Ming-Jer Chen (BS, National Chung-Hsing (Taipei) University; MBA & PhD, University of Maryland) is the Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Chen is known for his pioneering work in competitive dynamics and for his expertise in Chinese-Western business strategy and execution. He has published numerous articles in premier management journals and twice received the Glueck Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management’s Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division, as well as the 1996 Academy of Management Review and the 2008 Journal of Management Inquiry Best Paper Awards.

In August 2009, Dr. Chen will assume the post of vice-president-elect (a five-year track toward the presidency) of the Academy of Management, with an international membership of 18,000. He has served as an associate editor of the Academy of Management Review, the chair of the Academy’s BPS Division, and on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review (China).

Dr. Chen has extensive corporate teaching and consulting experience and has taught in a variety of executive education programs at Columbia, Wharton, and Darden. His clients include Merck, United Technologies, Alcoa, FedEx, DuPont, Timken, AIG, Morgan Stanley (USA), Munich Re (Germany), Rolls-Royce, BOC Gases (UK), People’s Construction Bank of China, AUO, BenQ, Ruentex, and Ford Lio Ho (Taiwan). He has been featured in such publications as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters, CNNfn, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Commercial Times (Taiwan), China Central TV Corp., and Fortune (China). He has given keynote speeches to the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit, the United States-China Executive Summit, the Hamburg Business Summit, the China CEO Forum, and the HSM Forums in Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. Dr. Chen’s book Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide (Harvard Business School Press) was reviewed by Foreign Affairs. In 2008, he was selected by Commonwealth magazine (Taipei) as one of 72 role models from the international business, cultural, and social arenas.

Dr. Chen is a dedicated teacher. He received the highest teaching rating of the business faculty at the University of Maryland (1986) and rated consistently among the top 10% of the teaching faculty at Columbia Business School (1988–1997). One of his MBA courses at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (1997-2001) once received bidding prices of more than 4,884 (out of 5,000), and he was the recipient of the Wachovia Award for Excellence in Course Material Development at the Darden Business School. Dr. Chen has held affiliations with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine (United Kingdom), and the National University of Singapore.

Dr. Chen has long been active in career development of upcoming scholars and has worked extensively with academics in Greater China through such activities as offering teaching and research workshops and sponsoring visiting scholars. He has conducted workshops for management professors in China (1997 and 2006) at the invitation of the National MBA Education Advisory Committee and for strategy and international business scholars in Taiwan (2004, 2006, and 2007) at the invitation of the National Science Council. To help advance research and scholarship in the region, his book Competitive Dynamics: A Research Odyssey (in Chinese), a compilation of his academic articles, was published by Best-Wise (Taipei) in 2008 and the Peking University Press (Beijing) in 2009.