Dr. Charles Wankel, Associate Professor of Management at St. John's University's Tobin College of Business, has received of many awards for his research and service to the profession from the Academy of Management (AOM), the premier scholarly society for the discipline of management. Dr. Wankel's extensive business and international experience supports his teaching. He has been a visiting researcher and lecturer in many nations, as a Fulbright Fellow, and with support from the United Nations Development Program and the Open Society Fund. In addition to his position at St. John's, he is Vice Rector at the Poznań University of Business in Poland and serves the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands as a dissertation committee member. His extensive business experience includes managing hardware wholesale and retail businesses, developing training programs for thousands of Fortune 50 company managers, including ones for IBM Learning Services and McDonald's Corporation, and executive programs for Columbia University School of Business, and in the oil industry in Siberia.
Dr. Wankel's extensive international experience frames his pedagogy. In November 2007, he was the opening speaker at the 14th Annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference in Chicago. In February 2005 he was a Distinguished Speaker at the E-ducation without Borders 2005 Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In 2004 he was honored as the keynote speaker by the Nippon Academy of Management Education for its 2004 Tokyo meeting. In the summer of 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam. In 2000 he co-chaired an international meeting of the Academy of Management's Management Education and Development Division/UAE University in Al-Ain, UAE. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship Grant for the spring 1997 to teach and research at the Kaunas Technical University in Lithuania. In the spring 1994 he taught under United Nations Development Program and Open Society Fund sponsorship at the University of Vilnius, also in Lithuania. He has been an invited lecturer at the University of Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the Czech Management Center, the University of Warsaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Toronto. U.S. universities that have invited him to lecture include Harvard and Columbia. Dr. Wankel presented research on innovations in international management education to the Nippon Academy of Management Education (NAME) in Tokyo and at Chiba University of Commerce in June 2004. He presented his research on new directions in international management education at an October 2004 conference held in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. In December 2004 he presented research on a survey of international business educators syllabi around the world at a meeting in Cozumel, Mexico.
Dr. Wankel has developed training programs for many thousands of Fortune 500 company managers including for IBM Learning Services (offered in-house in La Hulpe, Belgium, and Briarcliff, New York) and for McDonald’s Corporation’s in-house education unit Hamburger University (Oak Brook, Illinois).Pro bono consulting assignments include re-engineering and total quality management programs for the Lithuanian National Postal Service’s 55 districts’ managers and on the establishment of an entrepreneurship program at the University of Latvia in Riga. He is currently Honorary President of AMITA, the American Management and IT Association, an executive development program offering short seminars by faculty from leading American universities.
Dr. Wankel has published and presented extensively. His Research in Management Education and Development series (Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC) includes Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimenstions into Business Education(2011); Cutting-edge Social Media Approaches to Business Education: Teaching with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Second Life, and Blogs (2010); Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar (2010); Management Education for Global Sustainability (2009); University and Corporate Innovations in Lifelong Learning (2008); New Visions of Graduate Management Education (2006); Educating Managers through Real World Projects (2005); The Cutting Edge of International Management Education (2004); Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies (2003); Rethinking Management Education for the 21st Century (2002). His Palgrave Macmillan Global Sustainability Through Business series includes: Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences (2011), Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative (2010). His Emerald Publishing Group Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education series includes: Higher Education Administration with Social Media: Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Alumni Relations, Career Centers (2011); Educating Educators with Social Media (2011); Teaching Arts and Science with the New Social Media (March 2011); Transforming Virtual World Learning (forthcoming 2012); and Misbehavior Online in Higher Education (Emerald, forthcoming 2012). SAGE Reference multi-volume works include: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World (2009), winner of the American Library Association's Outstanding Business Reference Source of 2009 Award, and 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook (2008). Textbooks include: Management (Prentice Hall, 1986); World-Class Managing: Two Pages at a Time (Fordham University Graduate School of Business, 1990); Kierowanie (Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, 1994); and La Gerencia Dominicana en el Nuevo Milenio (Universidad Catolica, 1998). Books on social and ethical issues include: Anti-communist Student Organizations and the Polish Renewal (St. Martins Press, 1992); Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty (IAP, 2007); Global Sustainability Initiatives: New Models and New Approaches (IAP, 2008); Innovative Approaches to Global Sustainability (2008); Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy (2010); Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds (IAP, 2010); Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization: Cultural, Socio-Political and Economic Perspectives (IGI-Global, 2011); Management Education for Integrity: Ethically Educating Tomorrow's Business Leaders (Emerald, Sept. 2011), and Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education (IGI-Global, 2012). Books on higher education in virtual worlds include: Higher Education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life (2009), Transforming Virtual World Learning: Thinking in 3D (Emerald, 2011), and Engaging the Avatar: Global Education (IAP, forthcoming 2011). Also see: Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes (IGI-Global, 2011).
Email Charles Wankel at wankelc@verizon.net