About
Stephen Courter is an award-winning faculty member for the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an assistant professor of instruction in the Rosenthal Department of Management and a former top corporate executive with experience worldwide. He joined UT Austin in 2007.
His areas of interest include corporate diversification; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; and venture capital. He teaches a graduate course in Strategic Management and an undergraduate course in Strategy, Organizational Behavior, and Entrepreneurial Management. Courter’s teaching has earned him recognition on the Faculty Honor Roll, the MBA Faculty Honor Roll, and the Texas Executive MBA Faculty Honor Roll.
Courter’s academic career began at the University of Maryland in 1981, where he taught for 14 years, and later moved to Bryant University, where he taught during 2005-2006.
Before then, he worked for KPMG and IBM, and he went on to became vice president and general manager of Sprint/Global One in Belgium. Courter was also CEO of Enertel Communications and later CEO and chairman of Neon Communication. In 2006, he became CEO of Broadwing Communications in Austin and led it until its purchase. Courter has also been a director at Globix Inc. and is presently chairman and director of Mobi Corp, director of Cadiz Inc., and director of Upland Software Inc.
In recent years he has conducted several MBA Global Connections work-study programs to Vietnam, Thailand, and India, facilitating consulting projects for large companies in those countries.
After graduating from college, Courter served in the Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He received his B.S. from Penn State University in 1977 and his MBA from George Washington University in 1981.
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