Texas Executive Education

McCombs School of Business

Faculty

As a part of The University of Texas at Austin and the McCombs School of Business, Texas Executive Education draws its professors from distinguished, high-caliber, graduate-level faculty. With over 3,500 faculty, 16 colleges and schools, and 17 libraries and museums on campus, The University of Texas at Austin provides Texas Executive Education with both depth and range of expertise on just about any subject.

Texas Executive Education partners with the top 1% of this group to shape our curriculum, and each professor in the program has significant experience working with high-level executives and business professionals across a wide range of industries and functional areas. Our professors possess an ideal blend of academic research and data, as well as real-world experience and business knowledge – as many of them have served as consultants, advisors, coaches and board members in a wide range of organizations around the globe.

Our professors are a dedicated group of academics and professionals who are distinguished by their ability to bring their academic research and business acumen to the classroom and provide solutions to the practical problems that real-world organizations face.

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Instructors

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Chris Aarons

Chris has 25+ years of experience in marketing and communications and thrives on solving complex problems for his technology clients. He has helped leading companies like Amazon, AMD, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Dell, Dolby Labs, LasikPlus, Microsoft, and Toshiba, as well as numerous startups, find creative solutions to their toughest challenges.

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Ashish Agarwal
Ashish Agarwal

Ashish Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Information Management at The McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin. Ashish has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, India, a Masters in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

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John Allison
John Allison

John R. Allison is both the Mary John and Ralph Spence Centennial Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Center for Legal & Regulatory Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson

Edward Anderson is Associate Professor of Information, Risk, & Operations Management at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He teaches operations management, project management, and launch planning for startups.

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Rayan Bagchi
Rayan Bagchi

Dr. Uttarayan "Rayan" Bagchi is a Professor in the Department of Information, Risk, & Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching areas of expertise include operations management, supply chain management, risk analysis, project management, and management of quality.

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Ross Baldick
Ross Baldick

Ross Baldick is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Sc. and B.E. degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia and his M.S. and PhD from The University of California, Berkeley.

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Caroline Bartel
Caroline Bartel

Dr. Caroline Bartel is an Associate Professor of Management in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Co-Director of the Center for Leadership Excellence at the McCombs School of Business.

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Anitesh Barua
Anitesh Barua

Dr. Anitesh Barua is the Director of the Information Management Program and the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Electronic Commerce in the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Spurgeon Bell Centennial Fellow.

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Fred Beach

Dr. Beach holds a Ph.D. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin; an M.S. in Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School; and a B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University and Certified Level III DoD Acquisition Professional and Program Manager.

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Ben Bentzin
Ben Bentzin

Ben Bentzin is a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business and co-founder/CEO of Interactive Health Technologies, LLC, www.ihtusa.com, an Austin company offering digital technologies for assessing physical fitness and motivating children and adults to self-manage their wellness.

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Y. Sekou Bermiss

Dr. Sekou Bermiss is an Associate Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY), and a M.S. and Ph.D in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Cara Biasucci

Cara Biasucci is Director of Ethics Education for the Center for Leadership and Ethics at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also Creator and Director of Ethics Unwrapped, an award-winning ethics video series and educational program used around the world by more than a thousand colleges and universities as well as in hundreds of companies and other organizations.

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Eric Bickel
Eric Bickel

Dr. Eric Bickel is a professor and director of the Operations Research & Industrial Engineering program at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management in the McCombs School of Business and is the Academic Director of the Strategic Decision and Risk Management (SDRM) certificate program. He also directs the Center for Engineering and Decision Analytics (CEDA) and the Engineering Management program.

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Blythe Warwick
Warwick Blythe

Warwick Blyth co-leads SDG Energy Practice and is a core member of SDG’s Enterprise Risk Management practice team. Since first joining Strategic Decisions Group in 1994 he has worked in many parts of the world and advised clients in a wide variety of industries. His efforts have helped businesses develop novel strategies, improve their decision processes, make major investments, identify new markets, establish new business lines and obtain financing.

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Paul Bommer
Paul Bommer

Dr. Paul Bommer joined the University of Texas at Austin Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in 2004 to teach the undergraduate production course and now teaches numerous applied courses in the department. Paul received his PhD in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas in 1979 and joined Bommer Engineering soon thereafter.

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John Borcherding
John Borcherding

Dr. John D. Borcherding is Adjunct Professor in civil engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Missouri University at Columbia, and MS.] and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering/Construction Management from Stanford University.

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Reidar Bratvold

Reidar holds a PhD in petroleum engineering and and MSc in mathematics, both from Stanford University and has business and management science education from INSEAD and Stanford University.

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Reidar Bratvold

Reidar Brumer Bratvold works at the University of Stavanger and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he is teaching and supervising graduate students doing research in decision analysis, project valuation, portfolio analysis, real-option valuation and behavioral challenges in decision-making. NOTE: Dr. Bratvold teaches in the programs held in Norway.

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Dean Bredeson
Dean Bredeson

Dean Bredeson has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business, Government, and Society since he joined the University faculty in 1996. Professor Bredeson’s areas of interest are business law and business ethics.

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With over 35 years of experience leveraging customized business simulations and experiential learning tools, BTS partners with organizations in strategy execution to engage people more deeply in the strategy, accelerate implementation, and deliver business results. BTS’s unique approach supports the alignment, skill development and behavioral change necessary for exceptional strategy execution. With deep expertise across the Oil & Gas, Mining and other extractive industries – a BTS experience provides you the opportunity to practice before you play in a high-fidelity decision making environment. For a company, the end results are quantifiable and measurable, illustrated in everything from revenue growth to increases in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. This is the first time a customized BTS simulation experience will be available in for open enrollment across the Oil & Gas, Mining and related industries.

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Ethan Burris
Ethan Burris

Dr. Ethan Burris is a Professor of Management and the Chevron Centennial Fellow at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Director of the Center of Leadership Excellence for the McCombs School.

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John Burrows
John Burrows

Dr. John Burrows is a faculty member in the department of management and the director of the Texas Executive MBA program at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt in 1988.

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John Butler
John Butler

John Butler is a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and the Secretary/Treasurer of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.

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Carlos Carvalho
Carlos Carvalho

Dr. Carlos M. Carvalho is Associate Professor of Statistics and the CBA Foundation Centennial Fellow in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business.

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Cameron Chandler
Cameron Chandler

Cameron D. Chandler is the Owner and President of Chandler Energy Resources, LLC, an oil and gas asset management and consulting firm specializing in exploration and production business matters.

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Brett Cornwell
Brett Cornwell

Brett Cornwell is Associate Vice Chancellor for Commercialization at The Texas A&M University System. He directs Texas A&M System Technology Commercialization, which commercializes the intellectual property of the Texas A&M System and creates new companies that develop products and services around System developed technologies.

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Stephen Courter
Stephen Courter

Stephen Courter is an award-winning faculty member in the department of management at The University of Texas at Austin and a former top corporate executive with experience worldwide.

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John Daly
John Daly

Dr. John Daly is the Liddell Professor in the Moody College of Communication, Regents Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Texas Commerce Bancshares Professor of Management at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Paul Damien
Paul Damien

Paul Damien is the B.M. Rankin Jr. Professor of Business in the IROM department at McCombs School of Business. His research interests lie at the intersection of mathematics, Bayesian statistics, and applications in business, engineering, and stochastic optimization.

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Doug Dempster
Doug Dempster

Douglas Dempster is Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance.

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Doug Dierking
Doug Dierking

Dr. Dierking is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Department Chair in the Management Department at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches graduate courses in sustainable leadership, leading people and organizations, creating and managing human capital and the art and science of negotiation.

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John Doggett
John Doggett

John N. Doggett is an award winning Senior Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin (UT). John also is the McCombs Faculty International Alumni Liaison and a Senior Research Fellow at UT’s IC2 Institute. He is the co-founder of UT’s Idea to Product global commercialization competition.

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Minette Drumwright
Minette (Meme) Drumwright

Professor Minette (Meme) Drumwright is an associate professor of Advertising in the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. She currently is faculty chair of U.T.’s Bridging Disciplines Program in Ethics and Leadership.

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Janet Dukerich
Janet Dukerich

Janet Dukerich is the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and a Full Professor in the Management Department at the McCombs School of Business. She holds the Harkins & Company Centennial Chair at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Robert Duvic
Robert Duvic

Dr. Duvic has been teaching at UT since 1989, lecturing in corporate finance and international finance. He has taught in the regular BBA and MBA programs, and also in the Texas Evening MBA Program, the University of Texas Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, and in special corporate executive classes.

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James Dyer
James Dyer

Dr. James S. Dyer holds the Fondren Centennial Chair in Business in the McCombs School of Business.. He served as chair of the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management for nine years (1988-97).

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John Dzienkowski
John Dzienkowski

John is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a high honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. While in law school, John served as the editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review and he received the honors of a member in the UT Chancellors and the Order of the Coif.

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Matthew Eastin
Matthew Eastin

Dr. Matthew S. Eastin is an Associate Professor in the Moody College of Communication, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses in media planning, newer media consumption, and research methods.

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Thomas Edgar
Thomas Edgar

Thomas F. Edgar is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Edgar joined UT’s faculty in 1971. He served as Department Chair of Chemical Engineering (1985-93), Associate Dean of Engineering (1993-96), and Associate Vice President for Academic Computing (1996-2001) at UT-Austin.

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William Fisher
William Fisher

William L. Fisher is the Leonidas T. Barrow Chair and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Cesare Fracassi

Cesare joined the Finance Faculty at the McCombs School of Business in 2009. His primary research interest is in the area of corporate finance.

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R. Britt Freund
R. Britt Freund

Dr. R. Britt Freund is Director of the Project Management Consortium at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is also the former Graduate Business Dean and Director of the Full-Time, Evening and Professional MBA programs at the school.

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Eugene Gholz
Eugene Gholz

Dr. Eugene Gholz works primarily at the intersection of national security and economic policy, on subjects including innovation, defense management, and U.S. foreign policy.

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Steve Gilbert
Steve Gilbert

Stephen M. Gilbert is a Professor of Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Gilbert holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, and a PhD in Operations Management from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.

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Erika Gonzalez-Lima
Erika Gonzalez-Lima

Dr. Erika Gonzalez-Lima is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor with expertise in multicultural counseling and coaching. She provides counseling to individuals facing personal, academic and professional challenges, including stress, anxiety, depression, problems with interpersonal relationships, difficulties adjusting to new environments, and career changes.

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Melissa Graebner
Melissa Graebner

Dr. Melissa Graebner is Associate Professor and CBA Foundation Advisory Council Fellow in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business. She teaches graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology strategy, and has been selected for the MBA Faculty Honor Roll.

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Michael Granof
Michael Granof

Dr. Granof is currently the Ernst & Young Distinguished Centennial Professor and the University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Accounting and at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He received his MBA from Columbia University and received his PhD from the University of Michigan.

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Richard Grant
Richard Grant

Richard D. Grant, Jr. received his PhD in 1973 from The University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Auburn and Texas A&M Universities, and since 1977, has been a counseling/consulting psychologist in Austin, Texas.

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Trey Guinn
Trey Guinn

Trey Guinn is an Assistant Professor of Communication at University of the Incarnate Word, and is a Business Communication Specialist at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Gurcan Gulen
Gurcan Gulen

Dr. Gülen is an energy economist with 25 years of international experience in policy and market research on oil, natural gas, and electric power value chains; and associated strategic technical assistance and customized capacity building in numerous countries.

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Genaro Gurierrez
Genaro Gutiérrez

Dr. Genaro J. Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches operations and supply chain management, as well as project management in the MBA programs and in executive seminars.

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Joe Hahn
Joe Hahn

Joe Hahn is a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance and Associate Director of the Master of Science in Finance Program in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Ursula Hammes
Ursula Hammes

Dr. Ursula Hammes obtained her Diploma in Geology from the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992.

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Bob Hardage
Bob Hardage

Bob A. Hardage is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hardage is in charge of the Bureau's Exploration Geophysics Laboratory, an Industrial Associates Program focused on developing seismic vector-wavefield technology for improved reservoir characterization and prospect evaluation.

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David Harrison
David Harrison

Dave Harrison is the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair of Business Administration in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Harrison earned his PhD in social, organizational and individual differences psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Michael Hasler
Michael Hasler

Michael Hasler, PhD is a Lecturer at the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on Operations Management and Procurement in the Information, Risk, and Operations Management department. He is now the Program Director for the new Master of Science in Business Analytics at McCombs.

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Eric Hirst
Eric Hirst

Dr. Hirst is the King Ranch Chair for Business Leadership at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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Regina Hughes
Regina Hughes

Regina Hughes is a distinguished senior lecturer in the department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. She is also the director of the Business Foundations Program (BFP), a certificate program for non-business majors where more than 6000 UT students participate.

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Julie Irwin
Julie Irwin

Dr. Irwin is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School. In addition to the University of Texas, she has served on the faculty of the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Kapil Jain
Kapil Jain

Dr. Kapil Jain is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and a Fellow at The Center for Customer Insight & Marketing Solutions at the McCombs School of Business. He is also the Assistant Chair of the Marketing Department.

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Sirkka Jarvenpaa
Sirkka Jarvenpaa

Dr. Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa is the Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration at The University of Texas at Austin. She was the holder of the distinguished Marvin Bower Fellowship at Harvard Business School.

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Sharon Jarvis
Sharon Jarvis

Sharon E. Jarvis is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Government and Associate Director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches and conducts research on political communication and persuasion.

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Ross Jennings
Ross Jennings

Dr. Ross Jennings is a Professor of Accounting at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for nearly 30 years, including a year at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile.

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Bruce Judd
Bruce Judd

Dr. Bruce Judd is Partner and Managing Director at Strategic Decisions Group. He helps clients develop internal capabilities to enhance the quality of their decision-making through a combination of on-the-job coaching, professional development and classroom work.

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Stephanie Jue
Stephanie Jue

Stephanie C. Jue is a Lecturer in the Business, Government, and Society Department of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Dave Junker
Dave Junker

Dr. Junker is a lecturer in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations and director of the Senior Fellows Honors Program of the Moody College of Communication. He has won the Teaching Excellence Award for the Moody College and is a finalist for this year’s university-wide Regent’s Teaching Award.

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Orlando Kelm
Orlando Kelm

Dr. Orlando R. Kelm is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses in Portuguese and Spanish, focusing mainly on business language and the cultural aspects of international business communication.

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Charlie Kerans
Charlie Kerans

Charlie Kerans is Goldhammer Chair of Carbonate Geology at the Department of Geological Sciences, and co-Principal Investigator of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Prabhudev Konana
Prabhudev Konana

Dr. Konana's research interests are in global sourcing, e-business value assessment, supply chain management, virtual communities, design of next generation electronic brokerages, and online investing. He has conducted several executive seminars on creating e-business capabilities, Internet strategy, supply-chain management, B2B procurement and data warehouse for managers in chemical, healthcare, semiconductor, retail and utility industries in the U.S., Singapore and India.

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Lisa Koonce
Lisa Koonce

Dr. Koonce’s teaching interests are financial accounting and judgment and decision making in accounting. She teaches graduate and undergraduate Topics in Financial Reporting and Intermediate Accounting; additionally, she teaches a Behavioral PhD Seminar in Accounting.

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Larry W. Lake
Larry W. Lake

Dr. Larry W. Lake earned his PhD in chemical engineering from Rice University in 1973. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1978.

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Karen Landolt

Karen Landolt has been teaching, coaching, and leading in nonprofit, legal, and academic settings for over 20 years.

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Sanford Leeds
Sanford Leeds

Sandy Leeds is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and President of The MBA Investment Fund, L.L.C. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses, including Corporate Finance, Advanced Corporate Finance, Investments, and Portfolio Management / Security Analysis.

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Brian Lendecky
Brian Lendecky

Brian Lendecky is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in 2006 and teaches Financial Accounting, Cost and Managerial Accounting, and the Tax Practicum course, the latter winning a 2008 Governor’s Volunteer Award from Governor Perry and a 2011 Tower Award.

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Stephen Limberg
Stephen Limberg

Dr. Stephen T. Limberg is the PricewaterhouseCoopers Centennial Professor in Accounting in the Department of Accounting, McCombs School of Business, at The University of Texas at Austin and has been the Faculty Director of the Master in Professional Accounting Program since 2005.

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Kristie Loescher
Kristie Loescher

Prior to entering academia in 2001, Kristie spent 15 years working in hospital administration, most recently as Director of Operations for the Medical Affairs Division of the Seton Healthcare Network in Austin.

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Kate Mackie
Kate Mackie

Dr. Kate Mackie is an award-winning professor in the Department of Marketing at the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches MBA, MSTC, and Executive Education classes in marketing, marketing strategy, marketing of technological innovations, buyer behavior, process improvement facilitation, international business operations, and customer insight.

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Arthur Markman
Art Markman

Dr. Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations.

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Luis Martins
Luis Martins

Luis L. Martins is a Professor and Department Chair of Management and the Juanita Dreibelbis Fellow in Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Faculty Director of the MS in Technology Commercialization Program at the McCombs School of Business.

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Christopher Meakin
Christopher Meakin

Christopher Meakin is a member of the Business, Government and Society faculty at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He received a BBA in Management and Business Analysis from Texas A&M University, a MA in Legal History from Rice University and a JD from the University of Houston. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

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Deirdre Mendez
Deirdre Mendez

Deirdre B. Mendez, Ph.D., is an intercultural consultant, speaker, and author who helps U.S. companies and their international partners identify and resolve culture-based problems. Her book, The Culture Solution, facilitates self-guided problem-solving for international executives.

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Jennifer Meyer
Jennifer Meyer

Dr. Jennifer Meyer is Senior Engagement Manger at Strategic Decisions Group and has over 25 years of experience as an educator and strategy consultant.

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Michelle Michot Foss
Michelle Michot Foss

Dr. Foss directs and conducts research at the Center for Energy Economics as well as advising U.S. and international energy companies; publishing and speaking on energy issues; and providing public commentary and testimony to governments.

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Douglas Morrice
Douglas Morrice

Douglas Morrice holds the Bobbie and Coulter R. Sublett Centennial Professorship in Business. He is also Professor of Operations Management and the Director of the University of Texas Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence, a company-sponsored center dedicated to developing research and teaching programs in supply chain management in the Red McCombs School of Business.

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Jeff Mulhausen

Jeff has 15 years of experience managing product innovation initiatives. With a hybrid background as a product designer and ethnographer, Jeff has been listed in over 10 patents. His work has been exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York.

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Melissa Murphy
Melissa Murphy

Dr. Melissa Murphy is the Founder and Chief Communication Coach of The Pitch Academy and award-winning teacher and scholar in organizational communication and technology at The University of Texas at Austin.

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James Nolen
James (Jim) Nolen

Jim Nolen joined the Department of Finance in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin in 1980 and taught graduate and undergraduate classes in corporate finance and entrepreneurship until his retirement in May 2012.

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James O'Connor
James O'Connor

Dr. James O’Connor’s industry experience includes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jewell Planning and Construction, and Murray Jones Murray, Inc. In addition, he has participated in 60 consulting engagements.

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Michael Pappas
Michael Pappas

Dr. Mike Pappas is a Lecturer of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His area of expertise is capital project management and his technical interests are risk management, schedule and cost estimates, contracting strategy, productivity improvement, and dispute prevention and resolution.

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Robert Parrino
Robert Parrino

Dr. Robert Parrino is the Lamar Savings Centennial Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business. He has been a member of the finance faculty at McCombs since 1992, where he teaches MBA courses, executive education programs, and customized courses for executives in financial and non-financial corporations.

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Shefali Patil
Shefali Patil

Shefali V. Patil, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Christopher Patton
Christopher Patton

Dr. Christopher Patton is a people analytics manager at Facebook and an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a people analyst in industry for seven years; his previous experience includes roles at PepsiCo and Google.

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Gaylen Paulson
Gaylen Paulson

Dr. Gaylen Paulson is Associate Dean and Director for Texas Executive Education, and a faculty member in Department of Management at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business. His research and teaching focus on how we interact strategically with people, including in negotiations, conflict management, persuasion, change, and interpersonal communication.

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Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson is a Managing Director at the Pemberton Economic Group and a Lecturer in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business. As a Lecturer at the University of Texas, Michael teaches graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship courses that focus on identifying opportunities for new technologies, market validation, building a team, funding a venture, and landing the first customer.

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Jorge Piñon
Jorge Piñon

Mr. Piñon began his thirty-two year career in the energy sector when he joined Shell Oil Company’s supply and transportation organization in 1975. He was president and CEO of Transworld Oil USA prior to joining Amoco Corporation in 1991 as president of Amoco Corporate Development Company Latin America.

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David Platt
David Platt

David Platt earned his BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA in Marketing from Syracuse University, and his PhD in Accounting from Cornell University.

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Michael Poehl
Michael Poehl

Professor Michael Poehl had a successful 28 years in the Petrochemical Industry before joining the faculty in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation from the University of Texas with honors in May 1974, Professor Poehl went to work for Amoco Chemicals at their Chocolate Bayou location near Alvin, Texas.

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Francisco Polidoro
Francisco Polidoro

Dr. Polidoro holds a PhD. from the University of Michigan and is currently Associate Professor of Management at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Eric Potter
Eric Potter

Mr. Eric Potter is a geologist and serves as the Program Director for Energy Research at the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brad Powley
Brad Powley

Dr. Brad Powley is Senior Consultant at Strategic Decisions Group. He advises clients on corporate strategy, large capital investment decisions, portfolio management, cost and schedule risk analysis, and valuation and decision support for negotiating asset sales and acquisition.

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Robert Prentice
Robert Prentice

Robert A. Prentice is the Ed & Molly Smith Professor of Business Law at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He came to UT in 1980 and is Founding Chair of the Business, Government & Society Department and Faculty Director of Ethics Unwrapped.

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Dr. Katie Pritchett

Dr. Katie Pritchett is an award-winning educator who empowers students to become innovative, resilient, and ethical leaders. As the Director of the Entrepreneurship Minor, Dr. Pritchett brings over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of education and business and on the cusp of innovation. As a valued member of the Texas Executive Education Team, she specializes in strategic innovation, change management, leadership coaching and approaches, and organizational effectiveness.

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Raj Raghunathan
Raj Raghunathan

Dr. Raghunathan is Professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in exploring the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their own happiness and fulfillment.

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Raghunath Rao
Raghunath Rao

Raghunath Singh Rao is an Associate Professor affiliated with McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Ramesh Rao
Ramesh Rao

Ramesh K.S. Rao is the McDermott Centennial Professor of Banking and Finance at the McCombs School of Business. His research interests include asset pricing, informational asymmetry, and the interface between finance and both marketing and operations management.

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Liz Rogers
Liz Rogers

Liz Rogers is a design lecturer at the University of Texas with the Center for integrated Design. She has over 16 years of experience working in the design industry, most recently at IBM, where she works as a senior design researcher, helping product teams design compelling products and experiences based on a deep understanding of user needs, motivations, and behaviors.

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Ehud Ronn
Ehud Ronn

Dr. Ronn obtained his PhD in Finance from Stanford University. He has published articles on investments, interest-rate instruments and energy derivatives in the academic and practitioner literature.

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Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Dr. Maytal Saar-Tsechansky is a Professor of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Thomas Sager
Thomas Sager

Tom Sager received his PhD in statistics from the University of Iowa, and taught at Stanford University prior to his current appointment at The University of Texas at Austin. Tom has written articles on statistics from both applied and theoretical standpoints, including research on insurance companies, air pollution, law, auditing, quality, and mathematics.

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Wayne Scott
Wayne Scott

Wayne Scott is a lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Scott also consults with oil and gas companies and has over twenty years of experience in the international oil industry.

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Dima Shamoun
Dima Shamoun

Dima Shamoun is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches economics in the MBA and BBA programs.

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Mukul Sharma
Mukul Sharma

Dr. Mukul Sharma earned his PhD in petroleum engineering from University of Southern California in 1985. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin that same year.

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Tom Shively
Thomas Shively

Dr. Tom Shively is a Professor of Statistics and the Joe B. Cook Professor of Business in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

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John Snedden
John Snedden

Dr. John Snedden is project leader of the Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) Project in the Jackson School of Geosciences. He has over 25 years of industry experience with Mobil and ExxonMobil, including 11 years in research.

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Garrett Sonnier

Garrett Sonnier is the Zale Corporation Centennial Fellow and Associate Professor of Marketing at the McCombs Business School at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his PhD in Management Science from the UCLA Anderson School. Garrett has been a member of the McCombs faculty since 2006. At McCombs, he teaches the core MBA marketing management course in the full time and working professional MBA programs as well as graduate courses on marketing analytics in the Texas evening MBA program, the Master of Science in Business Analytics, and the Master of Science in Marketing programs. In 2014, Garrett was named the winner of the McCombs School of Business Teaching Award for Assistant Professors.

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David Spence
David Spence

David Spence is Professor of Law, Politics & Regulation at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and School of Law, where he teaches courses on energy regulation and business-government relations. He is also the Co-Director of the Energy Management & Innovation Center at the McCombs School of Business.

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Carl Spetzler
Carl Spetzler

Dr. Carl Spetzler co-founded Strategic Decisions Group in 1981 and currently serves as chairman and CEO. He is a leader in strategy and innovation processes, helping corporate leaders cope with the lack of explicit strategic alternatives, deal with the complexities of uncertainty and risk over long time horizons, and achieve lasting change.

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Raji Srinivasan
Raji Srinivasan

Dr. Srinivasan is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. She has been working at the University of Texas at Austin since 2000 and teaches MBA and PhD courses in high technology marketing: marketing metrics, challenges of global marketing and organizational innovation.

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Josiah Sternfeld

Josiah Sternfeld is a Lecturer in the Marketing Department in the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.

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Xavier Sztejnberg
Xavier Sztejnberg

Xavier Sztejnberg is a lecturer in the Finance Department where he teaches a course on corporate valuation to McCombs MBA and MPA students.

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Steven Tani
Steven Tani

Dr. Steven Tani is Partner and Fellow at Strategic Decisions Group. An experienced professional in decision and risk analysis, he has assisted a wide variety of clients in R&D portfolio management, new business entry strategy, capital investment decisions, decision analysis, and new product planning.

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Huseyin Tanriverdi
Huseyin Tanriverdi

Huseyin Tanriverdi is an Associate Professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Tanriverdi examines how organizations innovate, grow, achieve and sustain superior financial performance.

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Scott Tinker
Scott Tinker

Dr. Tinker currently serves as Acting Associate Dean for Research in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role he works with the Dean and University administration to manage issues related to research in the Jackson School.

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Sheridan Titman
Sheridan Titman

Dr. Sheridan Titman holds the Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services in the Department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Titman’s research focuses on the banking, capital markets, energy and investment banking industries.

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PK Toh
PK Toh

PK Toh is an Associate Professor in the Management Department, McCombs School of Business. He received his PhD in Strategy from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2007.

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Carlos Torres-Verdin
Carlos Torres-Verdin

Dr. Carlos Torres-Verdín is currently the Zarrow Centennial Professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department and Program Director of the Formation Evaluation Joint Industry Research Consortium.

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Eric van Oort
Eric van Oort

Dr. Eric van Oort is a world-class expert in drilling and production.

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Stephen Walls
Stephen Walls

Stephen Walls is a Senior Lecturer in the Marketing Department at The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses on Marketing Principles, Brand Management, Digital/Social/Mobile Marketing, and Design Thinking within the BBA and MBA programs, along with the Masters in Engineering Management program. He has received a number of teaching awards since joining the McCombs faculty in 2002. Stephen also works on several initiatives across the college, including the design of new graduate business education center, Robert B. Rowling Hall, and the development of McCombs’ first online foundation courses.

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Michael Webber
Michael Webber

Michael Webber is the Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through research and education at the intersection of engineering, policy, and commercialization.

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Katherine Weller
Katherine Weller

Ms. Katherine “Trina” Weller is Senior Engagement Manager at Strategic Decisions Group. For more than 25 years she has helped organizations make better decisions through consulting, training, and software.

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Ken Wiles
Ken Wiles

Ken is the Associate Director of the Hick, Muse Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity Finance, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Michael Williamson
Michael Williamson

Dr. Michael Williamson is an Associate Professor of Accounting and an Ernst and Young faculty fellow. Before joining the University of Texas, Michael was a business consultant for Ernst and Young.

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Hannah Winter
Hannah Winter

Ms. Hannah Winter is Partner and Managing Director at Strategic Decisions Group where she leads the firm’s Executive Education Practice, developing and teaching courses designed to build individual capability in decision making and risk management.

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