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Masud Arjmand
Masud Arjmand

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Lecturer of Management & Organizations

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Dr. Masud M. Arjmand retired as a Senior Executive Partner in Accenture's Strategic Services Practice in December 2008. Two thirds of Dr. Arjmand's nearly 30 years career has been in Management, Strategy and Technology Consulting with Accenture while earlier one third in R&D and Senior Technical Management at Texas Instruments. At Accenture, Dr. Arjmand was the founder of Accenture's Global Value Chain Planning Practice. Dr. Arjmand's consulting career consists of the full breadth and depth of Strategic, Technology and Operational C-Suite consulting for Fortune 500 companies. His most recent client experiences include Overall Client Relationship Executive for Companies such as Sony Electronics, General Motors and Management Consulting Lead at Merck Pharmaceuticals. Among Dr. Arjmand's consulting clients are Levi Strauss, Nike, Tyson Foods, Exostar, Texas Instruments, HP-Compaq, Nihon Logic Semiconductor, Hyundai Electronics, Monsanto, Commerce One, Conexant , General Motors, Sony etc.

Prior to Accenture, Dr. Arjmand held R&D Management Positions as Director of Artificial Intelligence Lab and Decision Systems Lab in Texas Instruments Corporate Research Center. During his tenure at Texas Instruments, Dr. Arjmand was also an Adjunct Professor and Associate Member of Graduate Faculty at University of Texas.

Dr. Arjmand has numerous publications and quotes in professional magazines, including New York Times. He has been quoted in Accenture Press Releases. He has attended the Harvard Seminar for Managers of Industrial R&D and was the Leader of the Accenture/Morgan Stanley B2B CEO forum in addition to being invited to participate in the Sony Business Strategy Conference. Dr. Arjmand is also a US Patent Holder.

Dr. Arjmand is active in business and civil affairs. He is an Organizing Member of the Board of Directors of First Community Bank of Naperville. He also is the owner and president of Red River Group, a development and investment company in Naperville, IL.

Dr. Arjmand received his Ph.D in 1981 and M.S in 1979, both in Signal Processing from University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Bachelors Degree in 1975, in Communications and Electronics, from Lahore University of Engineering and Technology for which he was awarded a Gold Medal.
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Teaching Interests
Human Capital Development, Leadership Development; Organizational Performance and Transformation; Talent and Organizational Strategy; Operations and Technology Strategy
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Managing People for Competitive Advantage (MORS-441-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Management & Organizations

People clearly are an organization’s most critical resource. Their knowledge and skills along with their commitment, creativity, and effort are the basis for competitive advantage. It is people that have creative ideas for new products or for process improvements, that devise marketing strategy or take technologies to the next level. This course focuses on the people side of business from a general management perspective. In taking this generalist approach, we integrate concepts from organizational behavior, human resource management, strategy, and organizational design. Course topics include creating motivation and commitment, managing performance (goals and rewards), managing collaboration, and the ‘people side’ of managing change.