The Advanced Management Program

Prof. Homa Bahrami

Haas School of Business; University of California – Berkeley; Professor of Organizational Behavior; Director Pedagogy, Inc.; Consultant to various global and high tech companies
in the US and Europe. Current Research and Interests: Organizing and managing high tech knowledge workers; Impact of technology on organizational structure and design; working in remote multi-cultural teams in global settings.

Prof. Roberto Fernandez

MIT Sloan-School of Management/Boston; Professor of Organization Studies; Roberto Fernandez works on organizational process, social networks, hiring, turnover and diversity. His research and teaching focus on economic sociology, organizational behavior, social stratification, race, and ethnic relations.

Virginia Soybel

Babson College – Boston; Professor of Management; Professor Soybel’s research interests focus on alternative reporting methods and their effects on financial ratios and
on decisions. Some of her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Prof. John E. van Maanen

MIT Sloan-School of Management/Boston; Professor of Organization Studies; Van Maanen studies people ethnographically, by living with them under the same conditions. Cultural descriptions figure prominently in his writings about occupational conflicts, organizational careers and work routines.

Prof. Abdul Ali

Babson College/Boston; Prof. Ali is currently the President‘s Term Chair and an Associate Professor of Marketing at Babson College. Earlier he taught at the University of Maryland,
College Park and Syracuse University. Prof. Ali served as Chair of the Marketing Division for six years (2000 – 2006). Prof. Ali has worked at Ciba-Geigy, Ltd.. Prof. Ali obtained an engineering degree from the India Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.

Prof. Marty Anderson

Babson College; Professor and Co-Director; Marty Anderson is teaching in the MBA Program. His courses have included: Global Supply Chain Management, Retailing in the Networked Economy and Extended Enterprise Management. Marty Anderson has advised governments on technology and competitive policy, has testified many times before the U.S.
Congress, has advised two White Houses and the European Parliament.

Prof. Robert Higgins

University of Washington, Seattle/WA; Professor of Finance, his most recent book is „Analysis for Financial Management“ (7th edition). Professor Higgins has received
over three dozen awards for teaching and he is a frequent instructor in executive education programs.

Ronald W. Jue

Lecturer / Trainer at the Esalen-Institute in California

Author of “The inner Edge”. Ron Jue is a clinical psychologist with interests and experience in cultural anthropology, religious studies and science. With the Dalai Lama he worked with the World President’s Organization, Washington, D.C. in creating dialogues of “spirituality in business.”

Prof. Srinivasa U. Rangan

Babson College/Boston; Professor of Strategy and International Business; Professor Rangan has held research and faculty positions at IMD in Switzerland, the Harvard Business School and Tulane University, where he received the Howard Wissner outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Rangan’s research, teaching, and consulting focus on competitive strategy, joint ventures, strategic alliances, global competition and national competitiveness.

Prof. Michael Roberto

Harvard Business School/Boston; Professor for Business-Management; Professor Roberto‘s research focuses on strategic decision-making processes and senior management teams. His research has examined how managers make strategic decisions in a timely and efficient manner, while simultaneously building the consensus often required to implement decisions effectively.

Christophe Soutter

Er ist CEO der ZfU International Business School mit Sitz in Thalwil am Zürichsee. Nach einem betriebswirtschaftlichen Studium und vier Jahren Engagement als Tourismus-Direktor im Engadin beschäftigt er sich seit mehr als 15 Jahren mit praxisbezogener Management-Weiterbildung, Karriere-Planung, coacht und begleitet Führungskräfte im Bereich Beruf und Karriere.