Bootcamp Faculty
 |
RANDY ELDER is associate professor and chairman of the Accounting Department in the The Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He teaches a seminar on audit theory and courses on audit practice and small business management. His research focuses on audit quality, governmental auditing, and auditor decision-making.
Elder holds a PhD from Michigan State University. |
 |
MICHAEL H. MORRIS holds the Chris J. Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship and is executive director of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at Syracuse University. He previously served as the Noborikawa Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii and the Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship at Miami University. During his tenure at Miami, the program was selected as the National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program. He has also served as Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he created the Supporting Emerging Enterprises Program. In addition, he has been a principal in three entrepreneurial start-ups.
Morris received a PhD in marketing from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1983. His dissertation, on industrial buying, won top honors that year from the Academy of Marketing Science. |
 |
WILLIAM J. WALSH CPA holds an AB from the University of Scranton and an MBA from Syracuse University.
Walsh is an assistant professor of accounting in the The Martin J. Whitman School of Management, where he also serves as faculty advisor to Beta Alpha Psi.
Currently, he is a partner with Davidson Fox & Company, a regional CPA firm, and is a member of AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) and NYSCPA (New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants). He serves as Treasurer of Home Aides of New York Inc. (a non-profit agency) and holds a position on the Board of Directors of the Syracuse University Tax Institute.
Walsh was named Outstanding Professor for 2000 in the Department of Accounting and was recognized by Beta Gamma Sigma students as the The Martin J. Whitman School of Management Faculty Member of the Year in 2002. |
 |
MINET
SCHINDEHUTTE, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
A South African national, she has worked both in academia and the private sector, and her professional background includes technical marketing, brand management and entrepreneurship-related activities. Her current research interests include the interface between entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy, entrepreneurship under conditions of adversity, and factors affecting performance in entrepreneurial companies.
|
 |
MIKE HAYNIE, PhD., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Prior to joining the entrepreneurship team at Syracuse University, Dr. Haynie served as an Assistant Professor of Management at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
Prior to embarking on an academic career, Dr. Haynie spent 14 years as an officer in the Unites States Air Force. Trained as a contract negotiator and acquisition specialist, Dr. Haynie served at various locations around the world, to include Mountain-Home AFB, Idaho; Randolph AFB, TX; Defense Supply Center Richmond, VA; Defense Contract Management Command, Cairo, Egypt; and with Defense Logistics Agency, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
 |
MITCH FRANKLIN, PhD., is an Assistant Professor and teaches courses in financial accounting, corporate finance, financial planning, and in Whitman’s Freshman Gateway Program. He has been nominated for and received numerous teaching recognitions. Most recently, he was recipient of the Whitman Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year award for 2005-2006. Beyond the classroom, Franklin serves as the faculty advisor for the school’s VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Program, Co-advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, the business honorary for financial service professionals, and executive board member of the Whitman School of Management Alumni Association.
|
|
