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- Member Emeritus ), IM 1960
Dr. Oettl serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Strategy and Innovation area. His research interests include the economics of innovation, knowledge spillovers, labor mobility, and economic geography. His current work focuses on the production and diffusion of ideas at the individual, firm, and regional level.
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- Senior Vice President, Home Services ( Retired ), the Home Depot
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- Meeting and Event Manager
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- Assistant Director - Business Operations
- Program Support Coordinator for the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Arianna joined the Scheller College of Business as program support coordinator for the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business in 2014 and was promoted to program and operations manager in 2015. In her current role as assistant director of business operations, she executes, coordinates, and supports the Center's strategic projects, events, and ongoing programs and initiatives. She also manages the Center's finances, its marketing and communications strategy, and its team of graduate research and student assistants.
Prior to joining Scheller College, she worked for the central office of a national non-profit organization focused on leadership development.
Arianna received her BBA in Managerial Sciences from Georgia State University Robinson College of Business. She received her MBA (with concentrations in strategic sustainability, leadership and collaboration, and cross-cultural human resource management) from Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.
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- Associate Professor
- Operations Management
Dr. Kalkanci serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Operations Management area. Her current research focuses on socially and environmentally responsible supply chain management, behavioral operations management, supply risk management, contracting and information sharing in supply chains.
Basak Kalkanci describes the first year of her doctoral program at Stanford University as "a long vacation." This vacation, however, had far less to do with the California sun than the excitement and stimulation of being exposed to new knowledge surrounded by smart, educated people. "People usually talk about the difficulty of transitioning to a new country," says Basak, who is from Turkey, "but I was immersed in the constant influx of new knowledge, taking classes in statistics, economics, business, math, and engineering."
Since joining Scheller in 2005, Beril has been an active voice in sustainability. She has received several National Science Foundation grants to study sustainable business practices, teaches an MBA-level course on business strategies for sustainability, and is internationally known for her research on sustainable operations management, with a focus on socially responsible, environmentally friendly business practices. Beril led Scheller's efforts to start the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, which she sees as a hub to bring together the business know-how of Scheller College with the technical know-how of the Georgia Tech community.
Profile As a young girl growing up in Turkey, Beril Toktay accepted water and air pollution as a fact of life. "It wasn't until I went abroad that I saw how much better it could be," says the professor of operations management and holder of the Brady Family Chair at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. This realization fueled Toktay's interest in sustainability. Today, she is internationally known as a scholar in the field of sustainable operations management, with a focus on socially responsible, environmentally friendly business practices. Toktay led the College's efforts to launch the Center on Business Strategies for Sustainability, and now serves as the Center's faculty director.
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- Vice President, Investments, GrayGhost Ventures
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- Executive Vice President, Center for Creative Leadership
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Corporate Relations Manager Meet Caroline Player
Caroline Player has spent over fifteen years working in university career services, much of that time at Georgia Tech. In addition to the nearly four years she's spent working at Scheller, she served as the Director of Alumni Career Services at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association for nine years. In her current role on the Jones Career Center team, Caroline is responsible for providing career coaching to students in the Full-time MBA program as well as growing and maintaining relationships with employers that hire MBA students.
Caroline has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Business Administration: Finance from Converse College in Spartanburg, SC. She also has an M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services from the University of South Carolina.
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- Cecil B. Day Chair in Business Ethics
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Co - Founder and Director of Research, Shapiro Capital Management
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- Managing Director, Bowstring Advisors
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Career Center Team
- Executive Director Meet Dave Deiters
Dave Deiters joined Scheller in June 2018 as the leader of the Jones MBA Career Center. Dave brings over 35 years of years of senior leadership experience from the management consulting and technology industries, including firms such as North Highland and Accenture. He has a proven track record of building sustainable business relationships with executives at world-class firms across a variety of sectors, and has deep expertise in coaching/mentoring MBA professionals.
Dave is a Scheller College of Business graduate (Co-Operative, BSIM). Like the rest of the Jones MBA Career Center team, he serves as a student advisor and mentor, and represents Scheller to the business community - recruiting companies and developing and maintaining corporate relationships. He is actively involved as a member the MBA Admissions Committee.
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- Industry
- Industry Engagement Manager
David joined Georgia Tech in 2018 as an industry engagement manager Sr., a co-appointment for the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at the Scheller College of Business and the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain in the Office of Undergraduate Education. In this role, he will expand and deepen relationships with the business sector to advance strategic objectives within the university and the two centers. Prior to joining the Centers, David spent over 23 years leading sustainability initiatives and facilitating stakeholder engagements through various professional and civic roles. He started his career as a community organizer working on environmental and public health challenges in low-income, minority, and coastal communities in Georgia and the southeast. After graduate school, he became a fellow with the Army Environmental Policy Institute, based at Georgia Tech, and later joined the research faculty in Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy, before working i n management consulting for the last 14 years.
David has an MS in Urban Studies, concentrated in community planning and development, from Georgia State University, and a BA in philosophy, focused on environmental ethics, with additional studies in sociology, from the University of Georgia.
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- Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership
- Managing Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Dori Pap is the Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact (formerly the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship). She directs the Leadership for Social Good Study Abroad Program in Central and Eastern Europe, coordinates the Impact Speaker Series, runs the annual Ideas to Serve student social innovation competition, and teaches courses on social entrepreneurship.
Outside Tech, Dori serves on the board of Global Growers Network, a nonprofit organization that connects the agricultural talent of the refugee community in and around Atlanta to opportunities in sustainable agriculture. She is a board member for the Center for Civic Innovation, an organization that works at the frontline of civics education and advocacy, and she serves on the board of the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative. Dori is a triple Yellow Jacket and is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at the Institute for Higher Education at UGA.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
Dr. Bradford Baker is an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on two areas. First, he examines individual and team proactive behaviors, such as speaking up and taking charge, and shows when and how these behaviors can either benefit or harm individual and team performance. Second, he also explores the impact of pro-other unethical behaviors, such as engaging in unethical acts to help ones' coworkers and organization. His work appears in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Leadership Quarterly, and the Harvard Business Review.
Profile Growing up in Montana, Bradford Baker saw economic pressures push many farmers, including his family, to become less focused on the environment in an attempt to increase productivity. Monocrop systems proved to be detrimental not only to the environment but also to farmers' financial resilience. Bradford says, "I witnessed the farm crisis of the '80s, when many farms went out of business. As a kid, I didn't have language to describe what was happening. It wasn't until my 20s that I looked back on those experiences through a sustainability lens."
Profile: As a high school student in Calhoun, Georgia, Eric Overby followed the 1988 presidential election race when acid rain was a campaign issue for George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. He says, "What really compelled me to be interested in sustainability was learning about the Clean Air Act from 1990." A cap and trade system created allowances for how much sulfur dioxide power plants could emit. Plants that did not use their allowances could sell their excess allowances to other plants that had over-emitted. Eric found this emissions-reducing policy fascinating. He says, "It worked on both sides of the aisle by using conservative principles to solve what many would consider to be a liberal issue. I thought, 'Hey, this is something that actually could work in a two-party political system like we have.' And it did work."
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- Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
- Member Emeritus ), IM 1952, Hon. Ph.D. 2013
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- Professor, Strategic Management
Frank's research interests lie in the areas of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Profile Spending time in East Germany as a youth, Frank saw the ravages of unfettered industrialization first hand: the polluted air and poisoned rivers of his youth were the silent casualties in the march toward progress. Not surprisingly, Frank is interested in the business practices of companies that attend to the longer-term consequences of their activities. "Our old approach to accounting was basically 'profits equals revenue minus costs'," he says. "In this model, neither consumers nor companies paid the long-term costs of what a company was doing to the environment; that was added to a tab picked up later by society."
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Career Services Manager Meet Frankie Massaroni
Frankie (she/her) joined the Scheller College of Business in May 2021 as the Operations Manager for the Jones MBA Career Center. She received her M. Ed. in Higher Education Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina in 2016 and worked as a graduate assistant in the Study Abroad Office. She worked at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management as an Academic Adviser from 2016 until 2021. She also was an Career Skills instructor for four years at the University of Minnesota and the co-chair of the Academic Advising Network.
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- Member Emeritus ), IM 1971
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Gregory J. Owens Professor
Dr. Kuang serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Accounting area. His teaching interests are financial accounting and managerial accounting. His research investigates the effects of economic and psychological factors on decision-making in accounting and related business settings.
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- President & CEO, Hands on Atlanta
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- Senior Manager, Jabian Consulting
Jennifer, who joined Scheller College of Business in 2016, brings over 20 years of experience in communications to the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. She interprets high-level research for a broader audience; supports faculty, staff, and students with multimodal communications projects; and brings to life the stories behind those practitioners and academics involved in today's most cutting-edge work in sustainable business.
Jennifer is the author of a book of poetry, White Portals (Press 53, 2018). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Atlanta Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa. Jennifer was educated at Fairfield University (BA in English); St. Hilda's College, Oxford University; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA in Writing); and the University of Connecticut (PhD in English).
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- Vice President for Programs, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
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- Executive Director, GT CIBER, Professor
John McIntyre's interest in sustainability was sparked in the 1970s when he was a teenager living in Naples, Italy, where his father was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The Mediterranean Sea at the time was heavily polluted, and port cities felt the brunt of waste products freely discharged by all manner of ships. John remembers it being difficult to swim on some of the beaches without encountering contaminants or dead shellfish.
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- Chairman - Elect, IMGT 1984
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- Chief Information and Engineering Officer, UPS
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology 's Scheller College of Business
- Professor
Professor Davis-Nozemack loves teaching. She completed several teaching fellowships with the Institute's Center for Teaching & Learning. She has also received numerous teaching accolades, including the Brady Family Award for Teaching Excellence, CETL Curriculum Innovation Award, Scheller Professor of the Year (twice), and Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Awards in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Profile "People at first don't understand how sustainability and tax could be related. It's kind of like ice cream and pickles," says Karie Davis-Nozemack, associate professor of law and ethics at the Scheller College of Business. "But the more you look at it, the more you see it's a natural fit."
Professor Davis-Nozemack's research is available at SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1713830
Profile: Growing up Chennai, India, Karthik says his family "wasted almost nothing." Although the household was financially secure, they bought things they needed but generally not stuff they wanted. "It's not something we did to be sustainable or fashionable. It's just the way of life in most resource-constrained environments," he says.
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- President, Fusion Advisors, LLC
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ( Retired ), the Coca - Cola Company
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Business Analytics Center
- Professor of the Practice
Keith Werle is managing director of the Business Analytics Center and a Professor of the Practice in Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. With over 30 years of experience in industry and consulting, his background spans a broad range of business disciplines including finance, analytics, strategy, and corporate development. He has consulted in many industries and for a diverse range of clients, from venture capital backed technology startups to global Fortune 50 companies. His client work focused on business analytics and the application of advanced data visualization, multi-dimensional performance analysis, data mining and machine learning techniques in strategy development, decision support, and operations management.
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Career Coach & Corporate Relations Manager Meet Kelley Broome
Kelley Broome joined the Scheller College of Business in December 2011. Kelley has served the Jones MBA Career Center since 2013 as MBA Career Services Manager, working with employers and students to organize on-campus recruiting efforts and supporting other career services operations. In 2019 she transitioned to the Corporate Relations team. She provides career coaching to the working professionals in the Evening MBA program as well as growing and maintaining relationships with employers that hire MBA students.
Kelley received her MS in College Student Personnel from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to joining Scheller her experiences included 14 years of recruiting for university admissions and study abroad programs.
Kelley works with Evening MBA students, last name A-J.
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Career Coach & Corporate Relations Manager Meet Kevin Stacia
Kevin Stacia joined the MBA Career Services staff in February 2013, after having worked in Georgia Tech Career Services for 3 years as a Career Specialist. He is responsible for providing career coaching to Full Time MBA students, facilitating career development workshops, as well as developing and managing the relationships for a portfolio of companies seeking to recruit MBAs for their full time and internship positions.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech Kevin worked for 20 years as a Human Resources professional with several high tech companies including Scientific Atlanta, Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. During his tenure at Agilent Technologies Kevin served as the Global Campus Program Manager for their Life Sciences business unit.
Kevin received his MBA from Clark Atlanta University.
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- Program Support Coordinator
Kjersti joined the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business staff in Spring 2017. Her role includes general office administration, event management and assisting in program and student engagement initiatives. Prior to joining the Center, Kjersti worked in the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech and two years in the AmeriCorps VISTA program.
Kjersti received her Undergraduate Degree in Community Health Education from the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, and her Master's in Public Administration from Georgia State University.
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Career Coach & Corporate Relations Manager Meet Kristen Pratt
Kristen Pratt joined Scheller College in 2017 with more than 15 years of professional experience, the majority focused on Human Capital Management. She provides career coaching to the working professionals in the Evening MBA program as well as growing and maintaining relationships with employers that hire MBA students.
Kristen spent ten years at Bain & Company, starting as a Consultant and most recently serving as a Director of Consulting Operations and Human Resources. She has also worked at Turner, The Walt Disney Company, and Procter & Gamble in various capacities. She received her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her B.S. in Marketing and Business Management from Cornell University.
Kristen works with Evening MBA students, cohorts prior to Fall 2020 last name K-Z, and cohorts Fall 2020 and beyond, last name M-Z.
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- Founder & CEO, EnSignis LLC
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- Member of the Career Center Team
- Career Coach & Corporate Relations Manager Meet Larry Faskowitz
- Coach & Corporate Relations Manager
Larry Faskowitz joined the MBA Career Services staff in January, 2018 and brings over 30 years of management and industry experience to our students and the companies that he worked with to this role. Larry is responsible for providing career coaching to MBA students and managing the relationships for a portfolio of companies seeking to recruit MBAs.
Larry advises Full-time MBAs and Evening MBAs Fall 2020 Cohort, last name E-L.
He's had a distinguished career as a senior executive at Kodak with responsibility for some of Kodak's largest customers and managing teams that had MBAs on them. More recently Larry has served as an executive coach and recruiter. He is passionate about developing others. Larry received his B.S. in Marketing from Syracuse University.
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- Member Emeritus ), IM 1973
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- Professor, Law and Ethics
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- Executive Vice President ( Retired ), Questar Corporation
Profile It sounds like a bad joke: the man who meticulously plans a two-month solo backpack trip around the world has his wallet stolen in Vatican City, is mugged in South Africa, and experiences a parachute failure while sky diving in Canada. These all-too-real tribulations happened to Manpreet, who managed to survive and learn some valuable lessons about life and business, chief among them: you may come up with a plan or scheme, but you need to be fluid in order to react to the unexpected.
Michael joined Scheller College in 2016 as the managing director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business where he teaches business sustainability courses and oversees industry outreach, partnerships, and educational initiatives. Before joining Scheller College, Michael spent over 25 years working at the intersection of international business, sustainability, and risk management including serving in leadership roles at Acorn International LLC and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). In these roles, he advised a broad range of international energy and mining companies on local content, social impact/performance, reporting, strategy, and human rights topics. Michael has also worked for Chevron, Price Waterhouse, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in risk management, financial/fiscal analysis, and in strategic planning functions.
Michael has an MBA from Rice University, an MIA from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a B.A. from Trinity College in Russian Area Studies. He is also an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Sustainable Development Technical Section.
"I have a vivid memory of telling people when I was in high school, 'I'm never going to go into business-ever,'" says Michael Oxman. He wanted to do something that he perceived to be "more meaningful." However, an undergraduate major in Russian Studies and master's degree in international political economy led him down an unexpected path to (you guessed it)-business. His early career trajectory took him from writing accounts of Soviet émigré scientists to working in political risk insurance for US companies investing overseas (his focus being the former Soviet Union). Later, missing the international life he had enjoyed as a study abroad student in Moscow, he moved to Kazakhstan with his wife and then six-month-old daughter to take a role with Price Waterhouse, whose principal customers were the oil and gas industry. When he moved again to Houston to work for Texaco (later Chevron), "the sustainability bug" hit. At the time, task forces were creating a process to help international business units manage "above ground risk" in regard to social, environmental, political, and commercial issues. As he moved into other positions as an advisor to energy (traditional and renewable) and mining companies, Michael focused primarily on companies' social performance in addition to risk management, strategy, local economic development, and CSR reporting. Michael's work took him to rural U.S. locations and international destinations such as Guatemala, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Russia, and elsewhere.
Now Managing Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Michael teaches a sustainable business practicum that has student teams working directly with companies, spreads awareness of the Center, engages with students and affiliated faculty, and promotes industry partnerships. He says, "In my own career, I had the advantage of getting traditional industry experience first, which provided the business platform for moving into corporate sustainability." This route, he claims, gave him perspectives not only on the major environmental and social issues of our times but also on specific opportunities for business to support their own bottom line through risk mitigation, branding, employee retention, and innovation, to name a few. Michael says, "The more you understand different business functions and what motivates people in those roles, the better able you'll be to make connections."
So, what would he tell his high school self who thought a life in business could not be meaningful? "I think what I've discovered along the way is that being committed to sustainability, having business make a difference, and focusing on commercial objectives are complementary activities." He says, "This is even more true now than when I was in high school."
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- Investment Strategist, Truist
Dr. Lin serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Information Technology Management area. His research focuses on fintech, lending, crowdfunding, entrepreneurship, social media, and healthcare.
Profile: A trip to Germany as a teenager exposed Morvarid to recycling-something that would eventually become what she calls "a bit of an obsession." When she grew up in Iran, recycling was not a common practice. However, when she travelled to Germany to visit her uncle who had moved there, she realized his family recycled everything. "They separated all their items in their basement, loaded them in the trunk of their car, and then had to drive somewhere to drop them off," she says. Seeing so much effort put into recycling (essentially a foreign concept to her at the time) prompted Morvarid to ask her uncle a simple question: "Why?" He answered that the German government wanted them to take care of the environment, so they did. Morvarid says, "It was the first time I realized that you can do something good without being personally rewarded for your actions. You do it because it's good for people and the environment."
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- Assistant Director of Operations
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- President and Chief Executive Officer, Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service
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- Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair
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- Center Faculty Director of Educational Innovation
- Operations Management
- Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College
Ravi Subramanian is a Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. He served as Faculty Director of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary Denning Technology and Management Program from 2013 to 2016.
Ravi received the inaugural Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability in 2012, which recognizes "scholars who have distinguished themselves through the breadth and innovativeness of their scholarly work on questions related to sustainable operations and the social and environmental impact of business." Ravi served as a Department Editor for the Sustainable Operations Department of Production and Operations Management from 2015 to 2018 and received an inaugural Best Department Editor Award in 2018. He currently serves as Senior Editor for the Department.
Ravi has prior business experience in operations strategy, manufacturing planning, and ERP implementation. He has also collaborated on NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)-funded work with UrjaNet - a Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center startup offering energy information solutions.
Ravi holds a PhD in Operations and Management Science (Ross School of Business) and an MS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, a Master of Management degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (India), and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani (India).
Profile When Ravi's mother visits from India, she does something people may find curious: after using a paper towel, she washes it, hangs it to dry, and uses it again. This simple example illustrates quite well the perspective Ravi brings to his work. In particular, he thinks a lot about consumer behavior as it relates to sustainability. "Certain things are so easy to do, it's surprising that there is debate," he says. He points to the simple act of disposing of a battery. Do you toss it in the trash or do you dispose of it in a recycling bin at a nearby store? Understanding consumer behavior is important, he explains, because it affects the larger issue of sustainability at the economy level. "Most companies' actions are driven by customer choices, such as what to buy, how long to use, and where to dispose. If we want firms to go beyond the basic measures required by regulations, we need to not only understand the kinds of company practices that help create and sustain firm value, but also to understand customer behavior," he says.
After graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in industrial engineering, Ray C. Anderson started a career in textiles. In 1973, he founded his company, Interface. It eventually become the world's largest manufacturer of modular floor coverings.
By 1994, Interface was successful by every business metric. However, when asked what Interface was doing for the environment, Ray was unsatisfied with a response limited to regulation and compliance. He sought inspiration and guidance from the book, The Ecology of Commerce, where he encountered Paul Hawken's assertion that industry is both the sector responsible for the greatest amount of environmental harm as well as the only sector with the necessary size and capital to turn things around. Hawken's words led to a "spear in the chest" moment for Ray. From that moment, he committed the rest of his life to making Interface a breakthrough leader in corporate sustainability and to advocating for a paradigm shift in business thinking.
Ray believed fundamentally that when done right, business can be a force for good in the world. We are honored to continue his legacy by educating "the Ray C. Andersons of tomorrow."
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- President and Chief Executive Officer, Coca - Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Associate Professor
- Area Coordinator
Dr. Bond serves as the Area Coordinator and PhD Coordinator for the Marketing area. His research deals with consumer psychology and behavior. Much of his work focuses on the consequences of modern technology for consumer information processing and decision making.
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- Corporate Engagement Manager
Sherri joined the Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business in August 2017 as the corporate engagement manager. She is responsible for identifying, developing and maintaining corporate partnerships that drive collaboration between the Business Analytics Center and the analytics industry. Before joining the Business Analytics Center, Sherri worked as a corporate relations manager for the Georgia Tech Master of Science in Analytics Program. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she built a 25+ year accomplished track record in business development, corporate relations, program management and fundraising. Her extensive experience spans multiple industry sectors in technology, consumer products, education and nonprofit.
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- Co - Director of the Business Analytics Center
Sridhar Narasimhan is co-Director of the Business Analytics Center and a professor of Information Technology Management. His research interests are in the areas of IT Infrastructure including computer network design, distributed databases, and IT outsourcing. Dr. Narasimhan has published in Management Science, ORSA Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Computers and Operations Research, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Computer Communications, Annals of Operations Research, and Naval Research Logistics, Group Decision and Negotiation, Journal of Database Management, and Information and Management.
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- Steven a. Denning Professor in Technology & Management
Profile Sudheer Chava can trace his interest in finance to a very young age. "In high school I happened to read a novel whose main character invested in the stock market," he explains. Fascinated by the concept, he began following stocks and eventually investing himself, becoming something of an amateur day trader. "I made money and lost money," he says of his early foray into the stock market. Although he majored in computer science in college, his curiosity about finance led him to an MBA program, but after a year working in industry he still wanted to know more about finance, which led him to pursue a PhD. A common question in his recent research is whether finance can be a force for good in the world. Specifically, his work looks at whether capital markets can cause companies to change behavior, particularly behavior related to sustainability. The answer, in brief, is yes. In fact he found that the markets charge a higher interest rate to more polluting companies, most likely because of the risks involved in polluting as well as the general public relations costs of being a polluter.
Dr. Lee serves as the PhD Coordinator for the Finance area. Her research focuses on financial econometrics and their applications in asset pricing and has been presented in a number of academic conferences including American Finance Association Meetings, European Finance Association Meetings, and Econometric Society Meetings, among others.
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- Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship
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- Executive Director, Atlanta Micro Fund
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- Immediate past Chair, IMGT 1983
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- Chairman and Coordinator for the Organizational Behavior
- Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship
Dr. Blum serves as the PhD Chair and Coordinator for the Organizational Behavior area. After serving as Dean of the College of Business (1999-2007), Blum became the founding director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE), an interdisciplinary unit that develops individual and organizational leadership capabilities for economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability.
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- Program Manager
- Academic Program Manager
Theresa joined the Scheller College of Business in May 2017, and serves as the Academic Program Manager to the TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Program. In this role she provides support to Faculty and program participants, managing logistical, operational, and administrative functions and coordinating special events. Theresa also collaborates with the Programs Executive Director to coordinate program recruiting initiatives, and develop and maintain a comprehensive pool of qualified candidates for positions within the program.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Theresa was the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Coordinator at Spelman College for 10 years.
Theresa Metzger serves as the Academic Program Manager to the PhD Program and the TI:GER (Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results) Program. She provides strategic oversight for the Salesforce CRM system implementation for PhD admissions.
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- Founder and Chairman, Pope & Land Enterprises, Inc
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- Director of Finance and Strategy ( Japan Country CFO ), AbbVie
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director of the Doctoral Program
Ursula Reynolds serves as the Associate Director of the Doctoral Program. In this role, she provides leadership and oversees operations for recruiting, admissions, program and marketing development, and student services. She also serves as an instructor for the GT1000 Women and Leadership freshman seminar.
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- Head of Contact Center AI Services, Google Professional Services
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- Director, Leadership Education and Development, Division of Student Affairs
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- Professor of Information Technology Management, Director of China Program
Yu "Jeffrey" Hu is a professor of Information Technology Management, director of China Program, co-director of Business Analytics Center, and associate director of Center for Data Analytics at Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business. He is an expert on big data, business analytics, electronic commerce, internet retailing, social media, consumer behavior, and online advertising. He co-authored the first paper on the "Long Tail" phenomenon in internet markets and the first paper on the value of social media in predicting stock markets. He is among the first to measure the effect of social media promotions on product sales.