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Faculty Research and Interests by Area:

Accounting/Finance:
Accounting education – Gutmann, Pryor, Violette
Assessment of learning – Pryor, Violette
Asset pricing – Bennett
Balance sheet management - Gramlich
Careers in accounting – Violette
Case tool usage – Chinn
Control systems – Shields
Corporate finance – Bennett
Cost accounting - Shields
Current issues – Violette
Customer profitability analysis – Shields
Derivatives and risk management - Bennett
Discretionary accruals – Gramlich
Earnings management – Gramlich
Financial economics – Smoluk
Financial management – Bennett
Foreign exchange hedging techniques & practices - VanderLinden
Government and non-government accounting practices - Pryor
Income shifting between related entities – Gramlich
Investment management – Bennett
Managerial accounting practices – Prylor, Shields
NonProfit accounting practices - Pryor
Performance measurement – Shields
Personal financial planning – Gold
Portfolio management - Smoluk
Revenue management - Shields
Small business/entrepreneurial financial/tax business practices – Sanders, Shields
State corporate income taxes - Gramlich
Software – Gutmann
Special purpose entities – Gramlich
Revenue drivers & management practices – Shields
Tax fraud – Gramlich, Manny
Tax policy - Violette

 

General Business:
Adaptive leadership – Shaffer
Case tool usage – Chinn
Change – Grover
Computer programming - MacDonald
Corporate acquisitions – Gramlich
Corporate venture - Voyer
Corporate strategy – Voyer
Database construction/operation/design – MacDonald, Suleiman
Data communications - Suleiman
Data for decision making – Andrews
Decision making – Andrews
Economic education & Price theory – Phillips
Entrepreneurship – Aiello, Purdy, Westfall
Ethics – Heiser, Houlihan, Gramlich, Manny
Experiential and Active Learning - Westfall
Foreign trade barriers – Manny
Group support systems - Suleiman
Group technology and cellular manufacturing – Jensen
Healthcare, business of – Grover
Human resources management – Aiello
Information systems education - Suleiman
Information technology – Chinn, Suleiman, Westfall
Insurance industry – TBA
International business – Heiser, Manny, VanderLinden
International business law – Manny
International data transfer – Manny
Internet usage in the workplace – Chinn
Knowledge management - Suleiman
Law – Houlihan
Leadership – Grover, Voyer
Legal and ethical aspects of privacy involving international data transfers – Manny
Logistics – Jensen
Management decision making - Artz
Management of information systems – Chinn, Suleiman
Mergers & acquisitions – Gramlich, Voyer
NonProfit business – Chinn
Operations research and management science - Jensen
Organizational behavior and theory – Aiello, Grover, Voyer
Organizational learning - Voyer
Provider collaboration in health care delivery - Grover
Project leadership – Grover
Quality management – Artz
Scenario planning – Voyer
Small business – Aiello, Chinn, Pryor, Westfall, Voyer
Sport management – Williams
Statistical analysis - MacDonald
Statistical process control and shop floor control - Jensen
Stimulation and optimization of manufacturing systems - Jensen
Stock market – Bennett, Smoluk
Strategy – Aiello
Statistical modeling and analysis – Andrews, Kohli
Statistical process control - Jensen
Supply chain management – Jensen, Kohli
Systems analysis and design – Chinn, Voyer

  Systems dynamics – Kholi, Voyer
Systems thinking – Voyer
Trade practices – Manny
US export law – Manny
Virtual teams – Suleiman
Web page development – Chinn, MacDonald, Westfall
Whistleblowing – Gramlich, Houlihan

  Marketing:
Advertising - Munger
Consumer behavior – Artz, Munger
International marketing - Heiser
Internet marketing – Munger
Market opportunty Analysis – Artz, Purdy
Marketing communications – Artz
Marketing research and methodology - Heiser
Market solutions to political issues – Phillips
Pricing – Munger
Retailing – Munger
Shop lifting and consumer/retail ethics and responses - Heiser
Social marketing – Artz
Sport marketing – Williams
Strategy - Heiser
Sustainability - Artz

 

Faculty research and interest areas by faculty:

 

Fred Aiello: entrepreneurship, small business management, and organizational behavior, interrelationships of organizational behavior, strategy, and human resources management in small businesses.

 

Bruce Andrews: development of modeling tools and methodologies for addressing complex management decision-making challenges, quantitatively-based management decision making, and statistical modeling and analysis.

Nancy Artz: consumer behavior, marketing communications, market opportunity analysis and quality management.

James Bennett: financial management, corporate finance.

Douglas Chene:

Susan Chinn: case tool usage, internet usage in the workplace, nonprofits, and management of information services.

Joel Gold: Personal financial planning.

Jeffrey Gramlich: earnings management, discretionary accruals, income shifting between related entities, balance sheet management, special purpose entities, and State corporate income taxes.

 

Rick Grover: healthcare.

Jean Gutmann: pedagogical improvements in accounting education.

Robert Heiser: marketing research and methodology, international marketing, marketing strategy, and business ethics.

John Houlihan: business ethics--sexual harassment, discrimination, employer-employee relationships, bribery, product liability, personal ethics codes, as well as whistleblowers and their place in American society.

Jack Jensen: group technology and statistical process control, logistics, and supply chain management.

Amarpreet Kohli: supply chain management, system dynamics, and statistical modeling.

Tom MacDonald: database design in modern relational systems, major statistical analysis applications, computer programming and business-related computer applications.

Carter Manny: legal and ethical aspects of privacy involving international data transfers, efforts to reduce foreign trade barriers, resolution of international disputes involving unfair trading practices, and US export control law.

Jeanne Munger: internet marketing, pricing, retailing, entrepreneurship, and marketing case writing.

William Phillips: economic education, and price theory.

Charlotte Pryor: accounting education - assessment of learning, management of financial information in governmental and not-for-profit entities, measuring efficiency and effectiveness in not-for-profit organizations.

Warren Purdy: market opportunity analysis.

Jeff Shields: cost accounting , managerial accounting, and governments and non-profit accounting and budgeting.

John Sanders: Practical small business issues.

James Shaffer: Adaptive leadership.

Bert Smoluk: portfolio management and financial economics.

James Suleiman: virtual teams, database, knowledge management, IS education, and group support systems.

David VanderLinden: foreign exchange hedging techniques and practices.

George Violette: improving accounting education, pedagogical, and conceptual issues, student understanding, training, and interaction with the profession, and tax policy and behavioral issues.

John Voyer: systemic phenomena in organizations, links among organizational learning, organizational strategy and entrepreneurship, with particular focus on dialogue, scenario planning and system dynamics.

James Westfall: Experiential and Active Learning, especially as a recruitment/retention tool.

Jo Williams: Sport management, sport marketing.