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mempeople.faculty
As the MEM program has been developed in coordination with the Business and Law Schools, the faculty involved are a diverse group. Below are the faculty members who have played a key role in developing the program and teaching the tailor-suited courses that have served as the cornerstones of the program.
Dr. Jeffrey T. Glass [website]
Director of the MEM Program and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
919-660-5431
jeff.glass@duke.edu
Professor Glass is both the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship, and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 2003 and prior to this he was the Joseph F. Toot Jr. endowed chair in the Case School of Engineering and the co-director of The Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to his appointment at Case Western Reserve, Professor Glass served as vice president of research and development for Kobe Steel USA Inc. He also has been a tenured faculty member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University and continues to hold an adjunct appointment with that department. He also holds an adjunct appointment at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Glass earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Virginia. He also received an MBA in 1999 from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business’ Global Executive (GEMBA) program.
His technical research has focused on the growth and characterization of thin films for electronics, primarily diamond, zinc oxide and silicon carbide.
Professor Julie Edell Britton [website]
Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business
919-660-7826
jae6@duke.edu
Professor Britton, an Associate Professor, started her career at the Fuqua School of Business after receiving her Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982. Professor Britton's primary research area is in understanding consumer emotions. She has examined a number of issues surrounding the question, "How does the response to one marketing stimulus impact the response to subsequent marketing activities?" Her current research examines consumer's emotional responses to advertising, to service failures and recovery efforts, how emotional responses generate brand relationships, and the impact of consumers' emotions on their decision making processes and choices. Examples of Julie's research include: /Emotion in Advertising: Theoretical and Practical Explorations,/ "Who's to Blame? Consumers' Responses to Service Failures," "Factors Affecting the Impact of Negatively and Positively Framed Ad Messages," and "Cognitive Effort, Affect and Choice," in Journal of Consumer Research.
Julie serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Business Research, and Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics.
Professor Britton teaches courses in customer relationship management, marketing management, statistics, and marketing communications. In 1987, she received the Kraft Award for Excellence in Management Education. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Colon Cancer Alliance, the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Advisory Panel, Duke School for Children, and First Presbyterian Day School. Her consulting clients include the Federal Trade Commission, the Assistant United States Attorney, Procter & Gamble, law firms, marketing research firms, and numerous companies.
Dr. F. Hadley Cocks [website]
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
919-660-5301
hadley01@duke.edu
Professor Cocks was the founding Director of the MEM program and was Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department, 1994-2001. He is the instructor for the Patent Law section of EGRMGMT 220 “Intellectual Property, Business Law, and Entrepreneurship.” Professor Cocks joined the faculty at Duke University in 1972. Prior to joining the Duke faculty he was the associate director of Materials Science at Tyco Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Professor Cocks earned his B.S., M.S., and ScD in Metallurgy from MIT. His recent research includes the development of novel x-ray reflection methods, specifically for new cancer treatment modalities, and the investigation of ionic carbon compounds. He has also worked extensively in the field of solar energy materials with the support of the Solar Energy Research Institute, and in the field of cryobiology with the support of the American Cancer Society. His current work on x-ray reflection is supported by the national Institutes of Health and his ionic carbides work is supported by the Department of Energy. He is a registered patent agent.
Dr. James D. Cox [website]
Governing Faculty Member and Professor at the Duke University School of Law
919-613-7056
jdc@law.duke.edu
Professor Cox is the instructor for EGRMGMT 220 "Intellectual Property, Business Law, and Entrepreneurship." Professor Cox joined the faculty of the Duke University School of Law in 1979 where he specializes in the areas of corporate and securities law. Prior to coming to Duke, he taught at the law schools of Boston University, the University of San Francisco, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and Stanford. During the 1988-89 academic year he was a Senior Research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney. Professor Cox earned his B.S. from Arizona State University and law degrees at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
In addition to his texts Financial Information, Accounting and the Law; Corporations (with Hazen & O'Neal); and Securities Regulations Cases and Materials (with Hillman & Langevoort), Professor Cox has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance as well as having testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading and market reform issues.
Professor Lawrence M. Boyd
Associate Director, Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Management
919-660-8272
lawrence.boyd@duke.edu
Professor Boyd is the Associate Director of the Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization. He is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Management.
Prior to joining Duke, he was a Vice President of Product Development for Medtronic Sofamor Danek in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been active in medical device development for over 15 years and holds over 50 U.S. patents and pending applications. He is the President and founder of Palmetto Biomedical, Inc., a medical device design and consulting firm based in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Boyd earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Clemson University and M.E.M. degree from Christian Brothers University. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.
Professor Joseph Holmes [website]
Adjunct Professor of Engineering Management
919-200-4231
joseph.holmes@duke.edu
Professor Holmes is the instructor for EGRMGMT 274 "Commercializing Technology Innovations," a course designed to demystify the journey from idea creation to value extraction, and EGRMGMT 296 "Engineering Management Practicum." He also oversees the program's innovative workshop series and internship course. In addition to teaching in the MEM program, Professor Holmes is founder and CEO of Acuity Edge, a management consulting firm.
Professor Holmes earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University, and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business.
Professor Paul Zipkin [website]
R. J. Reynolds Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business
919-660-7853
paul.zipkin@duke.edu
Paul Zipkin is the R. J. Reynolds Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His academic degrees come from Reed, Berkeley, and Yale. His teaching, research, and consulting focus on how supply chains work and how to make them work better, and their strategic roles in the success or failure of companies in the global marketplace. Within this broad theme, his work is concerned with issues of inventory management in supplier-customer relations; the impact of new production and communications technologies on supply-chain performance; coping with product variety at both the operational and strategic levels; and the design of logistics networks. He has published some 60 articles in scholarly journals and co-edited the book, Logistics of Production and Inventory. He is the author of the book, Foundations of Inventory Management. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and often advises companies, government agencies, and other organizations. He is a Fellow of INFORMS and the Manufacturing & Services Operations Management Society.
Dr. David L. Lange [website]
Governing Faculty Member and Professor at Duke University School of Law
919-613-7093
lange@faculty.law.duke.edu
Professor Lange is the instructor for EGRMGMT 220: "Intellectual Property, Business Law, and Entrepreneurship." He has been a member of the faculty of Duke University School of Law for 28 years. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he worked as a writer, producer, director and production coordinator in radio, television and motion picture production; as a practicing lawyer, with an emphasis in media law; and as General Counsel to the Mass Media Task Force of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of The Copyright Society of the United States. At the Law School he teaches courses in intellectual property, copyright, trademarks and unfair competition, entertainment law (including motion picture production, finance and distribution) and telecommunications law and policy
He writes frequently in these fields. Most recently he has completed a co-authored casebook in intellectual property published by West Publishing Company; a co-authored article on "public-private initiatives to facilitate worldwide intellectual property transactions after the TRIPS Agreement"; and an essay on the cultural implications of the internet, which he prepared for an internet symposium at Yale Law School. He also served as Special Editor of a symposium on the subject of the Lanham Act After Fifty Years (published in1997 in Law & Contemporary Problems), in which appeared his own article on "Trademarks Under the Intellectual Property Clause."
Professor Charles J. Skender [website]
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Engineering Management
Lecturer, Fuqua School of Business
919-660-7819
cjs6@duke.edu
Professor Skender is the instructor for EGRMGMT 230 "Finance in High Tech Industries." In addition to teaching in the MEM program, Professor Skender also teaches at the graduate level at the Fuqua School of Business and at the undergraduate level at Duke. His other teaching interests include corporate financial reporting, statement analysis, managerial accounting and assurance services. Professor Skender has taught more than 250 sections of college courses and over 12,000 students during his academic career. He has received outstanding teacher awards at the Fuqua School of Business and at North Carolina State University.
Professor Skender's professional experience includes the audit staff of Deloitte Haskins and Sells. He is a CPA, and has attained nine additional professional designations in accounting, financial planning, insurance, and management: CMA, CCA, CIA, ChFC, CLU, CFP, AIAF, CFE, and CFM. He holds academic degrees from Lehigh University and Duke University.
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