Department of Business Administration Faculty & Staff
Management || Marketing || Operations || Staff || Sport Management
Management Faculty
Dr. Thomas Becker (Department Chair and Professor)
Research: Employee Commitment, Motivation, Job Performance, and Research Methods and Statistics
Teaching: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Dr. Bernadine J. Dykes (Assistant Professor)
Research: Market Entry, Competitive Strategy, and Organization Theory
Teaching: Strategic Management
Dr. Diane Ferry (Associate Professor)
Research: Behavioral aspects of Computer Technologies
Teaching: Management
Dr. Mary Kernan (Associate Professor)
Research: Employee Performance, Workplace Deviance, Organizational Commitment
Teaching: Management
Dr. John Kmetz (Assistant Professor)
Research: The Information Processing Theory of Organization
Teaching: New Venture Creation & Business Consulting, Study-abroad programs in Europe and Australia, International Business, Managerial and Executive Education, Transition Training in Central and Eastern Europe, Project Management and Systems Management
Dr. John Preble (Associate Professor)
Research: Business Ethics, Crisis Management & Environmental Scanning
Teaching: Strategic Management, International Business & Decision-Making
Dr. John Sawyer (Professor)
Research: Organizational culture change, Team and virtual team performance and decision making, Diversity in teams, Creativity in organizations, Survey measurement methodology
Teaching: Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development and Change, Professional Project Seminar: Consulting skills
Dr. Arthur Sloane (Professor Emeritus)
Research: Labor Relations
Dr. Dustin J. Sleesman (Assistant Professor)
Research: Decision Making, Managerial Cognition, Team Effectiveness
Teaching: Organizational Behavior, Negotiation
Dr. Wendy Smith (Assistant Professor)
Research: Top Management Teams, Decision Making, Managing Paradoxes, Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation
Teaching: Organization Behavior, Social Responsibility, Teams and Decision Making
Dr. Daniel Sullivan (Professor)
Research: Global Business Environment, International Leadership Standards, Pedagogy and Paradigms
Teaching: Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development and Change, Professional Project Seminar: Consulting skills
Dr. Katalin Takacs-Haynes (Assistant Professor)
Research: Managerial attributes, Corporate governance, Institutions
Teaching: Business and Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship, International Management
Dr. Sharon Watson (Associate Professor)
Research: Implementing International Strategies, Managing Foreign Subsidiaries
Teaching: International Management, Strategic Management
Dr. Gary Weaver (Professor)
Research: Ethical behavior and decision-making in organizations, Institutional and identity based analyses of corruption and corruption remediation, Organizational ethics and compliance programs, Conceptual and methodological issues in organizational ethics research, Transition economy business ethics issues
Teaching: Ethical, social and political issues in business, Central Europe MBA/MS study abroad program
Dr. Richard Weiss (Associate Professor)
Research: Institutional and Ecological Models of Organizational Populations
Teaching: Organization Theory & Design, Org. Behavior & Management
Dr. Scott Wycoff (Instructor)
Teaching: Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management & Int. Business
Marketing Faculty
Dr. Rick Andrews (Professor, Lerner College Deputy Dean)
Research: Retail scanner data modeling and analysis, time series analysis and forecasting
Teaching: Marketing research, new product development
Dr. John Antil (Associate Professor)
Research: Brand Equity, Special Event Advertising, Consumer Decision-Making
Teaching: Marketing Strategy, Marketing Principles, Introduction to Business
Mark Bambach (Instructor)
Teaching: Introduction to Marketing, Advertising Management, Consumer Behavior, Field Projects in Marketing and Marketing Strategy, Human Resource Management.
Dr. Julia Bayuk (Assistant Professor)
Research:Implementation intentions and goal pursuit, Consumer mindsets and their effect on judgement and decision making, Identity fluctuations and satisfaction, Attitude formation and change
Teaching: Consumer Behavior, Sales Management, Introduction to Marketing, Advertising
Sandra Fields (Instructor)
Teaching: Sales & Introduction to Marketing
Dr. Dan Freeman (Assistant Professor)
Research: Social Information Processing,Consumer Socialization & E-Marketing
Teaching: Marketing Strategy, Information Technology Applications in Marketing
Dr. Meryl Gardner (Associate Professor)
Research: Macromarketing,Mood-Related Consumer Behavior,Sales Interactions
Teaching: Marketing Research, Consumer Behavior & Marketing Management
Dr. Michal Herzenstein (Assistant Professor)
Research: Consumers’ goals and their effects on judgments and decision making, Terror management theory, Hypothesis testing, Emotions and persuasion
Teaching: Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, Marketing Management, Advertising, Pricing
Dr. Robert Kent (Associate Professor)
Research: Marketing Technology, Advertising Clutter & Music in Advertising
Teaching: Advertising, Consumer Behavior & International Marketing
Dr. Ajay Manrai (Professor)
Research: Modeling and measurement of consumer perceptions, preference, and choice; International and cross-cultural consumer marketing; Product positioning; Market structure analysis; Marketing of services; Marketing of social ideas; Design of advertising and communication strategy; Marketing channels.
Teaching: International Marketing Management, Study Abroad Program in India, Advanced Marketing Management and Strategy Seminar, International Marketing Research and Teaching, Marketing Research, Marketing Management
Dr. Ji Kyung Park (Assisant Professor)
Research: Consumption and the Self, Social Identity Effect in Cause Marketing
Teaching: Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, Marketing Principles
Dr. Peggy Tseng (Assistant Professor)
Research: Modeling consumer decision process, Forecasting, Statistical models in marketing research
Teaching: Integrated Marketing Communications, International Marketing
Dr. Stewart Shapiro (Professor)
Research: Non-Conscious Processing, Non-Conscious Routes to Persuasion
Teaching: Marketing Research & Consumer Behavior
Dr. Anu Sivaraman (Assistant Professor)
Research: Counterfactual Thinking, Information Processing, Decision-Making
Teaching: Information Technology Applications in Marketing
Dr. Suresh Sundaram (Assistant Professor)
Operations Management Faculty
Dr. Bintong Chen (Professor)
Research: Optimization, Game Theory, and Applications
Teaching: Production and Operations Management
Dr. Darwin Davis (Associate Professor)
Research: Cellular Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain Management
Teaching: Operations Management & Management Science
Dr. Adam Fleischhacker (Assistant Professor)
Research: Business Process Design in Uncertain Environments, Supply Chain Planning for Short Lifecycle Products, Clinical Trial Supply Chains, Inventory Management, Entropy as Measure of Uncertainty
Teaching: Data Analysis, Business Process Design, Operations Management
Dr. William Gehrlein (Professor)
Research: Decision Theory, Social Choice Theory & Graph Theory
Teaching: Operations Management, Operations Research
Dr. Hemant Kher (Associate Professor)
Research: Longitudinal Data, Growth Modeling
Teaching: Operations Management, Data Analysis
Dr. Christine Kydd (Professor)
Research: Use of videoconferencing for international teamwork, including the effects of culture - also the use of videoconferencing for facilitating student-to-student interaction across cultures; Effective use of technology in the classroom for teaching Operations Management concepts; Best practices for Study Abroad courses/trips for Business students.
Teaching: Use of technology for teaching Operations Management concepts; Use of active learning/simulations/case exercises for teaching Operations Management concepts; Teaching Operations Management/Operations Research/Supply Chain concepts to undergraduate and graduate students
Susan Murphy (Instructor)
Teaching: Introduction to Operations Management
Dr. Erwin Saniga (Dana Johnson Professor)
Research: Statistical Process Control, IT & Production, Operations Management
Teaching: Technological Problem Solving, Problem Solving Project Management
Sport Management Faculty
Dr. Matthew J. Robinson (Professor)
Research: International Sport Event Legacy Analysis, Athlete Endorsements, Consumer Behavior in Sport, Intercollegiate Athletics (Fundraising and Recuriting)
Teaching: Ethics in Sport Management, Sport Marketing, International Sport Management and Marketing, Public and Community Relations in Sport
Tim DeSchriver (Associate Professor)
Research: Sport Finance and Economics
Teaching: Sport Finance, Sport Marketing, and Foundations of Sport Management
Edgar Johnson (Associate Professor)
Teaching: Foundations of Sport Management
Business Administration Staff
Laura Marino, Administrative Assistant, 236 ALH 302-831-2554
Nancy Sanderson, Administrative Assistant, 213 ALH 302-831-2555
Denise Heldorfer, Assistant to the Chair, 236 ALH 302-831-4398
