Management Faculty
Professors
Nada R. Sanders
Professor of Management; Iacocca Chair. M.B.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. Research interests: business forecasting, supply chain management, and the role of information technology in the supply chain environment.
Michael D. Santoro
Professor of Management; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professorship. 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 external sources of knowledge and technological innovation.
Susan A. Sherer
Professor of Management; Scott Hartz '68 Professorship. 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: strategic information systems; e-business enterprise applications. Research interests: information systems risk and benefits, and health information systems.
Robert J. Trent
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.
Associate Professors
Corinne Post
Associate Professor of Management. B.S., HEC - University of Geneva; M.S., HEC - University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Ph.D. Rutgers. Research interests: gender and racial differences in individual work experiences and career trajectories as well as on the effects of diversity on innovation and performance.
Catherine M. Ridings
Associate Professor of Business Information Systems. Ph.D., Drexel University. Teaching areas:management of information in organizations; e-commerce; and virtual communities. Research interests: virtual communities; trust; knowledge management; software development and adoption.
Andrew Ward
Associate Professor of Management; Associate Dean for Graduate Programs; Charlot and Dennis E. Singleton '66 Chair. B.Sc. University of Surrey, England; M.B.A., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: corporate governance including CEO successions, CEO compensation, the roles and concerns of the chief executive officer, CEO/board relations, reputation, and leadership.
Yuliang (Oliver) Yao
Associate Professor of Business Information Systems; George N. Beckwith '32 Professorship. B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Research interests: supply chain management, electronic commerce; technology issues in supply chains; logistics modeling/simulation.
Zach G. Zacharia
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management. B.S., University of Calgary; M.B.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Research interests: knowledge management and collaboration within the supply chain, logistics strategy and the financial implications of supply chain management.
Assistant Professors
Liuba Belkin
Assistant Professor of Management. M.S., B.S., Institute for Economics and Law, Moscow,Russia; M.B.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching areas: negotiations; organizational behavior. Research interests: emotions at work.
Jill A. Brown
Assistant Professor of Management; Axelrod Family Endowed Fellowship. B.A., Lehigh University; M.B.A., Augusta State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Teaching areas: strategy; business ethics; human resource management; principles of management. Research interests: corporate governance.
William Forster
Assistant Professor, Department of Management. B.S., United States Air Force Academy; M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology; M.B.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research interests include founding partnerships, new venture teams, entrepreneurial decision making, and business ethics.
Robert Giambatista
Assistant Professor of Management. M.S., B.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison). Teaching interests: Organizational behavior, negotiation, management, individual and group decision-making, groups and teams, management history.
Mei Li
Assistant Professor of Management, Foreign Affairs College, B.A.; Arizona State University M.S., Ph.D. Research interests: service operations, service outsourcing, self-service technology, social network theory, buyer-supplier relationships, behavioral side of supply chain management
Douglas Mahony
Assistant Professor of Management; Axelrod Family Fellowship. B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Research interests: organizational conflict, alternative dispute resolution, participatory work systems, and social networks.
Timothy J. Quigley
Assistant Professor of Management. B.S. Pennsylvania State University; M.B.A. Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Pennslyvania State University. Research Interests: strategic management and sustainability in regards to succession of chief executive positions.
Naomi B. Rothman
Assistant Professor of Management. B.A., University of California at Davis; Ph.D., Stern School of Business, New York University. Research interests: social consequences of emotions in the work place; power; negotiations; justice.
Professors of Practice
Robert Kuchta
Professor of Practice, Department of Management. B.S., Engineering Technology; M.S. Management Science - New Jersey Institute of Technology. Teaching areas: developing, producing, and marketing products and services and managing products and services. Research interests: inevitable classroom evolution.
Lecturer
Chitra Nayar
Lecturer, Department of Management. MBA, University of Iowa; BSc, Aston University, England. Teaching interests: Theory and applications of information systems in business.