WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE EDUCATION FACULTY AFFILIATES
Rajeev Batra is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where he has taught courses on Brand Equity Management, Advertising Management, Database Marketing, Marketing Research, and Sales Promotion. He is a faculty affiliate for the William Davidson Institute, where he teaches Brand Management course. Dr. Batra received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Business School. Prior to beginning his academic career Professor Batra was a Brand Manager in India with Chesebrough-Pond's. He has had teaching, consulting or research relationships on advertising and direct marketing issues with various advertising and marketing firms, including American Express, Citibank, Eli Lilly, General Electric, General Motors, McCann-Erickson, Newsweek, Sara Lee Direct, Whirlpool, and many others.
Neil G. Cohen is a Faculty Affiliate with the William Davidson Institute and an Associate Professor of Finance at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Cohen is the author of case studies in business finance, investments and portfolio management, and personal finance. Many of his cases were written about companies in Central and Eastern Europe. As visiting professor at the International Management Center in Budapest (now the Business School of Central European University), where he first taught in 1994 as a Fulbright professor, Dr. Cohen led management development programs for companies such as Coca-Cola Moscow, Creditanstaldt, MOL, and Kraft Jacobs Suchard. For the William Davidson Institute, Dr. Cohen teaches the Finance module for mini-MBA programs and led Finance for the Non-Financial Manager programs for US Steel in Slovakia and ABB in the Czech Republic.
Nancy J. Scannell is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois in the State’s capital city of Springfield where she teaches finance. She has held lecture posts at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently a Faculty Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center and a Faculty Affiliate for the William Davidson Institute for the University of Michigan’s International Executive Education program. Nancy earned her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from, respectively, Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has visited more than 55 countries and has engaged in internationally-scoped professional assignments in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, France, India, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Panama, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Korea, Ukraine and Vietnam. Her research is reflective of her global sojourns. Nancy is 3-time Fulbright award recipient and an International Research Exchanges Board grantee.
Prashant Kale is an Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and a William Davidson Institute Faculty Affiliate. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in Strategic Management, Management of Strategic Alliances and Mergers and Acquisitions. His research in these areas has been published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and several other leading journals. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Kale worked in the industry with corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, ICI Plc., and Siemens Ltd. For the William Davidson Institute, Dr. Kale has led successful strategy sessions for executives in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia.
Robert Kennedy is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business where he teaches corporate strategy and international business courses in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Dr. Kennedy's research focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in developing countries and has been published in leading economics and strategy journals. Dr. Kennedy has authored more than 70 articles, chapters, notes, case studies, and computer exercises on emerging market issues. Dr. Kennedy has worked with more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies and many smaller firms to design and deliver custom executive education programs.
John Monoky is a Faculty Affiliate with the William Davidson Institute and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and principal in Monoky Associates-a sales and marketing consulting firm. Dr. Monoky has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Distribution Management, and Industrial Distribution. His academic background and hands-on industry experience creates a very unique combination in his workshops and speaking engagements. This practical approach allows those who participate in his programs to go home and use the materials immediately. Some of Dr. Monoky’s clients include: Eastman-Kodak, General Electric, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Mead Paper, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Rockwell International, Texas Instruments, 3M, Travelers Insurance, and Weyerhaeuser Company.
Neil Sendelbach is co-director of the Management of Managers Program and Director of Pressing Problems Initiative, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He is responsible for the development and analysis of the Pressing Problem Survey and associated UMBS activities. Dr. Sendelbach also teaches in the Executive MBA program and consults to a variety of companies on management development and organization change initiatives. Dr. Sendelbach has over twenty years of experience in various aspects of education, training, and development, with emphasis in executive and organizational development for improved organizational performance. He has experience in global education, training, and development activities, including strategic planning, supporting major organizational change efforts, managing associations and strategic partnerships, succession planning, and executive coaching.
John Branch joined the faculty of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in July 2006, teaching in the areas of marketing and international business. Professor Branch began his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes in France. Since then, he has served as an adjunct or visiting professor at more than 40 business schools throughout world, including the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, ESAN in Peru, and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Administration in Thailand. He was also a visiting scholar at Queen Elizabeth House of the University of Oxford in England and at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University in the U.S.A. Dr. Branch has been involved in a variety of European Union and other government-funded development projects, most notably in the republics of the former U.S.S.R., including Kyrghyzstan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and in those of Eastern and Central Europe. He has also participated in management training programs in numerous international organizations, including British American Tobacco and Anheuser-Busch.
Gerard Seijts is an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and a faculty affiliate of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. He teaches courses in Leading Change, Leadership, and Leading People and Organizations. In 2005 and 2007, he received the Innovation in Teaching Award from the Richard Ivey School of Business.Dr. Seijts has taught executive leadership programs for many companies, including Scotiabank, TD Bank Financial Group, Rogers, Bruce Power, Hewlett-Packard, Catalyst Paper, Maple Leaf Foods, and ING Direct. He has also delivered workshops to mid and senior-level managers on topics such as leading change, team leadership, designing effective organizations, strategic interviewing, managerial negotiations, and behavioral decision-making. He has worked with organizations such as Pink Elephant, Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration, Kaupthing Bank, and Landsbanken. His research has appeared in numerous academic journals. He has written cases on topics including leading change, organizational turnarounds, crisis management, organizational culture and alignment, whistle-blowing, and conflict in teams. Dr. Seijts holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the University of Toronto.
Christie Nordhielm is a associate professor at Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and faculty affiliate at the William Davidson Institute. At consultant and speaker in the areas of Strategic Marketing and Advertising. She works with companies worldwide to implement the Big Picture Framework. Her clients include American Express, Jim Beam Brands Worldwide, Sprint, BBDO, ABNAMRO and a large number of small and medium-size companies worldwide. She began her teaching career on the faculty of the top-ranked Marketing Department at the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, where she was selected by students in the full-time MBA program as the L.G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year. Professor Nordhielm is the author of several articles, and has received the Ferber Award for best article based on a dissertation published in the Journal of Consumer Research. Nordhielm received her Ph.D.and MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.