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Advisory Board - Steven Stralser
Steven Stralser been an entrepreneur and has held high-level marketing and consulting positions in business, industry and non-profit organizations. Currently he is a Charter Member and serves on the Board of Directors of TiE-AZ, (The Indus Entrepreneurs) an organization that advances entrepreneurship internationally, nationally and locally. He recently completed a term as a member of the Chairman’s Quality Committee of BannerHealth (formerly Samaritan) Health Systems, the largest healthcare provider in Arizona, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Salt River Devco, the commercial real estate development arm of the Pima Salt River Maricopa Indian Community, a for-profit company responsible for commercial development of the Tribe’s extensive land holdings in Scottsdale Arizona.
Dr. Stralser received a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan where he taught Marketing and Marketing Strategy. He holds a BS in Marketing from The University of Arizona and an MBA from Arizona State University. During Fall 1999, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar, teaching marketing management in the MBA program at The Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurship at The University of Miskolc.
He is the founder of The Center for Professional Development, a think tank and developer of training and executive education programs targeted to professionals, e.g., physicians, attorneys, architects, dentists, and non profit executives who are well trained in their professions, but who often face challenges with the “business” issues facing their practices and organizations.
Dr. Stralser’s book MBA in a DAY: What you would learn at top-tier business schools—if only you had the time was published in September 2004 by John Wiley & Sons.
He is currently Clinical Professor in the Global Entrepreneurship Center at Thunderbird School of Global Management, and previously, was a member of the faculty at The University of Arizona where he taught Marketing and Entrepreneurship. In 1998, he was named “Faculty of the Year” for teaching excellence in the U of A’s nationally-ranked Berger Entrepreneurship Program and received the Bobcat Senior Honorary Faculty Award in 1999.
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