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.

William L. Cats-Baril, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 312 Kalkin
Office Hours: T-TH 3:45 - 5:00 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: MW 10:45-11:45 a.m.; TR 9:00-10:00 a.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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Stephen J. Dempsey, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 306 Kalkin
Office Hours: 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)

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.

Susan B. Hughes, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 314 Kalkin
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.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: Tues & Thurs 1:30-3:30 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.

James M. Kraushaar, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 320 Kalkin
Office Hours: MW 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.

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.

E. Lauck  Parke, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 215 Kalkin
Office Hours: TTH 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 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.

Michael J. Tomas III, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor
Office: 217 Kalkin
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: 656-8270
E-mail: mtomas@bsad.uvm.edu

Dr. Tomas is an Associate 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 appears in Derivatives Quarterly, the Journal of Economics and Business, the Journal of Futures Markets, the Journal of Management Research, the Review of Derivatives Research, and the Review of Futures Markets. 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.

Suggested Topics for Comment: Derivative Security Pricing; Commodity Exchanges; Fixed income markets.

Affiliations: Financial Management Association

Richard G. Vanden Bergh, Ph.D. - Details
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Program
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.