Anthony Di Benedetto teaches Marketing Strategy and Introduction to Marketing. He is an expert in new-product development and marketing strategy. Dr. Di Benedetto has also taught subjects including advertising, sales force management, and new product development. He has taught in the MBA and undergraduate programs.
He is co-author of a book, New Products Management, and editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. His work has also been published in the Journal of International Business Studies and in the Strategic Management Journal.
Suzanne Diamond teaches Consumer Behavior and is a product-management and research consultant to media and financial companies, including The New York Times, CNBC, and Citicorp.
Her consulting firm, Diamond Group, Ltd., provides product-management and research services using techniques such as focus groups, interviews, and segmentation studies to give clients insight into consumer attitudes and decision-making processes.
She is a graduate of the Wharton School and a member of the American Marketing Association and the Qualitative Research Consultants Association.
Ann Fischer teaches Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior. She has taught for the Wharton MBA and Executive MBA programs. Previously, she was on the Management faculty at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and at the University of North Carolina business school. She is co-author of the book Impact: A Guide to Business Communication (Prentice-Hall).
Ms. Fischer has consulted for organizations and coached executives from across industries: AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Massachusetts General Hospital, Morgan Lewis LLP, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Unisys, and Merck.
Angela Francesco teaches Human Resource Management for WPWP. Her skills include management consulting, organizational change, employee relations, and mergers and downsizing.
From 1995–99, she served as vice president of human resources at MCP Hahnemann University, where she helped to manage a merger between two medical schools, including the design of a consolidated faculty benefits package and the introduction of a new sexual-harassment policy.
Ms. Francesco was previously vice president of human resources at a division of Sterling Drug Company in Collegeville, PA, where she designed and implemented an HR strategy to support a 1,500-person research and development operation in the U.S., U.K., and France. She has a JD from Temple University.
Stewart Friedman teaches Organizational Behavior/Organizational Psychology and is the founding and current director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. He was the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program from 1992–1999. He is a prominent speaker and writer on maintaining a balance between work and life.
Dr. Friedman, who has been affiliated with the Wharton School since 1984 was chosen by Working Mother magazine as one of America's 25 most influential men in improving the lives of working parents.
He has published three books and numerous articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change. His book, Work and Family — Allies or Enemies? (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus), was cited by The Wall Street Journal as one of the year's best in its field. He earned a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1984.
Frank LaMay teaches Corporate Finance for WPWP and has been teaching since 1981.
He is also a financial manager at Cigna, an employee benefits company, where he is responsible for operational planning and analysis. His areas of interest include valuation, capital budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as investment theory and management.
LaMay earned his AB magna cum laude from Princeton University and has an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School. He received awards for his outstanding teaching in the Wharton Evening School in 1998 and in 2002.
Michael London teaches Introduction to Management. Dr. London has also taught Principals of Management, Organizational Behavior and Leadership. He has been teaching since 1993 and has taught at the undergraduate and MBA level. He was recognized twice for his outstanding teaching by the Wharton Evening School.
Dr. London also coaches top executives, helping them reach their creative potential as corporate leaders and achieving their personal goals. His own oral presentation skills have been refined by years as a folk singer and entertainer.
He has a PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Bill McLaughlin has been teaching since 1994 and currently teaches Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in WPWP.
McLaughlin, a certified public accountant, serves as director of business development for a professional services firm where he is responsible for the technology and capital markets practices of the firm. He previously worked in accounting, consulting, and marketing for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche and has also developed and taught a variety of accounting and marketing programs for executives.
Bill is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants.
Stephen Oliver teaches Strategic Implementation and Human Resource Management. His expertise includes leadership development, customer service, and facilitation and training.
During a human resources career spanning nearly 20 years, he has recently been manager of learning and organizational development at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a human resources consultant at Tenet Healthcare Corporation. He holds an MA in Human Resources Development from Marymount University in Arlington, VA, and has certifications in conflict resolution, project management, leadership essentials, and related disciplines.
As a consultant, he provides human resources training and organizational development services to healthcare groups, including Hahnemann University Hospital and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. His consultancy group, Stephen W. Oliver & Associates, helps organizations improve communications and productivity through leadership development and employee training.
Anne Pauker Kreitzberg teaches Human Resource Management and Business Policy and is a leadership, organization, and team effectiveness advisor to private and public companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, including Neuberger Berman, Crunch, The Port Authorities of New York and New Jersey, and Catalyst.
The firm she leads, Cognetics Corporation, is a consulting and product company, which uniquely leverages world-class expertise in software and web usability with innovative human resource strategies.
Anne was the Director of Affirmative Action Compliance for New York State Agencies working out of the State Division of Human Rights. She was a senior human resource executive with Continental Insurance, where she pioneered the use of actors in corporate training, wrote and produced the successful video series The Power of Diversity. Under her direction, Continental received national recognition for its early work-life, workplace flexibility, and innovative HR work. Anne is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and received her MBA from the New York Institute of Technology.
Dr. Tayyeb Shabbir teaches Corporate Finance and is also consultant to international financial and development organizations.
His areas of expertise include corporate finance, emerging capital markets, globalization, and economic development. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Asian Development Bank. He is president of Econometrix International, a business and financial consulting firm.
Previously he was a faculty member in the doctoral program at Pennsylvania State University and Chief of Research at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Islamabad.
Kenneth Thomas teaches the finance course, Monetary Economics for WPWP. Dr. Thomas is also a consultant to the banking industry on community reinvestment, fair lending, and related regulatory issues.
Dr. Thomas received The Wharton Evening School's Director's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001 and 2004. He has written two books and several papers on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Because of his expertise in finance, he has been an adviser to federal bank regulators and testified before Congress several times on bank regulation and public policy issues.
He holds a PhD in Finance from The Wharton School and is regularly quoted in financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist, and has made numerous presentations to groups such as the American Bankers Association.
Bill McLaughlin has been teaching since 1994 and currently teaches Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in WPWP.
Kenneth Thomas teaches the finance course, Monetary Economics for WPWP. Dr. Thomas is also a consultant to the banking industry on community reinvestment, fair lending, and related regulatory issues.