Mac Nguyen
macnguyen@uvic.ca
Education
Bachelor in Business Administration, Majoring in International Business Management (Foreign Trade University, Vietnam, 2010); Master of Science in International Business, Majoring in International Business, and Minoring in Entrepreneurship (University of Turku, Finland, 2019)
Background
Prior to coming to the Gustavson School of Business, Mac Nguyen worked in the private sector for years. During this period, he played different roles such as supervisor, assistant director, and most recently, entrepreneur and speaker in the areas of business development, external relations, and multicultural communication. Simultaneously, he loves teaching as a lifestyle to connect responsibilities with the meaning of life.
Research Interests
Mac makes efforts to conduct meaningful research in the intersection of innovation capability, design thinking, sustainability development, business ecosystem, and human agency. As a whole, his research seeks to understand how organizations develop and stay relevant within their particular contexts while balancing between the conflicting demands, or tensions.
Sessions auxquelles Mac Mac Nguyen participe
Dimanche 13 Juin, 2021
Sessions auxquelles Mac Mac Nguyen assiste
Samedi 12 Juin, 2021
Dimanche 13 Juin, 2021
Please take the time to join us for the ASAC Annual General Meeting. This is one of the most important meetings of the year, where you as a member have an opportunity to contribute to the on-going smooth operation of the organization.
In all organizations past events, even if they are unique or at least very unlikely to recur, have strength beyond their ambition. In terms of NCA Theory they have persistent influence and therefore are durable actors in the network regardless of the presence of human actors who had direct experience. The crisis in education of March 2020 will never unenroll from our network of management education. As a result, it will resonate in institutional choices, individuals' decisions and forever ...
The Myths of Disruption: How Established Firms are Adapting to the Digital Revolution Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Advisor for Executive Education at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the (American) Academy of Management. He has PhD and MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, Canada, and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Durham, UK. He was awarded Honorary Doct...
Lundi 14 Juin, 2021
We live in a world that emphasize the rational and the objective. We cling dearly to objective facts, rigorous thought and rational decisions. In doing so, we risk losing sight of the internal world and our emotional and intuitive aspects. Understanding our “inner theatre” is essential, but also an uphill challenge, fraught with difficulties and anxieties. In this conversation, Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries explores the essential need to build self-understanding and the difficulty in doing so.
In this session Dr. Jamie Gruman will discuss his book 'Boost: The Science of Recharging Yourself in an Age of Unrelenting Demands', which builds on the literature on recovery and focuses on how we can get back to our best by flipping our downtime into ‘Uptime’ to most successfully recharge our batteries and return to work happier, healthier, and more productive. He will present his ReNU model, which synthesizes the research behind Boosting, and will discuss specific activities we can impl...
Please join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Roy Suddaby. This is a joint divisional event with Organizational Theory and Social Responsibility.
Mardi 15 Juin, 2021
Sustainably comes in many forms and exhibits many facets. Virtually all of them have been challenged in the last year. A global pandemic has massively disrupted the world at large, and with it organizations, economies, communities and nations. The vocal cry of populism—already visible before the pandemic—has not quietened. While there is a natural desire for life in a post-pandemic future to return to normal, that is an outcome that isn't possible.We will find a new normal in time. ...
PLEASE NOTE: The virtual button for this session will appear 10 minutes prior to the session start.The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued three calls to action that directly implicate Business Schools to engage in teaching, research, and service to advance reconciliation. Last year’s initial ASAC workshop provided overviews of administrative leadership, curricular reform, and research activity related to indigenizing and decolonizing business schoo...
PLEASE NOTE: The virtual button for this session will appear 10 minutes prior to the session start.In keeping with the 2021 ASAC theme of “Considering Impacts on Business and Society” this 90-minute panel discussion will feature five panelists with a variety of editorial experience discussing their future visions of the changes they see coming to publishing and research more broadly going forward to improve the impact of management research, as well as the role they see for j...
PLEASE NOTE: The virtual button for this session will appear 10 minutes prior to the session start.At the outset of 2020, many universities were starting to explore alternative teaching technologies and new approaches to delivering learning outcomes. What started as strategic initiatives with timelines measured in years turned into a massive and unprecedented transition that essentially took place over a weekend. It wasn’t always pretty, and it was not without pain, awkwardne...
PLEASE NOTE: The virtual button for this session will appear 10 minutes prior to the session start.Interested in learning some of the basics when it comes to working with social and traditional media? Join Rory O'Neill, a ten-year communications professional, who will take you through some of the fundamentals of growing your own presence and profile through social media, as well as a few tips and expectations for working and building relationships with reporters and mainstrea...
