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Leavey School of Business Teaching Scholars

Management

Gregory Baker
Professor
Director, Food and Agribusiness Institute

A complete listing of Dr. Baker's publications is available online.

Dr. Baker earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University and has taught at Santa Clara since 1988 after previous teaching appointments at New Mexico State, UC Davis and Purdue. Along with teaching, he serves as an advisor for Santa Clara's agribusiness MBA students.

His current research includes study of food safety, managerial factors affecting the performance of computerized information systems in agribusinesses, and the identification of critical success factors for successful quality control management. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Research award from the Cooperative League of the USA. He holds a dual appointment in the Economics and the Management departments.

In 2004, Dr. Baker earned the President's Special Recognition Award, which honors faculty who set an example for students and colleagues as teaching scholars and whose recent work has advanced the mission of Santa Clara in significant ways. Greg earned top evaluations for his teaching, especially the undergraduate capstone course. He successfully led the Food and Agribusiness Institute through the recent re-focusing of its work, and a re-structuring of the MBA agribusiness curriculum. His research has explored the human implications of Agri-technology and identified food safety issues to be considered as technology enables increased production. He has done seminal work on issues relating to biogenetic foods. His recruiting and teaching of leaders from developing nations in the Summer Management Institute of Agribusiness has advanced and distinguished the excellence of Santa Clara as a Jesuit university.

Shawn Berman
Assistant Professor of Management

A complete listing of Dr. Berman's publications is available online.

Shawn Berman joined the faculty in 2001 as an assistant professor of management in the Leavey School of Business. Prior to coming to Santa Clara University, he held teaching positions at Boston University and the University of Washington, where he earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Management.

His research focuses on stakeholder management, trust creation, and corporate ethics. Berman has published in several leading journals, including The Academy of Management Review, Journal of Public Affairs, Business and Society, The Academy of Management Journal, and Business Ethics Quarterly. He has co-authored several book chapters which appear in Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking, Perspectives on Corporation Citizenship, and Research in Stakeholder Theory.

Berman was named Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management in 2004, and selected as a Dean Witter Fellow in the LSB School of Business in 2003. He has received multiple awards for 'best paper' and several grants, including a Sloan Foundation Grant.

Among the classes he has taught are capstone courses for both undergraduate and graduate business students, corporate political strategy for executive MBAs, and coursework in business policy and organizational theory. His teaching has been recognized with awards for excellence at SCU, Boston University, and the University of Washington.

David Caldwell
Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Caldwell's publications is available online.

David Caldwell teaches in the areas of human resource management and organizational behavior. His Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Dave's research interests are wide ranging, including new product development processes, characteristics of effective managers, and factors influencing the performance of work groups. His research has been published in a variety of journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Dave was appointed Senior Associate Dean for the Business School in July 2000.

Jacques Delacroix
Professor of Management

A complete listing of Dr. Delacroix's publications is available online.

Jacques Delacroix teaches classes in organizational theory and international business. He obtained his Ph.D in Sociology from Stanford, specializing in economic development and organizational theory.

His work has been published in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Jacques lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife Krishna, who is an artist, and their two children. He is a sailor, a fisherman, and an enthusiastic Sunday painter. He was born in Paris and immigrated to the United States in the early sixties.

He was self-employed as an international business consultant in San Francisco for several years. He continues to consult on international advertising strategy, and occasionally produces multilingual ad copy.

His main current interest is the influence of international trade in cultural goods, such as movies, on the formation of collective identities at the national level and below.

André Delbecq
Thomas and McCarthy Professor of Management

A complete listing of Dr. Delbeq's publications is available online.

André Delbecq graduated cum laude from the University of Toledo in 1958, where he served a lecturer until receiving his MBA from Indiana University in 1961. He became a Doctor of Business Administration in 1963. Then, after teaching at the University of Wisconsin, he came to Santa Clara in 1979 and served as Dean of the Business School for ten years.

After leaving the Dean's post, Dr. Delbecq remained at Santa Clara as a Professor of Management. In 1996, he was given the title of Thomas J. and Kathleen L. McCarthy Professor of Management. He received a American Counsel of Learned Societies fellowship in 1997. Dr. Delbecq currently serves as Director for Santa Clara's Institute for Spirituality of Organizational Leadership.

Professor Delbecq's research has focused on three main topics: decision-making techniques for strategic planning, board of directors and CEO behaviors required by dynamic change, and the management of innovation. He has published dozens of works in a myriad of journals and has editorial experience in many journals, including, but not limited to: Academy of Management Review, Organization Behavior Teaching Review, Academy of Management Journal and Journal of World Business.

Terri L. Griffith
Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Griffith's publications is available online.

Education

  • M.S., Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon
  • B.A. UC Berkeley

Expertise

  • Implementation and effective use of new technologies and organizational practices.
  • Virtual teams, virtual work, knowledge transfer in global settings, triggers for technological sensemaking, and the negotiated implementation of organizational change.

Courses Taught

  • Organizational Analysis and Design
  • Technology and Innovation Management
  • Managing Innovation and Change.

James L. Koch
Professor of Management, Leavey School of Business
and Administration
Founding Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University

James L. Koch is founding director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Executive Director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, and Professor of Management at Santa Clara University. The Center is recognized globally for its leadership in promoting the common good of an increasingly technological society though applied research, conferences, and partnerships with major technology companies. Jim received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. Prior to founding the Center, he served as Dean of the Leavey School of Business from 1990 to 1996—a period in which the School's MBA program rose to national recognition. The Organizational Planning and Development group that he founded and led at PG&E from 1980-1990 received the National Excellence Award for organization development from the American Society for Training and Development. Jim's research and consulting focus on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines information technology and organizational change, social capital and the psychological sense of community in organizations, and the role of technology in improving the quality of life in developing nations.

Tammy Madsen
Assistant Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Madsen's publications is available online.

Tammy L. Madsen (Ph.D., UCLA) is a Dean Witter Foundation Fellow and Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Leavey School of Business. Tammy's research interests are at the intersection of strategy, industry evolution and organizational evolution. Her first stream of empirical research examines the competition between entrants and incumbents following industry transformation, the effects of deregulation on firm and industry evolution, and the evolution of heterogeneity in performance among firms. Her research in this area, with co-author Gordon Walker, SMU, received the 2002 Glueck Best Paper Award from the Business Policy & Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, and was selected as a finalist for the 1998 Strategic Management Society-McKinsey Best Paper Award.

Her second stream of empirical research explores the links between personnel mobility, organizational change and knowledge retention. A third stream of research explores the drivers of heterogeneity in performance among close competitors.

Tammy also was selected as a 2002 Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management Association based on her research accomplishments and professional service. She has published work in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Knowledge Management, and International Marketing Review. She is also a co-editor for a forthcoming special issue of the Strategic Management Journal focused on Competitive Heterogeneity. Tammy serves on the editorial review boards for Organization Science and the Journal of Management. She teaches the capstone strategy course in the undergraduate and MBA programs at SCU's Leavey School and received the Leavey School Dean's Award for Exceptional Performance in Teaching, Research, and Service in 2001 and in 2002.

Dennis J. Moberg
Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Moberg's publications is available online.

Barry Z. Posner
Dean and Professor of Leadership

A complete listing of Dean Posner's publications is available online.

Dean Posner has a website for The Leadership Challenge.

Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business as well as a Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. He joined the faculty in 1976 and served previously as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Managing Partner of the Executive Development Center before being named Dean in 1997.

Barry, along with his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the International Management Council's award in 2001 as the nation's top management and leadership educators (previous recipients have included Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard, Steve Covey, Norman Vincent Peale, Edward Deming, Tom Peters, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter). He was recently listed among the top 50 Leadership Coaches in America.

He is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book: The Leadership Challenge. Described as a groundbreaking research study, The Leadership Challenge combines keen insights with practical applications and captures both why and how leadership is everyone's business. Now in its third edition, with over 1.3 million copies in print, this book has been the featured selection of several book clubs, named book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives, received the Critic's Choice Award from the nation's book review editors, and translated into over 15 foreign languages.

The Leadership Practices Inventory has been called "the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today." Barry has also co-authored several other award-winning, inspiring and practical books on leadership: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; The Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership, The Leadership Challenge Workbook, and Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge.

An internationally-renowned scholar, Barry has published more than 80 research and practitioner-oriented articles in such journals as: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, among others. He is currently on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Business Ethics and Leadership Review.

Barry currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the San Jose Repertory Theatre and on the Board of Directors for Advanced Energy (NASDAQ: AEIS), chairing the Compensation Committee. He has previously served as a Public Director for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and on the boards of Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterrey Bay, Public Allies (Silicon Valley), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Clara County, the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, in addition to several start-up company advisory councils.

Barry received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a master's degree from the Ohio State University in public administration, and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

At Santa Clara he has received the Dean's Award for Exemplary Service, the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, several Extra-Ordinary Faculty Awards, and other teaching and leadership honors.

He is a warm and engaging conference speaker and dynamic workshop facilitator, having worked with such organizations as: Alcoa, Applied Materials, Arco, Charles Schwab, Conference Board of Canada, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente Health Care, L.L. Bean, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Mervyn's, Network Appliance, Northrop Grumman, Nursing Leadership Institute, Trader Joe's, and the U.S. Postal Service, among others. He has made presentations and conducted workshops across the U.S., and around the globe, from Canada, Mexico and Europe to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

William Sonnenschein
Lecturer in Management

Education

  • BA, Journalism, San Francisco State University
  • MA, Speech Communications, San Francisco State University
  • Post-graduate work in Leadership, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Conflict Management, Education, and Reading and Literacy

Teaching Experience

  • 2002 - present: Lecturer, Santa Clara University
  • 2005 - present: Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • 1992 - 2005: Lecturer, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • 1996 - 97 (summer): Visiting Professor, University of San Francisco
  • 1982 - 88: Lecturer, San Francisco State University
  • 1975 - 79: Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College

External Service and Assignments

  • Budapest University for Technology and Economics, taught Leading Diversity and Leadership Communication, several times, most recently May, 2005.
  • St. Petersburg State University in Russia School of Management, taught leadership, December, 2003.
  • St. Petersburg State University , Environmental Leadership and Sustainable Resource program, taught leadership communication, June 2005.
  • Standing Committee on Diversity at Haas
  • Executive Committee, Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
  • Consulting: Bank of America, Transfair, JPMorgan, VisaUSA, Mervyn's, Watry Design, etc.
  • Principle, i.e. communication
  • Founding Member, California Colloquium on Management Communication
  • Oakland Chamber of Commerce Education Committee

Current Research and Interests

  • Leadership and Leadership Communication
  • Diversity in the Workplace
  • Teambuilding

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "Understanding Diversity: A Positive Communication-Based Step into the Year 2000 (Manual), i.e. communication, Jones and Associates, and Visa USA: 1998
  • The Diversity Toolkit: How You Can Build and Benefit from Diverse Workforce, Lincolnwood, IL, Contemporary Books, 1999
  • The Practical Executive and Workforce Diversity, Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1997
  • "Building Communication Skills Across Business/Cpco Cultures (Manual)", i.e. communication and Chevron Corporation, 1997

Honors and Awards

  • "Haas Club 6" Citations for Teaching Excellence, Spring 1994 – Spring 2005
  • Instructional Excellence Award, 1990-91, Encyclopedia Britannica Corporation
  • Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, 1988, San Francisco State University
  • Recognition of Teaching Excellence, 1986-89, San Francisco State University.