Professor Stephen Courter is an award-winning faculty member in the department of management at The University of Texas at Austin and a former top corporate executive with experience worldwide.
Following graduation from Penn State, Steve Courter served in the US Army, reaching the rank of Major. After stints at KPMG and IBM, he became Vice-President and General Manager of Sprint/Global One in Brussels, Belgium in 1987, where he worked until 1998. He became CEO of Enertel Communications in Rotterdam, The Netherland, and later served as CEO and Chairman of Neon Communication in Boston. In 2006, he became CEO of Broadwing Communications in Austin, and led the organization until its purchase in 2007 by Level 3 Communications. Board Postions: Courter also served as a Director at Globix, Inc., and is presently Chairman and Director of Mobi Corporation, Director of Cadiz Inc.,(NASDAQ:CDZI) and Director, Upland Software.(NASDQ:UPLD)
Professor Courter’s academic career began at the University of Maryland in 1981, where he taught for fourteen years, and later at Bryant University, where he taught in 2005-2006. He joined The University of Texas in 2007. His areas of interest include corporate diversification; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and venture capital. He teaches graduate courses in Strategic Management, New Venture Creation, and an elective on Turnarounds, Restructuring and Bankruptcy. Courter has been honored for his teaching, with recognition on the Faculty Honor Roll (2008), MBA Faculty Honor Roll (Spring 2010, 2011 and 2015), Texas Executive MBA Faculty Honor Roll (Spring 2011)
He also been named the Outstanding Professor for the Mexico City Executive MBA Program (2012, 2016 and 2017), Evening MBA Program (2017) and Executive MBA Program (2017). In recent years he has conducted several MBA Global Connections work study programs to Viet Nam, Indonesia, Thailand and India, facilitating consulting projects for large companies in those countries. He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Cologne (Germany) and Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from George Washington University.