Raul Chao
Associate Professor of Business Administration at Darden School of Business
Biography
Education: B.S., Johns Hopkins University; MBA, MS, University of Miami; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Raul Chao is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, where he teaches operations management, innovation and new product development courses. Raul's research is focused on helping entrepreneurial ventures and established companies manage innovation and new product development processes. Raul serves as an advisor to numerous early-stage ventures. He recently co-founded and sold Lumi Juice, a beverage startup in the organic cold-pressed juice market. Much of Raul's research and teaching is based on fieldwork and case studies conducted at companies such as 3M, Microsoft, Whirlpool and Lockheed Martin, among others.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Raul worked as a management consultant serving U.S. and Latin American organizations in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical, biomedical, healthcare, financial services, hospitality and media. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Cristina and their children, Carolina, Tomas and Nicolas.
Darden School of Business
Raul Chao is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, where he teaches operations management, innovation, and new product development courses. Raul''s research and teaching is focused on helping managers design more innovative organizations. He has helped many entrepreneurial ventures and established companies manage their innovation and new product development processes, and he currently serves as an advisor or board member for numerous early-stage ventures. He is a leader in novel curriculum design, having developed a number of cross-disciplinary experiential courses at the University of Virginia focused on product development and technology commercialization. Much of Raul''s research and teaching is based on fieldwork and case studies conducted at companies such as 3M, Microsoft, Whirlpool and Lockheed Martin, among others.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Raul worked as a management consultant serving U.S. and Latin American organizations in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical, biomedical, healthcare, financial services, hospitality and media. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Cristina and their children, Carolina, Tomas and Nicolas.
MBA Courses
Operations Management (core)
Advanced Technology Commercialization (MBA and Engineering elective)
Prototyping and Product Development I and II (electives)
The Adrenaline Innovation Project (FY elective)
General Management and Operations Consulting (elective)
EMBA/GEMBA Courses
Operations Management (core)
Executive Education Courses
Faculty leader and teacher in numerous custom and open-enrolment programs dealing with innovation strategy, new product development, operations management, and general management. Clients include Capital One Financial, 3M Corporation, United Technologies, AES, Saudi-Arabia/Bahrain Institute of Banking, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, McIntire School of Commerce, Henkel Group, CEIBS, and PAD University of Peru
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Cases
Advancing knowledge through research that shapes business, Darden professors are recognized thought leaders in their fields. They are not only master case method teachers, they also author many of the cases used in Darden classrooms and around the world.
Raul O. Chao''s cases are available in the Darden Business Publishing website.
Advancing knowledge through research that shapes business, Darden professors are recognized thought leaders in their fields. They are not only master case method teachers, they also author many of the cases used in Darden classrooms and around the world.
Raul O. Chao''s cases are available in the Darden Business Publishing website.
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