The University of San Francisco School of Management is built on this vision: we are an
academically rigorous, diverse, globally-oriented, Jesuit school of higher education, in and of the city of San Francisco.
We are a socially responsible learning community and our mission is to educate business leaders who will fashion a more humane and just world.
We are engaged in the cultural, intellectual and economic resources of our location in San Francisco, close by the Silicon Valley, and at the very eastern edge of the Pacific Rim.
Our vision and our mission is embodied by our leadership team, each one of whom is responsible for certain core components of who and what we are as a School.
| School of Management Leadership Team |
Mike Webber was, most recently, USF’s Associate Vice Provost for Academic Effectiveness and before that served as Associate Dean of Academic Program Review, Assessment and Adjunct Faculty for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mike received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also earned an M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wales, Cardiff and a B.Sc.(Econ) in Politics and History from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His research has concentrated on how business is connected to political processes in the United States, focusing on the New Deal era. He is the author of New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election (Fordham University Press 2000) and, with Professor G. William Domhoff, Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Conservatives and the Liberal-Labor Coalition (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). |
 Thomas Grossman, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Tom completed his doctorate in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and has taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Haskayne School of Management at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on business analytics, spreadsheet information systems and management of end-user analytics. |
 Catherine Horiuchi, Associate Dean of Graduate Management Programs
Catherine completed her doctorate in Public Administration at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the implementation and outcomes of public policy, principally in energy and fuels, exploring effects related to the limits of human decision making and rationality. She has held a visiting appointment at Seattle University and has taught quantitative methods, statistics, organizational theory, public policy analysis and emerging technologies. |
 Richard Stackman, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Richard W. Stackman (Ph.D.) is the associate dean of undergraduate programs and is an associate professor in the Department of Organization Leadership & Communication. He also serves as the director of the Organization and Development master's program. Dr. Stackman earned his doctorate in business administration from the University of British Columbia. His undergraduate degree (cum laude) in business administration is from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma.
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 John Veitch, Associate Dean for MBA and Graduate Business Programs
John completed his doctorate in Economics at Northwestern University and has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine. His research is on the application of statistical techniques to domestic and international financial markets. John joins us from the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences where he was chair of the department for fourteen years and program director of the master's programs in Financial Analysis, Investor Relations and Risk Management since 2002. John has been a chartered financial analyst (CFA) since 1999. John won the Outstanding Teaching Award in the MBAE program in 2001, 2003 and 2005. |
