Timothy Calkins, MBA, is a clinical professor of marketing of health enterprise management, and teaches marketing strategy biomedical marketing courses for MBA students, as well as seminars for Kellogg’s Executive Programs. Prior to joining Kellogg in 1998, Calkins was a marketing executive with Kraft Foods for almost 11 years. He has received numerous awards including a gold EFFIE and the Hill Holiday Against All Odds Award for championing excellent advertising. He has been a speaker at numerous industry conferences. Calkins received his BA from Yale College cum laude and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He co-edited Kellogg on Branding and recently published Breakthrough Marketing Plans (2008).
Lynn Cohn, JD, is the director of the program on negotiations and mediation at Northwestern Law School. She has trained lawyers, real estate professionals, management and union representatives, government employees, community groups and corporate employees in effective negotiation, mediation, conflict management and arbitration techniques. Clients include the National Association of Realtors, Smith Barney, the Illinois Commerce Commission, American Airlines, Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, among others. Cohn received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in political science and Spanish and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law.
Daniel Diermeier, PhD, is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice and a professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at the Kellogg School of Management and of political science at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (by courtesy). He serves as the director of Kellogg’s Social Enterprise Program and is the founding director of the Center for Business, Government and Society at Kellogg. His teaching focuses on the interaction of business and politics, crisis management, the anticipation and management of political risk and strategic aspects of corporate social responsibility. He has lectured and consulted globally on media and issue management, activities and consumer boycotts, political strategy and regulatory management. Diermeier is a leading scholar in the study of both economics and politics. He came to Kellogg in 1997 after spending three years as an assistant professor of political economy at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Since his arrival Deirmeir has been the recipient of various teaching awards, most recently the 2000 Best Teacher Award for the Kellogg-WHU International Executive MBA Program and the coveted L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year Award (June 2001).
James D. Drury is co-academic director of the RAPS Executive Development program and assistant director of Kellogg’s Health Industry Management Program. He is a former director of education for the American College of Healthcare Executives. Drury’s MHA is from the University of Missouri.
Edward F.X. Hughes, MD, MPH, is co-academic director of the RAPS Executive Development program, a professor of management and strategy and of health industry management in the Kellogg School and a professor of preventive medicine in The Medical School, Northwestern University. He received his BA degree from Amherst College, his MD from Harvard Medical School, his MPH from Columbia University School of Public Health and originally trained in surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He first came to Northwestern in 1977 as the founding director of the University's Center for Health Services and Policy Research, now the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, and served as its director for 18 years. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Hughes was for seven and one half years associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. His research interests center on health policy, managed care, on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries and on the efficient utilization of scarce resources in the health industry. Hughes consults with, and speaks before, many national and international healthcare organizations, healthcare providers, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firms. He is one of the five cofounders of the Association for Health Services Research, a charter member of its Board of Directors and served as its first vice president. He was chosen by Faulkner and Gray's Health Information Center as a charter member of The Health Care 500, now The Health Care 1500, a directory of the most influential Americans in the field of health policy and is a member of Who's Who in America. In October 1999, Hughes was awarded "The Latiolais Honor Medical," the highest honor in Managed Healthcare by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. He also teaches leadership and is a member of the Leadership Council of the School.
Leigh Thompson, PhD, is the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on negotiation, team creativity and learning. In 1991, Thompson received the multi-year Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research on negotiation and conflict resolution and has been funded continuously by NSF. In 1994–1995, Thompson was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. She has published over 70 research articles and chapters. She has authored several books including: The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (Third Edition), Shared Knowledge in Organizations (with David Messick and John Levine) and Making the Team.
Edward Zajac, PhD, holds the James F. Bere Chair in Management and Organizations and is also a professor of health industry management. His research, teaching and consulting focuses on strategic management issues. His research on strategic alliances, strategy formulation, and implementation and on organizational governance has been published widely in major academic journals. Zajac’s PhD, MA and MBA in organization and strategy is from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has chaired the International Strategic Management Society Conference and he is currently the chairman of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. In 1996, he received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for excellence as a classroom instructor. Zajac is founder and director of Kellogg’s Center for Research on Strategic Alliances.