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 Director
Amy E. Florentino T’10
Adjunct Professor
Amy Florentino is an adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she teaches courses in communications, crisis management, and project management. She also serves as the faculty director for the Next Step Transition to Business program, an executive education program for transitioning military personnel and elite athletes.
A retired officer of the United States Coast Guard, Amy served more than 25 years on active duty. Her expertise in maritime strategy, communications, and crisis management inspires her work as founder of Wavetop Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm offering executive training and coaching to leaders across industries including the agriculture, maritime, and nonprofit sectors.
Amy holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business (2010) and a BS in operations research from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1999). She and her family have lived in eight states and now call Vermont home, where they enjoy skiing, hockey, and outdoor activities.
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. Prior to Tuck, he was on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and London Business School. Besides winning awards for his research on the paradox of success and the myth of the garage entrepreneur, he is internationally known for his contributions to the Carnegie perspective on decision-making and for shedding new light on the reasons why people and organizations often do not learn from failure. People’s desire to see themselves in a positive light, also known as self-enhancement, is central to his explanation of such learning failures. At Tuck, Professor Audia teaches two electives—Power and Influence, and Leadership Development: Self-Awareness, Skills, and Strategies.
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
C.V. Starr Professor of Operations Management; Area Chair, Operations and Management Science
Laurens Debo is the C.V. Starr 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.
Aram M. Donigian T’08
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Tuck Business Bridge Program
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 is faculty director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program.
Sydney Finkelstein
Steven Roth Professor of Management
Sydney Finkelstein, an expert on strategic leadership, has published more than 25 books and 100 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, whichLinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman called the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, a “top instructor” at Coursera for his Strategic Leadership series of online courses, and the host of the podcast, The Sydcast.
Adam M. Kleinbaum
Professor of Leadership and Organizations
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
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Ramon Lecuona is a clinical 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 Xiaoyuan Lu
Professor of Business Administration
Professor Lu’s research takes a data-driven and economic modeling approach to investigate operational drivers of organization performance in health care, retail, and supply chain settings. She has published research articles in leading academic journals across operations, management science, and health care disciplines. Currently, she serves as a department editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and as an associate editor for both Management Science and Operations Research. Her professional service includes past roles as president of the Supply Chain Management College of the Production and Operations Management (POM) society and the chair of the Supply Chain Management Special Interest Group of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (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
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.
Gail Ayala Taylor
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Research Scholar
Gail Taylor has taught at the Tuck School of Business since 2000. She served as Faculty Director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program from 2011–15. Previously, Professor Taylor taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
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