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Faculty

The cornerstone of any Cornell Executive MBA program is its faculty. The Johnson School faculty members who will teach you are among the best in the world, internationally recognized by the business community for their research, teaching, and experience. They are expert at merging theory with application to guide your graduate education. The Cornell Executive MBA program faculty are drawn from the same faculty that teach in the full-time Johnson School MBA program. Due to scheduling, however, some of the individuals listed may not be teaching in the Cornell Executive MBA program in a particular year.

Highlighted Faculty

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Faculty
David J. BenDaniel
Sanjeev Bhojraj
Robert J. Bloomfield
Yaniv Grinstein
Jerome E. Hass
Justin P. Johnson
Elizabeth Mannix
Maureen O'Hara
Nate Peck
Vithala R. Rao
Lawrence W. Robinson
J. Edward Russo
Jan H. Suwinski
Robert J. Swieringa
L. Joseph Thomas
Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt
David Weinbaum

Adjunct Faculty
Gordon Bodnar
PhD, Princeton University

Gordon Bodnar is the Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise include international financial markets, international finance, corporate finance and multinational corporations. Professor Bodnar serves as associate editor of European Financial Management, the Journal of Asian Economics and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money. He currently teaches in the Wharton Executive MBA Program, and he has taught at the Wharton School and at the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. In addition, he has held positions as visiting professor at J.W. Goethe Universitaet in Frankfurt, Germany, research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.

Thomas D. Fields
PhD, Kellogg

Thomas Fields is a Lecturer in Accounting at the Olin School of Business at Washington University. Before returning to graduate school, Tom worked as a C.P.A. for Price Waterhouse in St. Louis, performing audit services for a range of clients including Anheuser Busch, Union Electric (now Ameren Corporation), SSM Health Care, and a number of small manufacturers and non-profit organizations. Professor Field's research interests involve the role of accounting information in contracting, particularly in the setting of accounting based covenants in debt contracts.

Lois E. Gosse
PhD, Cornell

Lois Gosse's teaching background spans 30 years and includes teaching economics in several Cornell departments: Economics; Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics; and Policy Analysis and Management. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the SUNY Chancellor's Award, the Distinguished Teaching Award in Human Ecology, and six Merrill Presidential Scholars Awards.

David C. Juran
PhD, Cornell

David Juran, who teaches courses in managerial statistics, decision models, applied regression analysis, operations management and quality management, is a winner of both Columbia Business School's Robert W. Lear Award and Cornell University's EMBA Globe Award for Teaching Excellence. His academic interests are informed by extensive industrial and corporate experience, as well as his experience as an independent management consultant. Juran's research has appeared in Management Science and other journals.

E. Scott Lathrop
PhD, Cornell

Scott Lathrop has over 20 years experience in brand management, consulting, research, and teaching in the areas of marketing strategy, new product development, market research, and management decision making. Scott teaches both graduate and undergraduate Marketing courses at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He is also Managing Partner of The Market Pace Group, a strategy consulting firm. Scott has consulted with firms in a wide range of industries, including United Airlines, Boise Cascade, ExxonMobil, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Owens Corning Fiberglas, Polaroid, McKesson Pharmaceuticals, Nielsen Media Research, and Office Depot.

Salman Mufti
MBA, Queen's University

Salman Mufti is Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Queen's School of Business. Prior to joining Queen's, he spent twelve years as a manager, entrepreneur and consultant working with organizations in the private and public sectors. He continues to advise senior managers in corporations and the government and is frequently featured in the press on matters relating to information systems and technology. His clients include: Business Development Bank of Canada, Bell Canada, Sun Life Insurance, Canadian Institute of Private and Public Commercial Real Estate Companies, Environics Communications, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Defence Canada, and Public Works and Government Services Canada.

Ronald M. Schmidt
M.A., Economics, Ohio State University

Ron Schmidt is a Lecturer of Economics and Management at the Simon Graduate School of Business at Rochester University. His teaching areas are in economics, statistics, marketing, organizations and corporate strategy. His publications include papers on pricing, regulation and management compensation. His current research activities consist of an examination of the relationship between pay and performance for CEOs and an investigation of the impact of contractual provisions on the performance of major-league baseball players. He has served as a consultant to Eastman Kodak Company, Xerox Corporation, Bausch & Lomb, Schlegel Corporation, Croon Elektrotechniek and several other corporations.

Sanjay Sood
PhD, Stanford

Sanjay Sood is Assistant Professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He specializes in Marketing Management, Brand Management, Advertising, and Consumer Behavior; he teaches in the MBA and EMBA programs at UCLA. His research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising, and Cognitive Psychology. Prior to joining the Anderson School, Professor Sood was a teaching award winner at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.