Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  Court Chilton

  Senior Lecturer
  

  Court teaches in the Essential IT for Non-IT Executives program at MIT’s Sloan School. He has helped large organizations produce business results from learning, coaching, and enterprise-wide change efforts for the last 20 years. His clients have included GE Capital, Deloitte, Fidelity, MIT, Bank of America, Ixis Asset Management, Novartis, Merck, Genzyme; Shire, TJX, Home Depot, Clifford Chance, and Baker McKenzie... ... (more)

  Court teaches in the Essential IT for Non-IT Executives program at MIT’s Sloan School. He has helped large organizations produce business results from learning, coaching, and enterprise-wide change efforts for the last 20 years. His clients have included GE Capital, Deloitte, Fidelity, MIT, Bank of America, Ixis Asset Management, Novartis, Merck, Genzyme; Shire, TJX, Home Depot, Clifford Chance, and Baker McKenzie.

  Court has worked internationally on a wide variety of business-building initiatives: creating “branded client experiences;” relationship management and service improvement; sales training and leadership development; executive education and coaching; implementing Six Sigma; professional practice management, and re-engineering the learning function. In the course of these initiatives, he has also developed computer simulations, on-line 360 feedback, and process-embedded e-learning. He is an effective facilitator and coach for senior management teams.

  Prior to working for MIT’s Sloan School, Court was a senior vice president of The Forum Corporation, based in New York and Boston. In the course of 14 years at Forum, he was responsible for the firm’s core leadership, teaming, and total quality offerings. He also managed the $20M+ mid-Atlantic region for the firm and several strategic client relationships.

  Court has worked with a number of educational institutions. He has also served as part of a “coaching faculty” for MBA candidates at Northeastern University. Through Northeastern, he has helped first year law firm associates understand their clients’ business perspectives. Through the District Management Council, he has consulted with educational institutions such as the Montclair (NJ) and Lancaster (PA) Public Schools to raise student achievement, decrease costs, and improve operations.

  Court received a B.A., magna cum laude with High Honors from Middlebury College in 1978, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School in 1986. Between college and graduate school he worked in book and magazine publishing in a variety of marketing roles. He lives outside Boston with his family. He has served on his town’s Finance Committee and currently serves on the town’s School Committee.

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  Martin Mocker

  Research Scientist
  Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
  

  Martin Mocker is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). His research focuses on IT management and strategy, the role of IT in dealing with business complexity, building digitized platforms as well as the impact of consumerization of technology on organizations... ... (more)

  Martin Mocker is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). His research focuses on IT management and strategy, the role of IT in dealing with business complexity, building digitized platforms as well as the impact of consumerization of technology on organizations. In addition, Martin manages CISR’s European member relationships.

  Martin is currently on leave from ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany, where he is a professor of business administration and information systems. Previously, he held faculty positions at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands and Hult International Business School in London. Before joining academia, Martin was an Engagement Manager and consultant at McKinsey & Company. There he worked with senior executives on issues related to IT and strategy, governance, organization, outsourcing as well as cost management. His clients were from the banking, media, retail, energy trading industries as well as from the public sector.

  Martin’s research has been published for example in the Management Information Systems Quarterly; he is also a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

  Martin holds a doctoral degree from the University of Muenster and a degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany. (less)

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  Jeanne Ross

  Director and Principal Research Scientist
  Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  

  Jeanne W. Ross directs and conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at CISR's more than eighty global sponsor companies. She studies how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms. Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine... ... (more)

  Jeanne W. Ross directs and conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at CISR's more than eighty global sponsor companies. She studies how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms. Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine.

  She is coauthor of three books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution through Harvard Business School Press, and IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. She has served on the faculty of customized courses for a number of major corporations, including PepsiCo, McKinsey, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit Suisse. She regularly appears as a speaker at major conferences for IT executives.

  Jeanne earned a BA at the University of Illinois, an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a founding senior editor and former editor in chief of MIS Quarterly Executive. (less)

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  Peter Weill

  Chairman, Center for Information Systems Research
  (CISR) & MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  

  Peter Weill's work centers on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises. He joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become director of MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by seventy-five corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT... ... (more)

  Peter Weill's work centers on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises. He joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become director of MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by seventy-five corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. Weill is now Chairman of MIT CISR and focused on globalizing MIT CISR research and delivery.

  In 2008 Ziff-Davis recognized Weill as # 24 of “Top 100 Most Influential People in IT”. Weill has written award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and the Wall Street Journal.

  Weill has coauthored “best-selling” books published by Harvard Business School Press entitled: “Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution” (2006), “IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results” (2004), and “Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology” (1998). Peter’s coauthored book “Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models”, (2001) won one of the Library Journal of America’s best business book of the year awards and was reviewed by the New York Times.

  Weill's new book with Jeanne Ross is “IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to go from Pain to Gain” was published by HBS Press in 2009. Weill presents executive and MBA programs on the business value of IT and in 2007 he received a MIT Sloan “Outstanding Teacher” award.

  Weill regularly works with corporations and governments in IT issues including: Aetna, ANZ, BCG, BT, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, McKinsey, Microsoft, Origin Energy, PwC, Raytheon, State Street Corporation, TCS, Unibanco, Woolworths and World Bank. In 2009 and 2010 Weill conducted workshops at Microsoft and Bill Gate’s CEO Summit. (less)

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  George Westerman

  Research Scientist
  MIT Center for Digital Business
  MIT Sloan School of Management
  

  George Westerman’s research and teaching examine executive-level approaches to generating value through digital technology. Key topics include innovation, risk management, and value transparency. He is currently leading a series of projects examining the impact of digital technology on the management of large firms... ... (more)

  George Westerman’s research and teaching examine executive-level approaches to generating value through digital technology. Key topics include innovation, risk management, and value transparency. He is currently leading a series of projects examining the impact of digital technology on the management of large firms.

  George is co-author of The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value (named #1 IT / Business Book of 2009 by CIO Insight magazine), and IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage (one of CIO Insight’s Best Books of 2007). His research has appeared in journals such as Organization Science, Sloan Management Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, and MIS Quarterly Executive.

  George is an accomplished speaker, advisor, and workshop facilitator. He has worked with organizations in the financial, technology, medical, and retail sectors as well as government agencies and trade associations. Prior to earning his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, he gained more than fifteen years of experience in engineering and management. (less)