Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is a Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. He studies the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals; capability upgrading, particularly technological capabilities; and governance challenges, focusing on state ownership and corruption in international business. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and co-editor of Global Strategy Journal. He received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School.
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selected Publications
- Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Grosman, A., & Megginson, W. A review of the internationalization of state-owned firms and sovereign wealth funds: governments nonbusiness objectives and discreet power. Journal of International Business Studies.
- Montiel, I., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Park, J., Antolín-López, R. and Husted, B.W. Implementing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals in international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 52: 999-1030.
- Bu, J., & Cuervo-Cazurra, A. Informality costs: Informal entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging economies. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 14 (3): 329-368.
- Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Gaur, A., Singh, D. Pro-market institutions and global strategy: The pendulum of pro-market reforms and reversals. Journal of International Business Studies, 50 (4): 598-632.
- Banalieva, E., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Sarathy, R. Dynamics of Pro-Market Institutions and Firm Performance. Journal of International Business Studies, 49 (7): 858-880.
Research & Teaching Interests
Alvaro is an expert on global strategy, and studies three topics in his research: the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals; capability upgrading, particularly technological capabilities; and governance challenges, focusing on state ownership and corruption in international business. He has been recognized as 2nd top author on emerging market multinationals; 8th author in international business; and 1st in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and 356 in Business and Management among the 105000 top scientists in the world. He has published seven books, sixty-two articles in Web of Science journals, of which twenty-one appear in the FT-50 list, and forty-one chapters in academic books.
He teaches courses on global strategy and sustainability at the undergraduate, master's, executive, and doctoral levels. He has taught in Austria, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Thailand, UK, and US. He was a finalist for Professor of the Year Award at the University of South Carolina.
Consulting
Alvaro provides research-informed insights to firms, governments, and universities. He has done consulting and training on global strategy for top executives of firms in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Poland, and the USA. He has provided consulting and training on how to support the internationalization of domestic firms for government agencies in Brazil and Thailand. He has conducted training on how to build research capabilities for universities in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Thailand.
Service to the Profession
Alvaro is co-editor of Global Strategy Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of top journals like Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. He has been an expert reviewer for the National Science Foundations of Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, South Africa, and the US. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management; was elected as Representative-at-Large in the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society; served as Program Track Chair at the Academy of International Business' Annual Meeting three times, and co-organized the program of the Academy of International Business' Latin American Chapter.
Awards and Honors
- AIB Fellow, Academy of International Business
- Honorary Doctorate, Copenhagen Business School
- JIBS Silver Medal for intellectual contributions to Journal of International Business Studies in the last 50 years
