Jean Boddewyn Endowment
This endowment is created in honor of the late Jean Boddewyn who served the Academy of International Business in multiple roles for over 50 years. Among the original founders of the Association for Education in International Business, Professor Boddewyn was Vice President (1975-76), and then President (1992-94) of the AIB. He was instrumental in the creation of the AIB Fellows within the AIB. He served as Dean of the AIB Fellows from 2005 to 2008. He also served as the AIB Historian.
Jean Boddewyn was a pathbreaking scholar in at least three areas: government-business relations; non-market strategies of MNEs, and comparative management/marketing. In addition to these roles, Professor Boddewyn was a productive author, reviewer, and Founding Editor of the International Studies of Management & Organization.
Professor Boddewyn was born and brought up in Brussels, Belgium. He came to the USA after having received a Fulbright Scholarship to study for his MBA at the University of Oregon. He went on to study for his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. In 1964, upon graduation, he was recruited by John Fayerweather who had joined NYU to create an International Business Major. Jean was recruited as one of two professors responsible for creating the IB program.
At the time he began teaching, there were no textbooks in international business. He had to create his courses from relevant articles in international newspapers and magazines. His first courses were Comparative Marketing and International Business Systems. He taught at NYU from 1964 to 1973 at which point he moved to CUNY Baruch College, where he created an International Business major within the Marketing Department. He taught at Baruch until his retirement in 2006.
The Boddewyn Endowment provides a named fellowship awarded to one outstanding participant in each cohort of the AIB‑CIBER Doctoral Academy. This honor recognizes academic excellence, scholarly potential, and a strong commitment to global business research.
We are pleased to recognize the following recipients:
Cohort 2
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Asimabha Bhowmick, Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur
Cohort 3
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Aynur Temel, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
This award is made possible through the generous support of the Jean Boddewyn Endowment, honoring Professor Boddewyn’s enduring legacy and his lifelong commitment to nurturing future scholars in international business.
AIB-CIBER Doctoral Academy Sheth Foundation Fellowship
Founded by Dr. Jagdish & Madhu Sheth, The Sheth Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support emerging scholarship in marketing which has significant global reach, societal focus, and thought leadership.
The Sheth Foundation is the catalyst for transformational outcomes and experiences for marketing scholars. It operates by partnering with global recipient organizations in the marketing discipline.
The mission of the Sheth Foundation is to promote the development of marketing scholarship by focusing on three areas:
- Knowledge Creation – the generation of new marketing insights and scholarship
- Knowledge Recognition – includes awards, grants and other activities designed to express appreciation and elevate the contributions of individual academics
- Knowledge Dissemination – the communication or distribution of insights on new and emerging marketing topics within the field of marketing and business
The Sheth Foundation supports various organizations, awards and events that fulfill these goals.
The following students from Cohorts 2 and 3 of the AIB-CIBER Doctoral Academy have been selected to receive the AIB-Sheth Foundation CIBER Doctoral Academy Fellowship in recognition of their academic promise and engagement in international business research:
Cohort 2
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Aravind Bhaskar, Chidambaram University of Glasgow
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Lan Huong Hoang, University College Dublin
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Pavan Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
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Tao Zou, King's College London
Cohort 3
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Guanyi Qi, University of Birmingham
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Raj Mohan, Indian Institute of Management Indore
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Tshegofatso Alice Monkge, University of Pretoria
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Sanjiv Sen, Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur
These fellowships are supported through stipends made possible by the generous contributions of the Sheth Foundation, in partnership with the Academy of International Business.
Women of the Academy of International Business
Founded in November 2001, Women of the Academy of International Business (WAIB) is AIB’s first officially established Shared Interest Group. Since then, WAIB has continued to develop and expand its mission, providing new means for promoting research on gender-related issues in international business, as well as supporting the professional needs of women in the field.
WAIB’s efforts are guided by three main priorities: (1) Providing a forum for networking among WAIB members, (2) facilitating academic mentorship, and (3) promoting research on gender and gender-related issues in international business.
WAIB Awardee (Cohort 2)
The following doctoral candidate from Cohort 2 received support provided by WAIB, in recognition of her scholarly promise and commitment to advancing the role of women in international business:
Xiaomi Gu, University of Glasgow
WAIB’s mission-aligned support helps ensure that emerging women scholars have access to global development opportunities within the AIB-CIBER Doctoral Academy.