University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

G.M. (Bud) Smith Jr.

Visiting Clinical Professor

Office: 218 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1547 or 412 848-0273
E-mail: budsmith@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., with Harvard Business School option. Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

Courses Recently Taught

Managing Strategic Performance
Essentials of Entrepreneurial Management
Competing in Global Environment (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Global Forum—Outsourcing
The Effective Global Manager (EMBA Global Forum)
Project Course

Interest Group

Strategy, Environment, and Organizations

Profile

Professor Smith holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters in Management degree from Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. He began his career as a management consultant with Booz-Alan & Hamilton. Thereafter, Professor Smith built a successful international career, managing US subsidiaries in Osaka, Japan; Seoul, Korea; and Campinas, Brazil. In the United States, he has been CEO over joint technology ventures with Swiss, German, and Japanese partners. Professor Smith continues to assist business executives as a strategy consultant and executive coach.

His MBA teaching faculty (in addition to Katz) includes the Czech Management Center, Czech Republic; visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, the National University of Singapore business schools; and nine years as adjunct professor of industrial administration, the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University.