All Business Education for In-house Counsel programs are taught by the faculty of Boston University Questrom School of Business. Please click on their names in the sidebar menu to view their biographies.
Christopher Carter
Lecturer, Strategy and Innovation
Boston University Questrom School of Business
Chris spent over 25 years working in consulting and investing. He has advised executives on general management, business strategy and innovation. As an investor, he has experience with venture capital, growth equity, debt financing and public equity. Some of the highlights of his career include:
- Monitor Company – worked with Michael Porter and others advising Fortune 100 companies on strategic positioning and developing competitive advantage.
- Innosight – worked closely with Clayton Christensen helping global companies create innovation strategies.
- Sherbrooke Capital – As a partner of a venture capital fund, invested in early stage businesses in the health and wellness industries. Developed and trained management teams.
- Alydar Capital – Equity analyst for a long/short public equity hedge fund.
- Tandem Solutions – Lead instructor teaching management and leadership to a range of executives from C-Suite leaders to front line managers. Clients include Fortune 100 companies, universities, start-ups and non-profit organizations.
At the Questrom School, Chris uses a combination of the case method and lectures and is known for leading engaging and thought-provoking class discussions. According to one student, “His ability to facilitate class discussions and encourage students to discuss freely without side-tracking from the core of the case studies is very strong.”
Chris holds both an MBA and a BA from Harvard University
William Kahn
Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Professor, Management & Organizations
Boston University Questrom School of Business
William Kahn is a Professor in the Management & Organizations Department at the Boston University Questrom School of Business, 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 Faculty Director of the Executive MBA Program, Kahn teaches courses on leading organizational change, managing teams, and crisis leadership. He was awarded the School of Management's Broderick Prize for Teaching in 1994.
Kahn has published widely in academic journals on subjects ranging from organizational change and consultation, employee engagement, and crisis leadership. He is currently involved in a number of research and consulting projects with public and health care organizations that focus on managing change and the creation of cultures of effectiveness and collaboration.
Michael Smith
Associate Professor, Accounting
Boston University Questrom School of Business
Michael Smith is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. 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. He has won multiple teaching awards at both Duke University and Boston University.
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.