Profile
Richard Franklin
is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Management
Information Systems area at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the
University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Katz faculty in September of 1997,
after five years with Federated Investors, one of the largest mutual fund
complexes in the country. As an Assistant Vice President in the Advanced
Information Systems division at Federated, he was responsible for
information technology development and support for systems used by over
1500 people. Before joining Federated Investors, he consulted for
Westinghouse, Alcoa, and U.S. Steel. Before entering the business and
technology world, he was a full-time professional musician for over 15
years.
Business/IT
Expertise Areas: relational database, software engineering, requirements,
data and process analysis, IT in financial services, e-commerce
Music Industry
Expertise Areas: recording, musical instrument manufacture and retailing,
music education
Awards and Honors
Katz Teaching
Excellence Award
2002-03
2007-08
2003-04
2008-09
2004-05
2009-10
2005-06
2010-11
2006-07
2012-13
CBA Best Teaching
in the General Management major (2009/2010)
Personal Interests
Professor Franklin
remains an active musician. He has played the guitar for over 50 years. He
is a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers), whose jazz compositions and recordings have been featured on
radio, satellite and Internet stations in the USA and around the world. He
has released over a dozen albums which have been purchased as CDs as well
as downloaded and streamed from iTunes, Spotify and
other online music sites by jazz-lovers all over the world.
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