Fariborz ghadar biography

Fariborz Ghadar is the William A. Schreyer Professor of Global Management, Policies and Planning and former director of the Center for Global Business Studies.
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Fariborz Ghadar is William A. Schreyer Professor of Global Management, Policies, and Planning at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, USA.

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"Global Tectonics: What Every Business Needs to Know" presents the global revolutions that will shape every facet of society. Demographic trends, natural resource issues, and dramatic advances in technology will has so dramatic an impact that no one involved in strategy should miss this compelling CD set. Erick Peterson, Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington D.C.-based think tank accompanies Dr. Ghadar in presenting an overview of these trends.

Mr. Erik R. Peterson Senior Vice President, CSIS

"Global Strategic Management in the New Millennium" featuresWilliam A. Schreyer, Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and other CEOs of prominent global organizations. The CD focuses on helping firms develop global strategies to compete in the new millennium.

Dr. Fariborz Ghadar Director, Center for Global Business Studies,PSU

"World Financial Institutions: A Century of Innovation and Creativity" explores the evolution of the financial services industry. Pen

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Fariborz Ghadar

Advisory Board Member

Fariborz Ghadar is the William A. Schreyer Chair of Global Management, Policies and Planning and Director, Center for Global Business Studies at The Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business Administration. He specializes in global corporate strategy and implementation, international finance and banking, and global economic assessment. In particular, Dr. Ghadar is a leading authority on the impact of e-Business on global firms. Dr. Ghadar has also served as a consultant to a score of major corporations, governments, and government agencies and regularly conducts programs for executives of major multinational corporations here and abroad. His clients have included Aramco, AT&T, BASF, CalPERS, Compaq, Eastman Chemical, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, UBS, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the World Bank among many others.

Before joining The Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Ghadar was Professor and Chairman of the International Business Department at The George Washington University School of Business and Public Manag

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01 Jun 2014

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

Re: Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972); Norb Vonnegut (MBA 1986); Ethan S. Bernstein (Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration); Anita Elberse (Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration); By: Maureen Harmon

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Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have been when he was forced to close a business he worked so hard to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it possible, he says, for the United States to thrive.

Ghadar's new book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful