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Senior members of the Kellogg School of Management faculty teach the Executive MBA Program classes. They are scholars of distinction, well known for their research and their experience working with business, government, regulatory bodies and executive education programs.

The following list of EMBA faculty members summarizes their fields of special interest and expertise.

Nabil I. Al-Najjar
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD University of Minnesota. Economic theory, contracting and mechanism design, game theory.

James C. Anderson
Marketing
PhD Psychology, Michigan State University. Business marketing, assessing the value of market offerings, building customer value models and customer value management, and working relationships between firms.

Bala V. Balachandran
Accounting Information and Management
PhD Carnegie-Mellon University; CPA, CMA. Managerial accounting, activity-based management, incentive performance and compensation, decision support systems, forecasting, math programming.

Jeanne M. Brett
Management and Organizations
PhD University of Illinois. Dispute resolution/ mediation, negotiations; cross-cultural negotiation; work and family; careers; research design and data analysis.

Sunil Chopra
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD Operations Research, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Operations management, supply chain and logistics management, design of communication and distribution systems.

Derrick Collins
Finance
MBA, University of Chicago. Venture capital and private equity investing; the relationship between the venture capital process and deal structure and the motivations of the venture capitalist.

Anne T. Coughlan
Marketing
PhD Stanford University. Distribution channels, competitive strategy, sales force management, and pricing.

Sudhakar D. Deshmukh
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD University of California, Berkeley. Analytical models of optimal resource allocation and decisions involving time and uncertainty. Management of production operations.

Robert Dewar
Management and Organizations
PhD University of Wisconsin. Management of professionals, organization structure and design, motivation, innovation, bureaucracy, implementing strategy, worker participation programs.

Daniel Diermeier
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD University of Rochester. Nonmarket strategy, management of political risk, business-government relations, political institutions, ethics.

Ronald A. Dye
Accounting Information and Managment
PhD Carnegie-Mellon University. Managerial and financial accounting theory, design of standards, strategic uses of accounting information.

Janice Eberly
Finance
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Macroeconomics, capital markets, corporate investment and financial decisions.

Martin Eichenbaum
Professor of Economics; Senior Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. PhD University of Minnesota. Macroeconomics, International Economics.

Timothy J. Feddersen
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD University of Rochester. Political economy with a specific interest in democratic institutions and voting systems.

Michael J. Fishman
Finance
PhD University of Chicago. Corporate finance, the regulation of financial markets, mergers and acquisitions.

Ranjay Gulati
Management and Organizations
PhD Harvard University. Strategic and organizational issues in dynamic markets, building market-driven organizations, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions.

Kathleen M. Hagerty
Finance
PhD Stanford University. Security market regulation, market microstructure, derivatives, securities, and risk management.

Paul M. Hirsch
Management and Organizations
PhD University of Michigan. Management of change; mergers, acquisitions and restructuring; corporate culture; compensation; strategy formulation and implementation.

Richard P. Honack
Marketing
MBA Kellogg School of Management. Global Initiatives in Management, focusing on doing business with and within other cultures.

Edward F.X. Hughes
Management and Strategy
MPH Columbia University. Co-author of Hospital Cost Containment Programs : A Policy Analysis. Editor of Perspectives on Quality in American Healthcare. Healthcare policy and management, health delivery systems, physician behavior, managed care, economics of healthcare, pharmaceutical biotechnology, medical device industries.

Albert W. Isenman
Management and Strategy
PhD Northwestern University. General management, strategy, ethics, bargaining power of industrial suppliers relative to their customers.

Donald P. Jacobs
Finance
PhD Columbia University. Dean Emeritus of the Kellogg School of Management. Corporate governance, national and international trends in economics.

Dipak C. Jain
Marketing
PhD University of Texas at Dallas. Dean of the Kellogg School of Management. New product forecasting models, market segmentation and competitive structure analysis.

 

Ehud Kalai
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD Cornell University. Editor-in-Chief of Games and Economic Behavior. Decision and game theory; mathematical economics, bargaining and social choice.

Lakshman Krishnamurthi
Marketing
PhD Stanford University. Customer advantage strategy, new product strategy, pricing strategy, segmentation strategy, conjoint analysis, sales response estimation, marketing research.

Thomas Z. Lys
Accounting Information and Management
PhD University of Rochester. Research explores the stock price consequences of financial disclosure and reporting issues.

Robert P. Magee
Accounting Information and Management
PhD Cornell University. Author of Advanced Managerial Accounting. Economic effects of accounting reports, interaction between accounting systems and organizational structure.

Victoria Husted Medvec
Management and Organizations
PhD Cornell University. Research focuses on judgment and decision making, with a particular emphasis on how people feel about the decisions they have made. Current research explores both independent decision making and interdependent decisions within the context of negotiations.

David M. Messick
Management and Organizations
PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Social and ethical aspects of decision making, group decision processes, leadership.

J. Keith Murnighan
Management and Organizations
PhD Purdue University. Leadership, negotiation, team building and decision making, particularly altruism, ethics, fairness, cooperation, power, repentance and self-interest.

William Ocasio
Management and Organizations
PhD Stanford University. General management, organizational change, corporate strategy, power and politics in organizations, corporate governance.

Anthony J. Paoni
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
MBA Kellogg School of Management. Relationship between business strategy, information technology strategy and organizational strategy from the general manager's perspective.

Stephen B. Presser
Management and Strategy
JD Harvard University. Corporate law, contracts, American legal history. Senior author of the leading casebook in American legal history and author of a treatise on shareholder liability for corporate debt, and co-author of a treatise on mergers and acquisitions.

Hayagreeva M.V. Rao
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Artur Raviv
Finance
PhD Northwestern University. Corporate finance, economics of uncertainty, informational economics, industrial organization.

Sergio Rebelo
Finance
PhD University of Rochester. Macroeconomics, international finance.

Steven Rogers
Finance
MBA, Harvard University. Serves on board of directors of SC Johnson Wax, SuperValu (NYSE), Harvard Business School, and DQE (NYSE); Trustee at Williams College; former consultant with Bain and Co.; purchasing agent at Cummins Engine Co.; and associate at UNC Ventures, a venture capital firm. Primary interest and experience in entrepreneurship as owner of three businesses.

Mohanbir Sawhney
Marketing
PhD University of Pennsylvania. Electronic commerce, marketing in the network economy, strategic marketing for technology firms, entertainment marketing.

Brian Sternthal
Marketing
PhD Ohio State University. Advertising strategy, brand positioning, communication strategy.

Leigh Thompson
Management and Organizations
PhD Northwestern University. Negotiation and decision making; creativity and learning; teamwork and leadership.

Timothy A. Thompson
Finance
PhD candidate University of Chicago. Valuation, corporate financial policy, applications of options pricing theory.

Alice M. Tybout
Marketing
PhD Northwestern University. Consumer information processing and behavior, brand positioning and advertising.

Brian Uzzi
Management and Organizations
PhD State University of New York at Stony Brook. Managing social networks, teams, alliances and leadership strategies.

Jan A. Van Mieghem
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD Stanford University. Operations and strategy, capacity investment, pricing and coordination in supply chains, dynamic control and performance of processing networks.

Rakesh V. Vohra
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD University of Maryland. Auctions, pricing and game theory.

Robert J. Weber
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
PhD Cornell University. Competitive bidding, strategic behavior, operations management.

Andris A. Zoltners
Marketing
PhD Carnegie-Mellon University. Founder, ZS Associates. Sales force strategy, size, structure and deployment, compensation and effectiveness.

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