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John C. Ickis (M.B.A., D.B.A. Harvard University) is Professor Emeritus of Organization and Strategy at INCAE Business School. He is co-author of the book The Octagon: A Model for Aligning CSR with Strategy among others, and articles in World Development and The Harvard Business Review. He has written over one hundred teaching cases, many of which have been published in textbooks and cases or distributed by HBS Publishing. He has conducted teaching and case writing workshops in more than a dozen countries in Latin America, Asia, Western and Central Europe, and North America.
He was selected as an instructor at Harvard Business School's first Colloquium for Participant-Centered Learning (CPCL I) and invited by the World Bank to present management education alternatives to the Government of China at 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.
Professor Emeritus of INCAE Business School, John C. Ickis (M.B.A., D.B.A., Harvard University) was Dean of Faculty and Professor of Business Administration at INCAE Business School in the field of strategy and organization. He has served as Academic Director, Dean of the School of Management in Alajuela, Costa Rica and Dean of the Francisco De Sola Campus in Montefresco, Nicaragua.
During open periods he was President of the international consulting firm J.E. Austin Associates, Inc., CEO-founder of J.E. Austin d.o.o. 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. He was a Visiting International Scholar at Harvard Business School where he developed materials for the Managing in Developing Countries course. He is co-author of articles on this topic in World Development and The Harvard Business Review, and author of numerous case studies and articles published in management journals and academic journals.
He has been a guest lecturer at the Lincoln Land Center of Harvard University, the Special Program of Urban and Regional Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the 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 at the First Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning at Harvard Business School and has conducted workshops on teaching and writing cases at universities and educational institutions in twelve countries.
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 provinces of South Africa. In Croatia, he advanced competitiveness initiatives at the national level, actively engaging business leadership, the Prime Minister and trade union leaders, and laying the groundwork for Croatia's entry into the European Union.
Dr. Ickis' consulting work has focused on strategic planning and organizational change in companies in various sectors, including the Panamerican School of Agriculture (now Zamorano University), the IBM subsidiary in Central America, CARE USA and the Bolivian state oil company, YPFB. He holds a Bachelor of International Studies degree from Miami University (Ohio) and a Bachelor of Foreign Trade from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management.
He has worked as a Team Leader at General Electric Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, a Peace Corps volunteer in Veraguas, Panama and in agricultural work in Les Petits-Ponts, Switzerland. He is a member of The Academy of Management and a guest editor for 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 of Soweto, South Africa.
