The faculty team planned for Strategic Management & Leadership Issues in a Rapidly Changing Global Environment includes:

Professor Duncan Simester Bio

Duncan Simester is the NTU Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  He is the past-head of the Marketing Group at MIT Sloan and is an expert on how economic theory, statistics and operations research can contribute to the understanding and practice of marketing. He has consulted for a variety of corporations on marketing strategy, product development, marketing research, survey design, outsourcing, and the management of marketing channels. He has provided expert testimony regarding marketing research and the impact of marketing strategies. 

Professor S.P. Kothari Bio

Professor Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor at Management at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He has broad-ranging interests and expertise in accounting and finance. His research focuses on financial reporting and capital markets, explaining the diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives and accounting for stock options, evaluating investment performance, and corporate uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation. In addition, Professor Kothari is an expert on economic policy issues in India.

Professor Donald R. Lessard

Professor Donald R. Lessard studies international corporate strategy and finance with a special emphasis on risk and knowledge management. His current research focuses on globalization strategies in network industries and the linkage of strategy on risk management in major projects. His most recent book, "Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance" (with Roger Miller) was published by the MIT Press in February 2001. He has published extensively on risk management, global strategy, international corporate finance, and the debt crisis. Lessard has been at MIT since 1973, and served as Deputy Dean from 1998 to 2004. At MIT he plays a key role in the BP Projects Academy, a major executive education program for the major project leaders that spans management and engineering; and directs MIT Sloan's new alliance with ITESM (Monterrey Tech) in Mexico..

Program Faculty Director

Kenneth Morse
Senior Lecturer and Managing Director
MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Ken Morse takes networking to a new level.  As the Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship Center he knows better than anybody how to make your contacts work for you. When Ken Morse joined the MIT Entrepreneurship Center in 1996, there were only a few professors teaching 2-3 entrepreneurship courses.  Today, there are 30+ faculty teaching 20+ courses.  The number of students taking entrepreneurship courses today has grown from about 250 to 1500.