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- Associate Professor at the Department of Management
Emanuele Padovani, Ph.D., is associate professor at the Department of Management, School of Economics Management and Statistics, University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches Public Performance Governance and Service Delivery, Management and Accounting Issues in Public-Private Partnership, Accounting and Auditing in the European Public Sector, Management Control Systems. He also has been invited as guest lecturer at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels in many different Italian universities and abroad (University of Valencia in Spain, Methodist University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Aahrus Business School in Denmark, Michigan State University of East Lansing in the U.S., University of Washington of Seattle in the U.S., Université Paul Cézanne of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille in France). He has also taught for several national and international public and private executive training institutions amongst which Institut National des Etudes Territoriales (INET, France), Italian school for public managers (SSPA), Ministry of Treasury, Italian bank association, Il Sole 24 Ore).
His research focuses mainly in public management and accounting with particular reference to local governments and healthcare organizations. His area of expertise concerns management control systems, performance measurement for management, auditing and benchmarking, and management of outsourcing. He has collaborated on research and consulting projects with major local, national and international public institutions throughout Italy and Europe, including the INET - Institut National des Etudes Territoriales, France (public training institute for city managers and senior managers of French local governments), EIPA - European Institute for Public Administration (European Union), Italian Home Office, the Department of Public Affairs, the Department of Civil Protection, the National Audit Court, and the leading Italian publisher for financial topics Il Sole 24 Ore. He has served as an expert for the Italian Independent Commission for Evaluation, Transparency and Integrity for Public Sector with the aim to cooperate in the definition of the national guidelines for performance management in the public sector. He is co-developer of a model of financial distress assessment for local governments and their corporations by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (Belgium), multinational world leader in databases containing public and private organizations' financial and non-financial information. He has been responsible for a joint project by the Local Healthcare Authority of Forlì (Italy) and University of Bologna's Department of Management on the introduction of financial and non-financial performance measurement within the operating room department at Forlì Hospital based on ICT; this project has been awarded by the European Institute for Public Administration within the European Public Sector Award 2011. In March 2013, he has been appointed as national expert for spending review by the National Audit Court.
Margaret Woodruff was a principal with The Bristol Group for 15 years and with Mitretek Healthcare for 3 years. She has a clinical background with experience in various management positions in acute-care hospitals.
Her background enables her to present management principles clearly and confidently to clinical providers. Clients respect her ability to coordinate activities and to preserve their resources: capital, management time, and space. Her projects have resulted in improved efficiency, cost reductions, and increased satisfaction for physicians, staff, and patients.
Her professional Experience includes:
Complex clinical services planning projects resulting in new services and/or new facilities
Operational programming that has led to better design processes, buildings and operations
Operational improvement projects resulting in reduced costs and improved quality
Strategic facility planning that have analyzed complex options and helped hospitals to reach consensus on the best approach to follow
Master planning as part of teams with healthcare architects
Project management that has brought projects in on time, and on budget while maintaining quality
Regulatory work on certificates of need and licensure applications with an understanding of how to respond to questions from regulatory agencies
Her professional affiliations include:
Leslie K. Breitner is on the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, where she teaches in the accounting area. She is a director of McGill's International Masters Program in Practicing Management as well as its International Masters for Health Leadership.
Prior to joining McGill, she was a Principal Lecturer of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she taught the Master of Public Administration core budgeting and financial management course, as well as courses in performance management, and nonprofit financial management. She also served as the faculty director for the Univeristy's Cascade Executive Programs and was faculty co-director of the Executive Master of Public Administration program, where she taught courses in financial statement analysis, financial management, and performance management.
Prior to joining the University of Washington, she taught graduate level financial management and public sector budgeting courses at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Breitner is an experienced teacher in distance learning courses. She developed the online financial management curricula for both the Kennedy School and Seton Hall University's Masters in Health Care Administration program (where she continues to teach some courses). She has also taught and consulted to medical schools, teaching hospitals, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on issues related to financial management, integrated health delivery, and strategic planning.
Dr. Breitner is co-author (with the late Professor Robert N. Anthony) of the popular accounting books Essentials of Accounting, 10th Edition and Essentials of Accounting Review, both of which were revised and published in 2010, with additional revisions scheduled for 2012.
She was the 2004 recipient of the Evans School Teacher of the Year Award, and the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. She recently served as a board member of Sustainable Seattle and an advisory board member of Youth Ambassadors, both of which are Seattle-area nonprofit organizations. She recently joined the board of Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger), an international organization.
Dr. Breitner received her Doctorate in Business Administration) from Boston University's Graduate School of Management.
Roger Strang, DBA, is a Boston-based consultant in the areas of marketing, strategy and executive development, and an Adjunct Professor at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. He has also held faculty positions in marketing and strategy at Oxford University and the University of Southern California, been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Columbia and NYU and a Fellow at the London Business School.
Dr. Strang is the author of The Promotional Planning Process, and numerous articles and papers for a variety of publications including Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Marketing. He has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant for clients in a wide range of fields, including IT, telecom, universities and healthcare systems, as well as companies involved in manufacturing and marketing pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. His administrative experience includes sales and marketing positions as well as over four years as president of an international specialty food company and six years as a business school dean.
Dr. Strang earned his doctorate in marketing from the Harvard Business School, his MBA (in marketing) from Michigan State University, and his undergraduate degrees (in business and in history) from the University of Otago in his native New Zealand.