Faculty & Research

Strategy & Business
Economics Faculty

Owen faculty have served at some of the highest levels of business and government, including at the Federal Reserve and U.S. Federal Trade Commission, because of their vast knowledge in areas ranging from macroeconomic trends to antitrust regulations. Such experience⎯in sectors like health care, consumer goods, and financial services⎯offers an invaluable complement to Vanderbilt’s pioneering strategic and policy research. Combined, those elements provide students with a richly collaborative, internationally recognized learning environment.

	Jim Bradford Dean and Ralph Owen Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Jim Bradford has vast experience managing complex organizations as well as a deep commitment to Owen's mission. Jim joined Owen from industry, having served as President and CEO for AFG Industries, Inc. North America's largest vertically integrated glass manufacturing and fabrication company. He earned a B.A. University of Florida and his JD with numerous honors from Vanderbilt Law School. His employment history also includes 11 years of private legal practice and serving as General Counsel for AFG Industries, Inc. during its years as a publicly traded company. His academic areas of interest are primarily in global and domestic corporate business strategy and competitive analysis. He is the recipient of the Owen Teaching Award.

	Michael Burcham Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Michael Burcham has over 20 years of extensive experience in health care innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup venture coaching. He is a highly successful three-time entrepreneur–most recently President of ParadigmHealth, a $300-million disease management firm. In addition to his post at Vanderbilt, Michael serves as President of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Video: Thinking Like a CEO Video: Accelerator Featured on VUCAST

	Mark Cohen Professor of Management and Professor of Law; University Fellow, Resources for the Future MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mark Cohen has extensive experience—as both a government economist and an academic—analyzing government enforcement policies with particular emphasis on environmental and criminal justice issues. Mark is considered a leading expert on enforcing environmental regulations and on corporate crime and punishment and has published over 85 books and articles.

	Dewey Daane The Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Senior Advisor, Financial Markets Research Center MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Dewey Daane has had a distinguished career in government, including 35 years of combined service with the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury Department. In his teaching, Dewey focuses on the evolution of the international monetary system, and on monetary and fiscal policy. He has been a chaired professor at Owen since 1974.

	Luke Froeb William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.

	Salvatore March David K. Wilson Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Salvatore March’s primary research interests are in the areas of Information System Development, Electronic Commerce, Logical and Physical Database Design, Distributed Database Design, and the Economics of Information. His research in these areas has appeared in journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information and Management, The Journal of MIS, Information Systems, and Information Systems Research.

	Brian McCann Assistant Professor of Strategic Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Brian McCann is an expert in strategic management and entrepreneurship. He joined the Owen faculty in 2009 after completing his Ph.D. in strategic management from Purdue and is a co-author, with Luke Froeb, of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.

	David Parsley E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Economics and Finance MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
David Parsley's distinguished record of achievement in the field of international finance spans both the academic and government communities. He joined the Owen faculty in 1990 after serving in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is an expert in exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets and labor markets. Video: Business, Big Macs and the World Economy

	Gary Scudder Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management; Faculty Director, International Programs MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Gary Scudder earned the Dean's Teaching Award in 1994 and the James E. Webb Teaching Award in 1999. Through the course of his career, he has consulted with a number of large corporations including United Airlines, 3M, IDS, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Philips Corporation, Motorola, Novartis, RR Donnelly, Air Products, the Methodist General Board of Discipleship, and Bridgestone/Firestone primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning.

	R. Lawrence Van Horn Associate Professor of Management (Economics); Executive Director of Health Affairs MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Lawrence Van Horn is a leading expert on health care management and economics. His research on health care organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals and the conduct of managed care firms has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Harvard Business Review. He has consulted with government and health care organizations and has presented at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by industry, government and academic institutions. Video: The Health Care Industry

Affiliated Faculty

	Michael Bowling Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Michael Bowling joined the Executive MBA faculty in 2009. Currently, he holds the position of CMO for Business Solutions at AT&T where he has also served as President of AT&T Mexico as well as a variety of other management positions in more than 20 years with the company. He earned his MBA from the Executive program at Vanderbilt in 1997.

	David Furse Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
David Furse combines experience from three distinct careers—marketing professor, successful entrepreneur and business strategy consultant—to his teaching and research. His lively classroom approach comes from the application of theory and tools to practical business problems that students face in their own careers.

	Jeff Gowdy Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Jeff Gowdy is an expert in the field of sustainability, with over nine years experience with sustainability initiatives, including client projects with Bridgestone, General Electric, and Wal-Mart. He holds a BS in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia and an MBA in Strategy and Environmental Management from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management.

	Prakash Loungani Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Business Economics MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Prakash Loungani, who serves as Division Chief of Policy Communications for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, has been on the staff at the IMF since 1998 after stints at the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the University of Florida.

	James McElroy Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Professor McElroy is presently a member of the Cumberland Law Group, LLPC focusing on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, start-up and development stage companies, technology, and real estate.

	Jim Schorr Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Jim Schorr teaches Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) and Social Entrepreneurship at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining Owen in 2008, Jim's accomplishments included roles in founding/leading Net Impact and Juma Ventures. He received his BS in Economics from the University of Tennessee and his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Video: Corporate Social Responsibility

	Jeffrey Smiley Adjunct Professor of Management Faculty Director, Americas MBA MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Professor Smiley was appointed Faculty Director of Owen's new Americas MBA program in 2012. As former Prinicipal at Deloitte Consulting, Jeff has vast business experience in several countries which will be invaluable in our new program.