Strategy

Professor Cramer spent more than 25 years in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial services sectors. He was Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group, and Managing Director at JPMorgan in the Corporate Finance Group providing M&A services and financing to global healthcare enterprises. Earlier, Prof. Cramer was Vice President, Corporate Planning & Development for Merck & Co., Inc. with worldwide responsibilities for strategic planning and business development.

Professor Sexton’s research concerns successful global product and brand strategies and is based on both empirical work and his considerable experience with companies throughout the world. A recipient of the School’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Sexton has taught a wide variety of courses in the fields of marketing, international business and management science.

Professor Siconolfi teaches the core course Managerial Economics. He works with general equilibrium theory, information theory and dynamic models in monetary theory. His main contributions deal with the equilibrium properties of incomplete market economies, the existence of sunspot equilibria and the informativeness of equilibrium prices. Recently, he has also examined the dynamic efficiency of a social security system in the context of an overlapping generations model.

Lori Qingyuan Yue is Associate Professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on the interplay among business, society, and government, particularly in how firms respond to contentious social environments and regulatory uncertainty. She has published papers on industry self-regulation, corporate political strategies, corporate responses to social movements, and corporate sociopolitical activism. 

Professor Stuart teaches Managerial Negotiations and Game-theoretic Business Strategy. His research focuses on the development of business theory using game-theoretic approaches. It includes the further development of "value-based strategy," which studies businesses as the central players in economic value creation, and “interactive decision theory,” which takes strategic uncertainty as the primary focus of strategic interaction.  Application of the research is principally to the fields of strategy, negotiation, and operations.

Professor Harrigan, who teaches strategic management courses about corporate growth (as well as turnaround management), is a specialist in corporate strategy, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, diversification strategy, in turnarounds, industry restructurings and the competitive problems of mature- and declining-demand businesses, and in industry and competitor analysis. Most recently, Professor Harrigan has researched the role of technological synergies in corporate strategy.

Professor Selden teaches debt markets and lectures on shareholder value creation for business groups around the world. A recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Selden has analyzed models of portfolio allocation and preference determination. His current research focuses on linking sales and marketing efforts to a corporation’s share price. He is also applying his findings to Executive Education programs.

Clayton Sachs brings over a decade of investing and operating experience. Clayton currently serves as Vice President of Datacor overseeing two business units, professional services and customer support, go-to-market strategy, and corporate development (M&A). During his 7-year tenure at Datacor Clayton has executed on and integrated 8 acquisitions, opened a 40 person development center in Costa Rica, launched an integrated payments offering, and aided in building out the Datacor executive team.

Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches courses on Governance, Governance and Ethics, and Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems. He has taught in executive programs in the US, Europe, and China.

Chris LaSala joined Columbia Business School in 2022 as a Sr. Lecturer in Discipline at Columbia after nearly two decades at Google, where the common theme across Chris’ tenure at Google was working closely with engineering and product teams from ideation through commercial launch, gaining a reputation for leading cross-functional teams to overcome hurdles and make efficient, well-informed decisions.

Jeff Schwartz is the Vice President of Insights and Impact at Gloat. Prior to joining Gloat, Jeff was a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP for 20 years, most recently as the U.S. Leader for the future of work and as a senior partner in the firm’s Global Human Capital executive since 2003. His leadership roles have included global and U.S. marketing, eminence, and brand, leading the organization, change, and talent practices, and growing the firm’s global delivery capabilities in India.

Jacopo Perego is a Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. His research specializes in the economics of information, the analysis of how economic agents strategically acquire, use, and share information. His work primarily focuses on topics such as the optimal design of information policies, the competitive provision of information, and strategic communication. Prior to joining Columbia, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cowles Foundation, Yale University.