Ratee Apana Ph.D. joined the international faculty of the College of Business department of management at the University of Cincinnati in 2002 bringing to the students and school her varied field experience in International business.
Dr. Apana's research interests include governance mechanisms that enhance and influence innovation, cross cultural and cross functional networks and strategic alliances. She has received two competitive grants from the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS), an agency of the National Science Foundation for her research efforts in Asia. The grant is offered once a year to winners of a nationwide competition of research proposals in the field of innovation
She has published articles in IEE Transactions on Engineering Management and the Family Business Review and presented papers at the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. She has authored instructor manuals for leading international business texts.
Her consulting expertise over the last 20 years includes facilitation of strategic thinking in top management groups, strategies for collaborative and cross cultural partnering, cross cultural training and negotiations, ethical assessments, change management and the creation of new capabilities and innovation in organizations through training and education. She has developed a tool for assessing global competence (GCA) that has been used in industry very successfully. She has had extensive interaction with top management groups in companies such as Alcatel, Hyundai, Kia, Goldstar, NEC, IBM, Unisys, Infosys, Mitsubishi, Convergys, GE Capital and P&G. She has worked with and has been trained by Dr. C.K. Prahalad on developing strategies for business-to-business relationships which was the subject of her dissertation. (Dr. Prahalad, author of best seller Competing for the Future was identified by BusinessWeek as the most influential management thinker).
Dr. Apana's pedagogical efforts have earned her recognition from Turner Scholars and nominations by her students for the EXCEL, Chen and Barbour teaching awards at the University of Cincinnati.
She has traveled extensively in the US, South and South East Asia, Europe and Australia. She speaks six languages and has studied French, German and is studying Chinese. She is actively involved with her community at home and with overseas projects, helping AIDS orphans and village communities in Kenya, street children in Mumbai, India and coffee farmers in Asia.
Dr. Apana has an undergraduate degree in biology and physics, post graduate degree in international marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Ph.D. in strategy from the University of Cincinnati.
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