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FACULTY BIOS

Horst Abraham

Horst Abraham is the founder and current President of Paragon Consulting Group, providers of a wide range of organizational and transformational development. He holds a double Masters degree in Education and the Physical Sciences from the University of Vienna, Austria and University College, Germany. He taught those disciplines from 1962 to 1964. He is also a graduate of the Colorado Business School and is an honorary member of the Education Commission of Japan. In addition to serving several large U.S. companies as a consultant, he is also on retainer with the Sony Corporation of Japan as a quality consultant.

From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Abraham worked with the U.S. Ski Team and also served as the National Education Vice President for the U.S. Ski Instructors. He has published two books, Women in Sports and Skiing Right, using sports analogies to explore high performance elements in individuals, teams, and organizations. Mr. Abraham is a nationally ranked competitive sailor and likes to ski and mountain climb. He continues to test his theories by participating in triathalons and also working with troubled inner city youth and prison inmates.

Lloyd Baird

Dr. Baird is Professor of Management at Boston University and Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, which he helped found. He is currently a principal at the Systems Research Center and Research Director of the Executive Development Roundtable focusing on the role of top executives and executive development. Each of these Institutes and Roundtables brings together leading organizations to work common issues and problems.

Working with many corporations he has been able to do a full analysis of the Corporation and help them understand the risks and the potential of corporate wide learning, knowledge and technology initiatives. Initiatives that are designed to drive organization performance and bring culture into alignment with strategy. He also works with executives to help them drive both personal and organization transformation. He is currently helping firms leverage their executive development activities. With all of these projects the objective is to improve organizational performance. His is author of numerous books and articles on the topics of human resource management and executive development.

He received his B.S. degree from Utah State University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Darrell Griffin

Darrell Griffin is the President of Whole Systems International (WSI). He has 20 years of executive and consulting experience in management systems development and implementation and curriculum development. Well known in the publishing, training, and adult education industries, Mr. Griffin held positions at Prentice Hall, Little Brown, Psychology Today, and Wilson Learning in such capacities as sales manager, product manager, editor, publisher, and executive.
As a training and development consultant, he designed and delivered successful seminars, workshops, and self-paced materials in a wide range of content and skills areas including: selling skills, sales management, investment analysis, operations performance analysis, management development, stress management, financial analysis, systems analysis, and total quality management.

He consulted in the publishing, health care, banking, communications, and electronics industries, including work with such firms as Chase Bank, the Norton Company, Merck, AstraZeneca, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Schering, Pfizer, AT&T, Pitney Bowes, and the Bank of Boston. He designed and developed two 3-year professional development work/study curricula in finance and systems analysis for the electronics industry that have been nationally recognized as benchmark programs. Mr. Griffin also consulted with the American Society for Medical Technology and the American Pharmaceutical Association in the development of professional competency models.
As a business process consultant, Mr. Griffins experience includes new business start-up, new product introduction, work team design, and time to market improvement. Working directly with Ken Olsen at Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Griffin designed and led processes to restructure their worldwide management and financial systems. He facilitated the redesign of Digitals sales organization, engineering function, and central finance group.

Mr. Griffin is a senior fellow at the Boston University Leadership Institute where he leads Fortune 500 senior managers through sessions on rethinking and re-energizing their organizations. He is the author of numerous articles and has personally developed and conducted hundreds of hours of adult education seminars and workshops.

Tim Hall

Tim is the Director of the Executive Development Roundtable and a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Management at Boston University. He is also a core faculty member of the Human Resources Policy Institute. He has served as Acting Dean and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Faculty Director for the Masters Programs at the School of Management. He received his graduate degrees from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. He has held faculty positions at Yale, York, Michigan State and Northwestern Universities, as well as visiting positions at Columbia, Minnesota, and the US Military Academy at West Point. At Northwestern he held the Earl Dean Howard Chair in Organizational Behavior and served as department chair.
He is the co-author of The Career is Dead - Long Live the Career: A Relational Approach to Careers, Careers in Organizations, Organizational Climates and Careers, The Two-Career Couple, Experiences in Management and Organizational Behavior, Career Development in Organizations, Human Resource Management: Strategy Design and Implementation, and Handbook of Career Theory. He is a recipient of the American Psychological Associations James McKeen Cattell Award (now called the Ghiselli Award) for research design and the American Society for Training and Developments Walter Storey Professional Practice Award. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Academy of Management, where he served as a member of the Board of Governors and as President of the Organizational Behavior Division and co-founder and President of the Careers Division. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. He has served on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals. His research and consulting activities have dealt with career development, womens careers, career plateauing, work/family balance, and executive succession. He has served as a consultant to organizations such as Sears, AT&T, General Electric, Borg-Warner, Monsanto, Honeywell, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly, the World Bank, and the United States Army.

Richard Hamermesh

Dr. Hamermesh is a founder and Managing Partner of the Center for Executive Development (CED), Cambridge, Massachusetts, an executive education consulting firm. Prior to founding CED, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School from 1976-1988. A specialist in business policy, Dr. Hamermesh has taught extensively in Harvards MBA and Executive Education Programs. Dr. Hamermesh has provided management consulting services in the areas of strategic planning, organization design and strategic change. He is currently on the Board of Directors of five corporations.

Dr. Hamermeshs primary research has focused on the implementation of strategic planning systems. His book on the subject, Making Strategy Work, was published in 1986. In addition, his articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review, as well as numerous case studies. He is also co-author of Business Policy: Text and Cases and the editor of Strategic Management. Dr. Hamermesh earned his BA degree from the University of California, and his MBA and DBA from Harvard University.

John Henderson

Professor John C. Henderson is the Chair of the Management Information Systems Department and Director of the Systems Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a noted researcher, consultant, and executive educator with published papers appearing in journals such as Management Science, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IBM Systems Journal, European Management Journal, and many others. Presently, his research focuses on four main areas: managing strategic partnerships, aligning business and I/T strategies, valuing IT investments, and knowledge management. Professor Henderson has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Management Information Systems, Decisions Sciences, and Management Science, where he was Departmental Editor. Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Henderson served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Florida State University, and Ohio State University.

Nalin Kulatilaka

Professor Kulatilaka received his B.S. degree from Imperial College in London, his M.S. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Professor Kulatilakas current research examines the strategic use of real options and risk management tools. This work attempts to integrate the internal capabilities of a firm with new organizational architectures allowing it to better face uncertain markets. He is the co-author of Real Options: Managing Strategic Investments in an Uncertain World (Harvard Business School Press, 1999). He has published technical papers on a wide array of topics in financial economics in
academic journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Journal of Econometrics. He has also addressed managerial audiences through Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Financial Management, and Financial Analysts Journal. He has received the Association for Investment Management and Research's Graham and Dodd Award. Professor Kulatilaka frequently addresses executive audiences on issues of risk management, firm valuation, and real options. He was the recipient of the Boston Universitys 1998 John Russell award for excellence in Executive teaching. He has consulted for investment banks, corporations and governments. He has expertise in energy markets, telecommunications, and information technology. Professor Kulatilaka sits on the board of directors of Lanka Internet Services Ltd.

Mike Lawson

Professor Lawson is the School's Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. He is also Director of the University's Asia Institute. Professor Lawson holds his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa. His primary professional interests are in technology applications in the health care industry, the telecommunications industry, and international trade in Europe and Asia. His most recent work examines the merger movement in health care, telecommunications technology applications in the package delivery industry and trade barriers in Southeast Asia. He is active in curriculum development and in the development of educational materials. He consults for a number of large multinational corporations and is involved in the delivery of a variety of executive education programs. Professor Lawson's research on the economic aspects of various health care and public policy issues has been presented at government and medical conferences throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Anita McGahn

In 2000, Anita M. McGahan joins the Boston University School of Management as a Professor in the Management & Policy group. She is also on leave as an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Competition & Strategy area at the Harvard Business School. In 1996-1997, she visited as a resident scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. McGahan has taught both introductory and advanced courses in strategy to MBA candidates and to executives. She also teaches a doctoral seminar in business strategy. During her leave, she also served as Senior Vice President of the Digital Strategy Group at Digitas, an internet consultancy.

McGahan is the author of over 50 articles and case studies on strategic issues of competitive advantage, industry evolution, and sustained financial performance. McGahan earned her PhD and AM in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1990. In 1986 she received her MBA from Harvard with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. She was awarded her BA in Humanities in 1982 from Northwestern University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After earning her MBA, McGahan joined McKinsey & Co., Inc., where she spent several years as a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group. She also has experience at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

McGahans research focuses on models of industry evolution and the evolution of competitive advantage. Her academic publications include studies on the brewing, consumer electronics, insurance and pharmaceutical industries. She has also conducted case studies on companies in automobiles, wheelchairs, telecommunications, and network software. Her current research involves large-scale statistical studies on the evolution of performance among firms in a cross section of industries.

James Post

Professor Post has graduate degrees in law and management (J.D., Ph.D.) and teaches courses
in strategic management, business-government relations, and corporate public affairs
management. Dr. Post has headed the Boston University Public Affairs Research Program since
1981. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of ten books including Corporate Behavior and Social
Change; Management: Functions and Responsibilities (with L. Baird and J. Mahon); and
Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, and Ethics, 7th edition. Since 1988, he
has served as series editor of Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, an
international research annual. Dr. Post's current research projects are concerned with
organizations that are catalysts for change in the private and public sectors and with the response
of business and government to environmental and natural resource issues. He is the senior
academic consultant to the Corporate Conservation Council's environmental curriculum program
for business education.

Stephen Rosenthal

Stephen R. Rosenthal, Professor of Operations Management, has been on the faculty of Boston Universitys School of Management since 1975. He is Director of the Boston University Center for Enterprise Leadership (formerly the Manufacturing Roundtable), a research center aimed at producing usable knowledge on design and management for competitive advantage in manufacturing industries. From 1986-89 he served as Chairman of the Operations Management Department. Professor Rosenthal has also held visiting faculty appointments at Dartmouth College and Harvard, Brandeis, Princeton and Columbia Universities.

Steves teaching concentrates on the management of technology, product design and development, production operation and special issues in the management of cross-company enterprises, in both manufacturing and service environments.

Steves research and consulting deals with strategy formulation, implementation, innovation, and planning in a variety of settings including:

• Product design and development
  
• Advanced manufacturing technologies
  
• Projects involving professionals
  

Stephen Rosenthal is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Effective Product Design and Development, Speed to Market: Disciplines for Product Design and Development, Managing Government Operations, and Software by Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace.

He received the B.S. Degree from Brown University, the M.S. Degree from M.I.T., and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Eda Roth

Eda Roth, the President and Founder of Eda Roth & Associates, has been on the faculty of Boston Universitys School of Management Leadership Institute since 1989. She also taught for seven years in the Executive MBA program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes School of Management.
Ms. Roth is an actress and consultant who specializes in bringing theater-based skills to business professionals. She has worked extensively in the area of leadership, helping executives to develop clear messages and effectively engage others. She teaches a wide range of skills and courses including Executive Presence, Presentation Skills and Effective Communication.

Ms. Roth has taught voice, speech and acting at the New York University School for the Arts Graduate Acting Program, Boston University, and the American Academy for Dramatic Arts. She has worked as an actress in New York and regional theater, on stage, in film and television. She also works as a professional dialect coach in theater and film and has coached Danny Aiello, Jeff and Lloyd Bridges, Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter.

She received her BA from Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University School for the Arts where she studied with Olympia Dukakis

N. Venkatraman

N. Venkatraman holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA and a Bachelor of Technology degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology. His current research interests lie at the interface between strategic management and information technology. He won the 1986 AT Kearney Award for Outstanding Research in General Management from the Academy of Management for his doctoral research and has significantly contributed to the research literature on measurement and models of strategic management. Subsequently, he has focused his research on the role of information technology in creating new organizational capabilities. He has carried out pioneering research in the areas of electronic integration and IT-enabled business transformation in diverse settings such as: insurance, automotive, airlines, and textbook publishing. In addition, he has contributed to the research on IT outsourcing, strategic alignment and strategic planning for information systems. Presently, he is developing the concept of a corporation as a "portfolio of capabilities and relationships" that leverages the power of information technology to exploit different sources and types of expertise. Over the last decade, his academic research has been published in journals such as: Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Sloan Management Review and others.