Faculty

Sustainable enterprise spans a wide range of functional disciplines, including management, marketing, finance, strategy, and operations.

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  Al Segars
  RBC Centura Distinguished Professor of Management
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  Peter J. Brews
  Associate Dean, OneMBA Program, and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Larry Chavis
  Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Lisa Jones Christensen
  Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Mark Corigliano
  Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Mark Corigliano serves as an Adjunct Professor for the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He instructs a class on Alternative Energy and also lectures on commodity investing and alternative investments. In 2009, Mr. Corigliano founded Belltower Advisors LLC, a $200 million investment management firm that utilized a long/short equity strategy to generate superior risk-adjusted returns in the energy, mining and materials sectors. Prior to founding Belltower Advisors, he invested in a similar fashion with New York-based Proxima Alfa Investments. Mr. Corigliano initiated his investment career at Duke Management Company (Dumac, LLC), where he managed a $200 million portfolio of private equity investments in the natural resources sector and implemented a unique and successful commodity futures trading program. He started his career with Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil service company, where he performed engineering services in the Gulf of Mexico for major exploration and production companies. Mr. Corigliano received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. (beta gamma sigma) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a CFA charter holder and serves on the Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation Board.

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  Vinayak Deshpande
  Associate Professor of Operations

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  Nicholas M. Didow, Jr.
  Associate Professor of Marketing

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  Michael Jacobs
  Professor of the Practice of Finance

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  Jim Johnson
  Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise William Rand Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor of Management

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  Jason Jolley
  Senior Research Director for the Carolina Center for Competitive Economies (C3E) and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance

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  Andrew Jones
  Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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  Drew Jones is Co-Director of Climate Interactive, a Washington DC-based think-tank. He consults with organizations, facilitates groups, teaches system dynamics modeling and systems thinking, and writes columns and articles.
  
  Trained in Environmental Engineering and System Dynamics modeling through a B.A. at Dartmouth College and a M.S. at MIT, Drew worked on product development strategy for Harley-Davidson Motor Company through the System Dynamics Group at MIT Sloan and advocated for resource efficiency in the early 90s at Rocky Mountain Institute.
  
  Since 1996, he has focused his practice on helping individuals and teams solve sustainability challenges by applying systems approaches, most recently in the areas of international climate negotiations, corporate sustainability, global energy, land use policy, and public health.
  
  He and his team at CI and MIT Sloan developed “C-ROADS”, the climate simulation in use by the U.S. State Department, John Holdren in the White House, the Chinese Government, and in the iPhone/iPad app “Climate Pathways.”
  
  Jones and team accepted the "ASysT Prize" for “a significant accomplishment achieved through the application of systems thinking to a problem of U.S. national significance."

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  Jack Kasarda
  Kenan Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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  Rick Larson
  Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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  Rick directs the North Carolina operations of the Natural Capital Investment Fund (www.ncifund.org), which invests in environmental and natural-resource based businesses. NCIF is the business investing arm of subsidiary of The Conservation Fund, a national land and water conservation organization. Prior to joining NCIF, he was a Managing Director of SJF Ventures, a $45 M mission-driven venture capital fund based in Durham, NC, and had prior experience as National Director of REAL Enterprises, a nationwide entrepreneurship education program, and worked in manufacturing for Cummins Engine Co. He is an Associate Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches a course on Financing Social Ventures. He serves on the Board of TransFair USA, which certifies Fair Trade products in the US. He earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in History and French from Amherst College.

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  Kellie McElhaney
  Visiting Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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  Dr. McElhaney is the Alexander Faculty Fellow and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She launched this center in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. The Center has received global critical acclaim with The Financial Times rating Haas #1 in the world in 2008. Professor McElhaney teaches across all MBA, executive Berkeley-Columbia MBA, and Executive Education programs at the Haas School.
  
  Her work focuses in five areas: (1) Analyzing and developing corporate sustainability strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and business value; (2) Exploring the linkage between diversity and sustainability and using corporate sustainability as a hook to re-engage women with business as board members, executives, employees, consumers, and investors; (3) The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and corporate sustainability, on which she has written a book entitled Just Good Business The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand ; (4) Leveraging the power of social media to advance good, or a company’s sustainability impact; (5) Exploring and analyzing the key trends and future of “Corporate Sustainability 3.0”.
  
  Kellie consults to several Global 1000 companies in developing integrated corporate sustainability strategy, bridging her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Levi, Wal-Mart, Target, Clorox, Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nokia (Finland), Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, PG&E, Driscolls Berries, Triage Consulting Group, Ulster Bank (Ireland), Kimberly-Clark, Frontline, Accenture, PCH International, StatoilHydro (Norway), Yum! Brands, Chevron, ING, and Sun Power.
  
  She is a highly engaging, inspiring, and motivational public speaker in the area of sustainability, and has keynoted at major conferences, leadership summits, and corporate events all over the world.
  
  Kellie serves on the Sustainability & Environmental Advisory Committee (SEAC) for the Dow Chemical Company, is an Academic Partner with Blu Skye Consulting, serves on the Boards for Globescan and VolunteerMatch, and is a member of the Advisory Council for SustainAbility. She lives in the Oakland Hills in California and has two school-aged daughters. She enjoys photography, yoga, good wine, running and has even tried surfing. She earned her BA from the University of North Carolina, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

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  Ellen Peirce
  Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Carol A Seagle
  Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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  Christopher Wedding
  Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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  Christopher Wedding is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He lectures and advises students in the MBA program on topics related to green building, real estate development, innovation and entrepreneurship.
  
  In addition, Dr. Christopher Wedding is the Manager of R&D and Sustainability for Cherokee Investment Partners, an environmentally focused private equity fund; a Lecturing Fellow with the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University; the Founder of IronOak Innovations, LLC, a startup developing g-bit.net, a market intelligence service for green building and green business professionals; an official Ambassador for the Living Building Challenge, the most advanced green building rating system in the world; a Fellow with the E3 Foundation, a environmental policy think tank affiliated with the University of Cambridge; an Advisor to Cherokee Gives Back, Cherokee's philanthropic arm; and a LEED™ Accredited Professional (LEED-AP) and member of the national Research Advisory Committee with the U.S. Green Building Council, the leading global green building organization. He has been trained as a Biologist at the Design Table (BaDT) by the Biomimicry Guild and serves as an Advisor to various start-up companies. With experience in 16 countries and proficiency in Spanish and Japanese, Dr. Wedding also brings an international perspective to his work. He has served as a key advisor for nationally recognized LEED Platinum green buildings, published and acted as expert reviewer for numerous industry and peer-reviewed articles, and served as a keynote speaker and panelist at various national and regional conferences.
  
  He received a B.S. in Environmental Science from Western Kentucky University, where he was a national Goldwater Scholar in Math and Science. At UNC Chapel Hill, he earned an M.S. and Ph.D. focused on green real estate development, which combined studies in business, environmental management, and city planning.