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

Accounting

Michael Brown
Senior Instructor of Accounting
516-6264
e-mail: michaelbrown@umsl.edu
Areas of Expertise:

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  • Federal Income Tax

  • Operations of Internal Revenue Service

  • Civil tax disputes

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.
Assistant 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

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.
Assistant 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

Allan Bird, Ph.D.
Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies
516-6286
e-mail: abird@umsl.edu
Areas of Expertise:

  • Japanese business and management

  • Global leadership development

  • Intercultural/cross-cultural management

  • Intercultural sense making

  • Intercultural competency

  • Globalization issues

  • Intelligent careers/knowledge careers

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

David Ricks, Ph.D.
University of Missouri Curators’ Professor
516-6537
e-mail: ricks@umsl.edu
Areas of Expertise:

  • International business

  • Foreign investment in the U.S.

  • Cross-cultural relations

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

Michael M. Harris, Ph.D.
Professor of Management and Fellow, Center for International Studies and International Business Institute
516-6280
e-mail: mharris@umsl.edu
Areas of Expertise:

  • Human Resource Management
  • Union-Management Relations
  • Training and Development
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Recruitment and Hiring
  • Compensation

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

Mahesh Shankarmahesh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
516-5628
e-mail: mahesh@umsl.edu
Areas of Expertise:

  • Strategic alliances

  • International marketing

  • Marketing ethics

  • Buyer-seller negotiations