Yale School of Management Faculty

Constance E. Bagley, Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration
Constance E. Bagley is an associate professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the MBA elective course Legal Aspects of Management. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and management and the ability of legally astute managers and entrepreneurs to use the law and legal tools to create value, marshal resources and manage risk. Her textbook Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century (with D. Savage; West Legal Studies in Business, fifth edition, 2006) is used at more than a hundred colleges and universities. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2000, Professor Bagley taught MBA and executive courses on the legal environment of business; legal aspects of entrepreneurship; and corporate governance, power, and responsibility at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to her work at Stanford, Professor Bagley was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm of Bingham McCutchen. She is a member of the State Bar of California (inactive) and the State Bar of New York, and advises firms, directors and executives on corporate governance matters, business ethics and strategic compliance management.

Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and Director of the Yale Center for Customer Insights
Ravi Dhar is the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management. He also has an affiliated appointment as professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology, Yale University. Dhar is an expert in consumer behavior and branding, marketing management and marketing strategy. He has consulted to companies in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, high tech and luxury goods. His research involves using psychological and economic principles to investigate fundamental aspects about the manner in which preferences are formed and constructed in order to understand and predict consumer behavior in the marketplace. He is also interested in the processes of self-regulation and, specifically, the simultaneous pursuit of multiple goals. His work has been mentioned in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, USA Today and other popular media. He has written more than 40 articles and serves on the editorial boards of leading marketing journals, such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science. He has been a visiting professor at HEC Graduate School of Management in Paris, Erasmus University in the Netherlands and the business schools at Stanford and New York University.

Stanley J. Garstka, Deputy Dean and Professor in the Practice of Management
Professor Garstka is an expert in the bankruptcy process and has written on ways to reform it. His general interests include contemporary issues in accounting and the restructuring of troubled companies. His research has been published in leading management science and accounting journals. He has co-authored three accounting texts, including the most recent Financial Accounting (South-Western College Publishing, 2000) with Rick Antle. Professor Garstka has served on the boards of several corporate and nonprofit organizations, has consulted widely to organizations in all sectors and currently serves as the independent consultant for Thomas Weisel Partners LLC to procure independent research providers as part of the recent global settlement of conflicts of interest between research and investment banking announced by the SEC.

Joel M. Podolny, Dean, Yale School of Management and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management
Joel Podolny’s research is in the areas of economic sociology, complex organizations and social networks. His best-known research is in bringing the sociological conception of status to the study of market competition. He has examined status dynamics in a variety of industries, including investment banking, semiconductors, shipping, venture capital and the wine trade. In addition to his work on status, he has conducted research on the role of social networks in mobility and information transfer within organizations. His current research seeks to explicate how leaders infuse meanings into their organizations. Prior to Yale SOM, Podolny was professor and director of research at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He also spent 11 years on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as senior associate dean of academic affairs and was head of the school’s organizational behavior group.

Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School and Harvard Business School, and is now 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 80 scholarly articles, which have appeared in leading academic journals. He has also authored five books, including The Hero’s Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession. He is currently the senior associate dean of executive programs, as well as the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management.

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.