Ben Gomes-Casseres, Co-Director
Ben Gomes-Casseres is a professor of international business and director of the MBA program, focusing on global strategy. He has written or edited four books including Mastering Alliance Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization. His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Strategy & Business, Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and elsewhere.
Before coming to Brandeis IBS, Gomes-Casseres was an economist at the World Bank Group, primarily working on projects in Latin America.
Charles Reed, Jr., Co-Director
Charles Reed teaches undergraduates and graduates in the process of forming business startups and developing associated business plans.
Before coming to Brandeis IBS, Reed was a company CEO and top line manager for more than twenty years. Most recently, he founded and served as the President of Integra Technologies Corporation, a supplier of accessory equipment to mainframe computer sites. This business was sold to a Fortune 500 company at the beginning of 1997.