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 Ahmed Tolba
Assistant Professor of Marketing, and Director, El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center, Management, School of Business, Economics and Communication, AUC
Dr. Tolba was awarded his Ph.D. from The George Washington University in 2006; his MBA & B.Sc. from the American University in Cairo in 1997 & 2001 respectively.
Dr. Tolba has taught various courses at the George Washington University and the American University in Cairo at both undergraduate and MBA levels. Courses he thought include Principles of Marketing, Marketing Research, Advanced Marketing Research, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Management, International Marketing, Marketing Information Systems, and Strategic Brand Management. Also, Dr. Tolba has conducted more than fifteen training courses in Marketing, covering the topics of Marketing Management, Marketing Research, Strategic Brand Management, Marketing Strategy, and Integrated Marketing Communications.
Dr. Tolba’s research focuses on the areas of Strategic Brand Management, Brand Equity Measurement Models, Marketing Research, and Global Branding, and Nation Branding. Dr. Tolba’s research has been published in leading academic conferences, such as the American Marketing Association (AMA), the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), Academy of Management, Thought Leaders International Conference on Brand Management, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the Sustainable Development Forum (SDF). He also co-authored the teaching guide of the third edition of the "Strategic Brand Management" book authored by Dr. Kevin Keller (2008). His current research is under review for publication in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Business Research (JBR), and the Journal of Product & Brand Management (JPBM).
Dr. Tolba’s professional experience includes four years at Procter & Gamble Egypt, where he worked on a variety of brands. He also worked as a consultant for several local firms including GMC, Taki, and Engineering Consultants Group (ECG); among others.
Khaled Dahawy
Associate Professor of Accounting, AUC
Dr. Dahawy is an Associate professor in the Department of Management, at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas (UNT), MBA from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), and bachelor from AUC. His research interests include financial accounting, international accounting, auditing, and accounting information systems. He has several papers and cases that are published in academic accounting journals, and presented in academic and practitioners conferences. He teaches financial accounting, international accounting, tax accounting and auditing, and has received the department of management teaching excellence award, in 2004.
Dr. Dahawy has considerable connections with accounting students extracurricular activities at AUC and has initiated and acts as the advisor to the Accounting Link, which is the accounting club at AUC that links the academic and practical aspects of accounting.
Dr. Dahawy is a certified public accountant (CPA) from the State of Illinois, USA, certified from the Egyptian Society for Accountants and Auditors (ESAA), and is certified by the Egyptian Accounting Syndicate. He has extensive practical experience as an expert in the Capital Market Authority (CMA) and has served as a consultant in many missions with the World Bank, United Nations, and the National Democratic Party (NDP). He is also a member of the board of the Council for financial and Managerial Affairs in the NDP, the head of the youth committee in the Rotary Club of Cairo, and member of the Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association (EJB). In addition, Dr. Dahawy has conducted several training courses and presentations to teach accounting for numerous diverse constituents.
 Maha ElShinnawy
Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the School of Business, Economics and Communication, AUC
Director of the Goldman Sachs Women's Entrepreneurship and Leadership Center
Dr. ElShinnawy joined the faculty of the AUC in 2004. Previously, she was a tenured Associate Professor at the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. from The Anderson School at UCLA.
Dr. ElShinnawy's research received the Best Dissertation Finalist Award from The Institute of Management Sciences. Her research focuses on Leadership, Change, Communication, and Ethics in organizations. Her research also investigates the effects of collaboration, virtual communication and culture on group interaction and performance. She has presented her work in conferences such as the Academy of Management, the Association for Information Systems and the International Conference on Information Systems and in leading peer reviewed journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), IEEE Transactions, The International Journal of Human Computer Studies, The Information Society, among others.
Dr. ElShinnawy has been recognized for her teaching excellence by the Center for Teaching Excellence of Texas A&M University. She is an advisor to the Making Connections Academy of Management OB division; An Ethics Faculty Advisor to SIFE, Students in Free Enterprise; and a Certified Extraordinary Leadership Coach for Louis Allen Worldwide. She also served in The Academy of Future International Leaders at the George Bush School of International Business of Texas A&M University. She has been quoted internationally in Business Week, CNNmoney.com, Associated Press, Time Magazine, Voice of America, Herald Tribune, Financial Times, among others. She has also been quoted locally in ElMasry AlYoum, Nisf Aldonia, The Egyptian Gazette, Nahdet Misr, among others. She is the AUC liaison to the Egyptian Junior Business Association and is a trustee serving on the board of Cairo American College.
 Mauro F. Guillen
Director , The Joseph H. Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania
The Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor in International Management, The Wharton School.
Mauro F. Guillén is the Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor in International Management at the Wharton School. His teaching and research have to do with the multinational firm, conditions for entrepreneurship around the world, and the diffusion of innovations in the global economy.
He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe’s largest savings bank.
His personal website is at:
http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/guillen/
 Mohga Badran
Chair of the Department of Management, AUC
Dr. Mohga Badran is currently the Chair of the Department of Management, American University in Cairo. She holds a B.Sc. in Statistics from The Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, an M.A. in Management from The American University in Cairo, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Stockholm. She is a Certified Management Consultant by The Institute of Management Consultancy, London, England , and is a Certified Coach for Learning Organizations by The Learning Circle associated with Peter Senge. Her research interests include, management of change, management of conflict, learning organizations, reengineering, sustainable development, organizational design, and organizational development. She has more than twenty years of experience in training and consulting in the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior and organizational design. She was awarded the “Parent’s Association Cup for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching” for the academic year 1999/2000.
 Monica McGrath
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Monica McGrath is former director of leadership development for the Wharton MBA program in the graduate division. Monica has taught variety of subjects related to leadership and organizational behavior. In addition she is instrumental in the design and delivery of a number of Wharton’s executive education programs for senior executives both in the role of faculty lead and as an individual coach for teams and individuals. She has also designed three innovative executive programs including Wharton’s first leadership course for women: Women in Leadership: Legacies and Opportunities, a course for international coaching professionals: The Executive Coaching Workshop and a three day program: UBS Career Comeback: A Fellowship program for Women Returning to Work.
Monica is the operating principle of Resources for Leadership, Inc. and is an experienced leadership development consultant and executive coach. Recent clients have included FMC Agriculture Products, Bowne, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Siemens Medical Systems, Colgate Palmolive Company, Yves Rocher North America, Johnson and Johnson, Colgate Palmolive and Hills Pet Nutrition, Unisys Corporation and Women’s World Banking. Monica holds a Ph.D. in adult learning and organizational psychology from Temple University and is a graduate of a Harvard University Kennedy School’s executive program: The Art and Practice of Leadership Development.
Monica has completed Wharton’s Leadership Trek to Everest in 2000 and 2005 and is the co-captain of a women’s dragon boat team based in Philadelphia. More information can be obtained on her website www.resourcesforleadership.com
 Mori Taheripour
Lecturer, Legal and Business Ethics Department, The Wharton School
Director, Corporate Marketing and Business Development Wharton Sports Business Initiative, The Wharton School
Mori Taheripour is the managing partner/co-founder of Innovative Health Solutions, Inc. (I.H.S.), a health care consulting firm specializing in the development of programs that promote critical health initiatives impacting global communities. Ms. Taheripour also serves as a consultant to a variety of corporate and non-profit clients in multicultural marketing, business strategy, branding, and organizational development.
Since 2004, Ms. Taheripour has been a lecturer in the Legal and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School, teaching courses in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. In 2007, she received the William G. Whitney Award for undergraduate teaching. Ms. Taheripour is also the Associate Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, a partnership among top level business leaders, faculty and students that generates and disseminates knowledge about the sports industry through educational programs, strategic corporate partnerships, global forums, and research.
Ms. Taheripour served as the Vice President of Corporate Diversity for the American Red Cross, shortly after Hurricane Katrina. In this role, she developed and executed the organization-wide strategy for diversity and inclusion to ensure the Red Cross reflected the communities it served in its people, programs, policies and services.
Ms. Taheripour has B.A. in Psychology/Premedical Studies from Barnard College/Columbia University and received an MBA from the Wharton School.
 Sarah Kaplan
Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Sarah Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She is also is co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction, which looks at the challenges of performance in dynamic markets. She received her Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Her research investigates the role of interpretive processes in shaping technology evolution and firm response to technical change in the biotechnology, telecommunications, personal digital assistant and, most recently, nanotechnology fields. She is an award-winning teacher of strategic management to executives, MBA and undergraduate students. Prior to her academic career, she was a management consultant for nearly a decade with McKinsey & Company where she helped developed strategies for firms in a broad range of companies in many industries such as medical devices, retailing, steel, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods.
 Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim
Assistant Professor of Operations
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Technology Management from the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Accounting from the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, Helwan University. Her Ph.D. dissertation titled ‘Technological Clusters and Sources of Knowledge for Innovation,’ was awarded ‘Best Dissertation,’ May 2005, by the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management. Her Masters thesis in May of 1997 was on applying Total Quality Management (TQM) principals to the process of technology transfer to developing countries. She has co-authored articles in the Engineering Management Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Organizational Change, and has been awarded the Ted Eschenbach prize for Best paper in Engineering Management Journal, Fall 2005 issue, and the “Bright idea” award, for her paper in New Jersey Publications, 2006
She is a member of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT), Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) and the Association for Operations Management (APICS).
Prior to joining AUC in January 2008, Dr. Elwan served as a Post-Doc Research associate for the W. J. H. School of Technology Management, representing the Stevens side of a joint study between Stevens and the American University in Cairo investigating the competitiveness of Damietta Furniture Cluster in Egypt. Prior to her graduation in May of 2005, she served as an instructor in the Engineering Management department at Stevens, and as a research assistant in the department of Global Innovation Management.
Dr. Elwan has industry experience working for Procter and Gamble, Egypt, as a senior cost analyst in 1994. She was one of the pioneering women who left the head office in central Cairo to relocate to the manufacturing plant in Oct 6th City. Her proximity to the production facilities and her close interaction with manufacturing, purchasing and delivery, enabled her to prepare the one of the first detailed operations budget for the company. More recently, Dr. Elwan is currently consulting for Mercedes Egypt (EGA) in developing their local supplier relationships and reaching their target for lean manufacturing operations, and was the lead advisor for implementing an ERP system at Egyptian Linen Company (EGLINE) in 2007.
 Stephen S. Everhart
Associate Professor of Finance, AUC
Prior to joining AUC as Associate Professor of Finance in September 2008, Dr. Everhart served as Managing Director of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in Washington, DC, part of the team managing a $14 billion portfolio invested exclusively in emerging markets. As a member of the Credit and Investment Committees, he helped target nearly $4 billion in new investment targeting SMEs and private equity. He began his international markets career in 1979 on Wall Street working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and subsequently held analyst/portfolio manager positions with EF Hutton, Merrill Lynch, and Pru-Bache Securities.
Prior to joining OPIC as the Director of Risk Management, Everhart held a number of senior positions within the World Bank and the IFC, advising on financial and fiscal risk in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, México, Russia, and Venezuela, and teaching at the World Bank Institute. The financial vulnerability models he built for the central banks in México and Lithuania are still in use today.
Dr. Everhart holds a B.S. and M.S. in Finance from the Moore School of Business, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He has published in the American Economic Review, Applied Economics, the World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, the International Finance Corporation Discussion Paper Series, Housing Finance International, Journal of the National Tax Association, Southern Banker, Small Business Economics, the Quarterly Monetary Review of the Central Bank of Lithuania, as well as chapters in a number of books.
He is a member of the American Finance Association, the Global Association of Risk Professionals, the Professional Risk Managers' International Association, and the American Economic Association. He is also one of the founding investors of BankMeridian in Hilton Head, which the financial press highlighted as one of the fastest growing new issues of 2006.
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