Strategy & Business
Economics Faculty

Owen faculty have served at some of the highest levels of business and government, including at the Federal Reserve and U.S. Federal Trade Commission, because of their vast knowledge in areas ranging from macroeconomic trends to antitrust regulations. Such experience⎯in sectors like health care, consumer goods, and financial services⎯offers an invaluable complement to Vanderbilt’s pioneering strategic and policy research. Combined, those elements provide students with a richly collaborative, internationally recognized learning environment.

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Jim Bradford

Dean; Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management

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Jim Bradford has vast experience managing complex organizations as well as a deep commitment to Owen's mission. Jim joined Owen from industry, having served as President and CEO for AFG Industries, Inc. North America's largest vertically integrated glass manufacturing and fabrication company. He earned a B.A. University of Florida and his JD with numerous honors from Vanderbilt Law School. His employment history also includes 11 years of private legal practice and serving as General Counsel for AFG Industries, Inc. during its years as a publicly traded company. His academic areas of interest are primarily in global and domestic corporate business strategy and competitive analysis. He is the recipient of the Owen Teaching Award.
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Michael Burcham

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship; President, Nashville Entrepreneur Center

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Michael Burcham has over 20 years of extensive experience in health care innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup venture coaching. He is a highly successful three-time entrepreneur–most recently President of ParadigmHealth, a $300-million disease management firm. In addition to his post at Vanderbilt, Michael serves as President of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

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Mark Cohen

Professor of Economics, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Vice President, Research - Resources for the Future; Professor of Law

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Mark Cohen has extensive experience—as both a government economist and an academic—analyzing government enforcement policies with particular emphasis on environmental and criminal justice issues. Mark is considered a leading expert on enforcing environmental regulations and on corporate crime and punishment and has published over 85 books and articles.
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Dewey Daane

The Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Senior Advisor, Financial Markets Research Center

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Dewey Daane has had a distinguished career in government, including 35 years of combined service with the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury Department. In his teaching, Dewey focuses on the evolution of the international monetary system, and on monetary and fiscal policy. He has been a chaired professor at Owen since 1974.
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Luke Froeb

William C. Oehmig Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise

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Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.
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Brian McCann

Visiting Faculty in Strategic Management

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Brian McCann is an expert in strategic management and entrepreneurship. He joined the Owen faculty in 2009 after completing his PhD in strategic management from Purdue and is a co-author, with Luke Froeb, of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.
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David Parsley

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Finance

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David Parsley's distinguished record of achievement in the field of international finance spans both the academic and government communities. He joined the Owen faculty in 1990 after serving in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is an expert in exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets and labor markets.
Video: Business, Big Macs and the World Economy
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James Schorr

Professor for the Practice of Business and Society

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Jim Schorr teaches Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) and Social Entrepreneurship at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining Owen in 2008, Jim's accomplishments included roles in founding/leading Net Impact and Juma Ventures. He received his BS in Economics from the University of Tennessee and his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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Gary Scudder

Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management; Faculty Director, International Programs

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Gary Scudder earned the Dean's Teaching Award in 1994 and the James E. Webb Teaching Award in 1999. Through the course of his career, he has consulted with a number of large corporations including United Airlines, 3M, IDS, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Philips Corporation, Motorola, Novartis, RR Donnelly, Air Products, the Methodist General Board of Discipleship, and Bridgestone/Firestone primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning.

Affiliated Faculty

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David Furse

Adjunct Professor of Management

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David Furse combines experience from three distinct careers—marketing professor, successful entrepreneur and business strategy consultant—to his teaching and research. His lively classroom approach comes from the application of theory and tools to practical business problems that students face in their own careers.
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Prakash Loungani

Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Business Economics

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Prakash Loungani, who serves as Division Chief of Policy Communications for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, has been on the staff at the IMF since 1998 after stints at the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the University of Florida.

Features

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Luke Froeb

For Luke Froeb, teaching is a "full-contact" sport. See how Owen shaped his world.

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David Parsley

David Parsley talks business, Big Macs and the world economy.

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Michael Burcham

Michael Burcham and David Furse discuss how to think like a CEO.

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