For more than 30 years, Professor Raj has been publishing in premier academic journals. His research interests include marketing strategies, customer purchasing behavior, management of new product development, role of the Internet in marketing, and multi-media instruction. He teaches marketing management, marketing strategy, integrated marketing communications, marketing and the Internet, marketing research, and marketing models. He has taught graduate and undergraduate students, full-time and part-time, at Syracuse University, Cornell University, and Northwestern University. He has also taught in programs for executives in the U.S. and in Brazil, Finland, Jamaica, Korea, and India.
While at Whitman, Raj has held leadership positions as the senior associate dean for academic affairs, the director of the PhD program, and chair of the marketing department.
Yildiray Yildirim, associate professor of finance, is primarily concerned with mathematical finance on modeling the term structure of interest rates, theoretical and empirical credit risk, structured finance, and real estate finance. He has been quoted recently in articles about real estate in the national media, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USNews.com.
Yildirim has been published in leading academic journals, including in Journal of Banking and Finance,The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Risk.
Pat Penfield Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management Practice
Pat Penfield, assistant professor of supply chain management practice in the Whitman School of Management, is interested in helping practitioners bring their supply chain management activities into the 21st century. Supply chain management strategies that he recommends are related to materials, processes, and overhead that companies can use to reduce costs without negatively impacting performance. Most recently the vice president of operations for a local manufacturing company, Penfield has more than 15 years of experience in his field, having held positions at Johnson & Johnson, Phillips Electronics, and The Raymond/Toyota Corporation.
Aside from his books, Implementing the Green, Sustainable Supply Chain, published in March 2009, and Strategic Negotiations Planning: The Buyer’s Guide on how to Negotiate with Suppliers, which is currently in its second edition, Penfield has been published in many supply chain management trade publications. In the past year his work has featured twice in On the Mhove, twice in Inside Supply Management, and also in APICS Magazine, e-journal USA, and eSide Supply Chain.
Julie Niederhoff Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management
Julie Niederhoff, assistant professor of supply chain management in the Department of Marketing, is an expert in supply chain management, contracting, behaviors related to supply chain, operations, behavioral operations and decision making in operations. Her research currently focuses on behavioral operations, which includes how decision-makers work in operations and how behavioral factors influence operations.
She coordinated the 4th Annual Behavioural Operations Conference at Whitman in June 2009.
Burak Kazaz Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Whether he's looking at the impact of hurricanes on Florida orange growers or how foreign exchange rates can strangle a global supply chain, Associate Professor Burak Kazaz's aim as a researcher is to bring to the business community new perspectives on managing uncertainty. With research interests include pricing, production, and distribution planning under uncertainty, particularly supply, demand, and exchange-rate uncertainty, Kazaz is motivated by a desire to help companies plan for uncertainty in periods of supply and demand risk.
Kazaz is a member of INFORMS and POMS and is an associate/area editor for IIE Transactions and Flexible Services & Manufacturing. Two of his most recent publications include, "Production Policies Under Deteriorating Process Conditions," co-authored with T. Sloan in the March 2008 issue of IIE Transactions, and "Global Production Planning Under Exchange-Rate Uncertainty," co-authored with M. Dada and H. Moskowitz in Management Science.
Elet Callahan, law and public policy professor in the Department of Management in the Whitman School, is primarily interested in whistleblowing, at-will employment, environmental policy, and academic integrity. She was an integral player in the new Sustainable Business Collaboration between the Whitman School, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.
Kristin Byron, assistant professor of management, is interested primarily in nonverbal communication and how it affects employees: emotion in the workplace; nonverbal and electronic communication; employee responses to mistreatment (e.g. revenge, forgiveness, retaliation); and the intersection of employees' work and non-work lives (e.g. work-family conflict, environmental stressors). Recently, she has been quoted as an expert in a variety of national and local media outlets; The Syracuse Post Standard, The New York Times, ABC News.com, and Time.com.
Her publication, "Toward an Understanding of Nonverbal Cues and Emotion in Email Communication," with D.B. Baldridge, was recognized in the Best Paper Proceedings in the 2005 Academy of Management Proceedings. She has been published in the Journal of Management; the Journal of Organizational Behavior; and the Academy of Management Review.
George Burman Professor and Chair, Entrepreneurship
Dean Emeritus George Burman, a professor in and chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, is interested in the economics of regulation, energy economics, labor economics, entrepreneurship, and corporate and entrepreneurial leadership. While working on his MBA and PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, he simultaneously pursued a career in the National Football League, playing for the Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams, and the Washington Redskins. He has been an expert witness in court cases on the economics of player markets in professional sports and corporate executive compensation. Aside from his long career in academia, he has held a variety of management positions with Gulf Oil Corporation, Chevron Corporation, and American Gilsonite, a Chevron subsidiary.
Burman, who served as dean of the Whitman School for thirteen years, is a member of the Board of Governors of Beta Gamma Sigma, the national business honor society, and is a past president of the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration. He is also a member of the American Economic Association and the NFL Alumni. He is a director of Balboa Life Insurance, as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the CXtec Company. He has served on the External Advisory Council of the National Pollution Prevention Center at the University of Michigan and has completed terms as a director of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Burman is also a member of the Board of Advisors for Preco Manufacturing, a trustee of the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, and a director of the American Red Cross of Onondaga County.
Amber Anand, associate professor of finance, is primarily interested in the microstructure of stock and options markets. His current research relates to market design, trading rules, price discovery, and trader behavior. During his time at the Whitman School, he has won the Oberwager award for undergraduate student mentoring (2005), as well as the School of Management Award for exceptional teaching (2003).
Anand has been published in a variety of prestigious publications and academic journals. His most recent accomplishments include “Paying for Market Quality,” co-authored with C. Tanggaard and D. Weaver, which is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and “Information and the Intermediary: Are Market Intermediaries Informed Traders in Electronic Markets” co-authored with A. Subrahmanyam, which was the lead article in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis in December 2008.
Professor Susan Albring's current research is focused on the extent to which firms forego tax benefits as a function of their ability to meet financial earnings targets and existing loan covenants. She is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Prior to joining academe, Albring was a senior tax consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in New York City. Her work has appeared in the Journal of American Taxation Association, a publication for which she sits on the editorial board. She was recently nominated for the Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty.
Albring presented her research “The Value Relevance of a Non-GAAP Performance Metric to the Capital Markets” (co-authored with J. Reck and M. Caban-Garcia) at the most recent meeting of the American Accounting Association. In January 2009, she also presented “The Influence of Regulation Fair Disclosure on Firm Financing Decisions” (co-authored with M. Banyi, D. Dhaliwal, and R. Pereira), at the American Accounting Association Financial and Reporting Section conference. She was the recipient of both the Whitman School Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year award and the School of Accounting Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teaching award at the Whitman School in 2004. Albring was also appointed a Lubin Research Fellow for 2011-2012.
