Professor Maritan teaches courses in strategic management in the Whitman PhD and MBA programs. Maritan has been published in many academic journals for her research on how firms develop the capabilities that they use to compete. She has also received various awards for her outstanding teaching and research.
Maritan is active in the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and in the Strategic Management Society, the primary scholarly organizations for strategic management faculty. Before entering academia, she worked as a mining engineer and as corporate banker in North America and in Europe.
In the iMBA program, Professor Reed teaches the core course Strategic Management. Prior to teaching at the Whitman School of Management, Reed worked as a banker in Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation examined the effects of combining firms’ human capital, social capital, and organizational capital on performance in the New England banking industry. Her current research interests still include the banking industry as well as focusing on how firms develop and utilize intellectual capital in performance-enhancing ways.
Michel Benaroch Professor of Management Information Systems
Professor Benaroch teaches strategic management of information technology, advanced decision support technologies, and analytical customer relationship management. He teaches the core course Introduction to Information Technology (IT) and E-Commerce, and the elective, Customer Relationship Management Using SAP, in Whitman's iMBA program.
Benaroch’s research interests are in three areas. One area involves the use of “real options” and economics techniques to evaluate IT investments, manage IT investment risk, and manage IT investment portfolios. Another area deals with developing declarative, ontology-centered modeling formalisms for building knowledge systems as well as supporting the semantic interoperability of distributed information systems. The third area deals with decision support and data mining applications in finance and economics. Professor Benaroch holds a Whitman Research Fellowship (2006-2008).
Peter Koveos Kiebach Chair in International Business Studies
Professor Peter Koveos teaches a range of courses in finance, international business, and global entrepreneurship. Koveos also teaches the core iMBA course Economics for Managers, and the elective courses Doing Business in China and Global Strategy, the off-shore option taught in Bermuda.
Professor Koveos's current work is on the theory and practice of financial system reform. Much of his research is focused on Asia, specifically on China and Shanghai. Koveos is editor of the Whitman-sponsored publication the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.
Professor William Walsh teaches courses within the Joseph I. Lubin School of Accounting and the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. These include the core financial accounting course in the iMBA program and electives such as Venture Capital and Financial Statement Analysis. He also serves as the director of the new iMS in accounting program. Recognized as an outstanding teacher, Walsh held the Whitman Teaching Fellowship in the Whitman School from 2004-2006.
Walsh is a partner with Davidson Fox & Company, a regional CPA firm, and holds a position on the Board of Directors of the Syracuse University Tax Institute.
For more than 30 years, Professor Raj has been publishing in premier academic journals. His research interests include marketing strategies, customer purchasing behavior, management of new product development, role of the Internet in marketing, and multi-media instruction. He teaches marketing management, marketing strategy, integrated marketing communications, marketing and the Internet, marketing research, and marketing models. He has taught graduate and undergraduate students, full-time and part-time, at Syracuse University, Cornell University, and Northwestern University. He has also taught in programs for executives in the U.S. and in Brazil, Finland, Jamaica, Korea, and India.
While at Whitman, Raj has held leadership positions as the senior associate dean for academic affairs, the director of the PhD program, and chair of the marketing department.
