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Faculty
In both part-time and full-time programs at the Kellogg
School, the same faculty teaches an identical curriculum leading to the same degree - the Master of Business
Administration.
The Kellogg faculty is an esteemed group of scholars and
practitioners and a rich source of international experience in professional management problems and practices.
Text and casebooks written by faculty members are used in management schools throughout the United States
and internationally, and faculty members regularly serve as consultants to organizations in industry,
government, finance, health care, education and transportation.
They use this real-world knowledge of management problems and solutions to augment their theoretical training,
combining rigor with relevance. Senior faculty members also teach courses to senior executives through the
Kellogg School's executive programs, which reinforces faculty research and keeps faculty members abreast
of changes in corporate practices.
All Kellogg courses combine theory and practice. Teaching
methods include case study, seminars, field study, simulations, and independent work. Faculty members
choose the method most appropriate to the material and their individual instruction styles.
Class sizes are determined by the course structure, students' needs and the teaching methods employed.
Student participation is encouraged, as is student-faculty interaction.
Kellogg holds its professors to high standards in the classroom.
Each new faculty member attends an orientation, is assigned a mentor and is invited to a session on teaching
techniques designed especially for the Kellogg School. New faculty do not teach in their first quarter, so
that they may observe more senior colleagues and become familiar with the Kellogg environment. Students evaluate
every class and the evaluations are posted publicly. Tenure and promotion decisions are based partially
on teaching quality.
The Kellogg School boasts a faculty with broad international
experience. About one-quarter of all faculty members are foreign-born and educated, and many others have
studied or taught at universities outside the United States. These experiences provide a global perspective
in the classroom.
Research forms a vital component of the Kellogg School's program,
and faculty members have developed groundbreaking theories in many academic fields, such as marketing,
banking, strategy and game theory. Kellogg professors' research frequently is sponsored by private and government
foundations, and they regularly receive industry awards for their contributions to business research. Within
the Finance department, for example, the impact of the Kellogg School's research is reflected in the
large number of Smith Breeden prizes (awarded for the best papers in The Journal of Finance) received
by our faculty.
Kellogg has more than 20 research
centers that conduct research on topics ranging from ethics to banking. In addition, four scholarly
journals are edited at Kellogg, three of which - the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy,
Games and Economic Behavior and Journal of Management Inquiry - were founded at Kellogg.
Many faculty members are also editors of other academic journals.
Kellogg professors are continuously publishing compelling
and often industry-defining research across a wide arena of business disciplines. In 2002 alone, the
intellectual output for the Kellogg School included 109 articles, 35 cases, 16 book chapters and 14 books.
Furthermore, the high number of citations that Kellogg professors receive for their papers demonstrates the
influence of the Kellogg School's research and scholarship. For a list of Kellogg publications, please use our
Faculty Publication System.
The Kellogg School's faculty offices are maintained on
the Evanston campus. When professors teach evening courses on the downtown campus, they usually arrive
an hour or so before classes begin to answer student questions and provide counseling. Professors are also
available in Evanston for all students during their scheduled office hours. Students are invited to meet
with faculty members during office hours or at a time arranged in advance by telephoning the faculty member's
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