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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 Jaime Alvarez, Whitman communications manager, at jlwinne@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

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

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

Kris 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

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

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, logistics, supply chain management, U.S. domestic transportation, international transportation, Lean Six Sigma, warehouse design, warehouse operation

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

MaryAnn Monforte
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

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

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

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

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, cost accounting, fraud, fraud examination