College of Business Administration

Faculty Expertise

 

Accounting
Entrepreneurship
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


    • Entrepreneurship

    Alan Hauff
    Director, Missouri Small Business Assistance Center and Small Business Program Specialist
    516-6121
    e-mail: hauffa@umsl.edu

    Areas of Expertise:
  • Financing Your Business
  • Hiring Employees
  • Licensing Requirements
  • Taxes
  • Developing a Business Plan
  • Legal Forms of Organization
  • Pricing Your Products and Services
  • Registration


    • Finance

    D’Anne Hancock, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    516-6149
    e-mail: dhancock@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

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    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


    • Rajiv Sabherwal, Ph.D.
    University of Missouri Curators’ Professor
    516-6490
    e-mail: sabherwal@umsl.edu
    homepage: http://www.umsl.edu/~busrsabh

    Areas of Expertise:

  • Knowledge management
  • Information systems planning, strategy, and success
  • Social aspects of systems development
  • Management of information systems projects


    • 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.
    Dean and Professor of Management Science 
    516-6109 
    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


    • 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