Associate Professor of
Management
Dr. Wankel, Associate Professor of Management, St. John's
University, New York, holds a doctorate from New York University
where he was admitted to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national honor
society for business disciplines in AACSB accredited
universities.
Dr. Wankel's extensive international experience frames his
pedagogy and research. In 2007 the Academy of Management and
McGraw-Hill/Irwin awarded him this 17,000 member scholarly
society’s Management Education Division “Outstanding Symposium
Award”. In February 2005 he was a Distinguished Speaker at the
E-ducation without Borders 2005 Conference in Abu Dhabi, United
Arab Emirates. He was awarded the Outstanding Service in Management
Education and Development Award at the Academy of Management's 2004
meeting. He was honored as the keynote speaker by the Nippon
Academy of Management Education (NAME) for its 2004 Tokyo meeting.
As a visiting professor at the Chiba University of Technology that
year, he gave several presentations on research on innovative
management pedagogies. 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. In the
summer of 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at Banking University
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. In addition, U.S. universities that have
invited him to lecture include Harvard and Columbia.
Columbia University’s American Assembly identified him as one of
the nation’s top experts on Total Quality Management. He
co-authored a top selling textbook Management, published a
scholarly book on interorganizational strategy development in
Poland, and numerous scholarly articles, monographs, and chapters.
The Academy of Management presented its Best Paper in Management
Education Award to him in 1991 and he has been selected to serve as
an officer of AOM divisions every year for more than a decade. He
is the leading founder and director of scholarly virtual
communities for management professors, currently directing seven
with thousands of participants in more than seventy nations. (A
Google search for “Charles Wankel” will provide you with an
awareness of the scope of his online prominence.) He has run online
international Internet collaborations in teaching and research for
more than a decade.
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 district managers and
on the establishment of an entrepreneurship program at the
University of Latvia in Riga. He is currently Honorary President of
the American Management and IT Association (AMITA), an executive
development program offering short seminars by faculty from leading
American universities.
Dr. Wankel has extensively published and presented research on
the use of information technologies in support of managing and
teaching, as well as on East European entrepreneurship and
management. Dr. Wankel’s current research interests include
managing geographically, temporally distributed teams, and new
pedagogies of management education. His latest books are
Reinventing Management Education for the 21st Century
(2002, IAP), Educating Managers with Tomorrow's
Technologies (2003, IAP), The Cutting Edge of
International Management Education (2004, IAP), Educating
Managers through Real World Projects (2005), and New
Visions of Graduate Management Education (2006, IAP),
Innovative Approaches to Reducing Global Poverty (2007,
IAP), University and Corporate Innovations in Lifetime
Learning (2007, IAP), 21st Century Management: A Reference
Handbook (SAGE, 2008), Being and Becoming a Management
Scholar (2008, IAP), Innovative Approaches to Global
Sustainability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Alleviating
Poverty through Business Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008),
Global Sustainability Initiatives: New Models and New
Approaches (2008, IAP), Encyclopedia of Today’s
Business (2009, SAGE), Sustainability in Management
Education (2009, IAP), and Management through
Collaboration: Teaming in a Networked World (2010,
Routledge).
Details on Dr. Wankel's recent books are at http://management-education.net.
Dr. Wankel welcomes email from students at wankelc@stjohns.edu.