Mastering Museum Management

Katherine Burton Jones has taught in the Museum Studies Program at the Harvard Extension School for the last decade and has served as research advisor for the program since it moved from a certificate program to a masters degree in 2004. She was assistant dean for information technology and media services at the Harvard Divinity School for nine years.

Jones volunteers for non-profits in the New England area. She is a member of the board of directors and chairs the Museum Committee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in Newport, RI. She is a member of the board of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill, MA.

Jones was an assistant director at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1994 to 2000, where she introduced the importance of websites and multimedia to all of the Harvard museums. She was responsible for raising funds for the various public-facing technology projects, including the virtual exhibit Against the Winds: American Indian Running Traditions. While at the Peabody, she served on the boards of the Museum Computer Network and the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Mildred Morse Allen Center.

Jones edited and contributed to two books on the use of technology in museums, The Wired Museum (American Association of Museums, 1997), and Museum Informatics: People, Information, and Technology in Museums (with Paul F. Marty, Routledge, 2007). In the last two decades she has also authored numerous articles on topics related to museums, and given presentations at national and regional museum conferences.

Originally from Alaska, Lawrence Motz obtained a BS in engineering from Arizona State University in 1989, an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1993, and an ALM from the Harvard Extension School in 2011. Upon graduation from business school, Motz became an institutional emerging markets bond trader and later an investment banker with Prudential Securities, PaineWebber (UBS), and finally Kaufman Brothers, a boutique investment bank specializing in telecommunications. During that time he also co-founded and served as chief financial officer of eNet China, an early online Internet retailer headquartered in Beijing.

Turning his attention to nonprofit finance and museums, Motz interned and then became an employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City beginning in 2009, where he held the position of asset/liability manager until 2015. During his tenure, Motz created the museum's debt policy, endowment spending policy, and successfully managed the organization's first ever long-dated taxable corporate bond offering.

Motz received two honors of distinction at Harvard University's commencement in 2012. He both served as class marshall and won the Dean's Outstanding Thesis Prize with his thesis entitled, Understanding and Developing Appropriate Museum Debt Policy: Practical Capital Structure Analysis for Museums. Motz holds the professional designation Chartered Financial Analyst and began teaching for Harvard's Museum Studies Program as an adjunct in 2015.

He currently resides in New York City with his wife of over twenty years and three children.