Jordan Siegel is an Associate Professor of Strategy and is the Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Faculty Fellow at UM’s Ross School of Business. Professor Siegel is also a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute and an Associate-in-Research at the Harvard Korea Institute of the Harvard Asia Center. Professor Siegel specializes in the study of how companies gain competitive advantage through their global strategy.

Professor Siegel will address the economic and business aspects of South Korea and include some similar comments on North Korea. This will include the rapid rise of the South Korean business sector with associated data and reference to the educational and legal systems that support the business sector. He will explore how South Korea was able to gain and maintain economic advantages, especially in the technical sector.

This is the second of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Koreas – More Than You Know. The next lecture series starts October 25th and runs through December 6th. The subject is Immigration.