Faculty

Faculty, distinguished as scholars and practitioners, teach in the Executive MBA Program. Professors are selected to teach on the basis of contributions to their fields, ability to work effectively with executive-level students, experience working with national and international companies, and backgrounds as managers and consultants.

The following are current faculty who participate in the Executive MBA Program. Each listing includes a link to additional information about the individual.

Boucher, Joseph W.

Senior Lecturer - Business Law

Joseph W. Boucher received a BA from St. Norbert College and his JD and MBA from the University of Wisconsin. He is also a certified public accountant in Wisconsin. He currently teaches business law to undergraduate and graduate students, including executive and evening business law students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.

A founding shareholder of the Madison law firm of Neider & Boucher, S.C., Bouchers practice emphasizes business legal planning for closely held businesses including formation, financing, mergers and acquisitions and estate planning. He also focuses on governance issues particularly Sarbanes-Oxley. Boucher represents many early stage businesses across many industries. Boucher chaired the State Bar subcommittee on Limited Liability Companies in the early 1990s; he is a co-drafter of the original Chapter 183 for LLCs and the Next Economy Legislation of 2002 as well as Wisconsin Act 255 dealing with Angel Tax Credits and participated in the drafting of Limited Liability Partnership Law. He is co-author of Organizing a Wisconsin Business Corporation, the LLCs and LLPs and A Wisconsin Handbook.

Carpenter, Mason

Associate Professor - Management and Human Resources

Mason Carpenter has a BS from California State University (Humboldt) and University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an MBA from California State University ( Bakersfield). He also completed graduate studies in enology at the University of Bordeaux, France. Before obtaining his PhD in strategy at the University of Texas, Austin, he worked in banking, management consulting, and software development.

Carpenter’s research concerns corporate governance, top management teams, and the strategic management of global firms, and is published in SMJ, AMJ, AMR, AME, JM, and HRM. He serves on the editorial board of AMJ, JOM, and OS, was voted Professor of the Year by MBA students, and identified as one of the most popular professors in the BusinessWeek MBA poll. He recently received the Larson Excellence in Teaching award from the School of Business, and the UW's Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award.

Covaleski, Mark A.

The Robert Beyer Professor of Accounting & Information Systems

Mark Covaleski received his PhD from Penn State University and has taught at the Copenhagen School of Business. His research and teaching interests include the use of managerial accounting information in organizations, with a particular focus on the health care industry. Covaleski has received several teaching awards for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level instruction in both the School of Business and the Medical School. Covaleski also teaches in the Executive Medical Management Program in the School of Public Health at Tulane University.

Covaleski has published extensively in academic journals and has been recognized as one of the top 3% of accounting researchers in terms of cited work. He has also been recognized as one of the “Most Prolific Authors in Ten Premier Accounting Journals.” His current research projects pertain to the development and use of accounting-based incentive systems in Wisconsin’s Welfare-Works (W2) program.

Covaleski has served on Boards of Directors for various health care providers, insurance plans, and social service organizations. He has also provided extensive in-house executive development in the training of clinical leaders in such organizations as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, American College of Physician Executives, and the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

 

Dunham, Randall

Professor - Management and Human Resources

Randy Dunham received his BA from Hanover University and both his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois. Chair of the Management and Human Resources Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, Dunham has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Senior Associate Dean, and is the Director of the Executive MBA Program and Faculty Director of Wisconsin CIBER. Currently the Keenan A. Bennett Chair, as well as a former Cargill faculty fellow and Procter & Gamble professor, Dunham has been actively involved in the academic, professional, and business communities. He has taught management, organizational behavior, staffing, compensation, research methods, data analysis, and doctoral seminars, and has received multiple teaching awards and research grants.

Dunham’s current research focuses on the management of organizational change, organizational commitment, the design of work in organizations, distance education effectiveness, and global/cross-cultural issues in management. Dunham’s publications include over 40 journal articles, six books, and computer software designed to enhance the learning experience.

He has served as a management consultant and trainer for many private and public organizations including IBM, Rockwell, and GE. He has consulted to over 50 schools of business from 15 countries on the effective use of instructional technology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and The American Psychological Society, and a charter member of the Academy of Management’s Journals Hall of Fame.

Ehlers, John

John Ehlers received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, and a MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College.

Ehlers is founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of IntelliSIM Ltd., Columbus OH, which develops and administers computer-based business simulations for academic and corporate training. Formerly president of ENSAR Group, Inc., and principal consultant for Solar Pathways Associates, Ehlers has focused on business software, management services, and computer-based simulations to MBA programs worldwide under license from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College.

John W. Eichenseher

John Eichenseher is Department Chair and Professor of Accounting and Information Systems
Degree. His areas or expertise include auditing, cost data for decision making, financial reporting and service markets.

He has a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Formisano, Roger A.

Professor of Executive Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Roger Formisano received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of New Hampshire, and the PhD in Business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formisano returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in 2001 after nine years in the private sector. For the past two years, Formisano has been associated with Cochran, Caronia & Company, a specialty full-service investment bank serving the insurance and financial services industry. Formisano writes strategic research for the firm and has responsibility for corporate finance and M&A activities for selected clients.

Prior to joining Cochran, Caronia & Co., Formisano was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for United Wisconsin Services, a multi-line, publicly traded insurance company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Formisano also served as President of Compcare, one of the state's largest HMOs and Meridian Resource Corporation, a consulting firm he founded as a subsidiary in Madison, Wisconsin.

For the years 1975-1992, Formisano taught courses in finance, risk management and insurance, and healthcare management, mostly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has over twenty published articles on issues in regulation, risk management, financial services, and healthcare. Formisano has consulted with such major corporations and government agencies as the Federal Trade Commission; Wisconsin Departments of Insurance, Justice, and the Governor's Office; Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

Hariharan, Hari

Hari Hariharan obtained his PhD in Marketing from the University of Iowa with a minor in Econometrics and Statistics. He also holds an MBA and a BS in Chemical Engineering.

A Senior Manager with the Customer Insight Group of the Customer Relations Management Global Service Line of Accenture, Hariharan has over ten years of experience in marketing, global marketing, marketing research and decision analytics. Prior to joining Accenture, he was a principal in a consulting company specializing in the development and implementation of managerial decision support systems. Hariharan has worked with Fortune 500 clients in financial services, automotive, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail and government. Hariharan’s global experience involves working in four continents.

Hariharan also served on the Marketing faculty in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In that capacity, he was closely associated with the Nielsen Center for Marketing Research. His research interests are in understanding and measuring brand equity.

 

Hausch, Donald B.

Professor - Operations and Information Management

Don Hausch is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Associate Dean of the Master’s Programs at the University of Wisconsin - Madison’s School of Business. His PhD is from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in the area of managerial economics and decision sciences. He also earned a MS in management science and a B.Sc. in mathematics, both from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on auctions and competitive bidding, bankruptcy reorganization, financial restructuring, and the economic design of organizations.

Hausch has co-authored two books and an edited volume, and written numerous articles that have been published in the American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Business, Review of Financial Studies, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Economic Theory, RAND Journal of Economics, and other journals. Hausch has taught at Northwestern University, was a visiting faculty member at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Administration, and has been an associate editor of Management Science for eleven years. He has consulted for the World Bank on the resolution of systemic financial distress, received a Vilas Research Award from the University of Wisconsin, and received the Jerrod Service Award from the School of Business.

Heide, Jan

Irwin Maier Chair in Marketing

Jan Heide holds a B.Sc. from the Norwegian School of Management, and an MBA and PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently teaches the core marketing management course in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. In the past, he has also taught various courses on product strategy and distribution channel management in the Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD programs. He has also taught in a variety of executive programs, both in-house and public ones, on these topics.

Within the marketing area, the main focus of Heide’s research is on distribution channel management, business-to-business-marketing, and strategic partnerships. He has won several teaching awards, including a University of Wisconsin system-level award. Jan has given guest lectures and held visiting appointments at universities throughout the world, most recently at Melbourne University and the University of Cambridge.

Llewellyn D. Howell

Dr. Llewellyn Howell is a noted expert in political risk analysis whose text "The Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis" is used widely in boardrooms and classrooms. He has consulted with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, foreign governments, and many multinational corporations, and is Senior Advisor for Methodology at The PRS Group, a well-known political risk consulting firm.

He has over forty years of experience in the fields of foreign policy and international relations in both the public and private sectors and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Pacific Asia Country Risk Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an emeritus professor of International Management at Thunderbird —The Garvin School of International Management.

Dr. Howell has written 11 books and monographs and more than 150 book chapters, journal articles, and other articles for magazines and newspapers. He teaches in the areas of political risk, American foreign policy, Southeast Asia, and analytical methodology.

Larry W. Hunter

Larry W. Hunter joined the School of Business in fall 2002. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2001 he was named the Outstanding Young Scholar by the Industrial Relations Research Association, and in 2001 he also received an Excellence in Education award from the IRRA for his teaching in Human Resources. His recent research on the quality of jobs and mobility opportunities has been supported by the Sloan Foundation and by the "Future of Work" program of the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations.

Joseph, Harold (Buck)

Associate Professor - Executive Education

Since 1973, Buck Joseph has taught undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses in English, adult education, and managerial-leadership development. He regularly teaches business communications in the Executive MBA program of the School of Business and teaches several continuing education courses. He has served as consultant on leadership development to Wisconsin’s Cooperative Extension Service since 1998.

A nationally recognized researcher and writer, Joseph co-authored the text, Leadership and Vision (New York Times, 1999) and has been a speaker at over 150 conferences on leadership, teamwork, motivation, and communications throughout the United States. He regularly conducts in-house training and development programs for such clients as Abbott Laboratories, 3M Corporation, Credit Union National Association, General Electric Medical Systems, and Corporate One Credit Union. He has also presented management-training programs in Australia, Canada, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Poland.

An energetic, enthusiastic communicator, Joseph is dedicated to helping people grow in their abilities to communicate, lead, and manage in their personal and professional lives.

Knetter, Michael M.

Dean and Professor of Finance, Investment, and Banking

Michael Knetter has been Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business since July 2002. Knetter was associate dean of the MBA program and professor of international economics in the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College prior to joining the School of Business. Knetter completed his undergraduate studies in economics and mathematics at UW–Eau Claire and his PhD in economics at Stanford University. In addition to his administrative duties, Knetter has taught undergraduate, MBA, and executive education courses in the areas of international economics and finance, macroeconomics, and econometrics. He has published articles in such leading journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Knetter has served as a senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors for former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a Trustee of Lehman Brothers/First Trust Income Opportunity Fund and the Lehman Brothers Liquid Assets Trust. Knetter is also a Director of Great Wolf Resorts and Wausau Paper.

Mello, Antonio S.

Associate Professor – Finance

Antonio Mello is Aschenbrener Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches Corporate Finance and International Financial Management. Mello received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon. He received both his MBA and Master’s in Economics from Columbia University in New York, and a doctorate from the University of London.

Mello’s research interests include asset pricing, corporate finance, international finance, privatization, and valuation theory. He is widely published, with articles appearing in such publications as the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Prof. Mello has also co-authored several books on macroeconomics and on financial markets, and contributed chapters to other books.

Mello is former Director of Finpro, a European private equity firm, and sits on the investment committee of Norfin, a real estate investment trust. Active in professional organizations, Mello is a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, is a past-president of the European Financial Management Association, and a past-director of the Financial Management Association, USA.

Miner, Anne S.

Professor - Management and Human Resources

Anne Miner is the Ford Motor Company Distinguished Chair in Management and Human Resources in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Miner teaches in the core MBA and Executive courses on strategic management of innovation and technology. She also heads up the cross-campus Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship, and the G. Steven Burrill Technology Based Business Plan Competition. The founding director of the new MBA program in Strategic Management in the Life and Engineering Sciences, and a member of the advisory board for the Center for Operations and Technology Management, Miner has also taught at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in the new MS in Biotechnology program at UW.

A PhD from Stanford, with an undergrad degree from Harvard, Miner researches learning by organizations and by industries or regions. Her recent work has highlighted organizational improvisation in new product development, organizational learning from the failure of other organizations, and an investigation of the revival of Midwest manufacturing employment in the 1980’s. The National Science Foundation and Sloan Foundation have funded her research, and she publishes in such top management journals as the Academy of Management Journals, Administrative Science Quarterly, Research Policy and Strategic Management Journal.

Rittenberg, Larry E.

Professor - Accounting and Information Systems

The Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Larry Rittenberg teaches in the area of audit and assurance, including topics on risk management and corporate governance. He received a BS and MBA from Michigan State and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor. Rittenberg’s research interest deals with the effectiveness of audit committees, corporate governance, and assurance services.

Rittenberg is one of the five members of the COSO organization responsible for establishing the standards for evaluating internal control for U.S. Corporations that must file reports on controls with the SEC. He is a member of the project advisory team on a new COSO initiative to develop a conceptual framework for Enterprise Risk Management. He has been active in the Institute of Internal Auditors, having served as Vice-Chairman of Professional Practices and President of the IIA Research Foundation. He was active in crafting the new definition of internal auditing that places internal auditing at the center of “governance, risk management, and control.” Rittenberg, along with Professor Warfield, regularly presents a seminar for audit committee members as part of the Director’s Summit held at the University of Wisconsin each fall.

Rittenberg has written a number of articles on improving the effectiveness of audit committees, corporate governance, and audit. He is currently a board member and an audit committee member of Woodward Governor, an SEC company in Rockford, IL.

Seglin, Jeffrey L.

Jeffrey Seglin is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston, where he is the director of the graduate program in publishing and writing. He was an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2001 and a resident fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard in 1998-99. He holds a masters degree in theological studies from The Divinity School at Harvard University.

Seglin writes "The Right Thing," formerly a monthly business ethics column in the Sunday New York Times Money and Business pages and now a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate. He is the author of The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today’s Business, a collection of the first four years of “The Right Thing” that was named as one of the Best Business Books of 2003 by the Library Journal.

Seglin is also the author or co-author on more than a dozen books on business and writing, and has written for such publications as Fortune, Sloan Management Review, and the Harvard Management Update. He regularly contributes commentaries to Public Radio's Marketplace.

Seward, James K.

Associate Professor - Finance, Investment and Banking

James Seward is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and the Prochnow Fellow in Finance at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His BBA is from Georgetown University; his PhD in Finance is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Seward currently teaches courses in corporate finance, financial management, corporate restructuring and reorganization, and mergers and acquisitions. He has also taught in several international graduate and executive programs.

Seward’s research interests include voluntary and distressed corporate restructurings, initial public offerings, the use of equity-linked securities by corporations and the medium of exchange in corporate takeovers. His articles have appeared in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Academy of Management Review. He is also the Editor of Financial Management and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the Turnaround Management Association.

Seward has also been involved in consulting projects and management education with such institutions as the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, the New York State Public Service Commission, and Westinghouse.

Stajkovic, Alexander

Associate Professor - Management and Human Resources

Alex Stajkovic is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the UW-Madison, School of Business. He received both his Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior), and his M.A. (Management) degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining UW-Madison, Alex was on the faculty of the University of California-Irvine, and Washington State University.

Alex teaches a core Motivational and Leadership class in the MBA, EMBA, and joint EMBA program with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. He also teaches two doctoral seminars in Organizational Behavior. Alex has delivered executive seminars with numerous organizations (e.g., Gallup, Allergan, CUES) throughout the world (e.g., Australia, Germany, South Africa).

Alexs research focuses on social cognition (conscious and subconscious) and incentives at work. He published in prestigious psychology, management, and methods journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods. He also published in Academy of Management Executive, a leading practitioner-oriented journal.

Alex received the Excellence in Teaching Award twice: in 2005 as awarded by the UW, School of Business, and in 1998, as voted by students at UCI, Graduate School of Management. He was nominated for the Early Career Contribution to Industrial/Organizational Psychology Award by the American Psychological Association (Division 14), and for the Best Published Paper in Organizational Behavior by the Academy of Management (Organizational behavior division).

Warfield, Terry D.

Associate Professor - Accounting and Information Systems

Terry Warfield received a BS and MBA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Iowa. Prior to his academic career, Professor Warfield worked for five years in the banking industry and served as the Academic Accounting Fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1995 - 1996. His primary research interests concern financial accounting standards and disclosure policies, including the effects of accounting information and disclosures on securities markets. Warfield teaches intermediate and masters level courses in financial reporting. He has developed and published several case studies, some of which have been published by the AICPA and in Issues in Accounting Education. Warfield is co-author of Intermediate Accounting (11th Edition) and Fundamentals of Intermediate Accounting. He has served as an expert witness/consultant on SEC enforcement cases, NASDAQ delisting proceedings, and the AICPA practice survey for entry-level public accountants.