Hamid Etemad

Hamid Etemad is an associate Professor of International Business and world-renowned researcher, at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is best known for his pioneering and innovative work in the fields of International Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business. He received a M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran as well as MBA, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He was inducted to the UC Berkeley Chapter of Beta, Gamma, Sigma National Honour Society of the Colligate Schools of Business upon graduation in 1978. Prior to joining McGill, he was a faculty member at Boston University and at University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco.

Research, Publications and Related Scholarly Activities

Etemad has published widely and has received numerous recognitions as well as national and international awards for his work. He has been invited to deliver key-note and plenary addresses on internationalization of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in international conferences, including the European meeting of Academy of International Business (EAIB 2004), The European meeting of the Academy of Management (Euram 2005), Klein Symposium on Internationalization of SMEs at the Pennsylvania State University (2005), among others. His advice on International Entrepreneurship-related matters are sought highly for research and publications and he has served on numerous advisory and scientific committees of international conferences on International Entrepreneurship as well as review boards for publishing companies, including Wiley and Sons, Kluwer/Springer Publishing, and Elgar Publishing.

His publications include four book volumes. Two of these are in the McGill International Entrepreneurship Series (MIE), published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The MIE Series features three volumes, with the first volume published in 2003. These volumes have been received very well by the scholarly community, and another three volumes are in various preparation stages to be published under the title MIE Series. Etemad is the Series Editor of this publicationseries. It is recognized as the pioneering scholarly contribution of, and is instrumental to, the emerging field of International Entrepreneurship. He is recognized by his peers as a founding father of the field. In recognition of his scholarship, diverse scholarly journals have invited him to guest-edit special issues of their respective Journals.

He has guest-edited 13 scholarly journal issues, including "Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences", "Global Focus", "Journal of International Entrepreneurship", "Management International Review", "Small Business Economics", "Journal of International Management", "Journal of International Marketing", among others. He was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Global Focus and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal International Entrepreneurship, which he helped to found, as well active member of numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.

He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals, as book chapters and as referred conference proceedings. He has also presented his work in some 50 national and international scholarly conferences.

Creation of a new scholarly field

Etemad is a past President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and past member of the Board of Social Sciences Foundation of Canada. He was the co-founder and is the sole organizer and convener of McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference (MIEC) Series, currently in its tenth edition. MIEC is recognized as the primary institution instrumental to the introduction, popularization, and emergence of International Entrepreneurship as a field scholarly inquiry. This conference series has served as the scholarly media for research in International Entrepreneurship and has spun-off many regional series emulating MIEC, mainly by the members of the McGill International Entrepreneurship Network (MIEN), which he maintains at McGill, and contains more than 200 scholars world wide.

After its inaugural edition in September 1998, at McGill, the MIE conferences have been held in Montreal on a biennial basis since 1998, and elsewhere in the interim years. The interim editions of the MIE conference series have been hosted and founded by other universities, at international sites. These sites include the Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore (August 1999), the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK (September 2001), the University of Ulster in Londonderry, UK (September 2003), and the University of Throllhattan/Uddevalla, Uddevalla, Sweden (September 2005) and UCLA Anderson Faculty of Management (September 2007). [http://www.mcgill.ca/mie/ The sixth biennial edition of MIE is expected to return to McGill in September 2008] . The proceedings of these conferences have become cutting-edge and complementary readings in Entrepreneurship and International Business courses and doctoral Seminars as well. The McGill International Entrepreneurship Network has also become the de-facto core of scholars for scholarly activities in International Entrepreneurship world wide.

International development of entrepreneurial curriculum

Etemad’s contributions to teaching-related matters cover a wide range and has served in diverse capacities in introducing innovative initiatives, including the introduction of Management curriculum to eight Chinese Universities through two key Chinese Universities: People University of China (PUC) and Tianjin University (TU). He served as the first director of the four Montreal and the two Chinese University, where he helped design, fund (by Canadian International Development Agency -- CIDA) and deliver the foundations of Management curriculum to two key Chinese Universities, PUC and TU. He then focused on the McGill-Peoples PUC, where he directed a $6 Million program with PUC linkage in particular. These linkages retrained professors and scholars and trained graduate and doctoral students, who formed the core of management education for the years to come in the two universities in general and at PUC and partners particular. These contributions were well-recognized by the Chinese State Education Committee (SEDEC) in China and the (CIDA) in Canada. Etemad engaged in similar development in the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan.

Graduate curriculum at McGill Faculty of Management

As a junior faculty members, he was instrumental in building a leading curriculum program in International Business with numerous concentrations (with more than 10 independent courses and 40 sections taught by up to seven tenure-track faculty members and a host of contractual lecturers) at the Faculty. He was asked to chair the review of the MBA Program in late 1980s. As the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, he spearheaded the redesign and implementation of McGill’s new MBA program in the early 1990s, which was ranked as one of the most prominent MBAs World wide. He introduced and formalized three joint concentrations with other Faculties, including the Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Medicine (MBA-MD Program). Under his leadership at the MBA program, students’ extracurricular and professional activities flourished. The Graduate Management Business Conference was inaugurated (now in its 13th edition) and the Student-centered local McGill Business Consulting flourished; International Business Consulting was also incorporated.

He has taught three to four courses annually of International Business and International Marketing in the Bachelor of Commerce and MBA programs. He was named the Best Teacher of the year in the B.Com Program. He has also designed and taught other new courses, ranging from International Business Policy, Globalization, Management of Technology, Comparative International Business, among other courses. He has supervised two doctoral candidates to completion, who have established successful scholarly careers since graduation. He is currently supervising one and co-supervising another doctoral student. He has also served on numerous doctoral candidates’ various committees. At the graduate level, he has supervised many MBA theses and Independent studies as well as independent studies for the B.Com students.

Curriculum development at McGill Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)

Etemad has been a regular contributor to the CCE and has maintained a steady teaching two to three courses for the Centre annually. He was asked to help design, coordinate and implement a Certificate in E-Commerce, the first for CCE in Montreal and the Canada, in which he designed and taught a course entitled Internet Marketing. He has served as a senior member of the Certificate of Management and Certificate of Marketing as well as a member of Diploma in Management at the Centre for Continuing Education.

Administrative Contributions at McGill Faculty of Management

Etemad has been an Area Coordinator of the International Business Area and then the General Management Area as well as a member of the Academic Committee of the Faculty of Management for more than twenty years. He has also served as the student advisor for International Business concentrations for more than 15 years. As a senior member, he served on the recent Task Force for the Redesign of the Bachelor of Commerce Core Program at the Faculty of Management.

He served as the chair of the Faculty’s Tenure and Promotion Committee (2004-2005), was a member of the Tenure and Promotion committee (2005-2006) and the Chair of Business and Management Research Centre (from 2000to 2007) and is currently serving as a member of the Senate of the McGill University, a member of the Faculty's Academic Committee, the Undergraduate Program Committee as well as the Advisor of the International Business Concentration and as the Area Coordinator of the General Management Area in the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Administrative Contributions to the McGill Community

Etemad was selected as a member of the Principal Shapiro’s Committee, has been a Senator at the Senate of the McGill University for more than seven years (two full terms and the current one), was selected to represent the McGill Senate in different capacities, including the Principal’s Budget and Priorities Committee, the Selection Committees for the Dean of Arts and the Selection Committees for the Dean of the Centre for Continuing Education. He has also served for three years on the campus-wide committee called the University Tenure Committee for Recruitment (UTCR).

Awards and Recognitions

Etemad has been recognized for his work and contributions. They include:
* Distinguished Paper Award (ASAC-IB Division, 2003)
* Best Paper Award (ASAC-IB Division, 1999)
* Best Paper Award (ENDEC International Conference, August 1999)
* Research Recognition Award (Faculty of Management 1999)
* Author of the second highest downloaded and purchased article published in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, V21, N1 (September 2006)
* Recipient of a Decade of Stewardship of International Entrepreneurship Award by UCLA Anderson Faculty of Management (September 2007)

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