MGT3120TAWIL

MGT 3120 3 credits

BARUCH COLLEGE

ZICKLIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT

(646) 312-3620 VC Room 9-240

Direct (646) 312-3658; VC Room 9-240, Cubicle 9-290F

Abe D. Tawil, EMBA, MA, MD, JD

Abe.Tawil@baruch.cuny.edu AbeDTawil@hotmail.com

Office Hours: M, W before class, by appointment

EmergencyTel/TM: (917) 543-0432

Value Proposition: If I am concerned about anything, anytime, I can contact the Professor if my teammates or TA cannot answer resolve my concerns.

Abe is an independent management consultant for several global and domestic corporations, service organizations, and educational institutions. He is a founding partner of Helix Partners LLC a performance management consulting company.

Abe recently served as the Executive Director for the Hillel Foundation at Baruch College. Prior to joining Hillel, Abe held an interim appointment as a consultant to the Sr. Vice President for Finance and Administration at Baruch College, the CUNY senior college flagship for business programs. He has served as Baruch College’s chief human resource officer with full responsibility for all HR functions for 2000+ instructional and classified staff. Abe has served as Associate Dean for Professional Education/ Director of Continuing Studies in Baruch College’s Division of Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS) where he previously held the position of the Division’s Chair of the Business Programs and Master Teacher of Business. During his tenure, CAPS was a self-contained unit within the college with 14,000+ enrollments per year and employed 400+ faculty and 40 FT administrators. Abe has been featured in Crain’s NY Business Magazine in an article that highlighted his entrepreneurial and management efforts in post secondary adult education.

Abe is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Zicklin School of Business Departments of Management and Law. The Zicklin School of Business is nationally ranked as a top 50 School of Business while the Department of Management is the largest and most diverse academic Department of Management in the country. Abe was Chairperson for the Baruch College President’s Taskforce for Entrepreneurship as well as Co-Chair on the Taskforce for Distance Learning. He has served on the Advisory Board for the Executive Programs Alumni Association, the Zicklin Business School Alumni Club, and the Baruch College Alumni Association.

Abe is the founder of the nationally recognized Leadership in Law Program at Columbia University. He was an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Abe was an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University’s School of Professional and Industrial Studies and NYU’s McGhee School. He founded and served as a Program Consultant and Faculty Coordinator in various programs in Management, Healthcare, Law, and Finance at NYU. Abe has been repeatedly recognized for his ability to design and develop unique educational and training programs for emerging markets. Abe was awarded the Continuing Education Association of New York State’s Outstanding Continuing Education Instructor Award for 2001-2002.

Abe holds an Executive M.B.A.(Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College), M.D.(American University School of Medicine), J.D. (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), and M.A. (Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law) degrees as well as S.P.H.R. (lifetime certification, Senior Professional in Human Resources, Society for Human Resource Management), C.C.P. (Certified Compensation Professional, American Compensation Association), and C.B.P. (Certified Benefits Professional, American Compensation Association) professional certifications. He has completed extensive graduate study in Higher Ed Administration, International Political Science (ABD) and in Sephardic Jewish Rabbinical Studies. Abe is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo Mediation Clinic, where he studied with Professor Lela P. Love. He holds a New York State certificate in community dispute resolution and a certificate in family mediation.

Abe is an independent contract mediator and has resolved multiparty, complex employment and labor, healthcare, family, transactional, and commercial disputes. He is on the mediator panels for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the New York District and Pennsylvania regions, and has been designated jointly by the EEOC and Cornell University as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on mediation. Abe is on the select Blue Ribbon mediation panel for the Postal Service’s REDRESS I and II programs. He also conducts selective complex mediations at the District Court level for the Eastern District of New York Federal Court. Abe is a pioneer member of the Medicare Beneficiary Protection Mediation Panel, having successfully resolved several of the first cases nationally. Abe frequently consults on alternative dispute resolution and conflict management processes for attorneys and professional associations. Abe has served as a member of the subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution at the New York County Lawyer’s Association and was a member of the subcommittee for Law Related Education.

Abe is an ‘expert witness’ on human resource management standards as they relate to employment and labor law issues. He has been an active member of HR New York’s elite HR Executive Forum. Abe was a contributing consultant on management, human resource management, and conflict management issues for ‘MD Pearls,’ an e-zine for healthcare professionals. He has served on the Faculty Advisory Board for publishing companies including Houghton Mifflin and John Wiley & Co on textbooks in business, management, human resource management, and conflict management. Abe is a NYC metro lecturer for San Francisco based, Concern EAP.

Abe was President of Competitive Advantage, a firm that provided performance, career, and lifestyle coaching for practicing professionals as well as retention and succession strategies for family businesses. He was President of MasterMentor, a bi-coastal coaching firm specializing in career, performance, and lifestyle coaching for post-graduate, graduate, college, and high school students. Abe was President of College Visits and Campus Tours, which planned and organized ‘edutaining’ college visits and campus tours for high school students and their parents.

Abe serves on the Advisory Board for the Angel Fund, a micro-lending NFP and is a Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the NYC Charter High School for Holocaust and Tolerance Studies. He was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro North Carolina.

Abe was the Executive Director of Human Resources and Special Projects for the Conway organization in New York City. He was the Executive Vice President for Human Resources and Development and Chief Operating Officer for Script’s Pharmacies Inc.

In addition to practicing clinical emergency and internal medicine, Abe was Assistant to the Commissioner of Health, Director of Off-Island Medical Transport, Associate Director of Undergraduate and Continuing Medical Education for the Department of Health on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was one of the few physicians nationally certified in pre-hospital care as an EMT-I. Abe was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the University of St. Lucia School of Medicine.

Abe was the founder, owner, and Director of Camp David Day Camp for 25 years.