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A. Joseph Warburton

Sawyer Kamman — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:54:21 +0000

Professor Warburton researches corporate finance, financial regulation, mutual funds, and bankruptcy. His research is largely empirical, and focuses on areas where finance and law intersect. He has published his research in leading journals in finance and law. Warburton’s research has attracted significant outside funding, including major research grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the World Bank. He teaches courses in financial management, corporate financing transactions, and commercial transactions, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to his academic career, he was a banking and finance attorney. In addition to his position at the Whitman School, Warburton also holds an appointment at ��ϲ��’s College of Law.

Robert G. Nassau

Sawyer Kamman — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:21:59 +0000

Professor Nassau joined the College of Law faculty as an adjunct instructor in 1994, and became Professor of Practice in 2009. He has taught tax courses since 1994, and has directed the since its founding in 2002.

He has also taught tax courses at Yale Law School, St. John Fisher College, and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. He presently provides consulting tax counsel for the firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, L.L.P., in Rochester, New York. After law school, he worked for five years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, in New York City. Professor Nassau received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Yale in 1981 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1986.

Peter Koveos

Daryl Lovell — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:13:58 +0000

Professor Koveos teaches a range of courses in finance, international business, and global entrepreneurship. He is interested in exploring international financial market behavior, especially as it pertains to economic systems in transition. His current work is on the theory and practice of financial system reform. Much of his research is focused on Asia in general, and China and Shanghai in particular. Koveos is editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, housed in the Whitman School.

Joel Carnevale

Ellen Mbuqe — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:51:35 +0000

Joel Carnevale is an assistant professor of management at ��ϲ��’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Primarily interested in the impact of leadership on employee work behavior, his current research focuses on leader narcissism, workplace envy, and employee voice and creativity.

Carnevale’s current teaching interests are in the areas of organizational behavior, business ethics, leadership, and general management topics. He currently teaches courses on foundations of management.

His research articles have appeared in several notable academic journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Business Research, and Applied Psychology: An International Review. In addition, his work has appeared in popular media outlets including , Entrepreneur, and TIME. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Business Research.

He earned a B.S. in economics and MBA from Radford University in Radford, Virginia, and a Ph.D. in management, focused on organizational studies, strategy and change from the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University.

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Lynne Vincent

Lily Datz — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:11:33 +0000

Lynne Vincent is an Assistant Professor of Management at the M.J. Whitman School of Management at ��ϲ��. Professor Vincent teaches undergraduate management classes at Whitman.

Vincent’s research examines the moral and social implications of creativity. In contrast to the status quo view of creativity as inherently positive, she investigates the potential dark side and the unexpected consequences of creativity. Her research reveals that creativity and the perception of creativity influences decisions to engage in dishonest behaviors, how people handle negative experiences and even how people judge others. These processes affect how organizations encourage creativity, how organizations design jobs and how hiring decisions are made.

Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and Psychological Science.

Vincent earned her B.S. in industrial and labor relations and her M.S. and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell University.

Rong Li

Lily Datz — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:51:35 +0000

Rong Li is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at ��ϲ��. Professor Li specializes in supply chain risk management, integrated risk management, and inventory management with learning from real-time information.

Dr. Li’s research in supply chain risk management involves theoretical and data-driven modeling, aiming to help managers better face different types of risk with available risk management tools.

She has coedited the first handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains. Her research works have been published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, etc. One of her papers was among the top 20 most cited articles of all time (IIE Transactions, as of June 2015); another paper was a finalist for the best paper award in the supply chain and logistics track of ISERC.

Dr. Li received a B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Ray Wimer

Daryl Lovell — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:21:12 +0000

Professor Wimer’s teaching interests include Personal Selling, Perspectives on Business and Management, and Principles of Marketing.

Anna Chernobai

Kerri D. Howell — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:28:59 +0000

Anna Chernobai is an Associate Professor of Finance at the M.J. Whitman School of Management at ��ϲ��. The focus of her research is operational risk, default risk, stochastic processes, and applied statistics and probability. Dr. Chernobai’s teaching experience includes undergraduate and MBA courses, and PhD seminars in the areas of risk management, business statistics, and stochastic processes.

She has published in top finance and related journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and Real Estate Economics. She is also an author of the book “Operational Risk: A Guide to Basel II Capital Requirements, Models, and Analysis” published by Wiley Finance in 2007.

In 2008, she won a selective FDIC research fellowship for her research on operational risk in financial institutions. In 2009, she collaborated with JP Morgan Chase and served as a ��ϲ�� – JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Fellow. Also in 2009, her work in the area of operational risk received recognition from the industry and she was selected as one of the “Top 50 Faces of Operational Risk.”

In 2010, she received a university-wide Meredith Teaching Recognition Award from ��ϲ��, and in 2012 she was awarded with Guttag Junior Faculty Award from the Whitman School of Management.

Patrick Penfield

Kerri D. Howell — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:53:51 +0000

Professor Penfield is a professor of supply chain practice whose research focuses on green supply chain, manufacturing, warehousing, 21st century supply chain management, purchasing, strategic sourcing and negotiations and Six Sigma. He also serves as the director of the executive education program at the Whitman School. Prior to entering academia, he was the vice president of operations for a local manufacturing company and has more than 15 years of experience in supply chain management, working with Johnson & Johnson, Philips Electronics, and The Raymond/Toyota Corporation.
During the pandemic, reporters from national and international news organizations have found Prof. Penfield to be a trusted source for information pertaining to supply chain issues impacting every aspect of daily life. Prof. Penfield has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, and has been quoted by numerous news outlets and agencies.

Michel Benaroch

Kerri D. Howell — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:55:55 +0000

Professor Benaroch is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Management Information Systems at the Whitman School of Management. Professor Benaroch’s research addresses issues concerning the economics of IT investment, IT investment risk, ontology-centered knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence applications in finance. He has published extensively in information systems and computer science journals, including MIS Quarterly,��Information Systems Research,��Journal of MIS,��IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering,��International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. He was ranked #26 (out of top-100 researchers worldwide) who published in top Information Systems journals (MISQ, ISR, JMIS,��Ի��JAIS) during 1999-2011.

While at Whitman, Professor Benaroch has taught courses on customer relationship management analytics, management of information technology (IT), IT and Electronic Commerce, decision-support and data mining technologies, and database management. He has also taught at the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), New York University, and the University of Rochester.

Johan Wiklund

Kerri D. Howell — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:52:41 +0000

Johan Wiklund is the Al Berg Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman School of Management, ��ϲ��, USA and professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Nordland University, Norway. His research interests include entrepreneurship and mental health as well as the performance, growth, exit, and failure of entrepreneurial firms. He is considered a leading authority in entrepreneurship research with over 50 articles appearing in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. He is editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and previously editor for Journal of Business Venturing and Small Business Economics. Wiklund has conducted research for European governments and the OECD and was a board member of the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. A prolific advisor of Ph.D. students, he received the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Mentor Award in 2011.

John Petosa

Kerri D. Howell — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:48:01 +0000

John J. Petosa, ’95 JD, is a licensed CPA and attorney who currently serves as the CFO and general counsel of a food distributor in ��ϲ��. He has a private accounting and legal practice that focuses on tax preparation, tax representation before the IRS and New York state, real estate law, business law and estates and trusts. Petosa is also a member of the board of directors of Geddes Federal Savings and Loan Association, a local bank.

Petosa’s emphasis is on teaching accounting, however he also instructs various entrepreneurial classes which leverage his diverse and varied professional experiences. He is a member of numerous local and national professional associations and has been active on various local community boards. Petosa graduated with bachelor’s degrees in both accounting and economics from Boston College in 1983.

Maria Minniti

Kerri D. Howell — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:44:19 +0000

Minniti is the Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and serves as director of the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society.

Her primary research interests include entrepreneurship and economic growth, institutions, government and organizational emergence.

Prior to joining the Whitman School, Minniti was professor and Bobby B. Lyle Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Minniti has previously taught at Babson College, Skidmore College and New York University, and has held visiting positions at the London Business School, the Max Planck Institute, Humboldt University, and the Copenhagen Business School.

Since 2015, Minniti is also Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.

MaryAnn Monforte

Ellen Mbuqe — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:25:20 +0000

Professor Monforte’s areas of expertise is focused is on financial health for people at all stages of their lives and store credit cards. Additionally her vast industry experience has also given her expert insight on technology marketing and sales, software applications and their impact on business, the dot-com bust, going public with companies, the emergence of web-based applications, bankruptcy, and reorganization under Chapter 11.

Alexander McKelvie

Ellen Mbuqe — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:13:38 +0000

Alex McKelvie is Interim Dean at the Whitman School of Management. Prior to that appointment, he was Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Education for four years. In that role, he led Whitman’s efforts to create new partnerships with other schools across the ��ϲ�� campus, offer innovative and impactful learning experiences for students, diversify the student body and grow new programs. These efforts led to record high rankings for Whitman’s undergraduate and MBA programs, among other positive outcomes.
Prior to his role as associate dean, he was the Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises (EEE). During his term as Chair, the EEE program experienced a period of growth and innovation. The program received national and international recognition for excellence in research and educational programming as well.

Since his arrival at ��ϲ�� in 2007, McKelvie has taught a broad array of courses dealing with different aspects of entrepreneurship, including strategic planning, growth, new venture development, family business, and corporate entrepreneurship. He has also taken a leading role in developing and teaching world-class programs, including designing new courses and training programs for ��ϲ��’s Institute for Veteran and Military Families.

McKelvie has received teaching awards from ��ϲ��, the Whitman School of Management, the EEE department, and his former university in Sweden. In 2020, he was named a Justin Longenecker Fellow from USASBE, the highest honor they provide for contributions to support SMEs. He has worked with many entrepreneurial startups across the US, Sweden, and other places around the world.

His research deals with questions regarding two main areas: how and why do firms grow and how do entrepreneurs make decisions with an emphasis on factors such as opportunities, dealing with uncertainty, effectuation, failure, and addiction. McKelvie’s research has received a number of major international awards, including the best doctoral dissertation in entrepreneurship from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and multiple awards at leading entrepreneurship conferences. McKelvie has published his work in the most influential entrepreneurship journals and he is on the editorial review boards of multiple journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Family Business Review. His work has also been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Inc. Magazine, among other outlets. He is a Fortune Insider and on the CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council.

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Burak Kazaz

Ellen Mbuqe — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:38:16 +0000

Dr. Kazaz’s research interests include the integration of supply chain operations (purchasing, production, distribution), marketing (pricing, market segmentation), and finance (managing economic/currency risks, hedging), with a special interest in managing uncertainty and risk (e.g. exchange-rate fluctuations, supply disruptions, lead-time uncertainty, quality uncertainty, demand fluctuations) in global supply chains.

Dr. Kazaz aims to provide the business community with new perspectives on how to manage risk and uncertainty. His research offers solutions for managing global supply chains that operate under volatile international financial markets, such as exchange-rate fluctuations. Kazaz also investigates the impact of disruptions and supply uncertainty in pricing, production, and distribution activities. His work has found implementations in agricultural supply chains that experience supply and demand risk. His recent work on wine futures and pricing of young wines are carefully followed by industry leaders, and have been featured both in premier journals of business and in popular media.

J. Michael Haynie

Leibowitz Vendor Account — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:32:49 +0000

As Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation, Dr. Haynie leads a diverse portfolio of responsibility centers and innovation initiatives, to include cross-campus efforts to develop and enhance academic offerings for online and nontraditional students. Haynie also directs the University’s defense- and veteran-connected programs, government and community engagement strategy, as well as a portfolio of campus-wide innovation programs. In 2018, Haynie was named a University Professor, the most senior rank conferred to faculty at ��ϲ��.

Haynie is the founder of ��ϲ��’s Institute for Veterans & Military Families (IVMF), the nation’s first interdisciplinary institute created to inform and advance the policy, economic, and wellness concerns of the America’s veterans and families. Today the IVMF is widely acknowledged as the nation’s leading academic voice related to issues affecting veterans and military-connected families. In 2013, Dr. Haynie’s efforts on behalf of veterans were the subject of a feature story on the CBS News program 60 Minutes, titled “Succeeding as Civilians.”

Haynie is a sought after advisor and speaker related to business strategy, veterans issues, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He has served on multiple federal advisory committees, and is frequently called to testify before Congress. His work has been featured on ABC Evening News, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, and Fox, and in outlets including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, INC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Chronicle of Higher-Education, Fortune, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Hill.

Haynie serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. Dr. Haynie also serves on the CNBC Disruptor 50 Council – a group of world’s leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, who each year identify the 50 new ventures most likely to disrupt established industries and markets. Before beginning his academic career at ��ϲ��, Haynie served for 14 years as an officer in the United States Air Force.

Julie Niederhoff

Leibowitz Vendor Account — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:20:24 +0000

Professor Niederhoff is an Associate Professor in the Supply Chain Management department. Her research addresses issues of how individuals make decisions within the supply chain and what effect these have on the efficiencies and profits of the firms. Her work has been published in top research journals such as Management Science and Production and Operations Management as well as featured in articles in The New York Times, Science Daily, and Scientific American.

Professor Niederhoff’s research topics include supply chain contracting, behaviors related to supply chain, operations, and group dynamics and worker effort.

While at Whitman, Professor Niederhoff has taught courses for undergraduate core providing a first exposure to the field for many students. She’s also taught in the undergraduate and graduate electives for students majoring in the course. Professor Niederhoff was nominated for the Meredith Teaching award in 2014 and 2015.

Some of Niederhoff’s recent media mentions and features include:

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, Consumer Reports
, CNN Podcast – Sanjay Gupta’s Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction
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, Fast Company
, New York Times
, today.com
, Supply Chain Dive
, Harvard Business Review
, WRVO

Tom Barkley

Leibowitz Vendor Account — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:05:56 +0000

Tom Barkely is the director of the Master’s in Finance Program and professor of finance practice at the Whitman School of Management.

His research interests are in market microstructure, asset pricing, derivatives, risk management, capital markets, and international finance. He can speak to a wide range of topics including currency, bankruptcy, banks and public offerings.

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