Global CEO Program: A Transformational Journey

The Mack Professor
Professor of Management
Vice Dean for Global Initiatives
Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
The Wharton School

Harbir Singh is a leading researcher on strategic alliances and strategies for corporate renewal, including path-breaking projects on managing acquisitions and alliances and post-acquisition management. He has consulted for companies such as Bell Atlantic, IBM, Merck, and AT&T. His current research includes strategies for corporate alliances and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, management buyouts, and corporate restructuring. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious publications and has extensive experience in working with senior executive audiences in the United States and India.

Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Management
Academic Director, The Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs;
Academic Director, The Wharton Global Family Alliance
The Wharton School

Dr. Raffi Amit is the Academic Director of the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs, which encompass all of Wharton's entrepreneurial programs. As well, he co-founded and leads the Wharton Global Family Alliance, a unique academic–family business partnership established to enhance the marketplace advantage and the social wealth creation contributions of global families through thought leadership, knowledge transfer, and sharing of ideas and best practices among influential global families.

Dr. Amit serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Business Venturing. He has completed a three-year term as an associate editor of Management Science and a nine-year term on the editorial board of Organizational Science. His current research and teaching interests center on entrepreneurship in independent and corporate settings; business models and business strategy; performance implications of family-owned, -controlled, or -managed firms; and venture capital and private equity investments.

Professor Amit has extensive industry and consulting experience. He is an active early-stage venture capital investor, and has also consulted to private and public sector organizations in North America and Europe on a broad range of strategic issues, and on entrepreneurial management and new venture formation issues.

Dr. Amit holds BA and MA degrees in Economics, and received his PhD in Management from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has extensive experience in executive education, having taught a range of courses in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor
Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School

Professor Fader's expertise centers around the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. He works with a wide range of data sources from industries such as consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, and music (online and offline). His research focuses on using data generated by such new technologies as retail scanners to understand customer preferences and to help companies fine tune their marketing strategies. His work has been published in (and he serves on the editorial boards of) a number of leading journals in marketing, statistics, and the management sciences. His latest book is entitled Wharton Executive Education Customer Centricity Essentials: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters .

UPS Professor
Professor of Operations and Information Management
Co-Director, Fishman-Davidson Center
for Service and Operations Management
The Wharton School

Marshall Fisher, a leading researcher in analyzing and redesigning supply chains, has worked with companies such as Sport Obermeyer, Campbell Soup, Spiegel, and Hewlett-Packard to develop and implement strategies that have improved the performance of their supply chains. His research projects include a Sloan Foundation industry study of retailing, focusing on logistics and supply chains for high-fashion products with volatile demand.

Adjunct Professor of Marketing
Research Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
The Wharton School

Paul Schoemaker is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Decision Strategies International, a consulting and training company specializing in strategic planning and multimedia software. He has worked with numerous organizations (including Asian Development Bank, BBC, Coke, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, ING, Knight Ridder, Merck, New York Life, Organon International, Petróleos de Venezuela, Royal Dutch Shell, Scottish Power, Shearson Lehman, Unilever, and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers) and led executive programs on decision making and strategic thinking for executives in Europe, America, and the Far East. His research focuses on strategy under uncertainty, executive decision making, and managing emerging technologies. With J. Edward Russo, he wrote Winning Decisions (Doubleday, 2001); his latest book is Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press, 2002). He was recently listed among the most cited researchers in business and economics.

Vice Dean of Innovation
CIBC Professor of Entrepreneurship and eCommerce
The Wharton School

Karl Ulrich is professor of operations and information management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research activities are focused on product design and development, including work with Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Polaroid, United Technologies, and Eastman-Kodak. His current projects study the management of product variety, with particular emphasis on the relationships among product architecture, market strategy, and production process design. Professor Ulrich has been a member of development teams for more than 30 new products or processes, including medical devices, tools, computer peripherals, food products, and sporting goods. As a result of this development work, he has been granted 18 patents. From 1999-2002, while on leave from Wharton, he founded and managed Nova Cruz Products, a manufacturer of high-performance personal transportation products.

The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor
Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Mike Useem offers courses on management, leadership, and corporate governance to MBA and senior executive audiences in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has worked extensively on leadership development and governance with many organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is the author of The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles; The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide; Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All; Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America; and Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization. From the slopes of Mount Everest to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Dr. Useem has gone to great lengths to present leadership lessons to executives.

Mike works with the World Economic Forum on several initiatives to identify ways of preventing, mitigating, and responding to significant enterprise risks. He serves with the WEF Global Council on Catastrophic Risks.

The Lauder Professor, Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School

Yoram (Jerry) Wind joined the Wharton faculty in 1967, after receiving his doctorate from Stanford University. Since 1988, he has served as the founding director of the Wharton “think tank” — the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management — and is currently leading the development of the X-Functional Integration initiatives of the School. He is also the founder and academic director of the Wharton Fellows program and the initiator and founding editor of Wharton School Publishing, the joint venture of Wharton and Pearson/Financial Times. Dr. Wind has consulted and conducted research for more than 100 companies. His most recent books, The Power of Impossible Thinking, with Colin Crook, Driving Change, with Jeremy Main, and Convergence Marketing, with Vijay Mahajan, have received wide acclaim.