Our MBA 7 generation attended this week Case Study Method course in COTRUGLI Belgrade campus. This module was held and leaded by Professor Joseph Santora. During 3 days module students were prepared to understand and develop management teaching cases based on areas of work expertise, company situations, and/or from existing literature (Annual Reports, newspapers…), and management/business periodicals (e.g. Businessweek). Drafts of student cases were presented and critiqued by peers and faculty in class which determined their quality, suitability and use by other students as well as their potential for publication.
Our students were instructed in the art of writing cases and preparing a Teaching Note. They were introduced with case study research methods skills and guided in identifying and selecting potential research sources to develop teaching cases.
Professor’s Profile: Dr. Joseph C. Santora
Dr. Joseph C. Santora (EdD, Fordham) is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Management and director of research and E-DBA doctoral program at Ecole des Pont Business School. Prior to this appointment, he was dean and director of doctoral studies at a business school where he led the DBA/PhD research and taught at leadership in the MBA, IEMBA (Leadership) and DBA/PhD (Qualitative Research) programs. Professor Santora was an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University (Australia) and a liaison and doctoral dissertation examiner. During the course of his academic tenure, he held several administrative and faculty posts including business dean and assistant dean, director of graduate management research, college administrator, visiting fellow in a leadership center, and tenured full professor of business and management. He has also taught as a visiting professor in several business school EMBA, MBA, and DBA programs in Australia, the Balkans, Europe, Georgia, Russia, Taiwan, the UK and the US. He has served as an external PhD and MBA thesis examiner for several international universities, having led more than 60 doctoral proposals, supervised more than 45 doctoral dissertations and examined more than 100 MBA theses. Professor Santora’s research focuses on coaching, leadership, executive succession and leadership transition in nonprofit organizations, family businesses, managing and leading change, and teams. He has written extensively, publishing more than four dozen refereed articles and teaching cases in ranked journal and 130+ academic and practitioner papers, cases, book chapters, reviews and he has written two books. His research has been published in several leading academic and practitioner outlets including Academy of Management Perspectives, Career Development International, Chief Executive Magazine, Development & Learning in Organizations, Harvard Business Review Italia, Journal of Organization & Leadership Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Development, Journal of Management Education, Personnel Review, and Training. In recent years, he received annual awards as best paper and presenters (2010-2015) at international conferences and was the Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 for a paper in Development and Learning Organizations (DLO), Highly Commended Paper Award in 2013 for a paper in DLO, and Highly Commended Paper Award in Leadership & Organizational Development in 2014. His co-authored paper in Leadership and Organization Development Journal was listed among the Top 10 Downloaded Articles in the 30-year history of the Journal. Earlier recognition included best conference paper and highly commended paper, and competitive prize award for a case study. Professor Santora has presented more than 40 papers at international conferences in 17 countries on three continents.
Professor Santora is the founding and current editor of the International Leadership Journal, an on-line refereed academic journal devoted to exploring multi-disciplinary organizational leadership issues. He serves on nine international academic editorial boards. He founded and served as the managing director of a two for-profit companies, and he has consulted to more than two dozen nonprofit organizations and major corporations in Europe and the US. He has done post-doctoral work at Harvard, Princeton and New York.