Faculty profile
Thought leadership and teaching excellence
Melbourne Business School attracts world-class faculty who bring their knowledge and expertise directly into our postgraduate business education programs, research activity and our key centres for excellence in executive education, and business and public policy.
Their worldwide networks keep them at the forefront of business education, management thought and practice and in executive learning and contemporary leadership development. Their consulting and boardroom experience keeps them in touch with current business issues.
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Patrice Auger
PhD (Syracuse) MBA, BSC(Ont)
Associate Professor - Information Systems & eCommerce
Academic Director - EMBA
Before joining MBS in 2001, Pat was Assistant Professor, Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor, Ecole Superieure de Commerce et de Management (ESCEM), Tours, France. He has taught at the College of Business, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, PRC and School of Management, Syracuse University, USA.
Pat has developed and conducted seminars on e-commerce targeted at executives and managers of large Hong Kong companies and organisations in Hong Kong and is part of a venture capital firm specialising in information technology investments, especially in e-commerce and Internet-related investments.
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 has also been Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the University of Witswatersrand, 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
PhD (Wharton), Am (Wharton), PGDM (IIM), BTech (Hons) (Banaras)
Associate Professor - Operations Management
Kannan Sethuraman is an experienced consultant, researcher and teacher who specialises in operations management, manufacturing and new product development.
Prior to joining MBS, Kannan held academic positions at the University of Michigan Business School at Ann Arbor, and at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. A highly respected teacher and facilitator, in 2003 Kannan was recognised with the MBS Teaching Excellence Award.
Kannan's fields of interest and expertise include application of operations management principles in the healthcare industry, transfer of lean manufacturing practices to the service sector, and supply chain management.
Kannan's research publications have appeared in reputed international journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management. In addition, he has presented his work at conferences both in Australia and internationally.
