David Wilemon Snyder Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Professor Wilemon teaches marketing, innovation management, and
entrepreneurship at all levels. He also teaches three courses in the
iMBA program including Entrepreneurship & Corporate Venturing, High Performing Project Teams, and Managing Product Development.
Wilemon is considered one of the most active researchers in the field
of innovation and technology management, in studies published by R&D Management and The Journal of Innovation Management.
Wilemon’s research interests include central issues involved in
managing teams and organizations which find their core strength in
marketing, technology, and innovation. Currently, he is involved in
research on new product development teams, R&D management, managing
new product development complexity, corporate venturing, and on how
technology-based enterprises develop and use knowledge for competitive
advantage.
Fernando Diz The Martin J. Whitman Associate Professor of Finance
Professor Diz teaches courses on trading derivative securities,
value and distress investing, and in the more traditional areas of
financial economics and corporate finance. Within the iMBA program, Diz
teaches an elective course in distress investing.
Diz’s research interests lie in the areas of trading, derivative
securities, and value and distress investing. His work has been
presented at academic as well as industry forums such as the American
Stock Exchange (AMEX) Derivatives Colloquium, and the Forum for Managed
Futures and Derivatives. He has also consulted with several utilities
and power companies on issues related to trading electricity, as well
as with global companies like the Spanish futures exchange MEFF and the
Caixa de Catalunya.
In the iMBA program, Professor Reed teaches the core course Strategic Management. Prior to teaching at the Whitman School of Management, Reed worked as a banker in Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation examined the effects of combining firms’
human capital, social capital, and organizational capital on
performance in the New England banking industry. Her
current research interests still include the banking industry as well
as focusing on how firms develop and utilize intellectual capital in
performance-enhancing ways.
Michel Benaroch Professor of Management Information Systems
Professor Benaroch teaches strategic management of information technology, advanced decision support technologies, and analytical customer relationship management. He teaches the core course Introduction to Information Technology (IT) and E-Commerce, and the elective, Customer Relationship Management Using SAP, in Whitman's iMBA program.
Benaroch’s research interests are in three areas. One area involves the use of “real options” and economics techniques to evaluate IT investments, manage IT investment risk, and manage IT investment portfolios. Another area deals with developing declarative, ontology-centered modeling formalisms for building knowledge systems as well as supporting the semantic interoperability of distributed information systems. The third area deals with decision support and data mining applications in finance and economics. Professor Benaroch holds a Whitman Research Fellowship (2006-2008).
Maurice Harris Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
Professor Harris is Whitman's Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. As an assistant professor of finance, Harris also teaches the core iMBA course on managerial finance. Before earning his PhD from the Whitman School at Syracuse University, Harris worked in the financial industry with First City National Bank of Houston, the Government Finance Research Center, and Fidelity Investments.
His primary areas of research include market microstructure, asset return volatility, and corporate finance. Recent research includes product market competition among firms and the impact of this competition on the long-run equilibrium relationship among their capital structures.
Peter Koveos Kiebach Chair in International Business Studies
Professor Peter Koveos teaches a range of courses in finance,
international business, and global entrepreneurship. Koveos also
teaches the core iMBA course Economics for Managers, and the elective courses Doing Business in China and Global Strategy, the off-shore option taught in Bermuda.
Professor Koveos's current work is on the theory and practice
of financial system reform. Much of his research is focused on Asia,
specifically on China and Shanghai. Koveos is editor of the
Whitman-sponsored publication the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.
Professor William Walsh teaches courses within the Joseph I. Lubin
School of Accounting and the Department of Entrepreneurship and
Emerging Enterprises. These include the core financial accounting
course in the iMBA program and electives such as Venture Capital and Financial Statement Analysis.
He also serves as the director of the new iMS in accounting program.
Recognized as an outstanding teacher, Walsh held the Whitman Teaching
Fellowship in the Whitman School from 2004-2006.
Walsh is a partner with Davidson Fox & Company, a regional CPA
firm, and holds a position on the Board of Directors of the Syracuse
University Tax Institute.
