Harry Lane is a Professor of International Business & Strategy at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to joining Northeastern, Professor Lane was at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where he held the Donald F. Hunter Professorship. He has been a Visiting Professor at Groupe HEC in France, the “WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management” and NORDKAKADEMIE in Germany, the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland, IPADE in Mexico and INALDE in Colombia. He teaches courses in executing global strategy, managing change, cross-cultural management, and valuing and managing diversity. He is a registered Master Practitioner in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and is functional in Spanish. Professor Lane has lived internationally (Germany and Canada) for the majority of his career.
He has authored, co-authored or edited ten books and numerous articles and he has written over 70 case studies. He was lead editor of “The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity” published in 2004. The sixth edition of his text “International Management Behavior: Leading with a Global Mindset” was published in 2009. His research interests are intercultural management, the management of global innovation, organizational learning and strategic renewal.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of World Business, Strategy & Leadership, Management International Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Ethics, International Studies of Management and Organization, Journal of Business Administration, Journal of Management Development, R & D Management and the International Journal of Organizational Analysis.
In 2009 Professor Lane received the Academy of Management, International Management Division’s Outstanding Educator Award which recognizes continuous excellence and innovation in teaching international management at all levels and in a global context; and also the 2009 Academy of Management Review Decade Award (with co-authors) for the article “An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution” which recognizes the article published in AMR 10 years earlier with the highest citations and that has had a significant impact on management scholarship.
Professor Lane is active as a consultant and faculty member for university and corporate courses around the world. He has taught courses for organizations such as Medtronic, Ericsson, the FBI, Schneider Electric North America, BAE Systems, EADS, Bowne, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Exxon Company International, Bank of Montreal, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC, and a consortium of Mexican companies including CEMEX, Alfa and Modelo. In conjunction with Global Resources Inc., he taught programs for Boeing Sea Launch, Intelsat and Turkish Telecom.
Professor Lane received his Doctorate in Organizational Behavior from the Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachussetts, his MBA from Boston College and his BS from the University of Massachusetts.
In early 2011, Prof. Lane was appointed as Acting Dean of the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University in Boston. While holding this position, he suspends all of his teaching assignments. At NORDAKADEMIE, he is succeeded by Prof. Dr. Bill Blake
