Donald Lessard

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management
Professor of Global Economics and Management Professor of Engineering Systems

Biography | Selected Publications

Building Your Company’s Capabilities Through Global Expansion [2013]

Uncertainty and Risk in Global Supply Chains [2013]

Embracing risk as a core competence: The case of CEMEX [2009]

Mexican Multinationals: Insights from CEMEX [2008]

Real Asset Valuation: A Back-to-basics Approach. [2008]

"Frameworks for Global Strategic Analysis," Journal of Strategic Managment Education, 1(1). [2003]

"Risk and the Dynamics of Globalization," in Birkinshaw, Markides, Stopford, and Yip, eds., The Future of the Multinational Company (Chichester, England: Wiley). [2003]

Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance (MIT Press, 2001)

Capital Flight: The Problem and Policy Responses. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1987.

International Financing for Developing Countries : The Unfulfilled Promise/Wp0783 (World Bank Staff Working Papers, No 783). Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1986.

Financial Intermediation Beyond the Debt Crisis (Policy Analyses in International Economics, No 12, September 1985). Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1985

International Financial Management: Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Wiley, 1985.

Control of Indirect Financial Subsidies in Canada's Budget: Diagnosis and Recommendations [1982]

Currency Changes and Management Control: A Note on the Integration of the International Controller's and Treasurer's Functions [1974]

 

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Capital budgeting; Corporate strategy and policy; Developing countries, economics; Energy; Executive Education; Foreign investment; Global business practices; Globalization; Green industries; Industrial partnerships; International finance; International management; Latin America; Management Education; Mergers and acquisitions; Mexico; Non-market strategy; Oil; Risk management; Strategic management; Sustainability; Taiwan