"The course was terrific. Dr. Edgell is an outstanding and extremely competent person. I have no other way of saying it: it was a privilege to be in his class these three days. He skillfully led us to conclusive thinking about ethics on a daily basis level. This was simply one of the very best courses I have visited to date."
Anonymous Student Business Values and Ethics | Academic Qualifications Summary Dr. Edgell has taught executives, MBA graduates, and senior undergraduate students at diverse international institutions and has consistently received high faculty satisfaction scores. He has extensive curriculum experience with a range of strategic management, governance, change leadership, and social responsibility topics. Since 2000, he has conceptualized and developed more than 15 courses and delivered nearly 20 unique classes and seminars. His primary teaching topics include: Strategic management and governance; innovation and change leadership; corporate social responsibility and ethics; international business and emerging markets; and entrepreneurship. Currently, he teaches strategic management, change and innovation, and leadership at American University’s Kogod School of Business. He has achieved teaching scores as high as 6.9 (7 maximum possible = excellent). He was awarded first place in a faculty syllabus competition (as judged by a panel of faculty, administrators, and students). During July of 2008 and 2009, he taught in the AU consortium program, I-5 China innovation management (with a technology and sustainability focus), held in Shanghai and other Chinese locations. Annually, he delivers a hybrid course to MBAs at the SBS in Zürich. Previously, he taught strategic management and received overall instructor scores of 1.1 and 1.2 (1 = excellent, 5 = poor) respectively from SFSU’s MBA and undergraduate students. Dr. Edgell has developed various study and industry tours for MBA students from premiere European universities, the University of St. Gallen and Universitat Ramon Llull, La Salle (Barcelona). He master planned an international venture capital conference in cooperation with Universitat Ramon Llull, La Salle and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce. Formerly, he was Executive Director of the MBA in Media and Communication at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). In cooperation with the faculty, he repositioned the program through a broad range of branding measures, curriculum revisions, and corporate sponsorships that resulted in steady improvements (30% quality rating increase) and diverse enrollments. |
