Faculty

Ron Adner

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and David T. McLaughlin D’54 T’55 Professor

Professor Adner is a speaker and consultant to companies around the world whose research focuses on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship. His work offers a new perspective on the relationship between firms, customers, and rivals, and the broader “innovation ecosystems” in which they compete to create value.

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José Alvarez

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

José Alvarez is clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he has served on the faculty since 2009. José conducts research and teaches courses in food systems, board governance, and retailing. He has coauthored more than 30 case studies. José cofounded the executive program Accelerating Board Diversity at Harvard Business School. Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly 20 years in the supermarket industry, culminating in his tenure as president and chief executive officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover. He currently serves on the boards of numerous corporate, nonprofit, and educational organizations, including The TJX Companies, United Rentals, The Joyce Foundation, and Princeton University. José is married with three children.

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Scott D. Anthony D’96

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Scott D. Anthony's research and teaching focuses on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. Scott’s next book—his ninth—is slated to be published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2025. The book’s provisional title is Anomalies Wanted: A Brief History of Disruption. Scott previously spent more than 20 years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, serving as Innosight’s elected managing partner from 2012–18, a period when Innosight tripled its revenues and expanded internationally. In 2017 Huron Consulting acquired Innosight for $100 million, and Scott continues to serve as an adviser to Innosight. He has lived in the United Kingdom (1997–98) and Singapore (2010–22), held board roles at public and private companies, given keynote addresses on six continents, and worked with CEOs at numerous global organizations. Thinkers50 named him the world’s ninth most influential thinker in 2023 and the world’s leading innovative thinker in 2017.  

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Paul Argenti

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Corporate Communication

Professor Argenti is an expert in strategy execution through communication who also serves as faculty director for the Leadership and Strategic Impact program. Argenti has consulted for and run training programs for hundreds of companies including General Electric, ING, Novartis, and Goldman Sachs. 

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Pino Audia

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Management and Organizations

Professor Audia’s work focuses on psychological barriers to organizational adaptation and leadership effectiveness. He has extensive experience as a consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and speaker at major firms worldwide including General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, and Time Warner. Professor Audia is faculty director of the Tuck Advanced Management Program.

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Ella L.J. Bell Smith

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Business Administration

Ella L.J. Bell Smith is a leading expert on fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She has consulted to Fortune 100 companies in organizational behavior and organizational change, and her research interests focus on career and life histories of successful women. She is author of Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape, and co-author of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. She has contributed to scholarly journals and written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Essence, and other mainstream publications. She has earned awards for her teaching and scholarship and has served as an advisory board member of the National Women’s Leadership Summit, The White House Project, and Best Companies for Women of Color, Working Mother Media.

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Stacy Blake-Beard

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and 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.

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Emily Blanchard

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Professor Blanchard is an economist whose research looks at the implications of globalization. Her work revolves primarily around two broad questions impacting business leaders: 1) How can education policy be used to facilitate increased trade so that workers may share in the aggregate gains from globalization? And 2) How are trade agreements evolving in response to global supply chains and foreign direct investment?

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Sydney Finkelstein

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Steven Roth Professor of Management

Professor Finkelstein is a highly acclaimed author and expert on leadership, strategy, and corporate governance. He has served as consultant and speaker for leading companies around the world, including Boeing, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Hitachi, ING, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon, and United Technologies.

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Vijay Govindarajan

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is an internationally known expert on strategy and innovation. VG, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric, and has worked with CEOs and management teams in more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies—including Boeing, Coca-Cola, FedEx, HP, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Sony and Walmart. He is faculty co-director of Global Leadership.

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Adam Kleinbaum

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Associate Professor of Business Administration

Professor Kleinbaum's research examines the antecedents and evolution of social networks in organizations.  He has shown how formal and informal structures and processes, prior career history, and individual personality contribute to advantageous network structures.  His latest research explores the neuroscience of social networks, and he has also focused on internal communication networks and how they serve to enable firms' performance. Professor Kleinbaum is the faculty director of the Impact Academy. 

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J. Ramon Lecuona Torras

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Ramon Lecuona is faculty director of Global Leadership and 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, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. In addition to his academic work, Ramon 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. 

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Lauren Lu

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Business Administration

Lauren Lu's 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.

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Dan Lyons

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Dan Lyons is the Founder and President of Team Concepts, Inc. He is noted for his thought provoking seminars on a wide range of team and leadership-related topics. The genesis of Team Concepts’ leadership model, The Eight Secrets of Inspirational Leadership, is based upon Dan‘s 30+ years of high performance athletic achievements, academic training, and military experience.

As an oarsman, Dan rowed on seven US National Teams. He won a World Championship in 1986 and competed in the Seoul Olympics (1988). Dan was inducted into the US Rowing Hall of Fame in 1997. His professional coaching career includes positions at the US Naval Academy, Oxford, Stanford, Drexel, Georgetown, and as an elite coach for the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia.

Dan‘s leadership skills are also a product of his military history training and service. He received his BS from the US Naval Academy, MS from Oxford University and MA from Villanova University. Dan served as an officer in the US Navy. During his service, he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

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Elizabeth Rice Mattison

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming

Elizabeth (Beth) Rice Mattison joined the Hood Museum of Art in July 2021 as the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator of Academic Programming, where she serves as the liaison to Dartmouth faculty and facilitates the integration of the museum's collection with the College's curriculum. As an experienced art historian, she's committed to engaging diverse audiences with objects to elicit critical thinking and foster transformative encounters with art. In 2020, Beth completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Toronto; she also holds an M.A. and B.A. in the history of art from Yale University. She has held positions at several institutions, including the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto; the Musée du Louvre; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Neely McNulty

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Prior to joining the Hood Museum of Art, Neely taught at Lesley University, worked as an art therapist, and oversaw all children's art programming at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Neely joined the Hood Museum in 2008 as the Images and ArtStart Instructor. She oversaw and taught the museum's multiple-visit school programs for regional children. In 2017, she accepted the position of Hood Foundation Associate Curator of Education. Neely holds a Masters of Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A. from Princeton University. She is also a current member of the National Art Education Association.

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Geoffrey Parker

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Engineering

Geoffrey Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College. He is also a research fellow at MIT’s Initiative for the Digital Economy where he leads platform industry research studies and co-chairs the annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit. Parker has made significant contributions to the field of network economics and strategy as co-developer of the theory of “two-sided” markets. He is co-author of the book Platform Revolution. Parker won the Thinkers50 2019 Digital Thinking Award, along with Marshall Van Alstyne, for the concepts of the inverted firm, two-sided markets, and how firms can adapt and thrive in a platform economy. In Spring 2020, he was elected as a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. In Fall 2020 he joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production.

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James Goodwin Rice

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

James Goodwin Rice is the Groucho Marx Senior Lecturer of Acting and Voice. He has been an actor and teacher for nearly fifty years and has taught at Dartmouth College since 1997. Experienced on both New York and regional stages, Rice has appeared in episodic television, movies of the week and in daytime television roles.

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Matthew Slaughter

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School

Dean Slaughter is an economist whose research focuses on economics, globalization, and the global operations of multinational firms. From 2005 to 2007, Dean Slaughter served on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. Dean Slaughter has consulted with firms and industry organizations on issues regarding the global economy. Slaughter is co-director of the Global Leadership 2030 program, and was founding Faculty Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government

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Phil Stocken

Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Accounting

Professor Stocken specializes in theoretical analysis of accounting and auditing issues. He has conducted extensive research on the financial reporting behavior of publicly traded corporations and teaches core information in financial statements and financial analysis to audiences with varying levels of financial experience. Stocken was the first recipient of the Class of 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching at Tuck.

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Conwell Worthington III

Tuck Executive Education Faculty

Conwell Worthington has held faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University. Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Career production highlights include management positions on shows on Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations), national tours (The Lion King and The Book of Mormon), and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, and Fences). Worthington has also coordinated productions in Australia, Canada, China and the Netherlands. Currently, he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Michigan and J&B Theatricals in California.

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