Faculty Information
All Business Education for In-house Counsel programs are taught by the faculty of Boston University’s School of Management. Please click on their names below to view their biographies.
Javier Jimenez
Lecturer, Operations and Technology Management
Boston University School of Management
Javier Jimenez is a Partner in the New England practice of Tatum, a national Executive Services firm focused in providing strategic and operational consulting and leadership in finance and technology.
He has over fifteen years of experience in financial operations and general management. He was Vice President and General Manager of Abiomed Europe, and previously, he was acting CFO and Corporate Vice President for Abiomed’s global operations. Abiomed is a medical device company based in Danvers, MA. Previously, he worked for GE Healthcare in a variety of finance and commercial operations roles. He started his career at General Electric as a member of its Corporate Audit Staff.
Javier holds a MBA from Boston University and a Master of Aeronautical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica of Madrid. He is an adjunct lecturer at Babson College and Boston University in their evening MBA programs.
William Kahn
Professor, Organizational Behavior Department
Boston University School of Management
William Kahn is a Professor in the Organizational Behavior Department at the Boston University School of Management where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology at Yale University. His teaching, research and consulting focuses on the creation of effective working relationships across functions, departments, hierarchical levels and organizational cultures. As a core faculty member of the Executive MBA Program, he teaches courses on managing teams, organizational change and leadership. He was awarded the School of Management's Broderick Prize for Teaching in 1994.
Professor Kahn has published widely in academic journals on subjects ranging from organizational change and consultation, motivation at work, and leadership. He is currently involved in a number of research and consulting projects with health care organizations that focus on managing change and the creation of cultures of effectiveness and collaboration.
Scott Harshbarger
Scott Harshbarger’s distinguished career began with stints as a public defender, civil rights attorney and Middlesex County district attorney, where he won the ABA’s Livingston Hall award for advances in juvenile justice. Elected Massachusetts Attorney General (A.G.) in 1991, Mr. Harshbarger led the state’s successful litigation effort against the major tobacco companies to recover costs of health care associated with tobacco use. In leading Massachusetts’ efforts against Big Tobacco, Mr. Harshbarger was among the first AGs nationally to recover the costs of health care associated with tobacco use.
As the leading law enforcement officer of Massachusetts, Mr. Harshbarger also led major initiatives against white-collar crime, public corruption, insurance and Medicaid fraud, environmental abuses and high-tech crime, and was the first state AG in the nation to use consumer protection and safety regulations to address the widespread availability of handguns. While he was AG, he served a term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General. He ran for governor of Massachusetts in 1999, almost but not quite defeating incumbent Paul Cellucci. He then served as national president of Common Cause from 1999 to 2002, leading the charge for what became the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (“McCain–Feingold”).
Now senior counsel at Proskauer in Boston, Mr. Harshbarger represents public- and private-sector officials under investigation, as well as a diverse array of other clients in litigation, corporate and not-for-profit governance, and strategic counsel. He is an acknowledged expert in fiduciary responsibilities, governmental inquiries and regulation, fraud investigations, compliance, ethics issues and crisis management. He also chairs his firm’s national Pro Bono Initiative. In 2008-09 he famously conducted an independent investigation into the governance and performance of the public interest advocacy group ACORN. Most recently, at the request of the Massachusetts Superior Judicial Court, he is Chairing the Task Force on Hiring and Promotion of the Judicial Branch, created to respond to the highly publicized Boston Globe series that focused on alleged patronage and corruption in the state’s Probation Department.
Melvyn A. J. Menezes
Associate Professor, Marketing Department
Boston University School of Management
Professor Menezes, a faculty member at Boston University, is a management educator, consultant and former member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School. During his 30 years of experience in academia, business and consulting, Professor Menezes has worked in a wide variety of industry and service sectors, including computers, telecommunications, high-tech and consumer products.
Mr. Menezes’ primary areas of expertise are marketing strategy, marketing high-tech products, customer and market focus, identification of growth opportunities, strategy, distribution channels and customer service. He has designed and delivered Executive Education Programs for managers at a number of large global corporations. He is also very experienced at facilitating executives in problem-solving workshop sessions and has successfully mobilized executive teams and galvanized them for action through strong and effective presentations and facilitation. His clients have included General Electric, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Merck, Amgen, DuPont, Mobil, Time Warner and Sears. Professor Menezes was on the Harvard Business School faculty from 1985 to 1992. He then joined Gemini Consulting (1992-1996) and played significant roles as a key member of the Innovation Group, as head of Gemini’s Global Faculty team, as Client Engagement Manager and as leader of the Service Quality Center of Excellence. From 1975 to 1981, he worked for the Gabriel Group (India), where he held a variety of management positions including Product Manager and Regional Manager.
Professor Menezes received his B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ian D. Roffman
Ian D. Roffman is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Enforcement, Government Investigations and White Collar Defense practice groups. He joined the firm in 2007 from the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as senior trial counsel in the Boston office.
Mr. Roffman specializes in securities enforcement and litigation, government and internal investigations and complex civil litigation. He represents companies, boards, board committees and individuals in SEC and other government enforcement matters, securities class actions, corporate governance disputes and general commercial disputes. He also advises companies and individuals concerning SEC, FINRA and state securities regulations and investigations and corporate governance matters.
His recent engagements have included the successful defense of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 copanies in shareholder class actions and conducting internal investigations for audit committees concerning securities law complaine. He has represented many public companies and individuals in SEC, NYSE and FINRA insider trading investigations; and has represented many senior-level executives and directors in SEC investigations and shareholder class actions relating to options backdating, subprime and other mortgage-backed securities, brokerage activity, revenue recognition, securities offerings, and public disclosures.
From 2001- 2007, Mr. Roffman worked for the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, rising to the position of senior trial counsel. While at the SEC, he led dozens of high-profile investigations and enforcement actions.
Ian was lead trial counsel in the Commission’s first market timing action against a mutual fund adviser and in well-publicized action involving public disclosures of the FDA’s review of a new drug application. He has also tried cases involving investment advisers and broker–dealers, including one matter in which the SEC obtained a then-record judgment against a large national brokerage firm. He is active in a number of community and bar organizations.
Susan S. Samuelson
Professor, Business Policy and Law Department
Faculty Director, Executive MBA Program
Boston University School of Management
Susan S. Samuelson is a Professor of Business Law at Boston University’s School of Management. After earning her A.B. at Harvard University and her J.D. at Harvard Law School, Professor Samuelson practiced with the firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart. She has written many articles on legal issues for scholarly and popular journals. She is interested in the intersection between management and law – her research has involved the management of law firms as well as the corporate management of legal issues. She has also co-authored four business law textbooks that have collectively been published in 15 editions. Professor Samuelson is the Faculty Director of the EMBA program and leads the School’s efforts to integrate a working knowledge of the legal system and its business impact into SMG curricula.
William Samuelson
Professor, Finance & Economics Department
Boston University School of Management
Professor Samuelson earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests include decision making, microeconomics, game theory, experimental economics, bargaining, and competitive bidding.
He has written numerous articles for scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Operations Research, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is co-author of two books, Game Theory and Business Applications and Managerial Economics (6th Edition). He was awarded the John Russell award for teaching excellence by the Executive MBA students in 1999.
Michael Smith
Associate Professor, Accounting Department
Boston University School of Management
Mr. Smith is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Boston University School of Management. After working four years in the mortgage banking industry and four years as a futures trader, he enrolled at Stanford University, where he received a Ph.D. in Business in 1998. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University, he was a member of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was the winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Cross-Continent MBA.
Professor Smith’s teaching interests include financial and managerial accounting, especially financial reporting and analysis of financial statements. He has taught in several full-time, executive and weekend executive MBA programs.
Professor Smith has broad research interests including multinational transfer pricing, executive compensation, financial disclosure and accounting microstructure. His research has been published in several academic journals, including The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; and Journal of Management Accounting Research.
Rick Welch
Adjunct Lecturer
Boston University School of Management
Mr. Welch is an adjunct lecturer at Boston University in the School of Management. He has over 20 years of information technology experience in security and applications disciplines.
Most recently, Mr. Welch was SVP of Services for Unica Corporation, a marketing automation software vendor. He led Unica's customer-facing consulting and maintenance business and was an officer of this $100M public (nasdaq) company. Prior to joining Unica, Mr. Welch spent ten years as an executive at RSA Security Inc., where he served as SVP of theData Security Software Division. RSA data security encryption products are utilized by more than 1,000 companies worldwide. In his first position at RSA, he was responsible for start-up and management of a new Professional Services business. Mr. Welch has also held technology leadership positions at Genesys Software and Digital Equipment Corporation, where he gained a broad understanding of software- and hardware-based information technology solutions.
Mr. Welch received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMI/PMP) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Mark T. Williams
Executive-in-Residence/Master Lecturer, Finance Department
Boston University School of Management
Mark T. Williams has substantial experience in risk management as both a practitioner, and as an academic. For more than two decades, he has worked as a senior trading floor executive, trust banker, Fed bank examiner and business school educator. Since 2002, he has been on the finance faculty at Boston University specializing in banking, energy and capital markets. In 2008 he was awarded the Beckwith Prize for excellence in teaching. Mr. Williams frequently appears in the national media and has been a guest columnist for Reuters.com, Forbes.com, and the Boston Globe. In 2010, his book Uncontrolled Risk, detailing the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers and root causes of the financial crisis, was published by McGraw Hill.
Outside academics, he conducts risk management seminars, consults with various Fortune 500 companies, and has served as an expert witness on various risk-related legal cases. He is also a senior advisor at The Brattle Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based economic consulting and expert witness company.