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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 Amy Mehringer, Whitman communications manager at aemehrin@syr.edu.



Susan Albring
Expertise: repatriation of foreign currency, financial accounting, financial tax, capital structure, debt versus equity, managerial accounting

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

Sumitro Banerjee
Expertise: new product marketing, market driven research, game theory, multinational marketing, time to market

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

Larry Bennett
Expertise: food service business, food service businesses and entrepreneurship, business growth, growing businesses, franchising, growing from entrepreneurship to professional management, family-run businesses, small business management

Pamela Brandes
Expertise: employee attitudes and behavior, compensation

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

Kristin Byron
Expertise: E-mail and electronic communication in the workplace, emotions in the workplace, work and family, work/life balance, employee mistreatment, e-mail

Elet Callahan
Expertise: whistleblowing, whistle blower, environmental policy/law/ethics, academic integrity/cheating, ethics, law, and policy

Donald Cardarelli
Expertise: major restructuring, strategic management

Don Carper
Expertise: business law, contract law, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation, legal public policy issues

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: international business, executive compensation, corporate governance, CEOs, boards, mergers

Fernando Diz
Expertise: trading, value and distress investing, financial distress, banking, hedge funds

Fred Easton
Expertise: capacity and demand, managing in auto manufacturing, health, emergency services

Randy Elder
Expertise: business management, government auditing, fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley, auditing

MaryAnn Fiedler
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

 


Mitch Franklin Expertise: financial planning, mutual funds, Generation X financial planning, Millennial Generation financial planning, personal finance

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, and E-store loyalty

Dennis Gillen
Expertise: organizational design and leadership, leadership skills, and strategic management

Leon Hanouille
Expertise: basic accounting, business educational development, international education, distance learning

David Harris
Expertise: federal taxes, effects of taxes on business, financial disclosure/market evaluation

Maurice Harris
Expertise: financial markets and institutions, enterprise valuation, and investment analysis, corporate finance

 


Don Harter
Expertise: software improvements and effect on information technology business, personnel issues, hiring, salaries, 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 and international transportation

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, consumer surveys, brand management

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

Yogesh Malhotra
Expertise: management information systems, knowledge management for information technology governance, management control and compliance of information systems users and adoption and use of Web-based information technology innovations (computer mediated communication and collaboration technologies).

Catherine Maritan
Expertise: business strategy, strategic investment decisions, strategic management process, operations strategy

Stephen Matyas
Expertise: undergraduate business education

Tridib Mazumdar
Expertise: new product development, international marketing, pricing, brand management

Alexander McKelvie
Expertise: new firm growth, innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic management of new firms

Michael Morris
Expertise: new venture creation/growth, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship under adversity, teaching entrepreneurship, small business management

Amanda Nicholson
Expertise: general retail, department stores, power-related merchandise, brand management

Julie Niederhoff
Expertise: supply chain contracting, behaviors related to supply chain, operations, supply chain management, behavioral operations, decision-making in operations

Patrick Penfield
Expertise: 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: employees skills/interactions/corporate culture

Byong-Duk Rhee
Expertise: e-commerce/conflict with conventional markets, wireless portability, customer satisfaction with repurchase, Federal Communications Commission, telecommunications

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

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

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

Boyce Watkins
Expertise: international/domestic asset pricing, investments, capital markets

Craig Watters
Expertise: inner city small businesses, rural business development

Scott Webster
Expertise: competition through logistics, distribution networks, buyer-seller contracts, managing flows, warehousing, supply chain management

Johan Wiklund
Expertise: small business growth, self-employment, self-employment decision-making, corporate entrepreneurship

David Wilemon
Expertise: new product development, research and development, corporate innovation, innovativeness, outsourcing, corporate boards of directors, R&D Management

Ray Wimer
Expertise: retail of books and music, store layout and design

Hong Xie
Expertise: market efficiency and anomalies, managerial incentives and earnings management, equity valuations

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 and cost accounting

Frances Zollers
Expertise: ethics, intellectual property law, business-government relations, product liability/safety, international product liability/safety, corporate boards of directors, corporate governance, and dispute resolutions, ethics, law, and policy