Jack Aschkenazi

Jack Aschkenazi
BSC, MBA, PH.D.

An update as of June 2011
I am a former Israeli expatriate manager with sixteen years of foreign assignments behind me. When I first accepted to move to Copenhagen, I had no idea what that would mean. I then learned that it meant meeting with an extremely sophisticated and proud old civilization. My family and I fell in love with the country of Hans Christian Andersen. After the first four years assignment, we returned for three more years, and then spent a year in the land of Van Gogh (Holland). My last assignment was in the USA, where we have been for more than seventeen years. My wife says that we should have started our lives here.

We have been in Europe and in the States, in the old and the new continent. Our eyes, our ears, our brains, have absorbed several cultures. What has come out of it?

Our daughters have acquired a very good knowledge of English and Danish.
Our youngest daughter, Keren, got married in Israel to a very nice guy named Eran. They both work in Vancouver, Canada. They have two beautiful sons, Edan and Amit. Keren holds a Masters degree from Tel-Aviv University.
Our oldest daughter, Sarit Aschkenazi, MD, is an Israeli and American certified OB GYN. After a fellowship in Urogynecology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she is now a co-director of the ProHealth Care Women’s Centers in Waukesha and Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Her husband was the CFO of a high tech company listed on NASDAQ. He tragically passed away on May 2005. They have two beautiful daughters called Daniela Leigh and Amalia Romi, aged 9 and 7 and a half respectively. My wife Adrielle and I try to help as much as we can.
I speak several foreign languages: French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.

ACADEMICS

I have a Ph.D. in Organization & Management, specializing in International Business. The subject of my dissertation is Israeli expatriate managers, an empirical study in knowledge transfer and retention. In April 2006, I became the Program Chair of the MBA program at the Online campus of the American International University (AIU on line). I then filled for the Bachelor of Business Chair, and from November 2009 till December 2010, I was the Business Chair for all the three degrees, MBA, BBA, and AABA. I transitioned to the job of Lead Faculty for Strategic Management and International Business on December 1, 2010. I am passionate about International Business.

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

Aschkenazi, J. Fehrman, B. Dincola, J. (1999) The European Monetary Union (EMU), Regis University

Aschkenazi, J. (2002)Managing in an International Business Environment presented at the September 2002 North Eastern conference of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

Aschkenazi, J. (2002) The EU, latest developments (2002). Used in the curriculum of the MBA degree at Regis University

Aschkenazi, J. Matteo-Gibson D. (2005) The ARCS Model and Student Assessment, presented at the AIU online conference

Aschkenazi, J. Ver Steeg (2006) APA, the Simplest Version presented at the AIU on line conference (2006)

Aschkenazi, J (4/2006), The university of the 21st Century

Aschkenazi, J (5/2006), A life abroad on a foreign assignment

Aschkenazi, J (4/2007), Why International Business?

Aschkenazi, J (7/2007), Communicating across cultures

Aschkenazi, J (12/2007) Cultural sensitivity, a few things to remember

Aschkenazi, J, McCoy Doug, (2/2008), Wellness and Being

Aschkenazi, J, AIU online, A different experience

Aschkenazi, J. (2008) Israeli Expatriate Managers, Knowledge Transfer And Retention, Vdm Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. Kg (Germany)

PAPER REVIEWS

I reeviewed papers for the Academy of International Business (AIB) 2003 North Eastern Conference and for the years 2004, 2005, 2006,2007, and 2008, 2009, and 2010. Reviewed papers for the Academy of Management (AOM) 2009, 2010, and the 2011 conference.

TEACHING

I facilitated the following online courses at the MBA Level at Regis University (since May 2001 and until April 2006):

Business Essentials I-II
International Business
Strategies in a Global Environment

I facilitated approximately 90 courses at the American Intercontinental University (AIU) at the college level since July 2003, among them:

Issues in Global Management
Fundamentals of Business Law
Global Management Seminar
Business and Society
The Global Entrepreneur
Business Management and Leadership
Business Communications
Global Strategic Management
International Business
Business Management and Leadership
Business Management

As well as the following courses at the graduate level since April 2006:

Business Research for Decision Making
International Management and leadership

CURRICULUM

As Program Chair, I was personally responsible for reviewing and redesigning several courses at the MBA level, including but not limited to:

Developing a core competence in formative assessment to students’ papers, and course writing following Bloom’s taxonomy.
Courses in International Business
Designing a concentration in Finance with a course in Derivatives
Designing a Bachelor Degree in Accounting
Designing a Master Degree in Accounting, both Degrees leading to sitting for the CPA exams
Supervising the work of Faculty in the following disciplines: Management, Accounting & Finance, Finance, Health Care Management, Human Relations, Marketing, Project Management, Operations Management, Organizational Development and Psychology, and International Business, and Law

AWARDS

Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Regis University School
Recipient of AIU's Reaching for the Stars Award (2005) for demonstrated positive changes to promote effective online facilitation
Recipient of the Excalibur Award (2006) as outstanding Program Chair
Recipient of the Commitment to Excellence Leadership Award (2009)

AFFILIATIONS

Member of the Academy of International Business since 2003

Member of the Academy of Management since 2008

I am accessible through e-mail:

jack.aschkenazi@faculty.aiuonline.edu; jack.aschkenazi@gmail.com

My hobbies are photography, music, reading, theater, movies.