College of Business

Faculty Listing

Faculty

Jenny Apriesnig

Jenny Apriesnig

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business
  • Director of MS in Applied Natural Resource Economics

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 economic modeling
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
Mari Buche

Mari W. Buche

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

Links of Interest

Book an Appointment

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
  • 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 Connolly

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Labor Economics
  • Economic Decision Analysis
  • Microeconomic Theory 

Research Interests

  • Labor and Demographic Economics
  • Public Policy
  • Applied Microeconomics 
  • Regional Economic Analysis
Jun Dai

Jun Dai

  • Assistant Professor of Accounting Information Systems, College of Business
  • Richard and Joyce Ten Haken Faculty Fellow in Accounting/Finance

Teaching Interests

  • Accounting Systems
  • Accounting Analytical Methods
  • Business Database Management
Jodie Dompier

Jodie Dompier

  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting Information Systems, College of Business

Teaching Interest

  • Governmental Accounting
  • Information Systems
  • Local Government Financial Reporting
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
Ann Hardin

Ann Hardin

  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interest

  • Principles of Micro(Macro) Economics
  • Intermediate Micro(Macro) Economics
  • International Economics
  • Developmental Economics
  • Conflict Economics
  • Mathematical Economics

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Conflict and Developmental Economics
  • Economic Impact of organizations during conflicts
  • Differences in outcome between organizations providing humanitarian aide
  • Property rights during conflicts over resources.
M. Steven Holloway

M. Steven Holloway

  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, College of Business

Teaching Interests:

  • Market Failures and the Environment
  • Principles of Economics
  • Economic Decision Analysis

Research Interests:

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Inequality
  • Intertemporal decision making
Soonkwan Hong

Soonkwan Hong

  • Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Business
  • IPEC Associate Director

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 APMP Professor, College of Business
  • Director of Applied Portfolio Management Program

Teaching Interests

  • Applied Portfolio Management
  • Investments
  • Derivative Securities

Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing
  • Portfolio Management
Seulchan Lee

Seulchan Lee

  • Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Teaching Interests

  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management

Research Interests

  • Sustainable Operations
  • Retail Operations
  • Energy Operations
Jonathan Leinonen

Jonathan Leinonen

  • Assistant Dean and Teaching Professor in Management
  • Director, Husky Innovate

Teaching

  • Business Development
  • Economics Development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • 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
Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller

  • Program Chair, Construction Management
  • Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Faculty, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Construction Management
Junhong Min

Junhong Min

  • Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Business
  • Richard and Joyce Ten Haken Faculty Fellow in 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
Giridhar Reddy Bojja

Giridhar Reddy Bojja

  • Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Analytics

Teaching Interests

  • Business Analytics (ML,DL, and Text Mining)
  • Generative AI
  • Management Science
  • Social Network Analysis

Research Interests

  • IS Capabilities and Firm Performance
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Econometrics
  • Design Science Research
Ulrich Schmelzle

Ulrich Schmelzle

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

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain-Driven Innovation
  • Purchasing Decision-Making
  • Interorganizational Integration
  • Supply Chain Resource Orchestration
Laura Sieders

Laura J. Sieders

  • Assistant Teaching Professor in Accounting
  • Edward and Betty Robinson Faculty Fellow in Accounting
  • Director of MS in Accounting Program

Teaching Interests

  • Intermediate Accounting and Auditing
  • Managerial Accounting
Kerri Sleeman

Kerri A. Sleeman

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

Teaching Interests

  • Sustainable Construction
  • Project Management
  • Construction Accounting
Heather Sorcha

Heather Sorcha

  • Associate Professor, College of Business

Teaching Interests

• Derivatives & Financial Engineering
• FinTech Foundations
• Global Finance
• Investment Analysis
• Principles of Finance

Links of Interest

Google Scholar

ResearchGate

Research Interests

• FinTech
• Insider Trading
• Investor Attention
• Market Efficiency

Manish Srivastava

Manish K. Srivastava

  • 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
Jeffrey Wall

Jeffrey Wall

  • Associate Professor of Management Information Systems & Analytics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Business Process Automation
  • AI and Machine Learning for Business
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Programming for Business Analytics

Research Interests

  • AI and Machine Learning for Finance/Accounting
  • Simplification of AI Workflows
  • Information Security Behavior
  • Power and Control
Roger Woods

Roger Woods

  • 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
Bo Xiao

Bo Xiao

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

Links of Interest

Teaching Experience

  • Advanced technologies in construction (e.g., BIM)
  • Project management
  • Construction methods
  • Structural analysis

Research Interests

  • Construction informatics
  • Computer vision-based site monitoring
  • Construction robotics
  • Natural language processing in construction
  • Blockchain-enabled contract management
  • Cybersecurity in construction management