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LDP Program Faculty
One of the best features of LDP is the fact that the program faculty are from the one of the premier Business Schools in the country. Profiles of faculty presenting the program are included below.
Gautam Ahuja
Dr. Gautam Ahuja is an Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business and a Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Business School. He is a Co-Chair of the CSIB area. Prior to joining UMBS in 2001 he was on the faculty of the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Ahuja has received numerous teaching awards and honors, and was chosen as the Best Professor in the MBA program by the MBA students in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001 at Texas. In 2003 he was selected as the Best Professor in the MBA program at the University of Michigan Business School. Since 1997/8 he has also been recognized as outstanding faculty in Business Week's annual guide to the top business schools. Professor Ahuja teaches an MBA elective on Advanced Competitive Analysis.
Professor Ahuja obtained his doctoral degree from The University of Michigan in 1996. He also holds a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and B.A. (Honors in Economics), from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, as well as an M.A. and MBA from the University of Michigan. His work experience includes co-founding and running his own company and several years in various managerial positions with Pond's/Unilever, a global consumer products company. He has also designed educational board games.
Professor Ahuja's research interests focus on how firms use technology to gain and exploit competitive advantage. His research has received several international awards from the top scholarly associations in the field including the Academy of Management (AOM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Among these awards is the Free Press Award for outstanding research in Strategic Management, t he Sage-Pondy and West Publishing Awards for outstanding research in Organization Theory, both from The Academy of Management, and the College on Organization Science Best Dissertation Award from The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). His publications include several articles in the top scholarly journals and have been cited by various federal and international bodies such as the EPA, OECD and UNEP . Some of his recent work on acquisitions has been profiled in Sloan Management Review . He is an Associate Editor for the journal, Management Science and a member of the Editorial Board for the journals, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Strategic Organization .
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Kim S. Cameron
Kim S. Cameron is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan Business School and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. Professor Cameron has served as Dean and Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Management in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, as Associate Dean and Ford Motor Co./Richard E. Cook Professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and as a department chair and director of several executive education programs at the University of Michigan. He also served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ricks College. He organized and directed the Organizational Studies Division of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Cameron's past research on organizational downsizing, organizational effectiveness, corporate quality culture, and the development of leadership excellence has been published in more than 70 articles and six books: Coffin Nails and Corporate Strategies (Prentice Hall), Developing Management Skills (Harper-Collins), Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture (Addison Wesley Longman), Organizational Decline (Ballinger), Organizational Effectiveness (Academic Press), and Paradox and Transformation (Ballinger). His current research is being funded by the Templeton Foundation and focuses on virtues in organizations such as forgiveness, humility, and compassion and their relationships to success.
Dr. Cameron received BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He served on the National Research Council, was president of Bay Asset Funding Corporation, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. He is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland Class of 2000 and a recipient of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society's Outstanding Educator Award. He currently consults with a variety of business, government, and educational organizations in North America, South America, and Europe.
He is married to the former Melinda Cummings and has seven children.
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Anthony Collings
Anthony Collings (Tony) is an expert in public communication. He covered the Justice Department, U.S. Supreme Court and other assignments as CNN Washington correspondent, and was part of a CNN team that won an Emmy for its Oklahoma City bombing coverage. Earlier he was a foreign correspondent, with stints as Newsweek's London bureau chief and AP Moscow correspondent, and he has also worked as a Wall Street Journal correspondent in New York. At the University of Michigan he is a Lecturer in Communication Studies and Senior Advisor for Media Relations to the Vice President for Communications. Tony has his own consulting business, Media Relations Plus, and has trained a number of clients in media relations including participants in the U-M Executive MBA program. He is an honors graduate of Princeton and has an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is also the author of a number of articles on media subjects and a book, Words of Fire, about press freedom issues worldwide.
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Jeff DeGraff
Professor DeGraff is a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan Business School. He teaches popular MBA courses, such as Managing Creativity, Managing Change, and Managing Innovation. He also teaches in the top rated University of Michigan Executive Education Center where he specializes in issues of change and innovation leadership, creative problem-solving, and core competency development.
Jeff is the Director of the Wholonics Leadership, an international management consulting firm specializing in change and innovation process, organizational development and leadership. Jeff works with leaders on ways of becoming more effective innovators, entrepreneurs, and change agents.
Dr. DeGraff writes, researches, and designs change and innovation processes as well as creative problem solving development programs. He is a member of numerous think tanks, government agencies, and institutions of higher education. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he was an executive at a multi-national firm.
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Gordon Hewitt
Gordon Hewitt is Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Business and Corporate Strategy at the Graduate Business School, University of Michigan. His interests cover the fields of global competition, strategic management, and the role and value added of senior executives in large, diversified corporations. He also holds the title of Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. For many years he has been on the faculty at the Manchester Business School as a Visiting Professor of Business Strategy. His consulting interests involve working at Board level with many international enterprises.
Recently, he and Michigan colleague CK Prahalad were chosen to run a series of programs for directors of the Sony Corporation to develop global strategy for the new era of digital convergence. He is also involved with Diageo world-wide on the strategic implications of the Grand Metropolitan/Guinness merger. Other clients include Citigroup, IBM, Motorola, Honeywell, Zurich Financial Services, Dimension Data, Barclays plc & Harley-Davidson.
He is internationally recognised for his innovative work in understanding competitive dynamics in complex, convergent markets and in redesigning strategy for the new economy. Recently he chaired two prestigious meetings of European and American CEO's to discuss the future of corporate strategy and corporate governance. His textbook "Economics of the Market" became a standard text in competitive theory and practice, and he has published widely in the fields of strategy and management over the past twenty-five years. He was also one of the keynote speakers (along with Carly Fiorina, Chairman/CEO of Hewlett Packard) at the recent CBI "Business Renaissance" Conference in London.
Cited in the press as one of the world's top ten educators and consultants in corporate strategy, his work is aimed at developing new frameworks and processes to enable executives to handle higher levels of competitive complexity and uncertainty.
Born and educated in Glasgow, Gordon Hewitt now divides his time between the USA and Europe. He represented Scotland as an international golfer, and as a student won the Observer Mace Debating Prize for the best speaker from UK Universities. He is currently involved in extensive charity work for former members of the show business and journalist professions.
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Raffi Indjejikian
Raffi Indjejikian is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan Business School. Before joining University of Michigan, he served as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1989 and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1983.
Professor Indjejikian teaches MBA-level introductory and advanced managerial accounting courses and an accounting theory seminar in Michigan's Ph.D. program. In 1991, he was awarded the MBA teaching excellence prize at the University of Chicago, and in 1993 and 1995 he was listed as an Outstanding Faculty in Business Week's "Guide to the Best Business Schools." In 1999, Professor Indjejikian received the University of Michigan Business School Ph.D. teaching excellence award.
Professor Indjejikian's research and teaching interests focus on the relation between accounting-based performance measures and firm performance, incentive effects of 'risky' executive compensation, and the role of reward systems in hierarchical organizations. He has published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons. Currently, Professor Indjejikian is an associate editor of The Accounting Review and also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Management Accounting Research.
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Michael D. Johnson
Michael D. Johnson is the D. Maynard Phelps Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and a Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan Business School. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Professor Johnson teaches in a variety of Michigan's executive educations seminars including the Executive Program, the Management Development Program, and the Strategic Market Planning program (in Asia, Europe, South America and the US).
Professor Johnson has been instrumental in the development of national satisfaction indices in Sweden, the United States and Norway. He has published over 100 academic articles and industry reports over his academic career and authored five books, including the award winning Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty and Profit: An Integrated Measurement and Management System (Jossey-Bass, 2000) and Competing Through Services: How to Create a Competitive Service Advantage (Jossey-Bass, forthcoming in 2003). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the International Journal of Research in Marketing.
As an industry consultant, Professor Johnson works with a variety of companies and public agencies on issues pertaining to customer strategy, product and service quality improvement, product and service development, and customer satisfaction measurement and relationship management.
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Thomas Kinnear
Thomas C. Kinnear is Eugene Applebaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Executive Director of the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan Business School. He was formerly Senior Associate Dean of the Business School and former Vice President for Development and Executive Officer for the University. He holds an undergraduate degree from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Professor Kinnear has previously held a faculty appointment at the University of Western Ontario, and visiting appointments at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the European Management Institute (INSEAD) at Fontainebleau, France. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurial studies, strategic marketing planning, and market-based management. His research activity has resulted in publications in numerous scholarly journals including: the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and the Journal of Business Research. He is former editor of the Journal of Marketing and former founding editor of the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.
He is co-author of several books including: Principles of Marketing (4th edition, Harper Collins, 1995), Marketing Research: An Applied Approach (5th edition, McGraw-Hill, 1996) Promotional Strategy (9th edition, Pinnaflex Educational Resources, Inc., 1999), and Cases in Marketing Management (7th edition, Richard D. Irwin, 1997).
Professor Kinnear has worked in marketing management, marketing research, and marketing education consulting. His clients have included: Aetna, American Electronics Association, AT&T, Alcatel (France), Chrysler, Domino's Pizza, Inc., Eli Lilly, Inc., General Motors, General Electric, Helmac Products, Kodak, L'Air Liquide (France), Machine Vision International, ProMedica Health System, TI Group (UK), and Travelers.
He is Director of the American Marketing Association Foundation. He has previously served as Academic Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute, as a Director of the Association for Consumer Research, and as the Vice President for Academics and Vice President for Publication at the American Marketing Association. He also has served or is serving either as a member of the Board of Directors or Corporate Advisory Boards for several companies and community organizations including: Avail Networks, Inc., Bard Manufacturing, Inc., BlueGill Technologies, Inc., Center For Learning Through Community Service, Copernicus, Inc., Domino's Pizza, Inc., Greenhills School, Helmac Products, Inc., Ecliptic Systems, Inc., Interpretive Software, Inc., Network Express, Inc., Pennaflex Educational Resources, Inc., and the University Musical Society.
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William Lovejoy
Professor Lovejoy holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.E. in Nuclear Engineering from Cornell University. He worked for three years for General Electric before returning to school, at the University of Delaware, to earn a Ph.D. in Operations Research. In 1984 he joined the Operations Management faculty at Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor, and taught there for three years, before moving to California to teach in the Stanford Business School. He was promoted to Associate Professor during his seven years at Stanford, before joining the University of Michigan faculty as a Full Professor in August of 1994. He was named the Operations Management Department chair and the John Psarouthakis Research Professor in Manufacturing Management in 1995, and the Raymond T. Perring Professor of Business Administration in 2000.
Professor Lovejoy's historical research is in the area of decision making with incomplete information, a critical part of new products management. He has published numerous articles in top journals on this topic. His research and teaching interests have, in recent years, turned increasingly toward managing across functional boundaries. He has two ongoing initiative in this area: an Integrated Operations text which stresses managing the interfaces between OM and the other functions in the firm, and a product development course that exposes students to the integrated exercise of conceiving of, designing, manufacturing and launching a new product concept.
This latter course has enjoyed coverage by both CNN and the Wall Street Journal; has expanded to include Engineers, MBA's, Industrial Designers, and Graphic Designers; and asks students to sell both directly and through web-based channels.
Immediately upon his arrival at the University of Michigan, Professor Lovejoy participated in the New Product Management Executive Education program. He was promoted to program director in 1997.
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Robert E. Quinn
Robert E. Quinn holds the M.E. Tracy Collegiate Professorship and is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan Business School. He has been on the Michigan faculty for 13 years. His previous 12 years were spent at the State University of New York at Albany. He has published many papers and books on management and organization. Recent volumes are Beyond Rational Management, Becoming a Master Manager, Deep Change, and Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture. Each bas been republished in multiple languages. His newest book is entitled, Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results.
Professor Quinn is particularly interested in issues concerning leadership, vision, and change. He has an applied orientation and has 25 years of experience in working with executives on issues of organizational change. He has been involved in the design and execution of numerous large-scale change projects. He has worked with a large percentage of the Fortune 500 companies. He teaches in both the MBA and Executive Education Programs at the University of Michigan and is known for innovative instructional efforts. Professor Quinn is also a fellow of the World Business Academy.
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Raymond R. Reilly
Raymond R. Reilly is Associate Dean of Executive Education and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Engineering) degree from the University of Michigan, and Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Pennsylvania State University.
Ray is Director of the Executive Program at the University of Michigan Business School. His responsibilities include faculty coordination and the integration of program subject matter. His teaching represents a unique blend of finance, economics, accounting and strategy applied to real business situations. Ray also teaches Working Capital Management, Corporate Performance Measurement, and Renewing Global Strategy in the Michigan Executive Education curriculum.
Ray's current research interests are at the intersection of value-based business decisions and corporate performance measurement. He has published in a variety of academic and professional journals and he is co-author of two books. His article entitled "Using a Measure Network to Understand and Deliver Value," co-authored with Gregory Reilly, appeared recently in the Journal of Cost Management. Ray is Director of the University of Michigan Center for Performance Measurement. This center offers a focal point for academics and practitioners interested in research on improving the state of the art of the discipline of performance measurement.
Ray acts as a consultant to businesses in a number of areas including corporate valuation, corporate business and financial planning, improvement of operating and administrative business processes, and performance measurement. He designs and presents in-house executive development courses for firms such as GE, Eastman Kodak, Diageo, GTE, NBC, Aeroquip-Vickers, Harley-Davidson, and Chase Manhattan Bank, among others. Recently, he has played a major role in the development and communication of new performance measurement systems for General Motors and ITT Industries. He is a past member of the board of directors Electrocon International, The Federal Farm Credit Funding Corporation and CARI, a financial subsidiary of General Motors Acceptance Corporation. Ray currently serves as a board member of Fabri-Kal Corporation.
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Dennis Severance
Dr. Severance received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from The University of Michigan in 1972. He is now the Accenture Professor of Computer and Information Systems in the University of Michigan Business School, where he has served as the Chairman of the Computer and Information Systems faculty. Before joining The University of Michigan in 1978, Dr. Severance was an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Management Information System Research Center at The University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research at Cornell University.
Professor Severance has substantial industrial experience as a Member of Technical Staff with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, as an Information Systems Project Officer with the Army Chief of Staff at the Pentagon, and as a Senior Engineer with the General Motors Corporation. He has served on the Technology Advisory Councils of Chrysler, Whirlpool and GM-SPO. He currently acts as an information systems consultant to a number of large corporations and is a member of the Board of Directors of Tenneco Automotive.
Dr. Severance's current research interests include: (1) senior management control of corporate information systems, (2) analysis of long-range information systems' requirements for large organizations, (3) enhancement of management decision making through improved information systems, and (4) design of logistics systems for manufacturing and distribution companies. He has lectured in executive development seminars in England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, USSR, India, Egypt, Singapore, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States.
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George J. Siedel
George J. Siedel is Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. Professor Siedel received his B.A. degree from the College of Wooster, J.D. degree from the University of Michigan, and a Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies from Cambridge University, where he was a Ford Foundation fellow.
Professor Siedel has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and in Michigan, Ohio, and Florida. Following graduation from law school, he worked as an attorney in a professional corporation. He has also served on several boards of directors and as Associate Dean of the University of Michigan Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Williamson Family Professorship, Professor Siedel held a University of Michigan Thurnau Professorship.
Professor Siedel is the chief editor of the Michigan Real Property Review and has served as staff and special editor of the American Business Law Journal. The author of numerous books and articles, he has received several research awards, including the Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan and the Hoeber Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. The Center for International Business Education and Research selected a case written by Professor Siedel for its annual International Case Writing Award.
Professor Siedel has served as Visiting Professor of Business Law at Stanford University, Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, and Parsons Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has been elected a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University's Wolfson College and a Life Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. As a Fulbright Scholar, Professor Siedel has also held a Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Karl Weick
Karl E. Weick, who is the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at the University of Michigan, is also the former Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly, the leading research journal in the field of organizational studies.
Dr. Weick was trained in psychology at Ohio State University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962. Since graduating from Ohio State, Dr. Weick has been associated with faculties at Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and the University of Texas. He has also held short-term appointments at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Wabash College, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, and Seattle University.
In 1990, Weick received the highest honor awarded by the Academy of Management, the Irwin Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. In the same year, he also received the award for the Best Article of the Year in the Academy of Management Review. The prize-winning article was titled, "Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination."
Dr. Weick studies such topics as how people make sense of confusing events, the social psychology of improvisation, high reliability systems, the effects of stress on thinking and imagination, indeterminacy in social systems, social commitment, and linkages between theory and practice.
Weick's writing about these topics is collected in five books, one of which--The Social Psychology of Organizing--was cited by Inc. Magazine as one of the nine best business and management books ever written (December 1996); and one of which--the co-authored Managerial Behavior, Performance and Effectiveness--won the 1972 Book-of-the-Year Award from the American College of Hospital Administration. In addition to the five books, Weick's writing appears in an additional 84 journal articles, 75 chapters in edited books, 76 book reviews, and 260 speeches presented to academic and practitioner audiences.
Weick has consulted with a variety of organizations in the public and private sectors, including Corning Glass, Narco, Cole Products, Dalton Foundries, Southland Corporation, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Lockheed, The National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Education, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Weick, a midwesterner, was born in Warsaw, Indiana and raised in Findlay, Ohio. He married the former Karen Lee Eickhoff in 1957, and the couple has three sons: Kirk Jeffrey, Kyle Phillip, and Kristofer Lee.
Weick's non-academic interests include jazz big bands, railroading, and photography.
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