Starting Date: January (or as late as March) 2009 or September 2009
At Thunderbird, we educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide. If you share our passion for global management education and our belief that global business can be a force for positive economic and social change, we invite you to consider joining Thunderbird's global faculty.
We are looking for a unique candidate (Senior Assistant, Associate, Full, or Clinical – with tenure-track or visiting options) with proven performance in teaching excellence and an established or emerging record of research in operations management that would be of keen interest to practitioners including executive audiences. The applicant should have a Ph.D. in Operations Management or a closely related field. Our approach to teaching operations management focuses on strategic and managerial issues. We want our graduates to begin their careers with a sound understanding of practical concepts they can apply in any global location or industry sector. Employers have been especially impressed with the capacity Thunderbird graduates have for critical analysis of processes through the application of lean thinking.
As global thought leaders, Thunderbird professors constantly challenge common wisdom, anticipate global trends and create new perspectives that help global leaders drive enduring global success.
Teaching responsibilities will include the six-week on-campus core operations management class as well as some one-week off-shore EMBA classes. Candidates should also possess the proven ability to develop and teach elective courses. The teaching load will depend on research productivity. However, it is possible to fulfill one's teaching responsibility in fewer than 20 weeks dispersed throughout the year, leaving ample time for research.
Thunderbird faculty members are responsible for Thunderbird’s top-ranked MBA in International Management and for one of the highest-ranked executive education operations in the world. Hundreds of students from San Francisco to Monterrey, Berlin to Shanghai – and dozens of leading organizations from Arizona to Geneva, Moscow to Seoul – transform their thinking with us every year. Thunderbird has 38,000 alumni – a highly resourceful and close-knit group of individuals who work in more than 12,000 corporations, governments, NGOs and other enterprises in more than 140 countries.
Please send a current vita, three sample publications, a summary of teaching evaluations, and three letters of reference to Ms. Cheri Hazen cheri.hazen@thunderbird.edu): Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1 Global Place, Glendale, AZ 85306-6000 USA. Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. A Thunderbird faculty representative will attend the DSI meeting in Baltimore to meet with candidates.