Martha Maznevski is Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Management at IMD, and the MBA Program Director.

She teaches courses and modules spanning a broad range of organizational behavior topics, including teams and leadership in global and virtual (distance) contexts, diversity and inclusiveness, and the relationship between organizational and national culture. She teaches company programs for Borealis, Skanska, and others, and has served as a consultant and advisor to public and private organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia on issues of managing people globally.

Professor Maznevski has presented and published numerous articles on these subjects, most recently The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity (Blackwell, 2004), and she is a co-author of the popular textbook International Management Behavior (Blackwell). Her current research focuses on the on-going dynamics of high-performing teams and networks in multinational organizations, and managing people in global complexity. Martha Maznevski co-developed the Cultural Perspectives Questionnaire, an instrument that measures individuals’ cultural orientations and is widely used as a diagnostic tool in global teams and organizations.

Before joining IMD, Professor Maznevski served as Faculty at the University of Virginia (USA) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and as a visiting researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). She earned degrees in education from the University of Toronto (Canada), and in anthropology (undergraduate) and business administration (PhD) from the University of Western Ontario.