Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders faculty

Program faculty for 2012

Each year we have been able to attract the very best instructors and we continually refine the curriculum based on feedback from prior participants. Below are some of the faculty for the 2012 "Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders" program at Yale School of Management.

Constance E. Bagley,  Professor in the Practice of Law and Management

Constance E. Bagley is Professor in the Practice of Law and Management at the Yale School of Management where she teaches Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship and State and Society. She joined the Yale faculty in 2007 and received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Senior Lecturer in Law and Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2000, she was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen. She was a member of the faculty of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) International University for Presidents in Hong Kong and the Czech Republic and is the author of Winning Legally: How Managers Can Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (2005) and the coauthor (with Diane W. Savage) of Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century (6th ed. 2009) and the coauthor (with Craig E. Dauchy) of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law (4th ed. 2011). Her journal articles include "Winning Legally: The Value of Legal Astuteness,” 34 Academy of Management Review 378 (2008). Professor Bagley served on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s National Adjudicatory Council from 2005 to 2009. She is President Elect of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), received the ALSB Senior Faculty Award of Excellence in 2006, and serves as a staff editor of the American Business Law Journal. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Yale Women Faculty Forum, the Advisory Board of the Wharton School’s Zicklin Center for Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Board of Directors of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

Professor Bagley received her JD, magna cum laude, from the Harvard Law School where she was invited to join the Harvard Law Review. She received her AB, with Honors and Distinction, from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She is a member of the State Bar of California (inactive) and the State Bar of New York.

Education:
JD magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
AB with Distinction and Honors, Stanford University

Norman Bartczak, Founder & Managing Director, Financial Statement Investigation Inc.; Adjunct Professor of Accounting, Columbia Business School and Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Norman Bartczak is the founder (in 1985) and managing director of Financial Statement Investigation, Inc. (formerly, The Center for Financial Strategy), a Boston-based company specializing in designing, developing and delivering executive education seminars. Dr. Bartczak is also a registered investment advisor and a founding partner (in 1999) of West End Advisors LLC (www.wea-llc.biz), a New York-based registered investment advisory firm which provides asset managers, financial advisors, and institutional investors with unique investment funds, trading advice, and portfolio analysis and risk assessment.

Since 1993, Professor Bartczak has been on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1999, he began teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Columbia University Law School where he continues to instruct. Dr. Bartczak teaches courses in the accounting area, Financial Statement Analysis and Business Analysis and Valuation, and the finance area, Security Analysis and Management of Financial Institutions. From 1982 until 2007, Professor Bartczak taught a five-day, twice a year, Forensic Accounting for Credit and Equity Analysts seminar in Northwestern University’s Executive Education Program. More recently, Dr. Bartczak has begun teaching in Yale University’s School of Management Executive Education Programs.

From 1976 through 1985, Professor Bartczak was a faculty member at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston. During that time, he was responsible for the development and teaching of one of Harvard’s most popular second-year MBA courses, Analysis of Corporate Financial Reports. Dr. Bartczak also taught international financial reporting, financial analysis, and control in Harvard’s Executive Education Programs and in company executive seminars throughout the U.S. and abroad. Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Bartczak taught at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Bartczak has served as a consultant to a variety of business and government clients. He has provided customized training programs for the employees of over 50 corporations and institutions across the United States and overseas. The seminars have covered a broad range of financial topics including corporate finance concepts and applications, financial accounting and reporting issues, credit policy and analysis, corporate restructurings and valuations, and financial products. Dr. Bartczak has also served as an expert witness in judicial proceedings involving misrepresentations in financial statements and valuation issues.

Professor Bartczak is the author of over 30 case studies at Harvard Business School (he has co-authored more than 25 additional HBS cases). His writings have appeared both in practitioner-oriented publications, such as the Harvard Business Review, and in academic journals, such as The Journal of Accounting Research.

Dr. Bartczak passed the CPA exam in Seattle and he received a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Washington. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, the American Finance Association, the New York Society of Security Analysts, and the American Bar Association.

In 2003, Professor Bartczak received The Margaret Chandler Memorial Award for Commitment to Excellence from Columbia Business School’s Executive MBA Programs graduating class in recognition of his contribution to the class. The award honors the high standards set by the late Professor Margaret K. Chandler.

Education:
PhD University of Washington
MBABSc DePaul

Victoria Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Professor Brescoll’s research focuses on the impact of stereotypes on individuals’ status within organizations, particularly the status of individuals who violate gender stereotypes. Her study “Can an Angry Woman Get Ahead? Gender, Status Conferral, and Workplace Emotion Expression,” published in Psychological Science, concluded that people reward men who get angry but view angry women as incompetent and unworthy of status and power in the workplace. The research was widely reported on in the popular press including The New York Times, Business Week, TheWall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and U.S. News & World Report. Her other interests include the cultural origins of stereotypes (e.g. the media), corporate social responsibility, and framing messages to improve health policy. 

She received her MS, MPhil, and PhD in social psychology from Yale University where she was supported by a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She completed her BA in psychology from the University of Michigan. In 2004, Professor Brescoll worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton under a Congressional Fellowship. 

Education:
 PhD Yale University
 MPhil Yale University
 MS Yale University
 BA University of Michigan

Rodrigo Canales, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Rodrigo Canales’ research is centered on institutions and economic development, with a specific focus on institutions that affect the quality and levels of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Most of his research seeks to understand the process through which institutions are purposefully changed, with a focus on the role of individuals in that process. So far, he has done work in the Mexican financial sector, including work in small business credit and microfinance. Related to this, he is also doing work on how the organization of the financial sector impacts small firms in different institutional environments. Professor Canales teaches the Innovator Perspective at Yale School of Management.

Education:
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS summa cum laude, Universidad Iberoamericana

Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management

Professor Nalebuff has written on a wide variety of subjects ranging from strategy to pricing, bidding to bargaining, and innovation to incentives. He is an expert on game theory and has written extensively on its application for managers. His most recent book, The Art of Strategy, is an update of the best-selling Thinking Strategically, which explains the fundamentals of game theory using real world examples. Professor Nalebuff’s work on strategy focuses on the fundamental duality in business—the conflict between cooperating to create a pie and competing to divide it up—which he presents in Co-opetition. His book, Why Not?, focuses on providing a framework for problem solving and ingenuity. His work on product bundling was featured in the European Union’s investigation of the proposed GE-Honeywell merger.

Education:
PhD Oxford University
MPhil Oxford University
SB Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Steven Permut, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Eller Entrepreneurship Scholar, University of Arizona

Steven Permut has been a marketing professor and practitioner over thirty years. He joined the faculty of the Yale School of Management at its founding in 1976 where he developed the first MBA marketing management course. During the next 11 years, he taught the core marketing course along with various electives including a joint appointment with the Yale School of Drama’s Theatre Administration program. During this time, he served as a Trustee of the Long Wharf Theatre and Shubert Center for the Performing Arts, and was the marketing resource for the City of New Haven’s Technology Investment Fund for new venture funding. He left Yale to pursue an active consulting practice which he sold in 1995. In 1998-99, he returned to Yale to serve as Executive Director, Advanced Programs & Executive Education, and held a Teaching Fellowship in the Department of Art History. 

In 2001, he joined the marketing faculty at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management where he has won the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award seven times in the Executive, Evening, and full-time MBA programs, and was nominated for “Best Professor in a small class” by the Eller College undergraduate student council in 2011. At Eller, he has taught the core MBA marketing management course in the full-time, Evening, and Executive programs, plus electives in New Product Management, Marketing of Innovation and related topics. 

He has also served on the resident faculty of Boston University’s International MBA Program in Brussels, Belgium and was a visiting professor at the University of Lille, France. He holds a PhD and Master of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in marketing and psychological measurement, a Master’s degree from Wesleyan University, BA from University of Colorado, and was a graduate student in modern art at Columbia University in New York City. In addition to many academic and professional publications, he was Founding Editor of the Praeger Series in Public and Nonprofit Marketing. He authored two commissioned reports for the European Union, one on consumer protection policies across 12 countries, the second on public transportation policies in Western Europe. He has been quoted frequently in The Wall Street Journal among other publications and was a guest on the “McNeil-Lehrer News Hour” (now “The PBS News Hour”) on the infamous Tylenol product recalls and crisis management strategies. 

He has consulted with over fifty major corporations in a dozen countries in the area of marketing strategy for bringing new technology to market: AT&T, Bell Labs, British Telecom, Chevron, GE, GM, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Philips NV, Rockwell, Time Warner, Xerox, Yale New Haven Hospital, and others. He has been directly involved with the launch of over two dozen new products and services. In addition, he has created and delivered over 500 executive education programs and seminars for corporate clients worldwide.

He has served as an Expert Witness for the Federal Reserve Board (and testified on their behalf before a Committee of the US Senate), AT&T (as part of the divesture litigation), Coca-Cola (as part of the Pepsi Challenge and rebranding of Coke), and others. He has served as Chair of the National Advisory Council, U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (Washington, DC), and a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences (dealing with energy consumption behavior and conservation), the National Engineering Consortium, and an advisor to the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations. He holds the Elm & Ivy Award from the President of Yale University for his volunteer work with nonprofit organizations. Leisure time activities include running and sailing on the coast of Maine.

Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management 

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full tenured professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School for a decade and a professor at the Harvard Business School for a decade, and is currently the senior associate dean of executive programs as well as the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management for the Yale School of Management, as well as founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a nonprofit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance. 

Professor Sonnenfeld’s related research has been published in 100 scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management such as Administrative Sciences Quarterly, The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, Social Forces, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management. He has also authored eight books, including The Hero’s Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession, and another best seller, Firing Back, a study on leadership resilience in the face of adversity. 

At the same time, his work is regularly cited by the general media in such outlets as: BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, CBS (60 Minutes), NBC (The Today Show), ABC (Nightline, Good Morning America), CNN, and Fox News, as well as PBS, where he is a regular commentator, and CNBC, where he is a regular commentator. BusinessWeek listed Sonnenfeld as one of the world’s 10 most influential business school professors and Directorship magazine has listed him among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance. He is the first academician to have rung the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. 

Education:
DBA Harvard University
MBA Harvard University
AB Harvard College

Arthur J. Swersey, Professor of Operations Research

Professor Swersey’s expertise is in quality management, operations management, and mathematical modeling. He has 20 years' experience consulting to firms in statistical process control and quality management and is the co-author of a forthcoming book on experimental design with applications in marketing and service operations. His expertise in the printed circuit board (PCB) industry is the basis for his study of quality practices and results among Japanese and U.S. PCB firms. Professor Swersey has done research on siting vehicle emissions testing stations, and school bus scheduling, and has developed queuing models for the New York City Fire Department. In his current research he has devised a mathematical model for predicting the severity of prostate cancer based on biopsy results and prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels. Prior to coming to Yale, Professor Swersey was with the Rand Corporation where he directed fire and police studies in New York City.

Education:
D Eng Sci Columbia University
MS Columbia University
BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology