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Christian Geisler Asmussen is an assistant professor of strategic management and international business at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. His research revolves around globalization and the international expansion trajectories of multinational corporations (MNCs). Drawing on a background in formal economics but applying a multi-disciplinary approach to his research, he has focused in particular on the interaction between competitive advantage and geographic scope. His work has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review and International Business Review. He also serves as an ad-hoc reviewer on numerous international journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of Management Studies, and on the editorial review boards of Management International Review and Multinational Business Review. Christian received his PhD from Copenhagen Business School in 2007. In relation to his dissertation, he has been awarded the Barry M. Richman best dissertation award from the Academy of Management, the Haynes Prize for most promising scholar from the Academy of International Business, as well as several prestigious prizes from the Danish research community. He has been a visiting scholar at Indiana University, University of Victoria, Duke University and Temple University.

Most years, several AIB members are elected as AIB Fellows on account of their excellent international business scholarship, and/or past service as AIB President or Executive Secretary. The Fellows are in charge of electing Eminent Scholars as well as the International Executive and International Educator (formerly, Dean) of the Year, who often provide the focus for Plenary Sessions at AIB Conferences. Their history since 1975 covers over half of the span of the AIB and reflects many issues that dominated that period in terms of research themes, progresses and problems, the internationalization of business education and the role of international business in society and around the globe. Like other organizations, the Fellows Group had their ups and downs, successes and failures – and some fun too!

Based on fifteen years of data on the annual Academy of International Business (AIB) best dissertation Farmer Award finalists, we find that these dissertations were done at a range of North American universities. Interestingly, dissertation topics differed from the topics covered in the three top IB journals with five‐sixths of the topics in management, organization, economics, or finance and two‐thirds set in a single country or region (U.S., Japan, North America, and Western Europe). Survey research is the most common methodology but analysis of secondary data is growing. As expected, the finalists are on average an extraordinarily prolific group.

Laszlo Tihanyi is the B. Marie Oth Professor in Business Administration in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, USA. He received a PhD in Strategic Management from Indiana University and a Doctorate in Business Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest in his native Hungary. He is also an honourary Professor at Corvinus University. His main research areas are internationalization, corporate governance in multinational firms and organizational adaptation in emerging economies. His current research interests include the involvement of board of directors in foreign direct investment, the institutional environment of internationalization decisions and the effects of social movements on multinational firms. His papers have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies and others. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Business Horizons.

Indiana University has played a major role in the internationalization of American business schools over the past thirty years or so. This report of one IU graduate’s role in the transformation begins with his doctoral student activities in the 1960s and continues with his personal involvement in faculty development program initiatives and teaching material developments. It concludes with the question of whether or not IU’s impact on business school internationalization might even be so large as to be the possible cause of a future decline in the need for a separate Academy of International Business.

This title is obviously a variation on the major theme of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992. His emphasis on the state of the U.S. economy underscored the fact that, at times, certain topics have achieved or deserve greater salience. And so, my theme is that the study and teaching of international business must place greater emphasis on political institutions, developments andbehaviors.