Rate My Professor Mohsin Habib

Mohsin Habib serves as Department Chair and Associate Professor of Management in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina. His research interests include business-level and competitive strategy, foreign direct investment and related issues, organization design, strategy implementation, FDI and host country, corruption and international investment, multinational corporations’ entry decision and organizational design, and entrepreneurship. Habib teaches courses such as Strategic Management, Business and its Environment, International and Comparative Management, Managing in the Global Economy, Managerial Ethics and Social Issues, and Managing Organizations.

Habib has published extensively on corruption's impact on international business and entrepreneurship. His seminal paper 'Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment,' co-authored with Leon Zurawicki in the Journal of International Business Studies (2002), has 2132 citations. Other key publications include 'Corruption and Entrepreneurship: How Formal and Informal Institutions Shape Small Firm Behavior in Transition and Mature Market Economies' with V. Tonoyan, R. Strohmeyer, and M. Perlitz in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2010, 724 citations), 'Country-level Investments and the Effect of Corruption—Some Empirical Evidence' with L. Zurawicki in International Business Review (2001, 272 citations), 'Corruption in Large Developing Economies: The Case of Brazil, Russia, India and China' (2006, 11 citations), and the book 'The Program Management Office Advantage: A Powerful and Centralized Way for Organizations to Manage Projects' with L. Tjahjana (2009, 42 citations). He received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Research 2001-2002. As a reviewer for the Journal of World Business, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Academy of International Business, and the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Habib contributes to advancing scholarship in international strategy and business.