Instructors and Panelists

*Due to schedules, instructors are subject to change.



Robert Bretz
Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of Management
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Bob Bretz is the Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of Management. His research and teaching interests include staffing and selection issues, and the linkages between individual and organizational effectiveness. He is best known for his research concerning individual job search and choice behavior. Bretz is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has served on the editorial review boards of Personnel Psychology and the Journal of Management. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1997, Bretz taught at the University of Iowa and at Cornell University. He has received Outstanding Educator awards from Notre Dame’s MBA and MNA Programs, as well as the Notre Dame Presidential Award in 2004. His published work has appeared in psychology and management publications, including Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Management. His article, “Job Search Behavior of Employed Managers” (Personnel Psychology) was the recipient of the Academy of Management’s HR Division’s Scholarly Achievement Award for 1995. A recent article in The Industrial / Organizational Psychologist (TIP) identified Bretz as one of the 10 most prolific authors in the field’s two leading journals (Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology) for the decade of the 1990s.

Lawrence Cunningham
John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus)
University of Notre Dame

Lawrence S. Cunningham is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and former chair of the department. The author/editor of twenty books, he specializes in the history of Christian spirituality. He has published over fifty solicited or refereed articles and hundreds of more popular articles and reviews.

Cunningham has lectured or taught in Europe, South Africa, Taiwan, Israel and at many colleges and universities in the United States. Winner of two teaching awards at the University of Notre Dame he also serves as a fellow of the Kaneb Center. In 2002 he was given the presidential award of the university for his service to church and the academy. Three times the Catholic Press Association has honored him for his writing.

Rev. Thomas Doyle
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives
University of Notre Dame

A native of Colville, Wash., and a 1989 graduate of Notre Dame, Father Doyle served terms as Grace Hall president and student body president during his undergraduate career. He worked for two years for Deloitte & Touche's Seattle consulting practice before returning to Notre Dame, entered the Congregation of Holy Cross, earned a master of divinity degree in 1996 and was ordained a priest at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in 1998. He earned a master of business administration degree from the Harvard Business School in 2003, where he was also a recipient of the Dean's Award upon graduation.

Father Doyle's early years as a priest were spent on Notre Dame's campus, where he served in campus ministry, was the first rector of Keough Hall and taught business ethics in the Mendoza College of Business. He also was elected Notre Dames 2001 Senior Class Fellow.

Father Doyle served as Vice President for Student Affairs at Notre Dame from 2010 to 2012

Marc Hardy
Nonprofit Executive Programs Director
Nonprofit Professional Development, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Marc Hardy is the director of Nonprofit Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is completing his Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and has taught nonprofit leadership and management at IU and Butler University. In 2006, he was voted the “Outstanding Associate Faculty of the Year” at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI. He also formerly was the associate director of the Institute for Research and Scholarship at Butler University. He has led several nonprofit organizations and was once the executive director of a private operating foundation, the Fourth Freedom Forum, which is now the foremost think-tank in the country on the subject of peace through international trade incentives and economic sanctions. Marc has served as a board member of several nonprofit organizations, including a term as president of the National Speakers Association of Indiana. An actor, director and playwright, he is the past president of the Indiana Theatre Association and a board member of his alumni association. He is a co-author of two books, Only the Best on Customer Service and Only the Best on Leadership, as well as several articles on management and leadership. Voted one of the top three speakers in the country during the “World Championship of Public Speaking,” he has spoken to more than 400 groups in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Caribbean. He has given more than 100 radio and television interviews, hosted his own morning radio show, and co-hosted a live public television interview show.

Thomas Harvey
The Luke McGuinness Director of Nonprofit Professional Development
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Thomas J. Harvey, the director of the Nonprofit Excellence Program at the University of Notre Dame, joined the staff of the Mendoza College of Business in 2005. He is an internationally recognized leader in social welfare.  Over the course of Mr. Harvey’s 40 year career, he has led local and national organizations committed to confronting the challenges of poverty, discrimination, health care, and human services.   In October 2003, he was chosen by the Council on Social Work Education as one of 50 pioneers within the field of social work during the past 50 years to be highlighted in its published work, Celebrating Social Work: Faces and Voices of the Formative Years.   From 1998 until 2005, Mr. Harvey served as the Senior Vice President of at the Alliance for Children and Families, a Milwaukee-based international association of more than 300 private, nonprofit child-and family-serving agencies which strengthen the lives of over 5 million disadvantaged families annually. 

Mr. Harvey is also the President Emeritus of Catholic Charities USA; where he served President/CEO from 1982-1992.  Catholic Charities USA is a national network of over 1200 religiously-affiliated social service agencies annually serving more than 12 million clients with 50,000 staff, 200,000 volunteers and a cumulative annual budget of $2 billion.  When he took over the leadership of the organization, he helped grow its infrastructure from serving 3.5 million clients to over 12 million, while promoting standards and accreditation for services.  He is well known for his passionate advocacy on issues of critical concern for the marginated and has frequently provided testimony before the U.S. Congress.  His mission-driven, principle-centered leadership earned him the reputation of being an advocate for fighting poverty and for the betterment of the human condition.

In addition to holding a variety of leadership positions for over 40 years, Mr. Harvey has been engaged in numerous voluntary educational, research and community service activities, serving on the Boards of the Independent Sector, the National Assembly of National Voluntary Health and Social Welfare Organizations, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, Catholic Health East, the Council of Accreditation, among others.   He has taught at several leading universities, including the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin, as well as consulted for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Aspen Institute, the Fannie Mae Foundation, and dozens of nonprofit social service organization.

Mr. Harvey received a M.S. from Columbia University School of Social Work; a master’s degree and B.A in Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy; and a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo College in Philadelphia.  In 1977, he also earned a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2009, Mr. Harvey co-authored the book, Nonprofit Governance, which was published by Corby Publishing, LLC.

Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Secretary for Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston

J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Cabinet Secretary for Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. From 2004-2007 Fr. Bryan served as the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Prior to assuming these positions Father Hehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the national network of Charities in the United States, from 2001 through 2003. From 1973-1992 he served on the staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., addressing issues of both foreign and domestic policy for the church in the United States. From 1984-1992, he served on the faculty at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. From 1993-2001 he served on the Harvard Divinity School faculty as Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society. From 1998-2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of the Divinity School.

Father Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degrees at St. John’s Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association, the Global Development Committee and the Independent Sector. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1984.

Publications include: “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty”; “Catholicism and Democracy”; “Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition”; and “The Moral Dimension in the Use of Force”.

Joseph Holt
Director for Executive Ethics
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Joe Holt graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Political Science. Following a year of volunteer work teaching children from low-income families in his native Bronx, N.Y., Joe spent 11 years as a Jesuit seminarian and priest, studying languages and earning graduate degrees in Philosophy at Fordham University, Theology at the Weston School of Theology, and Biblical Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. While a Jesuit, Joe taught Philosophy at Canisius College, Boston College and Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center, and worked with those in need both within the United States and abroad in Nicaragua and Nigeria.

Upon returning from Rome in 1992, Joe earned his Series 7 license and spent part of the year pending acceptance to law school as a stockbroker (as a means of reflecting on questions of business ethics from the trenches). He then entered law school and received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1996. The summer after his first year of law school, Joe engaged in human rights work in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the summer following law school graduation from law school Joe worked on death row appeal cases at the Northwestern University School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic. He then worked as a corporate attorney for five years at major law firms in Chicago and Denver, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, antitrust matters and venture capital deals (and simultaneously conceiving and teaching Business Ethics and Spirituality of Work courses on an adjunct basis in Loyola University Chicago’s MBA program starting the summer of 1997). While a practicing attorney, Joe also gave presentations on the fiduciary duties of directors of nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis.

From June 2002 through June 2004, Joe was a Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Clinic on Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Law School; the Clinic provides free legal assistance to inner-city, low-income entrepreneurs seeking financial self-sufficiency. At the law school, Joe taught Entrepreneurship and the Law, Negotiation and Mediation, and a seminar on The Ethical Dimensions of Lawyering. From the fall of 2003, Joe also taught the Weave and Business Ethics courses in the University of Notre Dame Chicago EMBA program on an adjunct basis.

Joe joined Notre Dame full-time in July 2004 as Director for Executive Ethics in the Executive Education program at the Mendoza College of Business. In the EMBA program, Joe teaches Business Ethics and the Weave, a method of integrative dialogue focusing on the value dimensions of select issues from the traditional business courses the students are taking concurrently. In the MBA program, he teaches Values-Based Decision Making, Negotiation, Spirituality and Religion in the Workplace and Legal Issues in Start-Up Businesses. Joe also facilitates community outreach efforts within the college of business, consults corporations and other organizations on matters of leadership and ethics, and writes on issues of values and faith in the workplace.


Rev. Edward A. (Monk) Malloy, C.S.C.
President Emeritus
University of Notre Dame

Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., completed his 18 th and final year as president of the University of Notre Dame on July 1, 2005. He now serves as President Emeritus. As the University’s 16 th president, Father Malloy was elected by the Board of Trustees in 1986, having served five years as vice president and associate provost. Father Malloy is a full professor in the Department of Theology and has been a member of the faculty since 1974. As President Emeritus, he continues to teach, conducting a seminar for first-year undergraduates each semester, and he makes his home in a student residence hall on campus.

He is the author of more than 50 articles and book chapters, the editor or co-editor of two books, and has published six books. His last book, entitled Monk’s Notre Dame was published in September 2005 by University of Notre Dame Press. An ethicist by training, he is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Society of Christian Ethics.

Father Malloy led Notre Dame at a time of rapid growth in its reputation, faculty, and resources. The University’s endowment is about $4 billion (15 th largest among U.S. private colleges and universities) and its recently concluded “Generations” capital campaign raised $1.1 billion, far exceeding its goal of $767 million. The total raised was the largest in the history of Catholic higher education. The University has seen a dramatic improvement in its financial aid resources, in the quality of its campus facilities, and in the diversity of its student body and faculty. It has fostered its distinctive identity as a Catholic university while gaining the recognition of its peer institutions, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

Father Malloy earned his doctorate in Christian ethics from Vanderbilt University in 1975, and Vanderbilt honored him in 1998 with the establishment of a chair in Catholic studies in his name. He has also been awarded 24 honorary degrees. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Notre Dame in 1963 and 1967, and a second master’s degree, in theology, in 1969 while studying for the priesthood. He was ordained to the priesthood in Sacred Heart Basilica on campus in 1970.

Father Malloy’s service to higher education has been long-standing and presently includes membership on the boards of Vanderbilt University, the University of Portland, St. Thomas University, Notre Dame Australia and our own Notre Dame Board of Trustees. In addition, he has played a leadership role in many of the major higher education associations, including the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), Campus Compact, the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), and various committees of the NCAA. He was also a long-time member of the Business-Higher Education Forum.

Father Malloy also played a leadership role in efforts to promote community service and combat substance abuse. In addition to his involvement in Campus Compact, his roles in encouraging social service have included activity with AmeriCorps, Points of Light Foundation, the board of governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and activity connected to the 1997 President’s Service Summit in Philadelphia.

In combating substance abuse, Father Malloy has been a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, President Bush’s Advisory Council on Drugs, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, the Governor’s Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana, and a member of the board of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, for which he has chaired a number of commissions, particularly dealing with substance abuse among adolescents and among college and university students. He has also been co-chair of a major study on college drinking for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. In a related matter, he chaired NCAA committee on sports wagering.

Father Malloy has served the Catholic Church in a number of capacities, including participation on the Ex corde Ecclesiae committee and the Bishops-Presidents committee of the U. S. Catholic Conference. He frequently speaks at fund-raising events on behalf of Catholic primary and secondary schools and Catholic hospitals.

Michael Mannor
Assistant Professor
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Professor Mannor conducts research on organizational learning and executive leadership. In his work on learning, he studies how organizations create and leverage unique knowledge to achieve superior performance and create breakthrough innovations. In his work on top executives, his research focuses on the powerful role of executive leadership to both help and hurt organizations through strategic action. As part of this research, Professor Mannor has traveled widely to personally spend time with CEOs, researching the most complex strategic decisions these leaders have ever faced. This has included in-depth research with the CEOs and board chairs of many of the largest organizations in the world, including leading firms from the US and Europe in energy, banking, healthcare, retail, professional services, telecommunications, fast food, investment management, insurance, risk, and other industries. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and several books. Mannor and his research have been highlighted in the media on NPR, CNN, the Associated Press, BusinessWeek, in the USA Today, the LA Times, MSNBC, ABC, Yahoo, the Washington Times, and a variety of other media outlets. Mannor teaches courses on entrepreneurship, management, and business strategy. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he completed a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Aquinas College, an M.B.A. from Grand Valley State University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. In addition, he worked for five years at a start-up data and telecommunications provider and founded a small entrepreneurial web business in Michigan.

Rev. Mark Poorman, C.S.C.
Executive Vice President
University of Portland

Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., was appointed executive vice president at the University of Portland, effective July 2011. Fr. Poorman's administrative duties on The Bluff include overseeing the divisions of University operations, financial affairs, University relations and student affairs. As professor of theology, he teaches Christian ethics and moral theology. He also serves as a pastoral resident in Schoenfeldt Hall.

Poorman came to the University of Portland from the University of Notre Dame, most recently serving there as a member of the theology faculty and as vice president for student affairs from 1999 to 2010. In that capacity, he was responsible for the University's residential life as well as other student services, activities and programs, including Campus Ministry, Notre Dame Security Police, the Student Activities Office, the Counseling Center, Health Services, the Career Center, the Office of Alcohol and Drug Education, the Gender Relations Center, and Multicultural and International Student Services. Prior to his appointment as vice president for student affairs, Poorman served at Notre Dame as executive assistant to the executive vice president and the president.

Poorman graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Illinois. He earned a master of divinity degree from Notre Dame and was ordained a priest in 1982. He later studied at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where he earned a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics. He then returned to Notre Dame to serve full-time on the faculty of the theology department, directing the department's master of divinity program from 1992-1998.

Prior to his appointment as executive vice president, he served for seven years on University of Portland's Board of Regents.

Ann Tenbrunsel
Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics and Co-Director, Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame

Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D. Northwestern University) is the Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and is the Arthur F. and Mary J. O'Neil co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Her research interests focus on decision-making and negotiations with a particular emphasis in ethics. Her work in this area has focused primarily on the situational factors that lead to unethical decision-making, including the role that temptation, uncertainty, power and sanctions play in the ethical decision-making process. More recently, she has explored the process of ethical fading, arguing that individuals often make unethical decisions because the ethical aspects of the decision are hidden to the decision maker. She is the co-editor of three books on these topics and has published her research in a variety of journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In her role as co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, Ann has hosted annual academic conferences on ethical issues within the major business disciplines and an annual dissertation competition in business ethics.

Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C.
Former Provincial Superior, Indiana Province
Congregation of Holy Cross

The Reverend David T. Tyson, CSC, is the former Superior of the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross and was the University of Portland's 18th president from 1990-2003.

Born in Gary, Indiana, Fr. Tyson earned degrees in sociology and theology from the University of Notre Dame (B.A. 1970, M.A. 1974, respectively) and a doctorate in education from Indiana University (1980). He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1975. He also studied at Yale University and was a professor of management at Notre Dame, where he worked in the admissions office and in the residence halls before becoming executive assistant to then-president Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC in 1982. In 1984, Tyson was appointed vice president of student affairs, a position he held until coming to Portland in 1990.

In addition to his responsibilities as president of the University of Portland, Fr. Tyson played a key role in national collegiate athletic administration and in Catholic higher education in America. He was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Executive Committee and the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, the NCAA Presidents Commission and of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors Transition Team (which oversaw the NCAA's far-reaching structural changes), and was one of the two university presidents chosen as members of the NCAA's Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism, which examined the endemic problem of agent influence and payoffs in collegiate athletics. Tyson was also a member (and former chairman) of the Council of Presidents of the West Coast Conference, the athletic league to which the University of Portland belongs. In higher education, Fr. Tyson was a board member at the U.S. Air Force's Air University, and was recently awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the U.S. Army for his energetic support of the ROTC program.

Among his many awards and honors was selection as one of America's 50 outstanding college presidents (by the Templeton Foundation) and a surprise honorary doctorate of public service in 2002 from the college he radically elevated: the University of Portland.