International Business Chair Honored at CBA Investiture

The College of Business Administration honored Miguel P. Caldas, Ph.D., at the October 17 investiture ceremony where he was invested as the Gerald N. Gaston Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business.

Before joining the business faculty in fall 2003, Caldas served for five years as an assistant and associate professor in management at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP), Brazil’s most prestigious business school. Prior to joining academia full time, Caldas had a successful 15-year career in organizational transformation and human resource consulting, reaching partner status at prominent international firms such as Coopers & Lybrand, Andersen Business Consulting, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. During his time as a practitioner, he was also an adjunct faculty member for 10 years at the business school of ESPM, another university in Sáo Paulo, before joining FGV. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Universidade de Brasília (UnB), and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in Brazil.

Caldas is the author of three books, more than 70 refereed articles in English and Portuguese (including six awarded papers, two of which won divisional Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management), and co-editor of two anthologies. His research interests focus on international business, cross-cultural manage-ment (particularly Latin American culture), and organizational change.

Gerald N. Gaston, a 1965 CBA graduate, established the Gaston Chair in 1998. Gaston, who served on the university’s Board of Trustees, is the father of Matt Gaston, also an alumnus of the university and a current member of the Board of Trustees. Matt received his bachelor of bus-iness administration from Loyola in 1992 and an M.B.A. in 1993.

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