Faculty Expertise

Accounting
Finance
Information Systems
International Business
Logistics and Operations Management
Management
Marketing

Accounting

Greg Geisler, CPA, MBA, PhD
Associate Professor of Accounting
516-6122
e-mail: geisler@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Tax law changes (both proposed and enacted)
Effect of taxes on business decisions
Effect of taxes on individuals
Tax policy issues
Investing tax-efficiently
Retirement spending of investments tax-efficiently

Steve Moehrle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Accounting
516-6142
e-mail: moehrle@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Financial statements
Financial accounting
Financial reporting
The Financial Accounting Standards Board
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Securities and Exchange Commission issues (primarily accounting-related)
Earnings management
Accounting fraud
Restructuring
CPA firms
The Business of Sports
Valuation

Finance

D’Anne Weise, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
516-6149
e-mail: gdweise@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Risk Management
International Investments
Security Analysis
CFA

Edward C. Lawrence, Ph.D.
Professor
516-6148
e-mail: eclawrence@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Commercial banking
Real Estate
Corporate Finance
Consumer credit
Investments

Gaiyan Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
516-6269
e-mail: zhangga@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives
Empirical Corporate Finance
International Finance
Risk Management

Information Systems

Kailash Joshi, Ph.D.
Professor
516-6123
e-mail: joshi@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Offshore outsourcing of IS services
Systems development

Mary C. Lacity, Ph.D.
Professor
516-6127
e-mail: mary.lacity@umsl.edu
homepage: http://www.umsl.edu/~lacity

Areas of Expertise:

Offshore outsourcing
Business process outsourcing
Domestic outsourcing
Customer supplier relationships
Core IT capabilities that cannot be outsourced

Joseph W. Rottman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
516-6288
e-mail: rottman@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Offshore IT outsourcing
Business process outsourcing
Technological innovation
Acceptance and use of innovation
Systems analysis and design

Vick Sauter, Ph.D.
Professor
516-6281
e-mail: vicki.sauter@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Computers
Decision support systems
Transnational systems
Computer anxiety
Women and computers
Computer system development

International Business

Hung Gay Fung, Ph.D.
Dr. YS Tsiang Endowed Professor of Chinese Studies
516-6374
e-mail: fungh@msx.umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

China business
Chinese economy
International finance
International banking
Global financial markets

Logistics and Operations Management

James F. Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor of Management Science & Information Systems
516-6125
e-mail: campbell@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Facility location, especially hub location and network design
Supply chain management and logistics
Transportation network design
Mathematical modeling and optimization
Optimization for snow removal and disposal

Joseph Martinich, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations Management
516-6145
e-mail: joseph.martinich@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Environmental aspects of business operations
Recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing industries, and their impact on St. Louis and Missouri
Lean production and lean service systems
Mathematical applications in sports, especially team ranking and evaluation methods

Ray A. Mundy, Ph.D.
Barriger Endowed Professor of Transportation and Logistics and Director for the Center for Transportation Studies
516-7213
e-mail: mundyr@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Supply Chain Management
Carrier Transportation Management
Public Policy in the Passenger Ground Transportation Industry

Douglas Smith, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Center for Business and Industrial Studies
516-6108
e-mail: ldsmith@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Use of customer account data, credit scores and information in consumer reporting databases to assess credit risk for financial institutions and other creditors
U.S. versus Canadian perspectives on NAFTA or FTAA
North American energy resources and distribution of petroleum products or natural gas
Applications of statistical analysis or analytical models to address policy issues or managerial problems

Keith Womer, Ph.D.
Professor of Management Science
516-6119
e-mail: womerk@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Statistical Cost Estimation
Program Management
Project Scheduling
Cost Benefit Analysis
Data Envelopment Analysis

Management

James Breaugh, Ph.D.
Professor
516-6287
e-mail: jbreaugh@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Employee motivation
Worker retention
Managing absenteeism
Employment discrimination
Performance reviews
Compensation issues

Gwen Moore, CMA, MBA, Series 6 License
Senior Lecturer
516-5623
e-mail: mooregwen@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

General management issues
Business strategies
Investments
Commercial and consumer lending

Marketing

Haim Mano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
516-6265
e-mail: manoh@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

General marketing issues

Perry Drake
Academic Director of Business, School of Professional and Continuing Studies
Assistant Professor
Mobile (best): 914-299-4879
Direct Line: 314-516-6490
Email: drakep@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Social Media Marketing
Digital Marketing Strategy
Web Analytics/Google Analytics
Data Mining
Database Marketing
Data Visualization

Ray A. Mundy, Ph.D.
Barriger Endowed Professor of Transportation and Logistics and Director for the Center for Transportation Studies
516-7213
e-mail: mundyr@umsl.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Supply Chain Management
Carrier Transportation Management
Public Policy in the Passenger Ground Transportation Industry

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