Center for International Business director retires, succeeded by Professor Bernard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—May 18, 2007
CONTACT: Kim Keating, 603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H.—The founding director of Tuck's Center for International Business, Professor Joseph Massey, will retire this summer and be succeeded by Professor Andrew Bernard, currently the center's senior associate director. Founded in 1995, the center is dedicated to education and research on international issues facing business and national leaders. It aims to be a primary resource for Tuck students, faculty, and alumni on global opportunities and problems facing companies.
Under Professor Massey, the center launched the Tuck Global Consultancy program, now one of Tuck's most popular elective courses; hosted the Tuck World Business Forum in Tokyo and many other intellectually stimulating conferences and events; developed the Tuck Trade Agreements Database, the largest database of free trade agreements searchable by keyword; and oversaw the initiation of Tuck's Vietnam programs, including assisting with the establishment of the Hanoi School of Business and the training of more than 350 senior executives of Vietnamese companies.
"Under Professor Massey's leadership, the Center for International Business has indeed been vital to giving Tuck the significant global impact that we enjoy today," said Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School. "In recent years, Tuck has also successfully expanded the global nature of our curriculum and the overall experience for our students. I am confident in Professor Bernard's plans to continue this positive momentum moving forward, and all of us at Tuck are excited to bring him into a leadership role at the center."
Bernard, who will officially become center director on July 1, is the Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics at Tuck, where he has been on the faculty since 1999. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford in 1991 and was a faculty member at MIT and Yale prior to coming to Tuck.
Bernard is an expert in international trade and investment and specializes in firm responses to globalization. In recent papers he has analyzed the effects of trade with low-cost countries such as China on firm strategy and performance and the relationship between exporting and productivity. His current research is on transfer pricing by U.S. exporters and the role of multinationals in international trade and production.
In 2003, Bernard received a three-year National Science Foundation grant to study firm responses to international trade. In addition to being published in such top journals as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies, his research has been featured on CNN, CNBC, ABC's Good Morning America, MSNBC, NPR's Morning Edition, the Marketplace Morning Report, the BBC, and in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Nikkei, Fortune, and Business Week.
Professor Bernard is already setting aggressive goals for the center, focused on bringing more international activity to Tuck and expanding Tuck's activities around the world. He will be joined by Professor Matthew Slaughter, recently returned from serving on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, who will take Bernard's place as senior associate director of the center. The two will be assisted by Lisa Miller, the center's associate director. Professor John Owens will continue his work as director of the Tuck Global Consultancy.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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