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

Esmael Adibi

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Hank Adler

MBA, UCLA, CPA

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

Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas

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

Ph.D., Louisiana State University

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Kaan Ataman

Ph.D., The University of Iowa

Donald Booth

Ph.D., UCLA

John B. Broughton

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Hsin-Hui Chiu

Ph.D.  - Georgia State University

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

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Stephanie Dellande

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Grigori Erenburg

Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton

Cris Giannantonio

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Jianli Hu

Ph.D., Washington State University

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

Ph.D., New York University

Andrew Jardine

Ph.D., University of Otago, New Zealand

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

Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mânoa, C.P.A.

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

Ph.D., USC

Ravi Kathuria

Ph.D., Drexel University

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

LL.M. (Taxation), New York University School of Law

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Tibor R. Machan

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

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

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Noel Murray

Ph.D., Penn State University

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.

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Niklas Myhr

Ph.D., University of Virginia

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

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Glenn M. Pfeiffer

Ph.D., Cornell University

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.

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Lynne Pierson Doti

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

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

Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona

Raymond Sfeir

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Pradip K. Shukla

Ph.D., UCLA

Charu Sinha

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Praveen Sinha

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Richard Smith

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

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

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

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

MBA, Eastern New Mexico University, CPA

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

Ph.D., Princeton University

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

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Scott Browne

Rod Freed

Mark Ghamsary

William Hernandez

Seth Johnson

Cameron Jolly

Yvette Jolly

Paul Lu

Clay McQuiddy

Yulong Ma

Cathy Margolin

Mohmmad Safarzadeh

Nikki Smith

John Stupar

Phillip Trevezas