Masaaki "Mike" Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing and is Director of Research at the Institute of Global Management Studies at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kotabe also served as the Vice President of the  Academy of International Business in the 1997-1998 term. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business from Michigan State University. Dr. Kotabe teaches international marketing, global sourcing strategy, and Asian business practices at the undergraduate and MBA levels and theories of international business at the doctoral level. He has lectured widely at various business schools around the world. For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Ito-Yokado (parent of 7-eleven stores), and served as adviser to the United Nations' and World Trade Organization's Executive Forum on National Export Strategies.
Dr. Kotabe has written many scholarly publications. His research has appeared in numerous journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Journal. His books include Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Japanese Distribution System (1993), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), MERCOSUR and Beyond (1997), Marketing Management (2001), Market Revolution in Latin America: Beyond Mexico (2001), and Emerging Issues in International Business Research (2002).
He currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of International Management and is or has been on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. He also serves as an Adviser to the Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (IPS) National Competitiveness Report.
In the 1997 issue of Journal of Teaching in International Business, Dr. Kotabe was ranked the most prolific international marketing researcher in the world in the last 10 years. He has been recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He is also an elected member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Kristiaan Helsen has been Associate Professor of Marketing at the Hong Kong University of Science and technology (HKUST) since 1995. Prior to joining HKUST, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago for five years. He has lectured at Nijenrode University (Netherlands), Purdue University, the Catholic University of Lisbon, and CEIBS (Shanghai). Dr. Helsen received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
    His research areas include promotional strategy, competitive strategy, and hazard rate modeling. His articles have appeared in journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and European Journal of Operations research,  among others. Dr. Helsen is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Marketing.