MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, D'Decor Home Fabrics Pvt. Ltd
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President, Fisher Dynamics
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Master of Science in Finance Program
Alyssa is a member of the faculty in the McDonough School of Business where she is a Teaching Professor in the MBA and Undergraduate programs. She is also the Academic Director of the Georgetown Pivot Program, a non-degree certificate in business and entrepreneurship for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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- Managing Member, AW & Co Advisors LLC
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Village Farms
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- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Founding Partner, West Front Strategies
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Senior Managing Director, Evercore
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- Founding Partner, Halyard Capital
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- Professor, Sr. Associate Dean for Strategy, Finance, and Organization, and Area Coordinator for Management in the
Professor Holtom's research focuses on how organizations acquire, develop and retain human and social capital. His work has appeared in the top journals in management (Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Human Resource Management and many others). In the 2007 AACSB Report on the Impact of Business School Research, his work was specifically cited as having made an important intellectual contribution to policy or practice (along with Michael Porter of Harvard, Peter Senge of MIT and Nobel Prize winner James March).
He was named the 2005 Ascendant Scholar of the Year for the Western Academy of Management and has twice received the Professor of the Year award for the Georgetown University Executive Masters of Leadership Program.
He has performed research in or served as a consultant to many organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Citibank, International Monetary Fund, Northwestern Mutual, the Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy, Rolls Royce, POSCO, SK Group, United States Air Force, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the World Bank.
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Management Area Coordinator, Raffini Professor
- Raffini Family Professor and Management Area Chair
Catherine Tinsley, Ph.D., is a professor of management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Women's Leadership Institute, Academic Director of Georgetown McDonough's Executive Master's in Leadership program, and a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. Tinsley is an expert on gender intelligent leadership, gender parity and workforce development, negotiations, and decision making. For the past two years, she participated in The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland where she spoke about the role of confidence in women's economic empowerment. In 2012 and 2013, she partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to study a decade of gender in the C-suite-researching how women fared relative to men in publicly traded companies from 2000-2010.
She is currently doing field research with two Fortune 500 firms and one Fortune 100 firm, analyzing the implications of various corporate policies and structures for women's advancement. Tinsley also has collaborated with the White House and U.S. State Department to execute a woman-to-woman mentorship summit and has partnered with the U.S. State Department and the Council of Women World Leaders to convene the first ever world-wide meeting of the Ministers of Women's Affairs.
In addition to her research around gender issues, Tinsley has received several grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Homeland Security for her work on decision making and risk and from the Department of Defense and Army Research Office for her work on modeling culture's influence on negotiation and collaboration. Tinsley has served on three committees for the National Academy of Sciences- The Committee to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, The Committee on Unifying Social and Cultural Frameworks in the Military, and the Committee on The Context of Military Environments (where she served as vice-Chair).
She has won various academic rewards for her research. In addition to her research on gender dynamics in organizations, she studies how factors such as culture, reputations, and gender influence negotiation and conflict resolution. She also studies how people make decisions under risk, applying decision analytic frameworks to understand organizational disasters, and individual and expert responses to natural disasters (such as hurricanes) and man-made disasters (terrorist attacks).
Tinsley has published more than 50 articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals, including: Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, American Sociological Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Research on Negotiations in Organizations, Negotiation Journal, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, International Negotiation: A journal of Theory and Practice, and International Perspectives on Organizational Justice. She currently is on the editorial board of Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, International Negotiations: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and International Journal of Conflict Management. She is a past editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal.
Tinsley has conducted numerous negotiations, conflict resolution, and leadership training seminars for various organizations, including: the staff of the U.S. Senate, Rolls Royce N.A., Gucci, Rio Tinto, Sprint-Nextel, Nextel, Verizon, the World Bank, DPT Laboratories, Ferro, Lamson & Sessions, Rhode & Schwarz, the International Securities Management Association, the General Clinical Research Center, and the Korean International Trade Association. She also has conducted negotiations trainings for managers of a variety of companies, and within a variety of cultures, including: Germany, Japan, Korea, Slovenia, Hong Kong, India and Mexico.
She received her Master's and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and her BA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Associate Dean and Managing Director, McDonough Career Services
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- Managing Director, Business Development, GoldenTree Asset Management
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- EVP, CFO CAO, Strategic Education, Inc
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, National Football League
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Academic Operations for the Master of Science in Finance ( MSF )
Dr. Ammerman is Assistant Teaching Professor of Finance and Director of Academic Operations for the Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Program. Dr. Ammerman has taught courses in corporate finance, valuation, risk management, and personal finance at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Ammerman has published and presented research on topics related to household finance, family economics, and financial socialization. In 2018, he received the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Outstanding Research Journal Article of the Year, and the CFP Board Financial Planning Paper Award at the 2017 meeting of the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI). Prior to his academic career, Dr. Ammerman accumulated over 10 years of financial management experience working in the for-profit, non-profit sectors, and governmental sectors, including service as a financial management officer in the United States Marine Corps.
As a teacher, Dr. Ammerman's mission is to encourage students to love wisdom, and to pursue truth and excellence. Dr. Ammerman's goal is for his students to develop an intuitive understanding of core financial concepts, mastery of fundamental skills, and an analytical mind. He is specifically interested in "brain based" approaches to teaching, which emphasize findings from neuroscience oriented toward cognition and memory formation.
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- Partner & Co - Founder, Authentic Equity
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Finance Area Coordinator, William G. Droms Professor
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Marketing Area Coordinator, Professor
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, BainCapital, LP
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- Emeritus Faculty
- Executive Education Professor
- Professor of Management at Georgetown University 's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Douglas M. McCabe is Professor of Management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous academic refereed journal articles (for example, in California Management Review and the Journal of Business Ethics), papers, monographs, and speeches presented at professional and scholarly meetings. He is also an active domestic and international management consultant. He is a member of the Academy of Management (Management Consulting Division) as well as a member of the Society for Business Ethics. Additionally, Dr. McCabe currently serves on the Editorial Boards of twelve scholarly and professional journals.
Furthermore, Dr. McCabe is a premier Executive Education professor. He has conducted numerous and a multiplicity of management development programs. These have included programs for multinational and domestic corporations, companies, non-profit organizations, trade and professional associations, and the government.
Considered by the news media to be an expert in his field, Dr. McCabe has appeared more than two hundred times on international, national, and local television and radio as the networks have sought his views on the various management topics of management consulting practices, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, international business negotiation, employee relations, ethical issues in management, human capital management, labor-management relations, leadership, and organizational behavior.
His television credits include being interviewed on "ABC World News Tonight," "NBC Nightly News," "CBS Evening News," PBS's "News Hour," CNN's "Inside Politics," CNN's "Crossfire," and "Hardball".
His print media credits include being quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Milwaukee Journal, and The Detroit News.
Dr. McCabe is the recipient of numerous Research, Teaching, and Service Awards. In terms of major research awards, he was the Co-Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Fifteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics held in New York City. He was also the Recipient of the Award for the Best Conceptual Research Paper at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the American Society for Competitiveness held in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he was the Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Fourth Annual World Business Congress of the International Management Development Association held in Istanbul, Turkey.
In terms of major teaching awards, he was the recipient of the Best Professor Award of the inaugural class of the Executive Master's in Leadership/District of Columbia Public School Principals at the McDonough School of Business. He was also the Recipient of the Excellence in Education Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association at their 60th Annual Meeting held in New Orleans. The Education Award Committee here noted at the Awards Ceremony the long-term impact that he had had on students in all stages of their development - from undergraduate to seasoned executives. Additionally, he is twice Recipient of the Joseph F. LeMoine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence of the McDonough School of Business.
In terms of major service awards, he was twice the Recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Emerald Literarti Network of the Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Additionally, he was the Recipient of the Certificate of Recognition from the National Office of The Phi Beta Kappa Society for his dedication and service to Phi Beta Kappa's Triennial Councils.
Other noteworthy accomplishments of Dr. McCabe include the following, among others: serving as Section Editor of International Management for the Journal of Business Ethics ; serving on Georgetown University's Committee on Rank and Tenure; and serving as Co-Chair of Georgetown University's Grievance Code Committee. Lastly, Dr. McCabe was the youngest individual ever to receive tenure in the history of the Georgetown University Business School.
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Organizational Psychologist
- Director of Communication, Culture and Technology Program and Annette N. Shelby Endowed Chair in Business & Leadership Communication / Ella Washington
- Professor of the Practice
- Senior Advisor on DEI Initiatives
Dr. Ella Washington is an organizational psychologist who finds inspiration through the intersection of business, diversity and leadership. Her research examines conditions of workplace cultures that best support inclusion, diversity and equity while also contributing to employee's individual development. As a member of the management faculty at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Dr. Washington prides herself on helping to develop and equip tomorrow's business leaders with skills to be high-performing inclusive managers.
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Professor
Dr. Karen Kitching is a teaching professor at the McDonough School of Business. She was an associate professor at George Mason University before returning to Georgetown in January 2023. Dr. Kitching is a Certified Public Accountant, and she holds certifications in the leading analytics platforms impacting the accounting and finance professions.
Dr. Kitching's main research interest is in nonprofit governance and performance measurement. Currently, she creates teaching cases instructing students on developing digital skills. She has hosted multiple webinars and has been a guest speaker at universities and other organizations to help accounting educators learn how to incorporate technology in the classroom. Dr. Kitching is on the editorial advisory boards of Issues in Accounting Education and the Journal of Government and Nonprofit Accounting. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Accounting Association Government and Nonprofit Section and was the president of the section in the 2021-2022 academic year.
Prior to her academic career, Dr. Kitching worked in industry as an accountant and as a database administrator. She currently teaches ACCT 2101 Management Accounting for Decision Making and an MBA elective, Business Processes and Enterprise Technology. While at George Mason University, Dr. Kitching launched the graduate certificate program in Accounting Analytics and taught three of the courses in that program.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Rachel Pacheco, PhD is an award winning author and management professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Rachel is deeply passionate about ensuring that leaders, executives, and managers have the practical tools required to build thriving teams and develop inclusive and resilient cultures. She teaches courses for undergraduate, graduate, and executive students across a range of topics focused on leadership, team dynamics, organizational culture, and management. A former Chief People Officer, Rachel serves on the board of directors and board of advisors for numerous start-ups and high growth organizations, primarily in the digital health space.
Her best-selling book, Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers (new window), focuses on translating academic research and data into immediately useable tools for practitioners. Rachel's second book, currently underway, explores how managers bring meaning, authenticity, and their own self-discovery into the workplace. Her academic research focuses on power and conflict across global teams, and her PhD dissertation won Best Dissertation at the Academy of International Business.
Prior to her role at Georgetown, Rachel was on the faculty of the Management Department at the Wharton School, and was a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship Education Program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously was an executive at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, and has lived and worked in Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.
She received her BS in Mathematics from Georgetown University and her MBA, MPhil and PhD in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Michael and their son, Benji.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Associate Dean, Chief External Affairs, Alumni Relations, Corporate Engagement, and Custom Executive Education Officer
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- Entrepreneur in Residence
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- Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs
Eric Koester was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by USASBE in 2020.
Eric Koester is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and author. Professor Koester is a leading educator in the fields of technology innovation, corporate innovation, and startup creations, including as the former Managing Director and Venture Partner of Next Gen Venture Partners (NGVP), an early-stage venture fund, and as the founder and CEO of the Manuscripts, a social venture providing community-powered writing and publishing programs named to by Inc. Magazine as the #5 fastest-growing privately-held education company in 2021.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Teaching Professor and Academic Director, Master 's in Management Program
Professor Williams is currently the founding Academic Director of the Master of Science in Management program at the McDonough School of Business where she also teaches courses in leadership, innovation, and high performance teams. Prior to joining the McDonough School of Business as a Teaching Professor in the Management Group, Professor Williams was a Professor of Practice for the Business School at Wake Forest University for five years, teaching leadership and organizational behavior courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs. She was also the Associate Vice President of Leadership Development for the University and in this role taught courses in the areas of leadership, developing high performance teams, communication and design-thinking for the College and Medical School. Before teaching at Wake Forest, Professor Williams was the Founding Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research (CLDR) Leadership Laboratories, Leadership Fellows, and the Executive Challenge at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. Over her five year tenure, she taught some of the Schools most popular electives and required leadership coursework. Prior to joining Stanford's faculty in 2006, Professor Williams was the Faculty Chair of the Leadership Effectiveness and Development program (LEAD) and a Clinical Associate Professor of Management at the University of Chicago, Booth Graduate School of Business. A professor at Chicago GSB for six years, she taught in both the full-time and evening/weekend MBA programs and student evaluations consistently ranked her courses in the top tier at the School. Prior to teaching full-time, Professor Williams spent over 15 years in a series of executive and leadership development positions within Fortune 500 firms. She designed and implemented leadership and management development programs for executives at firms in the United States, Europe and Asia. She continues to consult with companies on developing leaders for senior management/C-Suite positions. Professor Williams holds a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.A. in Education from the University of Chicago. She and her husband are empty-nesters now and the proud parents of two adult daughters.
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- Assistant Dean
- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs
Faisal Mahmud is the assistant dean for faculty affairs at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He joined from George Mason University, where he served as the director for digital learning and co-director for the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning. Previously, he worked at Old Dominion University and the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center. He is also an accomplished entrepreneur of two successful ventures.
Mahmud holds three advanced degrees from Old Dominion University, including a Ph.D. in engineering management and two master's degrees in engineering. Additionally, he earned certification in organizational leadership from Harvard University and is a former Japanese Government scholar.
He received 40 under 40 recognition and the "Champion of Diversity" award for impactful leadership in the communities and across the globe.
Mahmud enjoys traveling and already traveled six continents covering 55 countries.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Group Managing Director at International Medical University
Gerry George is Group Managing Director at International Medical University (Malaysia), Senior Advisor at TPG Rise Fund, and Academic Advisor to the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative. He is on leave from MSB as the Tamsen and Michael Brown Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previously, he served as Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University. Before SMU, he was Professor and Deputy Dean of Imperial College Business School, Associate Professor at London Business School, and Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University.
An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published extensively in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tackling grand challenges in society, and achieved the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher distinction for Cross-Field Impact. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, the flagship empirical journal in the field of management. At Imperial, he was Academic Director of the London Stock Exchange's Elite Program, which supports ambitious private companies through their next stage of growth. At MSB, he teaches Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses across EMBA, MBA and UG programs.
Among other distinctions, he was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to work on socially-inclusive innovation in healthcare, natural resources, and energy. His forthcoming book Venture Meets Mission (with Arun Gupta and Tom Fewer) will be published by Stanford University Press in 2024. His other co-authored books include Handbook on the Business of Sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2022), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2019), Managing Natural Resources (Edward Elgar, 2018), The Business Model Book (Pearson, 2018), Implausible Opportunities (Cambridge Press, 2012), and Inventing Entrepreneurs (Pearson, 2009).
Professor George received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen for contributions to the fields of strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship. He was conferred Fellowship of the City & Guilds of London Institute and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (Pilani). He is Senior Global Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and Visiting Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Partner and Director of RE, Contrarian Capital
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder, President & COO, Unroll, Inc
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
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- Heinz Christian Prechter Executive in Residence
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- CEO, CloudHQ
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- Global Head of Payments, JPMorgan Chase
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- Heinz Christian Prechter Executive in Residence
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
Jasmina Chauvin is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy, Economics, Ethics and Public Policy area at the McDonough School of Business. Her research focuses on firms' spatial organization decisions, intra-firm resource allocation, and the effects of transportation and communication costs on firm performance, both in U.S. and emerging market settings. At Georgetown, she teaches core courses in Strategic Management and Structure of Global Industries. Prior to academia, Professor Chauvin worked in international development and in infrastructure and energy finance. She received her doctorate from Harvard Business School.
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Accounting and Business Law Area Coordinator, William and Karen Sonneborn Associate Professor
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- Director of Communication, Culture and Technology Program and Annette N. Shelby Endowed Chair in Business & Leadership Communication
- Director of Communication, Culture and Technology Program and Annette N. Shelby Endowed Chair in Business & Leadership Communication / Ella Washington
- Professor at Georgetown University
Professor Turner is a Professor at Georgetown University. She has a joint appointment in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program (CCT) and the McDonough School of Business. She also holds the Annette N. Shelby Endowed Chair in Business & Leadership Communication in the McDonough School of Business and is the Director of the CCT program.
Professor Turner teaches graduate students in the CCT program and undergraduates, graduates, and executives in the McDonough School of Business. Some of the organizations she has worked with include: the National Association of Broadcasters, Verizon, the World Bank, the District of Columbia Public Schools, Texas Instruments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Edward Jones, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Sprint, Rolls Royce, the Pentagon, and the Staff of the U.S. Senate. Professor Turner has published over 75 articles and book chapters and presented her work nationally and internationally. She loves teaching students and discovering the complexities of communication.
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- Professor of the Practice, Georgetown University Entrepreneurship / Founding Director, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University 's
Jeremy Yip is an Assistant Professor of Management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and a Research Scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Yip's research program explores the psychology of emotion and incivility in negotiations and organizational behavior. For his latest research, please visit: www.jeremyyip.org
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- Chief Commercial Officer, SiriusXM
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman Emeritus, Founder, President, and CEO, Churchill Companies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President, Incisive Capital
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Private Equity, Blackstone Group International LP
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President and Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman Group, LLC
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Founder and CEO, Berman Capital Advisors
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Justin Smith has 20 years of experience working in higher education in a variety of capacities. Dr. Smith provides leadership and strategic vision for student support initiatives through carefully crafted assessment strategies and an outcomes-based approach. In addition, he oversees several institutional priorities and major projects in his role including the Senior Thesis Program, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), AACSB Accreditation, Retreats and Student Formation, 5th Year Programs, and more.
Dr. Smith started his career at Georgetown in 2012 as the director of orientation, transition, and family engagement before moving to the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) as an assistant dean of academic affairs. Prior to working at Georgetown, he worked at the University of Arkansas and the University at Albany, SUNY, where he also received his B.A. and M.S.Ed. Dr. Smith earned his doctorate from Drexel University in leadership and management.
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- Retired Partner, Ernst & Young
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- CEO and Founder, Gulf Capital
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Associate Teaching Professor and Faculty Director for the Business Scholars Program
Dr. Easwar's expertise lies in consumer psychology. His interests and research focus on the influence of affect, emotion and prospection on consumer information processing and decision-making. Dr. Easwar has also written cases for Harvard Business Publishing examining various global business challenges. At Georgetown, Prof. Easwar teaches principles of marketing and consumer behavior across various degree programs as well as conducting the Global Business Experience in Vietnam, India, and Chile. He is also the Director of the Business Scholars Program at MSB.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, Next Chapter Group, LLC
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Associate Teaching Professor
Kenneth Sawka is an Associate Teaching Professor in the McDonough School of Business. His academic and professional interests center on competitive and business intelligence, competitive strategy, and leader succession practices. Ken possesses more than 30 years of professional experience at the confluence of business strategy, intelligence and national security, and organizational leadership development. Ken has designed and led strategic planning, competitive war-gaming, and critical thinking-based leadership and decision-support engagements for public and private sector organizations around the world, and has been quoted on leadership, business strategy and intelligence in Fast Company,Investor's Business Daily, American Banker, and other prominent journals. He has also been featured on CNBC's morning business talk show Squawk Box. Ken holds an EdD in Organizational Leadership from Northeastern University, and an M.A. in International Relations with distinction and a B.S. in Political Science, cum laude, from The American University. Ken lives in Alexandria, VA, is an avid cyclist, and enjoys spending time on Cape Cod with his family.
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- Associate Teaching Professor
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- CEO & Chief Investment Officer, MGG Investment Group, LP
Khuram Zaman is the CEO of Fifth Tribe (new window), a leading digital agency serving the Washington DC Metropolitan Area based out of the 1776 startup co-working Space. In his professional capacity, he has provided product development and digital strategy services to clients as diverse as the Department of Defense, Kaiser Permanente, Oxfam America, and ADL. His writing has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Technical.ly.
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Professor
- Teaching Professor
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- Business for Impact Executive Director & New Strategies Managing Director
- Social Change Strategist
Leslie Crutchfield is a social change strategist, author, educator, and Executive Director of Business for Impact at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Business for Impact team delivers world-class student experience, new insight discovery, and collective impact with corporate, nonprofit, and government partners to advance the triple bottom line - people, planet and prosperity. Leslie's latest book is How Change Happens: Why Some Movements Succeed While Others Don't. She also co-authored Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits and Do More than Give. She teaches courses on Corporate Social Responsibility and Nonprofit Leadership in Georgetown's MBA program as an Adjunct Professor, and she instructs virtually via LinkedIn Learning courses on Business Leadership & Social Movements and Nonprofit Fundamentals. Leslie previously served as senior advisor at FSG Social Impact Consultants for more than a decade, advising corporations and foundations on strategies to achieve greater impact and create shared value. Prior to FSG, she served as managing director at Ashoka, the global venture fund for social entrepreneurs, and she co-founded a national nonprofit social enterprise. Leslie has contributed to Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review.org, Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Boldly Go Philanthropy, and she volunteered with Crossroads Africa in The Gambia. She holds an MBA and BA from Harvard.
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- Partner and Co - Head of Debt Advisory and Restructuring, Centerview Partners
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- Portfolio Manager, Healy Circle Capital Management, LLC
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- Emeritus Faculty / Management Area Coordinator
Professor Miceli is the co-author of the books Whistle-blowing in Organizations (2008, Taylor/Francis, with J. P. Near and T. M. Dworkin) and Blowing the Whistle (1992, Lexington Books, with J.P.Near). Her research interests also include compensation systems, and her work has appeared in leading journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology.
Professor Miceli serves as a member of the editorial board of Organization Science and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Management and Academy of Management Review. She was a member of the faculty at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University from 1981 to 1998. While there, she served as academic director of graduate programs in Labor and Human Resources, chair of the department of Management and Human Resources, interim academic director of the MBA program, and senior associate dean, and was appointed Hoyt Professor of Management in 1998.
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Professor of the Practice and Managing Director of the BSBGA
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- Executive in Residence and Founder of the Rural Opportunity Initiative at the Global Social Enterprise Initiative
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Global Head of Human Capital, Apollo Global Management, LLC
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- Founder
- Managing Partner
- General Partner of 1863 Venture Fund
- Professor
Melissa L. Bradley is the Founder and Managing Partner of 1863 Ventures (new window), a business development program that accelerates New Majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth. Driven by purpose and with decades of hands-on experience, Melissa understands the importance of marrying the needs of the New Majority entrepreneur with access to capital, operational training, and relevant data.
As this core community of entrepreneurs has multiplied, their need for business development information at scale has also risen. To meet this market need and expand her reach, Melissa launched media and entertainment brand New Majority Ventures (new window), in partnership with Kinetic Energy Entertainment.
Melissa serves as General Partner of 1863 Venture Fund, Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures (new window) and as an advisor to Reign Ventures (new window), New Voices Foundation (new window), as well as the Halcyon Fund (new window). She is a board member of Ureeka (new window), a small business platform company she co-founded and sold, as well as Eat the Change, Motley Fool Foundation, and AEO. She is also a member of the Milken Institute (new window) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Asset Management Initiative, Goldman Sachs' One Million Black Women Advisory Council (new window), Launch with GS Advisory Council, Fast Company Executive Board, Square & Forbes Small Business Advisory Team, as well as the Target Accelerators Entrepreneurs Advisory Council (new window). Melissa is the former Co-Chair of the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (new window) and was named to the 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50 (new window) list for social entrepreneurship.
Melissa is a professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where she teaches impact investing, social entrepreneurship, P2P economies, and innovation. Over the last two years, she was commended with the Peter W. Gonzalez, Jr. Award for Excellence in Adjunct Faculty Teaching and The Ideas Worth Teaching Award which celebrates exceptional courses that are preparing future business leaders to tackle society's largest challenges and create a more inclusive, just, and sustainable version of capitalism.
Melissa's educational background includes graduation from Georgetown University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the School of Business and a Master's degree in Business Administration in Marketing from American University in 1993.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- General Partner, Battery Ventures
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair, Co - Founding and Co - Managing Partner, KPS Capital Partners
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- Professor of the Practice and Academic Director for the Qatar Executive Master 's in Leadership ( EML - Q ) Program
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Associate
- Professor & Senior Associate
- Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs
- Teaching Professor & Senior Associate Dean, Graduate & Executive Degree Programs Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Member of the Board of Directors, HPRY
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- President, Endpoint Partners
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President, Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited ( METL )
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
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- Founder, Chairman & CEO, Inspired
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Strategy Area Coordinator, Saleh Romeih Professor
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- Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University 's
Nick Lovegrove is a Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he teaches courses on management, strategic problem-solving, and principled leadership.
He is a proven senior leader with a 30-year career at McKinsey, where he led two global practices and became the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. Office. He subsequently played leadership roles at the Albright Stonebridge Group and Brunswick Group, advising CEOs and senior executives, building stronger institutions and developing exceptional talent. His distinctive research on tri-sector leadership development across business, government and non-profits around the world was captured in his recently published book, The Mosaic Principle, and in related articles.
From 2001 to 2004, he served as a special advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair on education policy and other priority issues - and he has since worked with government leaders in the UK, the US and numerous other countries. He has also served on several non-profit boards, and most recently served as the Chairman of the Chatham House Foundation.
Nick earned a Master's Degree in Modern History from Oxford University; a Master's Degree in Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He was awarded the Harkness Fellowship and Kennedy Scholarship for post-graduate study in the United States.
He has qualified as an Executive Coach, certified by Columbia University. Nick has lived for extended periods in the UK, US and France - and worked all over the world. He and his wife Alyssa - who is also a professor at the McDonough School - have four grown children, and they currently live in Washington, DC
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program
Paul Almeida is dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he champions a community of belonging and collaboration that focuses on business as a force to serve the common good. A member of the Georgetown community for more than 25 years, Almeida has served Georgetown McDonough in a number of leadership positions, including most recently as deputy dean for executive education and innovation. He also is a professor of strategy and international business.
During his tenure as dean, Almeida has focused on leveraging the school's greatest strengths - its location in the global capital city of Washington, D.C., its ability to create interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with Georgetown's other renowned schools, and the university's rich Jesuit tradition and values.
He has overseen the growth of degree programs with the launch of the ambitious Dikran Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs (a joint program with the School of Foreign Service and Georgetown's first joint undergraduate degree), the M.S. in Management, an online M.S. in Business Analytics, the M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management (a joint program with Georgetown's Earth Commons and the Graduate School), the M.S. in Global Real Assets, and an Executive MBA in Dubai. The school also recently added an online option for the school's Flex MBA program.
With the belief that business can partner across disciplines to solve the world's most complex issues, he has created future-facing programs such as the AI, Analytics, and Future of Work Initiative, the Business of Sustainability Initiative, and the Baratta Center for Global Business, while also strengthening Georgetown Entrepreneurship and develping new programs at the intersection of business and health. Additionally, he appointed the school's first Standing Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and launched numerous diversity related initiatives.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Advisor, Riboscience, LLC
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean of Programs
- Vice Dean for Academic Programs
Prashant Malaviya is Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean of Programs. He came to Georgetown in 2008 after nine years at INSEAD, France. Prior to INSEAD, he held an appointment at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and visiting professorships at the Wharton School, as the Titan Industries Professor at ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens, Greece, and at the Kellogg School of Management. Professor Malaviya is a Consumer Psychologist by training and received his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding how consumers use information to make product judgments and consumption decisions. His research has been published in leading marketing journals including, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychology & Marketing. He has taught courses to Executives, MBA and Undergraduate students on marketing management, marketing strategy, brand management, customer focus, consumer behavior, and related topics. He was awarded the Emerald Citation of Excellence for publishing "one of the top 50 management articles in 2007," was a finalist for the Best MBA Core Teacher award at INSEAD and was named Outstanding Reviewer by the Journal of Consumer Research. He currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Prior to entering the world of academia (and consumers), Professor Malaviya worked in India as an engineer at Tata Motors and as a marketing analyst at Nestlé.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Vice Dean for Faculty
Rebecca Hamilton is the Michael G. and Robin Psaros Chair in Business Administration, Vice Dean of Faculty and Professor of Marketing at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She is currently the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Marketing Research and has served as coeditor of the Journal of Marketing Research (2016 to 2020) and as associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the International Journal of Research in Marketing.
Hamilton's research examines the effects of contextual factors - including the social environment, level of resources, stage of decision making and presentation format - on consumer decision making. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Hamilton received the Erin Anderson Award for an Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor in 2011 and was named an MSI Young Scholar in 2013. She has served on the American Marketing Association's Academic Council and on the Board of Directors for the Association for Consumer Research, and has co-chaired both AMA and ACR Conferences. She received her PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2000 and was on the faculty at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business from 2000 to 2014 before joining Georgetown's McDonough School of Business in 2014.
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Advisor for Jesuit Identity
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman, Clark Enterprises, Inc
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman, Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers, Inc
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- Professor
- Professor of Management
Robert J. Bies (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Master's in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. In addition, Dr. Bies is a co-author of the book, Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge-And How to Stop It, which was published by Jossey-Bass (www.friendsofgettingeven.com).
Professor Bies's current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Social Issues, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in the prestigious annual series of analytical essays, Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Bies currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.
Professor Bies has received the Best Teacher award at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. At Georgetown, he has twice received the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence at the McDonough School of Business; he received the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA-2) at the McDonough School of Business; and he received the Outstanding Professor of the Executive Master's in Leadership Program (2008) at the McDonough School of Business.
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- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Operations and Information Management
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- Chief of Staff
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
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- CEO, TradeInvest Asset Management Ltd
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- Member of the Inclusive Student Engagement Committee
- Provost 's Distinguished Associate Professor
David Ammerman
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Academic Operations for the Master of Science in Finance (MSF)
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Professional Certified Coach
- Professor of the Practice
- Professor of the Practice / Management
Shye Gilad has educated and coached thousands of students, executives, entrepreneurs, and airline pilots to successful outcomes and led multiple startups in the air transportation and education industries. He is passionate about leadership, innovation, and life-long learning.
Shye serves as a Professor of The Practice (new window) at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he earned an MBA in international business. He is a co-founder of ProJet Aviation (new window), an award-winning aviation hospitality company, and a former airline captain with a BS in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Shye is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) (new window) member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the founder and principal of Creating Lift Leadership (new window), a professional education firm dedicated to elevating the performance of executives, entrepreneurs, and the organizations they lead.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, MBA Programs
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
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- Associate Dean
- Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
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- CEO, Voltaire Compressor Solutions
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- COO & Partner, AEA Investors LP
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Partner, Quad - C Management
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- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
- Professor
- Professor in the Operations and Analytics Area
Victor Jose is a professor in the Operations and Analytics area of the McDonough School of Business. His areas of research interest and expertise are decision/risk analysis and forecasting, with a particular focus on the development of prescriptive models and tools that could help managers make good decisions in uncertain environments. In particular, he has worked extensively in the areas of probability elicitation, forecast verification, and expert combination of forecasts. Aside from this, he also has a long-standing interest in data science, Bayesian statistics, stochastic modeling, and machine learning.
His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He also serves as an associate editor at Management Science, Decision Analysis, Theory and Decision, and IISE Transactions. Currently, Professor Jose teaches the core statistics class for the MBA, MiM, and undergraduate business programs. Aside from managerial statistics, he has previously taught classes in quantitative analysis, operations management, research methods, decision making, and spreadsheet modeling.
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President & COO, W.R. Berkley Corporation
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- Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income, GAMCO Investors
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chairman and CEO, Elutions
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- Managing Partner, Pamplona Capital
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- Chairman at Georgetown University 's
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- President of Media and New Enterprises, Monumental Sports and Entertainment