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CURRENT FACULTY

Abdelal, Rawi

Abrami, Regina

Alcacer, Juan

Alfaro, Laura

Amabile, Teresa

Anand, Bharat

Anteby, Michel

Applegate, Lynda

Ashlagi, Itai

Ashraf, Nava

Austin, Robert

Autrey, Romana

Badaracco, Joseph

Baker, George

Baker, Malcolm

Baldwin, Carliss

Barrett, Frank

Barron, Gregory

Battilana, Julie

Bazerman, Max

Becker, Bo

Bell, David

Bergstresser, Daniel

Beyene, Tsedal

Bohmer, Richard

Bower, Joseph

Bradley, Stephen

Brochet, Francois

Butler, Timothy

Campbell, Dennis

Campbell, John

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon

Cespedes, Frank

Chakravorti, Bhaskar

Childress, Stacey

Christensen, Clayton

Chu, Michael

Chua, Roy

Cohen, Lauren

Cohen, Randolph

Cole, Shawn

Coles, Peter

Collis, David

Comin, Diego

Coval, Joshua

Cuddy, Amy

Daemmrich, Arthur

Dana, James

Datar, Srikant

Davis, John

Deighton, John

DeLong, Thomas

Desai, Mihir

Deshpande, Rohit

Di Tella, Rafael

Dowd, James

Duggan, Catherine

Ebrahim, Alnoor

Eccles, Robert

Edelman, Benjamin

Edmondson, Amy

Eisenmann, Thomas

El-Hage, Nabil

Elberse, Anita

Ely, Robin

Emmons, Willis

Ert, Eyal

Esty, Benjamin

Ferguson, Niall

Ferri, Fabrizio

Fleming, Lee

Foley, C. Fritz

Fragueiro, Fernando

Frei, Frances

Friedman, Walter

Froot, Kenneth

Fruhan, William

Gardner, Heidi

Garvin, David

Gavetti, Giovanni

George, William

Ghosh, Shikhar

Gilmartin, Raymond

Gilson, Stuart

Godes, David

Goldberg, Lena

Golden, John

Gompers, Paul

Gourville, John

Green, Jerry

Greenwood, Robin

Grossman, Allen

Groysberg, Boris

Gulati, Ranjay

Gupta, Sunil

Hagiu, Andrei

Halaburda, Hanna

Hall, Brian

Hamermesh, Richard

Hammond, Janice

Hardymon, G. Felda

Hawkins, David

Healy, Paul

Helfat, Constance

Heller, Daniel

Herzlinger, Regina

Higgins, Robert

Hill, Linda

Huckman, Robert

Iansiti, Marco

Isenberg, Daniel

Ivashina, Victoria

Iyer, Lakshmi

Jain, Sachin

James, Erika

Jin, Li

Jones, Geoffrey

Joshi, Satish

Kanter, Rosabeth

Kaplan, Robert

Kaplan, Robert Steven

Katz, Sharon

Kaufman, Stephen

Keinan, Anat

Kerr, William

Kester, W. Carl

Ketels, Christian

Khagram, Sanjeev

Khaire, Mukti

Khanna, Tarun

Khurana, Rakesh

Kimbrough, Michael

King, Andrew

Kirby, William

Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth

Kleinbaum, Adam

Koehn, Nancy

Kohlberg, Elon

Koll, Elisabeth

Krishnan, Ranjani

Lakhani, Karim

Lal, Rajiv

Larkin, Ian

Lassiter, Joseph

Lazaris, Nicholas

Lee, Deishin

Leonard, Herman

Lerner, Josh

Light, Jay

Llanes, Gaston

Lluch, Andrea

Lorsch, Jay

Luehrman, Timothy

Macomber, John

Malhotra, Deepak

Malloy, Christopher

Margolis, Joshua

Marquis, Christopher

Marshall, Paul

Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis

Maurer, Noel

Mayo, Anthony

McAfee, Andrew

McClellan, Mark

McElheran, Kristina

McFarlan, F. Warren

McGinn, Kathleen

Merton, Robert

Mikes, Anette

Montgomery, Cynthia

Moon, Youngme

Moore, Mark

Moore, Ronald

Moss, David

Musacchio, Aldo

Nanda, Ramana

Narayanamurti, Venkatesh

Narayanan, V.G.

Narayandas, Das

Nicholas, Tom

Nohria, Nitin

Norton, Michael

Oberholzer-Gee, Felix

Ofek, Elie

Olson, Peter

Paine, Lynn

Palepu, Krishna

Perlow, Leslie

Perold, Andre

Piper, Thomas

Pisano, Gary

Piskorski, Mikolaj

Polzer, Jeffrey

Pontiff, Jeffrey

Porter, Michael

Pouillard, Veronique

Pozen, Robert

Quelch, John

Raisch, Sebastian

Raman, Ananth

Ramanna, Karthik

Ramarajan, Lakshmi

Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge

Rangan, V. Kasturi

Reiling, Henry

Reinhardt, Forest

Retsinas, Nicolas

Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew

Riedl, Edward

Riis, Jason

Rivkin, Jan

Roberts, Laura

Roberts, Michael

Roscini, Dante

Rose, Clayton

Rotemberg, Julio

Roth, Alvin

Ruback, Richard

Ruzzier, Christian

Sahlman, William

Sasser, W. Earl

Sato, Vicki

Scharfstein, David

Scott, Bruce

Sebenius, James

Segel, Arthur

Shanthikumar, Devin

Shapiro, Roy

Shih, Willy

Siegel, Jordan

Simons, Robert

Simpson, William

Snook, Scott

Snow, Daniel

Srinivasan, Suraj

Stafford, Erik

Steenburgh, Thomas

Stevenson, Howard

Stuart, Toby

Subramanian, Guhan

Sucher, Sandra

Taliaferro, Ryan

Tedlow, Richard

Thomas, David

Thomke, Stefan

Toffel, Michael

Ton, Zeynep

Tripsas, Mary

Trumbull, J. Gunnar

Tucker, Anita

Tufano, Peter

Tushman, Michael

Upton, David

Van den Steen, Eric

Viceira, Luis

Vietor, Richard

Villalonga, Belen

Wasserman, Noam

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Weaver, Ray

Weinzierl, Matthew

Wells, Louis

Werker, Eric

Wheeler, Michael

White, Lucy

Wulf, Julie

Xuan, Yuhai

Yang, Woodward

Yao, Dennis

Yoffie, David

Zhang, Jie

 Research

CALIFORNIA RESEARCH CENTER (Cases)

Affinity Labs

Barclays Global Investors - Exchange Traded Funds

DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly

Earthbound Farm

The Energy Foundation

Flying J

Genentech Capacity Planning

How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities

Lightspeed Venture Partners - International Expansion

Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property

PayPal Merchant Services

Pinnacle Ventures

Prosper Marketplace, Inc.

Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker

St. HOPE Academy - The Expansion Decision

Texas Pacific Group - J. Crew

ASIA RESEARCH CENTER (Cases)

Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy

China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)

Will RacingThePlanet Ltd. Reach the Finish Line?

Gome: Going Public

Gome Electronics: Evolving the Business Model

China Merchants Bank

BYD Company, Ltd.

Chiaphua Group Vietnam

WildChina (A)

Li Ning--Anything is Possible

The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com

Li & Fung 2006

Li Ka-Shing

Li Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong

Ayala Corporation

Medco Energi Internasional

Cathay Pacific

World Wide Licenses Ltd.: From Disney to Polaroid

China: Building "Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics"

Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global

Red Flag Software Co.

EUROPE RESEARCH CENTER (Cases)

Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG.

Moët Hennessy España

Global Knowledge Management at Danone

Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS

Silic (B): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS

Using Investor Relations Proactively

Moulin Rouge (A)

Moulin Rouge (B)

Metro International

PlaNet Finance: Broad Scope in Microfinance

Ericsson: Leading in Times of Change

Reinventing Ericsson

Rovná dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia

SAP: Industry Transformation

Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A): The First 10 Hours

Fritidsresor Under Pressure (B): The First Week

Fritidsresor Under Pressure (C): After the Tsunami

French Unemployment: The Crisis Continues

Common Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming

Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge during a Macroeconomic Crisis

Vipp A/S

Marketing Chateau Margaux

Bang & Olufsen: Design Driven Innovation

IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

RFID at the METRO Group

Blogs at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (A)

Deutsche Borse and the European Markets

Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer

Fraikin SA

Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)

Migros

Investor Relations at TOTAL

LATIN AMERICA RESEARCH CENTER (Cases)

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO

Club Atlético Boca Juniors

ProntoWash: Washing the World's Cars to a Tango Beat

Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)

Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (B)

Codelco Copper Mines

Tetra Pak Argentina

Banca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance

Parmalat Uruguay (A)

Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico

Bolivia and Evo Morales

Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard

Empemex

Natura: Global Beauty Made in Brazil

DentalCorp

Patrimonio Hoy

Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective

AIDS in Brazil

MercadoLibre.com

Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of "Courting the Poor"

ABN AMRO REAL: Banking on Sustainability

Los Grobo

Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence

Aguas Argentinas: Settling a Dispute

Tata Consultancy Services Iberoamerica

INDIA RESEARCH CENTER (Cases)

Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal

Biocon Limited

Can Bollywood Go Global?

HCL Technologies (A)

Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd.

Punjab and Kerala: Regional Development in India

Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment

 

ALUMNI

 Alumni Profile

Strength: 42000

Almuni outside U.S.: 27%

 Successful Alumni

Jefferson F Allen, oil co. exec, former CEO Tosco, Premcor

William Anders, former NASA astronaut

John Edward Anderson, president of Topa Equities, Ltd., namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management

Gerhard Andlinger, founder of Andlinger & Company, Inc.

Gabi Ashkenazi, Chief of Staff of Israeli Defense Forces

Rahul Bajaj, Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto

Jim Balsillie, Chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion, which developed the BlackBerry handheld communication device

Frank Batten, founder of The Weather Channel (United States)

Roger Berkowitz, President and CEO of Legal Sea Foods

Ernesto Bertarelli, former CEO of Serono, America's Cup Yacht Race Winner[7]

Gordon Bethune, former CEO of Continental Airlines

Julie Bishop, Australian politician

Michael Bloomberg, businessman and Mayor of New York City

Roy J. Bostock, Chairman of Northwest Airlines, Yahoo and Partnership for a Drug-Free America

Marvin Bower, pioneer management consultant, McKinsey & Company

Nicholas F. Brady, former United States Secretary of the Treasury

L. Paul Bremer, former Head of Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority

John J. Brennan, Chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group

Greg Brenneman, President and CEO of Quiznos Sub, former CEO of Burger King

Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program

Robin Buchanan, Dean, London Business School

James E. Burke, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States

David Clarke, Chairman of Macquarie Group Limited

Frank Carlucci, former United States Secretary of Defense

Donald J. Carty, former Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, current CFO of Dell Computer and Chairman of Virgin America and Porter Airlines

Elaine Chao, 24th United States Secretary of Labor

Ram Charan, Management Guru, named by Fortune "The Most Influential Consultant Alive" [8]

P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister of India

Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder of Apax Partners

Charles W. Coker, former Chairman and CEO of Sonoco Products

Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, Inc.

Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and co-founder of Franklin Covey

Chris Cox, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former U.S. Congressman

Zoe Cruz, former Co-President of Morgan Stanley

Gurcharan Das, venture capitalist

Evan Mervyn Davies, Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank

Belmiro de Azevedo, Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Sonae; member of the European Round Table of Industrialists

Susan Decker, President of Yahoo

Božidar Đelić, former Minister of finance, current vice-president of the Government, Serbia

Anne Dias-Griffin, Hedge fund manager married to investor Kenneth C. Griffin.

Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase

John Doerr, leading technology venture capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

STUDENTS

FACULTY

ALUMNI

William H. Donaldson, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, founding Dean of the Yale School of Management, and co-founder, Donaldson,

Lufkin & Jenrette

Georges Doriot, one of the founders of INSEAD, World War II Brigadier General, considered America's first venture capitalist

Timothy C. Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson who popularized the term, "Viral marketing"

Donna Dubinsky, former CEO of Palm, Inc., and co-founder of Handspring

Chet Edwards, U.S. Congressman from Texas

Michael D. Fascitelli, President & Trustee of Vornado Realty Trust

Richard B. Fisher, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley

Barbara Hackman Franklin, former United States Secretary of Commerce

Victor Kwok-king Fung, Prominent Hong Kong businessman and political figure

William W. George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic

Lou Gerstner, Chairman of the Carlyle Group and former Chairman and CEO of IBM

Kathy Giusti, CEO and founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

Albert Hamilton Gordon, former Chairman of Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Jonathan Grayer, Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc.

Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company

Walter A. Haas, Jr., former Chairman and CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.

James Hagedorn, Chairman, President and CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

John H. Hager, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and US Assistant Secretary of Education

Fred Haise, former NASA astronaut

Fred Hassan, Chairman and CEO of Schering-Plough Corporation

H. John Heinz III, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania

Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group

Amo Houghton, former U.S. Congressman from New York

Allan Hubbard, Director of National Economic Council, U.S. President's top economic advisor

Jeffrey Hunker, Former Dean of the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University

Jeffrey R Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric

Kwame Jackson, one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series The Apprentice

Richard Jenrette, investment banker and co-founder, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Abigail Johnson, heir apparent to Fidelity Investments

Samuel C. Johnson, former Chairman, S.C. Johnson

James Kelly, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Naina Lal Kidwai, CEO of HSBC in India

Kevin Kimberlin, Chairman and CEO of Spencer Trask & Co.

Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator, President of Kohl's Department Stores, owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks

Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., Founding Partner of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co.

Michael Kolowich, internet content pioneer and documentary filmmaker

Robert Kraft, Owner of the New England Patriots and Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group

A.G. Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble

Jorge Paulo Lemann, entrepreneur, currently the third wealthiest individual in Brazil, according to Forbes' List of billionaires (2007)

Antony Leung, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR

Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and former Chairman and CEO, Union Pacific Railroad

Eugenio Lopez III, Chairman and CEO of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation

Chai Ling, one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Peter Lougheed, former leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives and Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985

Gilman Louie, Partner of Alsop Louie Partners, founding CEO & President of In-Q-Tel, former Chairman and CEO of MicroProse/ Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.

Robert Louis-Dreyfus, owner of Olympique de Marseille French football club and former CEO of Adidas-Salomon and Saatchi & Saatchi

John Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire

Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment

Anand Mahindra, Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra

Burton Malkiel, Princeton University economist, former Dean of the Yale School of Management, and author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Stanley Marcus, former Chairman and CEO of Neiman Marcus

Susan McCaw, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria

Charles Peter McColough, former Chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation

William G. McGowan, former Chairman, MCI Communications

Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, 4th President of the World Bank 1968 - 1981

W. James McNerney, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Boeing

Allan Moss, CEO Macquarie Bank

Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

Brooks Newmark, Member of Parliament in UK

Grover Norquist, political activist, President of Americans for Tax Reform

Robert Nourse, former President and CEO of The Bombay Company

Stan O'Neal, former CEO of Merrill Lynch

Adebayo Ogunlesi, DBA, Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners

Robert D. Orr, former Governor of Indiana

Karen A. Page, James Beard Award-winning culinary author

Henry M. Paulson, Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury and former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Gilles Pélisson, CEO of Accor, parent company of Sofitel, Novotel, Ibis, Mercure Hotels, Motel 6, et al.

Joseph R. Perella, M&A expert, investment banking executive

Tom Perkins, venture capitalist, co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ghaith Pharaon, fugitive financier

Michael Porter, creator of Porter's 5 forces, co-founder of Monitor Group, best-selling author and professor of Competitive Strategy

William Proxmire, former U.S. senator from Wisconsin

Fred Reichheld, author of The Loyalty Effect and other bestselling business books

Donald W. Riegle, Jr., former U.S. senator from Michigan

Arthur Rock, considered one of the fathers of venture capital

Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 presidential candidate

Charles O. Rossotti, co-founder of American Management Systems and former Commissioner of Internal Revenue

William Roth, former U.S. Senator from Delaware and chief sponsor of the Roth IRA

Jack Ryan, former United States Senate candidate

Henry Schacht, former CEO of Lucent Technologies

Edgar J. Scherick, prolific television and film producer and former programming executive of the ABC Television Network

Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group

John S.R. Shad, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

Frank Shrontz, former Chairman and CEO of Boeing

Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron, sentenced to 24 years in prison for fraud

Orin C. Smith, former President and CEO of Starbucks

Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of WPP Group

Jan Stenbeck, Swedish capitalist and majority shareholder of Investment AB Kinnevik

John E. Sununu, United States Senator from New Hampshire

John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch and former CEO of the New York Stock Exchange

Pamela Thomas-Graham, former CEO of CNBC

Marvin Traub, former Chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's

Gérald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal

Jack Valenti, former President of the Motion Picture Association of America

Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO of Novartis

Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO of General Motors

Mark Walsh, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and former CEO of Air America Radio

Robert D. Walter, Chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health

David Walters, former Governor of Oklahoma

Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman and CEO of Lazard

John L. Weinberg, former Chairman and Senior Partner of Goldman Sachs

Suzy Welch, columnist for BusinessWeek and former Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Business Review

John C. Whitehead, Chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat and former COO of Delta Air Lines

Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay

James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank

George Yeo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Jaime Augusto Zobel, Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation

 

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