MBA Essentials

Faculty

Faculty

E. Geoffrey Love

Associate Professor of Business Administration

In addition to serving as a prolific professor, Love is the academic director of the Management Major. He teaches or has taught courses on organizational behavior, managing innovation, organizational change, leadership, and entrepreneurial management. Love’s research interests include innovation, corporate reputation, organizational change, and downsizing. His work has been published in numerous journals and has appeared as case studies and in other publications as well. Before joining the University of Illinois, Love was an assistant professor of management at Rice University.

Faculty

Faculty

Hayden Noel

Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration

Noel has been repeatedly recognized for his teaching. He was on the List of Professors Ranked as Excellent from 2007 – 2018. In addition, he earned the Executive MBA Program Professor of the Year in the EMBA Program (2016), the MBA Professor of the Year for Service to Students (2016), and the PMBA Teaching Excellence Award for the Illinois MBA (2017). Noel’s teaching is focused on marketing management and consumer behavior, while his research centers on consumer information processing and memory. Before joining the University of Illinois, Noel was a lecturer at the University of Florida and an advertising account executive at Bozell Worldwide, Inc.

Faculty

Faculty

Gopesh Anand

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Anand is more than a professor; he is also the academic director of Operations Management at the university. Widely published, Anand serves as co-editor in the Strategy and Organization Department of the Journal of Operations Management, senior editor and reviewer of Production and Operations Management Society Journal, and associate editor and reviewer of Decision Science Journal. His research focuses on operations strategy and continuous improvement. Anand joined the University of Illinois in 2006 after nine years of industry experience and a doctorate in operations management.

Faculty

Faculty

Gary Hecht

Associate Professor of Accountancy and Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow

Hecht holds a number of titles in his role at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, including academic director of the iMSA Program in the Department of Accountancy. In his role at the school, he has taught accounting courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. He himself is a 2005 PhD graduate of the University of Illinois. But his first foray into academia had him serving as a professor at Emory University and then at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Returning to Illinois in 2013, Hecht has been among the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students 10 times. His research focuses on managerial accounting. Before joining academia, Hecht worked in public accounting, including auditing and tax.