The University of San Francisco School of Management is built on this vision: we are an
academically rigorous, diverse, globally-oriented, Jesuit school of higher education, in and of the city of San Francisco.
We are a socially responsible learning community and our mission is to educate business leaders who will fashion a more humane and just world.
We are engaged in the cultural, intellectual and economic resources of our location in San Francisco, close by the Silicon Valley, and at the very eastern edge of the Pacific Rim.
Our vision and our mission is embodied by our leadership team, each one of whom is responsible for certain core components of who and what we are as a School.
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Mike Webber was, most recently, USF’s Associate Vice Provost for Academic Effectiveness and before that served as Associate Dean of Academic Program Review, Assessment and Adjunct Faculty for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mike received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also earned an M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wales, Cardiff and a B.Sc.(Econ) in Politics and History from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His research has concentrated on how business is connected to political processes in the United States, focusing on the New Deal era. He is the author of New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election (Fordham University Press 2000) and, with Professor G. William Domhoff, Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Conservatives and the Liberal-Labor Coalition (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
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Carlos Baradello, Senior Director of Corporate and International Executive Programs
Carlos is responsible for Academic Immersion study programs: relationships in Latin America and Europe; our Executive Training and Certificate Programs; our Working With Entrepreneurs program; and Hispanic Market Immersions.
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Carl Gayden, Senior Director of Finance and Administration
Carl is responsible for the overall financial, operations and administrative management of the School, with direct oversight for the functional areas of administrative support, budget, payroll, facilities, procurement, financial reporting, analysis and planning, legal, human resources, labor relations, staff development, training and information technology.
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 Thomas Grossman, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Tom completed his doctorate in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and has taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Haskayne School of Management at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on business analytics, spreadsheet information systems and management of end-user analytics.
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 Catherine Horiuchi, Associate Dean of Graduate Management Programs
Catherine completed her doctorate in Public Administration at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the implementation and outcomes of public policy, principally in energy and fuels, exploring effects related to the limits of human decision making and rationality. She has held a visiting appointment at Seattle University and has taught quantitative methods, statistics, organizational theory, public policy analysis and emerging technologies.
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 Dayle Smith, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Dayle completed her doctorate in Organizational Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research interests focus on leadership, service learning, social entrepreneurship and a number of other human resource related areas. She has taught courses in organizational behavior, global management, strategy and other management electives in the MBA Executive, MBA and undergraduate programs. Dayle was awarded the University Service Learning Award in 2008 and was nominated for the national Ehrlich Award in 2004 and 2008 in recognition of her work in teaching and curriculum development at the school and university levels. She recently returned after a year-long Fulbright award, working on the 2012 Education Reform Initiative in Hong Kong. She worked with administrators, government and faculty leaders on developing new general education courses that will equip students to enter productive civic and educational roles in the 21st century.
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 John Veitch, Associate Dean for MBA and Graduate Business Programs
John completed his doctorate in Economics at Northwestern University and has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine. His research is on the application of statistical techniques to domestic and international financial markets. John joins us from the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences where he was chair of the department for fourteen years and program director of the master's programs in Financial Analysis, Investor Relations and Risk Management since 2002. John has been a chartered financial analyst (CFA) since 1999. John won the Outstanding Teaching Award in the MBAE program in 2001, 2003 and 2005.
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