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EDUCATION

Ph.D.	Institut de l’Administration des Entreprises, Université de Lille II, Lille, France PhD awarded Summa Cum Laude Dissertation Title: Transfer of French Retailing Managerial Practices to Poland	July 2005
Post-graduate degree in Management, equivalent of MBA	Institut de l’Administration des Entreprises, Université de Lille II, Lille, France	1993
Ph.D. ABD in English	Université de Lille III, Lille, France	1981
MA English	Université de Lille III, Lille, France	1978
BA English	Université de Lille III, Lille, France	1976
BA Russian	Université de Lille III, Lille, France	1976
BA Polish	Université de Lille III, Lille, France	1976

LANGUAGES

English	Fluent	BA, MA and PhD ABD in English
French	Fluent	Educated in France
Polish	Fluent	Mother tongue
Spanish	Fluent	Lived 10 years in Venezuela
Russian	Excellent command	BA in Russian, travels to Russia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2004-present

Associate Professor of Business Policy and Strategy and International Management, Marketing Management at the School of Business, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC Graduate Courses Taught Integrated Strategic Management International Management Undergraduate Courses Taught Capstone Business Policy course for graduating seniors International Business Marketing Management and Planning

1977-2004	Associate Professor in Business, Management, Strategy, International Management, International OB in English at the School of Economics, Catholic University, Lille, France Graduate Courses Taught International Business Strategy International Management and Organizational Behavior Management for Financial Specialists Undergraduate Courses Taught Management and Organizational Behavior International Strategic Management Strategic Management Principles of Management Principles of Marketing Associate Professor of International Communication, International Business, CV writing, EDHEC Business School, Catholic University of Lille, France. Courses in Master of Management, Master in European Business and MBA. Graduate Courses Taught International Business and Strategy Management International Business Communication CV Writing for MBA and Master’s job seekers
1995-1997	International Business and International Management courses taught at the Cracow Academia Ekonomiczna, Poland (Tempus Program) Courses in International Business and International Management taught at the Program Studiow Zagranicznych, Univesrity Marie-Curie Sklodowska, Poland (Tempus Program)
1977-1989	Courses in Business English at IESEG School of Management, Lille, France
1977-1982	Adult Education, University Lille III (FCEP), Courses held at the university and in-house training: Etablissements Neu, Lille; INSERM, Lille, Gossens Printers, Mons, etc.

1977-1984

ESAD School for Executive Secretaries, Courses in Business English

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE

1995	HRM and Recruitment Seminar, Lublin, Poland. A joint venture of the five local universities’ retraining program.
1994	Development and administration of International Training of tenure track faculty in International Business, Akademia Ekonomiczna, Cracow, Poland (Tempus programs and French Ministry, Fondation France-Pologne Program).
1993-94	Management and Market Entrepreneurship, Cracow, Poland. Joint Program funded be the European Community, French Ministries, Lille and Cracow Regional Councils
1992	Entrepreneurship and Market Economies, Western Accounting and Finance, Warsaw, Poland. Funded by Lille Chamber of Commerce
1991	Management and Finance for Polish Entrepreneurs, Executives and Academics, CEPI Executive Education Center, Chamber of Commerce, Lille, France.

PROFESSIONAL NON-TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND CONSULTING

1991-1997 Educational Technology Transfer to Poland: Warsaw Akademia Nauk, Krakow Akademia Ekonomiczna and Lublin Universities 

• Co-designed, set up and managed three Post-graduate programs in Poland. Conceived the programs, raised financing and then administered EDHEC Business School’s Program for International Development in Poland. Wrote and administered four Tempus programs. Organized and followed up teacher and student exchanges. Canvassed for Partners (IESE, Spain; Swedish School of Management, Helsinki, Finland, and Universities in the UK, Sweden and Portugal). Organized meetings for European partners, coordinated the programs for seven years.
• Contributed to the setting up of the International Programs office in Academia Ekonomiczna. Krakow Poland. Trained new staff in funding, financial management, and organization of new office. 
• Set up MSc programs and offices in Lublin, Poland. Recruited personnel and first cohorts of students.
• Co-Designed Polish academic programs, re-trained Polish faculty members in Western teaching methods in training-of-trainers seminars. Organized and managed the seminars.
• Sarbec Cosmetics, Ltd: Advisor to the CEO and managerial board for internationalization of the firm. 2001-2003.

MEREDITH COLLEGE COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES



COMMITTEE	ACADEMIC YEAR
Graduate Committee	2004-2005
MBA Committee	2004-Present
Undergraduate Research Committee	2005-2007
College Writing Committee	2008-2010
Diversity Circle	Spring 2009


RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Research in Internationalization Strategies, International Transfer of Business Models, Change Management, HRM Practices and Organizational Learning of MNCs. These interests are related with my Ph.D. and the papers that I have presented in the conferences mentioned above.
• Research in the field of organizational change and learning in Post-socialist societies, with a special focus on Eastern vs. Western European management styles, cross cultural learning (Poland–France). Several papers on these subjects were presented at the conferences mentioned above.
• European management styles, transnational management learning in Europe; understanding barriers to organizational learning.
• Internationalization issues of American companies.
• Research in Business Intelligence. Invited by SAS to participate in Executive Committee and SUGI Meetings, San Francisco, CA, March 2006.
• Research in IT Services company strategies globally.
• Research on Management Consulting, specifically Strategic Consulting

PUBLICATIONS

    UNDER REVIEW

Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2009. SAS: Leadership in Business Intelligence. The Case Research Journal. Finished all reviews, recommended to Editor in Chief for publication.

    BOOKS

• Your CV in English, 2002, Editions d’Organisation, Paris, France, second edition.
• Chinese translation, 2003
• Spanish translation, 2000, El guia para preparar un Curriculum International, Espana
• CV International. 2000. First edition of Your CV in English. Editions d’Organisation, Paris, France.

   

    OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2009. A Confrontation of Mindsets: French Retailers in Poland. The CASE Journal, Spring, 5(2):54-65.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2008. Business Model: a holistic scorecard for piloting firm internationalization and knowledge. International Journal of Business Research, 8(3):52-68.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2007. Using business models to assess the effectiveness of firm internationalization, International Journal of Business Strategy, 7(1):86-106.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2007. What local responsiveness really means to multinational corporations, Journal of the American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 11(2): September, 43-50.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2007. Business models & financial structures: a strategy mystery game and A brief on business models & financial structure: a strategy mystery game, the CASE Journal, 3(2):108-116.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2005. Transfer of managerial practices by French food retailers to Operations in Poland. Academy of Management Executive, Special Issue on Global Transfer of Management Knowledge, 19(2):34-49
• Stephanie Hurt. 2001. Sensitizing Students to International Recruitment Issues. Academy for Creative Teaching, October.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 1999. Bodegas Caballé. Interactive Cases for Business English, Anne E. Witte (ed.), Editions Ellipses. Also published in European Case Clearing House as separate case, 2000.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 1999. Van Haffner: Understanding Anglo-Saxon financial documents. Interactive Cases for Business English, Ed. Anne E. Witte (ed.). Editions Ellipses.

 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

• Stephanie Hurt. 2009. The MNE knowledge transfer process seen as ‘co-evolution’: Evidence from a longitudinal study, paper presented at the Strategic Management Society, Washington, DC, October.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2009. Two paths followed by IT service providers diversifying into management consulting: insourcing and outsourcing. Paper presented at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August.
• Stephanie & Marcus Hurt. 2009. Sonata Software: An Indian-German JV opens a path to Western Europe for an Indian offshore provider. Case presented at the Eastern Academy of Management, Hartford, Connecticut, May.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2008. Business Model: a holistic scorecard for piloting firm internationalization and knowledge transfer, paper presented at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California, August. Later published.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2007. The SAS Institute and SAS Internationalization, presented at the North American Case Research Association (NACRA), Keystone, Colorado, October.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2007. Putting responsiveness back into the Integration-Responsiveness framework, paper presented at the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August. Later published.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2007. The need to include organization embeddedness in developing the local responsiveness of MNCs, Presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Vienna, Austria, July.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2006. Learning to Manage on Foreign Markets: French Retailers in Poland (A & B), presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA), San Diego, October.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2006. Using Business Models to assess the effectiveness of firm internationalization, presented at the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia, August. Later published.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2006. Relationship between Business Models embeddedness and internationalization effectiveness, presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Bergen Norway, July.
• Stéphanie Hurt, Marcus Hurt & Jacques Chrissos. 2006. Business Models and Financial Structures, presented at the Eastern Academy of Management, Saratoga Springs, New York, May. Under other authored material.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2006. ControlSys, presented at the South Eastern Case Research Association (SECRA), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, February. Under other authored material.
• Stéphanie Hurt. 2004. Le Transfert International d’un Business Model et de ses Pratiques Managériales: Les Etapes, presented at the Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), Deauville, France. June.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2003, Evolution of Managerial Practices of French Food Retailers in Poland: A Drive towards Convergence, presented at the Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, August.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2003. HRM Learning by French food retailers in Poland, presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Copenhagen, Denmark, July.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2003. From Divergence to Convergence in IHRM: The example of French food IHRM retailing in Poland, presented at the International Human Resource Management Conference, Limerick, Ireland, June.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2003. The reaffirmation of old paradigms suggest a slowing down of transformation: the example of French food retailing in Poland presented at the Fifth International Conference on Enterprise in Transition. Split, Croatia, May.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2003. The Importance of the chief executive in the strategic piloting of change in a privatized Polish company over 10 years. Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Enterprise in Transition. Split, Croatia, May.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2003. Global, national & local practices in multinational corporations: Evolution of HRM practices in food retailing MNCs: local vs. global, presented at the European Academy of Management (EURAM), Milano, Italy, April.
• Stéphanie Hurt. 2002. Le cas de l’implantation de la grande distribution française en Pologne : Rupture ou transformation? presented at the Conférence Institut Psychanalyse & Management, XII Journées Nationales de’ Études: Transformations et Ruptures, Lille, France, June.
• Stéphanie Hurt. 2002. Processus de transfert de méthodes organisationnelles et apprentissages réciproques dans un environnement changeant, presented at the Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), Paris, France, June.
• Stéphanie Hurt. 2002. La confrontation des paradigmes: une manière de comprendre le processus de transfert international des méthodes organisationnelles et apprentissages, presented at the Journée des Instituts d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE), Paris, France, May.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2002. The SARBEC Experiment, presented at the Academy for Creative Teaching, Vienna, Austria, January.
• Stéphanie Hurt. 2001. La gestion du changement dans les organisations en transition, presented at the Journées de la recherche du CLAREE, Lille, France, October.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2001. Learning about barriers and barriers to learning in the transfer of HRM and organizational methods in a context of implanting a French retailing model in an economy in transition, presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Lyon, France, July.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2001. Discovering the weight of history in a Polish company attempting to survive in a period of societal transition, presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Lyon, France, July.
• Stephanie Hurt & Marcus Hurt. 2001. Designing and using complex cases in Executive and MBA Education to develop decision and communication skills, presented at the World Association for Case Method Research and Application Conference (WACRA), Lund, Sweden, June.

OTHER AUTHORED UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

• Stephanie Hurt. 2006. ControlSys, an in-basket case for training in leading strategic change, presented at CASE, Eastern Academy of Management, May.
• Stephanie Hurt, Marcus Hurt & Jacques Chrissos. 2006. Business Models and Financial Structures, presented at CASE, Eastern Academy of Management, May. Winner of the EDHEC Business School Foundation for excellence in creative teaching materials.
• Stephanie Hurt. 2003. Strategizing: The Besco-Greenfields Strategic Negotiation Simulation, Le Central des Cas, Paris, France.
• Stephanie Hurt, Marcus Hurt & Christophe Roux-Dufort. 1997. Herbapol, a Polish company privatizes and learns to do business in a market economy, European Case Clearing House (ECCH), Cranfield School of Management, UK.

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

• Reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, October 2008.
• Reviewer for the British Journal of Management, 2009.
• Reviewer for the CASE Journal, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer for the Case Research Journal, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer for Thunderbird International Business Review, 2005 & 2006.
• Reviewer for the International Journal of Case Method Research & Application, 2001-2007.
• Reviewer for Academy of Management Conferences for the International Management and the Business Policy and Strategy Divisions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer for the Association Internationale du Management Stratégique Conference (AIMS), 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer for Eastern Academy of Management Conference, 2006, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer for Association of International Business and Economics Conference (AIB), 2007
• Reviewer for European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS), Bergen Norway Conference, 2006; Vienna Austria conference 2007
• Reviewer for the World Association of Case Research and Application (WACRA) and the Association of Creative Teaching (ACT)
• Reviewer for South Eastern Case Research Association (SECRA) Conference, Myrtle Beach, 2006.

ACADEMIC COMMITTEES, CHAIRS AND CONVENORSHIPS

• Selected Chair of the Management Consulting Division Doctoral Consortium for 2010 of the Academy of Management.
• Elected Member at Large for the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management.
• Discussant: Showcase Symposium: Integrating Business Models in Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship Research, the Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, August 2009. Participating Universities: IESE (Spain), ESADE (Spain), London Business School (GB), Harvard Business School (USA), Columbia University (USA), Meredith College (USA).
• Discussant: Career Ups and Downs, the Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, August 2009.
• Chair, paper session on International Network 1, Academy of Management, Anaheim, August, 2008.
• Discussant, paper session on Ownership and Governance of MNCs, Academy of Management, Anaheim, August, 2008.
• Organizer and Chair, Professional Development Workshop: Business Model: in search of meaning, (BPS Division) Academy of Management, Anaheim, August 2008.
• Organizer and Chair, Professional Development Workshop: Making case study research count: best practices and future directions, (IM Division) Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August, 2007.
• Chair, paper session on Strategic Idiosyncrasies in Emerging Markets, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August, 2007.
• Chair, paper session at EGOS Conference (European Group for Organizational Studies, Vienna, Austria, July, 2007.
• Appointed to the International Relations Committee at American Academy of Management International Division
• Chaired and served as discussant at sessions at EAM 2006, SECRA 2006
• Convenor at 20th European Group for Organization Studies Conference (EGOS) in 2004: Sub-theme on Researcher/ Practitioner relationships.
• Chair at the British Academy of Management, International Business and Research, September 2003.

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS HELD

• Academy of Management (AoM)
• Eastern Academy of Management (EAM)
• European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
• Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS)
• The North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
• The CASE Association
• European Academy of Management (EURAM)
• Southeast Case Research Association (SECRA)
• The World Advisory Board and Standards Setting Committee, World Association for Case Method and Research Application (WACRA) and Academy of Creative Teaching (ACT), appointed 2001.
• Member of the CLARÉE Research group, CNRS, Lille, France until 2005.

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 


International Rotary Club

• Elected Board Member, Director of Vocational Service, 2008.
• Member of the West Raleigh Rotary Club
• Appointed leader of the Professional Leadership team for 2007-2008
• Member of the Rotary Ambassador Selection team in Rotary 2006-2007-2008 Rotary years

Contributed to the Stop Hunger Now Campaigns of North Carolina

Member of the Triangle Polish-American Club

Meredith French Club

• Trips to Yearly French Film Festival in Virginia
• Trip to Washington, D.C.

Advisory Board Member at MSH (Miedzynarodowa Szkola Handlu), Warsaw, Poland, 1993-1996

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Appreciation of Outstanding Service, External Affairs Committee, International Management Division of the Academy of Management, August, 2008
• Elected Professor of the Year 2006-2007 by the Senior students of Meredith Business School
• Elected teacher of the Year 2005-2006 by the Meredith Business School MBA students
• Elected Professor of the Year 2004-2005 by the Senior students of Meredith Business School
• Summer financial research grants to continue my research during summers 2005, 2006, 2007.
• Medal of the Friends of Marie-Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
• Medal of Recognition of the Lublin Chapter of Business Research and Culture, Poland.
• Medal of Meritorious Service by the Cracow Academy of Economics in acknowledgement of the contribution to development of the institution.