College of Business

Faculty Listing

Faculty

Jenny Apriesnig

Jenny Apriesnig

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Principles of Economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Research Interests

  • Coupled human and environmental systems
  • Fishery economics and management
  • Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
  • Regional Natural Resource Economic Modeling 
Lynn Artman, PE

Lynn A. Artman, PE

  • Professor of Practice, Construction Management
  • Program Chair, Construction Management

Research Interests

  • Risk Management
  • Construction Contracts and Law
  • Green building design—LEED
  • Lean construction
  • Energy efficiency

Teaching Interests

  • Construction contracts
  • Construction finance and accounting
  • Construction project management
  • Alternative delivery methods
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Estimating
Elham Asgari

Elham Asgari

  • Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, College of Business
  • Charles C. and John G. Gates Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Teaching Interest

  •  Entrepreneurship
  • Strategic Management
  • Human Resources Management

Research Interests

  •  Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • Technological Innovations
  • Star Employees
  • Small Satellite Industry
William Breffle

William S. Breffle

  • Associate Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Environmental economics
  • International economics
  • Mathematical economics
  • Principles of economics

Research Interests

  • Non-market valuation
  • Discrete choice modeling
  • Benefit-cost analysis
  • Environmental sustainability
Mari Buche

Mari W. Buche

  • Associate Dean, College of Business
  • Professor of Management Information Systems, College of Business
  • Affiliated Professor, Data Science

Teaching Interests

  • Information Systems/Technology Management
  • IT Project Management
  • Business Intelligence
  • User-Centered Design 

Research Interests

  • Impact of IS/IT change on end users
  • Management of IS/IT workers
  • Computer Anxiety and Computer Self-Efficacy
  • Mentoring using Information Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Various de facto Standards (i.e. Information Technology Infrastructure Library – ITIL)
Gary Campbell

Gary A. Campbell

  • Professor of Natural Resource Economics, College of Business
  • Director of MS in Applied Natural Resource Economics
  • Affiliate Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Teaching Interests

  • Natural Resource Economics
  • Principles of Economics
  • International Economics

Specialties

  • Metal markets
  • Sustainability of mining
  • Social decision-making about resource use
Laura Connolly

Laura E. Connolly

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Labor Economics
  • Economic Decision Analysis
  • Microeconomic Theory 

Research Interests

  • Labor Economics
  • Economics of Gender
  • Public Policy
  • Applied Microeconomics 
Jun Dai

Jun Dai

  • Assistant Professor of Accounting, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Accounting Systems
  • Accounting Analytical Methods
  • Business Database Management
Ricardo Eiris

Ricardo Eiris

  • Assistant Professor, Construction Management
  • Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Faculty, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Technology Applications in Construction
  • Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Construction Safety
  • Building Utilities (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) 

Research Interests

  • Human-Technology Interaction
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • Building Information Modeling
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems/Vehicles (UASs/UAVs)
  • Cyberlearning 
Sonia Goltz

Sonia Goltz

  • Professor of Organizational Behavior, College of Business
  • Mickus Endowed Faculty Fellow in Business Impact

Teaching Interests

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Organizational Change

Research Interests

  • Organizational change
  • Organizational discrimination and justice processes
  • Social power
  • Entrepreneurial coping with stress
Soonkwan Hong

Soonkwan Hong

  • Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Consumer behavior
  • Global Marketing
  • Branding
  • Marketing ethics and Sustainability

Research Interests

  • The polysemic nature of consumer-market dynamics in association with (pop)culture, technology, and institutions as key drivers of varied manifestations of consumer identity.
  • Consumers as self-emancipating and self-contradicting agents in the market
  • Sustainable lifestyles.
  • Postcolonialism and globalization
  • Alternative food systems and cultures
  • Algorithmic consumer culture
Robert Hutchinson

Robert Hutchinson

  • Professor of Accounting, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Managerial accounting
  • Cost accounting

Research Interests

  • Cost accounting system design
  • Transfer pricing
  • Industrial dynamics
  • Simulations
  • Semiotics
Dean Johnson

Dean Johnson

  • Dean, College of Business
  • James and Dolores Trethewey Professor, College of Business
  • Director of Applied Portfolio Management Program

Teaching Interests

  • Applied Portfolio Management
  • Investments
  • Derivative Securities

Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing
  • Portfolio Management
Jonathan Leinonen

Jonathan Leinonen

  • Teaching Professor in Management, College of Business
  • Faculty Advisor, Enterprise Business Initiative

Teaching

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business Development
  • Economics Development
  • Management Information Systems
Xin Li

Xin Li

  • Assistant Professor of Finance

Teaching Interests:

  • Asset Pricing
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investment
  • Fixed Income
  • Risk Management

Research Interests:

  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Bond Pricing
  • Institutional Investments
  • Fintech
  • Market Microstructure
Thomas Merz

Thomas E. Merz

  • Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Game theory
  • Public sector economics
  • Microeconomic theory

Research Interests

  • Game theory
  • Public sector economics
  • Microeconomic theory
Sheila Milligan

Sheila Milligan

  • Associate Teaching Professor in Accounting, College of Business
  • Richard and Joyce Ten Haken Faculty Fellow in Accounting/Finance

Teaching Interests

  • Financial accounting
  • Fraud accounting
  • Managerial accounting

Research Interests

  • Enterprise research projects
  • Fraud management
  • Student education
Junhong Min

Junhong Min

  • Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Marketing Principles and Management
  • Marketing Data Analytics
  • Personal Selling and Sales Technology
  • B2B Digital Marketing
  • Social Media Marketing

Links of Interest

Marketing Lab

Research Interests

  • Relationship Governance Value Analysis
  • Unstructured Data Analysis
  • Brand strategy and Consumer's digital experiences
  • Behavioral Economics
Josue Reynoso

Josue Reynoso

  • Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, College of Business

Teaching Interest

  • Technology Entrepreneurship

  • Innovation Management

  • Corporate Entrepreneurship

  • Commercialization of Advanced Technologies

Research Interests

  • Opportunity Identification

  • Innovation Management

  • Industry Dynamics

  • Problem Solving

  • Complexity Theory

Ulrich Schmelzle

Ulrich Schmelzle

  • Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, College of Business
  • Affiliated Professor, Construction Management

Teaching Interests

  • Operations Management
  • Purchasing and Supply Management
  • Logistics Management

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain-Driven Innovation
  • Purchasing Decision-Making
  • Interorganizational Integration
  • Supply Chain Resource Orchestration
Tripti Singh

Tripti Singh

  • Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS), College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Information Security and Privacy
  • Database Design
  • Information systems/Technology Mgt.
  • IT Based Project Management

Research Interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Healthcare Information Systems
  • Information privacy
Heather Sorcha

Heather Sorcha

  • Associate Professor, College of Business
Manish Srivastava

Manish K. Srivastava

  • Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation, College of Business
  • David L and Marilyn A Bernard Faculty Fellow in Business

Teaching Interests

  • Strategic Management
  • International Management
  • Technology Management

Research Interests

  • Interfirm alliances and networks
  • Technological innovations
  • Semiconductor and Nanotechnology industries
Joel Tuoriniemi

Joel C. Tuoriniemi

  • Professor of Practice in Accounting, College of Business
  • Director of MS in Accounting Program
  • Ed and Betty Robinson Accounting Fellow

Teaching Interests

  • Taxation
  • Accounting
  • Legal Environment of Business

Research Interests

  • Equitable Relief in Tax Disputes
  • SFAS 142 Goodwill Impairments
  • Reasonableness Determinations in Contract Interpretation
  • Inequality of Bargaining Power
Jeffrey Wall

Jeffrey Wall

  • Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, College of Business
  • Richard and Joyce Ten Haken Faculty Fellow in Business

Teaching Interests

  • Business Process Analysis
  • AI and machine learning for business
  • Information Security
  • Systems analysis and design

Research Interests

  • Information security behavior
  • Power and control
  • Individual and organizational deviance
  • Business applications for AI and machine learning
Roger Woods

Roger Woods

  • Associate Teaching Professor in Operations Management, College of Business
  • Affiliated Senior Lecturer, Construction Management

Teaching Interests

  • Decision Making

Research Interests

Applying classroom concepts to real-world examples

Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira

Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira

  • Associate Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary Theory and Policy
  • International Economics
  • Economic Decision Analysis

Research Interests

  • Barriers to technological adoption
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Institutions and regulation
  • Informal economy
  • Growth and development