Brandeis Faculty
CAROLE CARLSON, PHD
Carole Carlson is the Director of the Brandeis University MBA Program, she teaches Heller courses in Strategic Management, Social Entrepreneurship, and Team Consulting. She is the Concentration Chair for the Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Management concentration in the Heller MBA program. She also coaches mid-career executives participating in executive education programs at the Harvard Business School and is currently engaged with HBS in delivering online education programs to leading companies worldwide. She was the 2013 recipient of the Heller Teaching Award, and a 2014 recipient of the Davis Teaching and Learning Fellowship.
SALLY OURIEFF, PHD
Sally Ourieff is an adjunct faculty member at The Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University where she teaches in their MBA for mid-career physicians. Sally has over 30 years of experience as a physician, health care leader, and executive advisor and consultant. She partners with C-suite executives and senior leaders to ensure their leadership has impact and to help their team and systems drive strategic and operational goals. Sally also works with founders to navigate the critical early phase of startups from ideation to scaling growth. Her clients range from early ventures to Fortune 50 companies in multiple industries including pharmaceuticals, biotech, health care, finance, private equity, retail, and sports. Sally brings to her work deep expertise in strategic thinking, leadership, organizational systems, team dynamics, and behavior change. She graduated from Stanford University with an B.A. in Human Biology and a minor in Journalism and received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
JOEL CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD, PHD
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is a professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he leads research on agile institutions and teaches classes on strategy and operations. Previously he served as a professor and dean in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois. Joel is editor for the Negotiation Journal at the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and is past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. He holds a PhD in industrial relations from MIT and a BS in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.
MICHAEL DOONAN, PHD
Michael Doonan is an associate professor at the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. He is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, and Director of the Council for Health Care Economics and Policy. Michael worked as a program specialist for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in the area of Medicaid managed care and state health care reform. He served as a member of President Clinton’s Health Care Taskforce working primarily on the Low-Income and Working Families work group, and as a member of the Taskforce Speakers Bureau. Michael also worked as a fellow for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee as they considered national reform in 1994. He began his career as a legislative aide for Senator John Kerry where he worked on health and environmental issues.
JODY HOFFER GITTELL, PHD
The author of “High Performance Healthcare,” Dr. Gittell is a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Associate Professor of Management and former MBA Program Director at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Gittell’s research explores how coordination by front-line workers contributes to quality and efficiency outcomes in service settings, with a particular focus on the airline and healthcare industries.
BRAD MORRISON, PHD
Brad Morrison is an Associate Professor of Management in the Brandeis International Business School. Brad has previously taught at the Sloan School at M.I.T. and in executive education in a variety of settings. He has been a partner at a leading global management consulting firm and has more than 15 years of consulting experience in the retail and consumer products and healthcare industries. He has extensive experience in Asia where he has worked in 11 countries for his clients from North America, Asia, and Europe. In 2012, he was recognized for his work on dynamic problem solving as the recipient of the Jay W. Forrester Award from the System Dynamics Society for the best published work in the field for the preceding five years.
We designate our PELI Advance graduates ‘McAfee Fellows’ in honor of the late, distinguished physician leader, Robert McAfee, who was a general and vascular surgeon, physician and advocate for the prevention of family violence and improved healthcare. He was the 149th President of the American Medical Association and Chairman of the Board of the Dirigo Health Plan. The PELI Advanced experience prepares physicians to tackle today’s healthcare challenges while strategizing to resolve tomorrow’s, following in Dr. McAfee’s footsteps.