New Faculty at Babson Bring Breadth of Experience and Expertise

Babson College welcomes 13 talented teachers and scholars to the ranks of full-time faculty.  Along with a summary of their academic credentials, they are:

·         Robert H. Carver, Visiting Professor of Statistics, is Professor of Business Administration at Stonehill College, where he has taught courses in the decision sciences, information systems, management, and public policy. Professor Carver visited at Babson for a semester in 2001 and has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the International Business School at Brandeis since 2004.

·         Laura Foote,Visiting Lecturer in Business Communications, has taught Globalization, Corporate Finance, Marketing, and Business Ethics to international business students at the EF International Language School in Boston. Professor Foote holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a MATESL from Simmons College, School of Education. 

·         Mary Gentile, Adjunct Lecturer, is Director of Giving Voice to Values, launched by the Aspen Institute and Yale School of Management, with ongoing support from Babson College. She was previously at Harvard Business School.  Her pioneering curriculum for values-driven leadership was featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Harvard Business Review, and there are many business school pilots globally.  She is responsible for case writing related to the Lewis Initiative.

·         Sylvia J. Martin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies, is completing her dissertation in Anthropology from University of California Irvine.  Her dissertation, Fantasy at Work: The Culture of Production in the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries, lies at the intersection of anthropology, media studies, and cultural studies.

·         James Morrison, Visiting Lecturer in Business Communications, has taught managerial communication at Harvard Business School, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Sloan School of Management, and Brandeis University, as well as serving as a writing consultant in Babson’s two-year MBA program.  More recently, he was the Graduate Program Director in Organizational and Corporate Communication at Emerson College.

·         Melissa Manwaring, Visiting Lecturer in Management and Director of Institutional Assessment, has taught graduate level negotiation courses since 2002 as an adjunct instructor in Babson’s Evening and Fast Track MBA programs, at Harvard Extension School, and at Simmons College. From 2001-09, she served as Director of Curriculum Development at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she co-founded the negotiation pedagogy initiative.

·         Kankana Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Economics,received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Connecticut.  She has taught at Clarkson University, University of Connecticut, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  Her principal research interest is in the area of production and efficiency analysis, and she has applied her research to the banking industry, manufacturing sector, and health care industry.

·         Vincent Onyemah, Assistant Professor of Marketing, earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Management from INSEAD, France.  He also holds an MBA degree from IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.  His principal area of teaching and research is Personal Selling and Sales Management.

·         Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Assistant Professor of Information Technology Management, has a research focus on data modeling, data and knowledge management, and data quality management.  He has taught a variety of courses, including advanced courses in data management and systems design.  Last year he was a recipient of the Computer World Laureate for the innovative design of a graduate course in systems design and data management.

·         Rosa Slegers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has a B.A. in philosophy and in classics from Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands.  She received an M.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in literary theory from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University.  Before coming to Babson, she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Centre College in Kentucky.

·         Keith Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Marketing and the Joseph R. Weintraub Term Chair in Marketing,has taught Marketing Strategy, Marketing Principles, and Marketing Research at the undergraduate level and Marketing Management at the graduate level.  His research focuses on consumer self-control in health and money decisions.  Other research interests include counterfeit and luxury brand consumption.  

·         Ann Winslow, Visiting Lecturer, Technology, Operations and Information Management,received her Doctorate of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.  Her dissertation research focused on what determines the successful adoption of new technology in hospitals.  Her current research is concerned with modeling and measuring learning curves in organizations.

·         Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship,received his Bachelor of Laws from Keio University (Tokyo), his M.B.A. in Strategic Management from Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management (Claremont, CA) and his Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas.  Before his doctoral studies, he spent eight years working in Japan’s utility and telecommunication industries where he engaged in corporate venturing activities and entrepreneurial start-ups.

Part-time faculty members, some of whom arrived last spring, also bring a wealth of practical experience to the classroom. They include: