Hult Faculty

Professor Amdur has over thirty years of line, staff and executive policy experience in engineering, manufacturing, computer systems and education settings. He is President of Amdur Associates, an operations consulting firm that focuses on enterprise and supply-chain solutions. He has taught graduate courses in Operations Management at Northeastern University, Bentley College, Boston University and Simmons College.

Rob has pursued a dual career as a general management consultant and an educator. As a consultant, he has a broad practice in assisting global corporate clients in the areas of change management, strategy innovation, and leadership development. His experience includes working with groups and teams across levels, functions, industries, and geographies to develop competitive visions, solve problems, implement strategies, and build capabilities. Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an AB, magna cum laude, from Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is currently a PhD candidate at Bentley College and lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Leslie D. Ball is an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management. He was a Partner with Computer Science Corporation’s Systems Integration Company where he managed an international business processing reengineering management consulting practice and directed the Executive Education Practice at CSC Index. Dr. Ball has consulted with over 100 major companies in the United States, Europe, Canada, and South America and focuses on helping senior executives understand the business impact of new computer technologies. His clients have included British Airways, AT&T, Nortel, IBM, IBM Europe, Continental Airlines, Houghton Mifflin, and Gillette. Dr. Ball served on the Massachusetts’ Governor’s Task Force on e-Government. He is a Trustee of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM).

Professor Chartier has worked 21 years in banking within the financial services groups American Express, Dresdner Bank, and Bank of Boston. His banking expertise ranges from credit analysis to domestic and cross-border lending, treasury sales, foreign exchange and interest risk hedging advisory services. As Director of Institutional Treasury sales at American Express Bank in London, his geographic customer base encompassed 15 countries spanning from Europe to the Middle East, and Africa. He has taught Economics and Finance, in various colleges and universities in the Boston area, including Babson College, Boston University, Suffolk University, and The New England College of Finance. Frédéric is the 2005 recipient of the Edward F. Shaughnessy Outstanding Faculty Award, presented by the New England College of Finance.

Professor Yao Cooper specializes in marketing, brand loyalty and quantitative methods. She has also lectured at Harvard Business School, Boston University and Hua Zhong University in Wuhan, China. Ms. Yao Cooper has over fifteen years of consulting experience in market research, strategy and corporate training. Her clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, such as American Express, IBM and Merck.

Dr. Courtin is a veteran CEO with 30 years of experience in software, computers and communications. He has been the senior executive with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Proteon, Comstream and Sangate. He has created alliances, joint ventures and partnerships in over 30 countries. He holds a PhD in Systems Science from Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Courtin has served as the Executive in Residence at Hult, drawing from his vast experience assisting students in their business endeavors.

Dr. Deneffe is also an international partner in consulting at Arthur D. Little. Prior to Hult, Dr. Deneffe taught strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His main interests are strategy, customer management and quantitative modeling.

Professor Edmunds specializes in finance and managerial economics. A member of the faculty at Babson College, Dr. Edmunds has teaching experience in Spain, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

Dr. Guertler has been a Professor of Business Administration for over 23 years. In addition to teaching an elective course at Hult, she is currently Associate Professor at Simmons College Graduate School of Management. She has also taught at Babson College, University of Virginia, and University of Baltimore. She has also done consulting work in Strategic Finance and International Operations with clients including Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, Rutgers, William M. Mercer, Digital Equipment, Sony of North American, Lotus Development, and Bank Boston. Her current research areas include Rights Offerings and Corporate Advantage, Teaching Applied Mathematics to Low Confidence Audiences.

For more than twenty-five years, Professor Hollander has been an independent consultant to businesses in a broad range of industries. He is an executive coach to senior leaders and a team development facilitator. For more than two decades he has served on the faculty of GE’s management development center (Crotonville) where he teaches performance management. Allen also teaches in executive courses at the Kelley School of Business, Columbia University and the Tuck School. He is certified in the BarOn EQ-I™and EQ 360™ emotional intelligence assessments.

Steve has over 25 years of management consulting and training experience in areas such as development economics, education and training, strategic planning, and marketing. He was a Director in the Development Economics and Finance group at Arthur D. Little for 10 years, and spent the last three years with the company as the global head of its internal learning and training activities. For the past 10 years, Steve has been one of three partners in ITSMA, an industry association that focuses on helping high technology companies with their services and solutions marketing. Steve has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Bordeaux, the University of the West Indies, and Arizona State University.

Professor Kafi has had over 25 years of business and management experience. He is the founder and board member of Plexus Solutions, a Boston area consulting firm. He served as CEO of Matrix Corporation, and Vice President of LexCom, Inc. and Links International, Inc. Dr. Kafi has delivered numerous presentations on economic development, foreign investment, international trade, economic policy, and national strategies. His consulting activities have entailed cost-benefit analyses, risk assessments, and strategic planning. He has also served on the faculties of Brandeis, Suffolk, Northeastern, and Boston University.

For over twenty-five years John Kerrick has had professional experience as a manager, educator, coach, and consultant in a variety of settings, most notably Dartmouth College, Outward Bound, Boston University’s award winning Executive Challenge Program, the Center for Executive Development, and his own training and development firm. His current work is focused on effective teamwork and executive coaching.

Professor O'Donnell is an engineer-turned-industry analyst for the telecommunication and media industries. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy and economics in the development of new markets. He has studied consumer and market reactions to new communications technologies for the MIT Media Laboratory and corporate and NGO clients. He teaches courses in international communications at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Dr. Hitendra Patel is Director of the Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership. He was a senior leader and co-founder of Monitor Group’s Innovation Practice and was responsible for Asia and Latin America. Before Monitor, Hitendra was a senior manager at Arthur D Little. As a management consultant, Hitendra has made a lasting impact with all types of companies by helping them identify new engines for growth and to develop their own capacity to innovate. Prior to consulting, Hitendra worked at Motorola in the portable energy space and is the owner of six patents. He is also a founder of various venture-backed companies in Brazil, Mexico and the US. Hitendra is the co-author of 101 Innovation Breakthroughs and The State of Innovation at the Firm Level in Singapore and in the process of writing his third book on Thinking and Acting Differently to Make Innovation Real.

Lewis Rambo is an independent consultant in Organization Development, Human Resource Management, the Management of Diversity, and the Development of Strategic Focus and Organizational Alignment for clients in business, government and education.

Gladys has taught business communication and writing for over 15 years to clients in both the private and public sectors. She has delivered tailored group training on a continuous basis to several Banking/Investment institutions and to various corporate clients with culturally diverse populations, as well as working with individual professionals. Before joining Wordpower Communications, Ms. Souda spent 10 years in the financial industry. She traded municipal bonds for retail and institutional accounts at Kidder Peabody in Los Angeles. As a broker at J.J. Kenney/Drake in New York, she traded municipal bonds between large financial institutions. Ms. Souda is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds a teaching degree.

Michele Souda, Founder and President of Wordpower Communications, has taught business communication and writing for over 25 years to clients in both the private and public sectors. She devotes a sizeable portion of her consulting practice to Executive Development. For seven years she served as a full time member of the Harvard faculty. In addition to full time standing at Harvard, she has taught specialized Business Communication courses for Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and for Harvard’s Bunting Institute. Her courses at Harvard represent work with international business and other professional audiences. Previous to her teaching at Harvard, Ms. Souda founded and launched (with the late Helen Loeb) the business and technical communication programs at Northeastern University. She has taught advanced Business Communication courses at both Northeastern and Harvard. For many years, Michele had been the New England Director of the National Book Critics Circle. She has published over 150 book reviews and articles, some in the pages of the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, the Miami Herald, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and others.

Prof. Dr. Ronald S.J. Tuninga is Global Dean Academic Affairs at Hult International Business School. He is also Professor of Management and Director of the PhD Program at the Open University of the Netherlands. He was until 2009 the Director Dean and Professor of International Business and Marketing of the Maastricht School of Management. The Maastricht School of Management is an international management school in Europe with MBA programs in 24 countries. Before coming to Maastricht he was the Associate Dean and Director MBA Programs and Professor of Marketing and International Business at Nyenrode Business University (The Netherlands). He was responsible for the full-time MBA program, the Rochester-Nyenrode Executive MBA program, and the part-time MBA program in cooperation with Kellogg School of Management (U.S.A.) and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). Prof. Tuninga has been the Academic Dean at the Faculty of Business Administration at the Open University in the Netherlands. From 1987 until 1993 he was an Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA), from 1993 until 1999 Director of the Euro*MBA. In 1991 and 1992 he was a visiting professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Copenhagen Business School, and Odense University. His Ph.D. is from Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He completed his dissertation in Comparative Marketing in 1987. He also holds an MA in Economics, an MBA in International Business and an MSc in Marketing.

Prof. Tuninga is involved in many international projects funded by the Dutch Government, World Bank, European Union, United Nations and other international organizations. From 2007 until 2009 he was the President of the International Management Development Association. He is advisor of the joint Executive MBA program of the Amsterdam Business School and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium, Nyenrode Business University and the Cyprus University of Technology. He is the Vice-Chair of the International Management Board (Board of Trustees) of the Association of MBAs (AMBA – United Kingdom). He has been chair and member of many AMBA accreditation committees to numerous prestigious business schools around the world. He has been a consultant for companies such as for example Melitta North America and GE and a partner of the Holland Consulting Group

Prof. Tuninga’s research publications have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Macromarketing, Managerial and Decision Economics, the Irish Marketing Review, the Scandinavian International Business Review, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management, Journal of Transnational Management, Bedrijfskunde and refereed Proceedings of International Conferences. He is an editorial board member of various journals and currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Management Literature Review. He has lectured extensively both in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Michael is a Manager at Arthur D. Little-Benelux, based in Brussels. He leads the Public Services Consulting Practice and also works with the Strategy and Organization Practice based in Belgium. Michael holds his MSc, M.Phil, and PhD degrees in Government from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He was also the recipient of a Hoover Foundation Fellowship at Brown University, and Visiting Fellow at Oslo University.

Professor Zif holds engineering degrees from Technion, Israel, and an MBA and PhD from New York University. He was a member of the faculty at Tel-Aviv University and lectured for many years in executive programs at Harvard, Wharton and Northwestern, and in many programs around the world. He was elected "Professor of the Year" at Hult in December 2005. Professor Zif has extensive consulting experience in many industries and was previously the president of a start-up U.S. firm funded by venture capital.