Usha Haley, Ph.D.

W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business

Kansas Faculty of Distinction

Dir. center for International Business Advancement, WSU

Usha Haley was named by the Economist as a  “Thought Leader” on emerging markets; she is currently W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business & Kansas Faculty of Distinction, and Director/Center for International Business Advancement at Wichita State University. She is also the elected chair of the World Trade Council of Wichita. She has held full-time faculty positions at some of the best universities in the Asia Pacific including Massey University (New Zealand), Australian National University (Australia), National University of Singapore (Singapore), and ITESM-Monterrey (Mexico); and taught graduate and executive students at Harvard University, Purdue University and in executive-development programs in 10 countries for both companies and governments.

Her expertise lies in international strategy, Asian and emerging markets, business-government relations, innovation, technology development, sanctions, and subsidies.  Her publications include articles in California Management Review, and Harvard Business Review, as well as 8 books, among them: Subsidies to Chinese Industry (headlined twice in the Economist, reviewed in Strategy+Business as “important” and “influential”, and China findings described by JP Morgan as “with no equal in terms of scope, breadth and impact”); Multinational Corporations in Political Environments (reviewed in the Wall Street Journal ); Chinese Tao of Business (reviewed in the Wall Street Journal as the only business book on Asia to buy); and, New Asian Emperors (reviewed in the Economist as an “important study” on Asia); Forthcoming books include Chinese Investments in U.S. Shale Gas:  Technology Development, Strategic Risk and National Policy  (Oxford University Press) and Strategy Research in Emerging Markets ( Cambridge University Press).

Usha’s research has had regulatory influence over 40 times. She testified before the US Senate on Shuanghui’s takeover of Smithfield Foods, the most important case on FDI in two decades. She also testified on her research on China to the USCC and twice before the Committee on Ways and Means, including on federal legislation, the Non-market Economy Trade Remedy Act whose findings were incorporated into US regulation (HR 1229). Her research on Chinese subsidies is the basis of 3 pieces of EU anti-dumping regulation and in the US ITA’s countervailing duties against China. Major awards/recognitions include the Academy of International Business’s “Top International Business Scholar” Emerald Publishing’s “Lifetime Achievement Award”; “American Made Hero” for US manufacturing; and the Wichita Business Journal’s “Women who Lead in Education”.  Degrees include a double-major PhD and Master’s in International Business & Management (Stern School of Business, New York University) and a Master’s in International Relations (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).