The program is delivered by a diverse team of instructors consisting of a select group of Wharton School and HIMD faculty. They are all actively involved in executive education for the cross-functional and multi-national audience.
Their extensive research and collective experience in business and consulting ensure a dynamic and insightful balance between theory and practice in the classroom.

Sherman Abe

Professor Abe joined Hitotsubashi University in 2000 as a founding faculty member of ICS, the first full-time international MBA program offered by a Japanese national university. In 2008, he was appointed to an endowed chair established by GIMV (www.gimv.com), the largest private equity and venture capital investment company in Belgium with assets under management exceeding EUR 2.0 billion. Professor Abe’s academic specialties are corporate finance and equity investments with topical interest in corporate restructuring, M&A, and private equity in both Japan and non-Japan Asia.
Professor Abe has more than twenty-five years of experience in international business. He was formerly a Director of Investment Banking with CS First Boston with assignments in New York, London and Tokyo. He also has worked for Merrill Lynch Tokyo as a securities broker and as a partner in the San Francisco office of Korn/Ferry International.
Professor Abe received his BA from Harvard College and an MBA in finance and international business from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Patricia Williams

Patti Williams is an associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School. She received a BA in communication from Stanford University and an MBA and PhD in marketing from UCLA. Prior to joining the Wharton School in 2000, she was an assistant professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. Patti currently teaches courses on advertising/marketing communication to both undergraduates and MBAs at Wharton, and has also taught on marketing and the internet. She is the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award. Her research interests include the role of emotions in persuasion and consumer decision making and automatic and effortful processes in consumer behavior. Her papers have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research, among others. She serves on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Dana Kaminstein

Dr. Kaminstein is an organizational psychologist actively involved in research and teaching at the Wharton School as well as School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of expertise include leadership development, organizational diagnosis, team building, creating learning organizations, organizational change, life-work balance, executive coaching and action learning.
At Wharton School, most of his time is currently spent toward designing and teaching Executive Education programs for both open enrollment and customized programs, including leadership development programs for companies such as Aviva, Scottish Power and Textron.
Dr. Kaminstein received his MA in counseling psychology from Goddard College, and a PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania

Joseph Ryan

Professor Ryan has been affiliated with the Wharton School since 1991 and teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programs including programs jointly offered with Wharton's alliance partner, INSEAD. He works with executives as an advisor on strategy and change management assignments. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. His teaching, consulting and research interests include strategy implementation, strategic alliances, service management, and best practices in change management and executive education.
Dr. Ryan has held management positions in strategic planning, business development and organization development with GE, GTE, and ARAMARK. He has also worked as a consultant in the Kepner Tregoe Strategy Group and at the Wharton Center for Applied Research.
He holds a MBA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the GE Crotonville executive education program.