Staff at CIBER

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985
• M.Sc., University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 1982
• Ingnieur, Universit de Technologie de Compigne, France, 1981

Dr. Berthelot's research interests are ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE), acoustic materials, and laser-based sensors. As a violinist, he is also interested in musical acoustics. Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) refers to the use of ultrasound to probe a given medium and gain useful information about its interior. Dr. Berthelot's research involves the use of lasers to generate and detect ultrasound. Laser ultrasonics is particularly attractive for applications where contact with the specimens is to be avoided (e.g., moving specimen, hot surfaces). He is currently involved in a project aimed at measuring the mechanical properties of complex materials by measuring with lasers the properties of ultrasonic propagation simultaneously in time and frequency (wavelet analysis).

Structural acoustics deals with the problem of sound radiation from vibrating structures (e.g, submarine hulls, aircraft fuselage, automobile interiors, appliances). An important aspect of structural acoustics is to characterize damping of waves in complex acoustic materials. Dr. Berthelots expertise in this area is the use of laser vibrometry to measure the vibrations of complex structures and materials. He and his students have developed a new method to measure the Young and shear moduli of viscoelastic polymers with coated microinclusions that are used as coatings. The method is also used to characterize damping in rubber materials and composites of interest to the tire industry. Dr. Berthelot's interest in acoustic materials also extends to improving existing models of porous absorbing material using a causality principle.

The Integrated Acoustics Laboratory (IAL), with its state-of-the-art scanning laser vibrometer, anechoic chamber, the semi-anechoic and reverberation chambers, offer an excellent opportunity for students to be involved in a variety of exciting experimental

Mr. Kebede is a US-based business development professional with over 15 years of experience in engineering consulting, international development, construction management, marketing, and workforce development. Mr. Kebede has participated in international development/relief projects in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Haiti, groundbreaking infrastructure projects for the US Military, critical municipal water/wastewater design and construction jobs, coaching and professional development in East Africa, as well as highly effective research and publication. He is a strategic thinkerand doer . adaptable to changing circumstances and scenarios. He led the project-driven Georgia Tech Global MBA Practicum to Tanzania in 2015.  He is an expert on Eastern Africa.   Mr. Kebede brings a diverse and unique set of expertise to Georgia Tech's CIBER Center.  B.S., M.S. Engineering, Stanford University; international MBA,  University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Dr. Naresh K. Malhotra is Senior Fellow, Georgia Tech CIBER and Regents' Professor Emeritus, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. In 2010, he was selected as a Marketing Legend and his refereed journal articles were published in nine volumes by Sage with tributes by other leading scholars in the field.  He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America continuously since 51st Edition 1997, and in Who’s Who in the World since 2000.  In 2017, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. In 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Prestige Institute of Management, Gwalior, India. He received the prestigious Academy of Marketing Science CUTCO/Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator Award in 2005. In 2011, he received the Best Professor in Marketing Management, Asia Best B-School Award.

In an article by Wheatley and Wilson (1987 AMA Educators' Proceedings), Professor Malhotra was ranked number one in the country based on articles published in the Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) during 1980-1985.  He also holds the all-time record for the maximum number of publications in the Journal of Health Care Marketing.  He is ranked number one based on publications in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) since its inception through Volume 23, 1995.  He is also number one based on publications in JAMS during the ten-year period 1986-1995 (See tables 6 and 7 of JAMS, Vol.24, No. 4, Fall 1996, page 297).  In an Editorial by Schlegelmilch (JIM, 11(1), 2003), Malhotra was ranked number one based on publications in the International Marketing Review (IMR) from 1992 to 2002.  He is also ranked number one based on publications in the International Marketing Review since its inception (1983) to 2003 (Table V, IMR, 22(4) (2005), p. 396), and from 1983 to 2011 (Table VI, IMR, 30(1) (2013), p. 14). He is also ranked number one based on publications in the International Marketing Review from 1996 to 2006 based on a study by Xu et al. published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2008) 25: 189-207. In a landmark study by Ford et al. (2010) examining publications in the top four marketing journals (Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Consumer Research, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS)) over a 25-year period from 1977 to 2002, Professor Malhotra has three top-three rankings: ranked number three based on publications in all the four journals combined, ranked number three based on publications in JMR, and ranked number one based on publications in JAMS. He has published ten papers in Journal of Marketing Research.

He has published more than 140 papers in major refereed journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Health Care Marketing, and leading journals in Statistics, Management Science, Information Systems, and Psychology.  In addition, he has also published numerous refereed articles in the proceedings of major national and international conferences.  Several articles have received best paper research awards.  

He is Chairman of the Emerging Markets Conference Board the Lead Program Co-Chair of the annual conferences organized by the Board. He was Chairman, Academy of Marketing Science Foundation, 1996-1998, and was President, Academy of Marketing Science, 1994-1996, and Chairman, Board of Governors, 1990-1992.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy and Fellow, Decision Sciences Institute.  He is the Founding Editor of Review of Marketing Research and served as an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences for 18 years and has served as Section Editor, Health Care Marketing Abstracts, Journal of Health Care Marketing.  Also, he serves on the Editorial Board of eight (8) journals.

He has traveled and taught in 35 countries. His book entitled Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation, Seventh Edition, was published by Pearson in 2018.  This book has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, French, Bahasa Indonesia, and Japanese.  In addition to the eight translations, this book also has several English editions including North America, International, Europe, India, and Australia & New Zealand.  The book has received widespread adoption at both the graduate and undergraduate levels with more than 150 schools using it in the USA alone and is being used in over 100 countries. His book, Basic Marketing Research: Integration of Social Media, Fourth Edition, was published in 2011 and is likewise a global leader in the field. His latest book, Essentials of Marketing Research: A Hands-On Orientation, was published by Pearson in 2014.

Dr. Malhotra has consulted for business, non-profit and government organizations in the USA and abroad and has served as an expert witness in legal and regulatory proceedings.  He has special expertise in survey design, data analysis and statistical methods.  He is the winner of numerous awards and honors for research, teaching, and service to the profession, including the Academy of Marketing Science, Outstanding Marketing Teaching Excellence Award, 2003.

Dr. Malhotra is an ordained minister of the Gospel, a member and Deacon, First Baptist Church, Atlanta, and President of Global Evangelistic Ministries, Inc..  This ministry has documented in independent reports more than 1.5 million people praying to receive Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord. He has been married to Veena for more than 36 years and they have two grown children Ruth and Paul.

Research Interests

John’s research interests include international business strategy and management.

Profile

John McIntyre’s interest in sustainability was sparked in the 1970s when he was a teenager living in Naples, Italy, where his father was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The Mediterranean Sea at the time was heavily polluted, and port cities felt the brunt of waste products freely discharged by all manner of ships. John remembers it being difficult to swim on some of the beaches without encountering contaminants or dead shellfish.

Sustainability is a key component of ethical business across the globe. Working closely together at the international, national, and subnational levels is a necessity in reaching UN SDG targets.

Then in the summer of 1973, an epidemic of cholera—a disease often associated with the Middle Ages—broke out in Southern Italy, due largely to water intermixed with waste products. John remembers getting vaccinated against cholera at the Navy base that summer. “The epidemic underscored the need for better environmental consciousness on the part of local populations,” he says. “It made a lasting impression on me.”

Subsequently, John began to look at the role played by large enterprises both as educator and diffuser of new waste management technology and water purification systems. His dedication to addressing the critical impact of business on the environment has only increased with time. “The private sector’s role is extremely important today, especially since the United States has pulled out of the Paris Accord Agreements, which put flesh on the body of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs),” he says. He notes that equally important in reaching the targets of the UN SDGs is training students to become effective actors in private companies and NGOs.

In 1993, John founded Georgia Tech’s Center for International Business Education and Research (GT CIBER), which has been a federally funded National Resource Centre of Excellence since its inception. CIBER supports sustainability research in the context of the multinational enterprise. One example of its work is the development and implementation of internationally recognized standards of sustainability, and another is the creation of predictive models that can be used by all of the private and public actors to monitor and track the goals specified in the UN SDGs. He calls Georgia Tech “a clearinghouse and a research workhorse in the field of sustainability.”

He says, “A key component of training the next generation for global positions is making them aware of the interdependencies of all systems across nations. Enterprises that work across national boundaries are often best suited to diffuse practices that will improve and enhance sustainable development globally.”

In 2006, John founded the Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development (MESD) association, a not-for-profit academic organization charged with the mission to create, share, and diffuse scientific research knowledge and the best practices on strategies of multinational enterprises pertaining to sustainable development.

Though multinational enterprises have caused their share of harm to the environment due to their size and reach, they may also serve as beacons of hope for the same reasons. “These enterprises,” he says, “can be accelerators of positive change.”

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Dr.  John R. McIntyre, is founding  Director  of the Georgia Tech CIBER,  professor of management  (Strategy  Area)  in the College of Management  with a courtesy appointment in  international relations in the Georgia Tech’s   Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his graduate education at Northeastern University, completing his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia.  Prior to joining Georgia Tech in September 1981, he was Research Associate for International Management at the Dean Rusk Center  of the University of Georgia Law School.  He has published in journals such as Technology and Society, Public Administration Quarterly, International Management Review, Defence Analysis, Studies in Comparative and International Development,  The Journal of European Marketing,  Politique Internationale,   International Executive,  International Trade Journal, among others.

Author or coauthor of the following books:  Uncertainty in Business-Government Relations: The Dynamics of International Trade Policy,  The Political Economy of International Technology Transfer,  International Space Policy: Legal, Economic, and Strategic Options for the Twentieth Century and Beyond,  Japan’s Technical standards: Implications for Global Competitiveness, Business and Management Education in China: Transition, Pedagogy and Training, A Handbook: Business and Management Education in Transitioning and Developing Country, Globalization of Chinese Enterprises,  The Multinational  Enterprise and the Challenge of Sustainable Development.   His professional memberships include: Sigma Xi, The Academy of International Business,  The Academy of Management, Policy Studies Organization, The American Society for Public  Administration.  He is the recipient of the State of Georgia Governor’s 2009 International Award in international business education in 2009.

Dr. McIntyre is an expert on the primary aluminum industry. He is fluent in French, Italian, and Spanish.

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Francis M. Ulgado, PhD, is currently an Associate Professor and CIBER Faculty Research Director at the College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Ulgado received his PhD in international business from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA and MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dr. Ulgado has published in a variety of journals such as the International Marketing Review, the Journal of International Marketing, International Business Review, Journal of Services Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing Management.

At Georgia Tech, Dr. Ulgado has developed and taught courses in International Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Management in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. He has also participated in and taught Marketing and International Marketing modules in the Executive Master's in the Management of Technology Program (EMSMOT) as well as other executive education programs and initiatives. He has also taught courses at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Ulgado's areas of research and teaching interests include international marketing, cross-cultural consumer behavior, country image effects on perception, international advertising, multinational firm behavior, foreign direct investment location, and strategic marketing. He has consulted for Marriott, Hawaii; Bell Inc., Illinois; Johnson Research & Development, Atlanta; and Lipman, Richmond, and Green Advertising, New York.

Currently, Dr. Ulgado serves on the editorial board of the Multinational Business Review and is a member of the Academy of International Business, and the American Marketing Association.

A full vita is available upon request.