Business School
Our studies centres
The institute has four studies centres which combine research and networking both internationally and domestically.
Professor Hugh Whittaker, Director
Hugh Whittaker is Director of the New Zealand Asia Institute and Professor and Head of the Department of Management and International Business. He has a BA from ICU, Tokyo, and a PhD from Imperial College, London. After carrying out postdoctoral research at Harvard University, he taught at Cambridge University for 12 years, after helping to set up a business school and research institute at Doshisha University, Kyoto.
His research interests include Japanese and comparative management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and development models in east Asia. Recent publications include Recovering From Success: Technology and Innovation Management in Japan (co-edited with R. Cole, 2006), Comparative Entrepreneurship: The UK, Japan and the Shadow of Silicon Valley (Whittaker et.al., 2009) and Corporate Governance and Management Reform in Japan (co-edited with S. Deakin), all from Oxford University Press, as well as the co-authored article, ‘Compressed Development’ in Studies in Comparative International Development, 2010.
Dr Richard Phillips, Director
Dr Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at The University of Auckland School of Asian Studies. He has been a Head of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and has served two terms (1999-2002 and 2007-9) as Head of the School of Asian Studies. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University and also spent a year as a Special Student at Harvard University.
Dr Phillips teaches courses on the history of China and co-teaches courses on East Asia and in Asian Studies. His primary research area is Republican China, in particular Manzhouguo in the Chinese North-East. In 2007 he became a student at The University of Auckland studying the Korean language.
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Associate Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Director
Natasha Hamilton-Hart is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business. She has a BA(Hons) from the University of Otago and a PhD from Cornell University. Natasha joined The University of Auckland in 2011, after teaching at the National University of Singapore for ten years and holding a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University.
Natasha’s research interests include regional integration and cooperation in East Asia, business in Southeast Asia and business-government relations, particularly in the banking and natural resource sectors. She is the author of Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia and (forthcoming), Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power, both with Cornell University Press.
