Vanderbilt Accelerator Faculty

Vanderbilt business professors bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by their innovative and enlightening research. Our faculty is known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching, you’ll gain cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together.

 

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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.

Video: Thinking Like a CEO
Video: Accelerator Featured on VUCAST
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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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Steve Hoeffler

Associate Professor of Marketing

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Steve Hoeffler is an expert in consumer products marketing, brand management and consumer behavior, including the marketing of "really new" (novel) products and the development of consumer preferences. He has also served a variety of marketing roles for NCR/AT&T and has consulted for Procter and Gamble, IBM and Fujitsu.
Video: Radically New Products
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Nancy Lea Hyer

Associate Professor of Operations Management; Associate Dean of Academic Programs

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Nancy Lea Hyer is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Nancy earned her MBA and Ph.D. from Indiana University and holds a BS from the University of Richmond. At Owen, Nancy teaches executive and MBA classes focused on project management and process improvement. Nancy has also taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has won executive program, Executive MBA, and MBA teaching awards, and both school and university-wide awards for excellence in undergraduate education. She won the 2009 best paper award from the Journal of Operations Management for a study co-authored with a faculty member from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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David Owens

Clinical Professor of Business Strategy and Innovation; Faculty Director, Executive Development Institute

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David Owens’s research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the London Guardian and NPR’s Marketplace. His work in the area of business strategy, innovation process and product development has included engagements with NASA, LEGO, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has also performed product design consulting work for a variety of firms including Daimler Benz, Apple Computer, and Coleman Camping. Most recently, while on leave from Vanderbilt University, Owens served as CEO of Griffin Technology Inc., the largest consumer electronics firm in the MP3/iPod accessory market space.
Video: Strategic Innovation
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Kimberly Pace

Clinical Professor of Communication

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Kimberly Pace teaches courses in leadership communications and public relations at Owen and uses her formal training in the performing arts to bring a unique perspective to business education and practice. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served in marketing and communications roles for two international faith-based non-profit agencies located in Nashville, served as a communications consultant and has taught branding and public relation seminars for professional communicators.
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Bart Victor

Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership

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Bart Victor joined the Owen faculty from the Institute for Management Development International (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland where he was Professor of Management and Director of the Program for Management Development. Prior to IMD, Bart was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University of Nebraska. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.

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Cherrie Clark

Associate Professor;
 Associate Director Managerial Studies Program - Vanderbilt University

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Cherrie Clark has a strong background in management as a partner with Executive Perspectives, an entrepreneurial computer-based executive education firm and as a consultant at Bain & Company. She has won a Panhellenic Teaching Award, recognized by students for her excellence as an educator at Vanderbilt University.
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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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Brian Griffith

Assistant Clinical Professor of Human and Organizational Behavior - Vanderbilt University

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Brian Griffith's areas of research at Vanderbilt University include identity formation, spiritual development, wellness, and undergraduate education. Current research projects include the role of undergraduate education in student development and the impact of a 6-week wellness program on depression, anxiety and spiritual well-being.