January 1, 2017. Shanghai – The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has further strengthened its research and teaching capabilities with the addition of three new professors to its already impressive faculty. Their strong academic and professional reputations in China and abroad further enhance the school’s ability to offer programmes that provide China Depth, Global Breadth.

The new faculty members are: Professor of Marketing Eric Fang, Assistant Professor of Management An-Chih (Andrew) Wang, and Visiting Professor of Marketing Min Ding.
 

Dr. Eric Fang is Professor of Marketing at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Prior to joining CEIBS, he was Professor of Marketing at University of Hong Kong and James F. Tower Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Fang earned his PhD in Business Administration from University of Missouri, Columbia in 2005 and Master’s degree in Economics from Fudan University in 2000. His research interests mainly concentrate on marketing strategy in digital and data-rich environments, product and business model innovation, and dynamic empirical modeling. He has published more than 20 papers in leading journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Organization Science, Marketing Science, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of International Business Studies. Dr. Fang has served as the Associate Editor of Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science since 2015. He has been invited to present at leading academic conferences, such as the Marketing Science Conference, HEC Paris Research Conference in Relationship Marketing, and the AMA Summer/Winter Educators’ Conference.

Dr. Fang received the Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research from the American Marketing Association in 2015 and he was the Marketing Science Institute MSI Young Scholar in 2011. He was named Best MBA Professor and named among the Teachers Ranked as Excellent by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015 and 2012, and he was the AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Faculty in 2014, 2012, 2011 and 2008.

Dr. An-Chih (Andrew) Wang is an Assistant Professor of Management at CEIBS. Prior to joining CEIBS, Dr. Wang worked at the Institute of Human Resource Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) as an Associate Professor.

Dr. Wang received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from National Taiwan University in 2012. His current research interests mainly focus on Chinese organizational behaviour, Chinese leadership styles and their effects, Western leadership theories and their cultural boundaries, gender and leadership, and change recipients’ responses toward organizational change.

Dr. Wang’s research has been published in a number of scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Management and Organization Review, and Asian Journal of Social Psychology. He is also an active contributor to academic conferences and has presented papers consistently at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management since 2005. He received the Best Paper with International Implication Award from the Organization Behavior Division, Academy of Management in 2017.

Dr. Wang was highly rated in the courses he gave at National Sun Yat-Sen University and Chung Yuan Christian University at various curriculum levels. He has served continuously as a member of the Selection Committee for the Saroj Parasuraman Award for the Outstanding Publication in Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management since 2015, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for several academic journals and conferences. In addition to these academic activities, Dr. Wang has also provided management consulting in areas such as building customer satisfaction systems, developing personal trainers’ core competencies, and improving employee evaluation systems for enterprises such as Anytime Fitness, Diamond Digital, InTouch, Orient Semiconductor Electronics, Sinyi Real Estate.

Dr. Min Ding is Visiting Professor of Marketing at CEIBS. He is the Bard Professor of Marketing at Smeal College of Business, the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Ding received his second PhD in Marketing (2nd concentration in healthcare management) from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and first PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology from Ohio State University in 1996. His current work is focused on several areas. One is Artificial Empathy, mainly based on video and audio analytics, and is cross disciplinary in nature (computer science, engineering, psychology, biology, and marketing). He also studies Fair Development, a new conceptual framework he proposed as an alternative to Sustainable Development. Another area is Logical Creative Thinking, a systematic approach to innovation. Customer Value Maximization, a model-based and data-driven individualized customer management strategy, and China, including its economic and cultural development are also part of his research. In addition, he is interested in mobile/wearable technology, intraperson game theory, and incentive-aligned data collection methods. In general, his research focuses on providing tools and insights that have high value to the practice.

Dr. Ding has been published in several leading field journals including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Journal of Marketing. He is the author of several books that include The Hualish (2018), The Bubble Theory (2013, Springer), The Chinese Way (2014, Routledge), and The Enlightened, a novel. Dr. Ding is the Editor-in-Chief of Customer Needs and Solutions and series editor of the book Perspectives on Sustainable Growth. He is the past Vice President of membership for the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS).

Dr. Ding received the Maynard Award in 2007, and the Davidson Award in 2012. His work has also been voted as a Paul Green Award finalist (2006 and 2008) and O'Dell Award finalist (2010).