Georgia Tech University Guest Professors
Dr. David Herold
Professor David Herold is Area Coordinator of Organizational Behavior. He has published widely in the major psychology and management journals, contributed to books, presented numerous papers at professional meetings, and serves as reviewer and editorial consultant for book publishers, journals, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute for Mental Health. His research interests include: behavioral problems in implementing new technologies, performance feedback in organizations, group performance, leadership and various aspects of workplace problems such as stress, alcohol, drugs, and AIDS.
Dr. Luis Martins
Professor Luis Martins conducts research on diversity in organizations and managerial cognition. He is currently studying these topics in the context of new work arrangements and processes enabled by information and communication technologies. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Group and Organization Management, Corporate Reputation Review, and in several book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Corporate Reputation Review, and is an ad hoc reviewer for most major journals in organizational behavior and for the National Science Foundation. He is also the Program Chair-Elect of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management. His teaching interests include organizational behavior, change management, and the management of innovation.
Dr. Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias
Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias is an assistant professor of Technology and Operations Management at the Operations Management area of the College of Management at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on new product development and the management of technology. In particular he is interested in the challenges that arise during the NPD portfolio selection decisions, and in the managerial problems that emerge during the new product co-development efforts irrespective of whether these lie within the firm (i.e. management of new product development teams) or they take place across firms (technology licensing and management of co-development projects). Stelios’ work has been awarded the 2nd prize in the George B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Competition, organized by INFORMS and it has appeared on Management Science and Production and Operations Management. He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science’s R&D and Product Development Department, and he has served as an ad-hoc Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management for the Management of Technology and the New Product Development, R&D and Project Management departments.
Stelios is teaching a new product development MBA elective, and he is contributing regularly to open enrollment and custom executive programs on innovation and project management at the Huang Executive Education Center at Georgia Tech’s College of Management. He has authored several case studies through close collaboration with major firms in multiple industries, ranging from diamond mining to pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Dennis Nagao
Associate Professor Dennis Nagao's research interests include group performance and effectiveness, behavioral factors affecting information technology acceptance and use, behavioral decision theory, and computer mediated group performance.
Professor Nagao's research has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality, and Social Psychology among others.
Currently, Dr. Nagao is researching decision making in sunk cost situations, computerized interviewing, and factors affecting group performance effectiveness.