Lake Forest Graduate School of Management Announces Nine New Faculty Members
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (LFGSM) prides itself on bringing in business leaders from across the country to make up its faculty. Due to Lake Forest’s 100 percent business leader faculty, MBA students receive top training from proven and successful executives with practical experience to share.
You can meet all nine faculty members at the school’s Lake Effects Blog, but here are a few profiles on the newest members of the LFGSM family:
Executives Lend Real World Experience to Kellstadt Classrooms
Because of DePaul University’s dedicated network of alumni and location in Chicago business, students at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business have to ability to work with business executives in the classroom, as covered in this series of stories on the school’s website.
Business leaders’ interactions with students goes beyond guest lectures and networking dinners — they participate in the curriculum and engage students by presenting real-world examples.
Take Mark Hoppe, CEO of MB Financial Bank, and Harry M. Kraemer, former chairman and CEO of Baxter International, for example. Continue reading…
Alumni Profile: Rohan Shah, Kogod MBA ’09
Rohan Shah, an alum from American University’s Kogod School of Business, gained great interest in green energy and sustainability while earning his MBA. Through his studies and experiences he deduced that it’s not possible to have a growing economy without growing resources.
“Climate change is a big issue that a lot of us recognized a long time ago. We have to look at climate change in a real way,” said Shah in an article on the Kogod website. Continue reading…
NIU Prof Christine Mooney Chimes in on Twitter’s Interim CEO and Leadership Succession
Christine Mooney, Northern Illinois University’s Associate Professor of Management, lent her insights on leadership transitions to Bloomberg Business in an article they ran on the appointment of Twitter Interim CEO Jack Dorsey.
“You’re basically on cruise control in your company,” said Mooney in the article. “Jack Dorsey may be able to get away with some more changes than other interims, but really he could start something and the permanent CEO could come in and say, ‘I want to do something else.'” Continue reading…
Carey Assistant Prof. Receives JHU Discovery Award for Research
Tinglong Dai, Carey Business School Assistant Professor, is set to receive university funding in a new program supporting cross-divisional research. Twenty-three teams of JHU scholars have been selected for the new Discovery Award initiative, which has committed $15 million to cross-university, faculty-led research over three years. Continue reading…
Carey Assistant Professor to Receive Up to $75,000 From JHU Catalyst Awards Program
Thirty-seven early-career Johns Hopkins faculty members have been chosen to receive up to $75,000 from the university’s new Catalyst Awards program to pursue their research and creative endeavors. Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis was one of researchers chosen to receive the award. Macis was recognized for his work on the intersection of economics and bioethics. Continue reading…
