biography
Annelise Ly is Associate Professor at the department of Professional and Intercultural Communication at NHH.
RESEARCH
She researches topics related to intercultural business communication, language issues in workplace settings, leadership narratives and diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
She has a multidisciplinary background and works at the intersection of intercultural business communication/cross-cultural management, global leadership and applied linguistics. She was a member of several multidisciplinary research groups: Cross-Border Value Creation (CiBiViCi) at SNF/NHH, FOCUS (Future-Oriented Corporate Solutions) at NHH and EURLING (linguistic complexity of political discourse on European integration) at the University of Bergen.
She has conducted fieldwork in several countries, including China, Korea, India, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. Coming from a multicultural background, she thrives when cultures and disciplines meet and aims to bridge these effectively.
Her work has been published in international journals and peer-reviewed books. The list of her publications can be found in her CV and on Cristin.
TEACHING
Ly teaches intercultural business communication, global leadership and French language and French society at NHH. She resorts to active learning methods such as Team-Based Learning and flipped classroom. Her teaching is interactive, innovative, and inspired by best practice examples from Harvard Business School (2019), colleagues at NHH and students’ feedback. She was awarded the status of Excellent Teacher Practitioner (merittert underviser) in 2021.
Ly is also engaged in science communication. She has participated in podcasts (Ledertaffel at NHH, NOKUT) and has featured articles and interviews in Dagens Næringsliv, Personal og ledelse, Forskning.no, among others. She also regularly gives talks in companies.
Ly holds a PhD in intercultural communication (2016) from NHH, an International Master in Management (2006) from SKEMA business school (Lille, France), a Master of French from the University of Bergen and a specialisation in teaching French as a foreign language (FLE) (2006) from la Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
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Areas of expertise (Norwegian):
Interkulturell kommunikasjon, kulturforståelse, global ledelse, mangfold og inkludering.
Teaching areas
Global Leadership, Intercultural Business Communication, French Language and Culture, Chinese Business Culture
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
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IN NORWEGIAN
KULTURFORSKJELLER, ANNERLEDESHET SOM ET FORTRINN, OG TØRRE Å TA PLASS – Podcast BANEBRYTERE, 23.08.2022
HVA DU ABSOLUTT BØR VITE OM KULTUR OG MANGFOLD HVIS DU JOBBER I EN FLERKULTURELL VIRKSOMHET – Podcast HR-PODDEN, episode 15, 17.08.2022
PANDEMIEN ENDRER HVORDAN VI KNYTTER KONTAKTER – NHH Bulletin, 27.09.2021
KULTURFORSKJELLER - Stream episode 29 Ledertaffel, NHHs podcast om ledelse, 24.05.2021
NHH - ØKONOMI OG ADMINISTRASJON - Utdanning i Bergen, Vimeo, februar 2021
SLIK LAGER HUN ET GODT STUDIEMILJØ VIA ZOOM - Khrono, 24.01.2021
MANGELFULL SPRÅKKOMPETANSE SKAPER KONFLIKTER – HRmagasinet.no, 10.12.2018
SÅ LETT ER DET Å FORNÆRME KOLLEGER I ANDRE LAND, Forskning.no, 21.09.2016
NORSK EPOST - DIREKTE OG NEDLATENDE – NHH Bulletin, 30.11.2015
IN ENGLISH
COMMUNICATION ACROSS CULTURES, Podcast episode for Speaklab, May 2022
SIX SECRETS OF MORE PRODUCTIVE MEETINGS, Forbes, 21.01.2022
TEACHING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: UNDERSTANDING ASIA IN PANDEMIC TIMES, The Nordic Asia Podcast, 30.07.2021