Tuck Bridge Faculty
Robert Burnham
Technology
Bob Burnham is a Senior Research Computing Associate and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School. Bob is principally a software developer working in C, C++, Python, Java, SAS, R, and Common Lisp.
Matt Considine
Investments
Matt Considine is Professor of Practice at Middlebury College, having joined in October 2020 after being a visiting professor for the previous academic year at Champlain College. In these capacities he has taught Investments, Advanced Investments, Introduction to Corporate Finance and other finance classes. From 2011 to 2018 he was the Director of Investments for the State of Vermont, overseeing the administration of the investment portfolios underlying three State pension plans, deferred compensation plans and other asset pools. In that capacity he and his team worked with the State Treasurer, the Vermont Pension Investment Committee and others on the setting, implementation and evaluation of investment strategies.
Prior to his work in the public sector, he spent twenty years as an equity analyst and portfolio manager with firms such as BlackRock and Dupont Capital Management, managing mutual funds and other long-only and long-short strategies. His formal education includes a BA with Honors in Mathematics-Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School. A member of the Vermont CFA Society, he has held the CFA charter since 1993. Among the non-profits he is involved with is Gifford Healthcare (for which he recently served as Board Chair), the Antique Telescope Society (for which he is Treasurer) and the Springfield Telescope Makers. A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he enjoys amateur astronomy, as well as hiking and cooking in his backyard wood-fired oven.
Anne Corbin
Business Law
Dr. Anne Corbin is a law-trained performance scientist who has taught college students and government leaders for over two decades. Her perspective sits at the intersection of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Law, and Ethics. She has held roles in higher education, justice research firms, federal and state government, and private and nonprofit sectors. Her research has centered on points of role friction for justice system professionals and the relationship between law and science. More recent work has focused on progressive workforce initiatives and best management practices for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leaders.
Trip Davis
Entrepreneurship
Trip Davis is CEO of FreshAir Sensor LLC, a venture co-founded by Dartmouth Chemistry professor Joe BelBruno and Tuck graduate Jack O'Toole T'14. He teaches the “Entrepreneurial Thinking” elective at Tuck. He is chair of the board of trustees of Dartmouth Regional Technology Center Inc. (DRTC), a 60,000 square foot nonprofit economic development incubator in Lebanon, NH. Previously, Trip served as the executive director of the Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth’s staff in 2013, he was the senior associate dean for external relations and president of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Prior to his appointments at Dartmouth and Virginia, Trip was an entrepreneur in travel technology who was twice named one of the top 25 most influential executives in the travel industry. He earned his BA from Dartmouth and MBA from Darden.
Aram Donigian
Organizational Behavior/Negotiations/Team Building
Tuck Bridge faculty director.
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. Donigian currently teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and works closely with the Tuck Business Bridge Program.
Aine Donovan
Ethics
Aine Donovan is a Clinical Professor of Business Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is the Director Emerita of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College, a campus-wide initiative that serves the needs of faculty and students in ethics education. Prior to her tenure at Dartmouth, she was a professor at the United States Naval Academy where she developed the ethics curriculum and founded the first ethics center at Annapolis.
Her research emphasis, publications, and professional presentations are in the field of moral education, bioethics, business ethics and global strategies for ethical understanding. Her recent books include "Global Bioethics" (Oxford) and "The Human Genome Project in College Curriculum: Ethical Issues and Practical Strategies"(UPNE).
Dia Draper
Inclusive Leadership
Dia Draper is Tuck’s Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a member of the school’s senior leadership team. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she developed a passion for the intersection of inclusive leadership, business and education, work she is fortunate to pursue at Tuck and beyond. Dia received her BS and MS in accounting prior to joining PWC and Deloitte in their elite tax consulting groups. She is an alumna of NOLS, Semester at Sea, Leadershape and a two-time TEDx speaker.
Syd Finkelstein
Leadership
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail Links to an external site. and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein’s research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life.
Amy Florentino T’10
Business Communications
Amy Florentino has more than 20 years of experience as a military officer, operator, strategist, and occasional academic instructor. She currently serves as Commander for Sector Northern New England in Portland, Maine. In this role, she leads more than 1,100 personnel to execute the Coast Guard’s eleven statutory missions across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northeastern New York. She oversees an area of responsibility that spans over 5,000 miles of coastline throughout New England and Lake Champlain. Her team operates six multi-mission cutters, eight life-saving stations, two marine safety detachments, and three Aids to Navigation Teams.
Ms. Florentino received her bachelor’s degree in Operations Research from the Coast Guard Academy and her MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.
Mark Hardie
Private Equity/Venture Capital
Mark Hardie is the Director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, Mark was the Director of the Entrepreneur Innovation Center at Framingham State University. A start-up veteran with deep experience in operations leadership, Mark is also an alumni Career Coach at Harvard Business School, working closely with start-up leadership teams, first time founders and mid-career entrepreneurs.
The son of two teachers, he has taught and lectured on technology issues and entrepreneurship at Harvard, MIT, University of Virginia, Framingham State University, and University of Hartford. A Massachusetts native, Mark attended primary and secondary schools in Holyoke MA, is a graduate of both Tufts University with a B.A. in Political Science and the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management with concentrations in finance and operation. He brings extensive experience launching start-ups, driving corporate strategy and business innovation, all with a focus on Internet business models, mobile device platforms, and cloud-based B2B and B2C service businesses.
Constance Helfat
Strategy
Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy and Senior Associate Dean for Research Innovation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat has taught strategy in the Business Bridge program since 1999. She has also taught courses in the Tuck MBA program on technology and business strategy, including a course on the strategy of Apple Inc., and is currently teaching the strategy course in the Dartmouth/Tuck Master’s of Health Care Delivery Science program. Professor Helfat’s research focuses on strategic change, with an emphasis on firm capabilities, technological innovation, and top executives. She has published widely in leading academic journals, and has written and edited three academic books. Professor Helfat is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, is a Foundations Scholar of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and was awarded the Viipuri Prize for outstanding achievements in strategy research and an honorary doctorate from Lappeenranta University of Technology. She is a currently a co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal, and has served in editorial roles at Management Science and Organization Science. She also serves on the editorial boards of other academic journals.
Julie Lang
Business Communication
As a Clinical Professor of Management at Tuck, Julie teaches Management Communication and Client Project Management, and advises student teams engaged in client-based projects through Tuck OnSite Global Consulting and First Year Projects.
Julie worked in sales, marketing, communications and product management for Elanco Products Co. (a division of Eli Lilly) and for Imperial Chemical Industries (now Syngenta) before joining Arthur D. Little as a consultant in 1990. She created her own consulting firm in 2001 and has worked with clients in dozens of organizations and on four continents to generate, clarify, and communicate their strategic initiatives. Julie earned her MBA from Tuck, where she was recognized as an Edward Tuck Scholar and recipient of the Dero Saunders Award for Communication Excellence.
Brian Melzer
Real Estate
Brian Melzer is an economist who studies household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and financial regulation. He has held positions as a senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he taught corporate finance for MBA students. Professor Melzer has published in leading economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses in real estate at Tuck.
Ernie Parizeau T’84
Ethics
Ernie is a retired partner at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked as a venture capitalist for 23 years. He invested in over 50 early-stage companies in the software, semiconductor, communications, healthcare, education, and retail industries. He retired from NVP in 2007.
Ernie Parizeau is currently a DCI Fellow at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College. He has taught entrepreneurship and
investing courses at Middlebury, Babson College, and Franklin Olin College of Engineering.
Ernie was the chair of The Cape Eleuthera Foundation from 2012 - 2017. CEF raises financial resources for three institutions founded by the same social entrepreneurs on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas:
- The Island School - a challenging, three-month, experiential educational program for high
school students from around the world,
- The Cape Eleuthera Institute - a scientific research facility, and,
- The Deep Creek Middle School - a private middle school educating Bahamian students.
He continues to support the Cape Eleuthera Foundation as a board member and is an enthusiastic proponent of experiential education. He is also a member of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Network advisory board.
Ernie graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in Engineering Sciences (1979) and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School (1984). Ernie and his wife, Kim (TU ’84), have four children and one grandchild. For fun, Ernie rows, snowboards, and flys small planes.
Courtney Pierson
Business Communication
Courtney Pierson teaches Communication in Tuck’s MBA, Bridge and NextStep programs. She is actively involved with Tuck’s experiential learning courses as faculty advisor for student First Year Projects and the for the Paganucci Fellows Program, an eight-week internship for Dartmouth students interested in social entrepreneurship. Courtney graduated from Tuck in 2001 and, after several years at Bain & Company, returned to the media industry as head of strategy for a Blackstone portfolio company. During her 25+ year career, Courtney has held senior strategy, general management and operations positions in online media, direct marketing and ecommerce for organizations including Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill and CBS Television.
Peter Regan
Spreadsheet Modeling
Peter Regan teaches pre-term quantitative skills and elective Professional Decision Modeling at the Tuck School. He has taught pre-term quantitative skills at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Models for Strategic Planning at INSEAD in France, and core Decision Models in London and Shanghai for the Cross-Continent (now Global) Executive MBA program of Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Prof. Regan studied biochemistry (B.A., Dartmouth) and decision & risk analysis (MS and PhD, Stanford University). He worked in management consulting, software development, and entrepreneurship. His published works address MBA teaching, decision making, decision technology, and public health. He created and leads the self-paced, online MBA Math quantitative skills course that 75K+ students have used to build a solid foundation for finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and spreadsheets. He previously founded a consulting and technology firm, working collaboratively with strategy consultants and global life sciences companies.
Daniella Reichstetter T’07
Entrepreneurship
Daniella Reichstetter is the executive director of Dean's Office Special Projects and an adjunct professor at the school. She has 20+ years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology), and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and non-profit organizations, and she is an active angel investor.
Daniella graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Spanish and business. She received her MBA from Tuck, where she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
At Tuck, Daniella oversees the Tuck Compass program, coteaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the Diversity Entrepreneurship Practicum, leads a Global Insight Expedition, serves as faculty adviser to various First-Year Project teams, and is the faculty director of TuckLAB Entrepreneurship. She was the founding executive director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship.
Morten Sorenson
Corporate Finance
PhD, Stanford University, 2005; MSc., Aarhus University, 1999; BSc., Aarhus University, 1997
Morten Sorensen’s research is in the areas of private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and executive personality and characteristics; he studies economic behavior and financial performance in private markets, in individual transactions and in the role of private markets in the economy. Morten has presented his research at numerous universities and conferences and published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNBC,and Bloomberg. In addition to his faculty positions, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; he has advised PhD students, worked with numerous companies, and served as an expert in litigation involving mortgage lenders, private companies, and private equity firms. Morten grew up in Denmark and relocated to the United States; he lives with his wife, two daughters, a dog, and a cat in Hanover, NH.
Charlie Wheelan
Economics
Charles Wheelan is the faculty director for the Center for Business, Government, and Society. Prior to joining the Tuck faculty, he was a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. He teaches assorted courses related to business and public policy and has won many teaching awards, including Dartmouth’s 2020 Dean of the College Teaching Award.
Wheelan is the author of the “naked books”: Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and Naked Economics. In 2023, Naked Economics was named by Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal as the best business book of all time.
Wheelan is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to foster a more representative and functional government.
Wheelan holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife Leah Yegian Wheelan, who is also a 1988 Dartmouth graduate.
Conwell Worthington III
Marketing
Conwell Worthington III is an experienced educator with over 20 years in executive arts management coupled with faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University.
Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Worthington acted as the Associate General Manager at The Huntington Theatre Company and the Theater Manager at the Charles Playhouse, both in Boston, MA. Career production highlights include management positions on shows nationally and internationally: Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations); international engagements (Australia and Canada); national tours (The Lion King, Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, and The Book of Mormon); and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, Fences, Purlie, Ray Charles Live! and Blue). Worthington also acted as Worldwide Associate to the Production Supervisor for The Lion King, helping coordinate productions in China and the Netherlands. Worthington served as Associate Producer on In a Booth at Chasens at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Currently he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Detroit, MI and J&B Theatricals in California.
