My experiences in teaching and interacting with the students in the IEMBA-Prague program have been excellent. The class consists of individuals from different countries, often with very different cultural backgrounds and corporate experience. However, as a student body they are united in their enthusiasm, zest for learning and ability to have fun while working quite hard in a challenging program.

The same faculty who teach in the Katz Executive MBA programs in the United States travel to Sao Paulo or the Czech Republic to teach you in the Katz IEMBA Program. Katz faculty are internationally acclaimed, experienced in the business world and extensively published. Outstanding researchers, they are also in great demand as consultants to corporations, organizations and government agencies throughout the world. 

Bradley R. Agle
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Degrees:
B.S. in Information Management, Brigham Young University
Ph.D. in Business (Organization & Environment), University of Washington

(Areas of Interest: Business Ethics, Leadership, Organizational Strategy and Change)

A member of the strategy, environment and organizations area of the Katz School, Dr. Agle holds a PhD in Business Management from the University of Washington. Prior to joining the Katz faculty, he was Arthur Andersen Fellow for Chief Executive Studies and Research Director at the Center for Leadership and Career Studies at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Before his doctoral studies, Dr. Agle earned a B.S. degree in Information Management from Brigham Young University and worked for SeaFirst Bank.

Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 1964, Dr. Birnberg was on the faculties of the University of Chicago and University of Minnesota (where he earned his PhD). In 1968, he was a visiting professor at the London Graduate School of Business Studies. While on a leave of absence from the University of Pittsburgh during 1977-78, Dr. Birnberg was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, now Templeton College of Oxford University. Currently, Dr. Birnberg's research interests include the planning and control systems in organizations facing highly uncertain environments; human information processing and accounting data; and management of non-profit enterprises. Over the years, he has published extensively in a variety of accounting and behavioral science journals. He is currently associate editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society, and is on the editorial board of many journals including Advances in Accounting, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Advances in Management Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research and Financial Management & Accountability. He has also served as referee for non-accounting journals, including American Political Science Review and Management Science and for the National Science Foundation and both Canadian and English Social Science Research Councils. His paper, The Role of Accounting in Financial Disclosure published in Accounting Organizations and Society, won the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation Award for Best Article Published in Accounting in 1980.

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Michal Cakrt
Professor of Organizational Behavior

Dr. Cakrt is a Manager in the Management Consulting Division of Deloitte & Touche in Prague. From 1991 until recently, however, he served as a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the CMC Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining CMC, Dr.Cakrt was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Irvine, Graduate School of Management and a Visiting Professor at the Zagreb University School of Management. He also has extensive experience in consulting and research and has authored numerous publications. He has continued his education abroad at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and New York University.

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John C. Camillus
Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management

Dr. Camillus holds a DBA from the Graduate School of Business at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, he was Professor of Management at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. His current research interests focus on strategic management processes, in particular, the design of planning and control processes in organizations. Dr. Camillus has been awarded research grants from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, for research on implementation problems of management control systems (also supported by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), and on information systems for the control of developmental activities. He was also awarded a grant by the Touche Ross Foundation to develop course and research materials in the general area of accounting systems for planning and control. In addition, the Faculty Research Grant program at KGSB has funded his work on developing an integrated framework of strategic planning and management control. Most recently, he has received funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pittsburgh Foundation as part of an inter-disciplinary team for the development of an interactive, inter-organizational information system. Dr. Camillus has been cited three times by the Foundation for Administrative Research for contributions to corporate and organizational planning.

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Rabikar Chatterjee
Associate Professor in Business Administration

Degrees:
B.Tech (Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (India)
Ph.D. (Marketing) The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

(Areas of Interest: Marketing)

Professor Chatterjee's research interests cover models of market response to new products, with applications in forecasting and pricing, and methods for measuring and representing customers' perceptions of and preferences for competing products or brands (particularly in situations where the customers may be uncertain about the alternatives). Recent journal publications include Joint Segmentation on Distinct Interdependent Bases with Categorical Data in the Journal of Marketing Research, Optimal Monopolist Pricing Under Demand Uncertainty in Dynamic Markets in Management Science, Deriving Ultrametric Tree Structures from Proximity Data Confounded by Differential Stimulus Familiarity in Psychometrika, and The Innovation Diffusion Process in a Heterogeneous Population: A Micromodeling Approach in Management Science.

Dr. Feick teaches in the marketing area and is currently conducting research in such areas as consumer information search, interpersonal influence, the analysis of categorical data, the changing marketplace in Central Europe, and research methodology. Previously, he served on the faculty at Pennsylvania State University, where he also earned his PhD. He has published articles in the Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Marketing Research, The Journal of Retailing, The Journal of Consumer Affairs, The Journal of Business Research, The Journal of Advertising, Public Opinion Quarterly and Psychological Bulletin. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Research. He has served as a consultant to or worked on student projects with diverse firms such as General Motors, Newsweek, WQED-TV and Tendercare Daycare Centers.

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Gary Walter Florkowski
Associate Professor of Business Administration

An associate professor in the human resources interest group, Dr. Florkowski received his Ph.D. in personnel and industrial relations from Syracuse University in 1989. His current research interests include organizational effects of profit sharing and group-based incentives, executive compensation systems, union-management cooperation, and human resource management in multinational firms. Dr. Florkowski has published articles on these topics in such journals as Industrial Relations, the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, the Journal of Labor Research, and the research annual Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management. He is presently conducting a study with other KGSB faculty to determine the impact that human resource management practices have on the competitiveness of firms in the carbon steel industry.

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Dan Fogel
Professor of Business Administration, Director, IEMBA-Sao Paolo, Brazil

Dan Fogel received his B.S. and M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has held academic positions at the University of Houston and Tulane University and has been a senior manager at two oil companies and a hospital system. His international research and teaching has been conducted in several different countries including Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic and Slovakia, France (INSEAD), Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, and the Former Soviet Union. He was Dean of the International Management Center, Budapest, Hungary and Dean and Project Director for the Czechoslovak Management Center in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was Associate Dean from 1993 to 1996 and is currently Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.
His research and teaching areas are in Organizational Behavior and International Business including leadership, human resource systems, organization development and international management. He has published in behavioral studies, education, psychology, sociology, economics, and management journals and has written several book chapters, books, cases and popular press articles. His two recent books are Managing in Emerging Market Economies (Westview Press) and Firm Behavior in Emerging Market Economies(Avebury Press).

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Esther Gal-Or
Glenn Stinson Chair in Competitiveness and Professor of Business Administration and of Economics

Degrees:
B.Sc. in Economics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
M.Sc. in Economics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 
Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University

(Areas of Interest: Theory of Industrial Organization, 
Applied Game Theory and the Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets)

Dr. Gal-Or received her PhD in managerial economics and decision sciences from Northwestern University. Her undergraduate and master's level training in economics was received at Technion?Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Gal-Or's research and teaching interests are in microeconomics, industrial organization, game theory, and decision theory. Her work has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation and other government agencies. It has been published in economic journals such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, the Bell (Rand) Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. She is serving on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Review of Accounting Studies. She has been the recipient of the 1989 University of Pittsburgh President's Distinguished Research Award.

Dr. Gluckaufová is a former Dean of the CMC Graduate School of Business, and for many years was a full-time Professor, teaching on CMC's MBA programs and on other management courses. She conducts research in the following areas: Total Quality Management, Qualitative study of starting entrepreneurs, Decision-Making and Problem Solving, Multiple Criteria Decision-Making, Multiple Attribute Decision-Making, Aggregation of Preferences, Outranking relations, Fuzzy Preference Relations and their application in Multicriterion Decision Problems, Decision Support Systems, Interactive approaches in MADM, Fuzzy aspects of Managerial Decision-Making, Judgement under Multiple and Conflicting Criteria and Conflict Management. She earned her Ph.D. from Charles University in the area of Mathematics and Physics, where she defended her dissertation on Axiomatic Foundations of Indirect Utility. She earned an M.A. from Charles University in Numerical Methods. She has published numerous case studies and articles, such as, Quality Management in the Service Sector in Czechoslovakia in Managing in Emerging Market Economies, Decision-Making in Human Resource Management in Central European in the Journal for Operations Research and Economics, and Evaluating Business Appeal of East European Countries in the Czechoslovak Journal for Operations Research.

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Folke Kafka
Professor of Business Administration and of Economics

Folke Kafka received his M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh since January 1990, and joined the Katz Graduate School of Business on a full-time basis in 1998. Until 1989, Dr. Kafka was a full-time Professor at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, where he also acted as Dean of the Graduate School of Business from 1986 to 1989. With more than 23 years of academic experience, Dr. Kafka has received research grants from the Academy of Educational Development, the Agency for International Development, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and other institutions. He has also published several books in the area of economics and business (more than 40,000 copies of his books have been sold). Dr. Kafka has also been active in multimedia executive seminars and, over the past years, has taught more than 30 executive seminars and tailored courses per year in the areas of strategic management, investment appraisal, marketing, business economics, pricing, business process redesign, retail management, cost management, product management, organizational information intelligence systems, supply chain management, the management of critical intangible resources, and many others. At the Katz Graduate School of Business, Dr. Kafka teaches Economic Analysis for Managerial Decisions, Business Economics, Product Development and Management, Business Process Redesign, Business to Business Marketing, and Sales Management. He has also taught Macroeconomics, Introduction to Finance, Macroeconomics and Statistical Analysis. In 1993, he was awarded the University of Pittsburgh Apple for the Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching following other previous awards and academic distinctions. His current research interests are in transaction economics as determinants of vertical integration, supplier-buyer relations, and the design of network organizations.

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Chris F. Kemerer
David Roderick Chair in Information Systems

Dr. Kemerer's current research and teaching focuses on the management of software engineering, management of information systems, software engineering measurement and modeling, and accounting and economic issues in information systems. Before joining The Katz School, he was part of the faculty for the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His work has appeared in numerous journals such as Management Science, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Kemerer managed custom software development projects and provided consulting services to a variety of public and private sector clients.

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Laurie J. Kirsch
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Degrees:
B.S. in Computer & Information Sciences, Ohio State University
M.A. in Business (Information Systems), University of Iowa
Ph.D. in Business (Information Systems), University of Minnesota

(Areas of Interest: Information Systems)

Dr. Kirsch, associate professor of business administration, joined the faculty of Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh in 1993 after completing her Ph.D. in management information systems at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the management of the systems development process, the deployment of global technology-based solutions, and the impact of information technology on individuals, groups, and processes in organizations. Dr. Kirsch conducts field-based research in major firms by interviewing and surveying middle and senior level management. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Accounting, Management and Information Technologies. In addition, she and a colleague were the recent recipients of a research grant from the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM) International. The SIM research project explored how firms build and implement technology-based solutions that span geographic boundaries, and resulted in a book entitled Crossing Boundaries: The Deployment of Global IT Solutions, published in 1999 by Pinnaflex Educational Resources. Prior to her doctoral work, Dr. Kirsch spent about eight years in industry in various IS-related jobs.

Dr. Nachtmann is a member of the finance faculty at the Katz Graduate School of Business. He earned his doctorate in finance at Indiana University, where he also satisfied degree requirements in international business. His teaching interests are in areas of corporate finance, investments, and international finance. Currently, Professor Nachtmann's major research activities focus on international capital market efficiency and the financial management of the multinational firm. Additional research activities include the performance of investment advice under conditions of symmetric and asymmetric information, the market assessment of corporate failure, the relationship of forward and future foreign exchange markets, and market-based evaluation of accounting standards and procedures.

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Nandu J. Nagarajan
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Nagarajan has a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in business from Northwestern University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of strategic cost management, process improvement, performance measurement and economic analysis of managerial incentives in manufacturing, service and healthcare organizations. Dr. Nagarajan's research publications include articles in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Contemporary Accounting Research. His current research projects include the analysis of process improvement and cost reduction in hospitals, physician profiling and the effect of managerial incentive contracts and ownership on corporate decisions such as project selection, capital structure, and choice of financial reporting methods Dr. Nagarajan is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and is currently on the editorial board of The Journal of Management Accounting Research. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. . He has extensive work experience with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. and has consulted with several manufacturing and healthcare organizations.

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Raghu Nath
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Nath teaches and researches in the organizational studies and international management areas. He has had extensive experience in organizing action research and organization development programs for a variety of government agencies, educational and medical institutions, and religious and industrial organizations in this country and abroad. He received his doctoral degree at MIT's Sloan School of Industrial Management. His current research interests include comparative management, international strategic planning, international human resource management, organizational issues in information systems development, strategic approach to organization theory, transition management in Eastern Europe, design and implementation of knowledge networks, management of change, design and evaluation of system-wide organization development programs. Dr. Nath has held a variety of editorial and professional society offices. He served as editor of the Industrial Management Review (1960-61), as associate editor of application series of Management Science and on the editorial board of Essays on International Management. Dr. Nath was co-chairman of the Eastern Region Organization Development Division and chairman of the International Division of the Academy of Management.

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Josephine E. Olson
Associate Dean and Professor of Business Administration and of Economics

Degrees:
AB, Wellesley College
PhD, Brown University

(Areas of Interest: Economics, International Business)

Dr. Olson, who earned her Ph.D. in economics at Brown University, is a professor of business administration and economics, and an Associate of The Center for Latin American Studies. She teaches courses in micro- and macro-economics, international trade, and international monetary economics. Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, she was on the faculty of Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York. From 1994 to 1995 she served as Academic Dean and Interim CEO of the Czech Management Center. She has taught in the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Peru. At present, Dr. Olson's research interests include topics in international business and a study of career paths and income determinants of MBAs and Librarians. 

Dr. Tadikamalla teaches courses in operations/production management, simulation, statistical techniques for management, and Total Quality Management. His research interests lie in simulation methodology, statistical techniques in operations management and quality and productivity. Dr. Tadikamalla received his MS and PhD in industrial and management engineering from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Management Sciences, and the American Society for Quality Control. Dr. Tadikamalla is on the editorial review board of the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences. He has published more than 30 articles in various professional journals. Dr. Tadikamalla emphasizes real-life problem solving in the classroom. Through MBA project courses and consulting, he has solved large-scale, real-life problems for Westinghouse Corporation (manpower scheduling, facilities location problems), LTV Corporation (simulation of Specialty Steel Division), PPG Industries (Simulation of Silica Products Plant Operations) and Koppers Corporation (Quality Control), Calgon Carbon (Production Planning and Scheduling) and II-VI, Inc. (Employee Training in Statistical Process Control).

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Donna J. Wood
Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Wood holds a joint appointment in the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Sociology. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology at Vanderbilt University, and has taught sociology and women's studies at Vanderbilt and social psychology at the University o f Michigan. She is a past winner of the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, a national competitive program of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Professor Wood is active in the Social Issues and Management Division of the Academy of Management and chaired the division in 1991-92. In addition, she is a founding officer of the International Association of Business and Society and currently is an elected member of the executive committee. Dr. Wood's research interests include corporate social performance, international business and society, collaborative social problem solving, and strategic uses of public policy.

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