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VISITING PROFESSORS ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011-2012
Academic training > Juris Doctor. Harvard Law School Interest Areas > Managment consulting > Managing high-growth companies > Business and information services industry > Public company leadership and governance
James J. McGonigle VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS POLICY BARCELONAPEDRALBES CAMPUS
About him Jay McGonigle is the former Chairman and CEO of the Corporate Executive Board Company (NASDAQ: EXBD). The company is a leading provider of best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues to more than 5,200 of the world’s largest corporations. Mr. Mc Gonigle joined CEB in 1995 when it was a division of the privately held Advisory Board Co., before leading the company’s spin-out in 1997 and IPO in 1999. He served as Chairman and CEO until mid2005 and continued as Chairman until 1st January 2008. Prior to joining CEB, Mr. Mc Gonigle was a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company in New York. In his six years there, he served clients in the US, Belgium, Denmark and Australia in the financial services, telecommunications and information services industries.
In addition to his ongoing advisory work for CEB, Mr. McGonigle serves as the Lead Outside Director at FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), a provider of software and information to the financial services industry. Mr. McGonigle also serves as a board member and/or advisor to several private companies and non-profit organisations, and on the US State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. In 2009, Mr. McGonigle became an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he developed a new course called “Leading the Management Consulting Firm.” In 2011–2013 he is teaching at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, as part of a faculty exchange through Georgetown University. Mr. McGonigle holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
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