I’ve pursued two unique and successful careers during my professional work life.  In my first career, after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with an engineering degree, I joined Schlumberger Limited and worked in oil and gold exploration for nearly 11-years.  My initial positions included field-engineering roles on offshore oil rigs. After four years as an engineer, Schlumberger sponsored my MBA at the University of Pittsburgh.  The MBA degree propelled me into international management positions with the company where I served as country manager in South Africa and Bolivia, corporate consultancy roles in France, and business development in The Netherlands and Germany. I held a life-long desire to pursue an academic career in teaching and research. Thus, after 11-years in growing corporate roles, I started my Ph.D. in Finance at Texas A&M University in 1992 and earned my doctorate in late 1996.

I maintain a strong interest and commitment to students through my teaching and administrative efforts. From a teaching perspective, I’ve had substantial experience working with undergraduate and graduate students. My portfolio of courses spans introductory finance courses as well as more advanced courses including Corporate Governance, International Finance, Corporate Valuation and Financial Strategy.  My teaching ratings consistently place me in the top 10% of all instructors in my school. On a five-point scale, my scores routinely fall in the 4.7 range (or better) for the question “Overall, instructor is”. Finally, I have received numerous Outstanding Teacher Awards at American University and Temple University. Since entering academia, I have strived to establish an outstanding and continuing record of research and teaching. My research agenda focuses broadly on corporate finance with a particular emphasis on corporate governance. Over the past several years, my work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Dr. Andersson received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior/Social Issues in Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research, published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, and Organization, focuses on the dark side of business organizations. In particular, she’s been examining some social maladies that are arguably associated with late capitalism and neoliberalism (cynicism, incivility, corruption, detrimental philanthrocapitalism) as well as the role of social activism in countering capitalist barriers to sustainability.

Dr. Andersson teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the area of Business, Society and Ethics and Corporate Sustainability, and has been lauded for her curricular innovation and ability to inspire critical thinking in her students. She was the recipient of the 2006 Andrisani-Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2005 Musser Excellence in Leadership Award for Teaching.

Active on campus, in her profession, and in the community, Dr. Andersson’s service engagements revolve around trying to stir things up, attempting to “ecologize” and “humanize” the business world and business education. She is currently on the Board of Directors at the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia.

Dr. Hilal Atasoy is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University. She has a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research analyzes the impacts of information technology and innovation on labor markets, and how information systems and associated flow of information across providers affect healthcare. Dr. Atasoy’s research was published in leading outlets such as Management Science, Information Systems Research and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Senior Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are executive compensation, earnings management, and capital markets. He has written several books on executive compensation including Executive Compensation: An Introduction to Practice and Theory, and an AICPA self study course, Accounting for Stock Options and Other Stock-Based Compensation, he has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Journal of Corporate Finance; and practitioner journals including the Journal of Accountancy. Professor Balsam is also a member of the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has been widely quoted in the media and has given expert witness testimony on executive compensation to the United States Senate Committee on Finance.  Prior to coming to Temple University he taught at Baruch College and the University of Rochester. Before entering academia he was a Certified Public Accountant working for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

Rajiv Banker is the Merves Chair in Accounting and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management, and is one of the most highly cited scholars in management and economics worldwide. The Institute for Scientific Information (Web of Science) has recognized him as a researcher for having made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology. He is ranked as the most prolific scholar in management accounting published in the top accounting research journals over the past 20 years. His research articles are cited over 500 times each year by other researchers in a wide range of disciplines. One of his papers is ranked fourth highest in citations in the 70-year history of Management Science.

Dr. Banker received a Bachelor of Science degree with Highest Honors in Mathematics and Economics, standing first, at the University of Bombay, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University concentrating in Planning, Accounting and Control Systems. He has served as editor and on advisory boards of leading research journals in accounting, information systems and operations management. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the Data Envelopment Analysis Journal and the president of the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society.

Dr. Banker’s research interests address emerging problems of importance to managers analyzing data collected from different companies. His research on information systems explores issues of technology-enabled competitive strategy, business value of investments in information technology, software productivity and quality, and management of software development and maintenance. His research in accounting addresses questions pertaining to performance measurement, incentive compensation, strategic cost management and competitive industry analysis. His research in management science includes the development of new methods for productivity analysis, efficiency evaluation and incentive regulation.

He has received numerous awards for his research, including awards by the American Accounting Association for Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting, Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature and Notable Contribution to the Governmental Accounting Literature, and best paper awards at international conferences in information systems and in accounting.

Sudipta Basu joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2007. His research on the effects of conservatism and other accounting principles on the properties of reported earnings and analysts’ earnings forecasts was published in Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

His research on the origins and evolution of accounting appears in Accounting and Business Research; Accounting Historians Journal; Accounting Horizons; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Foundations and Trends in Accounting; and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS). The American Accounting Association (AAA) recognized his research with the 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award and the 2011 and 2007 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Awards. Sudipta is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board member of The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; Australian Journal of Management; Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting; Accounting, Economics and Law; and China Journal of Accounting Research. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at the University of Rochester; M.B.A. at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; and B.A. (Honours) in Economics at the University of Delhi. Sudipta taught previously at Emory University and Baruch College, City University of New York. He currently teaches Cost Accounting to undergraduates and Capital Markets Research to doctoral students.

Best known for his research in earnings forecasting by security analysts, Brown has over 100 publications and has made nearly 200 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He has published at least two articles in the six most influential academic journals in accounting: Journal of Accounting Research (12 articles), The Accounting Review (6 articles), Contemporary Accounting Research (7 articles), Journal of Accounting and Economics (3 articles), Review of Accounting Studies (3 articles) and Accounting Organizations and Society (2 articles).  He has published 2 articles in the premier research journal in finance, Journal of Finance and 6 in the premier research journal in forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting.

Brown’s research papers have been downloaded by ssrn.com nearly 80,000 times, putting him in the top 1/20^th of one percent of all downloaded authors who have posted their work to that website.  He has been cited by scores of media outlets including Barron’s, Business Week, CNBC Business News, CFO Magazine, Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Investor’s Business Daily, Newsday, Newsweek, The New York Times, Reuters, Smartmoney.com, Spiegel Online, and The Wall Street Journal. Brown received the AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 2006.  He is a former Editor of The Accounting Review and a former Editorial Board member of Contemporary Accounting Research. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting for over 25 years, having organized the accounting-track of the CFEA three times.

Dmitri Byzalov joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2009. His research on cost behavior, conditional conservatism, and accrual modeling is published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. The American Accounting Association (AAA) recognized his research on demand uncertainty and cost behavior with the 2015 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He currently teaches Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting to undergraduates.

Dr. Hua Chen is an Associate Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management. He received his Ph.D. degree in Risk Management and Insurance from Georgia State University. His current research interests include longevity risk management, systemic risk and financial stability, insurance economics, and corporate risk management.

Dr. Chen has publications in top tier journals in risk management, insurance and actuarial science, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and the North American Actuarial Journal. Dr. Chen serves as the faculty advisor for the Ph.D. program in Risk Management and Insurance. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Insurance Issues and serves on the editorial boards of other two journals: Risks and the Journal of Risk & Control

Dr. Jongmoo Jay Choi is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Finance and International Business at Temple University. He is the Ph.D. Director in International Business, a former Chair of Finance Department, and a member of the University International Advisory Council. He teaches international finance and corporate finance. He is a recipient of the Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership, and has been inducted to the Research Roundtable. Previously, he was on the faculty of Columbia Business School, an international economist at J.P. Morgan Chase, and a visiting faculty at KAIST, Yonsei, IUJ, Rikkyo, U. Sydney, Wharton, and others around the world. As an author of over hundred articles, books and presentations, he is an internationally renowned scholar in international financial management, global corporate governance and finance, corporate risk and capital markets, and Asian business and multinational firms. He is the founding editor of International Finance Review, and an editor of Journal of Economics and Business, and on several editorial boards. He is Eminent Scholar and former President of Korea-America Finance Association, and a board member at Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation; has been a consultant to Bank of Korea, City of New York, Campbell Soup, Yamaichi Securities, and others. He has a BBA from Seoul National University and an MBA and a Ph.D. from New York University. His biography is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, and others.

Shira Cohen joined the Temple faculty as an Assistant Professor of Accounting after earning her PhD from Columbia University in 2014. Her research interests can be grouped into two main areas. The first attempts to understand how managers use financial statement information in making investment decisions, and the second looks at how accounting choices impact firm performance. Her dissertation received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 AAA Regional Meeting.

Professor Cohen has extensive work experience in both the consulting and finance industries. As a management consultant she took part in post-merger integration of Fortune 500 companies, and as an investment banker she worked primarily on valuation of hedge fund positions. Her experience ranges across industries and she has worked on several international engagements. Professor Cohen has prior teaching experience at Columbia Business School’s Executive Education and Executive MBA programs. In recognition of her classroom accomplishments, she was nominated and selected as a finalist for the 2011 Presidential Graduate Student Teaching Award.

In addition to a PhD, Professor Cohen holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Collier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management in the Fox School of Business at Temple University and a Research Fellow in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in its Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. His research examines how households and firms manage severe climate risks. His recent projects analyze households’ insurance contract decisions in the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the finances of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the New York area, and the consequences of natural disasters for SME credit markets in developing and emerging economies.

Among other outlets, Collier has published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance and Harvard Business Review. He has been quoted and his research cited in the Wall Street Journal, Business Insurance, and the Actuarial Review. He received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for his work on credit access in communities vulnerable to El Niño related flooding in Peru from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, which selects annually from all dissertations in agricultural and applied economics in the U.S. He is a member of the Risk Theory Society.

Please also visit his website: blcollier.com

Dr. J. David Cummins is the Joseph E. Boettner Professor of Risk Management, Insurance and Financial Institutions. He also serves as the Director of the Advanta Center for Financial Institutions, and as a member of the Research Roundtable.

Dr. Cummins is a prolific author. In a recent academic research article in the Journal of Risk and Insurance that analyzed the relative contributions to the field of risk, insurance and financial institutions of all scholars, Dr. Cummins was recognized as the Premier (#1) researcher in this discipline in the world.

Dr. Cummins’ research focuses on insurance economics; financial risk management; productivity and efficiency; and securitization. During his career, Dr. Cummins has written 85 articles in academic journals. He has published numerous articles in the premier Risk and Insurance journals, including: the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Geneva Papers, North American Actuarial Review, and Insurance, Mathematics and Economics. Apart from Insurance journals, he has also published in many premier journals in Finance and Economics, such as: The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, The Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Law and Economics, Management Science, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Econometrica, Economic Letters, The Bell Journal, Federal Reserve Bank Reviews and the Brookings Papers.

Furthermore, he has authored, coauthored, edited and co-edited a total of sixteen books. He has authored and coauthored a total of thirty-four chapters in books and monographs.

In terms of teaching, Dr. Cummins’ greatest contributions have been in the doctoral area. He has chaired 41 doctoral dissertations and is currently chairing 11 students.

Dr. Cummins is also extremely active in his profession. He has organized many conferences, and has been a panelist, discussant, moderator, and chair of many sessions in Risk and Insurance conferences. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, which is a premier journal in the field. Also, he is the Associate Editor of eight journals in Risk & Insurance and Finance.

Additionally, Dr. Cummins has held the highest office in the profession as the President of the American Risk and Insurance Association.

Dr. Charles Dhanaraj joins the Fox School as the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professor of Strategy. He will also serve as the Founding Executive Director of Fox’s Center for Translational Research in Business, and Executive Director of the Fox School’s Executive Doctorate in Business Administration program.

An award-winning researcher and educator, Dhanaraj arrives at the Fox School from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he served as professor of strategy. He also has held academic appointments at Indiana University at Bloomington and Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Dhanaraj’s specialization includes strategic partnerships, global innovation, and emerging markets. He published several high-impact articles and award-winning cases. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), a distinction held by elite researchers for outstanding contributions to scholarly development in international business. He serves as vice president for the AIB and deputy editor of Cross Cultural and Strategy Management, as well as a member on the editorial boards of six major journals.

As an engineer, Dhanaraj worked with the Tata Robins Fraser, Ltd and Kaveri Engineering Industries Ltd. in India and the Center for Cold Ocean Resource Engineering (C-CORE) Inc. in Canada prior to his doctoral studies.

He received a PhD in International Strategy from University of Western Ontario in Canada. He also earned a MBA from the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and a Master of Engineering in Robotics from the memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s Canada. He also studied at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, where he earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Angelika Dimoka has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Marketing with a secondary appointment in Management Information Systems and the College of Engineering.

Dr. Dimoka received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. Her research interests lie on decision neuroscience, and functional neuroimaging in marketing and MIS (neuromarketing and neuroIS), quantitative analysis of decision making in online marketplaces, and modeling of information pathways in the brain. Dr. Dimoka’s research has appeared in Journal of Marketing Research, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, NeuroImage, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, and the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Dimoka has been a referee for many conferences and journals. Dr. Dimoka is the director of the Center for Neural Decision Making.

Dr. Randy E. Dumm joins the Fox School from Florida State University, where he served as the Hold Professor of Risk and Insurance.

He has published in a number of risk management, insurance, and real estate journals, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Risk Management and Insurance Review, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, the Journal of Real Estate Research and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

In 2014, he received the Shin Research Excellence Award during the International Insurance Society Seminar in London. Dr. Dumm completed the Fulbright Scholars program at Vienna University of Business and Economics in 2004.

He is a past-president of both the Southern and Western Risk and Insurance Associations, and he was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Risk and Insurance Association.

He earned his PhD in Risk Management and Insurance, with a minor in Finance, from the University of Georgia. He received his MBA in Finance and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with a major in Finance, from Shippensburg University.

Dr. Eisenstein’s research primarily explores how people make decisions that materially affect their lives. These decisions may be financial, such as the purchase of an expensive durable good, or policy oriented, such as interpreting statistical evidence, choosing between alternative proposals, or combating identity theft. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr. Eisenstein worked at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) where he focused on management of technology and consumer research in the financial services and telecommunications industries. He is active in the community, having founded or led several organizations, and he serves on the board of the Visiting Nurses Association of Philadelphia.

Dr. Eisenstein earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics and an M.A. in Statistics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed his undergraduate education at Penn in the Management and Technology program, wherein he concurrently earned B.S. degrees from Wharton and the School of Engineering.

Dr. Cameron Ellis joins the Fox School on a non-tenure-track appointment within the Department of Risk, Insurance, & Healthcare Management. He recently completed his doctoral program at the University of Georgia.

His research interests include insurance economics, industrial organization, machine learning, econometrics, and health economics. His current research projects examine the welfare effect of expanding access to secondary markets for life insurance, the role of two-part tariffs as a signaling device in life insurance pricing, and the effect of Medicaid expansion on the individual market for health insurance.

He is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association, the Southern Risk and Insurance Association, the American Economic Association and the Southern Economics Association.

He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia. He also studied at Georgia College & State University, where he received his MBA and Bachelor of Science degree —both in Economics and Mathematics.

Dr. Elyas Elyasiani joined Temple in 1980. His main area of expertise is banking and financial institutions. Dr. Elyasiani has done research in bank and insurance company stock return modeling, risk exposure, efficiency, cross-industry and international spillover of shocks, institutional, foreign and minority ownership effects and fixed income modeling as well as quantitative finance and monetary economics.

His publications have appeared in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Journal of Financial Services Research. Dr. Elyasiani has taught at Michigan State University, Temple University, Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University in Israel at the PhD, MBA, and undergraduate levels. He is also a fellow at the Wharton Financial Institution Center and a visiting scholar and Dean’s fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He serves as an editor of the Journal of Economics and Business.

Dr. Daniel Funk is a Professor in the Sport and Recreation Management Program and Washburn Senior Research Fellow for the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University. He also holds a joint appointment in the Fox School of Business, where he serves as PhD program advisor for the Tourism and Sport concentration.

Dr. Funk’s research focuses on consumer experiences through investigating the internal and external factors that shape involvement in sport, event, tourism, and leisure industry sectors. He has participated in over 20 grant-funded studies and published more than 90 research articles in variety top academic journals, published three textbooks in the area of sport marketing and contributed numerous book chapters to edited books.

He has been recognized as a Research Fellow by the Sport Marketing Association and the North American Society for Sport Management and was named to the Dean’s Research Honor role for outstanding research in 2012 and 2013. Dr. Funk also serves on journal editorial boards and is the current editor of Sport Marketing Quarterly. His work has been adopted by industry to understand the stage-based development of involvement and has developed a segmentation framework that is currently being used by a professional sport league to develop marketing and advertising strategy and assess return on investment. He has been active in working with and developing PhD students over the last 15 years.

Dr. Funk earned his PhD and Master’s degree in Sport Management from The Ohio State University and his Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of Kansas.

Deanna Geddes is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Fox School of Business at Temple University. She received her doctorate degree from Purdue University in the fields of organizational communication and industrial psychology. She teaches at all levels in academe including undergraduate and graduate programs (i.e., MBA, MS, PhD, and EDBA). She is committed to helping her students “think new thoughts in ways that enhance their professional and personal lives.”

Dr. Geddes is recognized as a pioneer in information technology use in the classroom and the recipient of several teaching honors including the Fox Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching, and Teacher of the Year for both full-time and part-time MBA programs. She has served as a management consultant to government, financial, pharmaceutical, insurance, and retail corporations.

Dr. Geddes’s research on anger has been featured on ABC World News Tonight and several major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York and Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the BBC. Her conceptual work and empirical studies appear in various prestigious academic journals including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Aggressive Behavior and Management Communication Quarterly, among others. Her research interests focus on workplace emotion and performance feedback practices.

Elizabeth A. Gordon joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2007. Dr. Gordon specializes in the areas of international accounting and financial reporting investigating topics such as international financial reporting standards, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, accounting restatements, market development and corporate disclosure. Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. Dr. Gordon served as the Past-President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and serves on the Vice-President Finance and Administration of the International Association of Accounting Education and Research.

Dr. Gordon co-authored a recently published Intermediate Accounting textbook.  She has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. Dr. Gordon was an auditor with PwC and interned at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget before entering academia. She received her Doctorate from Columbia University, Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Gordon is a licensed CPA in Maryland. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, the Rutgers Business School, and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Martin F. Grace joins the Fox School as the Harry A. Cochran Professor of Risk, Insurance, & Healthcare Management.

Most recently, Grace was a Georgia Regents’ Professor and held the James S. Kemper Jr. Professorship in Risk Management. He served as the chair of Georgia State University’s risk management and insurance department. He is the former president of the Risk Theory Society, and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. His research interests include tort reform, catastrophe financing, and industrial organization, regulation, and taxation of the insurance industry.

Over his career, he has published more than 70 professional and scholarly research papers and book chapters, and has consulted with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, various state regulators, and industry associations. He also has testified before the U.S. Congress on the future of insurance regulation as part of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Grace earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Florida, where he also attained his JD and his Master of Arts degree in Economics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire.

Rob Hamilton has extensive academic research, consulting and teaching expertise in both domestic and international arenas. His academic training includes a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, his MBA degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dr. Hamilton has been a faculty member in the Strategic Management Department at Temple University since 1981 and has won seven awards for outstanding teaching. His teaching honors include a Musser Leadership Award for Teaching Excellence, Asher Award for Outstanding Faculty, an MBA Student Association award for Excellence in Instructional Innovation, Executive MBA Faculty of the Year award-twice, a Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and the Great Teacher Award, Temple University’s highest teaching honor.

Rob’s academic research has focused on strategic management, industry competitive interaction, and the control of multinational enterprises. He has served on 28 Ph.D. dissertation committees and has chaired, or is currently chairing, a total of 14 of those committees. He has published more than 30 articles in journals such as Management International Review, Long Range Planning, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, R and D Management and Journal of International Management. In addition, he has made more than 30 presentations at various conferences. He is a recipient of the Dean’s Research Honor Roll and has twice been selected as an Outstanding Reviewer by the Academy of Management. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of International Management for the last decade.

Dr. Hamilton’s service is extensive within the University as well as outside. He has formerly served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs, President of the School of Business, Collegial Assembly and Chair of the Strategic Management Department. He served as Chair of Temple University’s Great Teacher Award Committee for half a decade. He is currently the faculty Co Chair of the FSBM Planning Oversight Committee and facilitates School retreats. He has served as a member of the Vestry and Rector’s Warden at St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh. He is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Children’s Village for abused children and serves on the Board of Directors of the Temple University Lutheran-Episcopal Campus Ministry. He is also a member of the Temple University Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Dr. Crystal Harold (PhD, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, George Mason University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, she was an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI and also worked as a Strategic Human Resources Consultant for numerous governmental agencies such as the Air Force, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and Department of the Interior (DOI).

Her research focuses on issues related to employee recruitment (in particular the role of PE fit and fairness) and the impact of management practices and characteristics that engender perceptions of workplace fairness and counterproductive behaviors. Her work appears in top OB/HRM outlets including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She serves on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Findings from her research have been discussed in numerous media outlets including the CBS Early Show, Strategy + Business, The Telegraph, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dr. Harold was awarded a 2005 APA Dissertation Award and the HUMRRO Fellowship in I/O Psychology. In recognition of her research and teaching accomplishments, she was recently appointed a Paul Anderson Research Fellow, and was awarded the Adrisani-Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award and Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Brian Holtz is an Associate Professor and Boettner Research Fellow in the Department of Human Resource Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial–Organizational Psychology from George Mason University. His research interests primarily concern issues of fairness and trust in organizations. Dr. Holtz currently serves on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

He would welcome collaborations with doctoral students on projects related to workplace fairness, trust, and time-related considerations

Dr. Aubrey Kent serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs for the Fox School of Business and the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM). He holds a faculty appointment jointly in the Department of Sport and Recreation Management at STHM and the Human Resource Management department in the Fox School of Business.

He joined the Temple faculty in 2008 after serving for the previous nine years as director and graduate coordinator of the sport management program at Florida State University. Upon arriving at Temple, he was the founding director of the Sport Industry Research Center (SIRC), served from 2010-16 as STHM’s Chairperson, and served as STHM Associate Dean for the 2016-17 academic year.

Over his career, Dr. Kent has focused his sport industry research in the area of industrial/organizational psychology, and more recently in the area of corporate social responsibility. Dr. Kent is a past-president of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), and was inducted in 2006 as a NASSM Research Fellow. His scholarly work has been published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Sport Management, European Journal of Sport Management, Sport Marketing Quarterly, International Journal of Coaching Science, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, North American Journal of Psychology, Management Decision, Journal of Education for Business, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He has presented his work to audiences around the world, including conferences and workshops throughout the United States and Canada, South America, and Europe.

Dr. Kent has supervised 15 completed doctoral dissertations in sport management, including four NASSM research award winners. He teaches courses in management, strategy, and current issues in sport, and has taught several groups in Europe through international study programs. His industry work through SIRC includes project reports provided for the PGA TOUR, NFL and NHL, as well as extensive program evaluation work for non-profit youth development sport organizations through a partnership with the Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative.

Dr. Kent received his PhD in Sport Management from The Ohio State University. He earned his Master of Human Kinetics degree from the University of Windsor, and his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Health and Physical Education and Fitness from the University of Toronto.

Dr. You Jin (YJ) Kim joins the Fox School on a Tenure-Track appointment from California State University-Dominguez Hills, where she served as an Assistant Professor in the Human Resource Management department.

Dr. Kim’s research interests lie in the area of social exchange relationships, proactivity and work behavior. Her research aims to provide a more complete understanding of when and why social exchange relationships and proactivity contribute to individual and organizational effectiveness in various contexts (e.g., organizational supportive climate). She has written many articles, exploring leadership, citizenship behavior, motivation and justice. She has also published two book chapters.

She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and business administration from Yousei University in South Korea. In the U.S., she obtained a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resource management from Michigan State University.

Masaaki Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kotabe served as the Vice President in the 1997-98 term, and also has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the Academy of International Business as President-Elect (2015-6); President (2016-7); and President-Immediate Past (2017-8). He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan Marketing Academy.

Dr. Kotabe received his Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Kotabe has taught international marketing, global sourcing strategy (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing interfaces) at the undergraduate and MBA levels and theories of international business at the Ph.D. level, among others. He has lectured widely at various business schools in 20 countries around the world. For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, Kohler, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Seven&i Holdings (parent of 7-Eleven stores), and served as advisor to the United Nations’ and World Trade Organization’s Executive Forum on National Export Strategies.

Dr. Kotabe has written more than 100 scholarly publications, with well over 10,000 Google Scholar citations. His research work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Marketing. His books include Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Japanese Distribution System (with Michael R. Czinkota, 1993), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (with Kent W. Wheiler, 1996), MERCOSUR and Beyond (1997), Market Revolution in Latin America: Beyond Mexico (with Ricardo Leal, 2001), Emerging Issues in International Business Research (with Preet Aulakh, 2002), Global Supply Chain Management (with Michael J. Mol, 2006), SAGE Handbook of International Marketing (wht Kristiaan Helsen, 2009), and Global Marketing Management, 7^th ed. (with Kristiaan Helsen, 2017).

Dr. Kotabe currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of International Management, and also serves / has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Business Research, and the Thunderbird International Business Review, among others.

Dr. Kotabe was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 1998 and a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies in 2016, for his significant contribution to international business research and education. He is the recipient of the 2002 Musser Award for Excellence in Research at Temple University.

Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan (Ph.D., Ohio State University) joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2000. She teaches cost accounting and intermediate accounting for undergraduate students, and financial and managerial accounting in the Fox School full-time and professional MBA programs. Her other teaching interests include introductory financial accounting, senior seminar in accounting, and financial statement analysis.

Jayanthi Krishnan is the recipient of the 2015 American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award. She is an editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and serves on the editorial boards of the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Current Issues in Auditing. Her publications appear in a number of journals including the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of audit quality, audit regulations, corporate governance, industry classifications and their impact on accounting ratios, and the impact of international diversification on auditor decision-making.

Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan has been named to the Fox School Dean’s Research Honor Roll, is a recipient of the Business Honors Association’s Teacher of the Year Award, a two-time recipient of the Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award, a two-time recipient of the Fox MBA Faculty of the Year award, a three-time recipient of the Fox School Crystal Award for teaching, and the recipient of the 2008 Musser Excellence in Leadership Award for teaching.

Jagan Krishnan is a Professor and Merves Senior Research Fellow in the department of Accounting. He is the coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Accounting and teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in auditing. He has over 30 years of teaching and professional experience in auditing and consulting.

After completing a doctorate at the Ohio State University, he joined Temple in 1991. He is the recipient of the 2003 Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching and the 2000 Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award. His research interests are in the areas of audit quality, corporate governance, auditor litigation, regulation, and fraudulent financial reporting. He is an editor of Accounting Horizons (one of the three association-wide journals published by the American Accounting Association) and currently serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and Current Issues in Auditing. He has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He is listed among prolific auditing researchers by two different studies. Prior to entering academia, he worked in the audit and consulting divisions of affiliates of Ernst & Young and KPMG.

Dr. Subodha Kumar joins the Fox School as a Full Professor within the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. He will hold secondary appointments within the Management Information Systems and Statistical Science departments. Kumar also will serve as the Director of Fox’s Center for Data Analytics.

Kumar arrives at Fox after holding the Carol and G. David Van Houten Professorship at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School. He has held appointments at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professorship at the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in China and a Visiting Professorship at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

His research and teaching interests include healthcare analytics, social-media analytics, web analytics, and cybersecurity, among others. Kumar has published numerous papers in high quality journals and conferences. In addition, he has authored a book, and co-authored book chapters, Harvard Business School cases, and Ivey cases. He also holds a patent. Kumar serves as the deputy editor of Production and Operations Management and a senior editor of Decision Sciences.

Kumar studied at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he earned his PhD and MBA. He also received a Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri, both in India.

Professor Lancioni is one of the leading world’s authorities on Supply Chain Management. In addition he has done substantial research in the areas of pricing, customer relationship management, and marketing management. He has published over 100 articles and referred proceedings and has written several monographs in the areas of supply chain management and marketing. He is on the editorial boards of the leading journals in supply chain management and pricing. Internationally, he has lectured in Europe, Japan, South America, Australia, Indonesia, England, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Central America, Poland, Italy, Ireland, Russia, China and Ghana on supply chain management and marketing. His current research focuses on the impact of the Internet on supply chain management and the changing role of customer service in firms. He is the recipient of the international logistics award-The Eccles Medal-given by the Society of Logistics Engineers for his contributions to the field of logistics management and education.

Yuanzhi Li is an assistant professor in Finance at Fox School of Business. Professor Li teaches courses in corporate finance and investment. She has been with Temple since 2009. Her primary research areas include corporate governance, investment, and Bankruptcy. Professor Li has been published in major journals including Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial Markets. Professor Li received her Doctor of Philosophy in Finance from New York University.

Yi Liang joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2015. Dr. Liang deploys empirical archival methods to analyze accounting research questions. His research interests include financial and managerial accounting with a focus on the economic impact of corporate governance reforms and corporate laws. He is also interested in applying new methods, such as structural estimation and text analysis. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at the Carnegie Mellon University; and B.S. at Tsinghua University. He served as an instructor while completing his doctoral studies. He currently teaches Accounting Information Systems to B.B.A. and M.S.A. students.

Lu Lu joined the Ph.D. Program in 2014. She is a member of China Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has passed the uniform CPA exams of AICPA. Lu received her B.S. in Accounting at Tsinghua University. Prior to joining Temple, she worked at KPMG Beijing in the auditing department, and Tricor Consultancy in the financial service department. Her public accounting experience included assurance services, financial services and tax compliance works. Lu’s research interests are primarily in the field of auditing and financial disclosure.

Xueming Luo is Charles Gilliland Chair Professor of Marketing, Professor of Strategic Management, Professor of Management Information Systems.  He is the Founder/Director of the Global Center for big data in mobile analytics in the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

Xueming Luo has been ranked as the top 1st worldwide (2006-2010 period) regarding Citations and Impact in top five marketing journals (JMR, MKSC, JM, JCR, JAMS),  also ranked as the top 15^th among all authors around the world (2008-2017 period) in the two premier AMA Journals (Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing): see the list here, and ranked as the top 21^th among all authors around the world in the same period in the top four premier Journals (Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science) in the marketing discipline: see the list here.

Prior to joining Fox School, Dr. Luo was the Eunice and James L. West Distinguished Professor in the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has been a visiting professor at Aalto University (Finland), University of Mannheim (Germany), Munich School of Management, LMU (Germany), Peking University (China), Fudan University (China), and University of Hong Kong (China Hong Kong).  He is a thought leader in AI mobile customer analytics, digital innovations, sharing economy platforms, and social responsibility strategies with machine learning, big data, and large-scale field experiments. He specializes on how engineering models and field experimentation can contribute to customer insights, marketing analytics, and business strategies. His current research focuses on AI customer analytics, deep learning for personalized promotions, competitive pricing, omnichannel, social media networks advertising, artificial intelligence and platform algorithms, and financial value of customer metrics. At Fox, he serves as Director of the Global Center on Big Data and Mobile Analytics. This Center is an essential part of a University-wide “Big Data Institute,’ which aims to facilitate research, education, industry practice, and technology transfer in the cross-disciplinary domain of big data, including Health Sciences, Social Media, Mobile Analytics, High-dimensional Statistics, among others. This Center has put together an inter-disciplinary team of marketing, information systems, computer science, neuroscience, and statistics faculty and PhD students for various research projects on big data. He has worked with leading global company partners in the mobile communications, online gaming, investment banking, retailing, health care, pharmaceutical, and petroleum industries. He has extensive global industry experience through executive consulting at many international firms, including Wal-Mart, Dell, SinoPetro, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble. Dr. Luo is also a stellar teacher and has a wide variety of international experience in teaching, MBA, PhD, and Executive MBA classes, including visiting professorships at the Munich School of Management and University of Mannheim in Germany, Aalto University in Finland, and University of Hong Kong, Fudan University and Peking University in China. Dr. Luo’s research has been published or forthcoming in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, among others. He has received many grants and awards recognizing his research leadership. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research, an Editorial Review Board member for the Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and a reviewer for many other journals in MIS, strategy, management, psychology, and economics.

Dr. Munir Mandviwalla is Associate Professor and founding chair of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology.

Dr. Mandviwalla has published articles on collaborative systems, social media, virtual teams, software training, peer review, globalization, and universal access and use. His most recent work includes studies of social media in politics, social media strategy, and broadband policy. He is currently working on applying and studying the use of social media on higher education using complex adaptive systems theory. His publications have appeared (or are scheduled to appear) in Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Decision Support Systems, Small Group Research, Communications of the ACM (CACM), Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Public Administration Review, and Information Systems Journal. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SIM Advanced Practices Council, Bell Atlantic, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, CIGNA Corporation, Advanta Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, and Lilly Endowment, Inc. In 2000, IBM selected him for their Faculty Partnership Award in recognition for contributions to E-Business teaching and research. In 2002, The Claremont Graduate University recognized him with their Alumni Hall of Fame award.

Mandviwalla founded the Fox School’s MIS department in 2000 and has since led the department, including recruiting faculty and staff, building programs, forming partnerships that led to interdisciplinary programs in health informatics, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and IT auditing. The MIS department is now recognized as one of the top programs in the world. US News and World Reports ranks the Fox School’s BBA in MIS in the top 15, and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) ranked the Fox MIS faculty number 1 in the world for research. Mandviwalla has also worked on building the profession including creating a global structure to involve students into AIS through student chapters, and more recently leading the creation of the first ever national analysis of jobs in information systems.

Mandviwalla holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from Boston University, a MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Programs in Information Science at Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. Connie X. Mao is an Associate Professor of Finance at Temple University Fox School of Business. She holds a doctorate in Finance from The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and a doctorate in Biomedical Science from Cornell University Medical School (New York, NY). Her research expertise is corporate finance. Her primary research interest is in the areas of debt contracting, agency conflicts, and corporate innovation.

Specifically, Dr. Mao’s research examines the effect of agency conflicts on the financing decisions of firms and debt contracting, and how the resolution of these conflicts influences firm performance, corporate innovation, and the efficiency of security markets. She has published papers in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Accounting Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, etc. She has been named to the Fox School Dean’s Research Honor Roll, a receipt the Andrisani-Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award and the FMA Outstanding Finance Professor Award.

Dr. Morrin’s current research focuses on examining how the human senses impact the consumer decision-making process. Her articles have been published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

She is a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing and is an area editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Dr. Morrin has presented her research at many universities, as well as national and international conferences. Her corporate background includes five years in advertising (at Ted Bates) and brand management (at James River Corp and Playtex Family Products). Dr. Morrin has received external grants to support her research and several honors, including a Top Ten Reviewer Award from the Journal of Consumer Psychology and an outstanding reviewing award from the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

Susan M. Mudambi is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, and she has a secondary appointment in Management Information Systems. Her research addresses marketing strategy, international business. and the role of technology and social media in marketing.

She has special expertise in customer and supplier relationship strategy, including branding, outsourcing, and CRM. Her research is well-cited, with more than 1500 Google Scholar citations, and publications in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Economic Geography, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of International Management. She has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate, MBA, executive and doctoral programs in the U.S. and Europe. Her managerial experience includes positions at Bell+Howell and IBM, and in the political arena as a lobbyist and analyst. She earned a BA from Miami University, a M.S. from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of Warwick.

Ram Mudambi is Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Previously he served on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, the University of Reading (UK) and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is a visiting Professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading, an Honorary Professor at the Center of International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL) and a member of advisory council of the University of Bradford Centre in International Business (BCIB). He has served as a Visiting Professor at a number of universities including Bocconi (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Sydney (Australia) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

His current research projects focus on the geography of innovation and the governance of knowledge-intensive processes. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal (2010-2013) and is an Area Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies (2013-2016). He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, including work in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Geography, the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies. He has been a special issue editor for the Journal of Economic Geography, the Journal of Management Studies and the International Business Review. He serves on the editorial boards numerous journals.

Dr. Lalitha Naveen is Associate Professor of Finance at Temple University. She has degrees in Chemical Engineering and MBA, and a PhD in Finance from Arizona State University. Her field of expertise is empirical corporate finance. Her primary research focus is in the areas of corporate board structure and executive compensation.

Specifically, Dr. Naveen’s research investigates the factors that determine the particular corporate governance mechanisms adopted by firms and how these mechanisms, in turn, affect firm policies and firm value. Her research papers have received Best Paper Awards and have been published in top finance and accounting journals including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Accounting and Economics. She has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs and has received the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award as well as the Temple University Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of her teaching excellence. She has previously taught at Purdue University and Georgia State University. She has presented or discussed papers at various conferences and academic venues including the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, New York University, Columbia University, and the S.E.C. Before doing her PhD, Dr. Naveen worked for four years in the financial services industry primarily in credit analysis and equity analysis.

Dr. In-Sue Oh (PhD, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa) is the Charles E. Beury Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University.

His research and teaching interests include personnel selection constructs (e.g., personality, cognitive ability) and methods (meta-analysis, employment interviews), strategic human resource management and human capital resources, and person-organization relationships (e.g., person-organization fit, support). Dr. Oh has published over 70 scholarly articles with many of them in top tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has received many scholarly awards including the two most prestigious early career contributions awards in his field of research: the 2014 Early Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) HR Division and the 2016 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He is also the recipient of the two most prestigious scholarly achievement awards in his field of research: the 2016 AOM HR Division Scholarly Achievement Award and the 2017 and 2018 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from SIOP. He currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, and Journal of Business and Psychology and served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Arvind Parkhe is the Laura H. Carnell Professor at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He is the recipient of numerous research, teaching, and service awards.

In research, Professor Parkhe won the AIB Best Dissertation Award [1990], JIBS Decade Award [2001], and several best paper awards at national and international conferences, including most recently the AIB Southwest [2014] Annual Conference Best Paper Award. He is also a highly-cited author, consistently ranking in the top five in international business/global strategy literatures. Professor Parkhe has published in all the top journals in his field, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including as Editor of the prestigious Academy of Management Review.

He has won teaching awards at the PhD, Masters, and Undergraduate levels, at Indiana University [1989-2003] and at Temple University [2003-present]. At Temple, he served as the MBA Programs managing director.

Professor Parkhe was recognized for his service contributions with the Musser Outstanding Service Award [2012] and the Temple University Faculty Service Excellence Award [2012]. He currently serves as Chair of the Strategic Management Department and as Vice President of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education.

Paul A. Pavlou is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Research, Doctoral Programs, and Strategic Initiatives at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He is also the Milton F. Stauffer Professor of IT & Strategy. He also serves as the Co-Director of the university-wide Data Science Institute at Temple University.

As the Senior Associate Dean and Chief Research Officer, Paul oversees all research activities at the Fox School. He is responsible for the development and mentoring of research faculty and PhD students. During his tenure, five disciplines in the Fox School’s are among the Top 10 in the nation in terms of their research productivity. Paul initiated and implemented the FOX RESEARCH strategic plan to enhance the Fox School’s research visibility, including developing the ‘Research Impact Report’ to showcase the broader impact of the Fox School’s research for academia, industry, practice, and society. He also oversees over $6M in research grants at the Fox School.

Paul is also responsible for all doctoral programs at the Fox School, such as the PhD in Business Administration, PhD in Statistics, the Inter-Disciplinary PhD program in Decision Neuroscience, and the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (EDBA), a new doctoral program catered to senior executives in Philadelphia and China.

Paul also leads several strategic initiatives at the department, school, and university levels, such as Data Science. As Co-Director of the Data Science Institute, Paul oversees the business analytics programs at the Fox School, including Masters in Business Analytics, Masters in Statistical Science, and Bachelors in Statistical Science and Data Analytics. He also facilitates grant proposals across schools and promotes the Institute’s fundraising efforts.

Paul received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He was #1 in the world in publications in the top two Information Systems journals (MISQ & ISR) for 2010-2016. His research has been cited over 35,000 times by Google Scholar, and he is recognized among the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters based on an analysis of “Highly Cited” authors in Economics & Business for 2002-2012.

His research appeared in Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, among others. His research spans several disciplines (information systems, marketing, management, and decision sciences), and it focuses on data science, business analytics, digital business strategy, and developing research methods.

Paul won several Best Paper recognitions for his research, including the Maynard Award nomination for the “Most Significant Contribution to Marketing” in the Journal of Marketing in 2015, the ISR Best Paper award in 2007, the 2006 IS Publication of the Year award, and the Top 5 Papers award in Decision Sciences in 2006. He also won the Best Paper Award in 2012, the Runner-Up to the Best Paper award of the 2005, the Best Interactive Paper award in 2002, and the Best Student Paper award in 2001 from the Academy of Management Conference. He won the Best Innovation Theme Track Paper of the International Conference on Information Systems in 2016. Finally, Paul also won the Best Doctoral Dissertation award of the 2004 International Conference on Information Systems. He received over $2,000,000 in grants from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Paul is a Senior Editor at ISR and earlier at MISQ and JAIS. Moreover, Paul also won several Reviewer awards, including the 2009 Management Science Meritorious service award, the ‘Best Reviewer’ award of the 2005 Academy of Management Conference, and the 2003 MISQ ‘Reviewer of the Year’ award. He organized several conferences, including the Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Conference (2018), the INFORMS Conference on Information Technologies and Systems (2015), the AMCIS Conference (2015), the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (2011 & 2014), and the Workshop on Information Systems Economics (2010).

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Oregon
• M.B.A., University of Washington
• B.A., University of Washington

Specializations:

• Use of accounting numbers in debt contracts
• Accounting choices and financial distress
• Impact of SEC Regulation on firms’ accounting choices

After earning his doctoral degree from the University of Oregon in 1988, Eric began his career at SUNY-Buffalo. The durability of western New York winters soon exceeded his patience (having been raised in Miami), so, after a visit at the Fuqua School of Duke University, he moved to Philadelphia (where his wife has relatives) to join the Fox School of Business at Temple University in 1992.

Dr. Press has been an active researcher, publishing in journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. He taught a variety of accounting courses at the undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. levels.

As chairman of the Department of Accounting at Temple since 2006, Eric has crossed a number of items off his to-do list. He revised the undergraduate curriculum to make learning more effective for students; recruited several nationally prominent Accounting scholars; signed up founding members of the Temple Accounting Circle to support faculty research, Ph.D. students, and professional development activities; initiated a Masters of Accountancy program that begins in 2011; and, in 2014, oversaw fund raising and an Alumni Reunion Dinner that together raised more than $700,000 for scholarships, and aims to attain AACSB Department of Accounting accreditation in 2018. These accomplishments evidence Eric’s dedication to accounting education and research.

Dr. Crystal Reeck joins the faculty from Columbia University’s School of Business, where she served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Decision Making and Negotiations Cross Disciplinary area.

She has accepted a Tenure-Track appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Fox School, where she’ll also serve as one of three principal investigators at the Center for Neural Decision Making.

Combining both neuroscience and behavioral approaches, her research examines how emotions influence decision making and how different strategies and ways of thinking help people manage that influence. Her research interests include consumer behavior, emotion regulation and decision making. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals that span multiple fields, including Science, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Dr. Reeck is the 2014 recipient of the Innovation Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, in addition to numerous competitive training and travel awards. Her work has been featured in media outlets, such as Bloomberg Businessweek and funded by national granting agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association.

She completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience from Duke University.

Edward Rosenthal came to Temple after receiving his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has taught courses in production and operations management, game theory, and logistics and supply chain management at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in the Honors and Executive MBA programs.

Dr. Rosenthal is a recipient of the Great Teacher Award and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Rosenthal’s research interests are in cooperative game theory, noncooperative game theory and mechanism design, logistics, and behavioral decision theory. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences and International Journal of Game Theory. He is the author of The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life (MIT Press 2005) and also The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Game Theory (Alpha/Penguin, 2011).

Dr. Oleg Rytchkov joined the Fox School of Business in 2009. He earned a doctorate degree in Financial Economics from the Sloan School of Management, MIT in 2007 and a doctorate degree in Physics from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in 2001.

Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, Dr. Rytchkov taught at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Rytchkov’s research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing and capital markets. His research has been published in various academic journals including the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Finance, and Quarterly Journal of Finance and presented at various seminars and conferences including the European Finance Association Meetings, Financial Management Association Meetings, Northern Finance Association Meetings, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, Western Finance Association Meetings, and World Finance Conference.

Stuart M. Schmidt is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Fox School of Business and Management where he teaches courses in management, power and influence, and negotiations in organizations. His B.A in Psychology, Masters in International Business and Ph.D. in Industrial Relations are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Schmidt’s research spans many fields including leadership, conflict, organizational influence, virtual team relationships, cross-cultural team relationships, and currently, the relationship between technology and performance evaluation. His research findings have been reported in over 45 articles published in journals that include the Journal of Applied Psychology, Decision Sciences, Administration and Society, Human Relations, Organizational Dynamics, Administrative Science Quarterly [three articles], and Psychology Today. His research has been reported in numerous popular publications, newsletters, and even the National Enquirer. With his Fox School co-authors, Deanna Geddes and Art Hochner, he recently completed the 4th edition of Power and Negotiation in Organizations.

Schmidt is also known for his training and assessment instruments such as the Profiles of Organizational Influence Strategies [POIS] instruments and training programs that have been translated into 12 languages and used worldwide in leadership training and research.

Over the years, Schmidt has applied his talents and energy to the public and non-profit sector as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan, an organizational behavior consultant and labor relations specialist to the State of Wisconsin, training program consultant to the US Department of Justice, and a board member of Philadelphia religious and non-profits.

David Schuff is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and the Academic Director of the Fox Executive Doctorate in Business Administration. His research interests include the application of information visualization to decision support systems, data warehousing, and the impact of user-generated content on organizations and society. David’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including Management Information Systems Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems Journal.

David has taught in the BBA, MBA, and Executive MBA programs in Colombia and Japan. He teaches courses in data analytics, information systems strategy, process design and improvement, and application development. David has received the MIS Department’s teaching award several times (most recently in 2014), and in 2013 received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

David holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from Villanova University, an MS in Information Management from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

Jonathan A. Scott, Ph.D. is a professor of finance at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He currently serves as the academic director of the Fox Honors program, undergraduate program director for the Finance Department, and the managing director of the Fox School’s William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund.

Dr. Scott also serves as an independent director and chair of the audit committee of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank System and is an adjunct scholar with the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation. His research focuses on small business access to credit markets, with publications in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Financial Review.

Dr. Scott teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and EMBA programs in Philadelphia and Tokyo. He has received numerous teaching awards at the Fox School and Temple, most recently the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in April, 2008 and the Temple Great Teacher Award in April, 2010.

Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Scott was a senior financial executive at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas during the thrift crisis. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Cincinnati (1972) and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University (1980).

Amir Shoham (PhD) holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Ben-Gurion University. He is currently on the faculty of the finance department at the FOX School of Business Temple University.

Dr. Shoham taught academic courses in economics and finance in seven countries including China, France, and Georgia. In previous years he was on the Board of Directors of two public firms. He has published articles in Journal of International business studies, Human Resource Management, Applied Economic Letters, Journal of Socio-Economics, and others.

Dr. Jay I. Sinha is the author of Reverse Psychology Marketing (Palgrave-MacMillan 2007). This book provides new insights into the changing nature of marketing and branding strategies. He teaches the BBA and MBA Consumer Behavior courses and has won several awards for outstanding teaching.

Dr. Sinha has served as the Chairperson of the Fox Faculty Assembly during 2007-2008. He has also served as the Chairperson of Faculty Development Committee, Master’s Programs Committee, and Faculty Steering Committee. Dr. Sinha joined the Fox School in 1996 and was tenured in 2003. His research interests are globalization, business strategy, brand management, consumer insights, and the emerging role of India. He has published in such top-ranking journals as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Psychometrika, and Strategic Management Journal. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Ross School at the University of Michigan. He has been interviewed and quoted by major international media sources such as CNN, The Times of London, Wall Street Journal and Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dr. Michael F. Smith is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Temple University’s School of Business and Management. He holds a doctorate in Marketing from The Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Professor Smith’s research has appeared in several national proceedings and academic journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Marketing Channels, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology and Marketing and Psychological Reports. Professor Smith’s research and expertise are frequently quoted in the local Philadelphia media. As a Marketing consultant, he has conducted several studies and seminars for firms in the Philadelphia and New Jersey area. His research interests include distribution networks and supply chain management, marketing strategy, business-to-business marketing, pricing management and E-Commerce.

Read about Dr. Smith’s research at the Philadelphia Inquirer

Dr. Joydeep Srivastava is the Robert L. Johnson Professor of Marketing. He joined the Fox School in 2017 from the University of Maryland, where he had served as the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing and Consumer Psychology.

Prior to that, he served on the faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Srivastava’s research interests include managerial and consumer decision-making. He examines issues in bargaining and auctions, strategy variables, such as warranties and price-matching guarantees, and the psychology of money. His recent work examined bargaining in marketing distribution channels, consumer reactions to partitioned prices, people’s valuation of products in foreign currencies, and people’s spending and saving decisions as a function of payment mode and denomination of money.

He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Consumer Research.

He earned a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geosciences from Presidency College at the University of Calcutta in India.

Dr. Vivek Tandon joins the Fox School on a Tenure-Track appointment as an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management from the National University of Singapore, where he has led courses on entrepreneurship and technological innovation since 2011.

His research papers have appeared in prominent publications, like The Academy of Management Annals and Organization Science. His dissertation was the runner up in the INFORMS Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship section. His research interests include management of innovation, technology strategy, technological search and evolution, inventors’ incentives, and mobility. He also serves on the editorial review boards for Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Dr. Tandon earned his PhD in Business Administration, with a specialization in Strategy, from the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Dr. Venkatraman joined Temple University in July 2011 after completing his PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, and also the Associate Director of the Center for Neural Decision Making at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. His research involves the use of behavioral, eye-tracking, neurophysiological and neuroimaging methodologies to study the effects of task environment, state variables, and individual traits on decision preferences and consumer behavior.

Krupa S. Viswanathan is an Associate Professor in the Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management department. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Actuarial Science and Risk Management & Insurance. She is also the Director of the Actuarial Science program and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.

Dr. Viswanathan’s research interests include systemic risk analysis, the capital structure of insurers, and crisis management. She also investigates the impact of corporate governance decisions by insurers. Her research has been published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal, and Journal of Risk Finance. She received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ryan M. Vogel joins the Fox School on a tenure-track appointment within the Department of Human Resource Management.

Since 2012, he served as an assistant professor of management at The Pennsylvania State University at Erie. Previous academic appointments include a visiting assistant professor appointment at Southern Methodist University, and instructor and teaching assistantship at the University of Georgia concurrently with his doctoral studies.

His research work broadly focuses on two related areas in the field of organizational behavior: person-environment fit and destructive leadership. Recent publications on how organizations can help ‘misfits’ remain engaged and productive and on the costs associated with abusive supervision and diminished self-esteem were published in the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Management, respectively. His work has also been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Vogel earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Georgia, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.

Sunil Wattal (PhD, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University) joined the MIS Department at Temple University as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2007. He also holds a Bachelors in Engineering from BITS Pilani (India), an MBA from IIM Calcutta (India), and an MS (Industrial Administration) from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sunil currently teaches management information systems at the undergraduate level and a capstone course at the masters level. His research interests include economics of information systems, technology adoption, privacy, software security, and internet marketing.

Mary A. Weiss, Ph.D. is Deaver Professor of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management at the Fox School of Business and Management of Temple University. She is a Past President of the premier insurance academic organization in the U.S., the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) and the prestigious Risk Theory Society.

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Jacqueline S. Zinn, Ph.D. has been co-editor in chief of the journal HSR: Health Services Research since 2010. She received her MBA from the Fox School of Business and Management in 1978 and her doctorate degree from the Wharton School in 1990. She is currently a professor in the Fox School’s Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management. Prior to obtaining her doctorate degree, Dr. Zinn was a planner and administrator at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems.

Dr. Zinn has over 80 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and over 100 research presentations at national conferences. She is a nationally recognize authority on quality and access in long term care services. She is a 1996 recipient of the Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). Recently, Dr. Zinn was co-principal investigator on a five year NIH-funded study of nursing home response to public release of quality of care information.

Dr. Zinn is a past chair of the Healthcare Management Division of the Academy of Management. She is currently on the board of the Inglis Foundation and a former member of the accreditation council for the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education, and a current member of the AUPHA Finance Committee.