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The Whitman Experts database includes Whitman School faculty members and senior administrators. Use the Whitman Experts database to identify faculty members with expertise in a wide range of business areas. Search by using business practice terms (i.e. human resources), department names (i.e. finance), or name of a particular individual. Once you have found a person, or persons, with whom you would like to speak, please forward your request to Amy Mehringer, Whitman communications manager at aemehrin@syr.edu.



Susan Albring
Expertise: taxes, repatriation of foreign currency, financial accounting, financial tax, capital structure, debt versus equity, effects of taxes on capital structure, effects of taxes on business

Amber Anand
Expertise: trading, exchanges, microstructure of stock and options markets, regulations, rule-making in trading, SEC, international exchanges, trader behavior, trading rules

Kofi Appiah Okyere
Expertise: corporate governance, financial reporting, financial statement quality, financial disclosure, West African business

Natarajan Balasubramanian
Expertise: industry competition, strategic decisions, strategic management, mergers and acquisitions, firm innovation

Tom Barkley Expertise: market microstructure, asset pricing, derivatives, risk management, capital markets, international finance

Amiya Basu
Expertise: direct marketing, compensation, pricing

Michel Benaroch
Expertise: information technology investments, information technology investment risks, information technology investment portfolios, management information systems

Larry Bennett
Expertise: food service business, food service businesses and entrepreneurship, business growth, growing businesses, franchising, growing from entrepreneurship to professional management, family-run businesses, small business management

Pamela Brandes
Expertise: employee attitudes and behavior, compensation, corporate governance, executive pay

George Burman
Expertise: entrepreneurship, labor and regulatory economics (state and federal)

Kristin Byron
Expertise: E-mail and electronic communication in the workplace, emotions in the workplace, work and family, work/life balance, employee mistreatment, e-mail, creativity

Elet Callahan
Expertise: sustainability, whistleblowing, whistle blower, environmental policy/law/ethics, academic integrity/cheating, ethics, law, and policy

Donald Cardarelli
Expertise: major restructuring, strategic management

Chung Chen
Expertise: stats analysis in medical research, data mining, forecasting methods, basic stats, Chinese business, China

Anna Chernobai
Expertise: operational risk, loss due to terrorism, natural disasters, computer glitches; Basel II Capital Accord, risk capital; integrated market, credit, and operational risk; non-life insurance; Value-at-Risk; applied statistics and probability; stochastic processes

Patrick Cihon
Expertise: employment law, discrimination, labor relations, dispute resolutions, international management

Joseph Comprix
Expertise: pensions, accounting restatements, adjusting past financial restatements, general accounting

Linda Cushman
Expertise: retail strategy, brand management

Ravi Dharwadkar
Expertise: executive compensation, corporate governance, CEOs, boards, mergers, international business

Fernando Diz
Expertise: trading, value and distress investing, financial distress, banking, hedge funds

Fred Easton
Expertise: labor scheduling, staffing allocation of workers in service sector, capacity and demand, management in-service systems in auto manufacturing, health, emergency services

Randy Elder
Expertise: business management, government auditing, fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley, auditing, accounting, income tax

Scott Fay
Expertise: selling, price competition, reverse auctions, E-commerce, the economics of information and industrial organization, and retail strategy

MaryAnn Fiedler
Expertise: technology marketing, software applications and their impact on business, the dot-com bust, going public with companies, the emergence of web-based applications, bankruptcy, and emerging from Chapter 11

 


Mitch Franklin Expertise: financial planning, mutual funds, Generation X financial planning, Millennial Generation financial planning, personal finance, general accounting

Yitzhak Fried
Expertise: diversity, affirmative action, legal issues in HR, sexual harassment, performance evaluation, performance management, job design, team work, work motivation, psychological effects of downsizing, cultural and cross-cultural issues at work, work stress

Frances Gaither Tucker
Expertise: logistics and marketing, benchmarking to improve profitability, global marketing, healthcare marketing, supply chain management

Dinesh Gauri
Expertise: retail promotion effectiveness, retail store performance, consumer information search, E-store loyalty, retail strategy, grocery retail

Dennis Gillen
Expertise: organizational design and leadership, leadership skills, and strategic management

David Harris
Expertise: federal taxes, effects of taxes on business, financial disclosure/market evaluation

Maurice Harris
Expertise: financial markets and institutions, enterprise valuation, and investment analysis, corporate finance

 


Don Harter
Expertise: project management, software process improvement, effect of information technology improvements on product quality, productivity, hiring, salaries, and attrition

J. Michael Haynie
Expertise: decision-making, entrepreneurial thinking, entrepreneurship, business opportunities, social psychology, business plans, business school competitions, meta-cognition, entrepreneurial cognition

Sandra Hurd
Expertise: international product liability and safety law, learning communities, assessment of learning

Badr Ismail
Expertise: strategic cost management, cash flow in capital markets

Burak Kazaz Expertise: pricing and production distribution, supply and demand uncertainty, demand uncertainty, exchange-rate uncertainty, supply chain management, supply disruptions, supply chain under uncertainty

Lisa Knych
Expertise: contract law, commercial transactions

Peter Koveos
Expertise: international market behavior, international finance, international business, economies in transition, financial reform, Asia/China, Chinese business, Asian business

Gary La Point Expertise: international import/export and international transportation

Danny Lanier
Expertise: Financial performance effects of significant inter-firm relationships, earnings management

 


E. Scott Lathrop
Expertise: cognitive processes in decision-making, new product development, innovation, corporate positioning, branding, consumer products, law firm marketing, airline industry marketing, electric utilities marketing, marketing strategy consulting

Eunkyu Lee Expertise: price competition, brand management, distribution channels, marketing strategy, movie marketing, grocery retail marketing

Lihong Liang
Expertise: corporate governance, financial analysts forecasts, market anomolies

Susan Long
Expertise: informational technology, e-government, data-mining, statistics, measurement, research methodology, data visualization, causal modeling and structural equations, evaluating government performance, freedom of information

G. Thomas Lumpkin
Expertise: entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, creativity and entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, innovativeness, risk-taking, competitiveness, autonomy, proactiveness

Catherine Maritan
Expertise: business strategy, strategic investment decisions, strategic management process, operations strategy

Stephen Matyas
Expertise: undergraduate business education

Tridib Mazumdar
Expertise: pricing, new product development, international marketing, brand management

Alexander McKelvie Expertise: new firm growth, innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic management of new firms

Amanda Nicholson
Expertise: general retail, department stores, power-related merchandise, brand management

Georgette Nicolaides
Expertise: basic statistics, statistics in the media, effective graphical communication, and not-for-profit management and governance.

Julie Niederhoff
Expertise: supply chain contracting, behaviors related to supply chain, operations, supply chain management, behavioral operations, decision-making in operations

Patrick Penfield Expertise: green supply chain, manufacturing, warehousing, 21st century supply chain management, purchasing, strategic sourcing and negotiations, APICS training, Six Sigma

Milena Petrova
Expertise: corporate finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financial deal structuring, real estate investment trusts, real estate securities analysis, commercial real estate, residential real estate

Sandra Phillips
Expertise: mortgage lending discrimination, finance and financial institutions, underserved communities, housing discrimination, predatory lending, eminent domain

S.P. Raj
Expertise: marketing strategies, customer purchasing behavior, management of new product development, role of the Internet in marketing, multi-media instruction

Kira Reed
Expertise: human and intellectual capital

Breagin Riley
Expertise: power, trust, consumer behavior, organizational behavior, advice seeking, advice acceptance, characteristics of power, patterns of power, leadership

Minet Schindehutte
Expertise: radical marketing, international marketing

Ravi Shukla
Expertise: investments, assets pricing, corporate finance, banking, MBA administration, business school competitions, business school education, capital markets, mutual funds, securities prices

Susan Smith
Expertise: marketing, electrical industry, business-to-business marketing, wholesale supply

Melvin Stith
Expertise: business school education, business school leadership, key influences on black and white consumption patterns, value systems on consumer behavior, marketing

Clint Tankersley
Expertise: marketing, business school management education

Neil Tarallo
Expertise: new venture creation, venture capital, the transfer of technology from academic to competitive business environments, real estate as an entrepreneurial venture, business plans, business school competitions, and family business.

Alex Thevaranjan
Expertise: agency theory, managerial accounting, incentive schemes, the ethics of economics, economic solutions to spam, ethical leadership

Pamela Trendell
Expertise: financial software, product management, technology related to trade information

Raja Velu
Expertise: data analysis, statistics, health sciences

Padmal Vitharana
Expertise: open source, information systems, software development, new technology for developing software

Ginger Wagner
Expertise: business valuations, tax returns, financial accounting, litigation support

William Walsh Expertise: Beta Alpha Psi, taxes for closely held businesses, taxes

A. Joseph Warburton
Expertise: financial regulation, banking regulation, hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate governance, automobile industry bail out, personal finance, credit cards

Boyce Watkins
Expertise: international/domestic asset pricing, investments, capital markets

Craig Watters
Expertise: inner city small businesses, rural business development

Scott Webster
Expertise: competition through logistics, distribution networks, buyer-seller contracts, managing flows, warehousing, supply chain management

David Weinbaum
Expertise: mutual funds, mutual fund fees, corporate governance, investment trends, banks, financial institutions, retirement planning

Johan Wiklund
Expertise: small business growth, self-employment, self-employment decision-making, corporate entrepreneurship

David Wilemon
Expertise: new product development, research and development, corporate innovation, innovativeness, outsourcing, corporate boards of directors, R&D Management

Ray Wimer
Expertise: retail of books and music, store layout and design

Yildiray Yildirim
Expertise: Treasury Inflation Index, commercial real estate, residential real estate, mortgage, CDS (credit default swap), risk management, REIT

Pierre Yourougou
Expertise: corporate finance, emerging markets, financial markets and institutions, risk management, project finance, African business intelligence, capacity building in public debt management, and the World Bank

Joyce Zadzilka
Expertise: managerial accounting and cost accounting