Marshall Meyer

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, 1967; MA, University of Chicago, 1965; AB, Columbia University, 1964

Recent Consulting

Strategies for Chinese firms; design and evaluation of performance measurement systems

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1987present (named Richard A. Sapp Professor, 2002; AnheuserBusch Term Professor of Management, 198792). University of Pennsylvania: 1988present (Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, 2004present). Previous appointments: University of California, Riverside; Cornell University; Harvard University. Visiting appointments: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Singapore Management University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University; Yale University; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Irvine

Professional Leadership

Senior Editor, Management and Organization Review; Advisory Editor, Harvard Business Review—China; Board of Scholars, Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Yale University

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership

Board of Directors, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; Board of Directors, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (US)

Past Courses

MGMT288 MNGING & COMPET IN CHINA

This course provides an examination of some of the largest busines firms in thePeoples Republic of China, acquainting students with the governance and management (both management structure and management teams) of some of the largest and best known Chinese firms. Students will also become acquainted withthe capabilities and liabilities of Chinese firms and their strategic options. Tools needed to assess the investment potential of Chinese firms will be provided, and students will have an opportunity to do original research on issues of governance and management of Chinese firms.

MGMT933 PSYCH & SOC. FOUND

This course, is required of all firstyear doctoral students in Management and open to other Penn students with permission, provides an introduction to the psychological and sociological roots of management theory and research. The courseis predicated on the belief that to be effective as a contemporary management scholar one needs a background in "the classics." Therefore, we will be reading classics from the fields of psychology and sociology in their original form during this semester.

MGMT952 SEM MACRO ORG BEHAV

Organizations are ubiquitous, and so is organization. This halfsemester course explores organization theory (OT) from the 1960s through the end of the 20th century. We will examine the proliferation of organizational theories during this time period (such as contingency theory, resource dependence theory, ecological theory, and institutional theory) and understand how each theory attempts to relate structure and action over varying levels of analysis. We will determine one or two additional schools to add once we discuss your exposure in other management classes to other potential topics such as behavioral decision theory, sensemaking and cognition, organizational economics, corporate governance, social networks, and the like.

MGMT953 SEM RES METHODS

This is an introductory doctoral seminar on research methods in management. We examine basic issues involved in conducting empirical research for publication in scholarly management journals. We start by discussing the framing of research questions, theory development, the initial choices involved in research design, and basic concerns in empirical testing. We then consider these issues in the context of different modes of empirical research (including experimental, survey, qualitative, archival, and simulation). We discuss readings that address the underlying fundamentals of these modes as well studies that illustrate how management scholars have used them in their work, separately and in combination.

Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1993

• Why Is the Sun Setting on China’s Solar Power Industry? 06/12/2013
• A New Chinese Export – Jobs 04/04/2012
• China’s Consumer Culture Comes of Age 02/29/2012
• How the Gradual Globalization of China’s Currency is Changing Corporate Finance 05/25/2011
• What Will It Take to Get China’s Economy Back on Track 03/18/2009

Knowledge @ Wharton

• Unfair — and Unfixable? The Simple Truth About Salaries, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/06/2017
• A Boutique Investment Bank’s Aramco IPO Grand Slam, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/16/2017
• TPP: Why the U.S. Withdrawal Could Be a Boon for China, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/27/2017
• The Truth about China’s Role in Global Economic Turmoil, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/09/2016
• China’s Growing Debt: Are the Fault Lines Beginning to Show?, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/06/2016
• Can ‘Deep Work’ Really Work for You?, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/08/2016
• Can Foxconn Become a Global Name Brand?, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/01/2016
• The Great Economic Recasting: Can China Pull It Off?, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/07/2016
• What the IMF’s Yuan Decision Will Mean for China – and Global Markets, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/02/2015
• What Can U.S. Retailers Learn from Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Success?, Knowledge @ Wharton 11/30/2015
• Will the TransPacific Partnership Deliver on Its Promises?, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/07/2015
• The Download on the U.S.China Cyber Espionage Agreement, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/30/2015
• Can China Defuse the Panic over Its Economy?, Knowledge @ Wharton 08/26/2015
• What’s Behind China’s Stock Market Gamble?, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/14/2015
• Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Places Its Next Big Bet, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/13/2015
• A Battle Rages over the TPP to Rewrite Global Rules, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/18/2015
• China in 2015: Gauging the New Normal, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/20/2015
• Alibaba’s Next Move: Grow Abroad, or Go Deeper into China?, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/01/2014
• China’s Mixedownership Enterprise Model: Can the State Let Go?, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/26/2014
• The Haier Model: Using Rural China as a Classroom for Overseas Growth, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/26/2014
• Private Equity in China: Heating up, but ‘Veiled in Uncertainty’, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/30/2014
• Alibaba’s IPO: What’s behind the ‘Thousandpound Gorilla’?, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/14/2014
• Huawei Aims High, Despite Obstacles to Growth, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/02/2014
• Productivity Quotas: ‘You Get What You Pay For’, Knowledge @ Wharton 04/17/2014
• China’s Ticking Debt Bomb, Knowledge @ Wharton 04/16/2014
• Road to the Chinese Dream? Xi Jinping’s Third Plenum Reform Plan, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/10/2013
• Renewable Energy for Japan: A PostFukushima Quest, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/03/2013
• A Tale of Two Storms: Rebuilding after the U.S. and Japanese Disasters, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/03/2013
• China’s Bitter Medicine for Foreign Drug Companies, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/27/2013
• What China’s Cash Squeeze Means for the Global Economy, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/17/2013
• Why Is the Sun Setting on China’s Solar Power Industry?, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/12/2013
• Huawei: A Few More Years of Living Dangerously, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/19/2012
• More Questions Than Answers: Assessing China’s Leadership Transition, Knowledge @ Wharton 11/20/2012
• China’s Third Quarter Turns Down — Again, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/19/2012
• The Return of CNOOC, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/16/2012
• The Return of CNOOC, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/10/2012
• China Is Buying U.S. Companies at a Record Pace, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/18/2012
• China Is Buying U.S. Companies at Record Pace, Knowledge @ Wharton 08/29/2012
• China’s Underground Race for Shale Gas, Knowledge @ Wharton 08/21/2012
• China’s Gravitydefying Economy: How Hard Will It Fall?, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/04/2012
• Bound for the Beach? Bring These Books…, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/26/2012
• China’s HR Talent War Heats Up, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/20/2012
• China’s Antiquated Financial System: The Creaking Grows Louder, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/29/2012
• A New Chinese Export — Jobs, Knowledge @ Wharton 04/04/2012
• China’s Gravitydefying Economy: How Hard Will It Fall?, Knowledge @ Wharton 03/28/2012
• Incoming President Xi Jinping: Changes Ahead for U.S.China Relations, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/29/2012
• Does Forprofit Education Make the Grade?, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/29/2012
• China’s Consumer Culture Comes of Age, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/29/2012
• China and the WTO: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/20/2011
• Will a Eurozone Recession Put a Damper on the World’s Fragile Economic Recovery?, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/07/2011