Department of Business Administration Faculty & Staff
Management || Marketing || Operations || Staff
Management Faculty
Dr. Thomas Becker (Professor)
Research: Employee and Organizational Performance
Teaching: Organizational Behavior & HR 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. Howard Garland (Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business)
Research: Interest on Motivation and Human Performance
Teaching: Organizational Behavior & Research Methodology
Dr. Mary Kernan (Associate Professor)
Research: Employee Performance, Workplace Deviance, Organizational Commitment
Teaching: Management
Dr. John Kmetz (Associate Professor)
Research: The Information Processing Theory of Organization
Teaching: New Venture Creation & Business Consulting
Dr. Patrick McClelland (Assistant Professor)
Research: Top Managers, Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation
Teaching: Strategic Management, General Management, International Strategy
Dr. John Preble (Associate Professor)
Research: Business Ethics, Crisis Management & Environmental Scanning
Teaching: Strategic Management, International Business & Decision-Making
Dr. John Sawyer (Professor)
Research: Knowledge Transfer and Learning in Virtual Teams, Diversity in teams, Work team performance
Teaching: Organizational Development and Change, Professional Project Seminar
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 (Associate Professor)
Research: Global Strategic Management, Top Management Decision Making
Teaching: Corporate Strategy, International Business 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, Decision-Making in Organizations
Teaching: Ethical, Social & Political Issues in Business
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 & Department Chair, 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: Marketing
Dr. Julia Bayuk(Assistant Professor)
Research:Implementation intentions and goal pursuits, Consumer mindsets and their effect on judgement and decision making
Teaching: Consumer Behavior, Sales Management, Principles of Management
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 of Consumer Perceptions, Preference, Consideration & Choice
Teaching: Marketing Management, Marketing Research & Advanced Seminar in Marketing Managment & Strategy
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 (Associate 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: Clinical Trial Supply Chains, Supply Chains of products with short lifecycles
Teaching:Data Analysis, 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: Human Learning/Forgetting, Worker Cross-Training
Teaching: Operations Management, Business Statistics,Quantitative Methods
Dr. Christine Kydd (Associate Professor)
Research: Electronic Communication Tech.,Group-Decision Support Systems
Teaching: Operations Management, Decision Analysis & Quantitative Methods
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
Business Administration Staff
Barbara Freda, Senior Secretary, 213 ALH 302-831-2556
Jackie Guzzo, Senior Secretary, 236 ALH 302-831-2554
Pat McCloskey, Office Coordinator, 236 ALH 302-831-4398
Nancy Sanderson, Senior Secretary, 213 ALH 302-831-2555
