Description:
Dr. Farok Contractor is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. and MBA, and the University of Michigan, where he received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering. He has also taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Lubin School of Business, Theseus, EDHEC and conducted executive seminars in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Dr. Contractor’s research focuses on corporate alliances, outsourcing, valuation of intangible assets, the technology transfer process, licensing, and foreign direct investment. He has written well over a hundred scholarly papers on these topics, and nine books which have been cited more than 1700 times. Prof. Contractor has also been rated by several surveys as among the top-ranked contributors of scholarly papers to the field. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Contractor has chaired or been on the supervisory committees of 12 doctoral dissertations, and served on the faculty of several Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortiums organized by the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and CIBERs.
He was elected to the Executive Board of the Academy of Management’s International Management Division, the Executive Board of the Academy of International Business, and was elected a permanent Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 1995. He served Rutgers University as Department Chair for the International Business Department for six years, as Research Director of the CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research), Coordinator of the Ph.D. program in International Business, and several other key school and university initiatives.
Dr. Contractor’s avocations include canoeing, skiing, trekking, history, art, and restoring antiques. | 
