MBA New Vision Lecture 55

Topic:  Linking Cross Border M&A with Current Issues in International HR Management

Time: 13:30-15:30 March 24th, 2019

Speaker: Dr. Randall O. Chang

Profile：Randall O. Chang, Ph.D., was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees from California State University (S.F.) and his Ph.D. degree (Asian Studies/International Economics) from the Claremont Graduate University in California. 

 He is an experienced global management and finance executive.  His banking career began in 1973 when he joined the Bank of America’s International Division in San Francisco. He later worked for Union Bank of California and Daiwa Bank where his positions included being the Senior Vice President for Global Financial Institutions, responsible for relationships with global banks and central banks, and the Senior Vice President for U.S. Corporate Banking, responsible for loans to large businesses in the U.S. western region.

He then became the General Manager of real estate and financial assets at the Bishop Estate, the largest landholder in the state of Hawaii.  Later, he founded a federal credit union in Hawaii and served as its CEO before deciding to embark on a teaching career.

His career as a professor is as follows:  Chinese University of Hong Kong, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Chonnam National University in South Korea, De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde (Manila), the Macau Institute of Management, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii Pacific University, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and so on.   He teaches at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Global MBA, and post-graduate professional diploma levels.

 He has given special seminars to bankers from Credit Suisse, the China Development Bank, Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank, and to Korean and Kuwaiti business and financial executives. 

He was the president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii in 1998-1999.  Presently, he is the president of the Hawaii Sub-Region of the U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association.

Outline：

     1.       What is a merger?  What is an acquisition?  Is there a difference?

     2.       What are the different kinds of M&A?  Do they have equal risk?

     3.       What are the similarities and differences between domestic and international M&A?

     4.       What global change forces are stimulating M&A?

     5.       What are the corporate motives driving global M&A?

     6.       “It’s all about money…or is it?”

     7.       Do most cross border M&A succeed or fail?  And why?

     8.       What are the typical stages which M&A transactions follow?

     9.      What is the correlation between international HR management and a successful cross border M&A transaction?

     10.   More questions?