Primary area of teaching is Corporate Finance at the undergraduate, graduate and executive level. Previously taught investments and international corporate finance in China, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and South Africa.
Management Education and the challenges facing minorities and women in career progression in organizations
Diversity management within the corporate sector that involves both direct consulting and the development of executive training initiatives for enterprises looking to rectify challenges with respect to minority and women career progression and retention.
Mike is Professor of Finance and Management and a past Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bentley University. Before joining Bentley, he served as the Dean of Post-Experience Programs at Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and as the Executive Director of the Rotterdam School of Management BV, The Netherlands. He joined Erasmus after sixteen years at Cape Town University’s Graduate School of Business where he also held the Len Abrahamse Chair in Finance.
Mike has completed full terms of office on the boards of AACSB International, the EFMD, and South Africa Partners. His active engagement with the international management education industry includes serving, or having served, on advisory boards for Cape Town University’s Graduate School of Business (South Africa), École des Ponts Paris Tech Business School, Paris (France), Erasmus Centre for Women and Organizations, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), European School of Management and Technology, Berlin (Germany), J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, University of Galway, (Ireland), Kedge Business School, Bordeaux and Marseille (France), Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow (Russia), Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), and TIAS School of Business And Society (Netherlands).
Mike’s forty years as a business school academic includes having held professorships in finance, executive education, and management, and senior academic administrative positions on three continents. He has held company directorships and worked as a senior consultant and fund management advisor. His current research interests include developing teaching case studies and examining diversity and inclusion within the private and public sector.