Faculty
Nabil N. El-Hage heads up a faculty of top MBA professors and seasoned entrepreneurs with international experience and a global perspective.
Nabil N. El-Hage, Chairman
Nabil N. El-Hage is Chairman of PR Academy of Executive Education, LLC, a company he founded after leaving Harvard Business School to offer top-quality executive training and coaching to senior executives around the world. Nabil was on the faculty at HBS for nearly ten years, and he served as Professor of Management Practice and as Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. At Harvard, he taught courses in corporate finance, private equity, corporate governance, and real estate.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $35-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $35-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Daniel Quinn Mills
Professor Mills provides thought leadership in several fields, including leadership, strategy, venture capital, finance, economics, and geopolitics. He is an expert on the differences between Asian and Western leadership styles and has just published a chapter on the topic in the American Management Association’s Handbook of Leadership, which has just been chosen as the best business book of 2010. He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private corporations. An American, Mills has also been a member of the Innovation Council of Malaysia, a ministry level council chaired by the Prime Minister.
Christopher Payton
Mr. Payton is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught both finance and entrepreneurship and published dozens of case studies. At AEE, he has conducted executive programs for leading financial institutions on the topics of real estate, private equity, and corporate governance. He is also an experienced private equity investor with a background in both fund investing and middle market buyouts.
Alva Taylor
An Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Dr. Taylor specializes in technological change, innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, and organizational change and strategy. He has published several articles in top academic journals in both innovation and strategy; including a recent article chosen as one of the top in the field that describes the impact of team experience on innovation. He has been a lead instructor in executive education programs for over twelve years. His previous academic positions were at the Stanford University’s School of Engineering and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Prior to teaching, Dr. Taylor was a senior manager in the Management Consulting Department of KPMG Peat Marwick.