Professors & Guest Lecturers

Eric Brown is a philosopher who works on ethical issues, including business ethics, bioethics, and meta-ethical theory. He has a background in both analytic and Continental traditions of philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Brown was a junior fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna and Gastwissenschaftler at the August Herzog Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany reseaching pre-Kantian early modern philosophy of law and conceptions of cosmopolitanism. His current research projects include examining the relations of attitudes, values and reasons, and the role of fiduciary duties in business ethics.

Zoltán Buzády is an assistant professor of management and organization at the CEU Business School. He has a BA in law from the London School of Economics, an MBA from Cass Business School, London, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Corvinus University in Budapest. He has taught at the University of Passau, Mannheim-ESSEC, Corvinus University. He also has worked as a business consultant and in numerous management coaching projects.

Stuart Durrant joined the CEU Business School as Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, as the Area Coordinator for the Real Estate Management program in January 2008. He was appointed Managing Director of the Business School in June 2009.

Jay Fogelman has more than thirty years of hands-on business experience, including over twenty-five in IT services and related fields. He has held regional, intercontinental and global management positions with the Amdahl Corporation, EMC Corporation and SAS Scandinavian Airlines. 

He is an experienced consultant, executive coach, project manager and a trained and seasoned facilitator. He has lectured and consulted on five continents. In particular, he has delivered sales training and coaching for some of the world’s largest technology companies across Europe and America.

He managed EMC’s business consulting practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He holds a BA in Philosophy with Special Honors from Lake Forest College, and an MA in Philosophy of of Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
He is the Business School's representative in the CEU Senate.
 

Hogan Hayes has been teaching first-year composition in multinational/multicultural classrooms at the CEU Business School since 2004. His research interests include the role of English composition and rhetoric in multicultural higher education and the process of gaining entry into established discourse communities. Hayes received his MA in English from the University of California, Davis.

Laura Ipacs got her MBA from the Imperial College Business School in London, UK. She then qualified as a Certified Accountant (ACCA) while working with Coopers and Lybrand in Corporate Finance. Then she worked for multinational companies such as DuPont and Hasbro as a finance director for several years. She started teaching as a career in 2003 and lectures in finance and accounting at the CEU Business School. She also regularly teaches professional accountancy exam and development courses in Europe and in China.

Paul Lacourbe is an associate professor of operations management. His research interests involve management of product innovation and product positioning, with a particular focus on the psychological aspects of sustainability in product design. His work has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Current Issues of Business and Law, Revue Française de Gestion. Lacourbe holds a PhD from INSEAD and has taught at ESSEC in Paris.

Paul Marer has been a professor of international business for more than 30 years. He joined the CEU Business School in 2000, after having taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business since 1975. He holds a PhD in International Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary doctorate from Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He was appointed by three consecutive US presidents—George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr.—to serve on the board of trustees for the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, a $78 million fund from the US government to promote private enterprise in Hungary. He has wrote or edited 20 books and 150 articles and chapters, mainly on the changing political, economic and business situation in Hungary, the other transitioning countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China.

Jean-Michel Viola received his PhD in Business Administration from HEC Montreal (Canada) after a MBA from UQAM (Canada) and a B.Sc. in Economics from Paris 2 University. Prior to joining CEU, he worked as a professor at HEC Montreal and Rennes School of Business in France and for JP Morgan bank in Paris. Viola has taught business management at all levels and has run various executive seminars in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. His research deals with the challenges associated with knowledge issues in the management of strategic alliances, the management of intellectual capital, business models in emerging industries, and the management of innovation and creation.