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J. Richard Aronson - jra1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics; William L. Clayton Professor; Director, 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
Associate Professor of Finance; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair; Director, Financial Services Laboratory. 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.

Daniel A. Bayak - dab8@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Perella Department of 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; Axelrod Family Endowed Fellow. 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.

Paul Brockman - pab309@lehigh.edu
Professor of Finance; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair. B.A., Ohio State University; M.B.A., Nova Southeastern University; Ph.D., Louisiana State University.  Research interests: corporate decision making and examining the context in which business decisions are made, implemented, and interpreted by capital markets.

Jay D. Brodish - jdb366@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Department of Accounting. B.S., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: financial accounting; analysis of financial statements.

Jill A. Brown - jgb207@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management; Axelrod Family Endowed Fellow. 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
Professor of Accounting; Dean, College of Business and Economics. 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; Co-Director, 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.

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
Associate Professor of Marketing; Class of 1961 Professorship. 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; Frank L. Magee Distinguished Professor.  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
Professor of Economics; Department Chair. 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; Director, MS Health and Biopharmaceutical Economics program. 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.

Beibei Dong - bed209@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.A., Tongji University, Shanghai, China;  Ph.D., University of Missouri. Research and teaching interests include services marketing, international marketing, and marketing management.

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.

David Folsom - dmf209@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting. B.S., M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of Iowa.  Teaching areas: managerial and financial accounting. Research Interests:  explanations and effects of conservative financial reporting, competitive influences on disclosure.

William Forster - wif209@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Management.  B.S., United States Air Force Academy; M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology; M.B.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of Virginia.  Research interests include founding partnerships, new venture teams, entrepreneurial decision making, and business ethics.

Beth S. Gallant - beg4@lehigh.edu
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Marketing. B.S., Lehigh University; M.B.A. Columbia. Teaching areas: consumer behavior; business to business marketing; brand management; sales management.

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.

Frank R. Gunter - frg2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Teaching areas: Principles of economics, economic development, political-economy of Iraq, and political-economy of China. Research interests: Iraq economy, corruption, and capital flight.

Parveen P. Gupta - ppg0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting; Department Chair. 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; Alison and Norman H. Axelrod '74 Research Fellow. 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; Peter E. Bennett Chair. 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; John C. Swartley '24 Professor. 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
Professor of Finance; Allen C. DuBois Distinguished Professor; Department Chair. B.S., Clarion University; M.B.A, Ph.D., University of Florida. Teaching area: investment. Research interests: fixed-income securities; efficient markets; international mergers.

Nevena T. Koukova - nek205@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing; Charlotte & Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellow.  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.

Gopal Krishnan, CPA - gok208@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair. D. Com., Indian Merchants' Chamber; M.B.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D. University of North Texas.  Research Interests: corporate governance, auditor independence, audit quality, and audit pricing, earnings management and accrual quality, financial statement fraud, ethics.

Robert Kuchta - rok8@leigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Department of Management. B.S., Engineering Technology; M.S. Management Science - New Jersey Institute of Technology. Teaching areas:  developing, producing, and marketing products and services and managing products and services. Research interests: inevitable classroom evolution.

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Ernest K. Lai - kwl409@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics.  B.B.A., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; M.Econ., University of Hong Kong; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Research interests: game theory; experimental and behavioral economics.

James A. Largay III, CPA - jal3@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting; Arthur Andersen Professor. 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.

Yvonne Lu - yyl209@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting.  B.B.A., M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., Stanford University.  Research interests: earnings management and earnings quality, securities litigation, corporate governance, pension accounting.

Yung-Yu Ma - yym209@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Finance.  B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Utah. Research interests: financial distress and bankruptcy restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and investments.

Douglas Mahony - dmm309@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management.  B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University.  Research interests: organizational conflict, alternative dispute resolution, participatory work systems, and social networks.

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.

Judith A. McDonald - djm0@lehigh.edu
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.

Chad D. Meyerhoefer - chm308@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics. B.S., Binghamton; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell.  Research interests: health economics, public policy, applied econometrics, international economic development.

Graham Mitchell - grm204@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Department of Management; Ph.D., B.Sc., University of Westminster, London, England.

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
Professor of Practice, Perella Department of Finance.  B.A., Wesleyan, M.B.A., New York University, 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; John C. Swartley '24 Professor. MBA, University of Iowa; BSc, Aston University, England. Teaching interests: Theory and applications of information systems in business.

Nandkumar (Nandu) Nayar - nan2@lehigh.edu
Professor of Finance; Hans J. Baer Chair in International 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.

Jack 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.

Marietta Peytcheva, CPA - map608@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S. and Ph.D., Rutgers. Research interests: audit judgment and decision making, financial restatements, and ethics in accounting.

Corinne Post - cgp208@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management.  B.S., University of Geneva; M.S., University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Ph.D. Rutgers. Research interests: gender and racial differences in individual work experiences and career trajectories as well as on the effects of diversity on innovation and performance.

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.

Jesus Salas - jms408@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Finance.  B.S., St. Mary’s University; M.A., Miami of Ohio; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.  Teaching and research interests: investments, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate risk management, and dividend policy.

Heibatollah Sami - hes205@lehigh.edu
Professor of Accounting; Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Professor. 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.

Nada Sanders - nrs209@lehigh.edu
Professor of Management; Iacocca Chair.  M.B.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University.  Research interests: business forecasting, supply chain management, and the role of information technology in the supply chain environment.

Michael D. Santoro - mds8@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Management; James T. Kane Faculty Fellow. 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
Professor of Management; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor; Department Chair. 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 
Professor of Marketing; Arthur C. Tauck, Jr. Chair in International Marketing and Logistics; Department Chair. 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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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; Director, 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
Professor of Economics; Charles William MacFarlane Professor. 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
Professor of Management; George N. Beckwith '32 Professor. 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
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.

Andrew Ward - anw309@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Management.  B.Sc. University of Surrey, England; M.B.A., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.  Research interests: corporate governance including CEO successions, CEO compensation, the roles and concerns of the chief executive officer, CEO/board relations, reputation, and leadership.

Todd Watkins - taw4@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics; Arthur F. Searing Chair of Economics. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard University. Director of Lehigh's Entrepreneurship Program and director of the Microfinance Program. 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
Professor of Practice, Perella Department 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.

Ke Yang - key208@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Finance. B.S, Henan University of Science and Technology; M.A., University of Nebraska-Omaha; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Research and teaching interests: corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, corporate governance, agency issues, capital structure, and investments. 

Muzhe Yang - muy208@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics.  B.A. and M.A., Peking University; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Research interests: treatment effect analysis, peer effect analysis, counterfactuals and causal inference

Yuliang (Oliver) Yao - yuy3@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems; Scott Hartz '68 Term Professor. 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.

Wei (Vicky) Yu  - wey208@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., University of International Business and Economics, Beijing; M.A., Central Michigan University; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology.  Teaching and research interests: auditing, experimental economics, and financial accounting.

Zach Zacharia - zgz208@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management. B.S., University of Calgary; M.B.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., University of Tennessee.  Research interests: knowledge management and collaboration within the supply chain, logistics strategy and the financial implications of supply chain management.

   

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