Tomas Hult, Ph.D
Dr. Tomas Hult is the newest member of The Sheth Foundation board, beginning his service in 2010. He has been Director of Michigan State University’s International Business Center since January 2001 (IBC). IBC in the MSU Eli Broad College of Business houses the federally funded Center for International Business Education and Research ( CIBER), the world headquarters of the Academy of International Business (AIB), the world-leading online source for global business knowledge called globalEDGE, the online presence for all 33 CIBERs in the U.S. (CIBERweb), the online presence for all grantees of the U.S. Department of Education’s Business and International Education program (BIEweb), and the Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan (GB Club). IBC is also a charter member of the International Trade Center of Mid-Michigan (ITC) and an affiliate unit of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). In these outreach endeavors, Professor Hult has raised about $9 million in external funds for MSU’s global initiatives.
Dr. Hult is the Eli Broad Professor of Marketing and International Business, with specialty areas in international marketing strategy, global strategy, and supply chain management. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Broad School’s Department of Management. Professor Hult is the 75th most-cited “scientist in economics and business” in the world (for 1997-2007), per the ranking provided by Thomson Reuters. His research has been cited more than 5,000 times per Google Scholar. Dr. Hult is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He has served as Executive Director of the Academy of International Business since 2004. Previously, he was Associate Dean for Global Initiatives (2008-2010) in the Broad School.
Dr. Hult has engaged in a number of editorial roles. He is the founding Editor of the globalEDGE Business Review (gBR), Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM). He has also been Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2006-2007) and Department Editor (2002-2006) of the Journal of International Business Studies. He was Associate Editor of Decision Sciences from 2005-2010 and Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management from 2002-2007. Dr. Hult serves on numerous review boards (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Industrial Marketing Management). A dual citizen of Sweden and the U.S., Dr. Hult has been in the U.S since 1987 and at MSU since January 2001.