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Hwang teaches International Management for School of Business
August 23, 2004 | |||||
KOKOMO, Ind.—Yong-Sik Hwang, Ph.D., of the Republic of Korea joins the School of Business this fall as an assistant professor of strategic management. He is teaching International Management, Introduction to Business, and Business Policy and Strategy. The latter is a favorite course Hwang taught at both undergraduate and M.B.A. levels while pursuing doctoral studies at Rutgers University over the last three years. He has designed the course to be “very interactive,” involving discussions of case studies and computer-based business simulation games. He was also a teaching assistant at the University of Rhode Island in 1998.
For his dissertation, Hwang studied data from 250 biotechnology firms, looking at the firms’ strategic alliances with other firms in such areas as research and development. He found 5,200 strategic alliances formed in 1996; by 2000, the number had nearly doubled. Because of the evident benefits, “many corporate giants are now adopting strategic alliances instead of pursuing mergers and acquisitions,” Hwang said. His research delves into the less frequently considered questions of why firms form alliances and how that process changes as businesses change. “As a firm evolves, it may require additional resources to support growth,” Hwang said. He recently published a paper on the topic in the Southern Management Association conference proceedings. Hwang also has a book chapter and conference proceeding publication in the area of e-commerce. Rutger’s Technology Management Research Center presented Hwang its Research Support and Merit awards in Innovation and Technology Management in 2003. Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Hwang worked in supply chain planning for LG Electronics Ltd. in Seoul. He came to the United States in 1996 to pursue his master’s degree. “When I was in college in Korea, I loved to be involved in many leisure activities—water skiing, scuba diving and skiing,” Hwang said. Today, he said, he tries to stay fit by running at least 5 miles a day. For more information on business degree programs at IU Kokomo, contact the School of Business at www.iuk.edu/ACADEMICS/business or call (765) 455-9003.
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