Where the work took me
Teaching posts, conferences, study abroad, and family trips since 1985. Click a marker for the story; filter by kind below.
By year
One line per trip, oldest first. Filter to see only teaching posts, conferences, or family travel.
GrahamstownStudy
A trimester at Kingswood College at age fifteen. First passport, first long flight, first time seeing a country mid-history.
HelsinkiStudy
High school trip to Finland.
LeningradStudy
Crossed into the Soviet Union from Finland in the glasnost years. The story is in the More Capable series research notes.
IsraelStudy
Harvard Dorot Fellowship for research in Israel.
BarcelonaStudy
Final semester of the master's at ESADE, on an Institute for International Studies award and a FLAS award (1997).
Alaska cruise from SeattleFamily
Seven nights on the Norwegian Sun with Sherri and her parents, August 2003.
SavannahFamily
May 24-29, 2003.
New OrleansConference
Academy of Management, August 6-11, 2004.
WarsawWork
August 29 to September 6, 2004, by way of Amsterdam.
LisbonFamily
July 9-17, 2005.
BostonConference
ASSA/AEA meetings, January 2006. Chicago the next January.
Guangzhou and BeijingTeaching
First China teaching trip, February 8-16, 2006, while still at Minnesota.
BostonFamily
Harvard 15th reunion, June 7-11, 2007. Philadelphia for the Academy of Management that August.
MilanConference
SDA Bocconi School of Management conference on offshoring of high-value company functions (April).
DurrësTeaching
Adjunct professor at Aleksander Moisiu University (FASTIP): taught the first bank-management cohort Introduction to Human Resources. Returned in 2012.
MontrealConference
Academy of Management annual meeting (August).
RomeFamily
Rome with my father, Karl (July).
SingaporeTeaching
Taught HRM 360 Organizational Behavior for the CSULB MBA program (May).
GuangzhouTeaching
Taught International HRM in the CHEMBA program with Mahmood Zaidi, and lectured to the Guangzhou Railway Institute (August).
PogradecTeaching
Adjunct professor at Nehemiah University on Lake Ohrid: staff management, HR, and entrepreneurship. Returned in 2014 and 2017.
San AntonioConference
Academy of Management (August): EMBA expectations and outcomes in China.
DurrësTeaching
Second FASTIP teaching visit.
IstanbulConference
Conference presentation (June).
Ho Chi Minh City and Nha TrangTeaching
Ten lectures on leadership and HRM for the Institute for Finance and Administration (December).
PogradecTeaching
Second Nehemiah University visit.
Addis AbabaTeaching
July 4-13, 2015, with Jim Katzenstein and the Africa HIP program. Ethiopian Airlines nonstop from LAX.
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh CityTeaching
May 30 to June 10, 2015, on a United award.
MauiConference
Western Decision Sciences Institute (April).
MinneapolisFamily
Back to the Twin Cities in May and July.
ParisFamily
Spring break in Paris (March).
Shanghai, Saigon, and Phnom PenhFamily
January 17-27, 2016, with my father, Karl. Angkor Wat by way of Qatar Airways from Saigon.
YaoundeTeaching
First Cameroon trip, March 26 to April 3, 2016, Air France through Paris.
BostonFamily
Twenty-fifth Harvard reunion with the whole family (May).
DallasWork
October.
KauaiFamily
Lihue, October.
PogradecTeaching
Third Nehemiah University visit.
ShenzhenTeaching
April 11-19, 2018, Air China through Beijing.
YaoundeTeaching
Second Cameroon trip, August 3-13, 2018, through Brussels and Douala. MOU signing with CSUDH.
SofiaTeaching
First Bulgaria trip, June 7-19, 2019, with Jennifer Brodmann and Stone & Compass, building the study-abroad program.
MiamiWork
April.
Big IslandConference
Western Decision Sciences Institute (April), presenting with Benjamin, Alex Alvarado, James Golding, Joan Torne, and Krystal Rawls.
BostonFamily
Harvard 30th reunion, late May 2022.
KonaConference
Western Decision Sciences Institute, April 5-10, 2022, presenting with Benjamin.
MadridFamily
July 6-10, 2023, after Sicily; home through Frankfurt and Boston.
Sicily (Rome in, Catania out)Teaching
MGT 200 / PSY 372 study abroad, June 17-29, 2023, with Aleksander, by way of Istanbul.
Sofia and VarnaTeaching
MGT 495 study abroad, January 5-16, 2023, with Benjamin, Aleksander, and CSUDH students.
ViennaFamily
A night at the Wiener Staatsoper with Aleksander (December).
ReykjavikFamily
June 17-24, 2024, with Aleksander and Benjamin.
Hoi AnFamily
Return to Vietnam, twelve years after the lecture tour (December).
HonoluluFamily
Christmas week (December).
Kelowna, British ColumbiaConference
Western Casewriters Association, March 2025: the Aptus Staffing Solutions case.
Oslo to BergenFamily
January, overland from Oslo to Bergen.
WaikikiConference
Western Decision Sciences Institute (April), presenting with Louis Raprager III.
CasablancaFamily
June 7-9, 2026.
Costa RicaFamily
March 23-29, 2026, through Atlanta.
DuluthFamily
Home to the North Shore most summers; 2026 was three round trips.
PhiladelphiaConference
Academy of Management (August), with the Judgment Call manuscript in hand.
Rome, Casablanca, Tunis, CairoFamily
June 5-16, 2026, with Aleksander: Rome, then Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca and Tunis, EgyptAir to Cairo, home through Paris.
TunisFamily
June 9-12, 2026.
Still to date
Trips I know happened but have not yet pinned to a year. They show on the map in gray until I do.
- Eastern Europe study abroad . MGT 495 Managing in Eastern Europe. Countries and year to confirm.
Lived
Nine addresses, four states, one semester abroad
Duluth to San Pedro by way of Cambridge, Barcelona, and Saint Paul.
Writing
More Capable series
Some of these trips turn up as stories in Judgment Call and the books that follow.