Management for PhDs Team
Faculty subject to change.
Team Members
James Conley
Founder and Academic Program Director, Clinical Professor of Technology
James Conley is an inventor who serves as a faculty member at the Kellogg Center for Research in Technology & Innovation. He also serves as a faculty fellow at the Northwestern University Segal Design Institute and is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. His academic research investigates the strategic use of intangible assets and intellectual properties to build and sustain competitive advantage. Research sponsors have included the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the U.S. Department of the Treasury IRS, The Chicago Biomedical Consortium, Microsoft, the National Science Foundation, NASA, FAA, NIST, the Department of Defense, Motorola, and others. Learn more here.Nabil Al-Najjar
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Nabil Al-Najjar is the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences.
Al-Najjar's research focuses on the development of learning-based models of decision-making in markets, games, and contracts. His papers have been published in top scholarly journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Political Economy, and Econometrica, among others. Learn more here.Achal Bassamboo
Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences, Professor of Operations, Co-Director of MMM Program
Achal Bassamboo is the Charles E. Morrison Professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is also the co-director of the MMM program which is a dual degree program between Kellogg and Segal Design at McCormick School. Professor Bassamboo joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2005, after completing his PhD in Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests lie in the areas of service systems, revenue management, and information sharing. His current research involves designing flexible service systems with a focus on capacity planning and the effects of parameter uncertainty. He is also studying the credibility (or lack thereof) of information provided by a service provider or a retailer to its customers. Learn more here.Jennifer Brown
Associate Professor of Management & Strategy
Jen Brown is a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. She is an economist with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include industrial organization and personnel economics, as well as questions about the intersection of labor and finance. Prior to joining the University of Utah, she held appointments at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Learn more here.
Michelle Buck
Clinical Professor of Executive Education
Michelle Buck is a clinical professor of leadership at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She previously served as the School's first director of leadership initiatives from 2006 to 2013, designing and coordinating opportunities for personal leadership development to complement the School's academic curriculum. She has also served as 1) academic director of numerous Kellogg executive programs, including partnership programs with Fundacao dom Cabral in Brazil, and numerous customized, company-specific programs; and 2) as adjunct professor teaching leadership in Northwestern's School of Communication. Learn more here.Ernest Duplessis
Associate Professor
Ernest Duplessis is a former SVP of Corporate Communications and Government Affairs with Mondelēz International in Deerfield, Illinois. Ernest’s career includes over 25 years of Public Relations, Internal and External Communications, Investor Relations and Government Affairs experience spanning corporate America and the U.S. Military.Eli J. Finkel
Professor of Psychology, Professor of Management & Operations
Eli Finkel—author of the bestselling book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work—is a professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the psychology department and the Kellogg School of Management. He studies romantic relationships and American politics. In his role as director of Northwestern’s Relationships and Motivation Lab (RAMLAB), he has published around 170 scientific papers and is a Guest Essayist for The New York Times. A survey of his peers identified him as the most influential relationship scientist in the 21st century; the Economist declared him “one of the leading lights in the realm of relationship psychology.”
Mark Finn
Clinical Professor of Accounting Information & Management
Mark Finn is a clinical professor of accounting and international business at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. From 2001 to 2008 he also served as director of Kellogg's Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) program. Prior to coming to Kellogg, Prof. Finn was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He received PhD, MS, and MBA degrees from Cornell University and an AB with honors from Stanford University.
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Carola Frydman
Harold L. Stuart Chair Professor of Finance
Carola Frydman is the Harold L. Stuart Professor of Finance, the faculty director of the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at the Kellogg School of Management, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Frydman's research focuses on American business and financial history. Recent research projects examine the evolution of financial markets during the early twentieth century, with special emphasis on the role of financial intermediaries for firm growth, and on financial crises. She has also studied the long-run trends in executive compensation, the market for managers, and corporate governance. Learn more here.
Julie Hennessy
Clinical Professor of Marketing
Julie Hennessy is a clinical professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Hennessy's MBA and Executive teaching focuses on the development of Marketing Strategies to enhance long-term competitive advantage and profitability. She works frequently with research and technology-driven firms that desire to become more customer-centric, in both new product/services and mature product/services categories.
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Aubrey Korneta
Assistant Director of Professional and Career Development
Aubrey Korneta is the Assistant Director of Professional and Career Development, serving doctoral students in The Graduate School (TGS). Her role is jointly housed between TGS and Northwestern Career Advancement (NCA). Within TGS, Aubrey supports campus partners that work with PhD students, facilitates quarterly mentor training, and conducts outreach to raise the visibility of professional and career development opportunities at Northwestern. At NCA, Aubrey works on the PhD team to advise students on career exploration as well as job search preparation and resources.
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Liz Livingston Howard
Clinical Professor of Management, Director of Nonprofit Executive Education
Liz Livingston Howard is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Ms. Howard is the executive director of Kellogg's Center for Nonprofit Management and a clinical professor of Management. She developed and teaches curriculums for MBA students and nonprofit executives. Ms. Howard serves as the academic director for a variety of nonprofit executive education courses and designs custom executive education programs for local, national, and global clients.
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David Schonthal
Clinical Associate Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
David Schonthal is an award-winning professor of strategy, innovation & entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses on new venture creation, design thinking, healthcare innovation, and creativity. In addition to his teaching, he also serves as the director of entrepreneurship programs at Kellogg and the faculty director of the
Zell Fellows Program, a selective venture accelerator program designed to help student entrepreneurs successfully launch or acquire new businesses.
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Liz Stein
Director for Graduate Postdoctoral Training & Development
Liz received her PhD in the Interdisciplinary PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. After completing two postdoctoral positions at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, she left academia to pursue a career in the non-profit sector at the American Cancer Society and at the Museum of Industry in Chicago. Nine years later she returned to academia as the Director of Graduate and Postdoctoral Training and Development at Northwestern University in The Graduate School. She is also a founding member of the National Training Grant Community of Practice, a nationwide community of training grant professionals with over 250 members at 60 institutions.
Adam Waytz
Professor of Management & Organizations, Professor of Psychology
Adam Waytz is the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management and professor of management and organizations. His research uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the causes and consequences of perceiving mental states in other agents and to investigate processes related to social influence, social connection, meaning-making, and ethics. Professor Waytz's research has been published in leading journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Review. Learn more here.
Craig Wortmann
Clinical Professor of Marketing, Executive Director of the Kellogg Sales Institute
Craig Wortmann is the Founder and Academic Director of the Kellogg Sales Institute (KSI). Craig is also a clinical professor of marketing and his teaching covers a wide range of topics based on his experiences as a professional salesperson, CEO, founder, entrepreneur, and investor. In all of his teaching—from massive online courses to MBA and Executive MBA classrooms—Craig attempts to create immersive experiences that help people develop into magnetic leaders who drive predictably consistent high growth, for themselves and their organizations. Craig joined the Kellogg faculty in 2017 after almost a decade teaching at Chicago Booth. Learn more here.
