Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy: Globalization, Innovation and Sustainability

About Alan HoffmanCharles BamfordJ. HungerThomas Wheelen

Alan N. Hoffman MBA DBA (Indiana University) is Professor of Strategic Management at Bentley University in Waltham Massachusetts. He is the former Director of the MBA Program at Bentley University. He served as the course coordinator and Visiting Professor of Strategic Management for the Global Strategy course in the OneMBA Program at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands. Hoffman is also the owner of Dr. Alan N. Hoffman Investment Management founded in 1995. His major areas of interest include strategic management global competition investment strategy design thinking and technology. Professor Hoffman is coauthor of The Strategic Management Casebook and Skill Builder textbook (with Hugh ONeill). His academic publications have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal Human Relations the Journal of Business Ethics the Journal of Business Research and Business Horizons. He has authored more than 40 strategic management cases including The Boston YWCA Ryka Inc. Liz Claiborne Ben & Jerrys Cisco Systems Sun Microsystems Palm Inc. Handspring eBay AOL/Time Warner McAfee Apple Computer TiVo Inc. Wynn Resorts TomTom Blue Nile GE Amazon Netflix Delta Airlines A123 Tesla Motors Chipotle Staples Target Sonic Restaurants Harley Davidson and Whole Foods Market. He is the recipient of the 2004 Bentley University Teaching Innovation Award for his course: The Organizational Life CycleThe Boston Beer Company Brewers of Samuel Adams Lager Beer. He teaches strategic management in many executive programs and also teaches business to artists at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design.   Charles E. Bamford PhD (University of Tennessee) MBA (Virginia Tech) and BS (University of Virginia). He is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame where he has been awarded the EMBA Professor of the Year Award four times. Bamford worked in industry for 12 years prior to pursuing his PhD. His last position was as the Manager of Business Analysis (Mergers & Acquisitions Dispositions and Business Consulting) for Dominion Bankshares Corporation (now Wells Fargo). Three years ago Chuck founded Bamford Associates LLC and relocated to Durham NC. He has worked with thousands of managers in the development of implementable strategic plans and an entrepreneurial orientation to growth.   His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal Journal of Business Venturing Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice Journal of Business Research Journal of Business Strategies Journal of Technology Transfer and Journal of Small Business Management among others. Bamford has co-authored four other textbooks and is the author of the fiction novel Some Things Are Never Forgiven (Penguin Press).   He has taught courses in strategy and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate graduate and executive levels. His teaching experience includes courses taught at universities in Scotland Hungary and the Czech Republic. He was a Professor and the Dennis Thompson Chair of Entrepreneurship at Queens University of Charlotte. He also held positions as an Associate Professor at Texas Christian University and at the University of Richmond. He has taught Executive MBA courses at The University of Notre Dame Texas Christian University Tulane University and at Queens University of Charlotte.   Bamford has won 19 individual teaching excellence awards during his career including 10 Executive MBA Professor of the Year Awards. He is also a Noble Foundation Fellow in Teaching Excellence.   Thomas L. Wheelen May 30 1935 December 24 2011. DBA MBA BS CumLaude (George Washington University Babson College and Boston College respectively) College MBA (1961); Boston College BS cum laude (1957).   J. David Hunger May 17 1941 April 10 2014. PhD (Ohio State University).