Tom Egan
Education
- B.S. Physics – Providence College
- MBA – University of San Francisco
- Ph.D. Economics – University of California, Davis
Teaching and Research Interests:
Dr. Egan has been teaching Economics and Business Management courses at Moravian University since 1994. He regularly teaches MBA level courses in Operations Management, Microeconomic Foundations for Strategic Management and Decision Analysis. He also teaches a variety of undergraduate Economics and Management courses.
Dr. Egan has had career long interests in energy and environmental economics (his Economics Ph.D. thesis area), in the key role the Federal Government plays in nurturing innovation and promoting economic growth and also in encouraging the wider use of basic microeconomic theory in the actual decision environments commonly encountered within modern, 21st century organizations that provide multiple products and services.
Corporate Career:
Before graduate school, Dr. Egan began his business career selling office equipment and stainless steel pipe and fittings to industrial companies in the San Francisco Bay region. He then worked for seven years for Silicon Valley, CA semiconductor companies in sales, product marketing and operations positions - including project management of two ultra-high reliability semiconductor manufacturing contracts for use in the guidance computers of NASA’s first landing on Mars – the 1976 Viking Program.
After graduate school he worked for five years at Charles River Associates, (CRA), a Microeconomics Consulting firm in Boston where he was the principal investigator on a number of studies in areas of energy demand and supplies for Federal Government agencies such as U.S. Dept. of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Bonneville Power Administration. At CRA, he also provided economic analysis support to law firms involved in antitrust law litigation and co-authored a book on the critical role the Federal Government played in spurring the growth of the semiconductor industry.
The last seventeen years of Dr. Egan's corporate career was spent doing corporate strategic planning and intellectual property asset valuation research at AT&T and at its semiconductor manufacturing spinoff, Lucent Technologies. While at AT&T he authored an award winning paper on how microeconomic theory might become more useful in decision environments within modern organizations.