Faculty profile
Thought leadership and teaching excellence
Our world class faculty is internationally recognised. They come from leading business schools around the world, and combine academic rigour with practical business application.
We choose our faculty for their commitment to teaching. They are driven by a passion to share their insights and create dynamic learning environments. Our faculty are committed to lifelong learning and reflect leading thinking and business best practice through their teaching and research.
MBS classrooms are alive with debate as faculty impart their expertise to develop the next generation of leaders. MBS faculty are highly sought after opinion leaders with consulting and boardroom experience. Faculty members also work outside the school, researching, consulting with high-profile commercial organisations, non-profit companies and government agencies. They sit on boards and advisory committees, comment in the media and engage daily with the wider national and international business community. This ensures that MBS faculty bring best-practice, relevant business knowledge into their classrooms.
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Patrice Auger
PhD (Syracuse) MBA (McMaster), BSc (Carleton)
Associate Professor - Information Systems & eCommerce
Academic Director - EMBA
Patrice Auger is an associate professor with specializations in information systems and e-commerce, and the director of the EMBA program. Pat joined MBS in May 2001 after spending 4 years at the City University of Hong Kong. He holds a BSc with honors in Chemistry, an MBA, and a PhD, the latter from Syracuse University in the US.
Pat has several years of industry and consulting experience with a focus on the management of information systems and strategic planning for e-commerce. His primary research interests are in studying the link between business strategy and e-commerce strategy, and the impact of Web site design on consumer shopping behavior. Over the last several years, he has also developed a stream of research that focuses on estimating the importance of social issues in consumer purchase decisions using sophisticated choice modeling techniques.
Pat has taught information systems and e-commerce in several programs at MBS including the MBA and Executive MBA as well as in several other countries including France, China, Hong Kong, the US, and Canada (his country of birth).
Jack Goodwin
PhD (Sth Carolina), MBA (Nth Carolina), BSc (Louisiana)
Principal Fellow - Operations Management
Dr. Jack Goodwin has been visiting MBS since 1992 to teach in Summer, Winter and Spring Senior Management programs, to present his own one- and two-day seminars and to teach strategy subjects in the award programs.
He is an independent executive educator and consultant whose areas of interest include operations management, business strategy and service management. He has been Director of The Management Institute, University of Richmond, and held faculty positions at the College of William and Mary, the Darden School (University of Virginia) and Emory University. He is a Visiting Executive at The Darden School and regularly teaches for the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jack has designed and delivered executive programs for numerous companies in the U.S. and abroad including Barclays Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Mobil, Nissan and Shell.
Kannan Sethuraman
B.Tech. (Hons.), MBA, A.M., Ph.D. (Wharton)
Associate Professor – Operations and Technology Management
Kannan currently serves as an associate professor in the area of operations and technology management at the Melbourne Business School after holding academic appointments at the University of Michigan Business School at Ann Arbor and at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
His teaching interests include operations management, supply chain management and operations from an integrated perspective. He has been recognized for his excellence in teaching and has won a number of accolades include Teaching Excellence Awards at the Melbourne Business School and at the Michigan Business School.
His professional and research interests center on lean operations and how lean principles can be extended and applied to various service settings. Currently, he is involved in several projects that extend the use of lean principles to health care industry. He has presented his work in both national and international conferences all over the world. His research publications have appeared in reputed international journals such as Management Science, INFORMS Journal of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Australian Health Review, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
