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Faculty

By bringing their research and business experiences into the classroom, Argyros faculty expose students to the latest ideas in contemporary business. At the same time, Argyros teachers give of themselves to ensure students begin deriving ideas of their own.


Full-Time Faculty

Adibi, Esmael
Adler, Hank
Alakent, Ekin
Altintig, Ayca
Ataman, Kaan
Booth, Donald
Broughton, John
Chiu, Hsin-Hui
Dehning, Bruce
Dellande, Stephanie
Doti, James
Erenburg, Grigori
Giannantonio, Cris
Hu, Jianli
Hurley-Hanson, Amy
Jardine, Andrew
Jinkens, Robert
Kang, David
Kathuria, Ravi
Lipman, Francine
Machan, Tibor

Murray, Noel
Myhr, Niklas
Nyer, Prashanth
Pfeiffer, Glenn
Pierson Doti, Lynne
Porter, David
Sfeir, Raymond
Shukla, Pradip
Sinha, Charu
Sinha, Praveen
Smith, Richard
Stanton, Angela
Sudek, Richard
Toukan, Amjad
Tuggle, F. Douglas
Turk, Thomas
Uslay, Can
Virchick, John
Wihlborg, Clas
Ybarra, Candace


Adjunct Faculty

Berkovitz, David
Browne, Scott
Freed, Ron
Ghamsary, Mark
Hernandez, William
Johnson, Seth
Jolly, Cameron
Jolly, Yvette

Lu, Paul
McQuiddy, Clay
Ma, Yulong
Margolin, Cathy
Safarzadeh, Mohammad
Smith, Nikki
Stupar, John
Trevezas, Philip


Esmael Adibi

Esmael Adibi
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Office: BK 306D Phone: (714) 997-6693
E-mail: adibi@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 997-6601
Office Hours:

TWR 2:00-4:00 p.m.


Director of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research and Anderson Chair of Economic Analysis.  Dr. Adibi joined the Chapman Faculty in 1978, and was appointed director of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research in 1985.  His research interests center on analyzing key economic indicators for the U.S. and California economies.  He is widely quoted in the media and regularly appears as a guest speaker at various professional meetings.  Dr. Adibi is past president of the Association for University Business and Economic Research. Hs is a member of the NABE Outlook Survey Panel and Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast Panel. He serves on the board of directors of SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union and is a member of California Controller's Council of Economic Advisors.

Hank Adler

Adler_HMBA, UCLA, CPA
Office: BK 303A Phone: (714) 628-7283
E-mail: adler@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Mr. Adler was in public accounting for almost thirty-four years, the last twenty as a top partner at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Adler serves on several corporate and community boards of directors. His research has been published by Prentice Hall and Tax Magazine. His interests include theories of taxation and board governance.


Ekin Alakent

Alakent_EPh.D., University of Texas at Dallas
Office: BK 303A Phone: (714) 744-7650
E-mail: alakent@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR noon-1:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Management. Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Alakent’s primary research interests are in the areas of strategic change, organizational restructuring and emerging markets. Her teaching interests include strategic management and international business. Before joining the faculty of Chapman University, Dr. Alakent taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Texas at Arlington.


Ayca Altintig

Ayca Altintig
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Office: BK 303G Phone: (714) 744-7868
E-mail: altintig@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:

TR 3:00-4:00 p.m.
T 5:30-6:45 p.m.


Assistant Professor of Finance. Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Dr. Altintig’s primary research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, agency theory and fixed income securities. Currently she is working on projects related to convertible bonds and to the effects of managerial succession plans on firm performance. Her research has been published in the Journal of Business and in the Journal of Corporate Finance. Her teaching interests include corporate finance, corporate governance and finanicial institutions and markets.

Publications


Kaan Ataman

Ataman_K

Ph.D., The University of Iowa
Office: BK 308C Phone: (714) 628-2883
E-mail: ataman@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 2:00-4:00 p.m.
W 10:00 a.m.-noon

Assistant Professor of Management Science. Ph.D., The University of Iowa. Dr. Ataman's primary research interests are in the areas of data mining and machine learning and its applications. His major research concentrates on the problem of ranking using margin maximizing classifiers, such as support vector machines or optimization (linear or quadratic programming) based classification algorithms. He is currently working on developing efficient rank optimization and constraint reduction algorithms.


Donald Booth

Donald Booth
Ph.D., UCLA
Office: BK 303D Phone: (714) 997-6804
E-mail: booth@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 8:00-noon
TR 1:00-2:15 p.m.

The Larry Parlett Professor of Economics. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Booth is a consultant for public agencies on market alternatives. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, Danforth Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Dr. Booth was awarded the Eliot Jones Award by the Western Economic Association for his research on U.S. investment in Latin America.

John B. Broughton

Jack Broughton
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Office: BK 301B Phone: (714) 997-6853
E-mail: broughto@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 2:30-4:00p.m.

Associate Professor of Finance. Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Broughton does option and capital markets research. His articles have appeared in leading finance journals such as the Journal of Business, Financial Review, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics and Journal of Financial Services Research, and he has been quoted in the national press. Dr. Broughton also serves as an expert witness on various financial issues. He has taught at Harvard University, the College of William and Mary and Florida State University. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Broughton was an economist with the Institute for Water Resources, the Bureau of International Labor Affairs and Bell Atlantic Corporation. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Research.

Hsin-Hui Chiu

Chiu_H

Ph.D.  - Georgia State University
Office: BK 303H Phone: (714) 997-6957
E-mail: chiu@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Finance. Dr. Chiu earned her Master's in Economics and received her Ph.D. in Finance from Georgia State University, where she also taught Corporate Finance for two years. Dr. Chiu's primary research interests include corporate finance, mutual funds, and corporate governance. Her teaching interests are in the areas of financial management, investments, and financial markets. Dr. Chiu is an active participant in several professional finance conferences and has presented her research papers to the Financial Management Association.


Bruce Dehning

Bruce Dehning
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Office: BK 307G Phone: (714) 628-2702
E-mail: bdehning@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Current Classes:

Introduction to Financial Accounting
Accounting Information Systems

Personal Page: http://www.brucedehning.com

Associate Professor of Accounting Information Systems. Ph.D., Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. Dr. Dehning received the American Accounting Association Information Systems Section Notable Contributions to the Literature Award in 2006, was named a Fulbright Scholar to teach in the Czech Republic in 2005, and was awarded the Wang-Fradkin Professorship at Chapman University in 2004. He serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems and is the President-Elect of the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association. His work has been cited almost 200 times in published and working papers, including more than 50 times in the Social Sciences Citation Index. He has presented papers at numerous prestigious national and international conferences, and his research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Information and Management, and other academic journals. Outside of academia Dr. Dehning spent time in the insurance industry and as an accounting information systems consultant for small businesses.


Stephanie Dellande

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: BK 303L Phone: (714) 628-7347
E-mail: dellande@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Current Classes: Marketing Research; Principles of Marketing; Marketing Management

Assistant Professor of Marketing. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Dr. Dellande’s primary research interest is in the area of services marketing. Her research examines the factors that influence customer compliance with desirable and/or healthful behaviors in the context of compliance dependent services (CDS). CDS are services in which the customer co-creates with the provider while within the service facility and must comply with his/her role once away from the provider to ensure positive outcomes and customer satisfaction. Examples of CDS include debt management programs, weight loss programs, and exercise programs.

Dr. Dellande’s research is published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Health Marketing Quarterly, The International Journal of Bank Marketing, International Business & Economics Research Journal, Advances in Services Marketing and Management, and in proceedings of international and national conferences, e.g., Advances in Consumer Research.

Further, her work is published on the website of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) at http://www.acrwebsite.org/topic.asp?artid=111.


James L. Doti

James L. Doti
Ph.D., University of Chicago
President and Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Business & Economics at Chapman University. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Dr. Doti was an Edward Hilman and National Science Foundation Fellow while at Chicago. He joined Chapman in 1974 and in 1978 founded the University’s Anderson Center for Economic Research which, under his leadership, has become nationally recognized for its scholarly research and economic forecasts. Dr. Doti’s articles have appeared in many academic journals as well as business publications such as The Wall Street Journal. He also co-authored books entitled, Econometric Analysis - An Applications Approach and The Market Economy - A Reader, which received the Templeton Honor Award for Scholarly Excellence. Dr. Doti is a leading figure in the Orange County business and academic communities, and hosts the weekly KOCE-PBS television show, “The Economic Journal.” He also serves on the boards of several corporations headquartered in Southern California.

Grigori Erenburg

Erenburg_GPh.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
Office: BK 308I Phone: (714) 628-7372
E-mail: erenburg@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Whenever the door is open

Assistant Professor of Finance. Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY). Dr. Erenburg’s primary research interests are in the areas of market microstructure and investments. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Intermediation. His teaching interests include investments, financial markets and institutions.

Cris Giannantonio

Giannantonio_C
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Office: BK 303M Phone: (714) 628-7320
E-mail: giannant@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 10:00-11:00 a.m.
MW 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Associate Professor of Human Resource Management. Professor Giannantonio earned her doctorate in Human Resources Management from the University of Maryland. Her principal areas of research include mentoring, job search and recruitment effects. Previously she was on the management faculty at the University of Notre Dame.

Jianli Hu

Hu_JPh.D., Washington State University
Office: BK 308G Phone: (714) 744-7876
E-mail: jhu@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 10:30-11:30 a.m.
T 1:00-3:00 p.m.
and by appointment

Jianli Hu graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. degree in Operations Management in 2004. Her general research areas of interest involve supply chain management and inventory theory. She has published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Interfaces. She won the Harriett B. Rigas Award as the Outstanding Female Ph.D. Student at Washington State University in 2004. She has also presented her research papers in major conferences.


Amy E. Hurley-Hanson

Hurley-Hansen_APh.D., New York University
Office: BK 307J Phone: (714) 628-7312
E-mail: ahurley@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: WRF 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Associate Professor of Management. Dr. Hurley-Hanson received her doctorate in management from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Hurley-Hanson's principal areas of research are executive succession and the application of behavioral decision theory to strategic aspects of career mobility.

Andrew Jardine

Jardine_APh.D., University of Otago, New Zealand
Office: BK 303B Phone: (714) 997-6576
E-mail: ajardine@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Marketing.  Dr. Jardine’s research interests include the study of consumer culture, especially in relation to advertising.  Using research methods more commonly used within critical social psychology, such as discourse analysis and discursive psychology, Dr. Jardine’s research has examined the subject positions and politics of representation through advertising.

Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Jardine was the marketing research manager for several large New Zealand corporations. 


Robert Jinkens

Jinkens_R

Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mânoa, C.P.A.
Office: BK 308B Phone: (714) 628-7301
E-mail: jinkens@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: T 3:00-5:00 p.m.
R 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Accounting. Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mânoa, M.S.B.A., University of Southern California, M.B.A., University of California, Irvine. C.P.A., California and Hawaii. Dissertation: accounting education. Research interest: accounting education and managerial accounting. Ten years management experience. Twenty-five plus years accounting and finance faculty experience, undergraduate and graduate, locations included: California, Hawaii, Arizona, Texas, Japan and the Philippines.


David Kang

Kang_DPh.D., USC
Office: BK 308E Phone: (714) 744-7812
E-mail: kang@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:30 p.m.
R 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. from the Marshall School of Business Administration, University of Southern California. Dr. Kang’s primary research interests are in the areas of IT adaptation, IT infrastructure management, and knowledge management.  Dr. Kang’s research has been published in leading journals such as CACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information and Organization, Journal of Database Management, and Journal of Organizational Computing & Electronic Commerce. Dr. Kang also worked in the banking industry for a number of years.


Ravi Kathuria

Ravi Kathuria
Ph.D., Drexel University
Office: BK 308F Phone: (714) 628-2703
E-mail: kathuria@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
F 3:00-4:00 p.m.
and by appointment


Professor of Operations Management; Ph.D., Drexel University. Dr. Kathuria worked as a production engineer, industrial engineer and operations consultant for over eight years before embarking on his Ph.D. His current research interests include operations strategy, supply chain management, the Internet and entrepreneurship, and global operations management. His work has been published in several leading journals, such as Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Quality Management, International Journal of Production Research, Omega, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and others. He has presented papers at numerous conferences and has been nominated and awarded best paper distinctions on various occasions, including the Chan Hahn Prize for the Academy of Management Best Paper Award in the Operations Management Division. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management, and as a board officer of the Academy of Management's Operations Management Division.

Publications, Honors and Awards


Francine J. Lipman

Francine J. Lipman
LL.M. (Taxation), New York University School of Law
Office: Kennedy Hall 443 Phone: (714) 997-6705
E-mail: lipman@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 628-2576

Professor Lipman joined the faculty of Chapman’s George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics in 2001, where she has taught tax and graduate level accounting courses, has received awards for excellence in scholarship, teaching and research, and has been responsible for a substantial Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.  Professor Lipman moved to the School of Law in 2003, while continuing to do some teaching in the School of Business and Economics.  Professor Lipman graduated from N.Y.U. School of Law with an LL.M. in Taxation where she served as a Graduate Editor on the Tax Law Reviewand received her J.D. from U.C. Davis where she served as Editor in Chief of the U.C. Davis Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif.  Professor Lipman also has an M.B.A.  Prior to entering academia, Professor Lipman practiced as a C.P.A. with Arthur Young & Company and as an attorney with the law firms of O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Irell & Manella LLP.  She has written extensively on tax and accounting topics for legal and accounting periodicals, including Wisconsin Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Taxes, Harvard Journal of Legislation, The Practical Tax Lawyer, and Tax Notes. Professor Lipman teaches a variety of tax courses.

Publications


Tibor R. Machan

Tibor R. Machan
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: BK 307D Phone: (714) 997-6704
E-mail: machan@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: W 11:00 a.m.-noon
W 1:00-2:00 p.m.
and by appointment

The R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise and Distinguished Fellow of the Leatherby Center. Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Machan teaches ethics courses, Frosh Seminar, and provides symposia for the academic and business communities. As an Advisor to Freedom Communications, Inc., he provides educational programs for Freedom Communications management staff, and is a regular columnist for The Orange County Register and Freedom News Wire. He is also affiliated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is on the advisory board for several foundations and think tanks, and served on the Board of the Jacob J. Javits Graduate Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of Education. He was a visiting professor at the U. S. Military Academy in 1993-94. Dr. Machan has been a guest on “Firing Line” and was featured on the ABC-TV special, “John Stossel Goes to Washington.” He lectures regularly on political philosophy and business ethics in Europe, Central and Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, and throughout the United States. Dr. Machan has authored numerous books including A Primer on Business Ethics (2003, w/Jim Chesher), Private Rights & Public Illusions (1995), Putting Humans First (2004), and Objectivity (2004).  He co-founded Reason magazine in 1970. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals including The American Philosophical Quarterly, American Journal of Jurisprudence, the International Journal of Social Economics, Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Philosophia and Think.

Vita

Publications

Web Site


Noel Murray

Noel Murray
Ph.D., Penn State University
Office: BK 307H Phone: (714) 997-6835
E-mail: nmurray@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: R 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Personal Page: Link


Director of the Walter Schmid Center for International Business and Associate Professor of Marketing. Ph.D., Penn State University. Dr. Murray’s areas of expertise include international marketing, cross-cultural issues in marketing communications and advertising strategy. His research has been widely published in leading academic journals including, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Advertising and Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. His research on advertising disclosure has been profiled in The Los Angeles Times and in Media Life Magazine. Professor Murray plays an active role in the Academy of Marketing Science and has recently served as congress co-chair at the World Marketing Congress in Malta. His business affiliation experience includes Digital Computer, Inc., Irish State Merchant Bank, Apple Computer and Bank of Ireland.

Publications


Niklas Myhr

Myhr_NPh.D., University of Virginia
Office: BK 308K Phone: (714) 532-6092
E-mail: myhr@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30 a.m.
and by appointment

Niklas Myhr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing, holds a Ph.D. from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and has taught at American University and at Tulane University. Dr. Myhr’s research which addresses the role of Business-to-Business Partnerships and e-Commerce in Global Supply Chains has been awarded $40,000 by The Hans Werthén Foundation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and a Best Paper Award by Supply Chain Management, an international journal published in the United Kingdom.

Previously, at the Swedish Institute of Management, Dr. Myhr worked with Executive Education programs held for large Swedish multinationals in Europe, the United States, and China. He also holds an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University in Sweden. Dr. Myhr is an American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and has served as an Executive Director on the Board of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC.


Prashanth Nyer

Prashanth Nyer
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office: BK 303K Phone: (714) 532-6043
E-mail: nyer@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:

TR 11:20-11:50 a.m.
T 1:30-6:30 p.m.
before/after class
and by appointment


Associate Professor of Marketing. Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Nyer’s research focus is on consumer satisfaction and other aspects of consumer behavior including attitude change, public commitment, and cross-cultural differences in consumer behavior. He is frequently quoted in local and national publications on matters relating to consumer behavior, and his research has been published in various journals including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Marketing, the Journal of International Consumer Marketing and Psychology & Marketing. Dr. Nyer’s teaching interests include marketing management, and advertising management, while his consulting work focuses on measuring and managing customer satisfaction. Prior to academia, Dr. Nyer worked in product management in the consumer products and industrial electronics industries.

Glenn M. Pfeiffer

Glenn M. Pfeiffer
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: BK 307E Phone: (714) 997-6814
E-mail: pfeiffer@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: by appointment

Glenn M. Pfeiffer is Professor of Accounting at the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University.  He received his M.S. in Finance and Ph.D. in Accounting from Cornell University after he earned a bachelors degree in Economics from Hope College.  Prior to joining the faculty at the Argyros School, he held faculty appointments at the University of Washington, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, and San Diego State University.

Professor Pfeiffer’s research focuses on financial reporting and capital markets.  He has investigated issues relating to lease accounting, LIFO inventory liquidation, earnings per share, employee stock options, corporate reorganization, and technology investments.  He has published articles in The Accounting Review, the Financial Analysts Journal, the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, the Journal of Applied Business Research, the Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Journal of Accounting Education, and several other academic journals.  In addition, he has published a financial accounting textbook, an accounting casebook, and numerous case studies in financial accounting and reporting.

Professor Pfeiffer teaches financial accounting and financial analysis to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students.  He has also taught managerial accounting for MBAs.  He has won several teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Publications


Lynne Pierson Doti

Lynne Pierson Doti
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Office: BK 307C Phone: (714) 997-6805
E-mail: ldoti@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Current Classes: Macroeconomics
Financial Economics
Business and Economic History
Office Hours: TR 8:30-10:00 a.m.
TR 4:00-5:30 p.m.


Lynne Pierson Doti, the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, is the author of Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California 1878 - 1905 and co-author of California Bankers and Banking in the American West.  She has also written about 25 articles on banking, using history as a laboratory to test theories of branching, structure and regulation.  Current research is focused on financing sources for real estate development.   In April, 2006 Lynne became the Editor of Essays in Economic and Business History. She has served on a number of corporate, civic, and charitable boards including the board of directors of Plaza Bank and Eldorado Bank, the Anaheim and Orange Budget Commissions and the state boards of two political organizations.  Her Ph.D. in Economics is from the University of California, Riverside.

Vita

Selected Publications and Activities


David Porter

Porter_DPh.D., Economics, University of Arizona
Office: BK 308D Phone: (714) 997-6915
E-mail: dporter@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: MW 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Professor of Economics and Finance. Dr. Porter utilizes experimental methods in economics to design, develop, test and implement new and complex market systems. He was the principle architect of the Cassini Resource Exchange that made resource trading possible on the Cassini mission to Saturn. Dr. Porter also helped develop the Sears Logistic Auction for allocating truckload traffic, the Automated Credit Exchange for trading pollution permits, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s new source credit auction for NoX emissions and BondConnect, which facilitates portfolio trades of various bond classes. Dr. Porter has designed and developed combinatorial markets that enable the efficient trading of packaged commodities. He also uses experiments to examine price formation in asset markets, including bubbles and the microstructure of asset markets and its affect on price dynamics.

Raymond Sfeir

Raymond Sfeir
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: BK 306F Phone: (714) 997-6551
E-mail: sfeir@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 997-6601
Office Hours:

R 5:30-6:30 p.m.


Professor of Economics and Management Science. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Sfeir teaches microeconomics, applied econometrics, statistics and forecasting. His research interests include operations research, capital asset pricing models and applied economics. Dr. Sfeir conducts the quarterly survey of purchasing managers in California and is quoted frequently in The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register. He is currently studying the preformance of the manufacturing sector in California.

Pradip K. Shukla

Pradip K. Shukla
Ph.D., UCLA
Office: BK 307F Phone: (714) 997-6817
E-mail: shukla@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 628-7253
Office Hours: MWF 10:00-11:00 a.m.
and by appointment

Director, Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics.  Associate Professor of Management. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Shukla’s teaching focuses upon growing entrepreneurial ventures, business consulting, and operations management. He has received professional C.P.I.M. Certification (Certified in Production and Operations Management) from APICS (the Association for Operations Management). His research interests focus upon the application of conjoint/tradeoff analysis to understanding and improving managerial decision-making. In addition to having served as a director and consultant to corporations, Dr. Shukla is a reviewer of professional journals.

Charu Sinha

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Office: BK 308A Phone:

(714) 628-2837

E-mail: csinha@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: T 11:15-11:45 a.m.
W 1:00-3:30 p.m.
R 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
and by appointment


Praveen Sinha

Sinha_PPh.D., Carnegie Mellon
Office: BK 308H Phone: (714) 744-7986
E-mail: sinha@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: WR 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Associate Professor of Accounting, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Chapman University, Professor Sinha held faculty position at Cornell University, University of Cincinnati, and at State University of New York at Buffalo. Professor Sinha’s primary research interests involve examining the role of accounting information and financial analysts in the capital markets, regulation and information flows in the markets, and econometric modeling. Professor Sinha has published in several journals, such as Contemporary Accounting Research and Transportation Research. Professor Sinha’s teaching interests include Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation.

Richard Smith

Smith_R

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Office: BK 307I Phone: (714) 744-7604
E-mail: rlsmith@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: W 4:00-6:30 p.m.

Richard Smith holds the Ralph W. Leatherby Chair of Entrepreneurship and Private Equity at Chapman University. Prior to joining Chapman Professor Smith was Associate Dean and Professor of Financial Management at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University (CGU), where he also served as Director of the Venture Finance Institute and of the School’s Financial Engineering Program.

At CGU, he has served on the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustee. Before coming to California, Professor Smith served on the faculty of Arizona State University. During that time, he was engaged by the Arizona State Senate to assess the performance of the pension fund managed by the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). He subsequently was appointed by the Governor of Arizona to serve on the Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) of the ASRS. He served in that capacity for six years, ending in 1995, in which year he served as Chair of the IAC and a member of the Audit Committee of the ASRS Board of Trustees.

While as Arizona State, Professor Smith also served on the Investment Committee of the ASU Foundation, which was the vehicle for managing the school’s endowment. Responsibilities were similar to those of the CGU Investment Committee, but as the endowment was smaller, fewer managers were involved.

Professor Smith’s recent research includes a study of 403(b) plan investment returns and asset allocation choices, which is forthcoming in Financial Management and a paper on application of the SEC’s Fair Value Standard to illiquid assets held by mutual funds, which was published in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.

Professor Smith’s main research interests are in the area of entrepreneurial finance, private equity, and initial public offerings. He is co-author of Entrepreneurial Finance (Wiley, 2004), as well as over 35 academic articles related to his main research interests. He has consulted extensively on matters related to valuation, entrepreneurial finance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions.



Angela Stanton

Stanton_APh.D., Claremont Graduate University
Office: BK 307L Phone: (714) 532-7783
E-mail: anstanto@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:

MTW 10:00 a.m.-noon

Assistant Professor of Economics. Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University with focus in Neuroeconomics. Dr. Stanton's research interest is the understanding of the neural substrates of human decision-making. She runs economic decision-making experiments with the use of a variety of hormones that stimulate enhanced responses in decision-making in particular directions. Currently she is working on a variety of projects examining the function of trust, generosity, and spitefulness in human decision-making. She is a Research Scientist at the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at the Claremont Graduate University. Additionally, she is working on formulating a model that is able to capture the importance of trust in corporate relations. Dr. Stanton has many years of corporate work experience, including executive positions at leading high-tech firms. She also holds master's degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from UCR, and has earned a BS in Applied Mathematics from UCLA.

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Richard Sudek

Sudek_RPh.D., Claremont Graduate University
Office: BK 307A Phone: (714) 744-7065
E-mail: sudek@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 4:00-5:30 p.m.
T 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Ph.D. in Management from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Dr. Sudek’s primary research interests are in the area of entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial leadership, and team leadership.

Dr. Sudek has taught at INSEAD in France, the Rotterdam School of Management in Holland, and at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of CGU.

In 1982 he founded Nadek Computer Systems, a computer consulting firm, and in 1999, sold the company to SAIC. He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco. In addition, he currently consults extensively with startup companies on matters related to strategy, financing, operations, and executive coaching.

Currently an active angel investor (venture capital) with over 20 investments in startup companies, Mr. Sudek sits on the Tech Coast Angels board of governors (the largest angel investment organization in the US). In addition, he is on the board of directors for the Angel Capital Association, a national angel trade association. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies.


Amjad Toukan

Toukan_APh.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: BK 303S Phone: (714) 744-2133
E-mail: toukan@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 9:00-11:00 a.m.
MW 5:15-6:15 p.m.

Assistant Professor of Economics. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Dr. Toukan’s primary research interests are in the areas of microeconomics, political economy, and international trade. Currently he is working on projects in the area of corporate governance where he is employing both traditional and evolutionary game theoretic techniques to examine the effects of agency costs on the shape of ownership structure in public firms. His teaching interests include micro and macro theory, game theory, corporate governance, political economy, and international trade. He also holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fullerton and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to academia, Dr. Toukan worked in project management and general management in industry.


Francis Douglas Tuggle

Francis Douglas Tuggle
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Office: BK 308J Phone: (714) 997-6537
E-mail: tuggle@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 744-7890
Office Hours: TR 1:00-5:00 p.m.


Professor. Ph. D. Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Tuggle has served as dean three times: at Chapman from July 1, 2002 until December 31, 2005, and also at the Kogod School of Business at American University from 1990-1996. Prior to this, he was the Jesse H. Jones Professor and Dean of the Jones School of Management at Rice University. Dr. Tuggle is also a prolific scholar with an extensive portfolio of published works — two books and more than 50 refereed journal articles. Most recently, his research has been in the area of supply chain management and knowledge management. He has served on the board of directors of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and on the board of INFORMS, The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He is on several corporate boards of directors, and has extensive experience consulting with for-profit and non-profit firms. A former Ford Foundation Fellow, he is a member of Sigma Xi, Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Kappa Psi.

Vita and Publications


Thomas Turk

Thomas Turk
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: BK 303J Phone: (714) 997-6819
E-mail: turk@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: W 4:00-5:30 p.m.
R 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Professor Turk currently serves as an Associate Professor of Management at Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics. He joined Chapman University in 1992 after serving on the faculty at Texas A&M University. He earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of California, Irvine in 1988.

Professor Turk's research on corporate strategy and corporate governance regularly appears in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Economic Inquiry, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, and Journal of Economics and Business. His research on corporate governance, mergers and hostile takeovers has appeared in Corporate Governance and The Management of Corporate Acquisitions, both collections of articles by internationally recognized scholars.

Professor Turk lectures widely in executive education programs for both public and private organizations. He frequently consults with businesses on strategic planning and strategic change issues. He also frequently serves as an expert witness on top executive compensation and business valuation issues. Professor Turk’s current research and consulting assists firms in reducing bureaucracy and increasing their capacity to take entrepreneurial initiative.

Vita and Publications


Can Uslay

Uslay_CPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Office: BK 303F Phone: (714) 628-2658
E-mail: uslay@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 4:00-6:00 p.m.
and by appointment

Assistant Professor of Marketing. Dr. Uslay got his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he also taught for three years. Dr. Uslay’s research interests lie broadly within marketing strategy, policy, and theory construction. His research is published or forthcoming in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Business Review, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Marketing Education Review, and the Review of Marketing Research. He is the co-author of a book, Deregulation and Competition: Lessons from the Airline Industry (2007, Sage Publications), and currently serves as a Vice-Chair of Research for the Entrepreneurship SIG of the American Marketing Association. His work experience prior to academia includes various organizations/functions such as internal consulting at a conglomerate, hotel administration, international marketing of consumer electronics for Vestel Foreign Trade (the largest exporter of Turkey), and assisting the State of Georgia for high-tech based economic development.


John Virchick

John Virchick
MBA, Eastern New Mexico University, CPA
Office: BK 303E Phone: (714) 997-6996
E-mail: virchick@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: TR 7:30-8:30 a.m.
MWF 10:-10:50 a.m.
MW noon-12:50 p.m.

Associate Professor of Accounting. C.P.A., MBA, Eastern New Mexico University. Prior to joining Chapman, Mr. Virchick was a sole proprietor in public accounting for 12 years, concentrating in the areas of taxation, auditing and accounting services. He also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. in the field of auditing.


Clas Wihlborg

Wihlborg_CPh.D., Princeton University
Office: BK 307B Phone: (714) 744-7630
E-mail: wihlborg@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:

Fletcher Jones Chair in International Business. Ph.D., Princeton University. Dr. Wihlborg has held faculty positions in Finance and International Business at New York University, and in Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California, At Göteborg University in Sweden he was Head of the Financial Economics programs before moving in 2000 to the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark, where he was a Professor of Finance and Director for the Center for Law, Economics and Financial Institutions (LEFIC). He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). His research and teaching have focused on International Finance, International Financial Management, Law and Economics, and Financial Institutions. In these areas he has published numerous journal articles and books, most recently as coauthor of Corporate Performance and the Exposure to Macroeconomic Fluctuations.


Candace Ybarra

Candace Ybarra
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: BK 307J Phone: (714) 744-7094
E-mail: cybarra@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30 p.m.
W 5:30-6:45 p.m.
and by appointment


Associate Professor of Management. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Dr. Ybarra’s research centers on strategic alliances, corporate structures and evaluation criteria in organizations. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. Her teaching interests include strategic management, international business and business and society. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Ybarra worked as a financial analyst for Cox Cable and as a financial consultant for real estate investors/developers in San Diego, Calif.


Adjunct Faculty - Spring 2008


David Berkovitz

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 1 Phone: (714) 532-7707
E-mail: berkovit@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Scott Browne

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 1 Phone: (714) 532-7707
E-mail: sbrowne@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: By appointment


Rod Freed

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 3 Phone: (714) 532-7778
E-mail: rfreed@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Mark Ghamsary

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 4 Phone: (714) 744-7828
E-mail: ghamsary@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


William Hernandez

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 4 Phone: (714) 744-7828
E-mail: requejo@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Seth Johnson

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 3 Phone: (714) 532-7778
E-mail: sejohnso@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Cameron Jolly

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 3 Phone: (714) 532-7778
E-mail: jolly@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: By appointment


Yvette Jolly

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 2 Phone: (714) 532-7708
E-mail: yjolly@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: By appointment


Paul Lu

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 2 Phone: (714) 532-7708
E-mail: plu@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Clay McQuiddy

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 2 Phone: (714) 532-7708
E-mail: mcquiddy@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Yulong Ma

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 4 Phone: (714) 744-7828
E-mail: yma@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Cathy Margolin

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 1 Phone: (714) 532-7707
E-mail: margolin@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Mohmmad Safarzadeh

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 4 Phone: (714) 744-7828
E-mail: safarzad@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Nikki Smith

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 1 Phone: (714) 532-7707
E-mail: krsmith@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours: By appointment


John Stupar

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 3 Phone: (714) 532-7778
E-mail: stupar@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:


Phillip Trevezas

Office: BK 303C - Cubicle 2 Phone: (714) 532-7708
E-mail: trevezas@chapman.edu Fax: (714) 532-6081
Office Hours:

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