Dr. Joan T. Allatta joins the Fox School from Purdue University, where she was an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management since 2005.

Prior to earning her PhD, Dr. Allatta worked at General Electric. Her research interests include knowledge networks, organizational capabilities, and communication technologies. Her published papers include “Evolving Communication Patterns in Response to an Acquisition Event,” which appeared in a 2011 edition of the Strategic Management Journal, and she has more works in progress.

Dr. Allatta has earned nine awards and grants, including the Krannert Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award in 2009-10, Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS PhD Fellowship in 2004, and three Distinguished Teacher Awards. She has also presented at numerous national and international conferences.

Dr. Allatta received her PhD in Strategic Management and Master of Arts in Management and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She also holds a Master of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering Systems from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Professor Chaganti’s teaching portfolio includes entrepreneurship, strategic management, business policy & administration courses in the MBA and EMBA Programs. His research writings have appeared in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, among other publications. He co-authored two books: High Performance Management Strategies for Entrepreneurial Companies [1991] and Corporate Governance and the Timeliness of Change — Reorientation in 100 American Firms [1998]. He served in several leadership positions: Chair of the Department [1995-99; 1990-1993], founding Executive Director of the Institute of Global Management Studies [1997-1999], co-editor of the Journal of International Management [1998-2000]. He organized several national and international conferences, including “Managing Financial Risks and Opportunities in Asian Markets” [April 1998] and “Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions — Regional and Global Perspectives” [April 1999].

Dr. Charles Dhanaraj joins the Fox School as the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Practice in Strategy. He will also serve as the Founding Executive Director of Fox’s Center for Translational Research in Business, and Executive Director of the Fox School’s Executive Doctorate in Business Administration program.

An award-winning researcher and educator, Dhanaraj arrives at the Fox School from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he served as professor of strategy. He also has held academic appointments at Indiana University at Bloomington and Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Dhanaraj’s specialization includes strategic partnerships, global innovation, and emerging markets. He published several high-impact articles and award-winning cases. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), a distinction held by elite researchers for outstanding contributions to scholarly development in international business. He serves as vice president for the AIB and deputy editor of Cross Cultural and Strategy Management, as well as a member on the editorial boards of six major journals.

As an engineer, Dhanaraj worked with the Tata Robins Fraser, Ltd and Kaveri Engineering Industries Ltd. in India and the Center for Cold Ocean Resource Engineering (C-CORE) Inc. in Canada prior to his doctoral studies.

He received a PhD in International Strategy from University of Western Ontario in Canada. He also earned a MBA from the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and a Master of Engineering in Robotics from the memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s Canada. He also studied at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, where he earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Bertrand Guillotin joined the Fox School of Business on July 1st, 2015, following appointments as Director of the International Programs Office at Duke University (Fuqua School of Business) and as part-time instructor with Campbell University in RTP, NC after a successful international corporate career in Germany and in the US (10 years). Having spent more than 25 years outside his home country, he has done business in more than 30 countries and speaks French, German, and English fluently.

At Fox, Bertrand serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction, Academic Director of the International Business Administration undergraduate program (Strategic Management department), and IB Association Academic Advisor. He teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the OMBA and PMBA programs. His research combines international business and strategic management.

Bertrand is also very engaged with the Academic of International Business as Chair of the US Northeast Chapter (2nd largest in the world) and with the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education as the Fox School of Business Representative. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Temple Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the AIB US Northeast Chapter Executive Board (ex officio), and the Editorial Board of the Thunderbird International Business Review

Bertrand’s recent scholarly publications include a paper-based DBA Thesis (2016), as well as articles in the Journal of International Education in Business (forthcoming) and the Thunderbird International Business Review (lead article Sept/Oct 2015 issue). Other publications include articles in the Financial Times (London, UK), Les Echos, a prominent French economic newspaper, and the European Foundation for Management Development’s Global Focusmagazine.

Bertrand holds a DBA from the AACSB-EQUIS-AMBA-accredited Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird (Arizona State University), a European Diploma of Higher Education in International Marketing from FEDE (Switzerland), a Manager du Commerce International diploma from ESARC business school (France), and a Brevêt de Technicien Supérieur en Commerce International from LETP M. Tessier (France).

Rob Hamilton has extensive academic research, consulting and teaching expertise in both domestic and international arenas. His academic training includes a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, his MBA degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dr. Hamilton has been a faculty member in the Strategic Management Department at Temple University since 1981 and has won seven awards for outstanding teaching. His teaching honors include a Musser Leadership Award for Teaching Excellence, Asher Award for Outstanding Faculty, an MBA Student Association award for Excellence in Instructional Innovation, Executive MBA Faculty of the Year award-twice, a Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and the Great Teacher Award, Temple University’s highest teaching honor.

Rob’s academic research has focused on strategic management, industry competitive interaction, and the control of multinational enterprises. He has served on 28 Ph.D. dissertation committees and has chaired, or is currently chairing, a total of 14 of those committees. He has published more than 30 articles in journals such as Management International Review, Long Range Planning, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, R and D Management and Journal of International Management. In addition, he has made more than 30 presentations at various conferences. He is a recipient of the Dean’s Research Honor Roll and has twice been selected as an Outstanding Reviewer by the Academy of Management. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of International Management for the last decade.

Dr. Hamilton’s service is extensive within the University as well as outside. He has formerly served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs, President of the School of Business, Collegial Assembly and Chair of the Strategic Management Department. He served as Chair of Temple University’s Great Teacher Award Committee for half a decade. He is currently the faculty Co Chair of the FSBM Planning Oversight Committee and facilitates School retreats. He has served as a member of the Vestry and Rector’s Warden at St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh. He is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Children’s Village for abused children and serves on the Board of Directors of the Temple University Lutheran-Episcopal Campus Ministry. He is also a member of the Temple University Alumni Association Board of Directors.

TL Hill is an Associate Professor in Strategic Management and Managing Director of the Fox Management Consulting Practice, the capstone residency for all Fox MBA students. As the Academic Director of the MBA, TL has also recently lead the transformation of the MBA to a competency-based models in which students complete a dozen live projects while developing the skills and judgment valued by employers.

TL’s research interests include the governance of knowledge intensive organizations and social ventures, the ways networks span organizational boundaries, the social and institutional context of entrepreneurship, and community economic development.

Prior to joining the Fox School, TL was a Managing Director for New Society Publishers, where he edited more than 30 books, and a strategic consultant for small and family-owned firms. TL has earned a PhD and an MBA from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and an A.B. in Religious Studies from Brown University.

Michelle Histand joins the Fox School as a non-tenure track faculty member in the Fox School’s Department of Strategic Management. Histand has taught courses, trained academics, and developed content for this partnership since joining Fox as an adjunct in 2016.

Histand will also serve as Associate Director of the Fox School’s Flinders University Project. In August 2016, Fox entered a three-year partnership to deliver its nationally ranked Entrepreneurship programs to the prestigious Australian university.

Prior to her arrival, she served as the Director of Innovation with Independence Blue Cross, a role in which she built a strategy for the state-of-the-art Center for Health Care Innovation. She developed the center’s vision, mission, design, and programming in leading cross-functional corporate projects around customer experience and product development.

Histand earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts from Saint Joseph’s University. She will complete a Master of Arts degree in Writing Studies in September 2017 at Saint Joseph’s University.

Alan Kerzner is a proven business leader whose focus now surrounds enhancing the performance of students, executives and businesses in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. Alan currently serves as an assistant professor in the Strategic Management department, and as the Director of the Temple University Entrepreneurship Academy (TUEA).

During a thirty-five year marketing and management career, Alan held positions at Fortune 100 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and launched several successful start-ups. During these experiences, he won numerous awards for outstanding recruiting and training.

Always focused on the development of individuals, teams and organizations during his business career, Mr. Kerzner then took this commitment to the university and executive education areas.  He is engaged at/as:

• The Wharton School in their Global Consulting Practicum and the Aresty Institute for Executive Education;
• Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Services;
• Visiting instructor in Australia’s leading MBA program
• Director of the Temple University Entrepreneurship Academy

As Founder and CEO of the Institute for Global Student Success, Mr. Kerzner developed an innovative program that has been shown to enhance international students’ performance academically, socially and professionally. Nine out of every ten students Alan works with get paid internships and/or jobs in the United States at firms such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, the Big 4, Disney, Amazon, Marriott etc. He has conducted training sessions at several leading American universities as well Xiamen University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Nanjing Audit University and the International Education Institute of Vietnam National University.

Mr. Kerzner received an MBA from the Wharton School with Honors and received a BA in Economics and Psychology from the University of Rochester where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Highest Distinction in each discipline and Phi Beta Kappa.

Harold E. Klein (Ph.D., Columbia; M.B.A., Dartmouth; B.Ch.E., City College of NY) is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at The Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University. He has taught in the strategic management area at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and the International and Executive MBA Programs. In 2013, he completed a five-year term as Visiting Scholar and Affiliate Faculty in the Organizational Dynamics Graduate Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Klein served as the first GSM Department Ph.D. Program Coordinator, designed doctoral-level seminars and graduate courses in strategic management. Dr. Klein launched the Fox School’s International MBA Program as its first Director abroad, establishing it in France and subsequently in Tokyo. His research interests are in strategic planning methodology; management cognition, scenario planning techniques and, for the last decade, in the neurocognitive aspects of strategic thinking.

Dr. Klein has developed proprietary strategic decision support technology for decision making in highly complex environments and for intelligence systems.  He has been invited to present his work to U.S. intelligence agencies and the National Security Council.  He continues to consult in those domains.

Since coming to Temple, he has been an on-site technical advisor in management, organization and planning to the governments of over a half dozen countries stretching from South America to the Caribbean to Africa to the Middle East, under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank and the U.N. Development Programme.

In his capacity as a Senior Partner and officer of a management consulting company prior to coming to Temple, he directed projects in the design of strategic plans and planning systems for large corporations, including British Petroleum, Exxon, RCA, DuPont, GE, United Technologies and IBM, among others. Dr. Klein served on the President’s Study of the Draft and subsequently led studies for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in planning for the Voluntary Army In addition, he spent two years in a North African country where he designed a nation-wide, operational planning system for its agricultural sector.

Ram Mudambi is Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Previously he served on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, the University of Reading (UK) and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is a visiting Professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading, an Honorary Professor at the Center of International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL) and a member of advisory council of the University of Bradford Centre in International Business (BCIB). He has served as a Visiting Professor at a number of universities including Bocconi (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Sydney (Australia) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

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David C. Nash is Assistant Professor and Lead Faculty for Fox Management Consulting in the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

Mr. Nash is a principal and owner of D C Nash & Associates LLC., a business consulting and advisory practice, and is a principal and co-owner of Windridge Design, Inc., a successful branded women’s apparel manufacturing company.

Prior to that, Mr. Nash was Vice President of Strategy & Supply Chain and Vice President of Finance and Supply Chain for the Campbell Soup Away From Home businesses.  In these positions he was responsible for the business strategy, finance, supply chain manufacturing and logistics operations and IT for this business unit which included the Campbell North American Foodservice, Pepperidge Farm Foodservice and Stockpot businesses.

Before joining Campbell’s, Mr. Nash held general management and functional leadership roles in finance, marketing, and business development in both the consumer packaged goods and global business to business sectors of the Scott Paper Company.

He holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University and Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University College of Engineering.

Arvind Parkhe is the Laura H. Carnell Professor at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He is the recipient of numerous research, teaching, and service awards.

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Dr. Todd Schifeling joins the Fox School on a tenure-track appointment within the Department of Strategic Management.

Schifeling’s research interests include organizational theory, strategy, innovation, and sustainability. Specifically, he studies how organizational and political contexts affect market dynamics, often utilizing big data methods. Projects in this area include: employment during recessions; news discussion on financial risks from climate change; and community effects on the development of atypical business ideas like gourmet food trucks, among others.

His work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology and has garnered best paper awards from the American Sociology Association. He also has been featured in media outlets, including the National Geographic, Boston Globe, and Harvard Business Review.

Prior to his arrival, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship and Dow Sustainability Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he earned his PhD in Sociology. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Reed College.

Dr. Tedi Skiti joins the Fox School on a non-tenure-track appointment within the Department of Strategic Management, upon completion of his doctoral studies at Duke University.

Skiti’s research interests include industrial organization, business economics, and technological innovation. In his dissertation, Skiti empirically explored the role of strategic investment in market structure, new firm entry, and technology diffusion. His research settings are industries characterized by technological innovation, including Internet, digital markets, and telecommunications.

During his doctoral studies, Skiti received various grants and fellowships, including a NET Institute Research Grant, which recognizes novel research in the area of network industries. Skiti has presented his research at various invited seminars and conferences, such as the FCC and International IO Conference.

Skiti earned his PhD in Economics from Duke University. He also studied at the Athens University of Economics and Business, where earned Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics.

Dr. Vivek Tandon joins the Fox School on a Tenure-Track appointment as an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management from the National University of Singapore, where he has led courses on entrepreneurship and technological innovation since 2011.

His research papers have appeared in prominent publications, like The Academy of Management Annals and Organization Science. His dissertation was the runner up in the INFORMS Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship section. His research interests include management of innovation, technology strategy, technological search and evolution, inventors’ incentives, and mobility. He also serves on the editorial review boards for Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Dr. Tandon earned his PhD in Business Administration, with a specialization in Strategy, from the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.