Paul Evans is the Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore. British by nationality but raised in Africa, he has a PhD in Management and Organizational Psychology from MIT, an MBA from INSEAD, a Danish business diploma, and he is a graduate in law from Cambridge University. He has led INSEAD's activities in the field of international human resource management for many years, directing many of their executive programs in this domain. He was titular professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels, and he has taught at Boston University,… MIT, l'Universit� de Montr�al, Skolkovo Moscow, Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Zurich, and Cornell University, among other schools, as well as spending periods as visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, and as visiting professor at London Business School. His research interests focus on international human resource management, leadership and the management of change, while his long-standing intellectual interest is in the dualities that underlie human and organizational behavior. Among his books are a pioneering study of the relationship between the professional and private life of executives, Must Success Cost so Much? (translated into seven languages), and the first book on international HRM, Human Resource Management in International Firms: Change, Globalization, Innovation. Former board member of the Human Resource Planning Society, he is the founding board member of the European Human Resource Forum (EHRF), a project-oriented network with 120 corporate members. He received an "outstanding teacher of the year" award from INSEAD's MBA students for his course on IHRM, and he has worked as an advisor or directed/taught programs for more than 120 multinational corporations.
Ingmar Bj�rkman is Professor of Management and Organization at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Raised in Norway, he receiving his Ph.D from the Hanken School of Economics after having done parts of his doctoral studies at Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Hong Kong University, ESSEC (Paris), INSEAD (Fontainebleau), and SCANCOR (Stanford University) and has also taught at a number of other business schools in Europe and Asia. His research interests focus on international human resource management, knowledge creation and transfer in multinational corporations, and integration of international mergers & acquisitions. Much of his work has been on… Western companies' operations in the People's Republic of China but he has also published several articles on management issues in Russia and done extensive research on leading European multinationals. His latest book is Handbook of Research in International Resource Management (2006), co-edited with G�nter Stahl (INSEAD and Vienna University of Economics and Business). A regular contributor to international academic journals, he works regularly with multinational corporations on issues related to how they manage their human resources. He has three times been elected "best teacher of the year" by the students at Hanken School of Economics.