Dr. Charles Wankel, Professor of Management at St. John's University's Tobin
College of Business, has received many awards for his research
and service to the profession from the Academy of Management (AOM),
the premier scholarly society for the discipline. His extensive
business and international experience is used as a resource in his
teaching. He is regularly a visiting researcher and lecturer in
nations around the world. He has served as a Fulbright Fellow and with support
from the United Nations Development Program and the Open Society
Fund in Eastern Europe. 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. He has served as an executive of
his family's Manhattan-based Wankel's Hardware , founded in 1896
and currently ongoing. Among his clients are Fortune 50 companies,
including IBM
Learning Services (La Hulpe, Belgium, and Briarcliff, NY),
McDonald's Corporation (where he has developed a program for 10,000
supervisors through its in-house Hamburger University, Oak Brook,
IL), Prudential Insurance (intercultural training for expats),
Ecodata (futuristic transportation modality alternatives study for
the Metropolitan Transit Authority of new York and Siberian oil
companies. Over decades he has lectured in executive programs for
the Columbia University School of Business in the US and abroad.
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 the President of the 18,000+ member Higher Education Teaching
& Learning Association (for 2012-2013). He is the incoming
Co-Editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Higher
Education (Emerald). He has served on the editorial boards of
many other journals, including Academy of Management Learning
& Education, the Academy of Management Journal,
and the European Journal of International Management.
Dr. Wankel has published and presented extensively. His Research in
Management Education and Development series
(Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC) includes Effectively Integrating
Ethical Dimensions 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 (2012), Global Sustainability as a Business
Imperative (2010). His Emerald Publishing Group
Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education
series includes: Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using
Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and
Simulation (2012); Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using
Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs, and
Webquests (2012); Misbehavior Online in Higher
Education (2012); Transforming Virtual World Learning
(2011); Higher Education Administration with Social Media:
Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management,
Alumni Relations, Career Centers (2011); Educating Educators with Social Media
(2011); and Teaching Arts and Science with the New Social
Media (March 2011). 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: New Frontiers in Immersive
Education(IAP, 2011). Also see: Streaming Media Delivery in
Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes
(IGI-Global, 2011).
Email Charles Wankel at wankelc@verizon.net