Our Faculty

Ron Adner

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and David T. McLaughlin D’54 T’55 Professor

Professor Adner is a speaker and consultant to companies around the world whose research focuses on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship. His work offers a new perspective on the relationship between firms, customers, and rivals, and the broader “innovation ecosystems” in which they compete to create value.

Read full bio

José Alvarez

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

José Alvarez is clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he has served on the faculty since 2009. José conducts research and teaches courses in food systems, board governance, and retailing. He has coauthored more than 30 case studies. José cofounded the executive program Accelerating Board Diversity at Harvard Business School. Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly 20 years in the supermarket industry, culminating in his tenure as president and chief executive officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover. He currently serves on the boards of numerous corporate, nonprofit, and educational organizations, including The TJX Companies, United Rentals, The Joyce Foundation, and Princeton University. José is married with three children.

Read full bio

Scott D. Anthony D’96

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Scott D. Anthony's research and teaching focuses on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. Scott’s next book—his ninth—is slated to be published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2025. The book’s provisional title is Anomalies Wanted: A Brief History of Disruption. Scott previously spent more than 20 years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, serving as Innosight’s elected managing partner from 2012–18, a period when Innosight tripled its revenues and expanded internationally. In 2017 Huron Consulting acquired Innosight for $100 million, and Scott continues to serve as an adviser to Innosight. He has lived in the United Kingdom (1997–98) and Singapore (2010–22), held board roles at public and private companies, given keynote addresses on six continents, and worked with CEOs at numerous global organizations. Thinkers50 named him the world’s ninth most influential thinker in 2023 and the world’s leading innovative thinker in 2017.  

Read full bio

Paul Argenti

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Corporate Communication

Professor Argenti is an expert in strategy execution through communication who also serves as faculty director for the Leadership and Strategic Impact program. Argenti has consulted for and run training programs for hundreds of companies including General Electric, ING, Novartis, and Goldman Sachs. 

Read full bio

Pino Audia

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Management and Organizations

Professor Audia’s work focuses on psychological barriers to organizational adaptation and leadership effectiveness. He has extensive experience as a consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and speaker at major firms worldwide including General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, and Time Warner. Professor Audia is faculty director of the Tuck Advanced Management Program.

Read full bio

Ella L.J. Bell Smith

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Business Administration

Ella L.J. Bell Smith is a leading expert on fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She has consulted to Fortune 100 companies in organizational behavior and organizational change, and her research interests focus on career and life histories of successful women. She is author of Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape, and co-author of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. She has contributed to scholarly journals and written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Essence, and other mainstream publications. She has earned awards for her teaching and scholarship and has served as an advisory board member of the National Women’s Leadership Summit, The White House Project, and Best Companies for Women of Color, Working Mother Media.

Read full bio

Stacy Blake-Beard

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard is Professor Emeritus at Simmons University, where she taught courses on Organizational Behavior, Gender and Diversity. Prior to joining Simmons, Dr. Blake-Beard was on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Dr. Blake-Beard’s academic research focuses on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on how this process may be changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. Dr. Blake-Beard received a Fulbright Award to support her research on gender and mentoring, in partnership with the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Read full bio

Emily Blanchard

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Professor Blanchard is an economist whose research looks at the implications of globalization. Her work revolves primarily around two broad questions impacting business leaders: 1) How can education policy be used to facilitate increased trade so that workers may share in the aggregate gains from globalization? And 2) How are trade agreements evolving in response to global supply chains and foreign direct investment?

Read full bio

Pamela Campagna

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Professor Campagna balances consulting with global clients, volunteer work, and academic teaching. She is the President of BLUE SAGE Consulting, Inc. a certified women-owned management consulting firm founded in 1997, where she specializes in global strategy, business optimization & resource development. Prior to founding BLUE SAGE, Professor Campagna developed her craft during fifteen years of work in software and technology companies in marketing, sales, operations, business development, and consulting roles.

Professor Campagna contributes to the consulting profession as a board member and chair of the Marketing Committee of CMC-Global Institute, a virtual global community for professional management consultants. She is also a Certified Management Consultant (CMC®), representing global standards in consulting competencies, professional behavior, and ethics.

Read full bio

Belinda Chiu D’98

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Belinda Chiu, Ed.D, D’98, is an ICF-PCC executive coach, facilitator, and consultant, working with leaders across industries. She serves on faculty for the Inner MBA, the Management Leadership Development Program at Dartmouth, and Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Coaching Program. Founder of Hummingbirdrcc, she is also a Certified Teacher with the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Teaching Fellow at True North Leadership, An International Liasion with the U.S. Department of State, and Strategic Development Director with eiFOCUS.

Read full bio

Trip Davis D’90

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Trip Davis is an entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He teaches in the Tuck Next Step program.

Read full bio

Laurens Debo

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and C.V. Starr Professor of Operations Management

Laurens Debo is the C.V. Starr Professor of Operations Management at Tuck. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Professor Debo’s research focuses on the behavior of consumers and providers in different service settings. On the consumer side, he investigates how strategic consumer behavior shapes the demand for services. On the supply side, he studies the management of “discretionary services,” whose value to the consumer increases with the actual service time.

Read full bio

Nicole DeHoratius

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Nicole DeHoratius is an expert in the management of retail operations. As a faculty member of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, she has published in leading journals such as Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review. Her industry projects include work with Fred Meyer, Hugo Boss, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, Staples, Target, Ulta Beauty, and Walmart, among others.

Read full bio

Lisa Dicker

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Lisa Dicker is a consultant with Triad Consulting Group, a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and a clinical instructor in the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP).  Lisa is also an Adjunct Professor in Bay Path University’s M.S. Leadership & Negotiation program, and has taught for Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation’s executive education courses, the Harvard Negotiation Institute, and for independent programs.  She has provided workshops, trainings, coaching, and consulting services to a diverse range of clients and participants, including INSEAD, the New Hampshire Superior Court, Olympus, the Alabama Bankers Association, and the United States Institute of Peace.  Lisa was previously Counsel at a global pro bono law firm where she advised on conflict prevention, peace negotiations, transitional justice, and post-conflict democratic transitions, including in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, and Yemen. 

Read full bio

Aram M. Donigian T’08

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian is co-director of the Tuck Next Step program and served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. 

Read full bio

Daniel Feiler

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Daniel C. Feiler is an associate professor at the Tuck School of Business in the Strategy & Management group. He is a behavioral scientist and his research explores the psychology of judgment and decision making and the role it plays in organizational behavior and management science. He has won paper and presentation awards at the Academy of Management conference, Behavioral Decision Research in Management conference, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development summer conference. His work has received popular press coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, Mic, and Fast Company, among others. He was selected by the Tuck MBA Class of 2015 for the Excellence in Teaching Award, representing the first time a junior faculty member was selected for that award at Tuck. In 2017, he was selected as one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40 years old by Poets and Quants. His work has been published in Management Science and Psychological Science, as well as in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Production and Operations Management. He is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and received his doctoral degree from Duke University.

Read full bio

Sydney Finkelstein

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Steven Roth Professor of Management

Professor Finkelstein is a highly acclaimed author and expert on leadership, strategy, and corporate governance. He has served as consultant and speaker for leading companies around the world, including Boeing, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Hitachi, ING, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon, and United Technologies.

Read full bio

Amy E. Florentino T’10

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Amy Florentino is co-director of Tuck Next Step and has more than 20 years of experience as a military officer, operator, strategist, and occasional academic instructor. She currently serves as Commander for Sector Northern New England in Portland, Maine. In this role, she leads more than 1,100 personnel to execute the Coast Guard’s eleven statutory missions across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northeastern New York. She oversees an area of responsibility that spans over 5,000 miles of coastline throughout New England and Lake Champlain. Her team operates six multi-mission cutters, eight life-saving stations, two marine safety detachments, and three Aids to Navigation Teams.

Read full bio

Lance Giddens

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Lance Giddens is a Senior Partner and Lead Facilitator with Action Learning Associates, bringing over 20 years of experience in the field of executive development. He has designed and developed leadership universities at UBS, PwC, Weyerhaeuser, Unum Provident, and other corporations.

Read full bio

Peter Golder

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Marketing

Professor Golder's research on market entry timing, new products, long-term market leadership, and quality has won more than 10 best paper or best book awards, including several of the most prestigious awards in the field: William F. O'Dell (Journal of Marketing Research), Harold H. Maynard (Journal of Marketing), INFORMS Long Term Impact Award (Marketing Science), Frank M. Bass Award (Marketing Science), and Berry Book Prize (American Marketing Association). His research has also been featured in numerous mass-media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, and Advertising Age.

Read full bio

Vijay Govindarajan

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is an internationally known expert on strategy and innovation. VG, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric, and has worked with CEOs and management teams in more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies—including Boeing, Coca-Cola, FedEx, HP, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Sony and Walmart. He is faculty co-director of Global Leadership.

Read full bio

Joseph M. Hall

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Senior Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning

Professor Hall researches the tension between art and science in business process management, the value of operational focus, and customer service and retention.

Read full bio

Shannon Huffman Polson T’03

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Shannon Huffman Polson T'03 is a seasoned leader and speaker who brings experiences from the military, expedition, and corporate worlds to ignite and sustain business leaders to foster cultures and workforces that are more innovative, profitable, and resilient in times of challenge and change.

Read full bio

Courtney Hurley Pierson T’01

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Management

Professor Pierson is an expert in strategy and general management, digital media, and communications.

Read full bio

Punam Anand Keller

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management

Punam Keller is a marketing and behavior change expert who has taught and consulted for organizations such as Aetna, Allianz Global Investment, Blackrock, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Constellation Brands, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, LG, Merck, and Morgan Stanley. Professor Keller is faculty director of Tuck Next Step and the Gender Equity Consortium. 

Read full bio

Adam Kleinbaum

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Professor Kleinbaum's research examines the antecedents and evolution of social networks in organizations.  He has shown how formal and informal structures and processes, prior career history, and individual personality contribute to advantageous network structures.  His latest research explores the neuroscience of social networks, and he has also focused on internal communication networks and how they serve to enable firms' performance. Professor Kleinbaum is the faculty director of the Impact Academy. 

Read full bio

Praveen K. Kopalle

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Signal Companies’ Professor of Management

Professor Kopalle’s teaching and research interests are in marketing, statistics, pricing, new products/innovation, promotions, customer expectations, and e-commerce. Kopalle serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Marketing and Journal of Retailing. He has won many awards including the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and the Tuck 2015 Core Teaching Excellence Award.

Read full bio

Lynne Koreman D’90

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Lynne Koreman brings more than 30 years of experience in marketing, operations, and management. Lynne is a strategic leader with functional experience managing integrated B2B and B2C marketing teams, sales and service call centers, and business operations with a focus on metrics and measurements to meet goals. Lynne’s unique skill set delivers both strategy and execution with experience in start-up, regional, national, and global environments. She has worked in a variety of industries with roles supporting consumer packaged goods, travel and hospitality,  shipping and logistics, education and training, and cybersecurity and technology. She works as an advisor to small- to medium-sized companies, helping them use large-company strategies to thrive and scale.

Read full bio

Eugene Korsunskiy

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering

Eugene Korsunskiy teaches human-centered design and co-directs the Design Initiative at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth faculty, Eugene co-founded sparktruck, and taught at Stanford. He is the executive director of the Future of Design in Higher Education community of practice.

Read full bio

Julie B. Lang T’93

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Management

Professor Lang is an expert in strategy development and decision making; project management; and senior management and boardroom communications.

Read full bio

J. Ramon Lecuona Torras

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Ramon Lecuona is faculty director of Global Leadership and a clinical professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Before joining Tuck, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. In addition to his academic work, Ramon has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies. 

Read full bio

Lindsey J. Leininger

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Lindsey Leininger specializes in data-driven health policy, with a focus on the health care safety net and community health. She has a longstanding interest in publicly funded health insurance programs, with related research spanning quality measurement, risk segmentation, and program evaluation. Her community health work focuses on health education and promotion initiatives. Highlights include leading an award-winning crisis communication campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic; designing and delivering a nationally recognized curriculum for public benefits navigators; and leading the data and research efforts for a home-visiting program for high-risk pregnant women in Wisconsin.

Read full bio

Lauren Lu

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Business Administration

Lauren Lu's research takes a data-driven approach to investigate operational drivers of organizational performance in healthcare, retail, and supply chain settings. Lauren serves as an Associate Editor for the Management Science journal, an Associate Editor for the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal, and a Senior Editor for Production & Operations Management. She is the President of the Supply Chain Management College of the POMS society and the past Chair of the Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group of the MSOM society.

Read full bio

Dan Lyons

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Dan Lyons is the Founder and President of Team Concepts, Inc. He is noted for his thought provoking seminars on a wide range of team and leadership-related topics. The genesis of Team Concepts’ leadership model, The Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership, is based upon Dan‘s 30+ years of high performance athletic achievements, academic training, and military experience.

As an oarsman, Dan rowed on seven US National Teams. He won a World Championship in 1986 and competed in the Seoul Olympics (1988). Dan was inducted into the US Rowing Hall of Fame in 1997. His professional coaching career includes positions at the US Naval Academy, Oxford, Stanford, Drexel, Georgetown, and as an elite coach for the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia.

Dan‘s leadership skills are also a product of his military history training and service. He received his BS from the US Naval Academy, MS from Oxford University and MA from Villanova University. Dan served as an officer in the US Navy. During his service, he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Read full bio

Elizabeth Rice Mattison

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming

Elizabeth (Beth) Rice Mattison joined the Hood Museum of Art in July 2021 as the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator of Academic Programming, where she serves as the liaison to Dartmouth faculty and facilitates the integration of the museum's collection with the College's curriculum. As an experienced art historian, she's committed to engaging diverse audiences with objects to elicit critical thinking and foster transformative encounters with art. In 2020, Beth completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Toronto; she also holds an M.A. and B.A. in the history of art from Yale University. She has held positions at several institutions, including the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto; the Musée du Louvre; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Read full bio

Neely McNulty

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Prior to joining the Hood Museum of Art, Neely taught at Lesley University, worked as an art therapist, and oversaw all children's art programming at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Neely joined the Hood Museum in 2008 as the Images and ArtStart Instructor. She oversaw and taught the museum's multiple-visit school programs for regional children. In 2017, she accepted the position of Hood Foundation Associate Curator of Education. Neely holds a Masters of Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A. from Princeton University. She is also a current member of the National Art Education Association.

Read full bio

Shane Meeker

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Shane Meeker is the the Procter & Gamble Company Historian and Corporate Storyteller. He delivers StoryMythos workshops and presentations around the world and across hundreds of companies, organizations, conferences and universities. He is the author of StoryMythos: A Movie Guide to Better Business Stories.

Read full bio

Whit Mitchell

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Whit Mitchell is an executive coach specializing in team dynamics. He is the founder and CEO of Working InSync International. Over the past thirty years, Whit has worked with a diverse group of executives across Fortune 500 companies, regional corporations, and small businesses, developing dynamic leaders and teams. In addition to his expertise in team development, Whit has worked with collegiate and professional athletes and coaches, including those at Dartmouth College, the US Coast Guard Academy, the University of New Hampshire, and professional hockey players. Whit is also the author of Working In Sync: How 11 Dartmouth Athletes Propelled their College Sports Experience into Professional Excellence.

Read full bio

Brooke Moran

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Brooke Moran, Ph.D., is a Senior Associate with Action Learning Associates, providing facilitation for participants. Brooke applies experiential education methods and processes to help executives hone their leadership and interpersonal communication, and has worked with leaders from companies including PwC, Microsoft, Scantron, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Fidelity. 

Read full bio

Chris Nute

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Chris Nute is a Senior Partner and the Managing Partner of Action Learning Associates, which provides participants with active learning coaching. As a consultant and educator, Chris’s particular expertise is in the facilitation of creating heightened personal cognizance through action-oriented methods, assessments, and developmental feedback.

Read full bio

Geoffrey Parker

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Engineering

Geoffrey Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College. He is also a research fellow at MIT’s Initiative for the Digital Economy where he leads platform industry research studies and co-chairs the annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit. Parker has made significant contributions to the field of network economics and strategy as co-developer of the theory of “two-sided” markets. He is co-author of the book Platform Revolution. Parker won the Thinkers50 2019 Digital Thinking Award, along with Marshall Van Alstyne, for the concepts of the inverted firm, two-sided markets, and how firms can adapt and thrive in a platform economy. In Spring 2020, he was elected as a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. In Fall 2020 he joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production.

Read full bio

Thomas Porter

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Dr. Thomas L. Porter is a Certified Public Accountant and an expert on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), SEC Regulations, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and certain tax issues.  

He is Global Professor of Accounting and Finance at The Hult International Business School and an adjunct professor at Boston University. He also teaches review courses for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination.

Qualified as an accounting and financial expert at arbitration hearings and at courts, including Delaware Chancery Court, Dr. Porter has testified on behalf of both claimants and respondents in disputes involving the interpretation of consolidated liabilities, special purpose entities (SPEs), cost allocation schemes for common costs in mutual funds (including hedge funds), the reasonableness of choices within GAAP, disclosure adequacy, insolvency and tax issues.

Read full bio

Daniella Reichstetter T’07

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Daniella Reichstetter has more than 20 years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike, and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.

Read full bio

James Goodwin Rice

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

James Goodwin Rice is the Groucho Marx Senior Lecturer of Acting and Voice. He has been an actor and teacher for nearly fifty years and has taught at Dartmouth College since 1997. Experienced on both New York and regional stages, Rice has appeared in episodic television, movies of the week and in daytime television roles.

Read full bio

Jordan Schoenfeld

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Jordan Schoenfeld is associate professor at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. His research interests include financial contracts; the role of information in the financial markets; corporate use of big data; climate finance; cyber risks.

Read full bio

Robert A. Shumsky

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Operations Management

Professor Shumsky teaches on service operations management, health care operations, and decision science. 

Read full bio

Matthew Slaughter

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School

Dean Slaughter is an economist whose research focuses on economics, globalization, and the global operations of multinational firms. From 2005 to 2007, Dean Slaughter served on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. Dean Slaughter has consulted with firms and industry organizations on issues regarding the global economy. Slaughter is co-director of the Global Leadership 2030 program, and was founding Faculty Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government

Read full bio

Phil Stocken

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Accounting

Professor Stocken specializes in theoretical analysis of accounting and auditing issues. He has conducted extensive research on the financial reporting behavior of publicly traded corporations and teaches core information in financial statements and financial analysis to audiences with varying levels of financial experience. Stocken was the first recipient of the Class of 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching at Tuck.

Read full bio

Alva Taylor

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Alva Taylor is an expert in business strategy, technology, innovation management, entrepreneurship, and new product development. Professor Taylor is the faculty director for Growing an Established Diverse Business and the Digital Excellence Program.

Read full bio

Gail Ayala Taylor

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor Of Business Administration

Gail Taylor is the faculty director of Building a Successful Diverse Business, and an expert in service marketing and an advocate for the coordination of marketing, operations, and human resource management to create effective service systems. She has consulted to business owners to help them improve productivity and efficiency, and her research interests include customer loyalty, service employee retention, nontraditional advertising, and sales promotion effectiveness. Her work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, including Journal of Retailing, Health Marketing Quarterly, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, and International Business & Economic Research Journal.

Read full bio

Linzie Venegas

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Linzie Venegas is the vice president at Ideal Group, overseeing administration, marketing, finance and human resource activities for the company. The Ideal Group operates eight different companies with annual revenues approaching $350 million and more than 600 employees. She actively works with various community organizations in Detroit, and has a passion for helping small businesses. She teaches in the Tuck Diversity Business Programs.

Read full bio

Venkat Venkatraman

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Venkat Venkatraman researches how established companies recognize and respond to digital technologies. 

Read full bio

Conwell Worthington III

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Conwell Worthington has held faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University. Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Career production highlights include management positions on shows on Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations), national tours (The Lion King and The Book of Mormon), and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, and Fences). Worthington has also coordinated productions in Australia, Canada, China and the Netherlands. Currently, he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Michigan and J&B Theatricals in California.

Read full bio