Faculty
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor and Director, MBA Program
Expertise: Theory and method in industrial relations, negotiations, institutional analysis, organizational behavior, information systems, employment law, cross-cultural studies
Michael Appell, MA'79
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director, MBA Program
Expertise: Corporate Social Responsibility, Triple Bottom Line
Brenda Anderson
Senior Lecturer, the Heller School and the International Business School
Expertise: Healthcare finance; financial and managerial accounting; auditing
Joseph Assan
Senior Lecturer and Director, MA in Sustainable International Development Program
Expertise: International political economy, sustainable development, international development, development studies, development management, sustainable livelihoods, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction, environmentally-induced vulnerabilities and human security, resilience to climatic variability, environmentally-induced migration and development policy analysis, environment, health and human well-being
Larry Bailis
Associate Professor
Expertise: Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation, evaluation of advocacy programs
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Social entrepreneurship; strategy; organizational effectiveness; consultative skills; impact optimization for mission-driven organizations
ccarlson@brandeis.edu
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Susan Curnan
Florence G. Heller Associate Professor of the Practice and Director, Center for Youth and Communities
Expertise: Social policy and management, emphasis on leadership and management innovations with mission driven organizations and businesses
Stephen Fournier
Senior Lecturer at the Heller School and Adjunct Professor at the International Business School
Expertise: Teaching (statistics, econometrics), data analysis and applied causal modeling and data maintenance, special expertise in both Stata and SPSS
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor
Expertise: Organizational change; organizational effectiveness; organizational resilience; organizational theory; human resource management; relational coordination
Ricardo Godoy
Professor
Expertise: Acculturation, inequality, social capital, econometrics, research design, Bolivia, indigenous peoples, native Amazonians, panel studies, randomized controlled trials
Anita Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy (Gender and Race)
ahill@brandeis.edu
781-736-3896
Sakshi Jain
Lecturer
Expertise: Applied microeconomics; development economics; quantitative methods; economics of education; health, gender and racial inequality; policy and impact evaluation; public finance
sakshijain@brandeis.edu
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Maria Madison
Interim Dean
Expertise: graduate school teaching experience includes courses on intersectionality and bioethics, anti-bias/anti-racism workshops and pro seminars, discrimination analytics, clinical trial design optimization and problem solving, and evidence-based research methods; research career includes clinical and public health research in Africa and Europe.
Elif Sisli Ciamarra
Adjunct Associate Professor
Expertise: Corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation, executive compensation, corporate social responsibility
Cindy Parks Thomas, PhD'00
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Expertise: Health policy, health technology transfer, state health reform, prescription drug policy, addiction treatment, Medicare and Medicaid coverage
Sangeeta Tyagi, PhD'93
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Education, workforce development, and organizational leadership development
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD'91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs; family adaptation; longitudinal studies; program evaluation
