Biography
John C. Ickis (MBA, DBA Harvard University) is Emeritus Professor of Organization and Strategy at INCAE Business School. He is co-author of the book The Octagon: a Model to Align CSR with Strategy among others, and from articles in World Development and The Harvard Business Review. He has written over a hundred teaching cases, many of which have been published in textbooks and cases or distributed by HBS Publishing. He has led workshops on teaching and writing cases in more than a dozen countries in Latin America, Asia, Western and Central Europe, and North America.
He was selected as an instructor in the first Harvard Business School Colloquium for Participant-Centered Learning (CPCL I) and invited by the World Bank to present alternatives for teaching business administration to the Government of China in a high-level symposium, documented in the Bank's publication, Educating Managers for Business and Government: A Review of International Experience. As a consultant, Dr. Ickis advanced competitiveness initiatives at the national level in Croatia and at the provincial level in South Africa.
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Degrees
- MBA - MBA Harvard University
- DBA - DBA Harvard University
Teaching areas
- Strategy
- Organization
Programs
Work experience
INCAE Business School Professor Emeritus, John C. Ickis (MBA, DBA, Harvard University) was Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration at INCAE Business School in the field of strategy and organization. He has held the positions of Academic Director, Dean of the School of Administration in Alajuela, Costa Rica and Dean of the Francisco De Sola Campus in Montefresco, Nicaragua.
During authorized periods he was President of the international consulting firm JE Austin Associates, Inc., CEO-founder of JE Austin doo in Zagreb, Croatia and Chief-of-Party for the National Competitiveness Initiative in that country. Dr. Ickis specialization is the design and execution of strategic processes in private companies and civic organizations. His dissertation, published in Bureaucracy and the Poor, was on strategy and structure in rural development. She was a Visiting International Scholar at Harvard Business School where she developed materials for the Managing in Developing Countries course. He is the co-author of articles on this topic in World Development and The Harvard Business Review, and the author of numerous case studies and articles published in managerial journals and academic journals.
He has been invited as a lecturer at the Lincoln Land Center of Harvard University, the Special Program of Urban and Regional Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale School of Organization and Management and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has directed management education and competitiveness programs in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Central Europe. He is an expert in the case method, was selected as an instructor in the First Colloquium of Participant-Centered Learning at Harvard Business School and has conducted workshops on teaching and writing cases at universities and educational institutions in twelve countries.
He was invited by the World Bank to research alternative models of management education and present the results to the Government of China at a national forum. Developed and delivered programs to increase local competitiveness in several Central American countries and in several South African provinces. In Croatia, it advanced competitiveness initiatives at the national level, having achieved the active participation in addition to business leadership, the Prime Minister and union leaders, thus laying the foundations for its entry into the European Unit.
Dr. Ickis' consulting has focused on strategic planning and organizational change in companies in various sectors, including the Pan American School of Agriculture (now Zamorano University), the IBM affiliate in Central America, CARE USA and the Bolivian state oil company. , YPFB. He obtained degrees of Bachelor of International Studies from Miami University (Ohio) and Bachelor of Foreign Trade from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management.
He has worked as a Task Force Leader at General Electric Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, a Peace Corps volunteer in Veraguas, Panama, and agricultural work in Les Petits-Ponts, Switzerland. He is a member of The Academy of Management and guest editor of the journals Management Decision and Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. He appears in Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the World and received honorary citizenship from Soweto, South Africa.