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Vanderbilt business professors and industry presenters bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. Each faculty member draws upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by his or her innovative and enlightening research. These individuals provide the primary benefit of both Open Enrollment and Custom Programs for organizations—proven, practical management education designed for immediate application.

	Germain Boer Professor of Accounting; Director of Owen Entrepreneurship Center MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Germain Böer has initiated numerous innovative entrepreneurship activities at Owen, including an annual conference and student sessions with venture capitalists. Germain currently serves as an advisor to startup companies in the Nashville area and is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Strategic Finance. Video: The Owen Entrepreneurship Center

	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

	Paul Chaney E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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. Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

	Richard Daft Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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. Video: Leadership

	Ray Friedman Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Management; Associate Dean of Faculty and Research MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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. Video: Doing Business in China Video: The Obama Effect

	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.

	Steve Hoeffler Associate Professor of Marketing MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Steve Hoeffler is an expert in consumer products marketing, brand management and consumer behavior, including the marketing of "really new" (novel) products and the development of consumer preferences. He has also served a variety of marketing roles for NCR/AT&T and has consulted for Procter and Gamble, IBM and Fujitsu. Video: Radically New Products

	Nancy Hyer Associate Professor of Operations Management; Associate Dean of Academic Programs MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Nancy Hyer is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Nancy earned her MBA and Ph.D. from Indiana University and holds a BS from the University of Richmond. At Owen, Nancy teaches executive and MBA classes focused on project management and process improvement. Nancy has also taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has won executive program, Executive MBA, and MBA teaching awards, and both school and university-wide awards for excellence in undergraduate education. She won the 2009 best paper award from the Journal of Operations Management for a study co-authored with a faculty member from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Video: Cellular Manufacturing

	Mumin Kurtulus Assistant Professor of Operations Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mumin Kurtulus has presented at conferences worldwide, received the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award in 2006, the gold medal in the 2004 ECR Student Paper Competition and was a finalist for the EURO 2003 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize. His current research interests include supplier-retailer collaboration practices in the consumer goods industry with a focus on investigating recent supply chain collaboration practices such as collaborative forecasting and category captainship.

	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 Owens Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation; Faculty Director, VU Accelerator-Summer Business Institute MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
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. Video: Strategic Innovation

	Kimberly Pace Professor for the Practice of Communication MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Kimberly Pace teaches courses in leadership communications and public relations at Owen and uses her formal training in the performing arts to bring a unique perspective to business education and practice. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served in marketing and communications roles for two international faith-based non-profit agencies located in Nashville, served as a communications consultant and has taught branding and public relation seminars for professional communicators.

	Rangaraj Ramanujam Associate Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Rangaraj "Ranga" Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of errors in high-risk work settings. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Medical Care, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other journals. Video: Reducing Errors in the Health Care Environment

	Bart Victor Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Bart Victor joined the Owen faculty from the Institute for Management Development International (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland where he was Professor of Management and Director of the Program for Management Development. Prior to IMD, Bart was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University of Nebraska. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.

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	Mark Abkowitz Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mark Abkowitz is the founder and former Chairman of Visual Risk Technologies, an operational risk management consulting firm. Mark specializes in the management, assessment and communication of risks impacting safety, security and the environment. He has appeared on National Public Radio, Fox News and CNBC to discuss risk issues.

	Karen Brown Professor of Operations and Project Leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Karen Brown is a member of the faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, and a visiting professor at the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai, where she spends two months each year. She is currently on an educational leave of absence from the University of Washington. In addition to her role as a faculty member teaching M.B.A. and E.M.B.A. classes, she has consulted and led seminars for numerous private- and public-sector organizations, including Boeing, PACCAR, POSCO Steel, Mosaic, Emerson Electric, Sony, Philips, Seattle City Light, Seattle Public Library, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

	Mark Cannon Adjunct Professor of Management; Associate Professor, Dept. of Human & Organizational Development; Associate Professor Education Leadership MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mark Cannon is seasoned executive coach and is an expert in teaching skills for executive coaching, delivering feedback, and handling difficult conversations. He has published books and articles on these topics. He has taught in George Washington University's Coaching Certification Program, and coached or consulted with Courage Capital Management, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Women's World Banking, DCI, Monitor Company, Marriott Corporation, Little Planet Learning, and the U.S. Department of State.

	David M. Dilts Director of Strategy Alignment for the Knight Cancer Institute; Professor of Management and co-director of the Center for Management Research in Healthcare at Oregon Health & Science University MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Dr. Dilts is Director of Strategy Alignment for the Knight Cancer Institute, Professor of Management and co-director of the Center for Management Research in Healthcare (cMRHc.org) at the Oregon Health & Science University. He formerly held a position as Professor of Operations Management at the Owen School, and was founder and Professor of Engineering Management in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. In his current position he is responsible for aligning all the diverse pieces of a major cancer institute for strategic and research excellence. His work has been published in nearly 200 articles, editorials, conference papers and presentations, book chapters, books and monographs, and his research has been supported at nearly $20 million for the past decade. Dr. Dilts is a recipient of the 2011 National Institute of Health Merit Group Award.

	Corbette Doyle Lecturer, Organizational Leadership MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Corbette Doyle’s areas of expertise are diversity in the workplace, gender issues, risk financing and the healthcare industry. In 2006, APIW named her the Insurance Woman of the Year and Risk & Insurance named her one of their inaugural “99 Power Brokers.”

	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.

	Jon Lehman Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Jon Lehman currently serves as Managing Director of Decora Health, a network of retail health centers that provide integrated, individualized health services that slow the effects of aging. He previously served as president and CEO of Evolved Digital Systems, a leading provider of digital-based image and information management systems for the health care industry and Executive Vice President and Director of Futurekids, Inc., an international computer training publisher that helped K-12 schools use technology to transform education. In 1990, he founded and served as Principal of The Section Companies, a consulting and private investment firm whose clients included The Walt Disney Company and Ziff-Davis.

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