MBA Programs
About the MBA
Master of Business Administration: 51.0 quarter credits
Drexel University’s innovative, high-quality MBA program is recognized for its excellence and for its preparation of students for successful professional careers. We seek to attract and retain students with excellent undergraduate academic records and a commitment to graduate education. From its inception, Drexel has been a technology-oriented university, and we are committed to focusing our graduate curricula to reflect the importance and use of technology in both business and not-for-profit organizations.
Goals and Objectives
The MBA program is designed to:
- Integrate the foundations of business, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; organization theory; and practical aspects of institutional management
- Prepare students for managerial positions in business and other institutions
- Offer concentrations in various areas of management
- Capitalize on communication skills, people skills, global perspectives, technological competence, pragmatic emphasis, and ethical perspectives
Students selecting a concentration can choose from the following options:
- Business Analytics
- Finance
- Healthcare Management
- Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management
- Marketing
Full-time, Part-Time, Online and Accelerated Options
The College offers one MBA degree delivered in different formats: – face-to-face or online, part-time or full-time, and at satellite campuses in Malvern, Pa., and Sacramento, Calif. Additionally, the Drexel LeBow MBA offers several fields of concentration within the MBA. Visit LeBow College's web site for information about additional MBA options.
Degree Requirements
Master of Business Administration (MBA): 51.0 quarter credits
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum remains firmly grounded on the best features of the "traditional" MBA as it has evolved over half a century. Among these features is a broad overview of business, complemented by at least one area of specialization.
Students selecting a concentration can choose from the following options:
- Business Analytics
- Finance
- Healthcare Management
- Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management
- Marketing
| Foundation Courses | ||
| BUSN 505 | Financial Performance of the Firm - Accounting | 1.5 |
| BUSN 506 | Financial Performance of the Firm - Finance | 1.5 |
| BUSN 507 | Essentials of Economics I | 1.5 |
| BUSN 508 | Essentials of Economics II | 1.5 |
| Core Curriculum | ||
| ACCT 601 | Managerial Accounting | 3.0 |
| ECON 601 | Managerial Economics | 3.0 |
| FIN 601 | Corporate Financial Management | 3.0 |
| MGMT 601 | Managing the Total Enterprise | 3.0 |
| MGMT 602 | Managing Technology Innovation | 3.0 |
| MKTG 601 | Marketing Strategy & Planning | 3.0 |
| ORGB 625 | Leadership and Professional Development | 3.0 |
| POM 601 | Operations Management | 3.0 |
| STAT 601 | Business Statistics | 3.0 |
| Flexible Core Sequence | ||
| Students select two courses from the following list of flexible core courses: | 6.0 | |
| Baida Center for Entrepreneurship | ||
| Corporate Venturing | ||
| New Venture Planning | ||
| Center for Corporate Governance | ||
| Legal Options in Decision Making | ||
| Corporate Governance | ||
| Center for Corporate Reputation Management | ||
| Corporate Brand & Reputation Management | ||
| Seminar In Marketing Management | ||
| International Business/Studies | ||
| International Business Management | ||
| Information Systems Outsourcing Management | ||
| Sovereign Institute for Strategic Leadership | ||
| Leading Effective Organizations | ||
| Negotiations for Leaders | ||
| Capstone Course | ||
| MGMT 780 | Strategic Management | 3.0 |
| Concentration Courses | 9.0 | |
| Students selecting a concentration can choose from the following options: | ||
Business Analytics | ||
Finance | ||
Healthcare Management | ||
Marketing | ||
Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management | ||
| Total Credits | 51.0 | |
Business Analytics Concentration
The Business Analytics concentration prepares students to make good business decisions with fact-based analysis and an understanding of business performance from a systems view, using statistical and quantitative analysis of data as well as explanatory and predictive modeling.
| Requirements | ||
| STAT 698 | Special Topics * | 3.0 |
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| System Simulation | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Experimental Design | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
| * | Prerequisite is STAT 602. |
Finance Concentration
| Required Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Advanced Financial Management | ||
| Financial Institutions & Markets | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Investment Management | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Mergers and Acquisitions | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Seminar in Finance | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.0 | |
| Legal Aspects of Employment | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Manufacturing Firms | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
Healthcare Management Concentration
This specialized, cohorted, online program was developed together with industry representatives. The custom program is designed for professionals in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries to help achieve new understanding and advance students' careers by integrating business strategy with science and technology and the unique perspective of the industry.
Four of the 17 courses offered are in-person residencies over three- to six-day on-site sessions at the beginning, middle, and end of the program. The remainder of the courses are delivered in an online format for ultimate flexibility.
This program begins in the spring and takes approximately 24 months to completion.
| BUSN 651 | Healthcare Business Practice I: Foundations | 3.0 |
| BUSN 652 | Healthcare Business Practice II | 3.0 |
| BUSN 653 | Healthcare Business Practice III: Capstone | 3.0 |
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
Marketing Concentration
| Required Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Buyer Behavior Theory | ||
| Channels of Distribution Management | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Integrated Marketing Communications Management | ||
| Business to Business Marketing | ||
| New Product Planning, Strategy, and Development | ||
| Services Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Marketing Information Management and Research | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.0 | |
| Special Topics | ||
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Seminar in International Business | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Database Analysis and Design for Business | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management Concentration
| Required Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Legal Aspects of Employment | ||
| Legal Issues in New Ventures | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Strategic Human Resource Management | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Database Analysis and Design for Business | ||
| New Product Planning, Strategy, and Development | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.0 | |
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Advanced Financial Management | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Mergers and Acquisitions | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Comparative Financial Analysis | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Seminar in International Business | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| Buyer Behavior Theory | ||
| Channels of Distribution Management | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Integrated Marketing Communications Management | ||
| Services Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Negotiations for Leaders | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Manufacturing Firms | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
A concentration in Healthcare Management is also available for the MBA program.
Admissions
All applicants to master’s programs in business are expected to hold a four-year baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution. The curriculum assumes that the student has knowledge of calculus. In addition, the curriculum assumes that students have personal access to and working knowledge of personal computers to facilitate their academic work.
The Drexel LeBow MBA is a rigorous comprehensive learning experience that emphasizes experiential learning and entrepreneurial thinking in a program designed to meet each student's individual career path. There are several options for program delivery, including various campus sites.
For more information about admission guidelines, requirements, and important dates, visit the LeBow College of Business Enrollment page or the Drexel University Admissions website.
MBA Concentrations
Students selecting a concentration can choose from the following options:
- Business Analytics
- Finance
- Healthcare Management
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management
| Business Analytics Concentration | ||
| The Business Analytics concentration prepares students to make good business decisions with fact-based analysis and an under stranding of business performance from a systems view, using statistical and quantitative analysis of data as well as explanatory and predictive modeling. | ||
| Requirements | ||
| STAT 698 | Special Topics * | 3.0 |
| Select two of the following: | 6.0 | |
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| System Simulation | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Experimental Design | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
| * | Prerequisite is STAT 602. |
| Healthcare Management Concentration | ||
| The concentration in Health Care management is a specialized, cohorted online program designed to address both the political and technological forces shaping the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry in competitive global markets. The program is designed for professionals in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries to help achieve new understanding and potential for career advancement by integrating business strategy with science and technology and the unique perspective of the industry. | ||
| Requirements | ||
| BUSN 651 | Healthcare Business Practice I: Foundations | 3.0 |
| BUSN 652 | Healthcare Business Practice II | 3.0 |
| BUSN 653 | Healthcare Business Practice III: Capstone | 3.0 |
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
| Finance Concentration | ||
| Required Courses | 6.0 | |
| Select two of the following: | ||
| Advanced Financial Management | ||
| Financial Institutions & Markets | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Investment Management | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Mergers and Acquisitions | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Seminar in Finance | ||
| Finance Electives | 3.0 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Legal Aspects of Employment | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Manufacturing Firms | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
| Marketing Concentration | ||
| Required Courses | 6.0 | |
| Select two of the following: | ||
| Buyer Behavior Theory | ||
| Channels of Distribution Management | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Integrated Marketing Communications Management | ||
| Business to Business Marketing | ||
| New Product Planning, Strategy, and Development | ||
| Services Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Marketing Information Management and Research | ||
| Electives | 3.0 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Seminar in International Business | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Database Analysis and Design for Business | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
| Entrepreneurship/Innovation Management Concentration | ||
| Required Courses | 6.0 | |
| Select two of the following: | ||
| Legal Aspects of Employment | ||
| Legal Issues in New Ventures | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Strategic Human Resource Management | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| E-Commerce Systems I | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Database Analysis and Design for Business | ||
| New Product Planning, Strategy, and Development | ||
| Electives | 3.0 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Macroeconomics | ||
| International Economics | ||
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Advanced Financial Management | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Mergers and Acquisitions | ||
| Business Conditions and Forecasting | ||
| International Financial Management | ||
| Comparative Financial Analysis | ||
| Economic Analysis of Multinational Corporations | ||
| Seminar in International Business | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| Buyer Behavior Theory | ||
| Channels of Distribution Management | ||
| Global Marketing | ||
| Integrated Marketing Communications Management | ||
| Services Marketing | ||
| Marketing Management Cases and Problems | ||
| Negotiations for Leaders | ||
| Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | ||
| Management of Manufacturing Firms | ||
| Management of Service Firms | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
BS /MBA students may be waived from two MBA Enterprise Management courses, assuming a grade of B or better is earned in specified undergraduate courses. Students can review the Waiver Policies for the Statement of Curriculum Standing on the LeBow College's website for additional information.
Facilities
Major advances in the technologies used in the corporate world are being constantly matched by upgrades on campus. LeBow College classrooms and seminar rooms are designed as professional-quality settings for student discussions and presentations.
Centers of Excellence are catalysts for research and innovation, think tanks for nationally significant trends and issues, and incubators for opportunities in business and integration among disciplines. LeBow's Centers of Excellence provide students with meaningful experiential learning and impact the performance of business in our region and around the world.
- Center for International Business and Economics
- Center for Corporate Governance
- Sovereign Institute for Strategic Leadership
- Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology
- Center for Research Excellence
- Center for Teaching Excellence
The LeBow Network sponsors forums, lectures and events. These events enhance the educational experience and provide opportunities for students to meet and interact with fellow professionals
Student organizations such as LeBow Graduate Student Association (LGSA) and Drexel Women in Business (DWIB) make the LeBow experience more comprehensive.
Leonard Pearlstein Business Learning Center
Housed in the Center for Corporate and Executive Education in the state-of-the-art Leonard Pearlstein Business Learning Center at 33rd and Market, the Executive MBA program is LeBow's accelerated and integrated program designed to enable experienced professionals to leverage valuable work experience to maximize their leadership potential.
Made possible by a generous gift from George Krall '58 and his wife, Lois, the Center features the latest in classroom decor and technology, flexibly designed to comfortably accommodate business professionals.
Thanks to the gracious generosity of Drexel Trustee Melba Pearlstein and her family, LeBow students now have the distinct advantage of learning the intricacies of business in an ultramodern facility that combines high technology classrooms with a sophisticated corporate learning environment.
The Pearlstein Center includes:
- State-of-the art classrooms, flexibly designed to comfortably accommodate executives in classroom instruction.
- A multi-purpose room for breakout sessions, buffet lunches, or an additional classroom.
- A workroom where students may send/receive faxes, photocopy materials, prepare and revise classroom assignments and presentations.
Interdepartmental Faculty
Marco Airaudo, PhD (University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia). Assistant Professor. Computational economics, international economics, macroeconomics and monetary economics.
Murugan Anandarajan, PhD (Drexel University) Department of Management, Management Information Systems. Professor. Individual Internet usage behavior (specifically abuse and addiction); Application of artificial intelligence techniques in forensic accounting and ophthalmology.
Rolph E. Anderson, PhD (University of Florida) Royal H. Gibson Sr. Professor of Marketing. Professor. Personal selling and sales management; multivariate data analysis; customer relationship management (CRM); customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
Trina Larsen Andras, PhD (University of Texas at Austin) Head of the Department of Marketing; Academic Director, Center for Corporate Research Management. Professor. International marketing, marketing channels management, cross-cultural communication.
Orakwue B. Arinze, PhD (London School of Economics) Department of Management, Management Information Systems. Professor. Client/Server computing; Enterprise Application Software (EAS)/Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP); knowledge-based and decision support applications in operations management.
Avijit Banerjee, PhD (The Ohio State University) Department of Decision Sciences, Production Operations Management. Professor. Supply chain management; operations planning and scheduling; inventory control.
Mary Bardes, PhD (University of Central Florida) Organizational Behavior. Assistant Professor. Client/server computing; Enterprise Application Software (EAS)/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); knowledge-basedand decision support applications in operations management.
David A. Becher, PhD (Pennsylvania State University) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financial institutions.
Hande Yurttan Benson, PhD (Princeton University) Department of Decision Sciences, Production Operations Management. Associate Professor. Nonlinear optimization, interior-point methods.
Jie Cai, PhD (University of Iowa) Department of Finance. Assistant Professor. Investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance.
Hsihui Chang, PhD (University of Minnesota) Department of Accounting and Tax, KPMG Endowed Chair and Department Head. Professor.
Hiu Lam Choy, PhD (University of Rochester) Department of Accounting and Tax. Assistant Professor. Financial accounting.
Roger D. Collons, JD, PhD (George Washington University; Georgia State University) Department of Legal Studies. Professor. Patent law, preservation of wealth.
Anthony P. Curatola, PhD (Texas A&M University) Joseph F. Ford Professor of Accounting. Professor. Federal and state income tax policy, retirement income taxation, fringe benefits taxation, educational savings and tax incentives, federal and state income tax research.
Mian Dai, PhD (Northwestern University). Assistant Professor. Managerial economics and strategy.
Naveen Daniel, PhD (Arizona State University). Assistant Professor. Corporate governance, mutual funds, hedge funds.
Donna Marie De Carolis, PhD (Temple University) Head of the Department of Management. Professor. Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries; entrepreneurship; technology & strategy; technology commercialization, strategic alliances; social capital.
Marcos DeArruda, MBA (Drexel University). Clinical Assistant Professor. E-business, corporate finance, derivatives, financial institution management.
Neil Desnoyers, MS (Drexel University). Assistant Clinical Professor. Decision sciences.
Daniel Dorn, PhD (Columbia University) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Capital markets and investments; behavioral finance.
Anne Duchene, PhD (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France) Department of Economics and International Business. Assistant Professor. Microeconomics, industrial organization, law and economics.
Larry Duke, MBA (Harvard Business School) Department of Marketing. Associate Clinical Professor. International marketing and strategy, new product development, business-to-business marketing, marketing of financial services.
Eliezer M. Fich, PhD (New York University) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Empirical topics in corporate finance.
Richard Paul Freedman, LLM (Temple University) Head of the Department of Legal Studies. Associate Professor. Taxation, corporate and business matters, real estate, estate planning, estate administration and elder law.
Jacqueline L. Garner, PhD (Georgia State University) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Investment banking, initial public offerings (IPOs) and corporate finance, and corporate governance.
David Gefen, PhD (Georgia State University) Department of Management, Management Information Systems. Associate Professor. Strategic IT management; IT development and implementation management; research methodology; managing the adoption of large IT systems, such as MRP II, ERP, and expert systems; research methodology.
Azi Gera, PhD (University of Maryland) Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Assistant Professor. Business planning, new venture performance and survival, social networking, cognition and strategy, determinants of firm performance, attention based view, business angles and VC firms, interfirm signaling, private equity investments.
Hubert Glover, PhD (Texas A&M University) Department of Accounting and Tax. Associate Clinical Professor. International financial reporting.
Michael Joseph Gombola, PhD (University of South Carolina) Head of the Department of Finance. Professor. Stock offerings and repurchases, mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring; working capital management, time series analysis; options and derivatives, financial statement analysis.
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, PhD (New York University) William A. Mackie Professor of Management. Professor. Career management, career decision making, work-family linkages, managing diversity,career and adult life development, organizational behavior/human resources, job design, models of work motivation and job attitudes, human resource staffing.
Barbara Murray Grein, PhD (Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina) Department of Accounting and Tax. Assistant Professor. Reprising of executive stock options; cost trade-offs in selecting a new auditor; financial reporting including impairment of assets, disclosures around seasoned equity offerings, and the interaction of financial reporting and corporate governance.
Shawkat M. Hammoudeh, PhD (University of Kansas) Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. Applied econometrics, financial economics, international economics, natural resource economics.
Teresa D. Harrison, PhD (University of Texas at Austin) Department of Economics and International Business. Associate Professor. Econometrics, public finance, industrial organization, empirical microeconomics including health and nonprofit organizations.
Mazhar Islam, PhD (University of Minnesota). Assistant Professor. New markets in emerging countries, alliances, corporate entrepreneurship, emerging countries, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, technological innovation, transaction cost economics.
Paul E. Jensen, PhD (Penn State University) Associate Dean, College of Business. Associate Professor. International trade. Primary research interest is international trade, particularly in empirical studies of international trade patterns.
Bang Nam Jeon, PhD (Indiana University) Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. Financial economics, world financial market linkages, foreign direct investment flows in the Asia-Pacific economies, the Korean economy: currency crisis, FDI, and macroeconomic issues, regional economic integration and newly industrializing economies: the
David Jones, AIA, M.Arch. (University of Pennsylvania). Adjunct Associate Professor. Principal, Ewing Cole Cherry Brott.
Stephen Joyce, MA (Temple University) Department of Economics and International Business. Assistant Clinical Professor. Education and human capital.
Robert W. Keidel, PhD (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). Visiting Associate Professor. Organization design and change, management of technology, strategic cognition.
Natalya V. Khimich, PhD (University of Califormia at Berkeley). Assistant Professor. Equity valuation, earnings quality, and accounting for innovation and intangible assets.
Seung-Lae Kim, PhD (Penn State University) Department of Decision Sciences, Production Operations Management. Associate Professor. Production planning and control; inventory control; Just-In-Time (JIT) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).
Stacy Kline, MBA (Temple University) Department of Accounting and Tax. Associate Clinical Professor. Individual, corporation; S corporation and partnership taxation.
Prabakar Kothandaraman, PhD (Pennsylvania State University) Department of Marketing. Associate Clinical Professor. Business-to-business marketing, buyer-seller relationships and marketing strategy.
Edward C. Koziara, PhD (University of Wisconsin) Department of Economics and International Business. Professor Emeritus. Applied micro and macro economics.
Amy Laura Kratchman, MBA (Drexel University) Department of Finance. Clinical Associate Professor. Portfolio management, specifically related to fixed income securities; investment management for pension and mutual fund companies, and fixed income securities.
Rosalie S. Kreider, JD (Villanova University) Department of Legal Studies. Clinical Professor. Business law, international business law.
Hyokjin Kwak, PhD (University of Georgia) Department of Marketing. Associate Professor. Advertising effects, consumer behaviors and e-commerce.
Robert E. Laessig, PhD (Cornell University). Professor Emeritus. Management systems integration.
Christopher A. Laincz, PhD (Duke University) Department of Economics and International Business. Associate Professor. Economic development, technological change, and growth, industrial organization, macroeconomics and monetary economics.
Nora L. Lee, PhD (Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Assistant Research Professor. Perinatal epidemiology; low birth weight; preterm birth; macrosomia; maternal and child health; second-hand smoke; environmental exposures; autism spectrum disorders; China.
Bijou Yang Lester, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. Behavioral characteristics of shopping on-line, economic issues of electronic commerce, contingent employment and part-time work, the economy and suicide.
Benjamin Lev, PhD (Case Western Reserve University) Department Head, Decision Sciences. Professor. Operations research/management science, statistics, applications, engineering management.
Merrill W. Liechty, PhD (Duke University) Department of Decision Sciences, Statistics. Associate Clinical Professor. Bayesian statistics, portfolio selection, higher moment estimation.
Frank Linnehan, PhD (Temple University) Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies. Associate Professor. Affirmative action; workforce diversity; equal employment; school-to-work transitions for younger workers. Research focuses on issues of race and diversity in the workplace.
Dali Ma, PhD (University of Chicago). Assistant Professor. Status dynamics, social networks, founding team formation; venture capital syndication; family business; Chinese private entrepreneurship.
Vibhas Madan, PhD (Michigan State University) Head of the Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. International trade theory, applied microeconomics.
Arunkumar Madapusi, PhD (University of North Texas Denton). Assistant Clinical Professor. Manufacturing technology development; quality management; supply chain management; interface with information systems.
Hazem Diab Maragah, PhD (Louisiana University) Department of Decision Sciences, Statistics. Associate Professor. Statistical quality control, total equity management, applied statistics.
Michele K. Masterfano, DBA (Argosy University of Sarasolta) Department of Management. Assistant Clinical Professor. Entrepreneurship/small business administration, business planning, social capital, social networking.
Roger A. McCain, PhD (Louisiana State University) Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. Computational economics, game theory.
Bruce D. McCullough, PhD (University of Texas) Department of Decision Sciences, Statistics. Professor. Applied econometrics; reliability of statistical and econometric software; business data mining.
Thomas P. McWilliams, PhD (Stanford University) Department of Decision Sciences, Statistics. Associate Professor. Statistical quality control; linear models; sequential analysis.
Suchet Nadkarni, PhD (University of Kansas). Associate Professor. Strategic management, cognition and strategy.
V. K. Narayanan, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) Stubbs Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean of Research, Department of Management. Professor. Corporate and business strategy; management of technology and innovation; strategy implementation; macro environmental analysis; knowledge management; competitor analysis and intelligence.
Pravin Nath, PhD (University of Texas at Austin). Assistant Professor. Marketing strategy, top management teams, marketing research and innovation.
Gordon Ndubizu, PhD (Temple University) Department of Accounting and Tax. Professor. Financial accounting.
Edward Nelling, PhD, CFA (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Investments; corporate finance; real estate finance.
Maria Olivero, PhD (Duke University) Department of Economics and International Business. Assistant Professor. Macroeconomics, international finance.
Eydis Olsen, MA (American University) Department of Economics and International Business. Clinical Associate Professor. Macroeconomics, political economy.
Neal Orkin, JD (Temple University) Department of Legal Studies. Associate Professor. Intellectual property rights of employed inventors and authors; labor relations.
Fariborz Y. Partovi, Ph.D. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Decision Sciences, Production Operations Management. Professor. The use of analytical hierarchy process and quality function deployment for strategic decisions in manufacturing and service organizations.
Girish Ramani, PhD (University of Connecticut). Assistant Professor. Customer relationship management (CRM), customer lifetime value, strategic orientation of firms, interactive marketing, marketing research, new product development and marketing strategy.
Bernhard Reichert, PhD, CPA (University of Texas at Austin) Department of Accounting and Tax. Assistant Professor. Behavioral research in accounting and experimental economics.
Christian Resick, PhD (Wayne State University). Assistant Professor. Linkages between CEO personality with organizational culture, climate, and effectiveness; cross-cultural studies of ethical leadership beliefs and behaviors; roles of team leadership and member personality in building shared cognition and effective teamwo
Patricia Robak, PhD (Lehigh University) Department of Finance. Clinical Associate Professor. Investments, money and banking, international finance.
Bert Rosenbloom, PhD (Temple University) Rauth Chair of Electronic Commerce. Professor. Marketing channels and distribution systems, electronic commerce, interorganizational marketing management, wholesale and retail distribution, marketing strategy and planning.
Raja Roy, PhD (University of Pittsburgh) Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Assistant Professor. Technology entrepreneurship, determinants of firm performance, technological change, technological innovation.
Diana Sandberg, MS (Drexel University) Department of Finance. Clinical Associate Professor. Portfolio management, derivatives, investment management.
Elliot Schreiber, PhD (Pennsylvania State University). Clinical Professor. Brand management, corporate reputation management.
Konstantinos Serfes, PhD (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) Department of Economics and International Business. Associate Professor. Industrial organization; microeconomics.
Wenjing Shen, PhD (University of Michigan) Production Operations Management. Assistant Professor. The interface of operations management and marketing; inventory management; supply chain management.
Steven R. Sher, JD (Georgetown University Law Center) Department of Legal Studies. Associate Professor. Business law, product liability, negligence, medical malpractice.
Milton Silver, PhD (Columbia University) Department of Management. Professor Emeritus. Strategic planning and control systems, analysis and design of information systems, and executive and management development and training.
David Sorin, JD (Fordham University School of Law). Instructor. Corporate and business law, including corporate governance; securities law;
financing matters, including public offerings, private equity and venture capital; mergers and acquisitions; licensing and technology transfer; entrepreneurial law.
Mark Stehr, PhD (University of California at Berkeley) Department of Economics and International Business. Associate Professor. Health Economics, public finance, public policy.
Rajneesh Suri, PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Department of Marketing. Associate Professor. Pricing, promotions and branding.
Srinivasan Swaminathan, PhD (University of Texas-Austin) Department of Marketing. Professor. Marketing research and strategy, pricing and promotions, loyalty and satisfaction.
Constantinos Syropoulos, PhD (Yale University) Trustee Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics and International Business. Professor. International trade, political economy, applied microeconomics.
Samuel H. Szewczyk, PhD (Pennsylvania State University) Department of Finance. Associate Professor. Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financial engineering, investment banking, financial institutions.
George Tsetsekos, PhD (The University of Tennessee) Dean, LeBow College of Business. Professor. Valuation and corporate restructuring, treasury and risk/hedging operations, investment banking, securitization, emerging capital markets, multinational finance, bank asset-liability management.
Daniel Tzabbar, PhD (University of Toronto) Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Assistant Professor. Business planning, social capital, technology entrepreneurship, alliances, human capital, innovation management, strategic management.
Mark Vargus, PhD (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Accounting and Tax. Clinical Associate Professor. Capital market research and executive compensation.
Andrew G. Verzilli, PhD (Boston College). Professor Emeritus. Teaching effectiveness in economics; economics and financial history.
Ralph Walkling, PhD (University of Maryland) Stratakis Professor of Corporate Governance, Department of Finance. Professor. Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions.
Min Wang, PhD (Columbia University) Production Operations Management, Department of Decision Sciences. Assistant Professor.
Joan Weiner, PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Management, Organizational Sciences. Professor. Business ethics, leadership, communication and decision making; educational innovation; health system management design.
Edward Werner, PhD (Arizona State University) Department of Accounting and Tax. Assistant Professor. Financial statement analysis; pension accounting; the value relevance of accounting information; accounting standard harmonization; the financial/tax accounting interface; tax policy
Jennifer Wright, MTA Master of Tax Accounting (Villanova University) Department of Accounting and Tax. Associate Clinical Professor.
Chiou-shuang Yan, PhD (Purdue University). Professor Emeritus. International economics, input-output analysis.
Yoto Yotov, PhD (Boston College). Assistant Professor. International trade, applied microeconomics, political economy.
Rong Zhao, PhD (University of Iowa). Assistant Professor. Financial accounting.
Jonathan C. Ziegert, PhD (University of Maryland) Department of Management, Organizational Behavior. Assistant Professor. Leadership; team dynamics; group performance; attraction and recruitment; discrimination.
