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Professor Morales teaches courses in decision-making, technology leadership, and systems design. He is a retired Army Brigadier General who served globally, living in Europe for a decade and commanding units in UN peacekeeping operations under hostile fire. He has also served in the White House twice as an aide to the head of NASA and led the engineering department at the Military Academy, overseeing multi-million-dollar research efforts. Professor Morales leverages his research interests in innovation, strategy, and systems integration, applying multidisciplinary lenses to understand complex problems. His work emphasizes value creation through collaboration, linking leading learning with the application of systems tools to improve organizational performance across various sectors. Additionally, Rich serves on national boards alongside advisors from business, academia, and nonprofits, and is an active leader in the development of the Coast Guard Academy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Point, an MBA from Yale, and graduate degrees from the Naval College of Command and Staff and the National Defense University, as well as a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and is a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
Department: Department of Economics