For the past 14 years Dr. McHugh has worked as a Professor of Practice and Program Director at Brown University where he taught courses in entrepreneurship, finance and strategy. He served as founding Director of the IE Brown Executive MBA joint degree and Director of the Master in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship. His research interests focus on ethics, governance, and decision making in innovative and sustainability contexts with publications in Behaviour & Information Technology, Cogent Social Science, Journal of General Management, Journal of Management and Organizations, Journal of Prediction Markets, MIS Quarterly Executive and The Case Journal. He has over 25 years of industry experience, including executive roles at three venture-backed firms. Earlier initiatives include building a call center automation offering at GTE (winner of the Chairman’s Leadership Award) and an online-financial-services offering at IBM (grew assets under management to more than $400 million). He is the recipient of three patents, the most recent in the renewable energy space. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Columbia University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. in management from Bentley University. He is co-founder and board member of STED LTD, dba BoardSmartHOA in CA.
