Faculty Directory

Ron Adner’s award-winning research and teaching introduce a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption.  His two books, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss (2012) and Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World (forthcoming, October 2021) have been heralded as landmark contributions to the strategy literature.  Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) described his work as “Path-breaking,” and Jim Collins (Good to Great) has called him “One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century.”

Kusum Ailawadi’s primary expertise is in managing the partnership and power balance between manufacturers and their distribution channel members, and in improving their brand equity and performance. She has published extensively on these topics. Her research has won or been a finalist for multiple awards from the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, and Marketing Science for best contributions to marketing theory and practice, for best collaboration between academics and practitioners, for overall best paper, and for long-term impact. She is coauthor of Getting Multi-Channel Distribution Right, a book that distills lessons from academic research and practice for managing brands in physical and digital distribution channels. She currently teaches an MBA elective on this topic and consults and serves as an expert in litigation related to issues such as distribution, brand equity, and promotions. She has served as president of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, as an academic trustee for the Marketing Science Institute and AiMark, and as an associate editor for most of the major academic journals in marketing.  

Jamie Alders is currently the Head of Revenue & Strategy at Mikros Technologies, a liquid cooling solutions company acquired by Jabil (NYSE: JBL). Prior to Mikros, Jamie was Vice President of Product and Member of the Board of Directors at Neurable, a brain-computer interface startup. Jamie has also worked in engineering and product management at Bose, focusing on hardware and software products, strategic partnerships, and product strategy in consumer electronics. He has a background in mechanical engineering and is credited as inventor for four patents held by Bose and Neurable.

Dean Alderucci is an AI consultant who advises organizations on AI strategy, incorporating AI into corporate strategy, and creating AI solutions designed to confer a competitive advantage.

Dean has served as Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence for the Connecticut legislature since 2025. During the year 2024 Dean Alderucci served the U.S. Congress as a Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence. He supported a bipartisan task force of 24 members of Congress who developed strategies and legislative measures for AI policy. He was also appointed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for a two-year term to the Federal Advisory Committee for GSA’s Acquisition Policy.

Dean is also the director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. His work involves creating software systems that automate complex tasks performed by knowledge-intensive workers such as business domain experts, lawyers, and regulators.

He was previously COO and Chief IP Counsel for a global financial services firm, and before that Chief Counsel for a business incubator. He is also an inventor on over 300 granted U.S. patents across a variety of technical fields, and was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Prior to Tuck and Harvard Business School, José was president and CEO of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover, a subsidiary of Royal Ahold NV, from April 2006 through July 2008. José joined Stop & Shop in 2001, where he was executive VP of supply chain and logistics, senior VP logistics, and VP of strategic initiatives.

Prior to Ahold, José worked at Shaw’s Supermarkets, a subsidiary of J Sainsbury, as VP of grocery merchandising, and at American Stores Company and its subsidiary Jewel Food Stores, where his posts included director of Market Research, Category Manager-Produce, store-management positions, and assignments in developing strategic initiatives.

He currently serves on the board of directors for the TJX Companies and as chair of the advisory board of AMC Group, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated producers of grapes and citrus fruit. He is also vice chair of the board of trustees of Princeton University, past chair and current member of the board of the Joyce Foundation, and a board member of the Good Jobs Institute and Daily Table.

Mark Anderegg is cofounder of Newbury Franklin, a holding company that acquires and builds recurring revenue businesses with an extremely long-term orientation. He is the former chairman and CEO of Little Sprouts, a Massachusetts-based provider of early education centers, which he led the acquisition of in 2012 via a search fund. What started as a local business with 16 locations in the Boston area grew to become the largest private preschool company in New England during Mark’s 6-year tenure as CEO. Little Sprouts now operates several brands across four states. Mark is an active investor and serves on several private company boards in the search fund ecosystem. He is a senior adviser in the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at Tuck. Earlier in his career, Mark was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, first in New York and later in Chicago. He subsequently worked as a private equity investor with Chicago Growth Partners, a middle-market buyout fund.

Scott D. Anthony is a Clinical Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he focuses on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. Scott’s latest book—his ninth—is Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations that Shaped Our Modern World. It was included in JPMorgan’s Next List of 11 books with “cutting-edge ideas across technology, business, financial markets, arts, and culture.” Scott previously spent more than 20 years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. Thinkers50 named him the world’s fifth most influential thinker in 2025 and named him the world’s leading innovation thinker in 2017.

Paul Argenti is a pioneer in the field of corporate communication, teaching some of the earliest courses on the subject for Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He wrote Corporate Communication, the first textbook in the field now in its eighth edition, along with Corporate Responsibility, Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communication, The Power of Corporate Communication, and many other books and articles. He teaches courses on corporate communication, corporate responsibility, and general management, and has consulted and run training programs for hundreds of companies including ING, Mitsui, Novartis, Goldman Sachs, and the Detroit Lions. Argenti is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and has appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and others.

Pino Audia is a professor of management and organizations at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Prior to Tuck, he was on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and London Business School. Besides winning awards for his research on the paradox of success and the myth of the garage entrepreneur, he is internationally known for his contributions to the Carnegie perspective on decision-making and for shedding new light on the reasons why people and organizations often do not learn from failure. People’s desire to see themselves in a positive light, also known as self-enhancement, is central to his explanation of such learning failures. At Tuck, Professor Audia teaches two electives—Power and Influence, and Leadership Development: Self-Awareness, Skills, and Strategies.

Tracy Bach is an expert in climate change law and policy with over 15 years of experience in international negotiations. A professor of law and public policy, Bach’s work has focused on climate change, voluntary carbon markets, international environmental law and human rights, and health care and environmental health law. She has served as an international consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and UN Environment Programme, and as a workshop teacher for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). At Tuck, she teaches The Private Sector in International Climate Negotiations Practicum and serves as an adviser to the Center for Business, Government & Society and Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability, and Innovation. She has lead Tuck student delegations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summits since 2019.

Felipe Barbieri is an assistant professor in the economics group at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He joined Tuck in the 2025–26 academic year after earning his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in industrial organization, with a focus on urban economics, housing, and transportation.

Tianna Barnes is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior area at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

As an organizational psychologist, Professor Barnes’s research focuses primarily on the micro-organizational experiences of identity, diversity, and stigma and how each area intersects with individual socialization experiences. She has published research in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and currently teaches Tuck Launch and Managing People.

Professor Barnes received a double BA in psychology and gender studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in management from the Carlson School of Management. Prior to joining Tuck, Professor Barnes completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Wharton School in the Management Department (Organizational Behavior Area).

Ella L.J. Bell Smith teaches courses called Leading Organizations, Consulting: Dimensions of Change Agency, and Leadership Out of the Box.

Professor Bernard is an expert in international trade and investment and specializes in firm responses to globalization. In recent papers, he has documented the emergence of factory-less goods producers in the US, revisited traditional views of deindustrialization and explored the dynamics of new exporters and the role of intermediaries in global trade. His current research focuses on the evolution of global (and domestic) production networks and the consequences for firm performance.

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.

Emily Blanchard is a leading expert on international economic policy, associate professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, research fellow with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the CESifo research network. She served as chief economist of the US Department of State from January 2022 to November 2023. Blanchard’s research lies at the intersection of international economics and public policy. Her work explores how foreign investment and global value chains are changing the role of trade and international economic cooperation in the 21st century, and how globalization and education shape political outcomes and the distribution of income within and across countries. An award-winning teacher, Blanchard offers courses on global economics, international economic policy, and cooperation and competition in the global economy. She graduated with honors in economics from Wellesley College and earned MSc and PhD degrees in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Before joining Tuck, Bryan Bollinger was a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he served as the academic director of doctoral studies. His interdisciplinary research portfolio aims to understand the causal effects of marketing and policy decisions and the interdependent reactions by consumers and firms. Examples include drivers of solar adoption and pricing, the role of home-automation and dynamic pricing on demand response, and response to information. His research has been supported by grants from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and others. His work has been published in all of the leading journals in marketing, as well as in journals in other disciplines, including Nature, PNAS, AEJ: Economic Policy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Bollinger serves on the editorial review boards at the Journal of Marketing Research, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Marketing Science, and Journal of Consumer Research. His research has been highlighted in news outlets such as the Economist, NPR, the New York Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

Bob Burnham is a Senior Research Computing Associate and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School. Bob is principally a software developer working in C, C++, Python, Java, SAS, R, and Common Lisp.

Davin Chor is a professor in Tuck’s Economics group and a chair in Dartmouth’s academic cluster on globalization, which studies the far-reaching repercussions of globalization on world markets, governments, trade, and society. Professor Chor’s current research focuses on international trade and political economy.

Andres Cuneo’s research topics are related to brands: why brands matter for companies and consumers. His primary stream of research is focused on the development of private label brands across categories and countries and the impact that they have on competitive dynamics between manufacturers and retailers. His second stream of research focuses on how emerging consumer consumption patterns affect brand strategy and therefore companies’ value propositions. Cuneo’s research ideas are primarily inspired by the intersection between marketing strategy, brand strategy, and management practice; therefore, he is always interested in capturing and disseminating both academic value and management relevance. Prior to academia, Cuneo held executive positions in marketing and sales, mainly in CPG multinationals. He also spent part of his business career working on management consulting on several engagements with companies from different countries and sectors of activity, such as consumer goods, telecom, and industry. Most of his working experience has been in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and Latin America.

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. His research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, Operations Research and Production and Operations Management, among other journals. A part of his research has been funded by the NSF. He is an associate editor for Management Science, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management and Operations Research, a senior editor for Production and Operations Management, and serves on the editorial board of Service Science.

Mark DesJardine is one of the leading academic voices on shareholder activism and corporate governance. He is the Paul E. Raether T'73 Faculty Fellow at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, a senior fellow at The Wharton School, and a CFA charterholder. He is also an associate editor at Management Science and a senior editor at Organization Science, two premier management journals. His award-winning research — recognized with three Emerging Scholar Awards from leading international management associations, the Governor General’s Gold Medal, and a place on Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors—examines how activists choose their targets, how proxy contests are won and lost, and how the rise of AI in proxy voting is reshaping the relationship between boards and shareholders. He writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, where his work includes “When Activist Investors Ask for Board Seats,” “How to Respond to Shareholder Activism,” “How to Attract the Right Shareholders,” and “Will Your Investors Support Your Strategic Pivot?” He advises public and private companies on AI, governance, and shareholder engagement, and serves on the board of Longacre Square Partners.

Kirsten Detrick is a senior biotech executive who pursued a distinguished career with Fortune 10 biopharma organizations and who now serves as a strategic adviser for life sciences start-ups in the US and abroad. Detrick has more than 30 years of experience as an established P&L leader, a strategic marketing and sales expert, and a general manager. She has successfully commercialized and launched multiple new therapeutics and built corporate drug pipelines for global biopharma organizations including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Takeda. Detrick’s career included eight years working in Europe as a global commercial portfolio leader and, later, as a general manager for businesses located in Eastern Europe and Austria. Detrick has particular expertise in immunology, oncology, cardiovascular and rare diseases, having led multibillion-dollar therapeutics including Enbrel, Entyvio, Plavix, and Prolia during her career. She has also served on several public and nonprofit boards of directors, including roles as both member and chairman.

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Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian 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. Donigian currently teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and is faculty director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program.

Charlie Donovan was most recently Principal Economist at Impax Asset Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm managing approximately $40 billion across listed equities, fixed income, and private markets. Previously, he served as Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School and Academic Director of Imperial’s MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance program. He was Head of Structuring and Valuation for global power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. Charlie began his career as an Energy Policy Analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He is co-author and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition.

Bjorn Espen Eckbo is the Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance. He studies corporate finance, with a particular emphasis on transactions in the market for corporate control (M&As and corporate restructurings), how firms raise capital to fund investments, capital structure choice, and issues in international corporate governance. Eckbo also currently serves as a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and served as founding director of Tuck’s Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance from 1999 through 2020. He teaches MBA electives in corporate finance and corporate takeovers at Tuck and a PhD course on corporate finance at the Norwegian School of Economics, where, in 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate. He is the recipient of the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship in 1987 and numerous awards for his research publications. Before joining the Tuck faculty in 1998, Eckbo was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia (1981–1996) and at the Stockholm School of Economics (1996–98). In 2022, Woxsen University (Hyderabad, India) honored Eckbo by establishing the Bjorn Espen Eckbo Professorship in Corporate Finance. Based on citations and research impact, the data-analytics service ScholarGPS recently ranked Professor Eckbo among the top 15 researchers in the world contributing to the broad area of Corporate Finance.

Samuel Engel has been a management consultant, business leader, and teacher for almost 30 years. As a consultant to airlines and investors, he untangles complicated questions rooted in the economics of marketing, such as route optimization, sales strategy, and aircraft selection. In the boardroom, he leads stakeholders through complex decisions that enable action on organizational change. In the courtroom, he has testified on the economics of airline strategy, supporting multimillion-dollar-damages awards. Engel’s philosophy inside and outside the classroom is that most business decisions are multidimensional. Even when executives lead with marketing analytics, the concerns of strategy, finance, and human behavior are never remote. In his courses, he teaches students first how to master the tools of marketing analytics, and then how to apply them in the real-world context, with all its complexity and messiness. Engel believes that the most effective leaders are able to simplify problems down to a core analysis, and then layer on considerations of strategy, finance, and operations.

Dan Feiler (pronounced like “filer”; he/him/his) is a behavioral scientist whose research explores the psychology of judgment and decision-making and its role in organizational behavior and management science. He is a senior editor at Organization Science and an associate editor at Management Science, and his work has been published in numerous journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Production and Operations Management. His work has also received popular press coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Washington Post, among others. Feiler is the founding faculty director of the Impact Academy, a suite of custom executive education programs for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. He has been awarded for his research at Academy of Management, Behavioral Decision Research in Management, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development conferences; he was also selected by the Tuck class of 2015 for the Excellence in Teaching Award and, in 2017, as one of the Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40 Years Old by Poets & Quants.

Sydney Finkelstein, an expert on strategic leadership, has published more than 25 books and 100 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, whichLinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman called the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, a “top instructor” at Coursera for his Strategic Leadership series of online courses, and the host of the podcast, The Sydcast.

Amy Florentino is a clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she teaches courses in communications, crisis management, and project management. She also serves as the faculty director for the Next Step Transition to Business program, an executive education program for transitioning military personnel and elite athletes.

A retired officer of the United States Coast Guard, Amy served more than 25 years on active duty. Her expertise in maritime strategy, communications, and crisis management inspires her work as founder of Wavetop Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm offering executive training and coaching to leaders across industries including the agriculture, maritime, and nonprofit sectors.

Amy holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business (2010) and a BS in operations research from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1999). She and her family have lived in eight states and now call Vermont home, where they enjoy skiing, hockey, and outdoor activities.

Teresa Fort teaches the core microeconomics class and a seminar on firm responses to globalization. Her research is in international trade and industrial organization, with a focus on firms’ global sourcing and production decisions.

Grant is a Senior Advisor and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Boston Consulting Group where he was previously a Senior Partner and Global Leader of its People and Organization Practice and Managing Partner of the Boston office. Grant currently holds the position of Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy school, and Adjunct Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. 

During Grant’s 31-year tenure at BCG, his work focused on driving transformations in large organizations in both the private and public sector. This work includes organizational redesigns, post-merger integrations, restructurings, creating high performance workforces, culture change, leadership effectiveness, and creating digital and agile organizations. From a BCG leadership perspective, he was one of BCG’s Global Leaders when BCG was one of only two companies rated in the top five best places to work in Fortune’s Best Places to Work survey for eight years in row. Grant was selected as one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants in 2017, and is the protagonist of a Harvard Business School case on BCG’s efforts to improve work life balance,

Grant’s course at Harvard Kennedy School and Dartmouth Tuck focusses on transforming public interest organizations. He has contributed over 60 columns to Forbes.com on leadership. 

Previously, Mr. Freeland was a marketing communications manager for Hewlett-Packard. He received his undergraduate degree in marketing from the Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University.)  He holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, where he was the medal winner for corporate strategy.

Anaïs Galdin joined Tuck in the 2024–25 academic year; she is a member of the economics research group. Galdin had previously visited Dartmouth College in winter 2022 as an international economics PhD fellow and served as a predoctoral research fellow at Stanford University in 2017–18. She currently studies how product and service characteristics change in globalized markets, with a focus on pharmaceutical firms and digital platforms. Before her doctoral studies, Galdin had worked as a research analyst for the Monetary and Financial Research Directorate for the French Central Bank, the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Statistics Directorate.

Giovanni Gavetti teaches the core course Competitive & Corporate Strategy at Tuck. His research explores the cognitive foundations of strategy.

Joseph Gerakos studies markets for financial services and is currently conducting research on competition in the audit market and the performance of the asset management industry. He teaches Managerial Accounting.

Peter Golder teaches the marketing core course and an elective course in Global Marketing. His research on market entry timing, new products, long-term market leadership, and quality has won many best paper or best book awards including several of the most prestigious awards in the field.

Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is a distinguished academic, author, consultant, and speaker, and one of the world’s foremost experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, a Dartmouth-wide chair and the highest distinction awarded to Dartmouth faculty and a Senior Advisor at the strategy consulting firm Acropolis Advisors. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He is a Two-Time Winner of the McKinsey Award for the Best HBR Article. Ten of his articles are HBR bestsellers. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Lauren S. Grewal is an associate professor in Tuck's Marketing group. Professor Grewal’s research examines identity-based consumption, how consumers use and process digital and social media, and consumer well-being. She uses a multi-method approach of behavioral experiments, real-world data, and field studies.

Margaret Hanson’s expertise is in business ethics, business-nonprofit collaboration, corporate social responsibility, and development studies. Her academic research and publications lie at the intersection of cross-sector collaboration, driven by social impact missions. Her research has focused on the ethical challenges and social risk that multinational enterprises face in developing-country contexts characterized by institutional voids and state failure. Prior to her arrival at Tuck, she taught for more than a decade at INSEAD in France, where she was affiliated through research with the Humanitarian Research Group at INSEAD; she is now affiliated with the Center for Business, Government & Society at the Tuck School. 

Rob Hedlund is an experienced investor who is currently focused on investing in private companies, both startups and mature businesses. From 2009 to 2024, he was an institutional investor in corporate credit, most recently with General Atlantic, a global investment firm. Prior to GA, he was a founding partner of two credit investment platforms, River Birch Capital and Iron Park Capital (acquired by GA in 2023). Hedlund was previously an investment banker with Lehman Brothers from 1986–2008, where he focused on high yield bond and leveraged loan origination and syndication. He received an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Constance Helfat is an expert on strategic change and has written extensively on the capabilities of firms and managers, technological innovation, and the dynamics of diversification and vertical integration. Helfat was recognized as a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 and 2020, and she has received many awards for her research, which include a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management and a Foundations Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society. Helfat is a fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, and she was awarded the Viipuri Prize for outstanding achievements in strategy research and an honorary doctorate from Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Franz Hinzen is an assistant professor in the Finance group at the Tuck School of Business. His research lies in the areas of corporate finance and financial intermediation, with an emphasis on banking. Franz has a particular interest in the role that bank-nonbank interactions have in shaping corporate credit market outcomes. Besides his research on traditional financial institutions, Franz also has an interest in FinTech. His work has been recognized by the Herman E. Krooss Prize and the Lawrence G. Goldberg Prize. Franz graduated with a PhD from the NYU Stern School of Business. Further, he holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree from the University of Mannheim. 

Lindsay Hyde is an Adjunct Faculty member focused on Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, where she teaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the eFYP. In addition to her work at Tuck, Lindsay is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and an Operating Partner at Moderne Ventures, where she works strategically with technology companies and members of the Moderne Network to source investments.

Elizabeth Keenan is clinical professor of business administration and research scholar at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She was previously assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School from 2015-2024, where she taught a Purpose-Driven Marketing elective and the core Marketing course. Elizabeth’s teaching and case studies span an array of marketing, social purpose, and consumer behavior topics. Her academic research explores individuals’ prosocial choices and behaviors within the domains of charitable giving and environmental sustainability. Elizabeth’s research has been published in Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, and Nature Climate Change, and it has been cited by media outlets including NPR, HuffPost, Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report. Prior to her doctoral studies, Elizabeth spent ten years in nonprofit management and education at the Aquarium of the Pacific. She lives in Vermont with her spouse and two children.

Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.  Keller's academic resume includes degrees from Cornell, Duke, and Carnegie-Mellon universities and faculty positions at Berkeley, Stanford, and UNC.  Through the years, he has served as brand confidant to marketers for some of the world's most successful brands, including Accenture, American Express, Disney, Ford, Intel, Levi-Strauss, L.L. Bean, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and Samsung.  With over 120 published papers, he is also one of the most heavily cited of all marketing academics.  His textbook, Strategic Brand Management, co-authored with Vanitha Swaminathan, in its 5^th edition, has been adopted at top business schools and leading firms around the world and has been heralded as the “bible of branding.”  He is also the co-author with Philip Kotler and Alex Chernev of the all-time best selling introductory MBA marketing textbook, Marketing Management, now in its 16^th edition.

Punam Anand Keller is an expert in marketing health, wealth, and the arts. Her current research—supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Endowment for Financial Education—focuses on designing and implementing consumer communication programs. She teaches the Social Marketing elective.

Jon Kerbs is a senior lecturer in marketing and the assistant marketing department chair at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He currently teaches the core marketing course in both the undergraduate and MBA programs. Jon received the annual Carroll School of Management All-Star Teaching Award from 2016–24. He also received the Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award for 2018–19 and was named to Poets & Quants annual national list of favorite MBA professors of the class of 2023. In addition to his teaching experience, Jon spent over 25 years in industry and held senior leadership positions in the packaged goods, retail, higher education, and learning technology sectors. His career spanned assignments from Procter & Gamble and LensCrafters to entrepreneurial start-ups. Jon has extensive background in brand strategy, advertising, strategic positioning, business development, paid digital marketing, social media, public relations, pricing, and product development. He is also a U.S. Army veteran.

Tami Kim joined Tuck in the 2024–25 academic year and is a member of the marketing research group. She previously served as an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she taught the marketing core course and a digital marketing elective for the full-time MBA program. Her expertise is in identifying behavioral insights to improve the customer experience (CX), including a focus on user experiences on digital platforms and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Management Science, and she has written for outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. At Harvard Business School, Kim received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and the HBS Dean’s Award. In 2023, she was named to Poets & Quants’ annual 40-under-40 list of the 40 best business-school professors under the age of 40.

Michelle Kinch’s expertise is in the area of behavioral operations management. She uses both laboratory and field experiments to develop insights into how the balance between automation and human presence influences customer and employee engagement—particularly in emotional service settings. As a researcher, consultant, and board director, she has worked to guide operational design choices for companies of all sizes within financial services, health care, and technology in global markets. Kinch’s research draws on a depth of her professional experience as a product management and development executive in financial services. Having previously served as a senior vice president and brand strategist for the research team at LPL Financial and a vice president in asset allocation at Fidelity Investments, she has, across a 15-year career, had product management responsibilities that spanned mutual funds, managed accounts, and online planning tools. Kinch is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. 

Adam M. Kleinbaum is a professor in the Organizational Behavior area at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He teaches a core MBA course in organizational behavior, an elective seminar on social networks, a Global Insight Expedition to Israel, and researches social networks.

Praveen K. Kopalle served as associate dean for the MBA program at Tuck from 2015–18 and as chair of the marketing area from 2012–15 and 2022–present. Praveen’s teaching and research interests are in marketing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, pricing, new products/innovation, promotions, and online/offline retailing. He currently serves as departmental editor, Production and Operations Management (POM), and as an associate editor at the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has also served as an editor and on the editorial review boards of numerous other journals. Praveen serves as vice president, external relations, on the board of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science. He is the recipient of many awards for his research and teaching, including the 2018 Lifetime Award by the American Marketing Association’s Retailing and Pricing Special Interest Group and the 2015 Core Teaching Excellence Award. Praveen’s research has been published in many top-tier journals, and he has been invited to speak at over seventy universities and institutes worldwide.

Professor Lawton is an authority on nonmarket strategy and business model innovation, particularly during corporate turnaround or in response to political risk. Much of his work explores organizational forms and strategy processes for engaging political and social actors and arenas. The research leverages institutional perspectives and extends capabilities theory beyond market settings and into the nonmarket contexts of corporate political activity (CPA) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). His research has explored and advanced our understanding of how the firm competes beyond market settings, partnering with government in industrial policy initiatives, engaging external stakeholders through intermediaries like trade associations, and managing and mitigating political risk when entering and embedding in foreign markets, particularly emerging economies. He teaches a course in International Strategy at Tuck.

Ramon Lecuona is 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, he was part of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to that, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. His academic research is focused on the design of organizational structures that make firms more productive and innovative, and he has specific expertise in the field of mobile communications and the offshoring of production facilities to emerging markets. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lecuona 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. He teaches Tuck’s core strategy course.

Lindsey Leininger is a health policy researcher specializing in the health care safety net and public health. At Tuck, she teaches health analytics and health economics and leads the Center for Health Care as its faculty director. Her work bridges applied research, education, and practice. Highlights include advising venture-backed Medicaid startups on data and evaluation activities; leading an award-winning public education campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic; and training the first cohort of insurance navigators during the ACA Marketplace launch. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade as an analytics contractor for Medicaid agencies. She serves on the board of Grassroot Soccer, an adolescent health organization that promotes well-being through sport, where she advises on the organization’s research and evaluation strategy. Lindsey earned a PhD in Health Policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with her husband and two children.

Jonathan Lewellen teaches courses in Capital Markets and Corporate Finance at Tuck.

Katharina Lewellen teaches Corporate Finance at Tuck.

Josh is a 35-year VC and PE veteran who’s applied the tools of that profession to a portfolio of for-profit and nonprofit activities. He was a partner of two world-class firms then for over 20 years ran his own, generating top decile returns. His portfolio ranged from start-ups through growth stage and large/public companies. He has served on a range of public, private, and nonprofit boards in the U.S. and abroad. He also serves as a faculty advisor for Tuck’s CPEVC.

Josh teaches “Moral Reasoning:  From Machiavelli to The Bomb to AI Deployment,” which he describes as a humanities course designed for a business school. He adds, “The course provides tools for critical thinking, for finding the right questions, and for challenging assumptions and conventional wisdom. It is not a course in what to know—more an exercise in ways to think. While success in business requires both hard skills and soft skills, I found that this third type of skills, which the study of humanities can provide so effectively, was often more valuable.”

Ming Li received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Peking University. Her research interests are primarily in empirical microeconomics, political economy, urban economics, and Chinese economy. Her current research focuses on industrial policy, firm dynamics, and the labor market.

Juhani Linnainmaa is a finance professor who studies asset pricing, investments, and household finance. From 2006 to 2016, he was a faculty member of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He joined the Tuck School of Business faculty in 2019. Linnainmaa is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a recipient of the Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (2018), the Marshall E. Blume Prize (2016), and the CFA Society & Hillsdale Canadian Investment Research Award (2015). As a finance professor at Tuck, he teaches an elective course in investments.

Pete Lisowsky is a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, a Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and an external research affiliate with the Norwegian Center for Taxation at the Norwegian School of Economics. 

Lisowsky has research interests in U.S. and international corporate tax policy; tax reporting, disclosure, and organizational form; and financial reporting choices of private companies. His research has been published in several leading accounting journals. Lisowsky has taught various tax and financial accounting courses at the undergraduate, graduate, executive education, and doctoral student levels. He was an academic consultant to the Internal Revenue Service during 2005–2021, and worked at the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Defense Department, and Deloitte Tax LLP. He served as President of the American Taxation Association in 2022–2023.

Lisowsky holds a BBA and Master of Accounting degrees, both from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Boston University. He is a licensed CPA.

Professor Lu’s research takes a data-driven and economic modeling approach to investigate operational drivers of organization performance in health care, retail, and supply chain settings. She has published research articles in leading academic journals across operations, management science, and health care disciplines. Currently, she serves as a department editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and as an associate editor for both Management Science and Operations Research. Her professional service includes past roles as president of the Supply Chain Management College of the Production and Operations Management (POM) society and the chair of the Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) society.

Erin Mansur is the senior associate dean for faculty and research, the Revers Professor of Business Administration, and faculty director of the Revers Center for Energy, Sustainability and Innovation. In addition to his positions at Tuck, Mansur is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct professor (by courtesy) in Dartmouth College’s Economics department. His research interests focus on industrial organization and environmental economics, primarily on questions regarding energy markets and energy policy. Recent work examines electric-car charging and power-plant emissions, the changing U.S. electricity grid, decarbonization and electrification policies, and the dispatch of existing power plants. Mansur’s research has appeared in numerous top journals, including the American Economic Review; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; and the Journal of Industrial Economics, where he is an associate editor. Before Tuck, Mansur taught in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth, the School of Management at Yale University, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.

Julia Melin is an assistant professor in Tuck’s Organizational Behavior group. She uses mixed-methods, online experiments, and large-scale digital interventions in real-world settings (including Fortune 500 companies and online career training platforms) to examine (1) how cultural beliefs about gender influence organizational practices, including hiring and talent assessment, and (2) how organizational practices can be designed to improve women’s opportunities for organizational advancement. Her research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Opinion in Psychology, and Social Psychology Quarterly, and has received awards from the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California, and NSF-funded Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). Previously, she worked in New York City as an analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a career consultant to software engineers for Hired, an online tech recruiting startup. She has also conducted policy research for the U.S. Military as an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. She received her PhD from Stanford University and her BA from Swarthmore College.

Brian Melzer is an economist who studies household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and financial regulation. He has held positions as a senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he taught corporate finance for MBA students. Professor Melzer has published in leading economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses in real estate at Tuck.

As associate dean, Katy leads Health Care Management Education at Dartmouth, a partnership between the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine. In this role, she oversees two innovative degree programs: the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) and the Master of Health Administration (MHA). Katy is an adjunct professor at Tuck and teaches the MHCDS Action-Learning Project, an experiential course in which students work in teams to solve strategically significant real-world problems for health care client organizations.  

Sonya Mishra is an assistant professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her research investigates how diversity operates within various forms of hierarchy (e.g., power, status) to shape social perceptions and, ultimately, the workplace outcomes of underrepresented individuals. Her research has been published in outlets such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Drawing on her expertise in organizational diversity, Mishra is responsible for designing and teaching the MBA elective Leading Diverse Organizations. In addition to research and teaching, Mishra consults with global organizations that are committed to addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Prior to obtaining her PhD from University of California’s Haas School of Business, Mishra studied finance at Georgetown University and worked in investment banking.

Scott Neslin teaches Statistics for Managers, Marketing Management, Sales Promotion, Customer Analytics, Marketing Research, Marketing New Products, and Decision Analysis.

Gordon Phillips specializes in private equity, mergers, and the impact of financial decisions on firms’ strategic decisions. He is a faculty advisor at Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, where he was the faculty director for five years, reorganizing and helping to expand the previously named Center for Private Equity. Phillips is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and UNSW in Sydney.

His areas of research include computational linguistics, AI and finance, household finance, and corporate finance. His work in AI and finance includes studies of merger synergies and the scope of firms.  His corporate finance work includes studies of private equity, mergers, and competition. Phillips’s recent research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has given keynote addresses on Finance and AI in Cyprus, Paris, and Singapore, and he has been the president of the Midwest Finance Association.

Professor Larsen earned her PhD in folklore researching tourism, themed space-making, and “Danishness” in the Danish-themed village of Solvang, California. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship conducting a project titled “Nordic Spaces in the North and North America.” And she is involved in several projects about storytelling as a tool to strengthen brand biographies, create value, and expand consumer experience with brands.

Hart Posen studies strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation from a behavioral perspective. Using computational social science methods, he develops theoretical models of how collective intelligence emerges and evolves in organizations via learning processes. Posen examines how firms leverage knowledge, capabilities, and innovation to gain a competitive advantage—and why some firms fail to do so. He is an associate editor for the Strategic Management Journal and was previously associate editor at Management Science, and his commentary on economic issues has appeared in various media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, NPR, CNBC, and the BBC. In addition to his teaching and research position at Tuck, Posen serves as the faculty director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Before earning his PhD, he spent over a decade as an entrepreneur in the technology and retail sectors.

Ken is an operator, adviser, investor, and educator with an abiding focus on sustainability and ESG. He is a professor of the practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In addition, Ken serves at Berkshire Partners as an advisory director, where he is a founding member of the Responsible Investment Committee. Ken is a published author in periodicals such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Institutional Investor, the Harvard Business Review, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. He also serves on the boards of King Arthur Baking, the Commonwealth School, Mighty Earth, and The High Meadows Institute. Ken spent most of his professional career working at footwear and apparel maker Timberland (formerly NYSE: TBL), serving as chief operating officer from 2000 to 2007.

Daniella Reichstetter has 20-plus years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology) 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 nonprofit organizations and is an active angel investor. At Tuck, Daniella co-teaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the Advancing Entrepreneurship Collaboration Practicum (AECP), leads Global Insight Expeditions (GIX), and is faculty adviser to various First-Year Project teams. She is faculty director of TuckLAB Entrepreneurship, a Dartmouth undergraduate program in entrepreneurship, as well as faculty director of the WBENC-Tuck Capstone Program, a Tuck Executive Education program with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). She was the founding executive director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship. Upon graduating Tuck, she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship; she graduated cum laude from Georgetown with a BS in Spanish and business

Leslie Robinson teaches financial accounting in the MBA program. She is a 2024 winner of Tuck's Teaching Excellence Award. Her research interests include the interaction of tax and accounting policy, and her expertise centers on the tax and accounting issues associated with multinational operations.

Nick Russell has twenty years of experience as an investor, advisor, strategist and occasional operator.  The entirety of his career has been focused on helping engineering-driven product and service companies across a range of sectors succeed and generate shareholder value.  He began his career as a strategy consultant focused on corporate venture formation and growth strategy, as well as complex operational improvement engagements. For the last fifteen years, Mr. Russell has focused on leading control buyout investments in middle and lower-middle market companies, and working closely with portfolio companies and their leaders to develop and execute growth and other improvement initiatives.  Mr. Russell joined Tuckerman Capital in 2010. He has been a Board Director and has led several Tuckerman investments. He is responsible for all facets of the firm’s efforts including business development and partnership origination, investment execution, portfolio management, investor facing activities, and internal firm operations.

Mr. Russell received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.  He teaches an MBA course on private investments in small and middle market companies at the Tuck School and is a frequent speaker on small company buyout investing, particularly addressing the emerging ecosystem surrounding independent private equity sponsors.  

Richard Sansing is the Noble Foundation Professor of the Science of Administration. He teaches Managerial Accounting; his research involves the application of economic modeling to tax and accounting issues. Richard has been at Tuck since 1998. He served as associate dean for faculty from 2015–18, working on faculty hiring and promotion as well as budget issues. He taught at the Yale School of Management from 1990–98 and worked in the tax department of the Houston office of Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1979–84. Richard is an active participant in chess and bridge tournaments. He has been a USCF Expert in chess and is an ACBL Life Master in bridge. He lives in Lebanon, NH, with his wife Deana.

Bob Searle is a partner at the Bridgespan Group, which he originally joined in 2000 and where he has served in a number of roles, including lead for Bridgespan’s environment practice. After leaving Bridgespan to serve for several years as managing partner for portfolio performance and support at New Profit, Inc., a venture philanthropy fund, Bob returned to Bridgespan, this time as a partner in its leadership practice. His consulting work has focused on strategic and organizational growth for nonprofits and foundations across a spectrum of social issues, and in 2007, he created the original pilot that developed into Leading for Impact®, a two-year consulting and capacity-building program for nonprofit executive teams. Before attending business school, Bob pursued a career as a professional musician, including four years with the U.S. Marine Band and performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony.

Felipe Severino teaches Corporate Finance in the MBA Program.

Professor Shumsky currently teaches courses on service operations management, health care operations, and decision science. He has also taught PhD courses on queueing networks, inventory theory, and stochastic models of supply chains.

James Siderius is a member of the Operations and Management Science research group at Tuck. He has a broad array of research interests but is generally interested in the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on business operations, often in strategic settings with multiple agents. His prior work has studied this in the context of social media, online review platforms, and two-sided matching markets. He uses game theory to study how agents incorporate information in these various environments, such as in the presence of strategically injected disinformation (bots) or when there is information overload. He is especially interested in how platform algorithms affect user behavior, learning, and the potential societal implications.

Sharmistha Sikdar’s research focuses on developing and applying statistical models and machine learning methods to examine empirical questions related to firm and customer behavior. Her work examines topics such as pricing and marketplace policies on e-commerce platforms, multichannel customer journeys, and the welfare implications of platform and government regulations. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Data Science.

Sharmistha holds a PhD in Marketing from Cornell University, a Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honors) from the University of Calcutta. Prior to academia, she spent over eight years in the analytics and data science industry, specializing in banking and customer analytics, and worked with analytics centers at General Electric, Citibank, and Infosys Ltd. She is also a co-inventor of a patented customer analytics solution for enterprises.

Professor Singal’s research focuses on analytics in a mix of marketplaces, including transportation, labor, sports, and advertising. He leverages data to develop application-driven models that help businesses evaluate current systems and optimize decision-making. Outside academia, Singal enjoys playing tennis and has played at a national level.

Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where in addition he is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum, and an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Morten Sorensen’s research is in the areas of private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and executive personality and characteristics; he studies economic behavior and financial performance in private markets, in individual transactions and in the role of private markets in the economy. Morten has presented his research at numerous universities and conferences and published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNBC,and Bloomberg. In addition to his faculty positions, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; he has advised PhD students, worked with numerous companies, and served as an expert in litigation involving mortgage lenders, private companies, and private equity firms. Morten grew up in Denmark and relocated to the United States; he lives with his wife, two daughters, a dog, and a cat in Hanover, NH.

Phil Stocken specializes in accounting and business analysis. He teaches accounting and financial management, analysis, and reporting in both executive education programs and MBA classes. He is highly skilled at conveying the essential information in financial statements and financial statement analysis to audiences with varying levels of financial experience and understanding.

Anant Sundaram teaches Corporate Valuation and Business and Climate Change at Tuck. His areas of expertise are business valuation, M&A, corporate governance, and financial strategies for profitable growth.

Gail Taylor has taught at the Tuck School of Business since 2000. She served as Faculty Director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program from 2011–15. Previously, Professor Taylor taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.

Brian Tomlin’s research explores operations strategy and supply chain management, with a focus on the areas of supply chain risk and innovative operations. Brian is a distinguished fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM), awarded in recognition of his research. He is a past president of MSOM and has served as a department editor at the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal. Brian has published widely in the leading academic journals and in practice-focused outlets such as the Financial Times and Supply Chain Management Review. At Tuck, he teaches the core Operations Management course and has taught the Operations Strategy elective. He served as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and has been a recipient of Tuck’s Core Professor Teaching Excellence Award. Brian received his PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he was awarded the Zannetos PhD Dissertation Prize. His undergraduate degree is from University College Dublin in Ireland. Prior to becoming an academic, Brian worked full-time for a number of companies, including General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group. 

Gabriel Voelcker joined Tuck in the 2024–25 academic year and is a member of the accounting research group. Before he began his doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gabriel worked in the stock market, real estate, and beverage industries in his hometown of Porto Alegre, Brazil. After finishing his studies and working as a research assistant for different projects, Gabriel moved to the U.S. to pursue his PhD at MIT, where he also served as a Financial Accounting teaching assistant in the Sloan Fellows MBA Program and Sloan’s Executive MBA Program. In his free time, Gabriel has co-presided over the Brazil Conference at Harvard and MIT and enjoys watching and playing soccer and basketball.

Charles Wheelan is the faculty director for Tuck’s Center for Business, Government & Society. Prior to joining the Tuck faculty, he was a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. He teaches courses related to business and public policy. Wheelan is the author of the “naked books”: Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and Naked Economics. In 2023, Naked Economics was named by Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal as the best business book of all time. Wheelan is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to foster a more representative and functional government. Wheelan lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife, Leah Yegian Wheelan, who is also a 1988 Dartmouth graduate. 

Professor Zubkoff’s teaching and research focuses on health care economics and management.