Fellows
Vasyl Taras
Professor · Fellow
University of North Carolina at Greensboro · United States
Biography
Vasyl Taras is Professor of International Business and Department Chair at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Vice President–Administration of the Academy of International Business.
He founded the X-Culture Project in 2010, a platform through which students learn international business experientially in global virtual teams. Around 5,000 students from 150 universities across 40 countries and six continents take part each semester, with more than 50,000 alumni to date.
He holds a PhD in international HR and international business from the University of Calgary and an MPA in political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research addresses cross-cultural and global virtual teams and experiential approaches to international business education. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of HRM, the Journal of International Management, the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, the European Journal of International Management and Cross-Cultural Strategic Management, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of World Business.