Jack McCarthy, assistant professor of business and coordinator of the undergraduate business program at UNH Manchester, has been asked to design and deliver seminars on "Perspectives on Leadership" and training on leadership development for the 2006 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Boston University.

McCarthy was invited based on his research and teaching in the areas of leadership and executive development in the undergraduate business program at UNH Manchester and the executive MBA program at Boston University.

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program was established by Congress in 1978 in honor of the late Senator and Vice President. The Fellowship brings accomplished professionals from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to the United States for one year of advanced study and related practical experience.

As part of the Fulbright International Educational Exchange activities, the Humphrey Fellowship Program is funded through the United States Department of State and administered nationally by the Institute of International Education.

McCarthy said, “I am thrilled to have been asked to create seminars on leadership for the Fellows, the first time that leadership has ever been included in the Humphrey Program curriculum at BU since the program’s inception in 1978. While these sessions will draw from my current research and teaching expertise, I fully expect to learn as much, and probably more, from the Fellows than they will from my teaching. It has been wonderful to meet the Fellows and begin working with them this fall and I am greatly looking forward to our time together during the rest of the academic year.”

McCarthy earned his doctorate in business administration from Boston University, an MBA with a concentration in finance from Babson College, and a BA in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was the 2005 recipient of the UNH Manchester Teacher Excellence Award. His work has been published in top academic journals and he has led workshops and presented papers at numerous professional conferences.