MBA for Aviation Professionals Faculty

Dr. Triant FlourisDaniel Webster College is delighted to inform you that Dr. Triant Flouris has accepted appointment as Director of the MBAAP program. Dr. Flouris (Ph.D., USC) is well known in collegiate aviation. In addition to his teaching, his research interests include airline financial and strategic analysis, aviation economics, strategic management, aviation business modeling, and international aviation governance.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Air Transportation, Journal of Aviation Security Management, and the International Journal for Professional Aviation Testing and Education, a reviewer for several transportation and aviation journals, and the author of two books, one on EU industrial policy and one on aviation strategic management as well as co-editor of a book on aviation policy. He has published numerous academic journal articles on several topics in aviation management, several book chapters, articles appearing in aviation encyclopedias, and several technical reports and short articles. He is currently finishing a book on Aviation Project Management. He is a Commercial Pilot and Certified Flight and Ground Instructor with over 4,700 hours of total flight time.

Triant has extensive experience as an aviation management teacher at the undergraduate and graduate levels and in executive education as well as an academic program administrator.

 

Dr. Tom Anastasi is the Director for the M.B.A. program at Daniel Webster College and an Assistant Professor of Business and Management. He has taught at Boston University's School of Management in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Marketing, and Management Policy. He has also had teaching posts at Harvard University, the University of Washington Law School, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Rivier College.

Dr. Anastasi has worked in sales, marketing, and consulting for small and large firms and was a management consultant and trainer for EBI Consulting and The Otter Group. He is the best-selling author of Personality Selling: Selling the Way Customers Want to Buy and Personality Negotiating: Conflict without Casualty. Dr. Anastasi's research interests include the practical use of psychology in business and decision-making. Dr. Anastasi earned his undergraduate degree from Saint Michael's College, Masters from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from Boston University.

 

Professor Joakim Karlsson is a Professor of Aviation Management at Daniel Webster College. He teaches Trends and Current Problems in Aviation, an honors seminar within the aviation management program, and serves as a faculty supervisor for aviation management internships.

His research interests focus on public administration and financing of airports, air transportation economics, airport environmental issues, and air transportation issues in the European Union. From 1994 to 1998 he served as the Chief of Airport Development for the State of New Hampshire. He has over five years of experience as a senior aviation planner for several consulting firms, working for domestic and international clients.

Mr. Karlsson holds a private pilot certificate and is an FAA Aviation Safety Counselor. He has completed the Center for Aviation Research and Education's Airport Inspector course, as well as New Hampshire Basic Law Enforcement Training for Aeronautical Inspectors. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Dr. Shirley PhillipsDr. Shirley Phillips is an Associate Professor of Aviation at Daniel Webster College. She has taught all of the undergraduate courses in aviation flight operations at the college, as well as human factors in aviation. Dr. Phillips holds Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor certificates and is type rated in the Airbus A320. She has close to 4000 hours of flight time and was a FAA designated pilot examiner. She was previously a ground and simulator instructor for a major air carrier.

Dr. Phillips earned a doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston and combines her experience in aviation and medicine to teach and conduct research in areas related to human factors in aviation. Dr. Phillips completed her undergraduate education at the University of New Hampshire and her masters at the University of North Carolina. She has published numerous articles in aviation trade magazines including AOPA Pilot, Flight Training, and Aviation for Women.