Teaching
Michael A. Santoro is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Previously he was a Professor at Rutgers Business School for two decades. As a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, Prof. Santoro authored numerous case studies and teaching notes. He practices the Harvard "case method" of teaching which emphasizes guided discussion, decision-making, and experiential learning for students. He has given a number of "train the trainers" seminars on the art and science of case method teaching for both business and and law faculty.
Prof. Santoro was voted “Professor of the Year” by Rutgers MBA students in 2013. He was a Fellow of the RBS Teaching Excellence Center and has also served as a GE Teaching Fellow.
Prof. Santoro has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Sinopec Management Institute in Beijing, and the University of Zurich, as well as an Adjunct Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he taught ethics and economics courses.
Speaking
Prof. Santoro is a frequent featured speaker on business ethics, pharmaceutical industry ethics, human rights, and financial industry ethics at numerous venues, including:
Stanford Law School
University of Milan
The London School of Economics
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Cornell University
Columbia University
Oberlin College
Pace University
Emory University
Princeton University
Pomona College
The Keck Institute
The University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
Redlands University
George Washington University
Tufts University
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Brookings Institution
World Affairs Council
Economic Strategy Institute
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
The Asia Society
American Bar Association