Richard Franklin
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh

228 Mervis Hall
rfranklin@katz.pitt.edu
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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. 

MBA Classes:

·  Database Management

·  Technology Enabled Business Transformation

·  E-Commerce

·  Business System Platforms

CBA Classes:

·  Database Management

·  Technology Enabled Business Transformation

·  E-Commerce

·  IT Architecture & Platforms

 


Links:

·  Music Web Site

·  Music Blog

·  August 2013 IS Materials

Last Update: October 15, 2013