EMBA - Key Persons
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- Acting Chair, Management & Global Business
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- Co - Founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Mr. Alex Plinio is the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School (RBS). Former President/CEO of AFS-USA, the largest nonprofit international and intercultural student exchange program in the United States, Alex Plinio previously held senior executive positions at Prudential Financial in the areas of insurance, investments, financial services and public affairs. His business experience includes executive positions in marketing, operations and administration, change management and start-ups. He was head of Prudential Annuity Services, a billion dollar retirement products business. He also led the start up and served as President of the Prudential Foundation.
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Professional Accounting
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- Member of the Board
- CFO, Gucci North America ( Executive Board )
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Arent Fox ( Executive Board )
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management Director, MS in SCM MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Instructor of Professional Practice, Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Director and Professor at FAME Center, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
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- Member of the Board
- Retired Executive Compensation Consultant, FW Cook Rutgers Business School Dean 's Advisory Board, Former Trustee of Rutgers University ( Executive Board )
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- SVP of Sales & Planning, Kasper Group ( Executive Board )
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- Founder and Co - President of BizXL a Boutique
- Instructor of Professional Practice
- Operations and Strategic Leadership Executive
Chander Sharma is the founder and co-president of BizXL a boutique management consulting firm that works with business professionals and companies to improve business performance and enterprise risk management.
Chander has been an operations and strategic leadership executive with 21 years of international experience in business transformation, change management and building a culture of continuous improvement.
Chander has supported businesses/clients across Canada, US, India, UK, and Australia for Fortune 500 companies across Banking, Financial Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Automobiles and Consumer Goods.
An active speaker at Business Excellence / BPM conferences; he chaired the 2013 "Business Process Excellence for Financial Services" conference organized by PEX network in New York.
Chander has been an executive at Manulife Financial, Royal Bank, GE Capital, Genpact, Delphi Automotive, Whirlpool, and Eicher. He is currently the lead faculty for the Mini-MBA™: Idea Design to Execution Accelerator (IDEA).
Chander has an MBA from Cornell University and Queens University, LEAN Office Program Certification from the University of Michigan and has GE Company Certification ...
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- Assistant Dean for Diversity Programs
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Enrollment Manager
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- Professor & Department Chair, William J. Von Minden Chair
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Financial Accounting
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- Executive Director of Communications & Marketing / Student Development
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- Director, Master of Financial Analysis
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- Senior Advisor
- Undergraduate Staff Member
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- Instructor of Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Senior Program Coordinator and Business Administration Minor Advisor
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- Associate Dean, Full - Time and Part - Time
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- Chancellor, New Brunswick / Rutgers University
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- Director
- Professor & Director, Lerner Center / Rutgers Business School
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Operating Officer, Saint Laurent Americas
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- Director
- Executive
- Finance and Economics & Director, Executive MBA Program
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Assistant Dean for Juniors, Seniors and School to School Transfers
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- Chairman, Board of Advisors - 2009
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- Executive
- Executive - in - Residence
Gerald Harvey is the Executive-in-Residence for the Institute of Ethical Leadership at the Rutgers Business School. Mr. Harvey has forty years experience as an attorney and corporate executive. As the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Breeze-Eastern Corporation, a publicly-traded company, he oversaw SEC, NYSE, environmental and legal compliance. He also served as a managing director of the company's subsidiaries in England and Germany and worked extensively with its Brazilian subsidiary. Prior to that Mr. Harvey was a partner in a multi-office law firm where he focused on cross-border transactions and international arbitration. For a number of years he worked for a Japanese trading company with assignments in New York and Tokyo working extensively on international joint ventures. He began his overseas work as a foreign lawyer associate in the Tokyo office of a Japanese law firm.
As an outside attorney and as a general counsel of a corporation, Mr. Harvey worked extensively with senior managements and boards of directors on ethics and compliance matters. He also served as a member and chairman of the governing boards of a private school and a public university, served on and chaired audit committees at these institutions and served a proactive role in their respective compliance and ethics initiatives.
Mr. Harvey is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and of Rutgers University. He received an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Rutgers upon completing his term as Chairman of the University's Board of Governors. At Rutgers, he and his wife have endowed the Keiko and Gerald Harvey Scholarship in Support of Women in Engineering.
Noting that the most stable, equitable and successful societies and institutions have strong traditions in values-based and ethical behaviors, Mr. Harvey seeks to use his experiences in cross-cultural environments to help advance the goals of the Institute of Ethical Leadership at the Rutgers Business School.
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- Assistant Dean for Mentoring Programs
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Department Administrator and Study Abroad Advisor, Special Programs Office
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting
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- Chairman, Accounting & Information Systems
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- Co - Founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Mr. Abruzzo is the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School (RBS). He is an internationally recognized nonprofit management consultant, writer and educator. He concurrently serves as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Nonprofit Practice of DHR International, a global executive search firm. Over the last thirty years he has provided ongoing strategic advice to many national and international nonprofit organizations. He is on the faculty of RBS and additionally, Mr. Abruzzo serves on the faculty of the Department of Economics, University of Bologna and is a frequent guest lecturer at the Freie Universität of Berlin. The author of Jobs in Arts and Media Management, Mr. Abruzzo served on many nonprofit boards; for the last sixteen years on the Board of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation.
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- Senior Director of Office of Career Management
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Taxation
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- Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Assessment
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, PVH ( Executive Board )
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- Director
- Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Joanne B. Ciulla is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Her research focuses on the ethical challenges of leadership. She has also written extensively on topics in business ethics such as meaningful work. Before joining RBS, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond), where she was one of the school's founders. Jepson was the first degree-granting liberal arts school of its kind in the world. Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University. Her visiting positions include the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy (Jordan), the Gourley Professor of Business Ethics, University of Melbourne (Australia) and visiting professorships at the University of Fort Hare (South Africa), Nyenrode Business School (Netherlands), Oxford University (Green College), and the Harvard's Kennedy School. She has also been a Fulbright Specialist.
For her scholarship, Ciulla has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Society for Business Ethics, the International Leadership Association, and the Network of Leadership Scholars at the ...
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Sophomore Advisor
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Assistant Dean for Freshmen, Sophomores and Honors
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Sophomore Advisor
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- Chairman, Supply Chain Management
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- Senior Advisor
- Undergraduate Staff Member
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- Executive MBA Faculty Director of Executive Career Management MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Assistant Dean / Recruitment
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- Interim Associate Dean
- Interim Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - Newark
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Senior Director of Undergraduate Student Experience
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- First - Year Advisor
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- Associate Dean of Administration and Finance
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- Assistant Corporate Controller, PVH, Advisory Level Board Member
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- Chairman, Management Science & Information Systems
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- KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting & Information Systems
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- Professor and Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate
Professor Morris A. Davis is the Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate and the Academic Director of the Center for Real Estate Studies at the Rutgers Business School. Previously, Davis was the James A. Graaskamp Chair of Real Estate in the Department of Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was the Academic Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate. Dr. Davis is an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Senior Scholar of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and is an independent director of the AGNC Investment Corp. (ticker: AGNC) mortgage REIT. Earlier in his career, Dr. Davis was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board where he routinely briefed Alan Greenspan on housing and macroeconomics. Dr. Davis is widely published on issues related to the U.S. housing markets and has developed price indexes for land in residential use. Davis is regularly interviewed by NPR Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio, the Wall Street Journal, ...
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- President and CEO / RenovaCare Inc
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- Executive Director, Technology Enterprise Group / Cushman & Wakefield
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- Co - Founder
- Senior Editor
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- Chairman, Intellectual Property Department / Gibbons
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- Healthcare Consultant / the PharMed Group
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- Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer / Aptiv Solutions, Inc.
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- Director, Integrated Hospital Systems, Managed Markets / Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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- Chairman of the Board, Lerner Center / Attorney & Chair
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- Co - Founder and Managing Director / Sector & Sovereign, LLC
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Junior Advisor ( a through L )
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- First - Year Advisor
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- Member of the Board
- CEO and Head Designer, Nili Lotan
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- Professor in Clothing and Textiles Department, FIT
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- Associate Dean of Executive Education / Administration
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- Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
Petra Christmann is Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research at Rutgers Business School. Petra conducts research on a number of topics in the field of strategic management. She is well-known for her research on corporate environmental sustainability and social responsibility strategies in a global context. Her research in this area examines the determinants of firm self-regulation of environmental and social conduct, the efficacy of international certifiable standards such as ISO 14001 as tools for firm self-regulation, and the link between responsible environmental and social strategies and firm performance. She also conducts research on the performance of mergers and acquisitions. Petra's research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics as well as in practitioner journals such as the Academy of Management Executive. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and has organized the Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshops for many years. ...
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- Member of the Board
- VP Financial Shared Services, Kering Americas ( Executive Board )
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- Dean
- Senior Associate
- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - New Brunswick
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- Dean
- an Educational Eye - Opener
- Professor
- Professor of Supply Chain Management and Vice Chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management
Dr. Oppenheim is a Professor of Supply Chain Management and Vice Chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management, and was named, in 2016, RBS Dean's Professor of Business. She has previously served as Executive Vice Dean and Acting Dean at Rutgers Business School, and Interim Chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management. Her research interests are in statistical process control, total quality management, and six sigma management. She is the author of many articles and several texts, including Managing Supply Chain Operations (coauthored with RBS Dean Lei Lei, Leonardo DeCandia, Chief Procurement Officer of Johnson & Johnson, and RBS Professor Yao Zhao), and has conducted training programs for major corporations. She is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching, including being named one of Poets & Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Professors of 2022.
"Teaching in the EMBA Program is considered a plum," says Rosa Oppenheim, professor and executive vice dean at Rutgers business school. "It's always an exhilarating experience to walk into the classroom. The students are enthusiastic and challenging."
She continues, "We attempt to get the best possible faculty. Most of our professors are at the forefront of their fields. We also get very respected professionals from the corporate world."
The result, she says, is an up-to-date education that gives managers "a greater perspective on what is going on in their organization, what techniques are available for problem solving, what other companies are doing. It is an eye-opener."
Prof. Oppenheim teaches two course in the EMBA program-Business Statistics and Data Driven Analysis. In keeping with the overall philosophy of the Rutgers EMBA program, her emphasis is on how the students can/should apply the classroom theory to their respective professions. To this end, EMBA learning teams are required to make presentations describing how some of the statistics or operations management techniques could be used in the workplace (or are currently in use), with specific reference to one of the companies in each team.
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- Director, Master of Supply Chain Management
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management and Curriculum Coordinator of MBA Supply Chain Management / Marketing / Management & Global Business Research Affiliates
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- Senior Director of Office of Technology & Instructional Service
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- Associate Dean of Alumni and Corporate Engagement
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- SVP Strategy, Data & Analytics, PVH Supply Chain ( Executive Board )
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- Director, Master of Science in Digital Marketing
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- Director
- Director, Doctor of Business Administration
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- Member of the Board
- CEO, Escada Americas
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Master of Science in Business of Fashion
- Finance and Economics MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Junior Advisor ( M through Z )
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- Executive
- Member of the Board
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- Acting Executive Director
- Program Manager
Victoria Fernandez, MPA, is the Acting Executive Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership (IEL). She is an experienced non-profit leader with a background particularly focused on program development, community engagement, and effective management. In her evolving role at IEL, Vicki has helped hundreds of nonprofit leaders from the greater Newark area develop and find support through a variety of Institute programs and initiatives. Her proudest achievement with the Institute is increasing programming and practice around access, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and inclusion. Prior to joining the Institute for Ethical Leadership, she worked at WBGO Jazz 88.3fm where she expanded and formalized community and education initiatives for the Newark-based public radio station. Initially coming to Newark for study at the Rutgers - Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), Vicki completed her MPA in 2012 with a concentration in non-profit administration and a capstone thesis on marketing in the public sector. At SPAA, Vicki met Pat Kettenring, founder of GlassRoots, a nonprofit glass blowing studio in Downtown Newark using glass arts as a tool for youth and professional development. In 2016, Vicki joined the GlassRoots Board of Trustees and served through 2019. As a lifetime Girl Scout, Vicki volunteers with the Newark Girl Scouts and aims to complete 5 murals with a team of dedicated Newark organizations in honor of a project started by the Girl Scouts and Newark icon and IEL alumnus, Rodney Gilbert, before the end of 2020. Vicki earned her BA at Ramapo College of NJ where she majored in Communications and Fine Arts and minored in Political Science.
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- Director, Master of Information Technology and Analytics
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- Director, Master of Supply Chain Analytics
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Procurement Officer, Consumer Group, Johnson & Johnson ( Executive Board )
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- Director, Master of Science in Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence
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- Interim Administrative Head of International Programs / Executive Education