Usha Haley

Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic. She holds the W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business and is a Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in the U.S. state of Kansas. She also serves as Director of the Center for International Business Advancement at Wichita State University and as Chair of the independent World Trade Council of Wichita.^[1]

Haley previously worked at West Virginia University, Massey University in New Zealand and at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. She is credited^{[by whom?]} with providing the intellectual foundations for understanding subsidies to Chinese industry through her book of the same name and testimonies.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education

Born in Mumbai, India, she received a bachelor's degree in Politics at Elphinstone College, Mumbai and then went on to get graduate degrees from various American universities, including a Master's from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Political Science, and at New York University, where she received Master's and PhD degrees in International Business and Strategy from the Stern School of Business.

Research

Haley's research includes over 350 articles and presentations and eight books that explore companies and business environments in India, China, Southeast Asia and Mexico as well as the societal impacts of business schools and their research. Her research on Subsidies to Chinese Industry has supported trade regulation in the United States and the European Union.^{[citation needed]} She has also studied the effects of sanctions and trade barriers such as subsidies on the behaviors of companies and nations. Her research on boycotts, divestitures and regulations published in Multinational Corporations in Political Environments concluded that most sanctions had no effect on US corporate behaviors in South Africa.^[2] Her book, The Chinese Tao of Business highlighted the Chinese business environment and how companies operate there to enhance their profits. Her book New Asian Emperors analyzed business information for strategic decisions in Southeast Asia and the influence of networks. Her book Impact and the Management Researcher looks at how scholarly research is valued in academia and by society.^{[citation needed]}

Her research has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal,^[3] ("U.S. Researcher Usha C.V. Haley's Study on Chinese Subsidies to its Glass Industry", Aug 30, 2010) The Economist ("Survey of Asian Business", April 7–13, 2001), CNN ("Special Report: Eye on China," May 18–19, 2005), Bloomberg News ("China Steel Makers get $27 Billion Subsidy," January 8, 2008), Barron's Magazine ("Foreign Carmakers keep up the Pressure on Detroit," October 22, 2001), USA Today^[4] ("Tech Start-Ups Don't Grow on Trees Outside USA", June 28, 2006) the Wall Street Journal^[5] ("Could the Asian Crises Repeat?", July 3, 2007), The New York Times,^[6] ("With New Urgency US and South Korea Seek Free Trade Deal", January 16, 2007) and BusinessWeek ^[7] ("The Art of Chinese Relationships", January 6, 2006).

Research impact

Haley's research on Chinese subsidies to its domestic industry and China's business environment has provided support for US federal investigations and legislation on emerging markets as well as in anti-dumping litigation in the European Union and the USA. Her work on Chinese steel subsidies has been used in trade regulation in the European Union and Germany.^[8]

In October 2009, at the request of 8 U.S. senators from Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Louisiana, her research on subsidies to China's industry was used by the US government to question Chinese trade and production practices in the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), the major venue for business and trade negotiations between the two countries.^[9]

In July 2010, drawing on her research on China's paper industry, 104 U.S. senators and Representatives wrote a "bi-partisan letter to President Obama"^[10] recommending action on China trade.

In September 2011, Haley delivered a Thought Leader presentation on business and government relations in China at the Economist's flagship High Growth Market Summit in London.^[11]

In January 2012, her research on subsidies to Chinese auto parts became part of a congressional effort to demand an inquiry into Chinese auto-parts production and effects on US jobs. The bi-partisan effort is led by Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Senator Debbie Stabenow (Michigan), industry groups and think tanks.^[12]

In 2012, her research^[13] on the evolution of the global energy industry has supported the Obama administration's and industry groups' successful levying of tariffs^[14] on Chinese solar panel imports into the USA.

In July 2013, Haley served as a witness in the United States Senate hearing on Smithfield and beyond: Examining foreign purchases of American food companies.^[15][16] Citing food-safety violations, senior managers' connections to the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese government competitive stances, Chinese subsidies and research on Chinese strategy, Haley advocated against the takeover of Virginia-based Smithfield Foods by Chinese company Shuanghui on national-security grounds.^[17] In April 2006 she testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the effects of Chinese government subsidies on US business operations in China.^[18] In March 2007, she testified before the United States House Committee on Ways and Means in support of the ground-breaking, US federal trade legislation, The Nonmarket Economy Trade Remedy Act of 2007.^[19] She has also presented her research on China before the U.S. International Trade Commission, the United States Trade Representative and the United States Department of Commerce.

Awards and honors

In August 2012, Haley received the Academy of Management's Practice Impact Award for influential research with impact.^[20]

Books

• New Asian Emperors: The Overseas Chinese, their Strategies and Competitive Advantages (Butterworth-Heineman, 1998)^[21]
• Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organizational Change for Competitive Advantage (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000) ^[22]
• Multinational Corporations in Political Environments: Ethics, Values and Strategies (World Scientific, 2001, 2004)^[2]
• Asian Post-crisis Management: Corporate and Governmental Strategies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Palgrave, 2002)^[23]
• The Chinese Tao of Business: The Logic of Successful Business Strategy (John Wiley & Sons, 2004, 2006)^[24]
• New Asian Emperors: The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese (John Wiley & Sons, 2009)
• Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy (Oxford University Press, 2012)^[25]
• Impact and the Management Researcher (Routledge, 2021) ^[26]

Articles

• Subsidies and the China Price, Harvard Business Review, June 2008^[27]
• Government Strategy and Firm Policy in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry, California Management Review, November 2011^[28]
• Storytelling the Internationalization of the Multinational Enterprise, Journal of International Business Studies, December 2014