Faculty
 |
Joseph Bailey
[+/-]
Research Associate
Professor & Executive Director of QUEST
Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
|
Joseph Bailey's research and teaching interests span issues in telecommunications,
economics, and public policy with an emphasis on the economics of the
Internet. This area includes an identification of the existing public
policies, technologies, and market opportunities that promote the benefits
of interoperability.
Bailey is currently studying issues related to the economics of electronic
commerce and how the Internet changes competition and supply chain management.
 |
Progyan Basu
[+/-]
Tyser Teaching Fellow
Accounting and Information Assurance
|
Progyan Basu has over 20 years of experience teaching accounting at undergraduate
and graduate levels. He has also taught accounting seminars for professionals
in the US and abroad. His research interests include financial accounting
and accounting education and he has had a number of academic presentations
and publications. Basu received several teaching awards and recognitions
at his previous appointment at the Terry College of Business at University
of Georgia. At the Smith School of Business, Basu teaches Financial
and Managerial Accounting, and Financial Statement Analysis at the MBA
level, and Principles of Accounting I for undergraduates. He also serves
as a Cohort Director for Smith’s Executive MBA Program, as well as a
Faculty Champion for Accounting Teaching Scholars Program.
 |
Gilad Chen
[+/-]
Professor
Management & Organization
|
Gilad Chen is Professor of Management & Organization at the Smith School.
He received his bachelor degree in Psychology from the Pennsylvania
State University in 1996, and his doctoral degree in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology from George Mason University in 2001. Prior to joining the
Smith School, he was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology
and Texas A&M University, and a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, Technion, and Tel-Aviv University.
Chen teaches courses on a variety of organizational behavior, human
resource management, and methodological topics. His research focuses
on work motivation, adaptation, teams and leadership, with particular
interest in understanding the complex interface between individuals
and the socio-technical organizational context. He has won several research
awards, including the 2007 Distinguished Early Career Contributions
Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
and the 2008 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior
Division of the Academy of Management.
Chen's research has appeared in such journals as the Academy
of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational
Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision
Processes, and Research in Organizational Behavior. He
is currently serving as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied
Psychology and as an editorial board member of the Academy
of Management Journal, and is an active member of the Academy of
Management and the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
 |
Leandro De Sa
[+/-]
Affiliate Professor, Toulouse Business School
|
Leandro De Sa is an affiliate professor with the Toulouse Business School in
Organizational Transformation and Architecture, as well as in Operational
subjects such as Supply-Chain, Large Program Management and Customer Services
Leandro is currently the Chaiman of Growthphases, a global alliance that
focuses on Lean organic and Corporate Development inorganic growth opportunities
for firms. Its customers are mostly large multinationals and top Private Equity
firms in North America, Europe, India and China. He is also the Chairman of the
Southwest Chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce in France and belongs to
several SME and entrepreneurial associations in Europe. His business is
international from Russia, India and China to Central and Western Europe and the
US, chiefly in Aerospace & Defence and in high-technology companies. He has a
22-year executive management experience with large Aerospace firms, in diverse
operational and financial roles.
 |
David Godes
[+/-]
Associate Professor
Marketing
|
Watch Video

Dave Godes holds a PhD and SM in Management from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He joined the Smith School Faculty in 2009 after teaching for ten years
at Harvard Business School. His teaching experiences include undergraduate,
graduate and executive courses ranging from Introduction to Marketing
to Business-to-Business Marketing and Sales Management. His academic
research focuses on two areas: sales management and social networks/word
of mouth. His work has appeared in top journals like Marketing Science,
Management Science and Quantitative Marketing & Economics
and he has authored numerous case studies on leading global firms like
Federal Express, Avon Products, Terumo (Japan), SKF (Sweden), XM Satellite
Radio, BMW, IBM, Hasbro, BzzAgent and Lincoln Financial. His research
and opinions have been cited in a wide range of popular press outlets
including The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist and
The Boston Globe. He has consulted and/or delivered executive education
courses to many firms, small and large, located in the US and abroad.
Prior to returning to MIT to pursue doctoral studies, Godes started
and ran his own market research and consulting firm which served a range
of clients throughout the Northeast drawn from banking, mortgage lending,
health care management and venture capital. Prior to that, he was a
marketing manager in consumer banking.
 |
Anil Gupta
[+/-]
Michael D. Dingman Chair in Entrepreneurship
|
Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on
strategy and globalization. Gupta is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over
seventy papers and four books: Getting China and India Right (Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
February 2009), The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2008), Smart
Globalization (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2003), and Global Strategy and Organization
(John Wiley, 2003). Gupta serves as a regular columnist on “Getting China and
India Right” for BusinessWeek. The recipient of numerous awards for excellence
in research and teaching, Gupta has been recognized by Business Week as an
Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools, inducted into the
Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by
Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for
research in strategy and organization. His Primary Research Areas include:
- Global Strategy and Organization
- Knowledge Management
- The Quest for Synergy
- Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
 |
Wolfgang Jank [+/-]
Associate Professor
& Director of CCB
Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
|
Wolfgang Jank is Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics at
the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
He holds a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Florida and
BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from the Technical University of Aachen,
Germany.
His research interests lie in the areas of statistics and data mining
applied to electronic commerce, marketing, operations management and
aviation. He is particularly interested in the dynamics and interrelations
of ecommerce processes found in online auctions or prediction markets.
Jank teaches classes in decision making, data mining and business intelligence
at the MBA, executive MBA and PhD levels. He is also part of several
consulting projects and advisory boards.
 |
Albert "Pete" Kyle
[+/-]
Charles E. Smith Chair Professor of Finance
Finance
|
Watch Video

Albert "Pete" Kyle's research focuses on theoretical market microstructure.
His research involves mathematical modeling of informed trading in speculative
markets, including topics such as insider trader, market manipulation,
price volatility, the information content of market prices, and market
liquidity. His current research also deals with concepts from industrial
organization to model the valuation dynamics of growth stocks and value
stocks by applying techniques used to value real options. His teaching
interests include venture capital and private equity, corporate finance,
option pricing, market microstructure, and asset pricing. After obtaining
an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Davidson College and studying
economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Kyle received his
PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he was
a professor at Princeton University, the University of California at
Berkeley, and Duke University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society
and a board member of the American Finance Association. He served as
a staff member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady
Commission) after the stock market crash of 1987 and is a currently
a member of NASDAQ's economic advisory board.
 |
Henry Lucas [+/-]
Smith Professor of Information Systems
Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
|
Henry Lucas’ research interests include information technology-enabled transformations
of organizations, markets, industries and our daily lives. He has conducted
research on the impact of information technology on organizations, IT
in organization design, electronic commerce, and the value of information
technology. Lucas co-produced and co-wrote The Transformation Age:
Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringely, a documentary
co-developed by Maryland Public Television and the Smith School shown
on public television stations around the U.S. He has authored a dozen
books as well as monographs and more than 70 articles in professional
periodicals on the impact of technology, information technology in organization
design, the return on investments in technology, implementation of information
technology, expert systems, decision-making for technology, and information
technology and corporate strategy. His most recent books include Inside the Future: Surviving the Technology Revolution
(Praeger,
2008), Strategies for E-Commerce and the Internet (MIT Press.
2002), Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing
the Value of Investing in IT (Oxford University Press, 1999) and
The T-Form Organization: Using Technology to Design Organizations
for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 1996).
He was the vice president of publications for the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) from 1995-1998 and editor-in-chief of the
AIS electronic journals, Communications of AIS and Journal
of AIS from 1998-2002.
Lucas has been a professor of information systems at the Leonard
N. Stern School of Business at New York University where he was a research
professor of information systems from 1988-1998, and professor and chair
of the Department of Computer Applications and Information from 1978-1984.
He also served as the Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore, and as a visiting professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau,
France. He was a visiting researcher at Bell Communications Research
in Morristown, New Jersey, and a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc.,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors of
a software supplier for satellite multicasting and has been a board
member of a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of passive electronic
components. Lucas is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery,
the Association for Information Systems, the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers, and INFORMS.
|
Bryan Palma
[+/-]
Executive Education Fellow |
Bryan Palma is a seasoned technology executive with general management experience
across a wide spectrum of industries and operating environments. He is a transformative
leader who focuses on driving change, delivering accelerated growth, identifying
strategic markets, and improving management talent. Currently, Bryan has been focused
on identifying investment opportunities in the technology sector for a syndicate
of investors while reinvigorating Ponic, his strategic advisory firm. Additionally,
Bryan currently serves on the Advisory Board at Agiliance, Airtight Networks, Approva,
Credant, and Lancope. Ponic provides temporary executive support to clients requiring
information security leadership; delivers professional services focused on security,
compliance, and privacy; and provides advice to technology companies on strategic
marketing, product development, and merger & acquisitions. Prior to Ponic, Bryan
served in a number of high level positions, including Vice-President of Service
Delivery Operations for Hewlett Packard (HP/EDS); Information Security Officer at
PepsiCo; and as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service.
 |
Rachelle Sampson
[+/-]
Associate Professor
Logistics, Business & Public Policy
|
Professor Sampson currently teaches managerial economics and business strategy
in the part-time and full-time MBA core. Her research focuses on strategic
alliances and the organization of corporate R&D. Her recent studies
examine alliance structure and partner selection in the telecommunications
equipment industry, legal contracting for alliances and optimal organization
for innovation.
Sampson joined the University of Maryland after five years at the
Stern School of Business, New York University. Prior to receiving her
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, she lived in Australia for 10
years. During this time, she received her law degree from Queensland
University of Technology and was admitted as a barrister in New South
Wales. Sampson also held several legal and consulting positions during
this time, most recently at Ernst and Young advising firms on optimal
expansion strategies for South East Asia. Since returning to the US,
Prof. Sampson has received several awards for her teaching and research
work, including the Ameritech Foundation Research Fellowship and the
Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
 |
Paul Tesluk
[+/-]
Department Chair, Professor, Co-Director, Center of CLIC
Management & Organization
|
Paul Tesluk is Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human
Resource Management, Chair of the Department of Management and Organization,
which is currently rated as one of the top five management departments
in the world in research productivity and scholarly impact, and Co-Director
of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology (HCIT). His
research focuses on strategies to enhance team effectiveness and innovation,
the assessment and development of management and leadership talent,
and organizational culture and climate in organizations transitioning
to high-involvement workplace systems. He has published dozens of articles
and book chapters on these topics and has received awards from the Society
for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for his research on work
team effectiveness and work experience and leadership development. He
is currently on the editorial boards of several of the leading academic
journals in the management field. Tesluk is also a Fellow of the Society
for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has worked with a number
of private and public sector organizations in both research and consulting
capacities and his research has been supported by agencies such as the
National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health.