Santa Clara University

All Graduate Business students planning to complete their MBA or MSIS degree in December 2008 must submit an online Petition to Graduate by Friday, August 15th.

Fall 2008 registration appointments for returning Graduate Business students will begin Monday, August 18th.  Appointments will be viewable in eCampus starting Friday, August 8th.

Registration for new Graduate Business students will begin Tuesday, September 2nd, the first day of the Open Enrollment period.  There will be no registration activity during the week of August 25th.

Questions? Please contact the Graduate Business Programs Office at 408-554-5485 or GBPSupportandRecords@scu.edu.

On Thursday, August 14th from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., all SCU campus-wide wireless networks will be down and unavailable so that maintenance can be performed.  If you require network access on August 14th while on campus, please make arrangements to utilize a wired network connection.

Additionally, if you are still utilizing the SCU-WiFi wireless network, please note that this network is no longer supported and will shortly be discontinued. To ensure that you have uninterrupted access to the wireless network at SCU, please reconfigure your wireless client to use the SCUWireless wireless network. Documentation describing the steps necessary to configure your wireless device is available at:

http://it.scu.edu/information/Network/wireless/

Dr. K. Thomas Chandy brings to the table a unique combination of industrial and scholarly experience.  Trained as a chemical engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and the Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), and with an MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), his thirty years in industry span manufacturing, R&D, the design and construction of large chemical plants, and the development and marketing of miniaturized sensors and electronic process control systems.  He has held management positions at large multinationals such as Hindustan Lever Ltd. (a subsidiary of Unilever), Monsanto, and Allied-Signal (now known as Honeywell), as well as at a couple of small start-ups.

Returning to UCLA, he earned his Ph.D. in Management and has been on the faculty at several universities in the United States, most recently at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) where he was an Adjunct Professor for Strategic Management at the School of Hotel Administration, the world leader in the field of hospitality and service managment studies.  Dr. Chandy's research explores issues in technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, business strategy, management cognition, and business history.  He has presented his research at leading academic conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Costa Rica.  He teaches courses in strategic management, international business, technology management, organizational theory, and entrepreneurship.  He has also served as a consultant to firms in the chemical, pharmaceutical, electronics, and banking industries.

Michael J. Fern (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Santa Clara University.  His research focuses on the development, use, and transfer of knowledge in the contexts of innovation and entrepreneurship.  Specifically, his research explores: (1) how organizations transfer knowledge across divisions to support their innovation efforts; (2) the mechanisms through which universities transfer social science knowledge to organizations: (3) how entrepreneurs rely on knowledge in their decision-making during new venture formation; and (4) how new product development teams exploit knowledge during product development activities.

Dr. Fern's research has received several awards, including the Michael H. Mescon/Coles College of Business Best Empirical Paper Award (Academy of Management), a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, a Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS Ph.D. Fellowship (Strategic Management Society), and a Wilhemina M. and Richard W. Herbin Scholarship.  He serves as a reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Cananda (SSHRC).

Dr. Fern received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude, from the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon.  Prior to his graduate studies, he worked at Arthur Andersen as an information technology consultant.  As a consultant, he assessed information technology risk and developed business continuity plans for clients operating in the high technology, energy, and financial services sectors.  Before joining the faculty of SCU, Dr. Fern was an Assistant Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.