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Albert Isenman
Albert Isenman

MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY
Professor of Management and Strategy
Director of Custom Programs, Executive Education

Print Overview
Albert Isenman is the Director of Custom Executive Education Programs and a professor of Management and Strategy. Before joining the Kellogg School in 1988, he was on the faculty of the University of Toronto, where he served as academic director of the Executive MBA Program. He was a visiting professor at Kellogg from 1981 to 1984 and at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1985 to 1987. Prior to his career in academia, he was a manager in the health care field.

Professor Isenman’s research centers on general management, strategy formulation, corporate social performance and business ethics. He teaches these subjects in the Kellogg day and evening MBA programs, as well as in the Executive Master’s Program, which named him Outstanding Professor in 1993.

Professor Isenman has directed executive programs for organizations such as Brunswick, the Federal Aviation Administration, Zurich Insurance Group, SquareD, Rhone Poulenc Rorer, Johnson and Johnson, and the American Advertising Federation.

Professor Isenman has authored a variety of articles and is a member of the Academy of Management and Beta Gamma Sigma.



Areas of Expertise
Business Policy
Cost Management
Environmental Sustainability
Management Compensation
Management of Organizations
Strategy
Print Vita
Education
PhD, 1984, Policy and Environment, Northwestern University
MBA, 1976, Northwestern University
BA, 1970, English, University of Notre Dame

 
Print Research
Research Interests
General management strategy, including strategy formulation, corporate social performance, business ethics


 
Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
General management strategy, including strategy formulation, corporate social performance, business ethics
Executive MBA
Operating Strategies for the General Manager (MGMTX-430-0)
Operating Strategies for the General Manager explores economic principles of business strategy and develops an analytic framework for identifying and evaluating alternative strategies.

Capstone (MGMTX-470-0)
Capstone Course brings together disciplines students have encountered in the Kellogg Executive MBA Programs. Students develop an integrated understanding of business planning and strategy, using a computer-based management simulation (Capstone®Business Simulation) to plan and test strategies in a competitive environment.