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J. Richard Aronson - jra1@lehigh.edu
William L. Clayton Professor of Business and Economics and Director of the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise. B.A., Clark University; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Clark University. Teaching areas: public finance; money and banking. Research interests: tax and expenditure analysis; pension funds; municipal fund analysis.

Anne-Marie Anderson - ama6@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Finance. B.S., United States Military Academy; M.B.A., University of Tulsa; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Research interests: corporate restructuring; mergers and acquisitions; valuation.

Youngsoo Bae - yob206@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics. M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State; B.A., Seoul National University. Teaching areas: Applied Macroeconomics, Econometrics. Research Interests: Nonlinear Cointegration

Daniel A. Bayak - dab8@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice in Finance.  B.S., Bloomsburg University; M.B.A., University of Scranton. Teaching areas: information analysis and financial decision making; managerial and financial accounting.

Liuba Belkin - lyb207@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. M.S., B.S., Institute for Economics and Law, Moscow,Russia; M.B.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching areas: negotiations; organizational behavior. Research interests: emotions at work.

Jill A Brown - jgb207@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. B.A., Lehigh University; M.B.A., Augusta State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia: Teaching areas: strategy; business ethics; human resource management; principles of management. Research interests: corporate governance.

Paul R. Brown - prb207@lehigh.edu
Dean, College of Business and Economics, and Professor of Accounting. B.A., Franklin and  Marshall College; M.P.A., Ph.D., University of Texas/Austin. Research interests: financial statement analysis; FASB/SEC policy analysis; international reporting and analysis; earnings measurement and management; managing earnings expectations.

Stephen G. Buell - steve@lehigh.edu
Professor of Finance and Co-Director of the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program. B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: corporation finance; integration of business and engineering. Research interests: high-yield bonds; corporate bankruptcy.

Franklin Carter - frc204@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.S., M.S.I.A., Ph.D. in Marketing Science, Carnegie-Mellon University; M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: Business-to-business marketing, salesforce management, and diffusion of innovation. Teaching interests: Pharmaceutical marketing, sales management, marketing management.

Deepa Chandrasekaran - dec207@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.A., M.A., Stella Maris College, India; M.B.A. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Teaching areas: product management; international marketing; marketing strategy; marketing management. Research interests: new product diffusion and growth; innovativeness of consumers and firms across nations; social network analysis.

Ravi Chitturi - rac2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.S., National Institute of Technology at Trichy, India; M.S., in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago; Executive M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research interests: Technology and innovation, design and consumer emotions, brand value and marketing strategy. Teaching interests: Creating breakthrough innovation, design, development and marketing of new products, strategic brand management.

Shin-Yi Chou - syc2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., National Taiwan University; Ph.D., Duke University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; health economics.  Research interests: health economics.

Karen M. Collins, CPA - kmc0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.S., M.B.A., Salisbury State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Teaching areas: financial accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: behavioral dimensions of public accounting practice (including stress, turnover and upward mobility of women).

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James A. Dearden - jad8@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Economics. Professor of Economics. A.B., Muhlenberg College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; game theory. Research interests: applied game theory; microeconomic theory.

Mary E. Deily - med4@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; industrial organization; mathematics for economists. Research interests: industry decline; regulation of business, hospital inefficiency.

Dale F. Falcinelli - dff0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Department of Management. B.S., M.A., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: contemporary marketing, business management policies.

Brian Fugate - bsf206@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. Ph.D., M.B.A., B.S. University of Tennessee. Research interests: Supply Chain Management and Logistics.

Robert Giambatista - rcg204@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison), M.S., B.S., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching interests: Organizational behavior, negotiation, management, individual and group decision-making, groups and teams, management history.

Michele Glower - mig4@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, B.S.B.A., Real Estate, The Ohio State University; M.B.A., Finance, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., Finance and Real Estate, The Ohio State University. Teaching areas: real estate finance, real estate investments, real estate brokerage, real estate valuation; urban economics; corporate finance. Research interests: brokerage and agency issues; mortgage pricing; housing affordability.

Paul Gordon - png3@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, B.S., DePaul University, M.B.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison). Retired partner, KPMG LLP. Teaching interests: Financial accounting; business consulting.

James A. Greenleaf - jag2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Finance. B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., Lehigh University; Ph.D., New York University. Teaching areas: investments; portfolio management; derivative investments (options, futures, etc.). Research interests: portfolio management; derivative instruments; international investments; quantitative applications to investments.

Frank R. Gunter - frg2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Teaching areas: country risk analysis; international trade; money and banking. Research interests: Colombian economy; capital flight; customs unions.

Parveen P. Gupta - ppg0@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Accounting, Professor of Accounting. B.Com. (Honors), LL.B., University of Delhi; M.B.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: Corporate governance and business risk management; financial reporting and valuation. Research interests: Market reaction to control weakness disclosures under Sarbanes-Oxley Act; management reporting on internal control; corporate governance and firm performance; audit committee effectiveness and quality of financial reporting; internal auditing.

Reetika Gupta - reg205@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.A., Delhi University, India; PGDPC, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, India; Ph.D., Baruch College (CUNY). Teaching interests: Consumer behavior, marketing research, internet marketing. Research interests: complexity in interactive consumption environments, consumer learning of new products.

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James A. Hall - jah0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.A., M.A., University of Tulsa; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. Teaching areas: accounting information systems; management information systems. Research interests: systems design; internal control of systems; computer systems auditing.

David Hinrichs - djh404@lehigh.edu
Lecturer, Department of Accounting. B.S., University of North Dakota, M.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University. Expertise: Financial management of information technology; outsourcing; accounting information systems.

Thomas J. Hyclak - tjh7@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.A., M.A., Cleveland State University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Teaching areas: labor relations; urban economics; macroeconomics. Research interests: regional labor-market analysis; industrial relations in the truck manufacturing industry; international differences in unemployment.

Arthur E. King - art.king@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.A. Middlebury, M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State. Teaching areas: health economics; econometrics; comparative economic systems.

Richard J. Kish - rjk7@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Finance & Law, Professor of Finance. B.S., Clarion University; M.B.A, Ph.D., University of Florida. Teaching area: investment. Research interests: fixed-income securities; efficient markets; international mergers.

Michael G. Kolchin, CPM - mgk1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Management. B.A., M.B.A., Miami University; D.B.A., Indiana University. Teaching areas: organizational behavior; human resource management; purchasing and materials management. Research interests: comparative buying processes; purchasing education and training; purchasing effectiveness; labor participation.

Nevena T. Koukova - nek205@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.S., National and World Economy University Bulgaria; M.B.A., Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. Research interests: pricing, bundling, digital products and consumer decision making. Teaching interests: Marketing strategy, Consumer analysis, Marketing research, Principles of marketing.

Robert Kuchta - rok8@leigh.edu
Professor of Practice in Marketing. B.S., Engineering Technology; M.S. Management Science - New Jersey Institute of Technology. Teaching areas: Principles of marketing; integrated marketing communications; business-to-business marketing; marketing of services; developing, producing, and marketing products and services. Research interests: Marketing as a business; inevitable classroom evolution.

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James A. Largay III, CPA - jal3@lehigh.edu
Arthur Andersen & Co. Alumni Professor of Accounting. B.S., University of Denver; M.B.A., Texas Technological College; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. Teaching areas: financial accounting and reporting; financial statement analysis. Research interests: consolidation policy and procedures; new basis accounting.

Lin Lin - lil204@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems, Department of Management. Ph.D., M.S., University of Arizona, B.S., University of Science and Technology of China. Research interests: Knowledge discovery and management, electronic commerce.

James M. Maskulka - jmm1@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Marketing. B.S.B.A., M.B.A., Youngstown State University; DBA, Kent State University. Teaching interests: Marketing communications; global marketing; marketing principles. Research interests: Marketing communications; brand management; media planning.

Teresa McCarthy - tem3@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management. B.S., University of Massachusetts; M.S., University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Research interests: role of marketing in demand management; demand planning and demand forecasting; market orientation and supply chain orientation; collaboration forecasting and salesforce forecasting management; e-commerce demand management.

Judith A. McDonald - djm0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A. (Honours), University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching areas: macroeconomics; international trade; international finance. Research areas: Capital flows and external debt issues for developing countries; United States-Canada trade relations during the 1930s; pay equity and gender differences in salaries.

Matthew A. Melone - mam9@lehigh.edu
Professor of Law and Business. B.S., M.S., Villanova University; J.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching area: commercial law. Research interests: taxation; law and accounting; real estate law.

Graham Mitchell - grm204@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, and Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship. Ph.D., B.Sc., University of Westminster, London, England.

Erin A. Moore - eam205@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting, B.S., MBA, Fairfield University, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Teaching areas: financial accounting and reporting. Research interests: financial accounting and reporting; earnings restatements; pension accounting as an earnings management tool.

Vincent G. Munley - vgm0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.S., B.A., Lehigh University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton. Teaching areas: applied microeconomics; environmental economics. Research interests: political economy of state and local government finances.

David H. Myers - dhm2@lehigh.edu
Amy and Joseph R. Perella '64 Professor of Practice, Director of the Financial Services Laboratory, Ph.D., University of Washington. Teaching areas: investments. Research interests: socially responsible investing, pension and mutual funds; and conditional asset pricing.

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Chitra Nayar - csn3@lehigh.edu
Lecturer, Department of Management. MBA, University of Iowa; BSc, Aston University, England. Teaching interests: Theory and applications of information systems in business.

Nandkumar (Nandu) Nayar - nan2@lehigh.edu
Hans Julius Bär Endowed Chair and Professor of Finance. B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa. Research interests: corporate finance; global finance issues; derivatives; investment banking; tax policy issues, risk measurement and management. Teaching areas: Corporate Finance, International Finance.

George A. Nation III - gan0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Law and Business. B.S., J.D., Villanova University. Teaching areas: contract law; sales of goods; debtor-creditor relations; negotiable instruments; agency law; business organizations. Research interests: commercial lending law topics; environmental liability for lenders; promissory notes; guaranty and suretyship law; products liability.

Anthony P. O'Brien - ao01@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. A.B., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Teaching areas: money and banking; macroeconomics; business history. Research interests: business history; economic history; macroeconomics.

John W. Paul, CPA - jwp1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting. B.A., Cornell University; M.B.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: auditing; systems; financial accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: auditing; systems.

Catherine M. Ridings - cmr4@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Business Information Systems. Ph.D., Drexel University. Teaching areas:management of information in organizations; e-commerce; and virtual communities. Research interests: virtual communities; trust; knowledge management; software development and adoption.

Heibatollah Sami - hes205@lehigh.edu
Eugene & Sue Mercy Professor of Accounting, B.S., Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, M.S., Central Michigan University, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Teaching areas: financial accounting and reporting. Research interests: impact of accounting information on capital markets; international accounting; auditing.

Michael D. Santoro - mds8@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Management. Ph.D. in Organization Management from Rutgers University. M.B.A., Strategic Management, Rutgers University; M.B.A. in General Management, Adelphi University; B.A., William Paterson University. Research interests include: organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, strategic alliances, and external sources of knowledge and technological innovation.

Theodore W. Schlie - tes3@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Technology Management. B.A., Valparaiso University; M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Teaching areas: advanced manufacturing and competitive strategy; technology management; business policy. Research interests: advanced manufacturing and competitive strategy; globalization of industrial research and development; international competitiveness.

Susan A. Sherer - sas6@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Management. William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Technology Management. B.S., State University of New York at Albany; M.S., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching areas: operations management; information systems; quantitative methods. Research interests: software failure risk and management of software development.

Kenneth P. Sinclair - kps1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting. B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Teaching areas: managerial accounting; cost accounting; essentials of accounting. Research interests: performance evaluation; human resource accounting; case studies in managerial accounting.

K. Sivakumar - k.sivakumar@lehigh.edu 
Chair, Deparment of Marketing, Arthur Tauck Professor of International Marketing and Logistics. B.E., University of Madras, India; PGDRM, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India; Ph.D., Syracuse University. Teaching interests: Marketing research; global marketing; marketing management. Research interest: Pricing, global marketing, innovation management.

Stephen E. Snyder - sts204@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland; M.A. University of Virginia. Teaching areas: Economic history, Health economics, microeconomics. Research interests: labor economics, economic history, pharmaeconomics.

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Qingjiu (Tom) Tao - qit3@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. B.S., M.S., University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Beijing, China, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Research interests: strategic alliance in emerging market environments; institutions and firm behavior; first mover advantage in international market entry.

Larry W. Taylor - lwt0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.S., University of Northern Alabama; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Teaching areas: econometrics; time series; statistics. Research interests: specification testing for economic models; finite-sample issues in econometrics; econometric methodology; macroeconomic modeling; qualitative dependent variables.

Stephen F. Thode - sft0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Goodman Center for Real Estate Studies. B.A., Coe College; M.B.A., D.B.A., Indiana University. Teaching areas: real estate finance; corporate finance. Research interests: new mortgage products; mortgage pricing; affordable housing financing; taxation of real estate investments.

Robert J. Thornton - rjt1@lehigh.edu
Charles W. Macfarlane Professor of Economics. H.A.B., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois. Teaching areas: labor economics; statistics. Research interests: unionism and collective bargaining; public employment; forensic economics.

Robert J. Trent - rjt2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management. B.S., Michigan State University; M.B.A., Wayne State University; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Teaching areas: operations management; purchasing and materials management; quantitative methods. Research interests: cross-functional teams in purchasing.

Geraldo M. Vasconcellos - gmv0@lehigh.edu
Allen DuBois Distinguished Professor of Finance and Economics. B.S., Military Academy of Agulhas Negras, Brazil; B.S., State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; M.S., Fed. University of Rio de Janeiro; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teaching areas: international finance; financial markets and institutions. Research interests: portfolio approach to export-diversification strategies; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; privatizations; financial structure and economic development.

Todd Watkins - taw4@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P., PhD, Harvard University. Teaching areas: managerial economics; statistics; new product development; economic development policies. Research interests: technology and industrial policies; economics and management of innovation; defense, aerospace and photonics industries; microfinance.

Samuel C. Weaver - scw0@lehigh.edu
Swartley Professor of Finance. B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: corporate finance; valuation. Research interests: value based management; performance metrics; capital evaluation; cost of capital; mergers and acquisitions.

Wenlong Weng - wew4@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics. B.E., Zhejiang University, China; M.S. Tsinghua University, China; M.A., Wichita State University; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; financial economics; numerical methods. Research interests: real options and decision-making under uncertainty; risk measurement and management; derivates; dynamic asset pricing.

Yuliang (Oliver) Yao - yuy3@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems. B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Research interests: supply chain management, electronic commerce; technology issues in supply chains; logistics modeling/simulation.

William Sanjian Zhang - wsz206@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Shanghai International Studies; M.B.A., Catholic University of Leuven; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Research interests: Financial accounting.

   

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