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Born
in Canada with degrees in economics from three Canadian
universities, I have been a professor since 1995 in the Management
Department at
Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas, where I am
now
Professor Emerita.
I am also an Adjunct Professor in the
TAMU School of Law. Prior to joining Texas A&M, I had taught
economics fulltime at Mount St. Vincent, Brock and Carleton
universities and as a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard.
Faculty
performance is typically assessed on three metrics: research, teaching
and professional service:
Research: My research interests intersect
economics, international business and public policy. Core areas
are:
transfer pricing
(the pricing of transactions between/among related parties); strategies
and
structures of multinational enterprises (MNEs); and shocks
and
responses (how policy and technology shocks affect firm strategies and
structures). My
research includes more than
220 scholarly publications with 22,000+
Google
Scholar citations; many of my publications are co-authored
with colleagues, friends and former PhD students. Books include
Taxing
Multinationals (1998), Multinationals in North America
(1994), Retrospectives
on Public Finance (1991), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing
(1985, 2017), The Economics of Transfer Pricing (2019), The Ethical Professor (2018;
Chinese edition 2022) and Research
Methods
in International Business
(2020). I am considered one of founders of the field of
transfer pricing economics, and am best known for my transfer pricing
publications. My
research has been placed in the top two percent of the world's
most-cited research scientists.
Teaching/Education: I am
best known
for my teaching and education on transfer
pricing and MNEs. I started the Transfer Pricing Aggies program at Texas A&M
in 2007.
About 400 graduate students have studied transfer
pricing with
me at Texas A&M; more than one third are now
transfer pricing professionals. I have also been fortunate to
teach
international business and economics courses to thousands
of undergraduate, masters and PhD students over my
career, and to chair several PhD dissertations at Texas A&M. I
currently guest lecture on transfer pricing in the Texas A&M
School of Law.
Service: For many years, my professional service
home has been the
Academy of International Business (AIB). Most recently, I was Dean of the AIB
Fellows for 2020-2023. I served two terms on the AIB
Executive Board, including as AIB President for 2017-2018. During
my first term on the AIB Board, I founded WAIB (Women in the
Academy of International Business), the first
of AIB's Shared Interest Groups. I was 2008-2010
editor-in-chief of AIB’s Journal
of International Business Studies (JIBS),
the top-ranked scholarly journal in international business studies. In 2004,I was elected an AIB Fellow; in 2012, I received the
AIB
President’s Award; and in 2016, WAIB awarded me its inaugural
Woman of the Year award. In 2019, I received JIBS 50th
Anniversary Gold Medals for Scholarship and Scholarly
Service.
Ethics
in the academy has also been a research, teaching and
service interest for me. For example, I have been the lead
author of AIB’s
three codes of ethics and their updates. I also founded and
co-wrote The Ethicist blog for the
Academy of
Management with Kathy Lund Dean and Paul Vaaler, which later became the
basis
of our book The Ethical Professor (Routledge, 2018; Chinese
edition 2022). I also regularly conduct ethics
training workshops for doctoral students and junior faculty.
I have been fortunate to receive many awards over my
career including US-Canada Fulbright and Pew Fellowships. In 2019, I
was honored by the
European International Business Academy (EIBA) in its annual research
volume, Progress
in International Business Research, and also received the Medal of the City from the Mayor of
Rennes,
France. In 2022, I received the Outstanding Service to the Global
Community Award from the International Management Division of the
Academy of Management, and in 2023, the International
Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Award for
Excellence in Societally Relevant Research.
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For more than 30 years, I have also been a consultant
to
multinationals, governments and international organizations on transfer
pricing and MNE
strategies and structures. Working with the Analysis
Group, I have been an
expert witness on transfer pricing matters in two well-known court
cases and prepared
several expert reports. In June 2022, I was appointed to the United
Nations Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing for 2022-2025 where I have
been one of the lead drafters for "Transfer Pricing in
the Pharmaceutical Industry" and "Transfer Pricing in the Agricultural
Products Industry", which are to provide interstitial guidance to
accompany the UN Transfer Pricing Manual for Developing Countries.
Recently, I've drawn together my video and podcast
appearances and created a
YouTube channel, with a Transfer
Pricing Analysis playlist.
My goal throughout my
professional career as an academic and scholar has been to make a difference
through research, teaching and service.
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updated March 2024
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