Academic Leadership
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is led by distinguished scholars and professionals recognized as authorities in their fields.
George Daly
Dean
George Daly serves as Dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a post he assumed on November 1, 2005. Previously, he was the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Business at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Daly served as Dean of the Stern School from 1993 through 2002. During this period the Stern School advanced markedly in reputation, achieving top-10rankings for all of its degree programs for the first time and raising more than $150 million in private donations.
Before his appointment at NYU, Daly was Dean and Professor of the College of Business Administration at the University of Iowa from 1983 to 1993 and Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Houston from 1979 to 1983. Daly also served as chief economist in the Office of Energy Research and Development in the White House and as a consultant to the National Football League. In addition, he serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards.
Daly grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. He earned an undergraduate degree from Miami University in Ohio and both a master's and doctoral degree from Northwestern University.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-3883
E-mail: dalyg@georgetown.edu
Ricardo Ernst
Deputy Dean
Co-Director, Global Logistics Research Program
Ricardo Ernst is a Professor and Area Coordinator of Operations and Information Management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he also is co-director of the Global Logistics Research Program. The objectives of the program include, among others, the study of the issues in global logistics through a comprehensive program of cooperation with companies, field studies, and academic research. In an effort to improve the strategic positioning and outreach of the university with the Latin American Region, he created the Georgetown University Latin American Board in 2006, of which he is the Managing Director.
Ernst is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability, published by Georgetown University and Universia. His teaching honors include the Outstanding Teacher Award for the International Executive MBA program, the Joseph F. Le Moine Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Georgetown University, and the MBA Core Curriculum Award from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also has been listed as one of the nation's best professors by BusinessWeek magazine. He is a frequent speaker in international conferences and executive seminars and has a weekly Editorial Commentary in CNN Spanish.
In January of 2007, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) honored Ernst with the Outstanding American by Choice award, recognizing the achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens.
Ernst holds a civil engineering degree from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, both in Venezuela. He received an M.A. degree and a Ph.D. in operations management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-4752
E-mail: ernstr@georgetown.edu
Reena Aggarwal
Finance Area Coordinator
Robert E. McDonough Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance
Reena Aggarwal is the Robert E. McDonough Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She has held various positions including Interim Dean (2004-05) and Deputy Dean (2006-08) of Georgetown's McDonough School of Business; Visiting Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management (2005-06); FINRA Academic Fellow (2007-08); Academic Fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1997-99); Visiting Research Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (2003, 2004); and Fulbright Scholar to Brazil and Chile (1990, 1991).
Aggarwal has worked on major consulting projects sponsored by Credit Suisse, Wachovia, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, NERA Economic Research, the World Bank, IMF, IFC, IDB, The NASDAQ Stock Market, United Nations, U.S. Small Business Administration, and U.S. AID among others.
She has published numerous articles on mutual fund investments; corporate governance and valuation; initial public offerings in the U.S., Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico and Chile; emerging markets of Asia and Latin America; and functioning of stock exchanges. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Journal of Portfolio Management. She was awarded the Faculty Research Award in 2000 and in 1999. In 2003 she received the Allan N. Nash Distinguished Doctoral Graduate Award from the University of Maryland.
Aggarwal also is a Faculty Associate of the Capital Markets Research Center. She is a frequent guest on local and international radio and television stations. Her research and comments have been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Forbes among other publications. Her work has been presented at many government agencies and professional meetings. Aggarwal received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Maryland and M.M.S. from BITS, India.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-3784
Alt. phone: 202-687-3784
E-mail: aggarwal@georgetown.edu
William R. Baber
Area Coordinator for Accounting
Robert E. McDonough Professor and Professor of Accounting
William Baber has more than 25 years of experience teaching both financial and managerial accounting at Columbia, George Washington, the University of Rochester (Simon), Dartmouth (Tuck), Carnegie Mellon, Duke (Fuqua), and Georgetown. Prior to entering academics, he worked as an auditor and a consultant with Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst and Young) in Washington, D.C.
Baber received a Ph.D.from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from Bucknell University. His research, which addresses accounting and public policy issues, is published in a number of academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.
Baber has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review; Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, and the International Journal of Accounting Literature.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-5293
E-mail: wrb7@georgetown.edu
Douglas M. McCabe
Management Area Coordinator
Professor
Douglas M. McCabe is Professor of Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior and is the author of more than 200 articles, papers, monographs, and speeches presented at professional and scholarly meetings in the field of employee relations. He also is an active domestic and international consultant.
His television credits include being interviewed on “ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings”; “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw”; “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather”; “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”; and CNN’s “Crossfire” and “Inside Politics.”
His print media credits include being quoted in BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, The Milwaukee Journal, and The Detroit News.
McCabe is a premier executive education professor. He has conducted more than 250 management development programs on the area of employee relations. Also, he is a member of the American Arbitration Associate.Additionally, McCabe is twice the recipient of the Joseph F. LeMoine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence. He also is Associate Editor for International Management of the Journal of Business Ethics and he serves on 23 editorial boards of scholarly and professional journals.
McCabe earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and history at Marquette University, a master’s in human resources and industrial relations at Loyola University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-3778
E-mail: mccabed@georgetown.edu
Alan R. Andreasen
Marketing Area Coordinator
Professor and Executive Director, Social Marketing Institute
Alan R. Andreasen is Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of the Social Marketing Institute. He is a specialist in consumer behavior and a world leader in the application of marketing to nonprofit organizations, social marketing, and the market problems of disadvantaged consumers. He is the author or editor of 17 books (including revisions) and numerous monographs.
He has also published more than 120 articles and conference papers on a variety of topics including strategic planning, marketing decision-making, consumer behavior, marketing in nonprofit organizations, consumer satisfaction, marketing regulation, social marketing, and marketing research. He is a member of several academic and professional associations and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Policy, Social Marketing Quarterly, and the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. He is past president of the Association for Consumer Research and honorary editor of the International Journal of Non-Profit Marketing.
He is the winner of the 2007 Richard W. Pollay Prize for Intellectual Excellence in Research on Marketing in the Public Interest and, in 2008, received the first lifetime achievement award of the Marketing and Society Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association. The Journal of Pubic Policy and Marketing selected him as Best Reviewer of 2008.
Andreasen is an internationally known educator and marketing consultant. He has advised, carried out research, and conducted executive seminars for a widely diversified set of nonprofit and private sector organizations and several government agencies around the world. Among the nonprofit organizations with whom he has worked are: the World Bank, American Cancer Society, AARP, the USAID, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Red Cross, United Way of America, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, National Endowment for the Arts, National Cancer Institute, Habitat for Humanity International, PBS, and public health programs in Egypt, Thailand, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. He also has worked with for-profit organizations such as KitchenAid, Pepsi-Cola, and the Aspen Highlands Ski Corporation. He is a board member of Gifts in Kind International and the American Marketing Association Foundation.
Andreasen earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario, then went on to earn both master’s and doctoral degrees in marketing from Columbia University.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-8356
E-mail: andreasa@georgetown.edu
Alt. e-mail: arandreasen@aol.com
Bardia Kamrad
Decision Sciences and Production and Operations Management Area Coordinator
Professor
Bardia Kamrad's research on analysis and valuation of both financial and real options has been published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Kamrad's consulting experience includes projects in risk management (real options), purchasing, inventory, manufacturing operations, pricing, and forecasting issues. Kamrad is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is also a member of the American Finance Association (AFA), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Kamrad earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota, a master’s in industrial management from the University of Wisconsin, and both a master’s and doctoral degree in operations research from Case Western Reserve University.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-8008
Alt. phone: 202-687-4112
E-mail: kamradb@georgetown.edu
Web site: http://www.msb.edu/faculty/kamradb/
Dennis Quinn
Area Coordinator for Strategy
Professor
Quinn specializes in business and public policy. His current research focuses on democratization and economic liberalization in emerging markets, the origins and consequences of international financial liberalization, globalization, and international political economy. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business and public policy and business ethics.
He holds a B.A. from Columbia University in American history, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in sociology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science.
Contact
Phone: 202-687-1027
E-mail: quinnd@georgetown.edu
