Dr. Adler conducts research and consults on global leadership, cross-cultural management, and women as global managers and leaders. She has authored over 100 articles, produced the film , A Portable Life , and published the books, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (4th edition, 2002), Women in Management Worldwide, and Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy . Her latest book is From Boston to Beijing : Managing with a Worldview.
Dr. Adler consults to private corporations and government organizations on projects in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East . She has taught Chinese executives in the People's Republic of China, held the Citicorp Visiting Doctoral Professorship at the University of Hong Kong, and taught executive seminars at INSEAD in France, Oxford University in England, and Bocconi University in Italy. She received McGill University 's first Distinguished Teaching Award in Management and was one of only a few professors to receive it a second time. H onoring her as one of Canada 's top university professors, she was selected as a 3M Teaching Fellow.
Dr. Adler has served on the Board of Governors of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the Canadian Social Science Advisory Committee to UNESCO, the Strategic Grants Committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Executive Committees of the Pacific Asian Consortium for International Business, Education and Research, the International Personnel Association, and the Society for Human Resource Management's International Institute, as well as having held leadership positions in the Academy of International Business (AIB), the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research (SIETAR), and the Academy of Management. Dr. Adler received ASTD's International Leadership Award, SIETAR's Outstanding Senior Interculturalist Award, the YWCA's Femme de Mérite (Woman of Distinction) Award, and the Sage Award for scholarly contributions to management. She was elected to both the Fellows of the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management Fellows , and was recently inducted into the Royal Society of Canada .
email: nancy.adler@mcgill.ca Contact Information
McGill University
Faculty of Management
1001 rue Shebrooke oust
Montreal , Quebec , Canada H3A 1G5
Tel: 1-514-398-4031; fax 1-514-398-3876
Nancy's resumé, in .pdf format, is here. Some of her works follow:
The Art of Leadership (.pdf)
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