Felipe Monteiro |
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L. Felipe Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also has a LL.B. (JD equivalent) degree, cum laude, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ, Brazil and a MRes in Business Studies from London Business School. Before joining The Wharton School, Professor Monteiro was a Fellow, and an award-winning teacher, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to that, he was a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School’s Latin American Research Center where he published several case studies on multinational corporations headquartered in Latin America. Monteiro was also an Adjunct Professor at IBMEC Business School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prior to joining academia, Professor Monteiro was a Senior Analyst at Banco do Brasil acting as an advisor to foreign companies investing in Brazil. His research focuses on knowledge processes within multinational corporations (MNCs), in particular, on how MNCs access external knowledge across organizational, technological and geographic boundaries. Professor Monteiro is also leading a research project on knowledge sharing strategies of MNCs headquartered in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. His research has been published in top academic and managerial journals and nominated to prestigious awards at the Academy of International Business and at the Academy of Management. In 2010, Professor Monteiro was invited to join Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology’s CORE Global Expert network, a small group of leading academics advising Samsung in the area of global innovation management. At The Wharton School, Professor Monteiro teaches courses on Global Strategic Management to undergraduate and MBA students. In 2009, he received the “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Teaching Award for his outstanding contributions and commitment to educational excellence in the MBA core curriculum.