Marjorie Lyles

Dr. Marjorie Lyles is the OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration, Chancellor’s Professor, and a professor of international strategic management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bloomington-Indianapolis. In 2011, she was awarded the John Ryan Award by the President of Indiana University for excellence in international development activities, teaching and research. She has received an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School in 2017. She is currently past president of the Strategy Management Society.

Her teaching and research has focused on emerging economies since the mid-1980s. She has been doing projects and work in China since 1985 when she was a consultant with the U. S. Department of Commerce in the Dalian programs. She has regularly returned to China and has been teaching a course on China to the Indiana University Kelley School MBAs since 1998.

Prof. Lyles’ research addresses organizational learning and innovation, international strategies, joint ventures, and alliances, particularly in emerging economies.  She has over 100 articles and chapters.  Her work has appeared in top academic journals such as SMJ, SEJ, ASQ, JIBS, OSci, AMR, JMS and AMJ.  She is a SMS and AIB Fellow.  Lyles & Salk (1996) on learning in IJVs won the JIBS Decade Award 2006.  She has also received two NSF grants. 

She also teaches an MBA course on emerging economies which includes a consulting project with micro-enterprises. In 2018, the country is in South Africa and the MBAs will be working with micro-businesses in the township of Diepsloot.

Dr. Lyles brings more than 30 years of international business research, teaching, and consulting experience to the Kelley School. She was the founding director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia and she serves  on  the  International  Advisory  Board  of  the  American Management association, among many other memberships and appointments. Lyles has also been Visiting Professor and Scholar at Cambridge University (England), St. Gallen University's Institute of Management (Switzerland), Universiti Sains Malaysia, the National Institute of Development Administration (Bangkok), Copenhagen Business School, and the Imagination Lab (Switzerland).  At Kelley, Lyles teaches a unique course that allows students to travel to China to consult with Chinese companies transitioning to free market policies and to meet with other businesses in China.

In addition to her academic work, Lyles has also worked with governmental, non-profit, and corporate entities across the globe. She has consulted with USIS, World Bank, USAID, UNDP, and private firms in Malaysia, Hungry, Vietnam, Poland, People's Republic of China, and Indonesia on international strategies, education development projects, infrastructure projects, the development of the private sector, and needs assessment for management training. She also serves as a consultant to domestic firms pursuing international strategies.