Tony Frost is an Associate Professor at Ivey Business School, specializing in international business and competition strategy within global contexts. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where his dissertation, titled "The Geographic Sources of Innovation in Multinational Enterprises," won the inaugural Gunnar Hedlund Award for excellence in research. Frost has extensive teaching experience, covering Ph.D., MBA, and undergraduate courses focusing on Business, Economics, Public Policy, and strategic management since joining Ivey in 1996. He also directs the Erasmus program partnership with Rotterdam School of Management and has launched the Accelerating Management Talent program, which targets emerging market companies. His academic contributions are supported by funding from eminent organizations, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Frost's recent research explores the competitive dynamics between multinationals and local firms in emerging markets and has been published in prestigious journals such as the Harvard Business Review. His work often emphasizes the importance of assimilating and transferring localized knowledge in the technological innovation processes of multinational companies.