The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
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Tasadduq A. ShervaniConsultantPHD, University of Southern California MBA, Xavier University |
Dr. Tassu Shervani is a consultant in the areas of shareholder value, strategy, business models, innovation and business development. His clients are from the financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy and technology sectors. He also teaches in Executive Education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Emory University's Goizueta School of Business and The University of Texas' McCombs School of Business.
Dr. Shervani has been involved in consulting and executive development at a number of major corporations such as 3M, ABB, Accenture, Accor, Alcoa, American Airlines, Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks), Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), Dell, Inc., Deutsche Bank, IBM, Imation, Input/Output, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Kulicke & Soffa, Landmark Graphics (now Halliburton), Motorola, Prudential Financial, RHR International, Sequent Computer (now IBM), Tektronix and Texas Instruments.
Dr. Shervani's approach is to help define and implement appropriate business models that drive shareholder value. He combines strategy, finance, technology, people, supply chain and customer understanding to craft and implement shareholder value improvement strategies for his clients.
From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Shervani was a full-time faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin where he taught in the McCombs School of Business. He has published articles in the IEEE Engineering Management Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Market-Focused Management, Business Horizons and the Review of Marketing. He has been awarded the American Marketing Association's Maynard and MSI/Paul Root Awards for his research. Translations of his papers have been published in a number of other languages.
Dr. Shervani served on the Board of Directors of Exterprise Inc., an e-business software and services company funded by Austin Ventures, Dell Ventures, Morgan Stanley and Vignette. In May 2001, Exterprise was acquired by e-markets company Commerce One.
