Instructors and Panelists

*Due to schedules, instructors are subject to change.

Carl Ackermann
Associate Professional Specialist
Finance, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Carl Ackermann teaches financial management and personal finance to University of Notre Dame undergraduates.  By a wide margin, he teaches more students than anyone at the university.  Ackermann crusades against excessive fees in the investment industry, showing investors how to avoid them to improve their returns.

At Notre Dame, Ackermann has had the good fortune of receiving several awards for his teaching and service.  He received the BP Outstanding Teacher Award in 2001, the Senior Class Fellow Award in 2003, the Kaneb Teaching Award in 2006, and the inaugural Dockweiler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising in 2007.

Ackermann is active in several University service projects and mentoring programs, and participates in Football and Basketball recruiting.  He is also a Fellow of the Center for Social Concerns, and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning.  He holds an A.B. from Amherst College, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Matthew Bloom
Associate Professor
Management, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Matt Bloom is an Associate Professor at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Matt teaches courses on innovation, organizational change, and creating high-performance organizations. He teaches classes on innovation and creating inspiring workplaces in the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and executive education programs. His research interests center around understanding vital organizations – organizations which distinguish themselves by being among the most financially and operationally successful organizations in their class and also through their dedication to the ideals of fostering human well-being and creating ennobling communities of practice. Matt is also interested in understanding the factors which create work that is deeply meaningful, fulfilling, and inspirational to people.

His research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, and Compensation & Benefits Review, and research journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, and European Business Review.

Robert Bretz
Professor & The Joe and Jane Giovanini Chair in Management
Management, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Robert D. Bretz Jr. was awarded the inaugural Giovanini Chair in Management in the Mendoza College of Business in 2001. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, Bretz specializes in human resource management and the study of job applicant decision processes.  His research focuses on issues such as how the fit between an individual and organization affects career success, the effectiveness of alternative training philosophies, and the links between individual and organizational effectiveness. Bretz was identified as one of the 10 most published authors of the 1990s in the two leading journals for the field of industrial and organizational psychology. He is a member of the Academy of Management and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science,  and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

John Cavadini
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Theology
University of Notre Dame

John Cavadini is a scholar of patristic and early medieval theology, with special interests in the theology of Augustine and in the history of biblical exegesis, both Eastern and Western, as well as in the reception and interpretation of patristic thought in the West from the sixth through the ninth centuries. 

His publications include three books, Miracles in Christian and Jewish Antiquity: Imagining the Truth, (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999); Gregory the Great: A Symposium, (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996); and The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). His articles have appeared in such journals as Theological Studies, Religious Studies Review, Traditio, Augustinian Studies, and American Benedictine Review.

His educational background includes:

• B.A., 1975, Wesleyan University
• M.A., 1979, Marquette University
• M.A., 1981, M.Phil., 1983
• Ph.D., 1988, Yale University

J. Michael Crant
Professor and Chair, Department of Management
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Mike Crant conducts research on proactive personality and behavior at work. He is one of the creators of the proactive personality scale, the most frequently used measure of proactivity in the organizational literature. His recent work has studied the frequency and impact of proactive behaviors in Asian cultures, where proactivity has traditionally been frowned upon. Mike teaches courses in management, leadership, teams, and decision making to MBA and Executive MBA students. A winner of multiple teaching awards, Mike was selected as the outstanding professor by the Chicago EMBA class of 2007. He has conducted numerous executive development seminars for companies worldwide, including Bayer, HSBC, LANXESS, Siemens, Donnelly, the Far Eastern Group, and Toro. Mike earned BSBA and MBA degrees from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rev. Thomas Doyle, C.S.C.
Vice President for Student Affairs
University of Notre Dame

Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, C.S.C., was elected vice president for student affairs by Notre Dame's Board of Trustees in November 2009. He had served the previous five years in executive positions at the University of Portland, a Catholic university founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1901.

A native of Colville, Wash., and a 1989 graduate of Notre Dame, Father Doyle served terms as Grace Hall president and student body president during his undergraduate career. He worked for two years for Deloitte & Touche's Seattle consulting practice before returning to Notre Dame, entered the Congregation of Holy Cross, earned a master of divinity degree in 1996 and was ordained a priest at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in 1998. He earned a master of business administration degree from the Harvard Business School in 2003, where he was also a recipient of the Dean's Award upon graduation.
Father Doyle's early years as a priest were spent on Notre Dame's campus, where he served in campus ministry, was the first rector of Keough Hall and taught business ethics in the Mendoza College of Business. He also was elected Notre Dames 2001 Senior Class Fellow.

As vice president for student affairs, Father Doyle is responsible for campus ministry, student residences, residence life, multicultural student affairs, student activities, Notre Dame security/police, the University counseling center, University health services, career and placement services, alcohol and drug education, and the gender relations center.

Fr. Tom is a native of Colville, WA and the second of five children.

Thomas Harvey
The Luke McGuinness Director of Nonprofit Professional Development
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Thomas J. Harvey, the director of the Nonprofit Excellence Program at the University of Notre Dame, joined the staff of the Mendoza College of Business in 2005. He is an internationally recognized leader in social welfare.  Over the course of Mr. Harvey’s 40 year career, he has led local and national organizations committed to confronting the challenges of poverty, discrimination, health care, and human services.   In October 2003, he was chosen by the Council on Social Work Education as one of 50 pioneers within the field of social work during the past 50 years to be highlighted in its published work, Celebrating Social Work: Faces and Voices of the Formative Years.   From 1998 until 2005, Mr. Harvey served as the Senior Vice President of at the Alliance for Children and Families, a Milwaukee-based international association of more than 300 private, nonprofit child-and family-serving agencies which strengthen the lives of over 5 million disadvantaged families annually. 

Mr. Harvey is also the President Emeritus of Catholic Charities USA; where he served President/CEO from 1982-1992.  Catholic Charities USA is a national network of over 1200 religiously-affiliated social service agencies annually serving more than 12 million clients with 50,000 staff, 200,000 volunteers and a cumulative annual budget of $2 billion.  When he took over the leadership of the organization, he helped grow its infrastructure from serving 3.5 million clients to over 12 million, while promoting standards and accreditation for services.  He is well known for his passionate advocacy on issues of critical concern for the marginated and has frequently provided testimony before the U.S. Congress.  His mission-driven, principle-centered leadership earned him the reputation of being an advocate for fighting poverty and for the betterment of the human condition.

In addition to holding a variety of leadership positions for over 40 years, Mr. Harvey has been engaged in numerous voluntary educational, research and community service activities, serving on the Boards of the Independent Sector, the National Assembly of National Voluntary Health and Social Welfare Organizations, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, Catholic Health East, the Council of Accreditation, among others.   He has taught at several leading universities, including the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin, as well as consulted for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Aspen Institute, the Fannie Mae Foundation, and dozens of nonprofit social service organization.

Mr. Harvey received a M.S. from Columbia University School of Social Work; a master’s degree and B.A in Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy; and a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo College in Philadelphia.  In 1977, he also earned a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2009, Mr. Harvey co-authored the book, Nonprofit Governance, which was published by Corby Publishing, LLC.

Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Secretary for Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston

J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Cabinet Secretary for Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. From 2004-2007 Fr. Bryan served as the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Prior to assuming these positions Father Hehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the national network of Charities in the United States, from 2001 through 2003. From 1973-1992 he served on the staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., addressing issues of both foreign and domestic policy for the church in the United States. From 1984-1992, he served on the faculty at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. From 1993-2001 he served on the Harvard Divinity School faculty as Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society. From 1998-2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of the Divinity School.

Father Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degrees at St. John’s Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association, the Global Development Committee and the Independent Sector. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1984.

Publications include: “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty”; “Catholicism and Democracy”; “Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition”; and “The Moral Dimension in the Use of Force”.

Joseph Holt
Director for Executive Ethics
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Joe Holt graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Political Science. Following a year of volunteer work teaching children from low-income families in his native Bronx, N.Y., Joe spent 11 years as a Jesuit seminarian and priest, studying languages and earning graduate degrees in Philosophy at Fordham University, Theology at the Weston School of Theology, and Biblical Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. While a Jesuit, Joe taught Philosophy at Canisius College, Boston College and Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center, and worked with those in need both within the United States and abroad in Nicaragua and Nigeria.

Upon returning from Rome in 1992, Joe earned his Series 7 license and spent part of the year pending acceptance to law school as a stockbroker (as a means of reflecting on questions of business ethics from the trenches). He then entered law school and received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1996. The summer after his first year of law school, Joe engaged in human rights work in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the summer following law school graduation from law school Joe worked on death row appeal cases at the Northwestern University School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic. He then worked as a corporate attorney for five years at major law firms in Chicago and Denver, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, antitrust matters and venture capital deals (and simultaneously conceiving and teaching Business Ethics and Spirituality of Work courses on an adjunct basis in Loyola University Chicago’s MBA program starting the summer of 1997). While a practicing attorney, Joe also gave presentations on the fiduciary duties of directors of nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis.

From June 2002 through June 2004, Joe was a Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Clinic on Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Law School; the Clinic provides free legal assistance to inner-city, low-income entrepreneurs seeking financial self-sufficiency. At the law school, Joe taught Entrepreneurship and the Law, Negotiation and Mediation, and a seminar on The Ethical Dimensions of Lawyering. From the fall of 2003, Joe also taught the Weave and Business Ethics courses in the University of Notre Dame Chicago EMBA program on an adjunct basis.

Joe joined Notre Dame full-time in July 2004 as Director for Executive Ethics in the Executive Education program at the Mendoza College of Business. In the EMBA program, Joe teaches Business Ethics and the Weave, a method of integrative dialogue focusing on the value dimensions of select issues from the traditional business courses the students are taking concurrently. In the MBA program, he teaches Values-Based Decision Making, Negotiation, Spirituality and Religion in the Workplace and Legal Issues in Start-Up Businesses. Joe also facilitates community outreach efforts within the college of business, consults corporations and other organizations on matters of leadership and ethics, and writes on issues of values and faith in the workplace.



Rev. Edward A. (Monk) Malloy, C.S.C.
President Emeritus
University of Notre Dame

Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., completed his 18 th and final year as president of the University of Notre Dame on July 1, 2005. He now serves as President Emeritus. As the University’s 16 th president, Father Malloy was elected by the Board of Trustees in 1986, having served five years as vice president and associate provost. Father Malloy is a full professor in the Department of Theology and has been a member of the faculty since 1974. As President Emeritus, he continues to teach, conducting a seminar for first-year undergraduates each semester, and he makes his home in a student residence hall on campus.

He is the author of more than 50 articles and book chapters, the editor or co-editor of two books, and has published six books. His last book, entitled Monk’s Notre Dame was published in September 2005 by University of Notre Dame Press. An ethicist by training, he is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Society of Christian Ethics.

Father Malloy led Notre Dame at a time of rapid growth in its reputation, faculty, and resources. The University’s endowment is about $4 billion (15 th largest among U.S. private colleges and universities) and its recently concluded “Generations” capital campaign raised $1.1 billion, far exceeding its goal of $767 million. The total raised was the largest in the history of Catholic higher education. The University has seen a dramatic improvement in its financial aid resources, in the quality of its campus facilities, and in the diversity of its student body and faculty. It has fostered its distinctive identity as a Catholic university while gaining the recognition of its peer institutions, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

Father Malloy earned his doctorate in Christian ethics from Vanderbilt University in 1975, and Vanderbilt honored him in 1998 with the establishment of a chair in Catholic studies in his name. He has also been awarded 24 honorary degrees. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Notre Dame in 1963 and 1967, and a second master’s degree, in theology, in 1969 while studying for the priesthood. He was ordained to the priesthood in Sacred Heart Basilica on campus in 1970.

Father Malloy’s service to higher education has been long-standing and presently includes membership on the boards of Vanderbilt University, the University of Portland, St. Thomas University, Notre Dame Australia and our own Notre Dame Board of Trustees. In addition, he has played a leadership role in many of the major higher education associations, including the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), Campus Compact, the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), and various committees of the NCAA. He was also a long-time member of the Business-Higher Education Forum.

Father Malloy also played a leadership role in efforts to promote community service and combat substance abuse. In addition to his involvement in Campus Compact, his roles in encouraging social service have included activity with AmeriCorps, Points of Light Foundation, the board of governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and activity connected to the 1997 President’s Service Summit in Philadelphia.

In combating substance abuse, Father Malloy has been a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, President Bush’s Advisory Council on Drugs, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, the Governor’s Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana, and a member of the board of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, for which he has chaired a number of commissions, particularly dealing with substance abuse among adolescents and among college and university students. He has also been co-chair of a major study on college drinking for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. In a related matter, he chaired NCAA committee on sports wagering.

Father Malloy has served the Catholic Church in a number of capacities, including participation on the Ex corde Ecclesiae committee and the Bishops-Presidents committee of the U. S. Catholic Conference. He frequently speaks at fund-raising events on behalf of Catholic primary and secondary schools and Catholic hospitals.

Rev. Mark Poorman, C.S.C.
Executive Vice President and Associate Professor of Theology
University of Portland

Father Mark Poorman, C.S.C. is the Executive Vice President and Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Portland.  Father Poorman’s responsibilities in this newly restructured position at the University of Portland will include general oversight of the divisions of university operations, financial affairs, university relations, and supervision of the student life division.

He is a former member of the Theology faculty at the University of Notre Dame where he taught courses in Christian Ethics which treat contemporary issues in medical ethics, sexuality, justice issues and professional ethics.  He is the author of Interactional Morality , published by Georgetown Press, and he edited Labors from the Heart, a collection of essays published by Notre Dame Press on mission and ministry in Catholic higher education.  He is a member of the University of Portland Board of Regents, Stonehill College Board of Trustees, Board of Governors of the University of Notre Dame-Australia, and the Board of Trustees for Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center.  He resides on campus in Keough Hall.

Daniel G. Reagan
Associate Vice President for University Relations
Executive Director of Principal Gifts and Campaign Administration

Daniel G. Reagan was named the associate vice president for University Relations and executive director of principal gifts and campaign administration at the University of Notre Dame in July 2003. In this capacity, he directs the Spirit of Notre Dame campaign, currently the largest fundraising effort in University history and in the history of Catholic higher education.

Previously, he served as the assistant vice president for University Relations and executive director of development since 1991. A 1976 graduate of the University, Reagan joined the development staff in 1984 as director of the Notre Dame Annual Fund. In that role, he also served as executive director of the Edward Frederick Sorin Society, a recognition society named for Notre Dame’s founder, which honors benefactors who contribute a minimum of $1,500 in unrestricted gifts annually to the University.

Reagan directed the University’s most recently completed campaign Generations, which in September 2000 became the first campaign in the history of Catholic higher education to surpass $1 billion. Far exceeding its $767 million goal, the campaign generated a final total of $1.061 billion in gifts to support student financial aid, endowed professorships, libraries, colleges and institutes, and other University priorities.

During his tenure as executive director of development, Notre Dame’s Department of Development enjoyed record-breaking cash giving totals for eight of nine years. In 2001, the University’s exemplary fundraising efforts were recognized with two Seal of Excellence Awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). A host of other honors were also bestowed on the department during this time: a CASE Circle of Excellence Award for improved fundraising, three CASE awards for sustained excellence in fundraising, and a CASE special leadership award for innovative programming. In addition, the Annual Fund and Sorin Society received five CASE national awards under Reagan’s direction.         

In recognition of his many contributions to the University, Reagan was honored with the President’s Award and the Alumni Association’s James E. Armstrong Award for Service to the University in 2002.

Before joining the Notre Dame staff, Reagan was the associate director of development at the University of Akron. Earlier, the Lorain, Ohio, native served as director of development for Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron and as a territory sales manager for the Carnation Company in Cleveland.

His wife, Margot, is a 1977 graduate of St. Mary’s College and a 1987 graduate of the Notre Dame Law School. She serves as a judge in the St. Joseph Superior Court. The Reagans have five children, the eldest of whom, Brigid, was graduated with the Notre Dame Class of 2000.

Ann Tenbrunsel
Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics and Co-Director, Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D. Northwestern University) is the Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and is the Arthur F. and Mary J. O'Neil co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Her research interests focus on decision-making and negotiations with a particular emphasis in ethics. Her work in this area has focused primarily on the situational factors that lead to unethical decision-making, including the role that temptation, uncertainty, power and sanctions play in the ethical decision-making process. More recently, she has explored the process of ethical fading, arguing that individuals often make unethical decisions because the ethical aspects of the decision are hidden to the decision maker. She is the co-editor of three books on these topics and has published her research in a variety of journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In her role as co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, Ann has hosted annual academic conferences on ethical issues within the major business disciplines and an annual dissertation competition in business ethics.

Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C.
Provincial Superior, Indiana Province
Congregation of Holy Cross

The Reverend David T. Tyson, CSC, Superior of the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was the University of Portland's 18th president from 1990-2003.

Born in Gary, Indiana, Fr. Tyson earned degrees in sociology and theology from the University of Notre Dame (B.A. 1970, M.A. 1974, respectively) and a doctorate in education from Indiana University (1980). He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1975. He also studied at Yale University and was a professor of management at Notre Dame, where he worked in the admissions office and in the residence halls before becoming executive assistant to then-president Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC in 1982. In 1984, Tyson was appointed vice president of student affairs, a position he held until coming to Portland in 1990.

In addition to his responsibilities as president of the University of Portland, Fr. Tyson played a key role in national collegiate athletic administration and in Catholic higher education in America. He was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Executive Committee and the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, the NCAA Presidents Commission and of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors Transition Team (which oversaw the NCAA's far-reaching structural changes), and was one of the two university presidents chosen as members of the NCAA's Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism, which examined the endemic problem of agent influence and payoffs in collegiate athletics. Tyson was also a member (and former chairman) of the Council of Presidents of the West Coast Conference, the athletic league to which the University of Portland belongs. In higher education, Fr. Tyson was a board member at the U.S. Air Force's Air University, and was recently awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the U.S. Army for his energetic support of the ROTC program.

Among his many awards and honors was selection as one of America's 50 outstanding college presidents (by the Templeton Foundation) and a surprise honorary doctorate of public service in 2002 from the college he radically elevated: the University of Portland.