Vicki TenHaken, MBA
Professor of Management
MBA
Grand Valley State University
BA
Hope College
Area of Expertise:
• Management Theory
• Marketing
• Human Resource Management
• Managing for Environmental Sustainability
Research Interests:
• Strategy
• Leadership
• International Business
• Corporate Longevity
Selected Publications:
• Everyday
Leaders
• Management As a Calling with
Robin Klay and John Lunn
• Lessons Learned from
Comparing Survival Behaviors of Very Old Japanese and American
Companies with Makoto Kanda
• Hope for the East:
Entrepreneurial Attitudes of MBA Students
in Two Transition Economies Relative to Those in the
USA with
Victor Claar, Robert Frey, and Marek Szarucki
Academic/Professional
Activities:
• Co-director, Hope College/Meiji
Gakuin Global Management Seminar
• Baker Scholars Advisor
• Teaching abroad in Poland & England
• Board of Trustees - Hope
College, Resthaven Care Community, Tulip City Airport
• Executive-in-Residence, Grand
Valley State University
• Hope College Japan May Term
• Speaker, Forbes/IBM Impact Conference
Awards/honors:
• Fulbright Scholar
• Oustanding Alumni
Award, Grand Valley State University
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Professor TenHaken joined the faculty
at Hope College in 2000. She spent her 2007/2008 sabbatical
teaching at the Krakow University of Economics in Poland on a
Fulbright scholarship. She has returned to teach in their International
Executive MBA program.
Prior to entering academia, Professor TenHaken worked for 25+ years
in leadership positions at General Electric and Herman Miller,
Inc. She has experience at the executive
level in marketing, strategic planning, and new business
development as well as professional experience
in human resource management. Professor TenHaken's research on
corporate longevity has been quoted extensively in national press
and she also presents at international conferences
on this topic. She has been married to John Meshkin for over
35 years and they have two children. Vicki enjoys experiential
learning by traveling to, living and working in different cultures.
tenhaken@hope.edu
(616) 395-7872
Spring 2013 Office Hours:
Mon. & Wed., 10:00-12:00 pm
or by appt.
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