MBA - Key Persons
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- Senior Vice President, Product
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- Professor Emerit of Management
Professor Emerit Alan Meyer is the recipient of the 2022 Academy of Management Distinguished Service Award.
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- Associate Professor of Management
- Professor in the Department of Management
- Professor of Management Randall C. Papé Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- UO Professor
Andrew Nelson is a professor in the Department of Management at the Lundquist College of Business and the Randall C. Papé Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Nelson's research explores technology, entrepreneurship, and occupations and has been featured in leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science, as well as in national media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR.
Nelson received his PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University, where he subsequently served on the faculty. He also holds an MS with distinction from Oxford University and a BA with honors and distinction from Stanford University.
As an award-winning instructor, Nelson leads undergraduate, MBA, PhD, and executive education courses in entrepreneurship and organization theory. In collaboration with colleagues from Stanford University and the University of California at Davis, he also is the author of Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, published by McGraw-Hill, which is now in its fifth edition and used in entrepreneurship courses worldwide.
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- Director, Business Development
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Academic Programs Co - Academic Director, Oregon Executive MBA Jack O. Rickli Professor of Business
- Senior Associate Dean, Academic Programs Jack O. Rickli Professor of Business
Anne Parmigiani is the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor of Management at the Lundquist College of Business. Her expertise includes vertical interfirm relationships, firm knowledge and capabilities, and firm boundaries. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Inquiry.
Parmigiani received her PhD and MA from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Lundquist College, she was a procurement manager where she managed $10 million in purchases. She also has experience in consulting, as she conducted product mix analyses and forecasts and developed strategic pricing and positioning recommendations based on market research and industry analyses.
Parmigiani has received research grants from the Institute for Supply Management and the Sloan Foundation and was selected as one of three honored as a Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar in 2010.
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- Assistant Professor of Marketing Co - Director, Business Research Institute
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- Senior Vice President of Marketing and Partnerships, Fox Sports
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- Associate Professor of Finance Alumni Investment Management Research Scholar
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Edward Maletis Dean
Blonigen has been at the UO for more than 25 years and has served in various leadership roles, including department head in economics, associate dean for social sciences, dean for faculty and operations in the College of Arts and Sciences, and interim dean of the Lundquist College of Business.
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- Senior Associate Director, Executive Admissions
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- Memorial Professor of Accounting
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- Customer Account Executive
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean, Advising and Student Experience
Collette Niland has more than twenty years of experience in undergraduate affairs. After earning her doctorate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked at several top research institutions including UW-Madison, UCLA and, most recently, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois, Niland was the assistant dean for undergraduate affairs in the College of Business. Niland has a strong interest in experiential learning and social entrepreneurship and founded The Social Entrepreneurship Institute while at the University of Illinois.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean, Finance and Administration
Connie Brady started her career working in urban planning, later moving into public transportation after finishing her MBA at Gonzaga University. In 2000, she moved into higher education, working at Eastern Washington University. For more than 20 years, Brady has been working with leadership in colleges and schools to align higher education objectives with strategic plans, solid financial initiatives, and business management goals.
On the human side, Brady has a passion for change management (and is a certified change management practitioner), human resources, and work initiatives and projects that help others. Her other interests include spending time with friends, family, and pets; exploring; March Madness; and walking on the beach.
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- Associate Professor of Marketing Judy and Hugh Oliphant Research Scholar
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- Program Manager, Warsaw Sports Marketing Center Woodard Family Foundation Fellow
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- Board Chair / Global Head of Communication for Esports, Riot Games
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- Head, Department of Management Associate Professor of Management Doug McKay Research Scholar
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Professor of Finance Director, PhD Program
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- Chief
- Coach
- Executive
- Founder
- Officer
Dick Eaton is the founder and chief energizing officer of Leapfrog Innovations. He is a team and leadership development consultant, executive leadership coach, entrepreneur, and angel investor.
His executive coaching is dedicated to building leadership capacity, accessing untapped potential, and building new capacities that help clients make powerful change happen. Through coaching, clients leverage their inherent strengths, innovate, shift limiting beliefs, blind spots, and behaviors, and develop results-focused action plans that activate their own growth and development and that of their organization.
In addition to his coaching with Leapfrog and Oregon Executive MBA clients, Eaton serves as an executive, leadership, and team coach for MIT Sloan Executive Education and FMG Leading.
Eaton is certified in the Wisdom Leading™ executive coaching process, Leadership Insights 360, ESCI360, LVI, Hogan and the FMG Team Insights assessment. With individual and team clients he regularly uses the Enneagram, FIRO-B, and DISC personality typing instruments.
In addition to his 27 years leading Leapfrog Innovations, Eaton's career experience includes sales management with Procter & Gamble and account management with Mintz + Hoke and Cabot Advertising. He also served on the founding team of Staples, The Office Superstore as director of marketing.
Outside work, Eaton plays just about any sport involving a ball or a disc, practices yoga and Reiki, and is an avid painter, showing in solo and group shows. Much of his community service work is focused through Rotary International. His pro bono executive coaching clients include Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, Wayfinding Academy, Social Venture Partners, The Street Trust, and Self Enhancement, Inc.
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- Pro Tem Instructor of Finance
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- Chairman
- Owner
- Edward Maletis Dean
Bruce Blonigen is serving a two-year appointment as dean of the University of Oregon's flagship business college.
During his more than 25 years with the UO, he has served as department head in economics, associate dean for social sciences, dean for faculty and operations in the College of Arts and Sciences, and interim dean of the Lundquist College of Business. Bruce most recently served as Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focus is on trade policy and foreign direct investment.
Bruce was also the first in his family to earn a college degree and is passionate about student success. He is cofounder of the UO SAIL (Summer Academy to Inspire Learning) program, which inspires middle and high school students from low socioeconomic, first-generation, and underrepresented backgrounds to pursue, enroll, and succeed in higher education. "I am excited to build on the momentum at the Lundquist College of Business. We will continue to relentlessly focus on our strategic priorities of student success; preparing well-educated, career-ready graduates; and becoming the top destination for business education on the West Coast."
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Portland Programs Cofounder and Executive Director, Sports Product Management Program
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- Director, Business Honors Program
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Mohr Career Services
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- Professional Service Award, University of Oregon, 2016
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- Professor of Marketing Coordinator, Marketing PhD Program
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Lundquist Admissions
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Student Experience
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- Graduate Career Advisor, Mohr Career Services
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- Executive Assistant
- Operations Manager
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Strategic Communications
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- Head, Department of Finance Abbott Keller Professor of Finance
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- Professor of Practice Program Manager, Center for Sustainable Business Practices
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- Senior Instructor of Sports Business Woodard Family Foundation Fellow Faculty Athletics Representative
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- Senior Instructor I of Management Academic Director and Industry Mentor, Center for Sustainable Business Practices
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment
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- Associate Director, Graduate Student Experience
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- Instructor of Management Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies
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- Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director, Development and External Relations
Management professor Lauren Lanahan and PhD student Nathan Warren were awarded funding from the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship to support their research.
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- Senior Advisor, New Mountain Capital, LLC
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- Ad James B. Goes. "Organizational Assimilation of Innovations
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- Vice President, Operations
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- Avamere Professor of Practice
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- Head, Department of Operations and Business Analytics Ehrman V. Giustina Professor of Operations and Business Analytics
Michele Leedom is an executive coach and consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Her passion for behavioral economics, neuroscience, and organizational behavior led her to found Clinton Street Consulting, a coaching and consultancy practice that focuses on strategy, leadership development, and organizational agility. She enjoys working with successful people who are curious about how their environment, beliefs, and behaviors are impacting them from achieving what is possible.
Leedom works across multiple industries with diverse teams helping leaders of organizations understand where their policies, practices, and behaviors, as well as their own biases, are preventing them from achieving their goals. She has coached executives in areas such as self-awareness, communication, developing others, leadership transitions, and leadership strategies. She has also coached teams in aligning direction, building trust, and allowing for deeper collaboration. Clients include executives in industries such as agriculture, energy, healthcare, finance, insurance, technology, travel and tourism, and retail.
Leedom is passionate about creating environments where creativity and innovation can thrive. Supporting diverse teams that feel respected, valued, and recognized is the foundation for this to take place. In her free time, Leedom loves to travel, is an avid reader, enjoys hiking in the Columbia Gorge, and spending time in Oregon wine country. Leedom is certified through the Center for Creative Leadership and the Myers-Briggs Foundation and is also a practitioner of the FIRO-B and TKI instruments. She earned her MBA from the University of Florida and bachelor of business administration in accounting from the University of Georgia.
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- Vice President of Sponsorship and Entertainment Marketing, T - Mobile
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- Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management
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- Executive Coach Career Coach
Mitzi Short is passionate about coaching executives and senior leaders who are seeking to maximize their impact, effectiveness, and influence-while living and leading balanced, rewarding lives. Her coaching style and approach stimulates candid, engaging, and courageous conversations that are results-focused, empowering, challenging, positive, and fun. Clients value how Short leverages her leadership experience to strategically elevate how they approach challenges and move beyond their comfort zones.
Short is cofounder and managing partner of New Season Coaching & Consulting Group and an executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership. She has significant experience managing P&Ls and leading large, cross-functional, matrixed, and geographically dispersed teams after a long year career with PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble. Having served on the advisory board for a global franchise company, and as owner of several franchise locations, Short provides additional insight and deeper perspective for those working in growth companies and/or entrepreneurial divisions or businesses.
Short earned her BA in economics from Davidson College and is an OEMBA alumna. She is certified by the International Coach Federation and received her coaching credentials from The Center for Creative Leadership, The Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute, and several other programs.
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- Roger Engemann Professor of Operations and Business Analytics
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- Putting University Research in Context
Nelson, Andrew J. "Putting University Research in Context: Assessing Alternative Measures of Production and Diffusion at Stanford." Research Policy 41, no. 4: 678-691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2011.11.004.
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- Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Oregon Executive
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- Chief Data Strategy Officer
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- Associate Professor of Finance Robert J. and Leona M. DeArmond Research Scholar
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Master of Accounting Program Academic Director, Sports Product Management James F. and Shirley J. Rippey Senior Lecturer II of Accounting
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- Roger Engemann Professor of Operations and Business Analytics
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- Graduate Admissions and Records Coordinator
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director, Sports Product Management Program
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- Professor of Practice Porter Faculty Fellow
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- Head, Department of Marketing Philip H. Knight Chair Professor of Marketing
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- Distinguished Professor, University of Oregon, 2018
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- Distinguished Senior Instructor II of Management
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- Head of North American Retail, Nike
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment
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- COO
- Vice President, Finance
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- Associate Professor of Operations and Business Analytics Edwin E. and June Woldt Cone Research Scholar