Professors Who Practice What They Teach
SOM professors are distinguished educators, business leaders, consultants, analysts, researchers, and authors who enrich their scholarship and teaching with practical experience. Their expertise covers disciplines from corporate finance, accounting, and technology management to marketing, negotiations, and organizational change. All are dedicated teachers committed to teaching excellence and who take pride in mentoring their students.
The faculty publish widely in both academic and professional journals and consult with corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations. Top media outlets, including CNN, The New YorkTimes, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek regularly interview SOM faculty and the dean on strategic business topics.
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
PROFESSOR DEBORAH KOLB’S best-selling book, Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success, teaches negotiation strategies for women in leadership roles at all levels of an organization.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VIPIN GUPTA was coprincipal investigator of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project, a cross-cultural study of leadership styles and organizational performance that received the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Scott Myers award for applied research in the workplace.
Faculty team CYNTHIA INGOLS and MARY SHAPIRO recently coauthored two books that integrate interview and career strategies with an understanding of gender and diversity nuances— Your Job Interview: An Easy, Smart Guide to Interview Success and Take Charge of Your Career.
PROFESSOR SUSAN HASS is a lead author and researcher on the Institute of Internal Auditors’ global study of internal audit practices, precipitated by company governance, compliance, and risk management issues.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TERESA NELSON, an expert in global business, has taught on five continents, and travels frequently to China to study the emerging profile of business in that country.
Please visit our news section for the most recent information about SOM faculty achievements, news. To learn more about individual professors, including their experience and areas of specialization, visit faculty web pages.
Simmons Success
View profiles of some of our internationally recognized faculty members:
Stacy Blake-Beard
Associate Professor and CGO Research Faculty Member
Deborah M. Kolb
Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women & Leadership
Sylvia Maxfield
Associate Professor of Management
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