Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
Faculty Profiles
Xin, Katherine Rong
Professor of Management;
Bayer Chair in Leadership;
Associate Dean (Europe);
Director of Hospitality EMBA Programme;
Director of DBA Programme, CEIBS
Katherine Xin is Professor of Management, Bayer Chair in Leadership, Associate Dean (Europe), Director of Hospitality EMBA Programme and DBA Programme at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). She holds her Ph.D. from the University of California and was previously on the faculty of the University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Professor Xin specializes in the areas of leadership, organisational culture, change management, and strategic human resource management. Her research work has appeared in the leading international management journals and has won the honor of World’s Most Cited Chinese Researcher in a consecutive of 7 years from 2014 to 2020, released by the authoritative data analysis platform Scopus, the world largest academic paper review database. This is a very objective impact indicator of the scholars Her books Made in China - Secrets of China’s Dynamic Entrepreneurs (2009), Flowers and Thorns: The Exploration of the Globalization Path of Chinese Enterprises (2009), Globalisation of Chinese Firms (2009), Five Types of Effective Leaders (2011), Five-Star Model of Talent Development (2014) Global Expansion- the Chinese Way (2017), Platform Management (2019) and Understanding Organisational Behaviour: Becoming a Manager with High Efficiency (2020) received broad attention from executives globally.
In addition to her research and teaching, she is a consultant and workshop leader, and has undertaken assignments for multinational firms such as Acer, Alcatel, Allicanz, BASF, BMW, Bosch, China Mobile, China Steel, China Telecom, Daimler Benz, Ford Motor Company, Fluor Daniel, Interbrew, Inventec, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pacific Bell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, San Miguel, Sony, Toyota, TRW, TSMC, UMC, Baosteel, Baxter and government agencies in the US, HK and the Chinese mainland. She also worked as the marketing director at a high temperature rubber manufacturing company in California, and participated in founding 3 companies.
- Ph.D. , University of California, Irvine
- MBA, California State University
- Leadership
- Top Management Teams and Organisational Performance
- Organisational Culture and Change Management
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Organisational Behaviour
- Leadership and Organisational Performance
- Talent Development and Organisation Change and Transformantion in the digital age
- Excellence Service Design
- Cross-culture Management
Global expansion: the Chinese way
The Globalization of Chinese Companies: Strategies for Conquering International Markets (Xin, Katherine Rong & Waldemar Pfoertsch & Liu Shengjun) , John Wiley, 2011
Made in China - Secrets of China’s Dynamic Entrepreneurs (Winter Nie & Katherine Xin with Lily Zhang) , 2009
2022-05-05 Are female leaders better suited to leading through crises? It’s possible.
2022-04-19 Elsevier list confirms CEIBS’ strength in academic research
2022-03-03 The way to real freedom is through self-regulation
2021-05-28 CEIBS Global EMBA: What does it Mean to be a Leader?
2020-11-06 The Future of Work: The Organisation of the Future
2020-09-11 Leading at the Edge: Overview
2022-03-04 Will traditional hierarchical relationships change in the digital era?
2021-10-01 Professor Katherine Xin details five lessons from China about how to win in retail
2021-05-25 Are female leaders better suited to leading through crises? It’s possible.
2021-04-08 The way to real freedom is through self-regulation
2020-07-15 Five Digital Capabilities That Companies Must Have
2020-03-20 How to reshape the epidemic-hit service sector
2019-07-02 Four Leadership Skills to Avoid Failure in Organizational Change
2017-07-03 Leaders: Try a Little Mindfulness
