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Faculty
Learn from the Best: Distinguished Faculty & Executive Education Experts
The quality of your MBA is intrinsically tied to the quality of faculty who teach the program. The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA boasts a world-class faculty, experts in executive education - bringing together award-winning professors from both The Johnson School and Queen's School of Business.
These are individuals who set the pace and advance the methods of global business and executive education.
Teaching working executives and managers requires a specialized approach that acknowledges and builds upon the skills and experience every participant brings to the table. The faculty team in our program has extensive executive teaching experience, not only in two of North America's most respected Executive MBA programs, but also in our highly acclaimed non-degree executive development programs.
Using a blend of case studies, briefings, class discussions and experiential learning, your professors will create a classroom experience that is energized and exciting. All while working closely with you and your learning team-- accessible, approachable, dedicated to you.
Dr. Julian Barling, Queen's
Leadership of People at Work
Julian Barling, Associate Dean, is responsible for the PhD, MSc, and research programs at Queen's School of Business. An authority on transformational leadership, he was the recipient of the School's Excellence in Research Award (1995) and Queen's Excellence in Research Award (1997). In 2001, he received the National Leaders in Management Education award from the National Post, and Maclean's recognized him as one of Canada's most popular professors in 1995. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and named a Queen's Research Professor. He is the author of over 125 articles and numerous books, the most recent of which is the Handbook of Work Stress. His clients have included TELUS, Bell, CIBC, Canadian Armed Forces, Health Corporation of Newfoundland, and National Income Stabilization Fund.
Dr. David J. BenDaniel, Cornell
Entrepreneurship
David BenDaniel holds degrees in physics and engineering. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. At Cornell, he serves as a Senior Fellow of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program. In addition to teaching and research, he has been active in investing venture capital. He held a senior vice presidency in Textron Corporation's American research and development division, was group vice president of Exxon Enterprises, supervising the energy-development and technology-components groups, and started General Electric's technical-ventures operation. He has been featured in Fortune, BusinessWeek, Success Magazine, and Physics Today, among other publications. Recently, he co-edited a new book, International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond - Doing the Deal.
Dr. Marc L. Busch, Queen's
International Business
Marc L. Busch is an Associate Professor at Queen's School of Business, a Queen's National Scholar, and an associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research and teaching focus on the political economy of trade policy. He is currently engaged in research on the economic geography of European trade policy and the "early settlement" of disputes under the GATT/WTO. He is the author of the book Trade Warriors. He was previously an Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University, and Director of Graduate Student Programs at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Dr. Tina Dacin, Queen's
Strategy
Dr. Dacin is a Professor of Strategy and Organizations and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Queen's School of Business. She is the Director of Alliance Edge, a consortium of industry and academic members of the strategic alliance community. She received her doctorate from the University of Toronto and prior to joining Queen's University, Professor Dacin spent nine years at Texas A & M University. Professor Dacin is a leading authority on issues relating to the management of strategic alliances and networks with a specific focus on the topics of partner selection and the social dimensions of collaboration. Some of her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal. A prolific researcher, she is the recipient of the Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellowship at the Queen's School of Business and the 2000 Mays College Research Achievement Award at Texas A & M. Professor Dacin was recognized as one of the "Outstanding Faculty" at Texas A & M in the Business Week Magazine's 1997 Report on Business Schools. Professor Dacin received the 1999 Texas A & M Association of Former Students College Level Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Dacin is also an experienced executive educator currently teaching in programs offered by the Queen's School of Business as well as the Kellogg-ISB program. She has provided strategic planning and management development services to companies in the airline, biotechnology, energy, financial services and telecommunications sectors such as Aaker Gulf Marine, American Airlines, Bell Canada, Bell Ontario, BP Amoco, Canada Post, as well as a number of credit unions, the United Way and private educational institutions. Professor Dacin has also worked as an advisor and board member of a number of community and student organizations. Professor Dacin currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards of several, top-tier academic journals and is active in the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business and the Strategic Management Society.
Dr. Julia D'Souza, Cornell
Accounting
Julia D'Souza's research focuses on the determinants of the economic and reporting choices made by firms, the interrelatedness of these choices, and the extent to which they are shaped by the characteristics of the firms' various stakeholders: regulators, consumers, competitors, and employees. Her other research interests include issues related to the quality and usefulness of accounting disclosures, and the relation between firm valuation and its intangible assets, such as human resources. She is widely published in leading journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Dr. Louis Gagnon, Queen's
Finance
Louis Gagnon is an expert on market and credit risk management. His private-sector experience includes a stint in senior management at Canada's largest bank, where he oversaw its global interest derivatives exposures and developed methodologies and policies for the bank's trading operations. He is a strategic consultant to leading organizations in the financial and non-financial sectors, and a chartered member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators. He is widely published in leading journals, including Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, and Canadian Investment Review.
Dr. Ori Heffetz, Cornell
Economics
Professor Heffetz's interests lie in the social and cultural aspects of economic behavior. His work examines how our predictions concerning the behavior of economic agents change once we incorporate into our models the observation that agents never operate in social isolation, and that economic decisions are always made in a cultural context. Heffetz has studied the empirical relationships between spending patterns of U.S. households and the extent to which spending on different consumer products and services is visible or displayable to other members of society. He has explored phenomena such as conspicuous consumption, whereby consumers purchase visible goods in their attempts to advertise their wealth and gain social status. He is similarly interested in the use of consumption as a language to convey meaning -- what kinds of people buy or own what kinds of things, and why -- and in its relationship to fashion and advertisements. His dissertation was featured in the New York Times and in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Heffetz holds a BA in physics and philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. He has traveled extensively in developing countries, studying problems that lie at the crossroads of economics, society, and culture.
Mr. Michael Hostetler, Cornell
Leadership & Change Management
Michael Hostetler is the Director of Leadership Studies and Custom Programs at The Johnson School at Cornell University. In addition to his work in Cornell's traditional Executive MBA program, he has designed programs for a variety of leading global corporations, including the delivery of custom executive education programs for domestic and international clients such as Asian Development Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Hyundai Motor Company, Exxon Mobil, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Salomon Smith Barney, and the United States Army. Hostetler's main interests in research and teaching are leadership, decision-making, strategy, high-performance teams, and change management.
Dr. Roni Michaely, Cornell
Finance
Roni Michaely is an expert in the area of corporate finance, capital markets and valuation. His current research focuses on conflict of interest in the capital markets, corporate payout policy, and the pricing and optimal trading mechanisms of IPOs. He is widely published in the leading journals and currently serves as an associate editor for the Review of Financial Studies. He has received several research awards and honors, and his research has also been frequently featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Economist, BusinessWeek, and Forbes.
Mr. Salman Mufti, Queen's
Management Information Systems
Salman Mufti is a former Director of Queen's National Executive MBA and of Queen's MBA for Science & Technology. The latter program, due to his guidance, was ranked as the number two MBA program in the world outside the U.S., by BusinessWeek in 2002. In addition to his management roles at Queen's School of Business, he regularly advises senior managers in corporations and the federal government, and is frequently featured in the press on matters relating to e-business and information technology. His clients include Bell, Sun Life Insurance, Environics Communications, CN, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and National Defense.
Dr. Elspeth Murray, Queen's
Strategy & New Ventures
Elspeth Murray is an authority on the strategic management of information technology. She has undertaken groundbreaking research on the uses of IT for competitive advantage. She has created and instituted many new venture-related activities and several internal Business Plan competitions designed to provide funds for entrepreneurs intending to launch new ventures. Her course on new ventures management was recognized by BusinessWeek in 2001 as one of the world's top ten Executive MBA courses. She is an active consultant and researcher in strategic management and information technology for a number of public- and private-sector organizations. Her clients include Auditor General of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Finance, and BMW.
Dr. Kathleen M. O'Connor, Cornell
Management & Organizations
Kathleen O'Connor is an organizational psychologist and a specialist in negotiation and team performance in business settings. Her current research concentrates on how negotiators' bargaining histories affect their performance at the table. Some of this work investigates how previous impasses and agreements affect negotiators' future deals. A second stream of work examines how negotiators' reputations, deserved or not, affect the quality of the deals they negotiate. Her research has been published in such journals as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the International Journal of Conflict Management.
Dr. Shawna O'Grady, Queen's
Strategic HR Management & International Business
Shawna O'Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. She is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team building. She is also the author of Border Crossings - Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business. Her clients include MDS, Mattel, Shopper's Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Nortel Networks, and TD Canada Trust.
Dr. Randall S. Peterson, Cornell
Organizational Behavior
Randall S. Peterson is Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School where he teaches executive and MBA classes on leading teams and organizations, high performance teams, leadership assessment and interpersonal skill development. He has taught and consulted in these areas across the world for companies such as Alcan, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, IBM, Nestle and Telenor. His recently published book is entitled Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organization. His current research includes investigating how the personalities of members affects group interaction and performance, how CEO personality affects top management team interaction as well as firm performance, and the effects of conflict in groups.
Dr. John Pliniussen, Queen's
Marketing
John Pliniussen is a leading authority on e-marketing, sales management, and new product innovation, and has published seven management texts. He teaches in all Queen's MBA programs, has won research and teaching honors, and is one of only a few Canadians ever to be awarded the Edwin-Apel Prize for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is Strategy Director of cgk Technologies and is a Program Director of Shad International. He has worked with or consulted for IBM, Torstar, Schindler Corp., Constellation Software, and most federal and provincial ministries. He recently led the development of Canada's first marketing education portal and designed the world's first Internet-based case analysis tools and software program.
Mr. Douglas Reid, Queen's
Alliances & Strategic Management
Douglas Reid is an authority on corporate alliances and partnerships. His research focuses on how companies stabilize their alliances by providing network resources to partners. Formerly, Mr. Reid was vice president of an international consulting firm, handling corporate issues management in their Toronto and Ottawa offices. He has also worked for a former premier of Ontario and as chief of staff to a cabinet minister. He has written several op-ed columns for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and has been quoted extensively in the media regarding corporate alliances and other strategic management issues.
Dr. Lawrence W. Robinson, Cornell
Operations Management
Lawrence Robinson's research focuses on problems of operating in an uncertain environment; in particular, on developing practical heuristic policies that perform well and can be easily calculated. His research interests range from inventory management to booking limits for discount fare airline passengers, to scheduling doctor's appointments. He actively consults with companies in many industries and he has been published in a variety of journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions, and the European Journal of Operational Research. He has been a Mobil Scholar, and has been recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the top teachers in The Johnson School.
Dr. Douglas M. Stayman, Cornell
Marketing
Douglas Stayman's teaching and research interests are in the areas of advertising and consumer decision-making. He came to The Johnson School from the University of Texas at Austin. His research has focused on the advertising and the role of affect in decision-making. His work has involved methodological and measurement issues in studying emotions. He is also interested in theoretical accounts of the effects of emotions on people's preferences. His research has been supported by grants from the Ogilvy Center for Research and Development, the Marketing Science Institute, and the American Academy of Advertising.
Dr. Daniel Szpiro, Cornell
Managerial Accounting & Control
Danny Szpiro, Director of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program, is an award-winning teacher and expert on financial management, including capital budgeting, post-investment review, and the Balanced Scorecard. He has taught in many graduate and executive degree programs and, prior to teaching, he spent nine years in sales, logistics, financial management, and other international activities in the consumer electronics industry. His research interests include the integration of capital budgeting and corporate strategy, and his guides on the use of the case method have been adopted by universities around the world. His numerous credits include CMA Teacher of the Year at Concordia University and contributing author to the Society of Management Accountants CMA Entrance Study Guide. He has written articles for managers in practitioner publications and his research has been published in Managerial Finance.
Dr. L. Joseph Thomas, Cornell
Manufacturing
Joseph Thomas specializes in operations management. His teaching interests are supply chain integration, manufacturing strategy, production and quantitative analysis. His publications have dealt with manufacturing management, forecasting, work-sharing systems, and the effect of marketing decisions on production planning. He has consulted for and been involved in management-education programs for several companies. His current research interests involve models for managing complex production-distribution systems and the ways in which these can be implemented effectively, considering the way people respond to different forms of work organization. He is a two-time winner of the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, for 1995 and 2000.
Dr. David Weinbaum, Cornell
Finance
David Weinbaum's primary research interests are in asset pricing, derivatives, and portfolio allocation. His teaching interests include financial markets and investments. He holds an MSc in finance from Lancaster University in the UK, a PhD from Stern, and is the winner of the 2001 award for best paper in the area of investments from the American Association of Individual Investors. He worked as a swap trader at BNP Paribas before focusing on finance at the doctoral level.
Mr. Ken Wong, Queen's
Marketing Strategy
Ken Wong is one of Canada's most respected marketing professors and has been featured throughout the Canadian press. He has worked with the Strategic Planning Institute at Harvard University and the Conference Board of Canada, writes a monthly column for Marketing and is co-author of a top-selling marketing textbook. The 1998 Financial Post Leaders in Management Education award winner, he is a judge in both the "Entrepreneur of the Year" and "Canada's 50 Best Managed" competitions. His extensive client list includes Microsoft, Equifax, Manulife, Hoffman La Roche, Bell, TD Canada Trust and St. Josephs. He is Chairman of the Board, PBB Global Logistics Inc., and sits on a number of other advisory/directorship boards.
Dr. Roger Wright, Queen's
Decision Models
Roger Wright is a Director of Queen's National Executive MBA. He has lectured internationally on production and operations management, has been responsible for the design, start-up, and management of several new manufacturing ventures, and has owned and operated a management consulting firm. He is author of several articles on solid fuel combustion efficiency, energy efficiency, and transportation safety, as well as management-related articles in Naval Logistics Quarterly and Canadian Journal of Higher Education. He has won teaching excellence awards at the University of Prince Edward Island, the Royal Military College of Canada, and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
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