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
EntrepreneurshipAlan HauffDirector, Missouri Small Business Assistance Center and Small Business Program Specialist
516-6121
e-mail:
hauffa@umsl.eduAreas of Expertise:
Financing Your Business
Hiring Employees
Licensing Requirements
Taxes
Developing a Business Plan
Legal Forms of Organization
Pricing Your Products and Services
Registration
FinanceD’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
Gaiyan Zhang, Ph.D.Assistant Professor
516-6269
e-mail:
zhangga@umsl.eduAreas of Expertise:
Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives
Empirical Corporate Finance
International Finance
Risk Management
Information SystemsKailash Joshi, Ph.D.Professor
516-6123
e-mail:
joshi@umsl.eduAreas of Expertise:
Offshore outsourcing of IS services
Systems development
Mary C. Lacity, Ph.D.Professor
516-6127
e-mail:
mary.lacity@umsl.eduhomepage:
http://www.umsl.edu/~lacityAreas 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.eduAreas 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 ManagementJames 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.eduAreas 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
ManagementJames 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 LicenseSenior Lecturer
516-5623
e-mail:
mooregwen@umsl.eduAreas of Expertise:
General management issues
Business strategies
Investments
Commercial and consumer lending
MarketingHaim Mano, Ph.D.Associate Professor
516-6265
e-mail:
manoh@umsl.eduAreas 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.eduAreas of Expertise:
Supply Chain Management
Carrier Transportation Management
Public Policy in the Passenger Ground Transportation Industry