Senior faculty who teach in our top-ranked MBA program lead Next Step's sessions, offering a rigorous program suited to our highly talented participants. Embedded in our culture of teaching and learning, they are acknowledged thought leaders who combine research-based expertise with real-world knowledge. They are also outstanding teachers and highly skilled at facilitating a collaborative exchange of insights and experiences among our veterans and elite athletes. Additionally, throughout the program we draw on outside experts, including the Tuck Career Services team, to add other perspectives and enrich the learning experience.
Our Faculty Directors
Amy E. Florentino T’10
Adjunct Professor
Amy Florentino has more than 20 years of experience as a military officer, operator, strategist, and occasional academic instructor. She currently serves as Commander for Sector Northern New England in Portland, Maine. In this role, she leads more than 1,100 personnel to execute the Coast Guard’s eleven statutory missions across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northeastern New York. She oversees an area of responsibility that spans over 5,000 miles of coastline throughout New England and Lake Champlain. Her team operates six multi-mission cutters, eight life-saving stations, two marine safety detachments, and three Aids to Navigation Teams.
Ms. Florentino received her bachelor’s degree in Operations Research from the Coast Guard Academy and her MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.
Aram M. Donigian T’08
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. Donigian currently teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and works closely with the Tuck Business Bridge Program.
Our Faculty
Ron Adner
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Ron Adner’s award-winning research and teaching introduce a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption. His two books, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss (2012) and Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World (forthcoming, October 2021) have been heralded as landmark contributions to the strategy literature. Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) described his work as “Path-breaking,” and Jim Collins (Good to Great) has called him “One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century.”
Paul A. Argenti
Professor of Corporate Communication
Paul Argenti is a pioneer in the field of corporate communication, teaching some of the earliest courses on the subject for Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He wrote Corporate Communication, the first textbook in the field now in its eighth edition, along with Corporate Responsibility, Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communication, The Power of Corporate Communication, and many other books and articles. He teaches courses on corporate communication, corporate responsibility, and general management, and has consulted and run training programs for hundreds of companies including ING, Mitsui, Novartis, Goldman Sachs, and the Detroit Lions. Argenti is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and has appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and others.
Pino Audia
Professor of Management and Organizations; Area Chair, Organizational Behavior
Pino Audia is a professor of Management and Organizations at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where he is also the founding faculty director of the Center for Leadership. Prior to Tuck, he was on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and London Business School.
Stacy Blake-Beard
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard is Professor Emeritus at Simmons University, where she taught courses on Organizational Behavior, Gender and Diversity. Prior to joining Simmons, Dr. Blake-Beard was on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Dr. Blake-Beard’s academic research focuses on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on how this process may be changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. Dr. Blake-Beard received a Fulbright Award to support her research on gender and mentoring, in partnership with the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
Trip Davis D’90
Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Entrepreneur, executive, investor
Laurens Debo
Professor of Operations Management; Area Chair, Operations and Management Science
Laurens Debo is a Professor of Operations Management at Tuck. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Professor Debo’s research focuses on the behavior of consumers and providers in different service settings. On the consumer side, he investigates how strategic consumer behavior shapes the demand for services. On the supply side, he studies the management of “discretionary services,” whose value to the consumer increases with the actual service time. His research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, Operations Research and Production and Operations Management, among other journals. A part of his research has been funded by the NSF. He is an associate editor for Management Science, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management and Operations Research, a senior editor for Production and Operations Management, and serves on the editorial board of Service Science.
Sydney Finkelstein
Steven Roth Professor of Management
Sydney Finkelstein’s approach to leadership and strategy focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of executive talent. His widely read research analyzes how capable leaders make bad decisions and, ultimately, fail. He teaches the core course Analysis for General Managers.
Adam M. Kleinbaum
Professor of Business Administration
Adam M. Kleinbaum is a Professor in the Organizational Behavior area at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He teaches a core MBA course in organizational behavior, an elective seminar on social networks, a Global Insight Expedition to Israel, and researches social networks.
J. Ramon Lecuona Torras
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ramon Lecuona is an assistant professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Before joining Tuck, he was part of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to that, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. His academic research is focused on the design of organizational structures that make firms more productive and innovative, and he has specific expertise in the field of mobile communications and the offshoring of production facilities to emerging markets. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lecuona has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies. He teaches Tuck’s core strategy course.
Lauren Lu
Professor of Business Administration
Lauren Lu teaches a supply chain management elective at Tuck. Her research takes a data-driven approach to investigate operational drivers of organizational performance in healthcare, retail, and supply chain settings. Lauren serves as an Associate Editor for the Management Science journal, an Associate Editor for the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal, and a Senior Editor for Production & Operations Management. She is the President of the Supply Chain Management College of the POMS society and the past Chair of the Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group of the MSOM society.
Courtney Hurley Pierson T’01
Clinical Professor of Management; Faculty Advisor, First-Year Project
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Executive Director for Deans’ Office Special Projects; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Leslie Robinson
Professor of Business Administration
Leslie Robinson teaches financial accounting in the MBA and Business Bridge programs. She is among Poets and Quants' 40 best business school professors under the age of 40. Her research interests include the interaction of tax and accounting policy, and her expertise centers on the tax and accounting issues associated with multinational operations.
Phillip C. Stocken
Jack Byrne Professor of Accounting; Area Chair, Accounting
Phil Stocken specializes in accounting and business analysis. He teaches accounting and financial management, analysis, and reporting in both executive education programs and MBA classes. He is highly skilled at conveying the essential information in financial statements and financial statement analysis to audiences with varying levels of financial experience and understanding.
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