Faculty & Instructors

Jon Aikman is the founder of an artificial intelligence consulting firm, and the owner of a law firm. He also holds academic appointments as an adjunct faculty member at Queen’s University and Cornell University, where he teaches courses on fintech, finance, and investments. His academic portfolio includes instruction on alternative investments, artificial intelligence and finance, global financial management, advanced portfolio management, crypto economics, impact investments, and fintech for graduate students and executives.

Jon’s professional career spans leadership roles in finance, investment management, and corporate law. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager for an exempt market dealer and alternative investment firm, where he managed a private debt fund that earned the Portfolio Management Association of Canada award for exceptional investment fund performance. He also held the role of Managing Director at a publicly listed alternative investment firm with a global focus on hedge funds, private equity, and private debt. In this capacity, he led the research, acquisition, and management of alternative investment portfolios across jurisdictions in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Earlier in his career, Jon served as Vice President and Counsel a bulge bracket investment bank in London, U.K. He also practiced corporate finance law at a prestigious "silver circle" law firm in London, where he specialized in structuring, capital raising, and transactions for hedge funds and private equity.

Jon holds a Juris Doctor from Queen’s University and an MBA from the University of Oxford (Brasenose College). He has also completed advanced certifications in artificial intelligence and fintech from MIT and holds the Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) designation. Additionally, he is a licensed lawyer in Ontario and England & Wales and has earned an advanced certification in ESG Investments from the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute in the U.K.

Jon is a dedicated contributor to the academic and financial communities. He serves on the investment committee of the Victoria University Endowment and Pension Fund at the University of Toronto and is a member of the advisory board for the Master of Financial Innovation & Technology program and Master of Finance programs at Queen’s University. His expertise in financial regulation and risk management has been recognized through his participation in a Federal Reserve of Chicago think tank focused on systemic risk and market stability.

In 2006, Jon was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), recognizing his contributions to industry and society. He is also the author of When Prime Brokers Fail (Bloomberg Press, 2010), a widely regarded book that examines the 2008 global financial crisis and is completing another book on Alternative Investments.

Moez Ali is a data scientist with more than a decade of experience in solving complex business problems through data, particularly in the domain of Healthcare, Education, Fintech, and Professional Consulting. Moez has a background in Finance and he is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), Chartered Professional Accountant, Ontario (CPA, CMA). He also has an undergrad degree in Commerce and Business with dual Masters in Economics and Management Analytics.

He is currently leading a team of data scientists at Moneris Canada where he is building sophisticated data science solutions at scale to solve some of the most complex problems. Alongside the full-time day job, Moez is very passionate about teaching data science and opensource community contribution that's where he dedicates over 40% of his time.

Moez has also created an open-source, low-code machine learning library (PyCaret) which is used by over half a million data scientists around the world including some major tech companies and research organizations.

Moez was awarded, most-read writer two times in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 2020. He was also nominated for Highly Influential Data Scientists in Canada and has some impressive following on social media.

Goce Andrevski is an Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Strategy at Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and teaches courses in competitive strategy, dynamic strategy execution, and business and corporate strategy across undergraduate, graduate, and MBA programs.

His research focuses on competitive strategy, competitive dynamics, alliance networks, and diversity management. Goce’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Personality, Journal of Business Research, and Strategic Organization.

Goce has received numerous accolades for his teaching and research, including the 2008 Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award (University of Kentucky), the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Fellowship (Queen’s University), the 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper Award (Academy of Management), the 2010 Best Published Paper Award (Information Systems Research), the 2011 Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award (Academy of Management), the 2022 Best Paper Prize for Advances in Strategic Management (British Academy of Management), and the 2022 Best Proposal Finalist (Strategic Management Society). His research has also been supported by SSHRC grants from the Government of Canada, totaling $431,721.

In addition to his academic achievements, Goce has extensive consulting experience in business strategy and public policy. He regularly advises executives from diverse sectors, including the automotive industry, professional sports organizations, and government institutions. His expertise helps leaders address complex strategic challenges, enhance organizational performance, and develop innovative solutions to policy-related and business issues.

Julian is the author of The Science of Leadership: Lessons From Research for Organizational Leaders, which was published by Oxford University Press (New York) in January, 2014. His research interests focus on the nature and development of transformational leadership and employee well-being, and he is also the author of well over 200 research articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of several books, including Employment, Stress and Family Functioning (1990, Wiley & Sons); The Union and Its Members: A Psychological Approach (1992, Oxford University Press); Changing Employment Relations: Behavioral and Social Perspectives (1995, American Psychological Association); Young Workers (1999, American Psychological Association); and The Psychology of Workplace Safety (2004, American Psychological Association). He is also co-editor of the Handbook of Workplace Violence (2006, SAGE Publications), and senior editor of both the Handbook of Work Stress (2005), Handbook of Organizational Behaviour (2008), all published by SAGE, The Psychology of Green Organizations (2015) and Work and Sleep: Research Insights for the Workplace (2016), both published by Oxford University Press).

Julian was formerly the editor of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, served as the chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Workplace Violence in 2001-2, and was the chairperson of the Advisory Council on Occupational Health and Safety to the Ontario Minister of Labour from 1989-1991.

Julian is a Fellow for the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Canadian Psychological Association. Julian was the recipient in 2016 of the Distinguished Contributions to Industrial and Organizational Psychology by the C-SIOP Division of the Canadian Psychological Association.

Julian was named one of the 2020 recipients of the Distinguished University Professor designation, Queen’s University’s highest research-related honour. MacLean's magazine named Julian as one of Queen's University's most popular professors in 1996. Julian received the National Post's "Leaders in Business Education" award in 2001 and Queen's University's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision in 2008.

Julian received his Ph.D in 1979 from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he subsequently taught in the Psychology Department. He joined Queen's University in 1984, initially teaching in the Department of Psychology. Julian moved to the School of Business in 1994; and served as the Associate Dean with responsibility for the Ph.D, M.Sc and Research programs in the School of Business from 1997-2011.

Sanjeev Bhojraj is the alumni professor in asset management and the faculty co-director of the Parker Center for Investment Research. He has been on the faculty of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management since 1999 and served as the sole designated manager of the Cayuga Fund from 2005-2014. His research interests are in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate governance, discretionary disclosure of information by firms, and international accounting and valuation. He has taught courses in applied portfolio management, financial analysis, and financial accounting.

Bhojraj is an award-winning instructor and has received several teaching awards from the MBA and Executive MBA classes, most recently the 2023 Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. He was featured as Cornell's highest rated professor in The Wall Street Journal's "Special Report" on executive MBA programs. He also received outstanding faculty recognition in BusinessWeek's "Guide to The Best Business Schools." Bhojraj is certified as a chartered accountant and a cost accountant. He worked in India and Indonesia before earning his doctorate.

A world in which technology enables businesses to prosper, employees to thrive, and a culture for driving results to flourish is the vision behind Kathryn Brohman’s thought leadership in sustainable execution.

An Associate professor at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kathryn has co-authored several books that focus on how today’s organizations can navigate business practices to drive short-term results without compromising long-term success. Her most recent book entitled SHIFT: A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution presents results from her work with over 750+ organizations that helped translate strategy into action. The book provides a pragmatic approach to identifying salient execution barriers, filling gaps to stabilize an execution backbone, and removing distractions to seamlessly adapt to change.

Since arriving at Queen’s University in 2003, Kathryn has pioneered programs in Strategy Execution and Digital Transformation across MBA and executive programs. She has worked with hundreds of organizations in North America to translate strategy into action. Kathryn has received multiple funding grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as well as the Ontario Research Foundation and published her work in premier journals including MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Communications of the ACM.

Adrian Aycan Corum is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Cornell University, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. He joined the finance department at Cornell in 2018 after earning his Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are primarily in corporate finance, corporate governance, shareholder activism, and mergers and acquisitions. He has been recognized by various institutions for his research, including Young Scholar Award by Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association, Hakan Orbay Research Award by Sabancı University, and the first place in Marshall Blume Prizes in Financial Research by The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research. He also holds an M.A. in Finance from Wharton, and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Sabancı University, where he graduated with the highest rank.

Yao Cui is an associate professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research interests center around operational innovation, specifically examining how new technologies can be leveraged to develop novel operations strategies in supply chains, the gig economy, and the public sector. Using both analytical and empirical methodologies, his research aims to uncover innovative solutions to practical problems facing these industries.

Professor Cui’s research articles have been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. His research has been recognized with several awards such as the INFORMS Service Science Section Best Student Paper Award, the INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award, the Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference Best Paper Award, and the INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Paper Award. He holds editorial positions in leading journals such as associate editor for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics, and senior editor for Production and Operations Management.

At SC Johnson, Professor Cui was the recipient of the 2020 Half Century Faculty Research Fellowship and the 2017 Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellowship. He teaches the operations management core course in the EMBA and MBA programs, and revenue management analytics for doctoral students. In 2023, he was named one of the 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors by Poets&Quants. Prior to joining SC Johnson, he received his doctoral degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Shai Dubey teaches courses in negotiations, cross-cultural management, ethics, domestic and international business law and entrepreneurship.

Shai earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Toronto and his Law Degree from Queen's University. Shai is also a graduate of the aviation Flight Technology Program at Seneca College. 

After graduating from Seneca College in 1984, he began his working career as a commercial pilot. In 1985 he founded and ran both an executive aircraft charter company and a flight training school based in Toronto. After selling this company, Shai worked as an aviation consultant providing strategic and regulatory advice to Canadian and foreign clients. He practiced law on Bay Street and then ran a global company prior to joining Queen’s.

Patrick Egbunonu is the President and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Informanos Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, an enterprise dedicated to leveraging analytics and AI applications to help leaders, coaches, and organizations grow and succeed. In addition to leading the development of an AI-driven Upward and 360° feedback platform at Informanos, he is passionate about helping businesses use AI and analytics to make better decisions, streamline workflows, improve productivity, and increase profitability. He is also the President of 1MT Technical and Leadership Institute—a not-for-profit organization committed to empowering young people across Africa by providing them with vocational skills and knowledge to excel as technical leaders. The institute adopts an AI-first approach, combined with practical, hands-on training, ensuring learners not only acquire cutting-edge technical skills but also develop strong mindsets, character, and leadership abilities.

Patrick began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers before a brief stint in the banking sector. He later worked at one of the top insurance companies in Canada, where he led the analytics team for the group insurance division and was eventually appointed Manager of Group Underwriting, New Business, Amendments, and Analysis. He then served as Professor and Program Coordinator for the Business Analytics program at St. Lawrence College, a program he helped launch. He taught several courses, including Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Strategic Analytics, and Operational Analytics. Patrick started the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Club at SLC in collaboration with Business Analytics students and launched the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2018. He was appointed Associate Dean of the School of Business in 2020 and later became Acting Dean of Business and Community Services in March 2023, a position he held until he left in August 2024 to focus on his family and pursue personal goals. He is a Term Adjunct at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, where he teaches an introductory course on Digital Business & Technologies in the commerce program. He also teaches a Business Decisions Model course in the EMBA Americas program at Cornell and Queen’s Universities.

Patrick has spoken at various events and conferences on artificial intelligence, analytics, and the future of work. He has spoken at the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (TASSQ), Queen's University, the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), various HRPA Chapters, Export Development Canada (EDC), Sault College, Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) National Conference, and at the Canadian Management Consulting Conference.

Patrick earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife, Nigeria). He moved to Canada in 2003 and obtained a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Arts in Economics from Queen's University. He also completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Queen's University and Cornell University. Patrick's entrepreneurial passion has led him to launch a few start-ups in Canada – including a renewable energy, analytics, and consulting companies. Patrick is a founding board member and former Chair of the Black Entrepreneur Ecosystem (Southeastern Ontario), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering the growth and prosperity of Black entrepreneurs in Southeastern Ontario. He is a SSHRC scholar and currently completing his doctoral studies at Capitol Technology University, Maryland, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Agents.

Patrick has held various volunteer roles within the City of Kingston. He served as the inaugural Chair of the Data Analytics Working Group for the Kingston Workforce and In-migration Strategy. He also served on the Afro-Caribe Community Foundation of Kingston board and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO). He was named Community Builder of the Year at the 2025 Kingston Newcomer Entrepreneur Awards for his leadership in inclusive innovation.

As an educator, Patrick believes in creating a learning environment that is practical, engaging, and purpose-driven—where leaders are equipped not just with tools to navigate disruption, but with the clarity, confidence, and conviction to lead transformational change.

Karan Girotra is the Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management and professor of operations, technology and innovation at Cornell Tech and the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Girotra's recent research and teaching is focused on the promise and perils of technology—how technology can improve how we do things, enable new business models, favor new leadership styles, and at the same time lead to several excesses and unaccounted negative externalities. He has also studied new business models and economic institutions that help reduce carbon emissions, improve urban living, manage global supply chains, and make online-retail less loss-making.

Girotra was one of the founding faculty members of Cornell Tech and now leads its flagship studio-based education programs. He also leads the design and delivery of our executive education offerings and works closely with leaders in industry.

Girotra and his research collaborators have been recognized with multiple best paper awards, and his research contributions were recognized with the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award. His research on new business models (at the time) was summarized in the best-selling book, The Risk Driven Business Model. He has also won over 25 awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship and new business models and was featured in the Poets&Quants Best 40 under 40 business professors' lists.

In addition to his academic work, Girotra was one of the founders of TerraPass Inc., which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005. Since then, TerraPass has helped businesses and individuals reduce over hundred million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Prior to Cornell Tech, Girotra held the Paul Dubrule Sustainability Chair at INSEAD and earned a doctorate at the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Bahriye Goren is a visiting professor of practice at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. She brings over two decades of experience spanning academia and industry across three continents. Before joining Cornell, Goren launched and led the Executive Master's in Marketing and Strategic Communications at New York University. Previously she served as faculty director for the core curriculum at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has taught courses in marketing management, product development, managing products and brands, competitive strategy, and leadership in executive MBA, MBA, and MS programs in New York, Boulder, Singapore, and Taiwan. Goren’s teaching and professional practice are guided by a deep belief in combining data-driven insight with a human-centered approach. Her industry experience includes leadership roles at Unilever, Wallace Church & Co., and Kantar (formerly EffectiveBrands), as well as co-founding a brand consultancy. She has advised leading companies across the CPG, healthcare, entertainment, technology, non-profit and financial services sectors. Her current research explores the role of compassionate leadership and leading with awareness in organizational effectiveness.

Goren holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She recently served on the board of the American Marketing Association NYC as chair of communications, was a judge for the Marketing Hall of Fame, and currently advises two start-ups. She is the author of Be, a book on authentic leadership (2016). Honors include receiving the Teaching Excellence Award at New York University (2023). Goren lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Ori Heffetz's interests lie in the social and cultural aspects of economic behaviour. He has explored phenomena such as conspicuous consumption, where consumers purchase visible goods in their attempts to advertise their wealth and gain social status. He is similarly interested in the use of consumption as a language to convey meaning and in its relationship to fashion and advertisements. He has worked with participants in both Executive and full-time MBA programs at Cornell. His dissertation was featured in the New York Times and in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. He has traveled extensively in developing countries, studying problems that lie at the crossroads of economics, society, and culture.

Peter Jensen is the author of The Inside Edge, Ignite The Third Factor and Thriving in a 24/7 World, the founder of Third Factor, and a longstanding instructor at Smith School of Business at Queen's University. A dynamic speaker with a Ph.D. in Sport Psychology, Peter has attended 9 Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian team and helped over 70 athletes medal. With the world of Olympic sport as a laboratory, he has developed a deep understanding of what it takes to be a successful leader of high performers. Peter is a renowned innovator—bringing coaching and personal high performance to corporations worldwide. As a teacher, Peter has the power to invigorate audiences through his compelling use of humour, personal experiences and concrete, actionable content.

Justin Johnson received his PhD in Economics at MIT and his BA in Mathematics from the University of Florida. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher. His research focuses primarily on applied theoretical microeconomic issues related to strategy and industrial organization. He has served as a reviewer for numerous academic journals and has made presentations at universities and business schools across the United States.

Thomas Jungbauer is assistant professor of Strategy and Business Economics at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He applies economic theory to study how firms and industries are organized, with a particular focus on the role of information held by different entities. His research particularly centers on high-skill labor markets and the digital economy.

In his work on labor market power, Jungbauer shows that wage competition in high-skill sectors can lead to inefficient worker allocation when firms differ in their buyer power for labor. He also demonstrates that firms may want to delegate the task of bidding for vacant positions—either to internal or external agents—as they balance the trade-off between commitment and market power.

His research on information and signaling in labor markets emphasizes how, and to what extent, job seekers can shape their skill sets and their visibility to employers. Notably, he finds that lying or strategically misrepresenting oneself can sometimes reduce inefficient investments in low-value signals. To understand market outcomes, he argues, it is essential to recognize that labor market signals combine both unobservable characteristics (like innate ability) and unobservable actions (like effort or investment).

Another major area of Jungbauer’s research investigates how information and its ownership influence the strategic behavior of online platforms. He examines how property rights over consumer-specific data affect both the quality and quantity of personalized ads, how platforms like Amazon and Google use this data to rank search results, and how sponsored content shapes the usefulness of those results for consumers.

In the realm of innovation, Jungbauer explores how corporate espionage impacts firm organization and investment incentives. He also studies how the fear of self-cannibalization leads successful firms to avoid outsourcing R&D for new products.

His earlier research addresses optimal branding strategies for firms offering vertically differentiated product lines. Additionally, he critically reviews the literature on games under fundamental uncertainty and proposes an alternative benchmark aligned with the concept of rationalizable strategies under risk.

Currently, he is investigating how personnel-specific information—held by senior employees such as managers—affects labor market outcomes, and what drives referral patterns among horizontally differentiated specialists such as doctors and lawyers.

At Cornell, Jungbauer teaches the core Business Strategy module in the Two-Year MBA program and the Cornell-Tsinghua Dual Degree Finance MBA program. He has also taught in the Cornell Tech MBA program and is scheduled to teach in the Cornell Executive MBA Americas program. During his graduate studies at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, he led sessions across various economics, statistics, and strategy courses at the undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and executive levels.

Jungbauer earned his PhD in managerial economics and strategy from Kellogg in 2016. He also holds master’s degrees in managerial economics and strategy from Northwestern University and in economics from the Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies.

Dr. Theomary Karamanis is a multiple award-winning communication consultant and educator with 20 years of global experience. She is currently a full-time Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and regularly delivers executive workshops in strategic communication, crisis communication and leadership communication both in the US and internationally. She has served as the Chair for the Global Communication Certification Council, while she was also the founding Chair of the IABC Academy (the educational arm of the International Association of Business Communicators).

Her academic background includes a PhD in communication studies, a Master of Arts in mass communication, and a post-graduate certificate in telecommunications –all from Northwestern University, as well as a bachelor's degree in economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She also holds professional certifications as a Strategic Communication Management Professional (SCMP), an adult trainer, online facilitator, and professional program instructor.

Elizabeth Mannix's research and teaching interests include: effective performance in managerial teams, diversity in organizations and teams, power and alliances, negotiation and conflict, and organizational change and renewal. Her work has been widely published in a variety of journals and she is the co-editor of the book series Research on Managing Groups and Teams, now in its 10th volume. Professor Mannix is also the Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences, established in 2004 at Cornell. She is the winner of the inaugural EMBA Globe Award for Excellence in teaching.

Mark Milstein is clinical professor of management and director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He conducts applied research in and oversees the center's work on market and enterprise creation, business development, clean technology commercialization, and sustainable finance.

Milstein specializes in framing the world's social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs which can be addressed effectively by the private sector through innovation and entrepreneurship, thereby allowing companies to achieve financial success by creatively addressing problems such as climate change, ecosystem degradation, and poverty. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation the S.C. Johnson Foundation, SEvEN, the World Bank, the University of Queensland, and the Water Resources Institute. Over the past decade, Milstein has worked with more than 100 firms across a range of industries, including renewable energy and carbon markets, life sciences and sustainable agriculture, consumables, food and nutrition, health care, tourism and hospitality management, as well as finance and international development.

At Cornell, Milstein serves on the Academic Programs and Policies Committee (CAPP), the faculty advisory board of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the advisory board for Engaged Learning + Research, the Public Engagement Council, and the Senior Leadership Climate Action Group. His writings have appeared in Science, Academy of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, PLOS-ONE, FACTS, Case Research Journal, Environmental Finance, and Value, as well as various edited books. Milstein is an award-winning author of several popular teaching cases, and he has taught strategy, innovation, and sustainable enterprise to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Milstein's work and perspectives have been featured in the New York Times, MSNBC, CNBC, Forbes, The Guardian, and GreenBiz. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of strategy, organizational change, and innovation related to business and sustainability. He also consults with a number of multinational firms, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and NGOs. He currently serves on the board of directors of Livelihood Basix International and as a board member for Johnson & Johnson's Earthwards Program.

Milstein earned a BA in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan. He later earned both an MBA in general management and an MS in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan's dual-degree corporate environmental management program. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Risa Mish is professor of practice of management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. She designed and teaches the MBA, EMBA, and Cornell-Tsinghua Core courses in Critical and Strategic Thinking, teaches elective courses in critical thinking and leadership, and was the founding faculty director of the Johnson Leadership Fellows program.

She is the inaugural recipient of the Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs, created by Cornell to "recognize excellence in teaching among faculty who teach primarily at the professional school and/or graduate program level".

Pamela Moulton is an associate professor of finance at the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Her teaching and research interests include financial markets and market microstructure, with a special interest in the role of investors. Her current research focuses on the impact of high-frequency trading on stock performance, the role of designated and voluntary market makers in stock liquidity, and detecting fraud in financial statements.

Moulton's research has been published in several of the leading finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Prior to her academic career, Moulton worked in fixed-income research for more than a dozen years at various Wall Street investment banks, including Deutsche Bank, where she was a managing director and global co-head of relative value research. From 2003 to 2006, she was a managing director and senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange, where she focused on equity market microstructure research.

Moulton is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She earned her BS in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in finance and MPhil from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She was previously on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University.

Elspeth Murray has served as the Associate Dean - MBA and Master’s Programs from 2012-2022 and has been a professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business since 1996. She also holds the CIBC Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, and founded Smith's Centre for Business Venturing. She is the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Social Impact. Prior to joining Smith, she worked in industry for 7 years for several firms including IBM, and Canadian Tire. As an integral part of her work in the strategy and new venture fields, Dr. Murray specializes in the management of change. In 2002, she co-authored a best-selling book, Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, Oxford University Press, with Dr. Peter Richardson. She has recently co-developed (with Dr. David Saunders) the Analytics Climate Assessment Tool (ACAT), which is used to assess organizations technological capacity, skill sets, and analytics culture. Current research is focused on best practices in leading and managing change to create an analytics culture.

Dr. Murray teaches on many MBA and Executive Education programs, and consults widely with a diversity of firms including BMW, Detour Gold, Wawanesa Insurance, Versacold Logistics and the Auditor General for Canada. She serves as a Director for several firms and is an advisor to several start-ups and CEO's. Dr. Murray received an undergraduate degree in computer science and mathematics, and an MBA, both from Queen's University. Her doctorate in Strategy and Management Information Systems was completed at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

A graduate of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Angela Noble-Grange is a senior lecturer of management communication and teaches oral communication and management writing at Johnson. Her interests include persuasive speaking and writing, as well as gender and race differences in message perception.

Noble-Grange was the founding director of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business (now the Office of Diversity and Inclusion) in 1999 and president of the Noble Economic Development Group, a micro enterprise development consulting company, from June 1994 to January 1999. Noble-Grange has served on numerous boards and is currently a trustee for Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks. She earned her BA in communication studies and Russian in 1983 and her MBA from Johnson in 1994.

Drew Pascarella is associate dean for MBA programs, the Rempe Wilson Distinguished Lecturer, and a Senior Lecturer of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. As associate dean for MBA programs, Drew is responsible for curriculum, admissions, placement, student services, leadership programs, and diversity and inclusive initiatives for Johnson’s residential MBA programs. In addition to his duties as associate dean, Drew leads the Investment Banking Immersion at Johnson. Drew founded Johnson’s Fintech Intensive, delivered at the Cornell Tech campus each spring. In addition, Drew has taught Core Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions (Executive MBA level), Investment Banking Essentials (undergraduate and EMBA levels), and Lectures in Finance. Drew is also heavily involved with executive education initiatives, working with global corporate clients on finance hard skills and Fintech training.

Michael is an Associate Professor at Smith School of Business. His research focuses on the strategies and performance of firms that expand into foreign markets, and he teaches courses in Global Business Strategy and Strategic International Entrepreneurship. He has been working in the classroom with business executives for more than a decade in Smith’s dual Executive MBA (EMBA) Programs. Michael has taught executive audiences in diverse overseas markets from Cuba to China. He is a multi-time recipient of the Executive MBA Americas Professor of the Year Award and has been recognized internationally by Poets and Quants for Executives as one of the Favourite Professors of Executive MBAs.

Michael received PhD and MBA degrees from the Ivey Business School in London, Canada, and a JD (Juris Doctor) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has ten years of experience working variously in executive and corporate legal counsel capacities for publicly-traded and privately-held enterprises in the telecom and consumer packaged goods industries. Having been employed as an executive in the foreign subsidiary operations of a NASDAQ-listed company, he is intimately familiar with the opportunities and challenges that firms encounter in foreign markets. Michael consults and advises owners, executives and managers in firms that range in scale from new ventures to multinational corporations.

Stephen Sauer, an assistant professor, teaches courses in Negotiations, Leadership, and Organizational Behaviour and conducts a number of executive education workshops and seminars in negotiations and leadership effectiveness. His research activities focus on issues of leadership, status and diversity in management teams, and entrepreneurial team processes. His research has been featured in a number of mainstream media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes.com, and USA Today. Dr. Sauer graduated with a PhD in Management and Organizational Behaviour, an MBA and a Master’s in Business and Policy Administration, all from Cornell University. 

Tom Schryver is an experienced entrepreneur having served as a start-up founder and senior executive of high-growth companies. Tom has has managed accounting and compliance functions from initial start-up through successful financial audits by national accounting firms. Previously, he was Director of Finance for the Triad Foundation, where he started hedge fund and private equity programs and led the Foundation to top-quartile investment returns. Prior to Triad, he worked with UBS Investment Bank and with Banc of America Securities. Tom has an AB and a MBA from Cornell University, where he was a recipient of the Albert J. Fried Fellowship for Leadership and Academic Excellence. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Danny Szpiro is an award-winning teacher and expert on financial management, including the areas of management accounting, capital budgeting, post-investment review, and the Balanced Scorecard.  In his research and consulting, he has worked with organizations on the use of post-investment reviews and strategic controls in capital investment systems and on developing the financial analytical skills of managers.

He is Dean of Executive Education at the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University. From 2004 to 2012, he was a faculty member at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he held the position of Associate Dean for Executive Education. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor with Smith School of Business and the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.

Professor Manoj Thomas is a consumer psychologist who trains business executives to be customer-centric leaders. Thomas has received the Apple Award and the Stephen Russell Family Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Thomas studies the unconscious heuristics and biases that influence consumer decision making. His current research focuses on how heuristic thinking in numerical cognition and moral reasoning influence consumer behavior. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research. He is the co-author of the book Why People (Don't) Buy: GO and STOP signals.

Brian White is a professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research focuses on behavioral factors that affect judgments and decisions of participants in the financial reporting process. White teaches financial accounting in the Executive MBA Americas program and a PhD seminar on behavioral research in accounting.

White's research has won multiple awards and has been published in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society.

White has degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Edinburgh, Manchester Business School, and the University of Illinois where he completed his PhD. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he spent 10 years as finance director for a privately held retailer based in Liverpool, England. Prior to joining Cornell Johnson, Brian was on the faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mao Ye is an Associate Professor of Finance (Tenured) at Cornell University. Before he joined Cornell University in 2022, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on market microstructure, machine learning, and big data. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. Ye is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Faculty Fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He delivered the keynote speech on “Big Data in Finance” at the 41st Annual NBER Summer Institute. In October 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Ye a grant to jumpstart a big data initiative at the NBER, under which he will organize six NBER conferences, inviting leading academics, policymakers and practitioners to discuss the future of big data research in finance.

Mao Ye earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2011. While he was a student at Cornell, he was elected as a trustee member of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, marking the first time an Ivy League institution had elected a trustee from Mainland China. In 2018, the New York Historical Museum and Library selected Ye as a contributor to “Journeys: An American Story,”Links to an external site. a book of essays about immigration and American greatness. In 2016, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign named him the Educator of the Year. In 2019, Ye was selected as the university commencement speaker at Renmin University of China.