Dr. Arel's research focuses on the impact of external auditor reliance on the work of internal auditors in the integrated audit of financial statements and internal control, the effect of auditor reliance on the perceptions of jurors, and the impact of audit firm rotation on audit quality.

Cathy A. Beaudoin, PhD - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 317 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 3:30PM-5:00PM or by appointment or by appointment
Phone: (802) 656-0313
E-mail: cabeaudo@bsad.uvm.edu

Cathy joined our faculty in September 2008. She is a member of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She has extensive work experience in both public accounting and in industry. Her research interests include examining the decision making process in accounting and financial reporting contexts.

Carolyn M Bonifield, PhD. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 209 Kalkin
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00-1:30 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-0516
E-mail: bonifield@bsad.uvm.edu

Carolyn M. Bonifield came to UVM in the Fall of 2002, after graduating from the University of Iowa where she completed her Ph.D. in Business Administration. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she was a product manager for Unilever, and owned a small business in East Lansing, Michigan. She completed her MBA in Marketing at Michigan State University. Dr. Bonifield teaches courses in Consumer Behavior and Marketing Communications.

Dr. Bonifields research is concentrated in the area of affect and consumer decision making, with an emphasis on post-purchase decision making.

Affiliations:
American Marketing Association; Association for Consumer Research; Society for Consumer Psychology; American Academy of Advertising; Beta Gamma Sigma.

Additional BSAD 153 and BSAD 155 course information is available at the WebCT website.

Matthew W. Bovee, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 316 Kalkin
Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00 PM, Wed or by appointment
Phone: 656-0502
E-mail: bovee@bsad.uvm.edu

Before joining the School of Business Administration in January 2003, Matt served in several positions at the University of Kansas which included Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Dean of Libraries and Assistant Advancement Director. Prior to that, he was Business Development Manager in the Data Management Centre for Corning Besselaar, England. In general Matt is interested in how people model information, both individually and collectively. (1) Information quality is becoming recognized as a critical and competitive strength in business. As we move toward expected availability of information online, there seems to be growing concern for the quality of that information, but very little investigation into if and how people evaluate it. (2) As XML taxonomies proliferate, there seems to be implicit acceptance that a generation of middleware vendors will arise and be capable of patching the semantic gaps between parallel, inconsistent taxonomies. (3) Agent-based search is facilitated in a semi-structured, bounded environment. One such environment is the EDGAR database of public financial statements, where a wealth of information is available, but buried in lengthy files. We are making progress in the automated identification and extraction of this information, and are tagging it in XBRL version 1.0 in the process.

Assessing Information Quality (dissertation topic): 1) Develop a theoretically grounded information quality (IQ) model bridging existing models [done]; 2) Implement the model as a decision-making aid using an evidential network under belief functions [underway]; 3) Validate/refine the model with expert input collected through interviews [pending]; and, 4) empirically validate the model [pending]. The intended project domain is medical (hospital) information.

Assessing the XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Taxonomy for Financial Reporting: Nicknamed The Kansas Project in the XBRL community. Empirically evaluated XBRL, an XML business reporting taxonomy, using financials from annual statements of 80 companies from the 1999 Fortune 1000. Pilot data set was used by EDGAR Online to establish the raw XBRL data set for XBRL Express. Results accepted by JIS. XML holds great promise for Ecommerce information-sharing. However, ontological and semantic consensus and the ease of developing information taxonomies are assumed. Such issues are relatively unexplored and will be widely encountered. The XBRL project explores these critical issues, develops a foundation for future research, and establishes important industry contacts.

The FRAANK Project: Ongoing research at the Ernst and Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology (EYCARAT), the Financial Reporting and Auditing Agent with Net Knowledge (FRAANK) parses information from multiple sources in real-time to assist in valuations and audit judgments. Currently, FRAANK parses 10Q or 10K financial statements retrieved from the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) EDGAR site and tags the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statements in XBRL (see above) using extensive pattern matching and a knowledge-base of synonyms and root terms. Current development is aimed at increasing its accuracy (approximately 65% now) and scope.

Suggested topics for comment:
Theoretic and applied modeling of information and knowledge; health care informatics; knowledge management, IS applications of uncertain reasoning.
Assessing Information Quality, Assessing the XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Taxonomy for Financial Reporting, The FRAANK Project.

William L. Cats-Baril, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 312 Kalkin
Office Hours: T-TH 3:15 - 4:30 or by appointment
Phone: 656-0510
E-mail: Catsbari@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Cats-Baril joined the Faculty at UVM in the Fall of 1982. Professor Cats-Baril has taught courses in Information Technology and Management, Management Information Systems, Decision Theory, Decision Support Systems, Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, and Business Processes Redesign and Reengineering. Professor Cats-Baril has taught in executive programs in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has been a Visiting Professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France; the International Executive Centre in Brdo, Slovenia; the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary; the Europe-China Management Center in Beijing, China; and, the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. He has won several teaching awards.

Dr. Cats-Baril has been a Principal Investigator in the Vermont Rehabilitation Engineering Center, a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, a Special Assistant on Strategic Planning to the CEO of the University Hospital and Clinics, and the Director of the Computerized Expert Systems Applications and Research (CESAR) group at UVM. His current research interests include measuring quality in health care, assessing the profitability of customer satisfaction programs, and the impact of information technology on managerial decision making. He has published two books, more than two dozen articles and book chapters, and several cases on information technology and management, decision analytic tools, conflict resolution and consensus building, strategic performance measures, and health policy. One of his articles, co-authored with Professors Gatti and Grinnell, won an award in the National Association of Accountants' Annual Lybrands Competition. His work on decision analytic models to predict low-back pain disability received the First Prize in the Spinal Research Competition of the Eastern Orthopaedic Association. His publications include articles in Decision Sciences, Information and Management, Management Accounting, and several premier medical journals.

Dr. Cats-Baril has an international consulting practice. His clients include medical associations and multinational companies (AT&T; IBM; Johnson & Johnson; Podravka; and LVMH among others), and state and federal agencies.

Suggested topics for comment:
Impact of information technology on organizational structure and decision making; strategic measures of organizational performance; measures of customer satisfaction; continuous improvement; business process redesign; and issues in assessing the quality of health care.

Kevin C.H. Chiang, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 315 Kalkin
Office Hours: TR 1:30-3:30 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-0515
E-mail: kcchiang@bsad.uvm.edu

Kevin Chiang received his Ph.D. from LSU in 2000. His research interests include real estate, asset pricing, portfolio theory, and the mutual fund industry. His teaching interests include real estate, investments, corporate finance, international finance, and institutional investing.

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Thomas I. Chittenden, MBA - Details
Lecturer
Office: 213B Kalkin
Office Hours: M 6-9 PM or by appointment
Phone: 656-8311
E-mail: Thomas.Chittenden@uvm.edu

Thomas Chittenden teaches BSAD 040-Information Technology and Management and BSAD 141-Management Information Systems. He also works with faculty to incorporate technology into the curriculum and supports faculty, staff and student computing. He is experienced in the financial services, telecommunications and higher education areas and his work experience involves developing information systems and technology adaptation/integration into existing business processes and workflows.

Chris  Davis, J.D. - Details
Lecturer
Office:
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 864-0217(w) 863-3862(h)
E-mail: cdavis@langrock.com

Chris Davis is a partner at Langrock, Sperry and Wool, LLP, Attorneys at Law. He specializes in the general practice of law with emphasis on litigation including civil, domestic, criminal and commercial law.
He is a Member of: Vermont Bar Association, Vermont Trial Lawyers Association, Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Bar Association, and Judicial Conduct Board (chair 2000-2006). Since 2005, he has been a member of the Board of Directors, Tree Farm Management Group (a non-profit corporation that operates an outdoor sports complex). He is a frequent lecturer in fields of commercial law, domestic law and ethics.
Co-founder and member of the Burlington Rugby Club. Formerly nationally ranked rugby football referee. Presently IRB certified rugby football referee trainer, coach and assessor.

Stephen J. Dempsey, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 306 Kalkin
Office Hours: M&W 9:00-11:30 or by appointment
Phone: 656-8322
E-mail: stephen.dempsey@uvm.edu

Prior to joining the UVM faculty in the Fall of 1987, Dr. Dempsey taught at Virginia Tech (1982-85) and The College of William and Mary (1985-87). He earned his bachelor's from Binghamton University (Summa Cum Laude) and Master of Accountancy and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech. The recipient of a numerous academic honors and teaching awards, he has done extensive consulting work for several national and regional firms, including the U.S. Postal Service, General Dynamics, IBM and Ben & Jerry's. Dr. Dempsey's primary teaching interests cover all areas of financial and managerial accounting.

His research has been published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Financial Statement Analysis, the Journal of Accounting Education, the Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Research.

Suggested topics for comment:
The interpretation of accounting rules, practices and their impact on financial resource allocations; stock market reaction to news releases; financial performance measures.

Affiliations:
American Accounting Association; CFA Institute; Vermont Security Analysts Society (Board Member)

Rocki-Lee  DeWitt, Ph.D. - Details
Dean
Office: 210 Kalkin
Office Hours: By appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-3177
E-mail: dewitt@bsad.uvm.edu

Rocki-Lee DeWitt is the Dean and a Professor of Management in the School of Business at the University of Vermont. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University in strategic management, her M.S. at The Ohio State University in Agricultural Economics and her B.S. in Marketing and Management at New York University. Prior to her arrival in 2002, Dr. DeWitt was the Associate Dean for Professional Masters Programs at the Pennsylvania State University. While at UVM, Dr. DeWitt has been responsible for hiring 15 of the school's 27 tenure track faculty, played a leadership role in increasing the number of endowed faculty fellowships and professorships, and helped build a management development and executive education presence. Dr. DeWitt has received numerous teaching awards and has discussed teaching innovations at multiple national conferences. Her research on downsizing and restructuring has been published in top tier journals. Dr. DeWitt is a member of the Board of Governors of Beta Gamma Sigma, a member of the Board of Directors of Yankee Farm Credit (an ACA), and sits on various community boards including the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Burlington Industrial Council.

Jon D. Erickson, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office:
Office Hours: Tues. and Wed. p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-3328
E-mail: Jon.Erickson@uvm.edu

Carol  Franco Billini, MS - Details

Office:
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 802/656-2977
E-mail: carol.franco@uvm.edu

Carol Billini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont. She is has a Masters of Science in Natural Resources Management (2002), College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, State University of New York and is obtaining a Ph.D. in Natural Resources Policy and Ecological Economics College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New
York.

James F. Gatti, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 302 Kalkin
Office Hours: TTH 8:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-8298
E-mail: Gatti@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Gatti joined the UVM faculty in 1972 after completing his graduate work at Cornell. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and has been a consultant to numerous local and national firms and public agencies. He teaches in the areas of managerial finance, security analysis and portfolio theory, and financial institutions and markets. Dr. Gatti's recent research focuses on long run risk and return of investing in alternative financial instruments. Some of the areas in which Dr. Gatti has done research are portfolio performance, joint cost allocations, transfer pricing, financial regulation and innovation, security pricing, monetary theory and public finance. His research has been published by the Academic Press, and in Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Financial Management, The National Tax Journal, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Management Accounting, The Eastern Economic Review, Cost and Management, Journal of Financial Statement Analysis, Real Estate Economics, and Journal of Education Finance.

Suggested topics for comment:
School aid systems; deposit insurance; bank regulation; investments.

Affiliations:
American Economic Association; American Finance Association; Financial Management Association; Eastern Finance Association; Western Economic Association.

Michael A. Gurdon, Ph.D. - Details
Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
Office: 309 Kalkin
Office Hours: M 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-0513
E-mail: Gurdon@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Gurdon joined the UVM faculty in 1980 after two years with the University of New Brunswick. His teaching specialties lie in the areas of collective bargaining, international management and organizational behavior. He has been a consultant on strategic and human resource planning for a variety of private and public organizations. Dr. Gurdon's research interests encompass employee ownership, industrial democracy, and a range of international labor-management issues. His recent sabbatical was affiliated with Leeds University Business School in England and the University of Tasmania in Australia. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Industrial Relations, International Labour Review, Industrial Relations, and Management Review.

Suggested topics for comment:
Labor relations issues and international union-management developments.

Affiliations:
President of the Faculty Senate; referee for "Industrial & Labor Relations Review"; arbitrator of hearings brought before the National Association of Securities Dealers; consultant to several corporations in the development of strategic planning processes and long-term corporate objectives.

Christopher D. Hodgdon, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 308 Kalkin
Office Hours: T, TH 1:00-3:00 or by appointment
Phone: 656-5774
E-mail: chodgdon@bsad.uvm.edu

Chris Hodgdon's teaching and research interests include international and financial accounting as well as accounting theory and history. Dr. Hodgdon was named the 2000 Doctoral Consortium Fellow by the American Accounting Association. He was also awarded the 2005 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the International Section of the American Accounting Association. He has served as a tax analyst for MCI Telecommunications Corp. and controller for Environmental Information Networks.

Susan B. Hughes, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 314 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2 - 3:30 and by appointment or by appointment
Phone: 802 656-0504
E-mail: shughes@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Hughes' research focuses on the continuing convergence of international and U.S. financial reporting standards, the impact of national culture on audit decision making, and the measurement and management of intangible assets.

Richard R. Jesse, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 211 Kalkin
Office Hours: Wed & Thurs 1:00-3:00 pm, or by appointment
Phone: 656-0495
E-mail: Jesse@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Jesse came to UVM in 1983 from Auburn University where he taught for five years. Prior to Auburn, he spent six years on the faculty of the University of Florida. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of production and operations management, engineering management, and quantitative methods.

Dr. Jesse is recognized as a Fellow certified in Production and Inventory Management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. His publications include articles in the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Research, Decision Sciences, and Production and Inventory Management.

Suggested topics for comment:
Manufacturing planning and control systems.

Affiliations:
American Production and Inventory Control Society; American Society for Engineering Management, Decision Sciences Institute; The Institute of Management Sciences; IBM Burlington -- Advisory Faculty Chair, Industrial Engineering Methods and Systems Analysis Department.

David A. Jones, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 311 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30 PM; Thursdays, 11:00-12:00 PM or by appointment
Phone: 656-3302
E-mail: dajones@bsad.uvm.edu

David Jones completed his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Calgary in Canada. In his research he focuses on employees' perceptions of fairness in the workplace. David studies the processes through which employees judge fairness and unfairness, and though which they respond through cooperative behavior, turnover, revenge, and counterproductive behavior (e.g., wasting time, theft). David also conducts research on employee recruitment and job applicant dishonesty. David is active in presenting his research at scholarly conferences like the annual meetings of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and has published his research in journals that include the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Management. Dr. Jones is currently a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

In his work with organizations, David has applied principles of workplace fairness to projects within government, retail, and information technology sectors. For instance, David and his colleague, Dr. Daniel Skarlicki, trained managers of a retail store in the principles of workplace fairness and their evaluation of the training showed that employees perceptions of fairness and cooperative work behaviors increased from before to after the training. More recently, David worked with the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) Foundation to study how GMCR's company-funded volunteerism program affects employee attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Are employees more committed, proud, and loyal as a result of their opportunities to volunteer through the program?). David is becoming increasingly interested in how employees respond to their companys socially responsible business practices.

David is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the New Sudan Education Initiative (www.nesei.org). NESEI's mission is to bring the gift of education to Sudan to ensure a lasting peace and to promote prosperity, gender equality, and self-reliance through holistic education. NESEI builds schools in Southern Sudan to provide immediate skills to the Sudanese people who, in turn, will provide services to their communities. NESEIs first school opened in May 2008, where students will pursue high school diplomas and secondary degrees in health sciences focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning and reproductive health, disease treatment and prevention, immunization science, and nutrition. The Board serves NESEI in a support capacity, as well as by providing oversight over the budget and other fiscal issues, personnel decisions and policies, fundraising activities, and operations in Sudan. Please contact Dr. Jones if you are interested in volunteering your time, and in developing your skills and experience.

During the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 semesters, David teaches Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior (BSAD 120). For students enrolled in 120, the required textbook is:

Organizational Behavior: Essentials. McShane, Steven, L., & Von Glinow, Mary Ann.
McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007. ISBN 0-07-353006-9.

Keith J. Kasper, JD - Details
Lecturer
Office:
Office Hours: Immediately before or after class or by appointment
Phone: 863-3494
E-mail: Kasper@bsad.uvm.edu

James M. Kraushaar, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 320 Kalkin
Office Hours: TR 3:30 - 5:00 or by appointment
Phone: 656-0498
E-mail: Kraushaa@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Kraushaar joined the UVM School of Business in 1981 after six years at California State University in Sacramento and Fresno. His major interests are in the design, analysis and implementation of management information systems and in computer modeling. Dr. Kraushaar has consulted with various private and public organizations, including the IBM Corporation, US Small Business Administration, US Departments of Interior and Agriculture and the California Department of Education. His published works include articles in MIS Quarterly, The Accounting Review, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Property Tax Journal, Engineering Management International, Environmental Management, Interface, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, and proceedings of various national professional conferences. His textbook, Computer Concepts, Structural Programming, and Interactive BASIC, was published by Mitchell in 1982.

Awards: Dr. Kraushaar has received many awards recognizing his outstanding commitment to teaching and the engagement of students in the pursuit of knowledge. These include the Allscripts Teaching Award (2006), the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award (2003), as well as being named Teacher of the Year several times.

Suggested topics for comment:
Use of computers in businesses.

Affiliations:
UVM director, Small Business Institute, U.S. Small Business Administration; Decision Sciences Institute; ACM Special Interest Group on Business Data Processing; Association for Computing Machinery.

Anthony J. Kvedar, Jr., MBA - Details
Lecturer
Office: 221 Kalkin
Office Hours: By appointment or by appointment
Phone: 985-8022
E-mail: akvedar@bsad.uvm.edu

Marilyn T. Lucas, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 202 Kalkin
Office Hours: Mo 3:30-4:30PM and Tu 9-11AM or by appointment
Phone: 656-8276
E-mail: mlucas@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Lucas completed her Bachelor of Science in 1988 in Dijon, France, then moved to the United States. She completed her MS at Michigan Technological University, followed by her Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. She has taught previously at Bentley College, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and teaches Production and Operations Management. Dr. Lucas grew up on Reunion Island, which is off the East Coast of Africa.

Jerrold C. Manock, M.S. - Details
Lecturer
Office:
Office Hours: By Appointment or by appointment
Phone: 864-8183
E-mail: jcmanock@bsad.uvm.edu

Hugh  Marble III, Ph.D., CFA - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 313A Kalkin
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm - 4:30pm or by appointment
Phone: 656-8273
E-mail: hmarble@bsad.uvm.edu

Hugh Marble III joined the faculty of UVM in 2007 after completing his PhD at the University of Florida. Before pursuing the PhD, he worked as a consultant for Public Financial Management, a firm specializing in providing capital market, financial and strategic advice to public debt issuers. He is a CFA charterholder and has an MBA from Rollins College and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Marble's research looks at changes in credit ratings and also at the impact of debt contracts on firm incentives.

Samuel W. McDowell, Ph.D. - Details
Lecturer
Office: 207 Kalkin
Office Hours: TTH 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 847-1728
E-mail: samuel.mcdowell@vtmednet.org

Samuel (Sandy) McDowell is an executive with a proven track record in operational improvement, expense control and change management. He is a Ph.D. with a breadth of experience covering quality initiatives in healthcare, medical diagnostics, finance, and supply chain management. Sandys employment experience spans public and large private organizations, as well as experience as an independent consultant and small business owner. Sandy publishes and speaks on a variety of business and technical topics. He has taught business management at Champlain College, and production and operations management in the UVM MBA program. Sandy is a graduate of Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York.

Barbara R. McIntosh, Ph.D. - Details
Professor
Office: 318 Kalkin
Office Hours: After Class and by appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-0507
E-mail: McIntosh@bsad.uvm.edu

Professor Barbara McIntosh been actively involved in examining aging labor force issues for 25 years. She is a professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont where she teaches human resources management, organization behavior, and a course on aging and employment. She was honored to be named a Fellow in the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education in 2001.

She has presented over 50 papers (refereed and invited), and made two videos on aging workforce topics. In addition to her scholarly research, she is currently preparing eight Learning Modules on the Aging Workforce and Older Workers for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). These will be released nationally in Spring 2008. She also wrote two practitioner monographs published by the US Department of Labor An Employers Guide to Older Workers: How to Win Them Back and Convince Them to Stay, and A Supervisors Guide: Managing Older Workers.

The last five years she has been actively engaged in research on the aging healthcare workforce through the Office of Nursing Workforce: Research, Planning, and Development in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont, and she was honored in 2007 as a co-author of an article that received the "Best of Journal of Nursing Scholarship for Profession and Society" award.

Nationally, Dr. McIntosh is chair of MaturityWorks Alliance, an interest organization within the National Council on the Aging (NCOA), and she serves on NCOAs Leadership Council. She also serves on an AARP aging workforce advisory board.

In Vermont, Dr. McIntosh was a member of the Governors Advisory Board to the Department of Aging and Disabilities from 1995 to 2005 and has served on the boards of other organizations involved in aging issues including Vermont Associates for Training and Development, Foster Grandparents, and Project Home.

Dr. McIntosh received her Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences from Purdue University; her M.L.I.R. in Collective Bargaining from Michigan State University; and her B.S. in Communications from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Suggested topics for comment:
Changes in the labor force, aging and employment, nursing and healthcare workforce issues, managing diversity; collaborative negotiations; managing difficult employees, and managing changing work environments.

Affiliations:
Gerontological Society of America, National Council on the Aging, MaturityWorks Alliance, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Academy of Management, and Society for Human Resource Management.

Frederic  Meier, - Details
Lecturer
Office: 221 Kalkin
Office Hours: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. TTH or by appointment
Phone: 496-3955/656-2278
E-mail: Meier@bsad.uvm.edu

FREDERIC J. DERI MEIER
Deri Meier is presently a professor at the University of Vermont School of Business Administration where he teaches a course on the Legal and Political Aspects of Business, a course on Business Policy and Strategy and a graduate seminar on Negotiation.

He recently concluded a nine-year term as President of the Board of the Vermont Center for Geographical Information and has been a trustee of Mad River Glen Cooperative since its inception serving two terms as President.

From 1991 1993, Deri was Deputy Secretary of Administration with responsibility for coordinating internal operations of government including contracts, information management and restructurings. Acted for Secretary on which range of issues chiefly focused on operations and internal management.

Prior to his affiliation with State government, Deri spent twenty-four years with Mobil Oil Corporation, half of which was in the Mid-East Division. He was on loan to ADCO in Abu Dhabi from 1979 to 1982, where he held the position of Assistant General Manager for Administration with overall responsibility for all the non-technical areas such as finance, personnel, contracts, and services. Before joining ADCO, he had been the Assistant Finance Manager for the Iranian Consortium from 1977 to 1979 in Ahwaz, Iran.

Deris earlier experience with Mobil was in domestic marketing and finance, where he headed Mobil Marketings Financial Analysis Unit, which was responsible for the preparation and review of all marketing proposals, which went to Mobils Board. From 1967 to 1973, he had been involved in the development and testing of self-service/convenience goods marketing of gasoline, an innovation, which transformed the way gasoline, was sold in the U. S.

Deri has a Masters in Public Administration and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

John D. Monahan, JD - Details
Lecturer
Office:
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 864-5751/658-3288
E-mail: Monahan@bsad.uvm.edu

Peter J. Monte, JD - Details
Lecturer
Office: 219 Kalkin
Office Hours: TU & TH by appointment -- 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 802 656-0511
E-mail: PMONTE@bsad.uvm.edu

Peter obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and his law degree from Boston College Law School. He has worked for several law firms and his expertise includes: banking, municipal corporations, litigation, antitrust, real estate development and corporate/business law.

Thomas G. Noordewier, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 204 Kalkin
Office Hours: By appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-0496
E-mail: Noordewier@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Noordewier joined the UVM faculty in the Fall of 1990 after a year as an assistant professor at Yale. Prior to Yale he taught at Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UVM, he teaches courses in Marketing Management and Business-to-Business Marketing. His research interests include Distribution Channels, Procurement and Franchising. He has published articles in the Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, the Journal of Health Care Marketing, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Business Logistics, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.

Suggested areas of comment:
Marketing research; developing and maintaining industrial buyer-seller relationships.

Affiliations:
American Marketing Association.

David  Novak, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 310 Kalkin
Office Hours: TTH 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-4043
E-mail: david.novak@uvm.edu

David Novak completed his Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Technology at Virginia Tech in 2001. His teaching and research interests include computer networking and telecommunications, applied simulation, design and implementation of decision support systems (DSS) and the application of operations research models to solve real world problems. Dr. Novak has published in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems, Computers and Operations Research, Networks and Spatial Economics, and the Journal of Transport Geography.

Dr. Novak is also affiliated with the University of Vermont Transportation Research Center (TRC) and is actively working on a number of research projects funded through grants from the TRC as well as through a grant from the New England University Transportation Consortium (NEUTC) at MIT. The research focuses on decision making from a system-wide perspective, modeling disruptions on transportation networks, identifying the links most critical to a transportation network, and evaluating network performance.

He is also actively involved in research pertaining to student use of laptops and tablet PCs in the classroom and how the use of technology in the classroom impacts learning outcomes. The research is sponsored by a grant from Mircosoft Research.

Please feel free to visit Dr. Novak's personal Web site .
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E. Lauck  Parke, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 215 Kalkin
Office Hours: TTH 11:00 - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-9654
E-mail: Parke@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Parke joined the UVM faculty in the fall of 1977 after holding a position in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of strategic management, organizational theory and personnel administration. Current research activities include investigations into the usefulness of strategic planning in public sector organizations; the problems of employee ownership; and the shortcomings of work improvement schemes. His published works include articles in The Academy of Management Journal, Personnel, The Educational Record, The Economics Journal, and a chapter in Robert Dubin's Handbook of Work, Organization and Society.

Suggested topics for comment:
General issues of management; organizational change and development; leadership and motivation; business ethics.

Affiliations:
Academy of Management; Eastern Academy of Management, Council on Employee Responsibilities and Rights.

Larry E. Shirland, Ph.D. - Details
Professor & Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Office: 304 Kalkin
Office Hours: By appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-8367
E-mail: shirland@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Shirland came to UVM in 1976 after four years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. His main teaching areas are Production and Operations Management, Operations Research, and Quality Assurance. Dr. Shirland earned his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1972. Before joining UVM he taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He also spent four years with the Eastman Kodak company as a development engineer and contract analyst.

Dr. Shirland's textbook, Statistical Quality Control: With Microcomputer Applications, was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 1993. His publications have appeared in numerous academic journals including Decision Sciences, Industrial Engineering, MIS Quarterly, Engineering Management Journal, Interfaces, OMEGA, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Business Research, and Journal of Systems Management.

Suggested topics for comment:
Production systems/quality control.

Affiliations:
American Society for Engineering Management; The Institute for Management Science; Decision Sciences Institute; American Society for Quality.

James M. Sinkula, Ph.D. - Details
Professor and John L. Beckley Chair
Office: 206 Kalkin
Office Hours: MW 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-0497
E-mail: Sinkula@bsad.uvm.edu

James M. Sinkula received his undergraduate and masters degrees in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He has been on the faculty at UVM's School of Business Administration since the fall semester of 1983. He teaches in the areas of Market Research and Marketing Management.

His research interests lie primarily in the areas of organizational learning, strategic orientation, product innovation and organizational performance. He is best known for integrating the concept of organizational learning into a conceptualization of market information use in the firm. His most current work, published in the November 2005 issue of the Journal of Product and Innovation Management, explores the effects of market orientation, learning style and innovation type on new product performance.

Dr. Sinkula has published in the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Product and Innovation Management, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Market Focused Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of International Marketing and others. Additionally, he has publications in Developments in Marketing Science and the American Marketing Association Proceedings. Dr. Sinkula has also done work in export management and has published two book chapters in Advances in International Marketing. He has served on numerous editorial review boards to include the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Journal of Business Research. He is a frequent participant in scholarly meetings and has presented research papers throughout the United States and Europe. In 1998, Sinkula was one of a small group of academic researchers invited to present their research to the AMA Doctoral Constortium in Athens, Georgia. In 2000, he was awarded the Sheth Foundation Award for the best article of 1999 in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. In a recent citation analysis (Zinkhan 2005) this article ranked second of 188 articles published in JAMS between 1988 and 2004. In another citation analysis (Helm et. al., 2003) of articles published in the top three marketing journals between 1990 and 1996, Sinkula ranked in the top 6 percent of cited scholars. He has consulted with and served on the boards of numerous manufacturing and service organizations. He has done volunteer work for a number of not-for-profit organizations in the Burlington area.

Affiliations:
American Marketing Association; Academy of Marketing Science; Consortium for International Marketing Research; Beta Gamma Sigma.

Amy M. Tomas, Ph.D. - Details
Lecturer
Office: 208 Kalkin
Office Hours: TUES and THUR: 2:30pm-3:30pm, or by appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-4711
E-mail: atomas@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Tomas is a Visiting Professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont. She will be teaching courses on Retail, Product and Marketing Management. Other teaching interests include Direct Marketing, E-Commerce and Internet Marketing. Amys primary research interest includes the impact of significant technological, societal and competitive changes in the marketing environment on the retailer-consumer dyad. She has received several research grants and awards to pursue her research from sources including the FedEx Center for Cycle Time Research, Caterpillar, Inc., The International Council of Shopping Centers and the Reed Aquaculture Initiative. Her scholarly work has been published in several marketing journals including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Education and The Journal of Shopping Center Research, as well as several national proceedings including Advances in Consumer Research, the Academy of Marketing Science and the Symposium on Patronage Behavior. Additionally, she serves on several editorial review boards and is a regular participant in marketing organizations. Dr. Tomas received her Ph.D. from the University of Memphis, her MBA and BSBA from the University of Akron.

Michael J. Tomas III, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 305 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-8270
E-mail: mtomas@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Tomas is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont, where he teaches finance. His research interests include the design and performance of futures and options exchanges and their products, derivative security pricing and use, and fixed income markets. His research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Futures Markets, Review of Derivatives Research, Derivatives Quarterly, and the Journal of Economics and Business. Prior to joining the faculty at UVMs School of Business, Dr. Tomas was on the faculty at Babson College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Before coming to academia he was at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), where he was the Group Manager for Financial Product Research. In that capacity he was responsible for managing new product development and research efforts, applied research projects for CBOT strategic decision making, and contract maintenance programs for existing financial products. Dr. Tomas received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and MBA and B.S. from the University of Akron.

Richard G. Vanden Bergh, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 207 Kalkin
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 656-8720
E-mail: vandenbergh@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Vanden Bergh came to UVM in the fall of 2000. Prior to moving to Vermont he was the director of research in high-yield fixed income securities for a small investment bank in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy. He also earned an MBA from Berkeley and a BA from Swarthmore College. Dr. Vanden Bergh's current areas of research include: firm strategy in the political environment; regulatory, political and judicial institutions. Dr. Vanden Bergh's research has been published in a number of journals including the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, and Business and Politics.

Martha  Woodman, MBA - Details
Lecturer
Office: 313B Kalkin
Office Hours: MWF 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. & Noon - 1:30 p.m. or by appointment or by appointment
Phone: 656-0512
E-mail: Marti.Woodman@uvm.edu

Ms. Woodman joined the UVM faculty in 1984. She has taught at the University of Oregon and Washington State University. Her teaching interests are in the areas of Managerial, Financial and Cost accounting.

Mark  Youndt, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 205 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tue 2:30 - 3:30, Thur 4:00 - 5:00, or by appointment
Phone: 6-3464
E-mail: myoundt@bsad.uvm.edu

Mark Youndts research activities revolve around the intersections of strategic management, intellectual capital, innovation, and competitive advantage. More specifically, his most recent work examines how human, social, and organizational capital influence organizations innovative capabilities; how strategic human resource management activities help develop and leverage intellectual capital for competitive advantage; and how the strategic management of human capital influences the performance of service firms.

Chun  Zhang, Ph.D. - Details
Assistant Professor
Office: 213A Kalkin
Office Hours: 2:00pm-4:00pm, Tuesdays or by appointment
Phone: 656-4116
E-mail: chun.zhang@uvm.edu

Dr. Zhang joined UVM in the fall of 2005. She received her Ph.D. in Marketing and her M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University and her B.A. in Finance from Renmin University of China. Her teaching interests revolve around marketing management, international marketing, and research methods in marketing. Dr. Zhang's current research interests include relationship management challenges in channels of distribution and issues of cooperation and competition in supplier-manufacturer relations. For her work related to upstream supply chain, Dr. Zhang has received several research grants from the prestigious MIT-IMVP (International Motor Vehicle Program). Her scholarly work has appeared in a number of top international business journals including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of World Business, and International Marketing Review. Dr. Zhang's industry experiences include statistical analyst for the Risk Management Group at Kraft Foods Inc. and project intern for Euro-Asia Flower Trade Corporation, Beijing.