Global Leadership Executive MBA (GLEMBA) Faculty

Global Business Ethics – Dr. Diane McNulty

Diane Seay McNulty, Ph.D., serves as Associate Dean for External Affairs and Corporate Development in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the Executive Editor of MANAGEMENT, the School of Management bi-annual publication. Dr. McNulty is active in volunteer efforts to raise the city of Dallas’ image as an international city; she currently serves Dallas World Salute as Chairman of the Board; and on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Council on World Affairs. Dr. McNulty consults with non-profit organizations and speaks on corporate alliances, public relations and research topics.

Globalization – Dr. Alan Rugman

Dr. Alan M. Rugman is Professor of International Business at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading. He is the Director of Research in the School of Management. Previously he held the L. Leslie Waters Chair of International Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 2001-2009. He was Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management at Templeton College, University of Oxford from 1998-2001. Previously he held tenured posts at the University of Toronto 1987-1998, Dalhousie University 1979-1987, and the University of Winnipeg 1970-1978.

Strategic Management – Dr. Mike Peng

Mike W. Peng received his PhD from the University of Washington. He holds the Provost’s Distinguished Professorship at The University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Peng is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and most influential scholars in global strategy. Global in scope, his research focuses on firm strategies in regions such as Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and North America, covering countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

International Business Implementation – Dr. Philippe Lasserre

Philippe Lasserre is emeritus professor of strategy and Asian business. A French national, he graduated from ESSEC (Paris). After working for nine years in France as a financial and commercial manager, he joined The University of Texas where he obtained his Ph.D. Since 1975, Professor Lasserre has been involved in teaching, research, and, consulting in strategic management and international business. He has also been deeply associated with the development of the Euro-Asia Centre, directing several public programs and company-specific programs for groups such as Astra Indonesia, BP, DBS Bank, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cable & Wireless, Inchcape, Nokia, Whirlpool, Petronas. He has been visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, at the China Europe Management Institute in Beijing, at the University of Texas at Dallas, and at Curtin University, Perth, and CEIBS, Shanghai.

Information Technologies & MIS Fundamentals – Hans-Joachim Adler

Hans-Joachim Adler, Ph.D., serves as Clinical Professor and Director for International Business Development in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Adler is also an independent director of 3i, a venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in London, England and founder and president of Infocom International, Inc. in Plano, TX, a consulting firm for international technology marketing and sales.

Dr. Adler has more than 25 years experience in sales, strategic planning, business development and marketing, consulting and teaching information technology and telecommunications.

Intercultural Savvy – Patricia Hayden

Patricia Hayden is founding Partner of Intercultural Consulting. She is a multilingual global communications specialist with extensive practical experience in the field of global leadership development, senior executive coaching and intercultural communications training. She specializes in counseling both US and non-US executives and teams. Ms. Hayden earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University and her Master of Arts degree from the University of California, She also studied International Affairs and European Studies at the University of Madrid, Spain.

Quantitative Introduction – Dr. Kurt Beron

Professor Kurt Beron teaches a wide range of courses including those in public sector economics, structural equation modeling and econometrics. He has worked with the Internal Revenue Service to improve tax compliance and has been a consultant and a testifying expert in cases involving antitrust, personal injury, lost profits, discrimination and wrongful death actions. He currently works and consults with the NCAA. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1985 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also earned a master’s degree in social work.

Financial Management – Dr. Carolyn Reichert

Carolyn Reichert, senior lecturer in finance, earned a PhD in finance from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include corporate control, real estate and property rights. She taught finance for five years at Southwest Texas State University before joining the GLEMBA program. Reichert holds a BS in finance and a BA in mathematics from Ohio State University and spent two years working as an actuarial assistant at Nationwide Insurance Company. She teaches financial management in the GLEMBA program.

Managerial Accounting – Richard Bowen, CPA

Richard Bowen brings 35 years experience in banking, including executive positions in finance, credit and information technology, to his new role as senior lecturer in accounting. He left Citigroup in 2009, after serving as business chief underwriter for CitiMortgage, then provided contract services for the FDIC working with failed banks. As an adjunct at Naveen Jindal School of Management accounting professor. For the last three years, he has taught undergraduate and MBA courses in financial statement analysis, business finance, applied corporate finance and managerial accounting. Bowen received his MBA from UT Austin and BS from Texas Tech University.

Financial Accounting – Dr. Ashiq Ali

Ashiq Ali is a Charles and Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to his appointment at UT Dallas in 2004, he was professor and Eller Fellow at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. From 1988 to 1995, he taught in the MBA programs at the Stern School of Business at New York University and Columbia Business School. He currently teaches financial accounting to MBA and PhD students and earned the Executive MBA “distinguished faculty award”.

Marketing Management – Dr. James Munch

James M. Munch is professor and chairman of the Marketing and International Business Department at Wright State University. Professor Munch received his BBA (Cum Laude) from St. Bonaventure University, MBA from Syracuse University and PhD from Penn State University. His PhD thesis received the Robert Ferber Award (honorable mention) as one of the top consumer research dissertations in the United States.

Operations Management – Nick Hassan

Nick Hassan has been a lecturer and adjunct professor in the Executive Education program at UT Dallas since 1998. Hassan’s 12 years of professional experience includes work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab and Texas Instruments. He has held leadership positions in manufacturing, design, operations, project management, strategic program management and product development. Currently, he manages a product development function in a business unit at TI. Hassan holds several US and international patents and has authored over 40 papers and articles. He teaches operations management and operations research in the GLEMBA program.

Global Business – Dr. Habte Woldu

Dr. Woldu is a faculty member and director of International Students Exchange Programs and Foreign Study Trips at the School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Woldu earned his Ph.D. at the Academy of Economics in Poznan, Poland, and specializes in the dynamics of cultural changes in emerging economies. Dr. Woldu teaches courses in international business and marketing and comparative management methods, among other topics. Dr. Woldu has led 14 study trips to 12 diverse countries during the last 13 years.

Globalization – Dr. Alan Rugman

Dr. Alan M. Rugman is Professor of International Business at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading. He is the Director of Research in the School of Management. Previously he held the L. Leslie Waters Chair of International Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 2001-2009. He was Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management at Templeton College, University of Oxford from 1998-2001. Previously he held tenured posts at the University of Toronto 1987-1998, Dalhousie University 1979-1987, and the University of Winnipeg 1970-1978.

International Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Dr. Larry Chasteen

Dr. Larry Chasteen is the online MBA director at the Naveen Jindal School of Management. He received a master’s degree in aeronautics from Stanford University and a PhD from the Jindal School of Management. Prior to teaching, Chasteen worked for 25 years in the defense industry for Texas Instruments and Raytheon specializing in radar and smart weapons. He was a Fulbright professor to Germany in 2006.

Global Politics – Clint Peinhardt

Clint Peinhardt (Ph.D. University of Michigan) specializes in International Relations, particularly International Political Economy and International Organizations. In addition to teaching classes on those subjects at UTD’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, his research investigates the intersection of international politics, economics, and law. Recent papers analyze the international “rules” governing foreign investment via investment treaties, as well as financial liberalization, such as the opening of stock markets to foreign investors and the process of recruiting multinational corporations to new sites of production. Other work explores domestic political support for globalization across countries.

Business Economics – Nathan Berg

Berg was appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Socio-Economics and elected to the board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics in 2006. He has published 25 articles and chapters in behavioral economics since 2001 in outlets such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Social Choice and Welfare and Contemporary Economic Policy. Berg was a Fulbright Scholar in 2003 and his research has been cited in Business Week, National Post, The Village Voice, The Advocate and Atlantic Monthly.