NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Herman R. Smith Research Professor
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- Strategy / Professor of Strategy / Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management
Professor Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, a Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK). He is an applied economist whose research examines the business of healthcare with a focus on the interaction between private firms and public policies.
His recent work in the payer and provider sectors has focused on the private sector effects of the Affordable Care Act, the impact and operation of Medicaid Managed Care plans, the responses of non-profit hospitals to financial shocks, and the economic effects of expanded social insurance programs such as Medicaid and Medicare for All.
Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. In this area he has examined the effect of changes in market size of investments in new product development, the evolving world of precision medicine, expanded patent protection on pricing in the Indian pharmaceutical market, the innovation response of United States pharmaceutical firms to increases in demand, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and high drug prices.
His research has appeared in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, he is a frequent media commentator appearing in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has also appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace. In 2015, Professor Garthwaite was named one of Poet and Quants 40 Best under 40 Business School Professors.
Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to receiving his PhD, he served in a variety of public policy positions including the Director of Research for the Employment Policies Institute. He has testified before the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and state legislatures on matters related to the healthcare markets, prescription drugs, the minimum wage, and health care reforms.
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- Co - Owner of Patton Valley Vineyards
- Finance / Adjunct Professor of Finance
Dave Chen's focus on sustainability is a result of his work in venture capital, regional economic development and energy policy. In 2007, as a visiting executive at the Meyer Memorial Trust, he developed a investing thesis on mission related investing (MRI); this tool has since been adopted by several institutions. In late 2007, he formed Equilibrium Capital Group; an investment firm focused on growth equity investment opportunities in the area of sustainability.
Previously, Dave was a general partner at OVP Venture Partners, joining the firm in 2001, focused on early stage tech venture investing.
Until 2002, he served on the board of HNC Software and merged it with FICO (NASDAQ:HNCS, now NYSE:FIC).
Dave is co-owner of Patton Valley Vineyards, committed to making the finest Oregon Pinot Noir based on sustainable vineyard farming practices.
Dr. Rucker holds the Sandy & Morton Goldman Professorship of Entrepreneurial Studies in Marketing. His research focuses broadly on social rank, compensatory consumption, persuasion, and consumer behavior. His work asks, and seeks answers to, what makes for effective advertising and what motives underlie consumer consumption. To answer these questions, Dr. Rucker draws on his rich training in social psychology. His work has appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. His research has been covered in major media outlets such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, and ABC News.
Dr. Rucker currently teaches Advertising Strategy at Kellogg. The course focuses on basic psychological principles to better understand how to plan and execute successful advertising. In recognition of his commitment to teaching excellence Dr. Rucker was a recepient of the Top Elective Professor Award, a recipient of the Sidney J. Levy Award, and a finalist for the L.G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. Dr. Rucker is also a co-instructor of the annual Kellogg Advertising Superbowl Review. The review is in the spirit of Kellogg's focus on experiential learning and cultivates basic principals learned in the classroom to critically evaluate advertising in a real world and high stakes environment.
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- Senior Program Administrator
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Francesca Cornelli serves as the dean of Kellogg and holds the Donald P. Jacobs Chair of Finance.
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- Strategy / Professor of Strategy / Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management
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- Operations / Professor of Operations
- Professor at the Kellogg School of Management
Itai Gurvich is a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned a Ph.D. from the Decision, Risk and Operations department at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in 2008. After his PhD, he spent 8 years at Kellogg and 4 years at Cornell University's campus in New York City (Cornell Tech) before returning to Kellogg in 2021.
His research interests include performance analysis and optimization of processing networks, the theory of stochastic-process approximation and the application of operations research and statistical tools to healthcare processes.
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Jennifer M. Pendergast Ph.D is the inaugural John L. Ward Clinical Professor of Family Enterprise and Faculty Director, John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In this capacity, Jennifer guides the market leading executive education and MBA programs and the research agenda for John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises. Previously she served as the U.S. leader of the Egon Zehnder's Family Business Advisory and a senior consultant with Family Business Consulting Group.
A career consultant and educator to family businesses, Jennifer Pendergast specializes in strategic planning, family and business governance, family office structure, and facilitation. Jennifer is an experienced management consultant with an extensive background in the many strategic challenges faced by family firms serving a broad range of clients, ranging from $100m to $10+ billion in revenues and 2nd to 6th generation ownership .
With a Ph.D. in strategy, Jennifer has taught at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, Georgia Tech and The Wharton Business School. Jennifer's presentations, consultations and publications concentrate on strategic planning and business growth, developing and managing family councils and ownership groups, structuring and improving the effectiveness of boards of directors, planning for ownership and leadership succession and creating and managing family offices. Her research on corporate governance and top management leadership issues has been published in a number of academic journals, including European Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.
She entered the field of family business having worked as a professor, as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and as an investment banker for a Wall Street firm. She has also worked in the family office of one of the largest family entities in the U.S.
Jennifer received her Ph.D. in Management from Wharton Business School and holds a B.S. in Finance from University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce and has authored numerous books and articles, two of her standout titles are: Family Business Succession: Your Roadmap to Continuity co-authored with Kelly LeCouvie and Building a Successful Family Board, which she wrote with John Ward and Stephanie Brun de Pontet.
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Jeroen Swinkels is the Paget Professor of Management Policy in the Strategy Department at the Kellogg School of Management. He joined Kellogg in 2009, after previous positions at Stanford, Kellogg, and the Olin School at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD in 1990 from Princeton, and his undergraduate degree from Queen's University in Canada.
Swinkels' work has looked, among other things, at the question of how much of the value of an MBA can be traced to signaling versus education, how information is aggregated in auction and other market settings, the efficiency of auctions with many players, the design of incentive contracts with minimum wages, the design of procurement auctions when one vendor is preferred to another, and the evolutionary foundations for self control problems. His current work examines models with both adverse selection and moral hazard, and competition between principals who faces agents of unknown type. A recent focus has been to bring these tools towards a better understanding of healthcare markets. He has been published in journals including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a past associate editor for Econometrica, and has served on boards including the Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior. He was chair of the economics group at the Olin School for 11 years, and received 16 teaching awards while there. At Kellogg, he has served as department chair, on the dean search committee, and as the chair of the personnel committee. His primary teaching is of the core strategy course Business Strategy.
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- Clinical Professor in Family Enterprise and Executive Director of the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises
- Clinical Professor of Family Enterprise
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- Visiting Professor of Family Enterprise
Dr. Justin Craig's research focuses on the strategy, function, management, and performance of multi-generational family enterprises and those who lead and steward them. He has authored 46 peer-reviewed academic publications, numerous book chapters and teaching cases and has co-edited several books, all aimed at better understanding the challenges facing business families across the globe.
His book Leading a Family Business: Best Practices for Long Term Stewardship (Praegar Publishing, July, 2017) is a fascinating convergence of entrepreneurship, family relations, and corporate principles. The volume, co-authored with long time mentor and collaborator Dr Ken Moores, presents two frameworks to better understand the best practices of leading a family business: a firm-level frame focused on these four critical areas of difference (architecture, governance, entrepreneurship, and stewardship) and an individual one that mirrors these in terms of the skill set and mindset successful leaders need to develop. Written as a business narrative, the book considers the differences between leadership in family enterprises and non-family enterprises; the entrepreneurial capabilities needed by executives in family-based firms; and the use of power, identification, and motivation in managing their responsibilities both at home and in the workplace. Case studies provide a real-life look at the inner workings of family operations across the globe.
Before Kellogg, Dr. Craig held faculty positions at Northeastern University in Boston, Bond University in Australia and Oregon State University. He completed undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology (with Honors) at Griffith University, a Master's in Counseling and a PhD in Behavioral Science at Bond University.
As a practitioner, he worked with and for business families for almost a decade before pursuing an academic career, and was subsequently involved with multiple entrepreneurial ventures. Today he works closely with family business leaders, their consultants, and advisors, and has trained and presented to members of family firms from most sectors and countries worldwide. He is a consultant with the Family Business Consultant Group.
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- Outstanding Professor of the Year Award Finalist, Kellogg School of Management, 2008 - 2011
- Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 1998
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- Clinical Professor of Management / Executive Director of Nonprofit Executive Programs
- Nonprofit Executive Education Programs
Professor Martin A. Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2000. Professor Lariviere's research has focused on applying economic analysis to operations management problems. Much of his work has focused on supply chain contracting, examining how contract terms can improve supply chain performance. He has also studied how the behavior of self-interested customers impacts service operations.
His research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, Operations Research, and Marketing Science. He has also written articles for Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, and Operations Research. Professor Lariviere has also held a number of leadership positions in the Manufacturing and Service Operations Society of INFORMS. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society and a recipient of the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award.
Professor Lariviere received his PhD from Stanford University. Prior to joining Kellogg, he was an Associate Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
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- Strategy / Associate Professor of Strategy
Meghan Busse joined the Kellogg faculty in 2008 as an Associate Professor of Strategy. Prior to that, she was on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and at the Yale School of Management. At Kellogg, she teaches the core strategy course and an elective course on the economics of energy markets and the environment. Sh
Professor Busse's early research focused on market structure and competition, with particular interest in pricing and price discrimination. She has studied these issues in a variety of industries, including cellular telephones, airlines, and automobiles. Her recent work has been in the area of energy and environmental economics. Professor Busse investigates how the effectiveness of environmental and climate policy is determined not only by the design of the policy itself, but also by the strategies and competitive interactions of the firms to whom the policy is applied.
Professor Busse received her PhD in economics from MIT. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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- Assistant Director of Operations
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- Marketing / Associate Dean, Digital Innovation
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- Chairman in Management Policy, Department of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009 - Present
- Professor of Management Policy / Professor of Strategy
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- Tribune Foundation Clinical Professor of Technology, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Unviersity, 1999 - Present
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- Clinical Professor
- Strategy / Clinical Professor of Strategy
Sarit Markovich is a Clinical professor in the Strategy Department. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from Tel Aviv University. Sarit did her Post-Doctoral at the Economics Department, at the University of Chicago. In 2001, she joined the Recanati School of Business Administration for 3 years, after which she moved to the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her current research interests focus on strategic interactions in two-sided markets, strategic pricing in IT, and FinTech markets.
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- IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management
- Operations / Deputy Dean
Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management. He was also Interim Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University from 2009-2010. From 2006 - 2009, he served as Senior Associate Dean: Curriculum and Teaching. He became a faculty member of the school in 1989. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business Administration at New York University. He has a PhD in Operations Research from SUNY Stony Brook.
Professor Chopra's research and teaching interests are in Operations Management, Logistics and Distribution Management, design of communication networks and design of distribution networks. He has co-authored the books Managing Business Process Flows and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. Both books are published by Prentice Hall and are used at several of the top business schools to teach Operations Management and Supply Chain Management respectively. The Supply Chain Management book was awarded the best book of the year for 2002 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). Professor Chopra has won several teaching awards at Kellogg.
He has been Departmental Editor for the journals Management Science and an Associate Editor for the Decision Sciences Journal, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Operations Research. His recent research has focused on risk management in supply chains. He has also studied distribution systems in a variety of companies trying to identify market, manufacturing, and product characteristics that drive the structure of a supply chain.
He has consulted for a variety of firms.
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