The College of Business and Economics has 56 full-time faculty members in two departments, business and economics. Ninety-eight percent hold doctoral degrees.

Excellent teaching is a hallmark of business education at Lehigh. Twenty-one current CBE faculty members have won Lehigh University teaching awards a total of 27 times.

They are J. Richard Aronson (2), D. Raymond Bainbridge, John W. Bonge, Stephen G. Buell (2), Colleen M. Callahan, Darlene C. Chisholm, Karen M. Collins, Frank R. Gunter (2), James E. Hansz, Thomas J. Hyclak, Jon T. Innes (2), Arthur E. King, James A. Largay III, Judith A. McDonald, George A. Nation, Anthony P. O'Brien, Warren A. Pillsbury, Manash R. Ray, Kenneth P. Sinclair (2) and Robert J. Thornton (2).

In addition to the full-time faculty, highly qualified adjunct professors enhance the educational experience by bringing their business experience into the classroom.

Vice-Provost & Dean of the College of Business & Economics.
B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Associate Dean & Director of the Undergraduate Program.
B.A., M.B.A., Gannon; D.B.A., Kent State.

Associate Dean & Director of the MBA Program.
B.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University.

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.

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.

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.

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Management and Technology and Director of the Center for Innovation Management Studies. B.A., Lake Forest College; M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Teaching areas: business policy; research and development management; design management. Research interests: contributions of industrial research and development to the competitive performance of firms and business units; interactions of Federal R&D laboratories with industrial R&D performers.

Professor 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.

Professor of Finance and Chair of the Department of Business. B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: corporation finance; applications of microcomputers; investments. Research interests: high-yield bonds; corporate bankruptcy.

Vice-Chair, Department of Economics, major advisor and curriculum director, Associate Professor of Economics. A.B., Miami University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Teaching areas: microeconomics; money and banking; international finance; economic history. Research areas: United States-Canada economic relations; monetary history; trade deficits and unemployment.

Assistant Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., University of Washington. Teaching areas: statistics; industrial organization; microeconomics; mathematical economics. Research interests: applied microeconomics; industrial organization; contract studies (in the motion picture industry).

Professor of Economics. B.A., George Washington University; M.B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Florida. Teaching areas: microeconomics; development; Latin American economics. Research interests: agrarian reform; import substitution; industrialization; commodity terms of trade.

Vice-Chair of Administration, Dept. of Business, 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).

Associate Professor of Economics. A.B., Muhlenberg College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; game theory. Research interests: negotiation; contracts; microeconomic theory.

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.

Lecturer in Marketing and Management. B.S., M.A., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: contemporary marketing, business management policies.

Chairperson, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Associate Professor of Marketing. B.A., Albion College; M.B.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Teaching areas: marketing strategy; marketing management; international marketing; marketing research. Research interests: overseas market-entry strategies; residential real estate markets; the aging consumer; marketing theory.

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.

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.

Professor of Economics. B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. Teaching areas: statistics; econometrics; health economics. Research interests: applied econometrics; comparative economics; economics of Central Europe.

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, & Director of Finance, 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.

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.

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.

Professor 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.

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, & Director of Marketing, 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.

Assistant 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.

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.

Assistant 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.

Chair, Dept. of Economics, 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

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, Director of Law, 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.

Associate 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.

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.

Associate Professor of Management. B.S., M.B.A., Northeastern University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: organization behavior; research methods in organization behavior. Research interests: organization change: scripts in organizations.

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.

Coopers & Lybrand 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.

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.

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, & Director of Information Systems, Associate Professor of Management. 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

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, & Director of Accounting, Coopers & Lybrand 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.

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.

Vice-Chair, Dept. of Business, & Director of Management, 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.

Associate 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.

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.

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.

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.

Assistant 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.

Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., East Carolina University; M.S., Texas Tech University; Ph.D., University of South Carolina. Teaching areas: income taxation; financial accounting. Research interests: tax policy; effect of tax legislation.

Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., Prof. of Business and Economics. 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.

Instructor of Economics. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P., Harvard University. Teaching areas: statistics and econometrics; managerial economics. Research interests: technology and industrial policy; economics and management of innovation; defense conversion.

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.