Nancy Artz , Ph.D. -- Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern Maine

Professor Artz teaches online courses in triple-bottom-line business at the undergraduate and MBA levels, as well as traditional courses in consumer behavior.  In the past, she has taught internet marketing, general education courses in sustainability, and executive education modules in a business certificate program.  As a member of USM’s Presidential Council on Climate Neutrality, she is developing a plan to make USM carbon neutral. She is also helping to conduct a sustainability audit of USM.  Before receiving her doctorate in Marketing from Northwestern University in 1989, she worked at the John Morton Company in Chicago as a marketing research consultant.  She currently is a board member and teacher in the Maine Watersheds Project, which trains faculty to incorporate sustainability into their teaching. She has previously served as an examiner/judge with the Margaret Chase Smith Maine State Quality Award, and was co-principal investigator of a NIST grant examining corporate participation in quality award programs. She has worked with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to study the use of the internet to foster sustainable behavior in employees and consumers (Journal of Marketing Communication, 2007 and Competition Forum, 2005).  Other research has examined marketer's environmental responsibility, use of social networking media in social marketing, quality management, market opportunity analysis, marketing communications, customer service, and consumer psychology, and has been published in outlets such as Greening of the Campus, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Business Research Yearbook, Global Competitiveness, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, and Marketing Letters.

Dudley Greeley --Sustainability Coordinator, University of Southern Maine

Dudley grew up in a small Kentucky coal-mining town and at an early age came to understand some of the external costs of powering America's industrial expansion with Appalachian coal.  He received a degree in Environmental Health and Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  His goal as USM's Sustainability Coordinator is to reduce the university's ecological footprint and improve quality-of-life.  He does energy consulting, presents programs on household energy management, serves as a discussant in Professor Artz's online sustainable business courses, and has taught courses on principles of sustainability, including "Ten Billion People, One Damp Rock.” He lives on an early 19th century farm that is powered with clean energy.

Jeffrey Gramlich, Ph.D. -- Professor of Accounting and L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair, University of Southern Maine

Professor Gramlich joined USM in July 2003 after two years as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Business School and 13 years as a professor at the University of Hawaii College of Business Administration. He delivers decision-oriented courses in financial accounting and financial statement analysis and valuation. Gramlich organizes the L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Colloquium Series to serve as an interface between current research and Maine business practitioners and students. His research appears in Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Accounting Horizons, among others. His most publicized research documented whistle-blowing assertions that Chevron, Texaco and the Government of Indonesia colluded to defraud U.S. federal and state governments of an estimated $9 billion in tax revenue. Gramlich's current working papers include “Off-balance sheet entities: What motivates firms to sponsor them and how sponsorship impacts accruals and return on equity,” “Are uncontested director elections meaningful?” and “Empirical evidence on the revenue effects of state corporate tax accounting policies.” See http://www.usm.maine.edu/~gramlich for further information.

Richard Grover , Ph.D. -- Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern Maine

Professor Grover teaches organizational behavior in the Business Administration Program and leadership, change, creative problem solving, conflict management and negotiation in the MBA Program. His research focuses on collaborative leadership, conflict management and negotiation. Research projects he is currently working on include evaluation of collaborative leadership education and the application of conflict management strategies to health care delivery. Professor Grover’s work has been published in a variety of journals including Group and Organization Management, Journal of Management Issues, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Competition Forum, Organizational Behavior Teaching Journal and Quality Management Journal.  Professor Grover earned his doctorate in Organizational Behavior and M.S. in Pharmacy Administration from The Ohio State University. He earned his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining the USM faculty Dr. Grover served as a professor at the Indiana University School of Business and before that practiced mental health pharmacy for several years in Columbus, Ohio.

Jeff Shields , Ph.D.  -- Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Southern Maine

Professor Shields teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in management and cost accounting.  He has published papers in journals such as Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Advances in Management Accounting, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business Strategy, and CPA Journal.  He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, the Small Business Institute, and the editorial board of the Journal of Small Business Strategy.  He is also the Northeast Regional Director for the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.