Vanderbilt Executive MBA Faculty

All Vanderbilt professors bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by their innovative and enlightening research. Faculty selected for the Executive MBA program are even a cut above: they are skilled at drawing out the wisdom from the collected intelligence and experience of students in the classroom and are adept at responding to the unique questions, challenges and issues that arise. From these faculty members known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching Executive MBA students, you’ll gain cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together. 

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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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Germain Boer

Professor of Accounting; Director of Owen Entrepreneurship Center

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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
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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.
Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
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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.
Video: Embracing Managerial Statistics
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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.
Video: Leadership
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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.
Video: Doing Business in China
Video: The Obama Effect
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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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Steve Hoeffler

Associate Professor of Marketing

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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
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Nancy Lea Hyer

Associate Professor of Operations Management; Associate Dean of Academic Programs

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Nancy Lea 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
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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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Craig Lewis

Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Management in Finance

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Craig Lewis, the Finance-area coordinator, joined the Owen faculty in 1986 and has been widely published since that time on such financial issues as volatility, debt and capital structure. His interests include equity analyst behavior, the security issue process and corporate financial policy.
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Brian McCann

Visiting Faculty in Strategic Management

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Brian McCann is an expert in strategic management and entrepreneurship. He joined the Owen faculty in 2009 after completing his PhD in strategic management from Purdue and is a co-author, with Luke Froeb, of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.
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Alexei Ovtchinnikov

Assistant Professor of Finance

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Alexei Ovtchinnikov has significant expertise in the field of corporate finance, including financial management, mergers and acquisitions and investment performance. His research on changes in investors' expectations following additions to the S&P 500 Index, predictability of stock returns and long-term spin-off returns for parent and subsidiary firms has appeared in numerous leading publications.
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David Parsley

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Finance

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David Parsley's distinguished record of achievement in the field of international finance spans both the academic and government communities. He joined the Owen faculty in 1990 after serving in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is an expert in exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets and labor markets.
Video: Business, Big Macs and the World Economy
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Tim Vogus

Assistant Professor of Management

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Tim Vogus joined the Owen faculty in 2004 and specializes in such topics as leading teams and organizations, as well as negotiation. Prior to his academic career, he was a business process analyst for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he worked on competitive intelligence systems and multiple system implementations.
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Richard Willis

Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Associate Professor of Accounting

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Richard Willis has extensive experience in the accounting profession as a corporate accountant and market research analyst, as well as a distinguished body of academic research in many leading publications. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand, LLP, where he developed materials pertaining to accounting for stock-based compensation.

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Michael Bowling

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

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Michael Bowling joined the Executive MBA faculty in 2009. Currently, he holds the position of CMO for Business Solutions at AT&T where he has also served as President of AT&T Mexico as well as a variety of other management positions in more than 20 years with the company. He earned his MBA from the Executive program at Vanderbilt in 1997.
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David Furse

Adjunct Professor of Management

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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.
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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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Neta Moye

Management Consultant, PDRI

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As a member of the Leadership and Organization Development team, I am helping to build PDRI's capability in this growing practice area. We leverage the long history and experience of PDRI's rigorous competency and assessment practice to address issues related to leadership and organizational effectiveness, including determining critical leader competencies, assessing and developing leader capabilities, and assessing the broader health of the organization in which leaders operate, with a special focus on the strategic effectiveness of HR practices.

Neta Moye's research interests focus on employee motivation, particularly as it relates to innovation and creativity at work. Her current research projects focus on how aspects of social context and interpersonal interactions at work influence motivation to generate ideas. Professor Moye has been honored with the Paine Award for Academic Excellence from the Robert H. Smith School of Business for her research accomplishments as a doctoral student and the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence for her teaching accomplishments as a doctoral student.