Two-Year MBA Leadership Faculty

General George W. Casey, Jr. is considered an authority on strategic leadership and led the U.S. Army-with 1.1 million global personnel and a $200+ billion budget-through one of its greatest periods of transformation. His teaching interests focus on developing students’ abilities to lead in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environments.

Ya-Ru Chen teaches several courses elective classes focused on global leadership competencies — International Negotiations and Cross-cultural Management. Her current research examines how people attain, maintain, and experience power and status in organizations, and in different national cultural settings.

Glen Dowell teaches the electives The Global Enterprise, Strategic Change and Renewal, and Sustainable Global Enterprise, as well as the core course, Critical and and Strategic Thinking.  These classes deal with giving students the tools to lead organizations in an increasingly complex global business arena.  He researches Corporate Sustainability and focuses on factors that separate environmental leaders and laggards.

Michelle Duguid teaches Women and Leadership and the core course, Challenges in Leadership. Her research examines the effect of social status, power, and inter- and intra-group relations on perceptions and interactions. She also does research which examines individual and group processes that influence creativity and the quality of decision-making.

Allan Filipowicz teaches Negotiations, and the core courses, Leading Teams and Critical and Strategic Thinking. His research examines how emotions drive or impede leadership effectiveness, at both the intrapersonal (emotions and risky decision making) and interpersonal (humor in negotiations, emotional transitions in negotiations) levels.

Laura Georgianna oversees the articulation of Johnson’s perspective on leadership and strategy for building the leadership capability of each student within our MBA community. She currently teaches our Core Team Practicum course, co-teaches our Johnson Leadership Fellows course and leads courses such as our Leadership Expedition to Patagonia.  She is a certified leadership coach and in addition to her teaching, she works one on one with students on their specific leadership development goals.

Angus Hildreth teaches the MBA core course Critical & Strategic Thinking. His research examines the functioning and performance of top teams and the effects that an individual’s power, status and loyalty have on individual well-being, ethical behavior, leadership effectiveness and group creativity.

Mike Hostetler’s main research and teaching interests are in strategy, decision-making, leadership, high performance teams, and change management.

Elizabeth Mannix has taught a variety of courses across Johnson’s executive and residential MBA programs. She is currently the Associate Dean for Executive Education. Her research focuses on power and influence in groups and teams.

Risa Mish’s areas of teaching focus are team leadership and critical thinking and problem solving. She teaches the Johnson Team Leadership Practicum and Critical and Strategic Thinking, both of which are core courses. She is also the faculty director of the Johnson Leadership Fellows program.

Dana Radcliffe’s teaching and writing examine the ethical dimensions of leaders’ decision making, exploring what is required to treat stakeholders fairly and how to avoid common traps that hinder sound judgment and threaten leaders’ integrity.