Michael McCarthy
Founder at Boston Executive Training at Harvard DCE
Associate Teaching Professor of Information Systems at Heinz College
Schools
- Hult Ashridge Executive Education
- Heinz College
- Harvard DCE
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Biography
Harvard DCE
Michael McCarthy is a serial entrepreneur. He started his first business at the age of 16 and his first three weeks of sales financed his freshman year at New York University.
From 1994–2004, he was the #1 Stock Market Timer in the United States and raised $100 million in client assets with an inbound marketing referral program he developed. After a brief period of early retirement, Michael founded Budi Products in 2010, a food company designing brain-healthy gourmet snacks which was acquired in 2015.
McCarthy now focuses on teaching entrepreneurship, sales, leadership, and public speaking. He developed the Leadership Sailing Program for MIT Sloan Executive Education in 2016 and is the founder of Power Speaking Coach, a Boston based consulting firm. He recently authored Harnessing the Power of Fear, a book to help reduce the fear of public speaking.
Heinz College
He has taught graduate courses in Applied Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Internet of Things, and Data Structures and Algorithms.
Formerly, he served as the Director of Undergraduate Programs and a Senior Lecturer for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor McCarthy’s degrees include a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Information Science (Systems Track), both from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and has over twenty years of university-level teaching experience. Mr. McCarthy has also worked as a software consultant to several engineering firms.
As an undergraduate student, Mr. McCarthy won the University Scholar Award at the University of Pittsburgh. As a teacher, he has won the Apple For The Teacher Award at the University of Pittsburgh and the Teacher of the Year Award at Carnegie Mellon.
Mr. McCarthy is primarily interested in standard data representation and data processing methods for the World Wide Web, the Web of Things, Web Services and the Semantic Web.
Student projects that he has supervised include: IoT and Blockchain Technologies (Thomson Reuters), Developing Open API''s (Banking Industry Architecture Network), GM Dealership Information Technology Infrastructure for the Connected Vehicle (GM Corporation), Portfolio construction and trade management with mobile access (Putman Investments), Evaluation of ESB’s for a financial institution (Bank of America), Multimodal (voice and web) customer care applications (Convergys) and Materials tracking with RFID and Barcodes (Caterpillar Corporation).
Mr. McCarthy served on the Super Computing ''96 Executive Committee. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Information Network (eiNetwork) for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Education
- BA - Finance, Loyola University Chicago
- CFP® Certification (1992)
Experience
- Adjunt Faculty Member, Harper College
- Instructor, Professional Training Services, Inc.
Additional Info.
- Illinois Chapter President, Financial Planning Association
Videos
Michael McCarthy, Harvard Entrepreneurship, Pres BudiBar -Ali Velshi's 'Real Money' Interviews-
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