Ratee Apana
Assoc Professor EducatorProfessional Summary
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.
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.
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).
Contact Information
Phone:
513-556-7074
Fax:
513-556-5499
Teaching Interest
- 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 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.
Research Interest
- 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.
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Title:
Field Service Asst Professor
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Name:
Nomination for Barbour award
Year Received:
2008
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Name:
Nomination for Cohen Award 2009
Year Received:
2008
Organization:
University of Cincinnati Women's Center
Name:
2008 UCWC Woman of the Year Nominee
Year Received:
2008
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Name:
Nomination to Harold Grilliot Award
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
College of Business
Name:
Nomination Micheal dean Excel award
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
Univ of Cincinnati
Name:
Turner scholars medal of recognition
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
Darwin T Scholarship program
Name:
Turners scholars medal
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
College of Business
Name:
3 Nominations to Michael L. Dean Excellence Award
Year Received:
2005
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Name:
Nomination to Cohen Award
Year Received:
2004
Organization:
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Degree:
MBA
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Major:
International Strategy
Completed:
2000
Degree:
Ph D
Published Contributions
Title:
Leader's guide in Health Care
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Title:
Strategy in the US Healthcare Industry: A Leader's Guide
Author(s):
Kamath, Rajan
Apana, Ratee
Apana, Ratee
Title:
Global Business Today
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
2009
Publicly available:
No
Title:
Small Business Management
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Thompson
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Strategic Management by Hitt Ireland and Hoskisson
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Thompson
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Global Business Today
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
McGraw Hill
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
International Business Instructor Manual
Page(s):
200
Author(s):
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
2005
Publisher:
McGraw Hill
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Capital Structure Decision Making in Privately Held Firms: Beyond the Finance Paradigm
Page(s):
349-368
Author(s):
Barton, Sid
Matthews, Charles
Vasudevan, D
Apana, Ratee
Matthews, Charles
Vasudevan, D
Apana, Ratee
Year Published:
1994
Publisher:
Family Business Review
Title:
Functional Perspectives on Innovation: The Correlates of Innovation in the Marketing and Manufacturing Functions
Page(s):
293-299
Author(s):
Kamath, Rajan
Apana, Ratee
Mansour-Cole, D.
Apana, Ratee
Mansour-Cole, D.
Year Published:
1993
Publisher:
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Publicly available:
Yes
Research in progress
Title:
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ethical Decision Making
Description:
In the last decade questionable ethical decisions by managers – the collapse of Enron in USA, the use of melamine in Chinese milk products, and the theft of medical records in India - have captured world wide headlines and our imaginations. How have these incidents influenced ethical perspectives in these countries? This study documents existing ethical perspectives of business students in three nations China, India and the US and attempts to compare and contrast the ethical orientations.
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Antecedents and Consequences of Plant Closing Decisions
Description:
This research attempts to classify, benchmark and assess the key antecedent conditions that lead to plant closing announcements and the consequential financial impact of these announcements. We use Dow Jones, Reuters or a similar news wire to collects announcements of plant closings over a 5 year period. We use cluster analysis to develop a typology of plant closing announcements. Then we use Compustat to test hypotheses related to key financial antecedent conditions and consequences of these announcements.
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Cultural Differences and the International Manager
Description:
Text Book
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts at Call Centers
Title:
Innovation in the Public Sector: Best-kept secrets of emerging economies
Organization:
International Academy Of Business And Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD)
Location:
Orlando, Florida
Year:
2011
Location:
Boston
Year:
2009
Title:
The Antecedents and Consequences of Plant-Closing Announcements
Organization:
UC
Location:
Cincinnati
Year:
2009
Title:
Antecedents and Consequences of Plant Closing Announcements
Location:
Baltimore, Maryland
Year:
2008
Title:
Strategies for Adopting Best Practice Supplier Management: Case Studies of Adaptations in Thailand and South Korea
Organization:
Academy of Management
Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Year:
1996
Title:
Adapting Japanese Best Practice Supplier Management Models in Emerging South East Asian Economies
Organization:
Assocation of Japenese Business Studies
Location:
Nagoya, Japan
Year:
1994
