Professor of the Practice and
Distinguished Teaching Professor
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Ken Homa has a diverse background that includes consulting, strategic planning, marketing,
operations, information technology, and academia. He graduated cum laude from Princeton
University with an undergraduate degree in economics. A summary of his thesis – “The Supply
of Money and Common Stock Prices” -- was published in the Journal of Finance. He also
earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he later was a lecturer in marketing and
strategic planning.
He worked as a systems consultant with Arthur Andersen, an econometrician for a capital goods
manufacturer and an operations analyst for a major food retailer before joining McKinsey &
Company as a management consultant specializing in consumer goods and marketing.
Post-McKinsey, he was General Manager of Product Marketing for General Electric's Major
Appliance Business Group and General Manager of Marketing for G.E. Housewares. When
Black & Decker acquired G.E. Housewares, Ken was appointed Vice President of Marketing for
the Household Products Group. In that position, his responsibilities focused on transferring the
equity of the General Electric brand and establishing Black & Decker as the leading brand of
household products.
Ken also served as Vice President - Group Logistics and Business Systems for Black & Decker
with responsibility for Distribution, Customer Service, and Worldwide Information Services. In
this role, he was responsible for the development and deployment of business systems
worldwide, with particular emphasis on Supply Chain process reengineering.
Currently, Ken is on the faculty of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business
teaching graduate courses in marketing strategy and operations. He has earned several
teaching and service awards including the MBA Class of 1998 Distinguished Service Award,
"Most Popular Professor" in the 2000 Business Week Graduate School of Business Survey, the
MBA Class of 2001 Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Service Awards, the MBA Class
of 2002 Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Service Awards, the MBA Class of 2003
Distinguished Service Award, the MBA Class of 2004 Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished
Service Awards, the MBA Class of 2005 Distinguished Service Award, the MBA Class of 2007
Distinguished Teaching Award, the MBA Class of 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award, and the
MBA Class of 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award. He was featured in a 2004 New York Times
article titled “Tough Love” as an 'uncompromising teacher who takes his mission seriously and
expects mountains of work.'
Mr. Homa was on the founding Boards of Sequoia Software (subsequently acquired by Citrix
Software), and Navigauge (formerly IQStat, a technology-based media measurement company),
and on the Board of Directors of SIRVA, Inc. (a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company
specializing in global relocation logistics), He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Upper
Quadrant, a Marketing Performance Measurement company.
July 2011
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