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Doctoral Students in Academia - USA and Canada

Entering a career in academics is a noble and challenging endeavor. Equipped with skills and practical experience provided by ISM's rigorous doctoral programs, many students choose to use their education to teach and give back. The following compelling testimonials represent only a few of the daring doctoral candidates who have chosen careers in academia in the United States and Canada.

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Dawn Bowden, PhD Graduate

I have been quite pleased with my experience with the ISM PhD program. My expectation coming out of the program was to have developed a strong research agenda and build upon my teaching experience so that I could move into a teaching position at a good university. I have accomplished both my teaching and research objectives!

The ISM PhD is unique in many ways and this has helped me in my search for a teaching position. Throughout my search, I was very happy with the responses I received to my application materials and the inquiries regarding my degree from ISM. The fact that I had a PhD with a strong international focus is what opened the door for me with many institutions. I appeared "different" than the other candidates.

Being an educator is all about helping individuals succeed in their personal and/or professional pursuits. I found that many of the ISM instructors take this to heart and truly are there to help the students. This approach not only helps the ISM students succeed in their personal objectives but also provides a teaching philosophy that the PhD students can subsequently emulate as they embark on a career in academia.

Academic Activities:

Assistant Professor: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI USA

Adjunct Faculty: Colorado Mountain College, Dillon, CO USA. International School of Management & ISEG, Paris, France

Teaching: Marketing, Innovation, Leadership and Learning Organizations, Healthcare Strategy and Management

Professional Activities:

Jumpstart Innovations: Founder and Prinicipal

Amercian Marketing Association:
Board Member and VP of Volunteers

Market Access Director
Johnson & Johnson

Don Capener, PhD Program Graduate

I enjoyed my academic experience at ISM and recommend it to those with a passion for international business and culture. You work with so many talented classmates and professors. The experience is rich with colleagues from Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America. I was often the only American living in the states in my classes. When I first entered academia, I was skeptical about my traditional colleagues since most of them did not have much applied experience. But, through my coursework at ISM, I discovered the how best practices link to important the theories. I gained respect for my colleagues who studied and researched the application of these theories. Many of these models have become the foundation for the most successful consulting practices. I knew how to market and sell before ISM, but I rarely knew how to best define, why the best practices follow the most innovative or insightful theories. I did not know who was responsible for a break-through and how the best thinking fit together to lay a foundation for my discipline. Because of my ISM experience, I am able to put the pieces together in a cohesive fashion. My instructors challenged me "dig deep" and build a skeleton of connecting ideas and to become more disciplined in my business analysis, and this has proved infinitely valuable. I credit Dr. Horn and my ISM professors for having a profound impact on my consulting practice and teaching.

Academic Activities:

Dean: Davis School of Business, Jacksonville University

Teaching: Marketing, International Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Professional Activities:

Above the Rim Hoopwear: Founder and ex-Chief Marketing Officer, eventually sold to Reebok

Dr. Mark Esposito, PhD

		ISM has been foundational to my educational journey as part of their faculty as well as an alumnus of the doctoral program, since 2006 when I started. It is probably the most exclusive boutique doctoral school I have ever come across, with small size classrooms that allow direct interaction with world class faculty, coming from all over the world. Flexible in nature, rigorous and empowering, my relationship with ISM is one meant to last a lifetime, as a proud member of their Doctoral community.

Academic Activities:

Associate Professor: (tenured) in Business & Society Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France

Senior Associate: University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership, Cambridge, UK Adjunct Faculty: IE Business School, Madrid, Spain

Teaching: Strategy, Competitiveness, Microeconomics, Business Ethics & CSR

Professional Activities:

Vice President : Institute for Transformative Thought and Learning, Phoenix, USA

Frank Cotae, Tenure & Research Track Professor

I have pursued a DBA from ISM with the unambiguous purpose of transitioning from a professional manager and consultant to a full-time university teaching position. I have been more than pleased with the instruction I have received during the seminars held at St. John’s University, in New York.

The knowledge and quality of instruction, alongside the research and assessment elements embedded into the program made a world of difference for my intellectual development.

I would like to add my outmost thanks to Dr. Horn, the faculty and the staff for their continuous patience, assistance and professionalism during the entire program. The teacher and researcher that I hope I have become today are due entirely to the instruction I have received at ISM.

While the program is intense and challenging the results have been better than I hoped for and as such I recommend the doctoral program without reservations to any individual pursuing further academic or professional goals.

Academic Activities:

Tenure and Research Track Assistant Professor: Mount Royal University in Calgary

Teaching: International Business

Professional Activities:
Management Consultant

Frank Desimone, PhD Program Candidate

I have found the seminars in New York (on the campus of St. John's University) to be well organized with timely and relevant course material. The Professors have been excellent and my fellow classmates in the seminar were impressive and motivated. Participating in these courses has certainly broadened my educational perspective and solidified my decision to move to a career in academia.

Since initiating my studies at ISM in August of 2006, I find it has clearly upgraded my in-class teaching at Wagner! My syllabus is far more detailed, the assignments I provide the students are structured better and I have been able to integrate much of the material I learned from the coursework at ISM into class lectures and assignments. I recently used one of my research assignments as a case assignment in a Strategic Marketing MBA class. I also feel I am more prepared to challenge my students with interesting ideas and materials beyond the scope of the assigned textbook.

Academic Activities:

Adjunct Faculty: Tenure Track Professor, Wagner College, USA

Teaching: Marketing, Strategic Marketing

Professional Activities:

Enforsys: CEO, developing and distributing Law Enforcement software and sophisticated information sharing systems.

Joseph Gilkey, MBA, ISM PhD Program Candidate

	ISM offers me the ability to combine academic research with my 30 years of practical experience, to look at new and different avenues of development, both as a practitioner and as an adjunct professor. The school is unique in that it allows me to continue my academic career while pursuing a doctorate, and at the same time being able to continue my work as a SVP for the New York Daily News.

Academic Activities:

Adjunct Professor: New York Institute of Technology, NY USA

Teaching: Quantitative Methods, Quantitative Applications to Making Managerial Decisions, Net Marketing

Professional Activities:

New York Daily News: SVP of Circulation

Responsibilities:
Direct and develop management team of 57 to uncover areas for growth and optimization

Designed and implemented new programs that broke loss trends of previous 8 years

Michael James, PhD Program Candidate

My studies for a PhD in International Business Management at ISM comprise seminars in the areas of international management, joint venture management, and corporate finance. I am particularly drawn to ISM because of its expert faculty and international curriculum, with the opportunity to pursue academic study in Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai and to make world-wide corporate contacts. The program gives me the possibility of complementing my extensive professional experience with stimulating and invigorating studies from which my students will benefit, at undergraduate and at post-graduate level.

Academic Activities:

Full-time Faculty: Columbia International University, SC USA

Teaching: Finance and Accounting, Leadership and Management and Human Resources

Professional Activities:

Columbia International University: Director of Business and Organizational Leadership Program, Establishing and promoting the program,and developing course offerings

Richard Belloff, DBA Program Graduate

I enrolled in ISM's DBA program with the explicit intention of teaching full-time at the university level. I was both pleased and impressed with the academic rigor of the program. This experience included work with both New York and Paris based faculty.

Importantly, I found the faculty and staff universally supportive of my goal to join the academic community. Much credit must go to Dean Horn, who provided guidance along the way, and a helpful reference as I sought faculty positions. In addition, he was charged with reading my dissertation, not a small feat by any means.

I recommend the ISM DBA program without reservation. It is a challenging program and appropriately so. In the end, the outcome clearly justified the effort.

Academic Activities:

Assistant Professor: Des Moines University, IA USA

Visiting Professor: ISEG MBA Program
Paris, France

Teaching: Global Corporate Strategy, Healthcare Financial Management, Leadership

Professional Activities:

Leadership Strategy Associates: Founding prinicipal

Recently Published:
"Strategy in Action! An Inquiry into the Practice of Strategic Thinking"

Rob Wood, PhD Program Candidate

I have found there is a definitive caché associated with my degree from a European-based University, with particular emphasis on my International Business instruction. My department chairs, as well as my students at UNC - Ashville, state my ISM degree carries with it a verisimilitude not found within an American doctorate program with the same specialty. As with International Business Management instruction in general, most American universities focus more on how American businesses do business internationally, not necessarily how business is done internationally, which is a much broader, and more valuable base.

Academic Activities:

Full Time Faculty: UNC - Ashville, NC USA

Teaching: Introduction to Management and Team Dynamics

Adjunct Faculty: Western Carolina Graduate School, NC USA

Teaching: International Business Management

Salvatore Snaiderbaur, PhD Program Candidate

The ISM PhD program has been very important in my academic work as a teacher and researcher. I believe that no other program available has a group of students with such an incredible professional background. Attending the seminar has always provided important resources for my course designs and often is a base for new research and publications. Teaching international business disciplines requires a broad perspective and interdisciplinary studies, and ISM provides all of that. The partnership with the Asian institutions is an incredible opportunity to acquire direct knowledge of those markets and to collaborate in research with overseas colleagues and renowned scholars.

Academic Activities:

Faculty Member: Benedictine College School of Business, KS, USA

Teaching: Management, International Business

Seth Feldman, MA, JD - PhD Program Candidate

ISM has been quite instrumental in improving my teaching and my overall knowledge-base. Following a course on Risk Control at ISM, I revamped my Fundraising curriculum to include several of the topics we covered, and added new readings from leading professionals in the Risk Control field.

I have also recently become a thesis advisor for a student living in Vermont, and to help guide her in her research, I am using a framework I learned and mastered in my ISM course on Empirical Research and Advanced Statistics. Not only was I able to provide my advisee with a solid tool for gathering and evaluating research, I could help her apply her work in a way that is useful to her community.

Academic Activities:

Adjunct Faculty: Spertus College, Chicago Il., and Illinois Institute of Techonology

Teaching: Fundraising, Non-Profit Law, Strategic Planning and Complex Organizations

Professional Activities:

VP for Advancement - Institute of Cancer Research, College of the University of London

Turner White, PhD Program Candidate

As a PhD candidate at ISM, my studies so far have made a significant impact in my life in teaching. My courses at ISM have provided a major contribution to my students’ experiences at Rockhurst. The International Capital Markets course, for example, was very, very good in helping me and subsequently my students understand the dynamics of markets and why they move. In fact, several of them said at the end the Capstone Course that it brought together the practical and applied aspects of their experiences in their business studies; this effect was a direct result of my courses at ISM. It has positively changed the way I approach my courses at Rockhurst; a real benefit for the students and for me.

Academic Activities:

Assistant Professor: Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management, KS USA

Teaching: Business Policy, Corporate Strategy and Business Ethics

Professional Activities:

White and Company, LLC: Consultancy focused on mature industries and long-lived assets

Zahra Ladha, MBA, PhD Program Candidate

I had already started my position as a Marketing instructor at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Business, before I started my PhD at ISM. However, my experience there has certainly led to improved teaching on my part. Having studied with ISM in China and Japan, has also enabled me to contribute many of my personal, international experiences when teaching similar courses, which I find my students truly value. Our discussions have more depth and debates are more lively as a result of my ability to relate real-life examples.

Having the opportunity to teach at ISEG, which was due to my participation in the ISM PhD program, has increased my stamina and ability to teach longer hours than what I am used to at University of British Columbia and has made teaching day after day easier. Although I had solid teaching experience prior to ISM, the combination of the PhD program's benefits, and the benefits of teaching at ISEG, have cumulatively improved my teaching capabilities.

Academic Activities:

Faculty Member: University of British Columbia, Canada

Teaching: Communication, Introduction to Marketing