Management Department

Mary Maloney is a three-time finalist for the Julie Hays Teaching Award and has taught custom Executive Education programs for 3M, Deluxe, Lawson, Polaris and US Bank. Her research focuses on the intra-organizational challenges of managing globally dispersed organizations. She has published articles in scholarly journals, such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Small Group Research and Management International Review.

Peter C. Young holds the 3M Endowed Chair in International Business, a position that is responsible for global business education initiatives at the Opus College of Business. He has years of experience teaching abroad, and has written extensively about risk management, including an influential risk management textbook: Risk Management and Insurance (McGraw-Hill, coauthored with Michael Smith).

Before earning her PhD and joining the St. Thomas faculty, Liz Welsh worked across industry and functional areas, serving as vice president of organizational development at InstallShield Software Corp., strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co., program manager at Microsoft and financial analyst at First Boston. Given this background, she chooses research projects that either address questions that leaders need answers to, or tries to make research more relevant for leaders.