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The program is led by Stanford Business School faculty who are known
worldwide for their expertise in the areas of conflict resolution,
organizational behavior, and strategic management.
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George Foster
Paul L. And Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management, Stanford
Graduate School of Business; Director of the Executive
Program for Growing Companies
George Foster’s research and teaching includes entrepreneurship/early-stage companies; financial analysis, especially in commercial disputes; and sports business management. His recent research includes the role of financial and other systems in the growth and valuation of companies. He also is researching globalization challenges facing both sporting organizations and companies. [View Profile]
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Wasim Azhar
Lecturer in Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Wasim Azhar is a Lecturer in Marketing, specializing in international marketing and sales and distribution channels. He was formerly a Professor of Business Policy and Marketing and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. He teaches Channel Management, and Global and International Marketing in the MBA program and the core marketing course in the Sloan program. Wasim has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Americas and especially enjoys teaching International Marketing to an eclectic group of students drawn from diverse cultures at Stanford. Wasim is also a Lecturer in Marketing at UC Berkeley. [View Profile]
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Robert A. Burgelman
Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management; Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program
Robert Burgelman carries out longitudinal field-based research on the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has examined how companies enter into new businesses (through corporate entrepreneurship and internal corporate venturing as well as through acquisition) and leave others (through strategic business exit), and how success may lead to co-evolutionary lock-in with the environment. His research has focused on organizations where strategic action is distributed among multiple levels of management. He has written some 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics. [View Profile]
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Antonio Davila
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Professor Davila focuses his research on design and use of cost management systems, performance
measurement and control systems for implementing strategy.
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Roderick M. Kramer
William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior
Roderick Kramer’s research focuses on a number of topics, including the social psychology of trust and distrust, cooperation, creativity, decision making, leadership, impression management, social identity theory, group processes and decision making, and organizational paranoia. His most recent research has examined the cognitive determinants of judgments of creativity in Hollywood "pitch" meetings, where screenwriters present their ideas to agents and producers. [View Profile]
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David F. Larcker
James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting; Director of the Stanford Directors' Forum Executive Program; Director of the Corporate Governance Research Program; Co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford; Robert and Marilyn Jaedicke Faculty Fellow for 2007-08
Professor Larcker’s research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, role of the business press in the debate on executive compensation, and modeling the cost of executive stock options. [View Profile]
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James M. Lattin
Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing
Jim Lattin’s research examines consumer choice behavior. His early research involved building statistical models of brand choice, category purchase incidence, store choice, and market basket behavior, using grocery panel data collected using bar code scanners. More recently, Jim’s focus has expanded to consider customer relationship management and loyalty/reward programs using an increasingly wide set of sources including subscription data, financial services, and internet clickstream data. [View Profile]
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Maureen F. McNichols
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management; Professor of Law (by courtesy), School of Law; Co-Director of the Stanford Governance Forum Executive Program; Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 2007-08
Maureen McNichols’ research examines financial reporting and its role in providing information to investors. Her recent work focuses on earnings quality, on earnings management and on securities analysts. The research on earnings quality examines the informativeness of earnings and its components under alternative accounting principles. The research on earnings management examines companies’ incentives and methods for managing earnings, detection of managed earnings and the consequences for investors. The research on analysts examines their incentives to report information truthfully, how investment banking influences analysts’ behavior, and the implications for investors. [View Profile]
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Jeffrey H. Moore
Senior Lecturer in Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Graduate
School of Business
Jeffrey Moore has published research in the areas of budgeting and resource allocation in decentralized organizations, managing software development, and the use of computers by top management. His current research interests are the use of computing by senior executives and applications of modeling and data analysis in managerial decision making. [View Profile]
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Margaret A. Neale
John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution; Director of the Managing Teams for Innovation and Success Executive Program; Director of the Influence and Negotiation Strategies Executive Program
Margaret Neale’s research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. Her work has extended judgment and decision-making research from cognitive psychology to the field of negotiation. In particular, she studies cognitive and social processes that produce departures from effective negotiating behavior. Within the context of teams, her work explores aspects of team composition and group process that enhance the ability of teams to share the information necessary for learning and problem solving in both face-to-face and virtual team environments. [View Profile]
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Charles A. O'Reilly III
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Hank McKinnell - Pfizer Inc Director of the Center for Leadership
Development and Research; Director of the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Executive Program; Director of the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal for Teams Executive Program
Charles O’Reilly’s research includes studies of organizational culture, the management of human resources, and the impact of change and innovation on firms. His current research includes studies of leadership, organizational culture, the impact of senior management on innovation and change, and the management of human resources. His previous books include Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal with M. Tushman (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People with J. Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). His next book, Ambidextrous Organizations: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma with M. Tushman, explores how managers can design organizations that can generate streams of innovation and deal with disruptive technological change. [View Profile]
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George G. C. Parker
Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Co-director of the Financial Management Executive Program;
Director of the Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive Program
George Parker's teaching and research interests are primarily in the field of corporate finance, management of financial institutions, and corporate governance. He is the author of numerous case studies related to these subjects which are used in the MBA Program at Stanford and other schools. He has also authored several articles on capital structure, risk management, and corporate valuation. [View Profile]
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Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management—what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.
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 The strategic frameworks were very timely and
I will be able to use them to improve the execution of our strategy at Memec.
In general, EPGC stimulated many new ideas and methodologies that will prove
useful for both leadership and management upon my return to the office.
Greg Provenzano
CEO Americas
Memec
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