Prof. Paul Beamish, Ivey Business School

Paul Beamish is Professor of International Business at the Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada. He has received numerous research awards including the 2017 PWC Eminent Scholar in International Management Award from the AOM. There are over 48,000 Google Scholar citations to his research. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Business Studies from 1993-97, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and past Dean of the Fellows of the Academy of International Business. He has supervised 36 PhD dissertations: over a third have received major international recognitions. His occasional consulting, management training, joint venture facilitation, and joint venture expert witness activities have been in both the public and private sector in over a dozen countries.

Paul worked for Procter and Gamble and Wilfrid Laurier University before joining Ivey’s faculty in 1987. From 1999-2004 he served as Associate Dean Research. Until early 2016, Beamish also had responsibility for Ivey Publishing. Paul is a strong advocate of the case method. Many of his 165 cases have won awards, and over 100 have been translated into one or more languages. Over 4.5 million copies of his cases have been studied worldwide. In 2012, he received the International Management Outstanding Educator Award from the AOM, and in 2021 the Case Centre’s “Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method Award”. In 2010, Paul established the 39 Country Initiative. It allows universities in the world’s 46 poorest countries to use Ivey cases at no cost.