Lecturer (continuing)
Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Management of Organizations
Enhancing strategic performance through executive leadership
Expertise and Research Interests
- Expertise and deliberate practice
- Strategic leadership
- Strategic decision making
- Strategic management of healthcare organizations
- Stakeholder management
- “Who Should Lead a Healthcare Organization: MDs or MBAs?” with S. Pal and D. A. Swan. Journal of Healthcare Management 49, no. 2 (2004): 103-117.
- “Top Managers And Institutional Stakeholders: A Test of Two Models of Adaptation and Performance,” with M. V. Russo and F. C. Schultz, in Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking, edited by J. Andriof, et al. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2003.
- “Stakeholder Theory and Managerial Decision Making: Constraints and Implications of Stakeholder Balancing Decisions,” with S. Reynolds and D. Hekman. Journal of Management.
- “Executive Decision-Making Expertise: A Cognitive Reinterpretation of Environmental Turbulence, Information Use and Organizational Performance.” (Working paper.)
- “An Executive Decision-Making Expertise Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making Speed.” (Working paper.)
- “The Impact of Organizational Slack on Strategic Decision Making.” (Working paper.)
At Haas since 2005
2005 – present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2004 – 2007, Adjunct Faculty, The Advisory Board Company, Physician Leadership Academy
2000 – 2005, Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University
2000 – 2002, Visiting Adjunct Instructor/Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
- Board Member, Academy of Management Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Academy of Management Journal
- Member, Academy of Management
- Member, Strategic Management Society
- Adjunct Faculty, The Advisory Board Company
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program, 2010
- Best Dissertation Award Finalist – Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy Division
- Carlson School of Management PhD Fellowship
- Juran PhD Fellowship in Quality Leadership
- Larry L. Cummings Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching
- Allina Health System PhD Fellowship
- Richard Ellis DuPuy Jr. Fellowship in Strategic Management
- Executive Leadership, XMBA 257-11
- Competitive Strategy, EWMBA 299E-11
- Leadership, EWMBA 257-11
- Leadership, EWMBA 257-11
- International Seminar — Brazil, EWMBA/MBA 298S.1
- Competitive Strategy, UGBA 157