Americas MBA for Executives Faculty

The Americas MBA faculty is comprised of experts from each of the four Americas Alliance Schools. In Year One, the faculty teaching in the program are the same faculty for the first year of the traditional Executive MBA. In Year Two, the faculty teaching in the program are all highly regarded and top-ranked business faculty from the alliance school in each country. These selected faculty members provide expert insight and instruction in the classroom, drawing from their innovative research and extensive experience. During the program, they’ll serve as mentors, friends and hosts. Later they can become part of your career network.

Americas MBA Faculty

Faculty subject to change.

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Joseph Blackburn

James A. Speyer Professor of Production Management

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Joseph Blackburn's research and teaching in operations management focuses on time-based competition and how organizations can develop processes that provide faster response to customers, using speed as a competitive advantage. He is an authority on accelerating new-product development and streamlining manufacturing operations, and is the author of Time-Based Competition: The Next Battleground in American Manufacturing.
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Michael Burcham

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship; President, Nashville Entrepreneur Center

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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.

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Paul Chaney

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Accounting

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Paul Chaney joined the Owen faculty in 1984. His landmark study—which found direct correlation between public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company's market value—received significant national news coverage in the wake of the Andersen-Enron debacle.
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Bill Christie

Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management in Finance; Faculty Director, Executive MBA; Professor of Law

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Bill Christie’s studies of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s concluded that Nasdaq market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research resulted in sweeping reform of the Nasdaq, introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules, and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants. Bill won first prize for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance based on this research. He is a five-time recipient of the EMBA Teaching award and was ranked either first or second among star faculty in each Business Week ranking from 1992 through 2000.
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Bruce Cooil

The Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management

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Bruce Cooil has wide-ranging business and academic experience as a statistical modeler. He has worked with health-care firms, including HCA, Solucient, TeamHealth, Tennessee Oncology, and LIFETEST creating models for the delivery of more effective health care services, and to develop forecasts of mortality and morbidity rates. In the area of marketing research, he has worked with Ipsos Loyalty and AT&T. Bruce has also written and consulted on medical malpractice and automobile insurance claims and indemnities, and has developed predictive insurance models for AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Richard Daft

Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management

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Richard Daft is a noted expert in change management, organization behavior, organization design and leadership. He has published 12 books and dozens of articles on the subject. He also developed and managed the Center for Change Leadership. Richard's books on organization management and leadership are the most widely used in their categories at business schools around the world, including his latest, The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader's Guide to Building Inner Excellence.
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Ray Friedman

Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Management; Associate Dean for Faculty and Research

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Ray Friedman is an expert in human organizational behavior focused on understanding how cultural differences and backgrounds influence both negotiation and conflict resolution. He is also a leading expert in Chinese management, focusing on conflict styles, negotiation arbitration and biculturalism in management.
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Luke Froeb

William C. Oehmig Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise

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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.
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Dawn Iacobucci

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing

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Dawn Iacobucci, who joined the Owen faculty in 2007 after spending the previous three years at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is a renowned expert on networks, customer satisfaction, service marketing and quantitative psychological research. A noted teacher and researcher, Iacobucci’s recent textbook, MM (Marketing Management), is quickly gaining critical acclaim.
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David Owens

Clinical Professor of Business Strategy and Innovation; Faculty Director, Executive Development Institute

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David Owens’s research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the London Guardian and NPR’s Marketplace. His work in the area of business strategy, innovation process and product development has included engagements with NASA, LEGO, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has also performed product design consulting work for a variety of firms including Daimler Benz, Apple Computer, and Coleman Camping. Most recently, while on leave from Vanderbilt University, Owens served as CEO of Griffin Technology Inc., the largest consumer electronics firm in the MP3/iPod accessory market space.
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Affiliated Faculty

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Alfredo Behrens

Professor of Leadership and Cross-Cultural Management (FIA)

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Professor Behren’s recent book, Culture and Management in the Americas, was voted the best Época Negócios. Behrens also wrote the chapter on Brazil for the London Business School’s The Software Industry in Emerging Markets: Origins and Dynamics (Elgar, 2005). Behrens is a member of the Editorial Board of Thunderbird International Business Review, writes regularly for America Economia and was awarded the McNamara Fellowship by the World Bank, the Hewlett Fellowship by Princeton University, The Boa Vista Bank award and the Jean Monet Fellowship by the European University, Fiesole, Italy.
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Jeremy Hall

Associate Professor (Simon Fraser University)

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Dr. Jeremy Hall is Fellow of The Centre of Innovation Studies and Latin American Studies. Prior to joining SFU in 2007, Hall was on faculty at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, where he was also the associate director of the International Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability Studies and a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy and the Latin American Research Centre.

At SFU Business, Jeremy teaches strategy and business ethics and his research interests include sustainable development innovation, stakeholder ambiguity, radical technology development, entrepreneurial learning and inter-firm innovation dynamics.
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Prakash Loungani

Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Business Economics

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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.
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Daniel Shapiro

Dean and Lohn Foundation Professor (Simon Fraser University)

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Daniel M. Shapiro is an educator and researcher in areas of managerial economics, strategic analysis, international business strategy and business and government. His extensive body of work has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Industrial Economics, among others. He has designed and delivered executive programs to managers in the private and public sectors, both in Canada and abroad (including Russia, Guyana, Indonesia and China) and has served as a consultant to various organizations in the public and private sectors in the areas of foreign investment, mergers, competition policy, strategy and industrial policy.
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David C. Thomas

Professor of International Management; Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy (Simon Fraser University)

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David Thomas is the author of eight books including Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally. His book Cross-Cultural Management Essential Concept was the winner of the R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development book of the year award for 2008. In addition, he has recently edited (with Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson) The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. His research on cross-cultural interactions in organizational settings has appeared in such journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others. He is currently the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management.
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Rosalie L. Tung

Ming and Stella Wong Professor of International Business (Simon Fraser University)

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A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of International Business, Rosalie Tung won the 1998 Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year award in Management, the Professions and Trades; in 1997 she won the American Society for Advanced Global Competitiveness Research Award. 
Dr. Tung joined SFU Business in 1991 after serving on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a visiting professor at universities around the world, including Harvard, has served on the United Nations’ Task Force on Human Resource Management, and published widely on the subjects of international management and organizational theory.
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James T. Coulter Wright

Professor of Strategic Management and Technology Forecasting (FIA)

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Professor Wright currently heads FIA’s Future Studies Program, as well as the number–one ranked International Executive MBA in Brazil. He has professional experience in industrial project management in Brazil and in Africa, and has done extensive consulting work for international companies, trade associations, research institutes, the Brazilian government and the World Bank in areas such as energy, transportation, information technology, financial services, R & D management and environmental studies. Coulter has garnered numerous awards in both teaching and research, including the Thunderbird Prize Award 2007 for best paper presented at the Congress Business Association of Latin America.