Beth Hjelm

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Degree History:

MS, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, 1982
BA, University of Notre Dame, 1980

Research/Teaching Awards:

Oregon Executive MBA Outstanding Faculty, 2015
James Reinmuth MBA Teaching Award for Core Classes, 2011
Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award, spring 2010, spring 2008
Most Influential Undergraduate Faculty (as determined by graduating seniors), 2008, 2009

Bio:

Beth Hjelm an emerita instructor at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business. She has more than thirty years of experience in financial management, marketing strategy, organizational planning, and performance improvement.

Prior to joining the faculty at the Lundquist College, Hjelm headed a consulting firm focused on strategic management and new venture startups. She was a member of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting for fourteen years. Her functional practice focused on delivering services to the chief financial officer and the financial organization, and her industry focus was the telecommunications industry. Hjelm is a coauthor of Reinventing the CFO: Moving From Financial Management to Strategic Management (McGraw-Hill), which presents a vision and an implementation methodology to develop best practices in the financial function.

At the college, she has served as interim managing director for two of the Lundquist College’s centers of excellence—the Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis and the Center for Sustainable Business Practices. In addition, she was previously the program director and faculty advisor for the Oregon MBA's Strategic Planning Projects—a five-month consultancy in which MBA students work with clients on key strategic issues to develop a comprehensive set of recommendations and implementation plans for an emerging business opportunity.

Hjelm previously taught accounting at Elizabeth Seton College in New York and strategic management at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Specialty

Benchmarking and Best Practice
Financial Process Analysis and Redesign
Organization Development
Performance Measurement
Strategic Management and Business Planning

Books

Hjelm, Elizabeth, Thomas Walther, Henry Johansson, and John Dunleavy. Reinventing the CFO: Moving from Financial Management to Strategic Management. New York City, New York: McGraw-Hill.
October 1996

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