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FACULTY
 Our
faculty members focus on the common goal of outstanding business and economics
education and research. We engage our undergraduate and graduate students
in small classroom settings, use innovative teaching methods, and have
close research relationships with our graduate students. We emphasize
applied research and publish papers in the top academic journals in our
fields. Our focus on both our students and our research means a first-rate
education for our students.
Each faculty name will soon be linked to a faculty profile designed to
provide a concise overview of the faculty member and his/her interests.
The publications noted are representative of portions of a longer-term
research program; working paper titles are indicative of the current research
agenda.
The faculty members indicated by an * have their own homepages, which
can be accessed through the links sections of their faculty profiles.
ADMINISTRATION
Richard M. Durand: rmd6@lehigh.edu
Herbert E. Ehlers Dean of the College of Business & Economics B.A.,
M.B.A, Ph.D., University of Florida
Arthur E. King: aek0@lehigh.edu
Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University
Therese A. Maskulka : tam0@lehigh.edu
Associate Dean & Director of the Undergraduate Program
B.A., M.B.A., Gannon; D.B.A., Kent State
Kathleen A. Trexler : kat3@lehigh.edu
Associate Dean & Director of the MBA Program
B.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University
ALPHABETICAL LISTING
A B C D
E F G H I
J K L M N
O P Q R S
T U V W X Y Z
FACULTY
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.
D. Raymond Bainbridge, CPA : drb0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.S., Rider College; M.S., Ph.D.,
Lehigh University. Teaching areas: financial accounting; taxes. Research
interests: accounting and auditing issues associated with small business.
Richard W. Barsness - - rwb0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Management. B.S., M.A., M.A.P.A., Ph.D., University of
Minnesota. Teaching areas: business history; social and political environment
of business; international business. Research interests: international
business; transportation policy.
John W. Bonge - jwb3@lehigh.edu
Professor Emeritus of Management and Director of the Musser Center
for Entrepreneurship. B.S.E., Princeton University; M.B.A., Ph.D., Northwestern
University. Teaching areas: entrepreneurship; organization design and
change; management consulting; business policy. Research interests:
management consulting; entrepreneurship.
William D. Brown - wdb2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.B.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.
Teaching areas: financial accounting; business analysis and valuation;
managerial accounting and decision-making; fnancial statement analysis.
Research interests: asset pricing and the incorporation of analysts'
expectations into share prices; asset-pricing anomalies related to biased
expectations of growth; the economics of analysts' coverage decisions.
Stephen G. Buell - sgb2@lehigh.edu
Professor of Finance. B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching
areas: corporation finance; applications of microcomputers; investments.
Research interests: high-yield bonds; corporate bankruptcy.
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).
Joanne Connors - joc7@lehigh.edu
Lecturer, Department of Management & Marketing. M.B.A. LaSalle
University.
Thomas G. Costello - tgc2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Marketing. Ph.D. Illinois
James A. Dearden
- jad8@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. A.B., Muhlenberg College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
State University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; game theory. Research
interests: negotiation; contracts; microeconomic theory.
Mary E. Deily - med4@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Maryland; M.A.,
Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; industrial
organization; statistics. Research interests: steel industry and other
declining industries; government regulation of business.
Dale F. Falcinelli - dff0@lehigh.edu
Professor of Practice, Department of Marketing and Management. B.S.,
M.A., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: contemporary marketing, business
management policies.
Neville Francis - nef2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics. B.S., M.A., University of the West
Indies, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Teaching and Research
areas: macroeconomics, applied econometrics, labor economics.
James A. Greenleaf - jag2@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Finance & Law, 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
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.Com. (Honors), LL.B., University
of Delhi; M.B.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
University. Teaching areas: financial accounting; international accounting;
internal auditing. Research interests: contingency theory models and
auditing; auditor performance evaluation practices; international accounting
and auditing; total quality management and internal auditing.
James A. Hall - jah02lehigh.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.
Sangphet Hanvanich -
Assistant Professor, Department of Management & Marketing. Ph.D.
Michigan State. Teaching interests: Marketing Management & Marketing
Strategy. Research areas: Marketing Management, Marketing Strategy,
Marketing Knowledge Management, International Marketing and International
Business.
Thomas J. Hyclak - tjh7@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Economics, 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.
Jon T. Innes - jti1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Economics. B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Oregon. Teaching areas: macroeconomic theory; monetary
and fiscal policy; statistics. Research interests: history of U.S. monetary
policy with special emphasis on the evolution of Federal Reserve strategy.
Richard J. Kish - rjk7@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Finance. B.S., Clarion University; M.B.A, Ph.D.,
University of Florida. Teaching area: financial management. Research
interests: fixed-income securities; efficient markets; international
mergers.
Ned Kock -
Associate Professor Business Information Systems. BEE in Electronics
Engineering from Federal Center of Technology Education at Curita, MSc
in Computer Science from the Institute of Aeronautical Technology, both
in Brazil. Ph.D., University of Waikato, New Zealand. Teaching interests:
business process redesign, database management, e-collaboration, programming,
systems analysis & design and telecommunications and networks. Research
interests: action research, business process redesign, e-communication,
and information technology education.
Michael G. Kolchin, CPM - mgk1@lehigh.edu
Chair, Department of Management and Marketing, 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.
Robert Kuchta - rok8@leigh.edu
Professor of Practice. B.S., Newark College of Engineering; M.S. New
Jersey Institute of Technology. Teaching areas: principles of marketing;
integrated marketing communications; business-to-business marketing.
Research interests: the long term effects on the 1% population base
of prolonged exposure to V-Twin mechanical rotations adjusted for speed,
time, and distance.
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.
Lucinda Lawson - lul2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Management. Ph.D. Texas A&M
John Li - jql2@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Harbin Technological University;
MBA, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing); Ph.D.,
Washington University Olin School of Business. Teaching areas: financial
accounting. Research interests: earning characteristics and information
content studies; voluntary disclosures; analyst forecasts.
Stephen L. Liedtka - sll7@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., M.S., University of Virginia;
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park. Teaching areas: taxation;
managerial accounting; auditing; business research. Research interests:
taxation; managerial accounting; auditing; corporate performance measurement
and decision making.
Benjamin Litt - bl02@lehigh.edu
Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Management of Technology.
B.M.E., Brooklyn Polytechnic University; M.S., Stevens Institute of
Technology; M.B.A., Ph.D., New York University. Teaching area: organizational
and group behavior with emphasis on role of values and ethics in effective
organizations. Research interests: leading and managing high-technology
project teams; communicating across cultures.
James M. Maskulka - jmm1@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Marketing. B.S., M.B.A., Youngstown State University;
D.B.A., Kent State University. Teaching areas: international marketing;
advertising management; marketing management. Research interests: marketing
communications; interactive marketing; branding strategy; exchange relationships.
Judith A. McDonald - djm0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Western Ontario;
Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching areas: macroeconomics; international
trade; international finance; monetary economics. Research areas: United
States-Canada economic relations; external debt and tropical deforestation
issues; interest rates (in open economies); international portfolio
diversification.
John R. McNamara - njm1@lehigh.edu
Iacocca Professor of Business and Economics. B.A., Columbia University;
M.S., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teaching areas: managerial
economics; energy economics; microeconomic theory. Research interests:
optimization applications; managerial economics; economics of technological
change.
Matthew A. Melone, CPA - mam9@lehigh.edu
Associate 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.
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.
George A. Nation III - gan0@lehigh.edu
Associate 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; microeconomics.
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.
Manash R. Ray - mrr0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.Com., University of Calcutta;
M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
State University. Teaching areas: managerial accounting and decision-making;
advanced cost management; activity-based costing. Research interests:
management control systems; activity-based management; total quality
management; judgment research in accounting; international accounting.
James E. Rebele - jer8@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.
Teaching areas: auditing; financial accounting. Research interests:
auditor decision-making and information-utilization; the causal nature
of environmental and organizational variables with respect to auditor
job-satisfaction and performance.
Catherine M. Ridings - cmr4@lehigh.edu
Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems. PhD. from Drexel
University. Teaching areas are the management of information in organizations,
e-commerce, and virtual communities. Research interests are virtual
communities, trust, knowledge management, and software development and
adoption.
Michael D. Santoro - mds8@lehigh.edu
Assistant 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 sources of 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
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Management and Technology. 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
Chair, Department of Accounting, 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 - kasg@lehigh.edu
Arthur Tauck Professor of International Marketing and Logistics &
Associate Professor of Marketing. BE (Mech. Eng.), University of Madras,
India, 1980; PGDRM, Institute of Rural Management, India, 1982; Ph.D.
(Marketing), Syracuse University, 1992. Areas of interest: Pricing,
Global Marketing, Innovation Management.
Bruce M. Smackey -
bms1@lehigh.edu
Professor of Marketing and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. B.S.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.S., Case Institute of Technology;
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teaching areas: new product
planning; industrial marketing; manufacturing systems engineering. Research
interests: technology commercialization and international patent law;
marketing of electric vehicles; use of activity-based costing in manufacturing;
health-care management.
John E. Stevens - jesa@lehigh.edu
Professor of Management. B.S., M.B.A., University of Dayton; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Teaching areas: business policy and
strategy; small business management. Research interests: organizational
development and leadership.
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
modelling; qualitative dependent variable.
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.
J. Roi Thomas - jrt3@lehigh.edu
Instructor of Economics. B.A., Princeton University; M.B.A., Stanford
Unviersity; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Teaching areas:
monetray economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, managerial
economics (operations research, decision theory, corporate finance).
Research areas: monetary theory, macroeconomics.
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.
Richard J. Titus, Jr.- rjt4@lehigh.edu
Lecturer, Management & Marketing Department. BSIE, MSMSE, Lehigh
Unversity. Teaching areas: operations management, six sigma total quality,
organizational behavior, transportation and logistics - has taught database
design as adjunct in Industrial Engineering Department. Research interests:
Supply Chain Management and Total Quality.
Robert J. Trent - rjt2@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of 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.
Vasconsellos - gmv0@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Finance. B.S., Military Academy of Agulhas Negras,
Brazil; B.S., State University of Rio de Janeiro; M.S., Fed. University
of Rio de Janeiro; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois. Teaching areas:
international finance; financial markets and institutions; corporate
finance. Research interests: cross-border mergers and acquisitions;
portfolio approach to export-diversification strategy; foreign direct
investment; decision-making in financial institutions.
Todd A. Watkins
- taw4@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Economics. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P.,
PhD, Harvard University. Teaching areas: statistics and econometrics;
managerial economics. Research interests: technology and industrial
policy; economics and management of innovation; defense conversion.
Wenlong Weng
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.
Perry A. Zirkel - paz0@lehigh.edu
University Professor of Education and Law. Ph.D., J.D., University
of Connecticut; LL.M., Yale University. Teaching area: law. Research
interests: legal issues in education, labor law, arbitration.
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