Prof. Xiaohua Yang University of San Francisco, USA

Professor Xiaohua Yang teaches International Business and is the founding director of the China Business Studies Initiative in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She specializes in the internationalization of Chinese firms, MNE corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, international R&D strategic alliances, and foreign market... read moreentry strategies. She has taught and lectured in the USA, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Europe. She regularly teaches MBA and EMBA students and supervises doctoral students. Dr. Yang is a recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from prestigious international conferences, the outstanding research award and the outstanding service award from the USF School of Management as well as the prestigious China Natural Science Foundation grant. Widely published in international journals, she is the Senior editor of the Journal of Asia Business studies, guest editor of several top journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Business Ethics Quarterly, among other editorial credentials.

Dr Yang has served on numerous boards and has consulted companies and government agencies in a number of countries, including the U.S., China, Australia, Finland, and Armenia. She has designed and delivered training courses for Chinese companies. She has been a fellow of the Tim Fischer Center for Global Trade and Finance at Bond University, Australia, and an honorary professor at the Center for Business Ethics at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Hunan Normal University’s Public Administration School, and Sichuan University’s School of Business.

Dr Yang earned her PhD in International Business/Strategic Management from the University of Kansas, her MBA from Iowa State University, and her BA from Shanghai University of International Studies.