Ella L.J. Bell Smith is a leading expert on fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She has consulted to Fortune 100 companies in organizational behavior and organizational change, and her research interests focus on career and life histories of successful women. She is author of Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape, and co-author of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. She has contributed to scholarly journals and written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Essence, and other mainstream publications. She has earned awards for her teaching and scholarship and has served as an advisory board member of the National Women’s Leadership Summit, The White House Project, and Best Companies for Women of Color, Working Mother Media.
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian is co-director of the Tuck Next Step program and 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.
Professor Grewal is an assistant professor in Tuck's marketing group. Grewal’s research examines identity-based consumption, how consumers use and process digital and social media, and consumer well-being. She uses a multi-method approach of behavioral experiments, real-world data, and field studies.
Professor Hall researches the tension between art and science in business process management, the value of operational focus, and customer service and retention.
Professor Stocken specializes in theoretical analysis of accounting and auditing issues. He has conducted extensive research on the financial reporting behavior of publicly traded corporations and teaches core information in financial statements and financial analysis to audiences with varying levels of financial experience. Stocken was the first recipient of the Class of 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching at Tuck.
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Learning and Associate Professor of Business Administration
Alva Taylor is an expert in business strategy, technology, innovation management, entrepreneurship, and new product development. Professor Taylor is the faculty director for Growing an Established Diverse Business and the Digital Excellence Program.
Gail Taylor is the faculty director of Building a Successful Diverse Business, and an expert in service marketing and an advocate for the coordination of marketing, operations, and human resource management to create effective service systems. She has consulted to business owners to help them improve productivity and efficiency, and her research interests include customer loyalty, service employee retention, nontraditional advertising, and sales promotion effectiveness. Her work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, including Journal of Retailing, Health Marketing Quarterly, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, and International Business & Economic Research Journal.
Linzie Venegas is the vice president at Ideal Group, overseeing administration, marketing, finance and human resource activities for the company. The Ideal Group operates eight different companies with annual revenues approaching $350 million and more than 600 employees. She actively works with various community organizations in Detroit, and has a passion for helping small businesses. She teaches in the Tuck Diversity Business Programs.
