Jeff Barden
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Research Interests:
Organization Exchange (Alliances, Human Resource Selection, Risk Behavior); Innovation Management (Patents, Star Scientists, IP Rent Appropriation); Sport Management (Risk Behavior in the MLB and NBA Drafts, Player Trades)
Michelle Barnhart
Associate Professor of Marketing
Research Interests:
Cultural norms, social groups, individual identity, gun use and culture, gun rights and gun control consumer movements, consuming in old age, consumers' use of credit and debt
Zero Deng
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Research Interests:
How do firms avoid taxes (or shift income); Why do some avoid taxes and others don’t; What are the consequences of avoiding taxes
Shaokun Fan
Associate Professor of Business Analytics
Research Interests:
Cryptocurrency; Data/Text Mining
Jay Hardy
Associate Professor of Management
Research Interests:
What is the business impact of systematic bias (racial and gender) on career outcomes for employees and organizations, and what can we do to help disrupt or reverse the impact of discriminatory decision-making process?; In what ways do our basic human drives toward new information (i.e., curiosity) impact how we adapt to a new job?; How do adult learners regulate their own behavior at work when given control over the learning process?
Keith Leavitt
Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Management
Research Interests:
Behavioral ethics (lying, cheating, stealing) in organizations; Identity and situated judgments at work; Human sustainability
Andrea Marks
Professor of Design
Research Interests:
Data Visualization Consumption; Graphic Design/ Marketing and Brand Design; Design History; Design Thinking/ Human-Centered Design
Michelle Marie
Program Manager, InnovationX Center of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Research Interests:
Developing a business (any kind!); Building a social change movement; Creating a community organization; Designing a product or service; Apparel design projects
Kara Obermire
Shirley E. Droschkey Professor of Accounting
Research Interests:
How can the monitoring of financial reporting be improved?; What makes auditors and audit committees more effective?; How does the quality of financial reporting monitoring impact market participants?
Heather Pesch
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Research Interests:
Organizational norms, controls and ethics: Broadly: how individuals make ethical decisions within the context of an organization
Laura Rees
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Research Interests:
Emotions, Attitudes, and Perceptions • How do emotions influence thinking & behaviors? • What does it mean to be authentic? Negotiation, Influence, and Persuasion • How do we coordinate with others? Cognition, Judgments, and Decision making • How do we think about & make decisions? • How does ambivalence help (& hurt) decisions? Voice and Speaking Up at Work • How does speaking up about ideas—sometimes without thinking much—influence outcomes for us?
Rene Reitsma
Professor of Business Information Systems
Research Interests:
Digital Libraries; Information Visualization
Ryann Reynolds-McIlnay
Assistant Professor of Design
Research Interests:
Impact of retail environment on consumers and shopping behaviors; Consumer behavior, shopper marketing, sensory marketing; Experimental Design
Inara Scott
Gomo Family Professor
Research Interests:
Sustainable business, corporate social responsibility, and inclusive teaching/pedagogy.
Sustainable Capitalism: Contradiction in Terms or Essential Work for the Anthropocene? Is capitalism fundamentally incompatible with sustainability, or can this system be saved?; Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism: Energy Policy: No Place for Zero-Sum Thinking; Recreating Corporate Social Responsibility in an Era of Globalization and Regulatory Hardening; Redefining and Regulating the New Sharing Economy; Enterprises serving the base of the pyramid with off-grid solar lighting; Redefining and Regulating the New Sharing Economy
Jason Stornelli
Associate Professor of Marketing
Research Interests:
Goal pursuit • How do we develop more effective tools to help people achieve important goals? • When and how do they use these tools (or not use them)? Emotions and emotion regulation • How do consumers judge brand relationships that are related / counter to their identity? • How can people foster mindful, wiser behaviors in their consumption and life? Cooperation and collaboration • When and how do genes influence whether people trust each other? • How do people contribute to culture at work?