asia which impeded effective strategic decision making and the transcendent power of the overseas Chinese networks. This book was classified "an important study" by The Economist. Haley's book The Chinese Tao of Business: The Logic of Successful Business Strategy was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as the only book on Asian business to read in 2004.
Haley has provided policy analysis for several governments and agencies such as the National Intelligence Council, the United States International Trade Commission and the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development. He has also testified on two separate occasions, on March 24, 2009 and May 25, 2007, before the congressionally mandated US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on his research on the effects of China's pillar industries and key government agencies on global manufacturing and business environments. He currently serves on two corporate and governmental boards. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
Haley's research on emerging and industrial markets, innovation, and public policy has been profiled several times in the media including as Thought Leader for Industry Week, and in The Economist, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Lou Dobbs Show (CNN), Voice of America, Marketing News, Selling Power, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Industry Week, Investor's Business Daily, Inc, Business Week, Chief Executive, CMO Magazine, Entrepreneur, EE Times, China Business Weekly, Shanghai Business Review and China Daily.
He has taught on the faculties of several universities, including the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM (Monterrey, Mexico), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia), Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand), Fordham University (New York City) and Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts).