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- Robert Acton
- Part-Time Faculty in Marketing
- Strategic planning
- Sales
- Management
- fw1203@wayne.edu
- Hanan Alhaddi
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
- Strategic management
- Corporate strategy
- Artifical Intelligence
- ak7291@wayne.edu
- Boysie Billings
- Professor of Accounting
International business competition, export tax, tax on foreign income, capital allocation among industrial nations, accounting
- aa4816@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4214
- Abhijit Biswas
- Distinguished Professor
Kmart Endowed Chair and Professor of Marketing
WSU Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Chair, Department of Marketing Consumer Behavior, Psychological Effects of Pricing, Advertising Effects and Cross-cultural Issues.
- a.biswas@wayne.edu
- 313-577-1499
- John Boulahanis
- Part-Time Faculty in Global Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain
- International Trade
- Logistics, Customs
- john.boulahanis@wayne.edu
- Steve Britt
- Part-Time Faculty in Global Supply Chain Management
Global Suppy Chain
Customs and International Trade
- Gy2541@wayne.edu
- 2488808388
- Heidi Bulich
- Associate Professor of Teaching in Accounting
• Business Law
• Entrepreneurship
• Climate Change and Resiliency in the Built Environment
• Sustainability
• Fair Housing- hbulich@wayne.edu
- Frank Castronova
- Part-Time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Statistics and research methods
- Ac1428@wayne.edu
- 313-316-2348
- Junwoo Cha
- Assistant Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Research theme: Supply network evolution
Research topics: 1. Regulatory policy in pharmaceutical supply chains, 2. Benefits of supply chain complexity in times of disruption
- hw0090@wayne.edu
- Meena Chakraborty
- Part-Time Faculty in Accounting
Education, Training, Cross-cultural global Team Building, Financial Management, Zoom, Microsoft Office, Canvas, Intuit QuickBooks, International Business, Finance, Accounting
- bq5062@wayne.edu
- 2488726517
- Toyin Clottey
- Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Research theme: Information sharing in manufacturing assembly systems.
Research topics: 1. Synchronizing the supply of components for automotive assembly amid chip shortages and other supply delays and 2. Impact of sharing imprecise information on fixed-bin selective assembly
- hp9434@wayne.edu
- Melissa Crabtree
- Part-Time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
- IT Customer Service
- IT Security
- Desktop Mgmt
- eb3969@wayne.edu
- 313-577-1844
- Catherine Cuckovich
- Assistant Professor of Teaching in Marketing
Market development, including: planning, strategy, brand positioning and branded content development
- ft7675@wayne.edu
- 586 805 0521
- Ranjan D'Mello
- Professor of Finance
Security Issues, Agency Costs, Payout Policies
- rdmello@wayne.edu
- 313-577-7828
- Mai Datta
- Professor of Finance
Executive Compensation
Mergers and acquisitions
Corporate governance
Leveraged buyouts
Corporate cash holdings
Analysts' earnings forecast
Insider-trading
Investment banking
Initial public offerings
Bond covenant structure
Corporate restructuring
TeachingCorporate finance
Capital budgeting
Corporate Governance
Venture Capital Financing
Valuation- mdatta@wayne.edu
- 313-577-9509
- Cassandra Davis
- Assistant Professor of Marketing
Consumer Well-Being, Stigmatized Identity, Health Decision Making, Service Marketing, Information Provision & Counterpersuasion, Goals & Motivations, Vice Consumption
- gm5288@wayne.edu
- Joseph DiMauro
- Part-Time Faculty in Finance
Investment Management, Financial Planning
Corporate Finance
- fg5103@wayne.edu
- M. Kathleen Donald
- Part-time faculty in Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Advertising & Integrated Marketing Communication
- Nonprofit Management
- KatDonald@wayne.edu
- N/A - I don't have a university-provided phone.
- Robert Forsythe
- Emeritus Professor of Finance
Financial markets, prediction markets, business education, educational-corporate partnerships
- robert.forsythe@wayne.edu
- 319-325-0719
- Jerome Gibbs
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
Leadership, Management, and Product Development
- fe8304@wayne.edu
- Frank Goeddeke
- Assistant Professor of Teaching in Management
- Labor relations
- Safety & organizational reliability
- Research methods
- Quality
- av1331@wayne.edu
- Akane Hebert
- Part-Time Faculty in Global Supply Chain Management
Lean Six Sigma
Quality Engineering
Leam Manufacturing
Supplier Development
Supplier Audit
Continous Improvements
Project Management
APQP
- gl4439@wayne.edu
- Ryan Hemsley
- Assistant Professor of Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resources
- Leadership
- Negotiations
- Teams & Multiteam Systems
- Research Methods
- hemsleyr@wayne.edu
- Julie Hollinshead
- Part-Time Faculty in Finance
Portfolio Management
Securities Analysis
Investment Policy
Personal financial planning and wealth management
Banking
- dc2857@wayne.edu
- Dave Huff
- Part-Time Faculty in Global Supply Chain Management
- Global Supply ChainProduction and OperationsStatistics and Quantitative MethodsCyber Security, Cloud/Network Engineering and Business Continuity
- DaveHuff@Wayne.edu
- 248-224-48024
- Christine Jackson
- Chair, Department of Management
Professor of Management Leadership, Fairness in the Workplace, Team Effectiveness, Relationship Building & Interpersonal Skills (trust, active listening, feedback, difficult conversations, conflict management)
- fy5917@wayne.edu
- 313-577-6275
- Anand Jha
- Chair, Department of Finance
Professor of Finance - Social capital
- anand.jha@wayne.edu
- Ta-Wei (Daniel) Kao
- Associate Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Research themes: Buyer-supplier relationships, Business value of information technology
Research topics: 1. Supply chain networks and productive efficiency, 2. Crowdfunding performance and social ties
- taweikao@wayne.edu
- William Kelly
- Part-time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Providing pragmatic solutions to Business, IT and Professional Services organizations. Help pinpoint areas for process improvement, organizational effectiveness and related business outcomes. Strong focus on the business of IT and its alignment with the business. Areas include:
Business Plan Review/Viability/Recommendations for Improvement
IT Sales Advisory
Interim Leadership
Outsourcing Advisory
Due Diligence
- cx5238@wayne.edu
- Kevin Ketels
- Associate Professor of Teaching in Global Supply Chain Management
Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Healthcare Supply Chain Management
- krk@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4525
- Manoj Kulchania
- Professor of Finance
Corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, cash holdings, capital structure, payout policy and market microstructure.
- manoj.kulchania@wayne.edu
- 313-307-9399
- Sungjoung Kwon
- Assistant Professor of Finance
Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital
- skwon@wayne.edu
- Ariel Levi
- Associate Professor of Teaching in Management
- Organizational programs in diversity and affirmative action; court decisions and employee reactions regarding such programs;
- Judgment and decision making at the individual and group levels;
- Perceptions of, and attitudes toward, corporate social responsibility.
- a.levi@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4581
- Norman Lewis
- Part-Time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
- Systems strategy and planning
- Systems design
- Nexus of business and information technology
- Machine learning
- namronse@wayne.edu
- Xing Liu
- Assistant Professor of Management
Dynamics and processe in teams, team diversity, team faultlines, newcomer adjustment in teams, identity work and play
- xingliu@wayne.edu
- Rebecca Loyer
- Part-Time faculty in accounting
- Business law and contract negotiation
- Startup operations and growth strategy
- Compliance frameworks for emerging industries
- bc1388@wayne.edu
- David Lucas
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
The practice of professional leadership.
Innovation systems and team building.
Entrepreneurial coach and mentor.
Building value through diverse groups.
- ab8413@wayne.edu
- James Martin
- Emeritus Professor of Management and Industrial Relations
Labor relations, Collective bargaining, Compensation administration, Union stewards, Contract ratification, Union loyalty, Part-time work, Work satisfaction, Effective crew chief utilization
- james.martin@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4485
- Marick Masters
- Professor of Management
Workplace issues and public policy, business ethics, workplace privacy, workplace violence, unions and labor-management relations, business and labor political activity, conflict management and negotiations, and public/federal sector labor-management relations
- marickm@wayne.edu
- 313-577-5431
- Elizabeth McQuillen
- Associate Professor of Teaching in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Statistics; Quantitative Research; Assessment and Evaluation.
- Elizabeth.McQuillen@wayne.edu
- (313) 598-4111
- Marian Mety
- Part-Time Faculty, Management, DBA
Teaching Expertise: Organizational Behavior, Management and Supervision, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management
Research Expertise: Leadership Theory, Self-efficacy, Female Leadership
- df6106@wayne.edu
- 586-260-9033
- Ahmed Mohamadean
- Assistant Professor, Department of Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
- Management Information Systems (MIS), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Analytics, Digital Transformation, and Cryptocurrency
- hn0916@wayne.edu
- Prabhjot Mukandwal
- Assistant Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Research themes: Environmental sustainability in supply chain management and buyer-supplier relationships
Research topics: 1. Consumer reactions to environmentally irresponsible sourcing practices, 2. The impact of supply chain relationship configurations on supplier performance, 3. Procurement spend and environmental expertise of suppliers
- prabsm@wayne.edu
- Jeremy Peters
- Assistant Professor, Music Business
Creative and Cultural Industries
- jeremy.peters@wayne.edu
- 313-577-6007
- Nancy Philippart
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
International management and operations, Product development, Strategic planning, New venture start-ups.
- nancy.philippart@wayne.edu
- Matt Piszczek
- Associate Professor of Management
Work-life issues, remote work, workforce aging, commuting, strategic HRM, employee/labor relations
- gl3558@wayne.edu
- Ajay Ponnapalli
- Assistant Professor of Management
Remote Work, Leadership, Inclusion in Organizations
- ajay.ponnapalli@wayne.edu
- Tamme Quinn-Grzebyk
- Assistant Professor of Teaching in Management
- Team development and leadership
- Performance appraisal and improvement
- Emotional intelligence and personality management
- Corporate culture development
- Process improvement and knowledge management
- Enterprise learning and development
- Reflection and design thinking
- Course and curriculum design/development
- Marketing and corporate communications
- Event management and implementation
- tammequinn@wayne.edu
- 734-404-8610
- Cristina Recchia
- Part-Time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Innovation and Diffusion; SaaS and Agility; Customer Relationship Management; Technology and Inertia; Digital Sales and Consulting; Solution Selling Sales Leadership; New Business and Territory Planning; Managing Complex Sales Cycles; Building Executive Relationships; Pioneering Innovative Directions; Customer Retention/Referrals; Enterprise Technology Sales
- cristinamrecchia@wayne.edu
- Alan Reinstein
- George R. Husband Endowed Professor of Accounting
Current auditing and accounting issues, Fraudulent financial reporting, Business valuations, Bankruptcy, Changes in accounting education, Accounting
- aa1692@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4486
- Diamond Reynolds
- Part-Time Faculty in Accounting
For-Profit and Not-For-Profit accounting, audit, and tax.
- au0341@wayne.edu
- Theresa Rich
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
After a 30+ year career at General Motors, I retired to start a law firm and teach part-time at MISB. During my 32 years at GM, I worked as an attorney in the tax department, in Organization & Development, as the leader of GM Learning, in Human Resources providing services to over 10,000 engineering professionals, in strategy, and as an executive coach. My specialty was helping global executives transition to new roles. During my time there, I was sent to over a dozen different countries on five continents. I led the global employee engagement operations, developed a training curriculum for the global HR staff, and started a day-long new employee orientation program. As an internal consultant, I became the confidant and leader of change management for a number of senior executives, mostly in the engineering function.
- theresa.rich@wayne.edu
- 248-957-8257
- Jeff Rightmer
- Assistant Professor of Teaching in Global Supply Chain Management
Operations and Supplier Management Strategies in the automotive industry
- gs9974@wayne.edu
- 248-514-2768
- Kwame Robinson
- Assistant Professor of Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Community-based economies, co-designed information systems, automation and AI
- hx4220@wayne.edu
- Michael Rosen
- Part-time faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
Statistics and Mathematics
- ab7387@wayne.edu
- Lauren Scott
- Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager and Part-Time Faculty in Foundations
Dr. Scott has experience in program design, implementation, and facilitation with proven proficiency in managing administrative functions for various programs that support the training and development of participants from multicultural backgrounds. Dr. Scott is highly skilled at designing and implementing program evaluation assessments; compiling and analyzing data, using results to support program funding and continuation. Adept in grant management, strategic planning, marketing, event planning/coordination, cross-functional collaboration, and social media management with strong talents in identifying program needs, supporting program progress, and engaging in risk management and problem resolution strategies.
In addition to her program administration background, Dr. Scott has worked in both collegiate and youth sports administration. Her work within athletics spans across events and championships, sports information, football operations and serving as adjunct faculty in the sports administration program in the College of Education at Wayne State University and Michigan State University.
- laurenscott@wayne.edu
- Alicia Shankland
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
I've spent most of my career -- more than 25 years -- leading within fast-growth, innovative companies in technology, internet, telecommunications, digital marketing, professional services industries. I been the CHRO in large, global organizations and smaller, scrappy pre-IPO companies.
I've had amazing opportunities to craft people strategies to support the performance, culture, rapid change needed to accelerate business results within companies that leverage HR to its full extent.
Along the way, I've been privileged with invitatations to serve as adjunct faculty to teach HR courses as well as management, business communication, organizational behavior, organizational design, and change management.
What I strive to bring to the classroom is a blend of what I've learned as life-long academic instructor and a practitioner. Teaching is a passion. I work hard to become better with each class I teach. I am grateful for what I learn from every class, every student .
- alicia.shankland@wayne.edu
- 4258643370
- Ajit Sharma
- Assistant Professor of Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Generative AI
- Business Analytics
- Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Electric and autonomous mobility
- gm5546@wayne.edu
- 313-577-7835
- Gary Shields
- Associate Professor of Teaching in Management
Entrepreneurism; creativity and innovation; improvisation training; youth entrepreneurism; organization behavior; Detroit small business;
- gary.shields@wayne.edu
- 313-822-3211
- Tom Shohfi
- Associate Professor of Finance
Finance, banking, cryptocurrency
- tshohfi@wayne.edu
- Margaret Smoller
- Emeritus Associate Professor of Finance
Futures and options pricing, Market efficiency
- m.smoller@wayne.edu
- 313-577-6036
- Toni Somers
- Senior Associate Dean
Information Systems
- toni_somers@wayne.edu
- Albert Spalding, JD, PhD
- Emeritus Associate Professor of Accounting
Ethics, Business ethics, Epistemology, Moral sense, Morality, Corporate governance, Tax, Taxation, Income tax, Estate tax, Gift tax, Generation-skipping tax, Fiduciary accounting, Trusts, Estates, Probate, Audit committee, Board of directors, Liability
- aspalding@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4469
- Myles Stern
- Associate Professor of Accounting
Technology in Accounting, Business computer networks, Management of information systems, Information systems for manufacturing firms
- ac8360@wayne.edu
- 313 307-5070
- Jeff Stoltman
- Associate Professor of Marketing
Macro and micro-environmental analysis, strategic foresight and strategic planning, higher education trends and innovative solutions, consumer behavior - adoption and diffusion, marketing communication / marketing of new ventures, entrepreneurship and venture development, intersections of business and healthcare.
- jeffstoltman@wayne.edu
- Gerald Storey
- Part-Time Faculty in Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
I am a veteran within the field of Management Information Systems specializing in data networking and security. I am also an experienced and certified project manager professional (PMP) and Scrum Master.
- gp7131@wayne.edu
- Cuyler Strong
- Assistant Professor of Finance
Investments, Asset Pricing, Options and Derivatives and Financial Regulation.
- cuyler.strong@wayne.edu
- Scott Tainsky
- Professor of Management
Director of Sport and Entertainment Management Sport & Entertainment Management
- tainsky@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4842
- Andrea Tangari
- Professor of Marketing
- Marketing and public policy
- Advertising
- Food and nutrition labeling
- Sustainable marketing
- Corporate social responsibility
- andrea.tangari@wayne.edu
- John Taylor
- Associate Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
- Supply chain management
- Automotive Industry Supply Chain Management
- Logistics Management
- Transportation Policy
- International Logistics
- taylorjohn@wayne.edu
- 517-719-0275 (cell)
- Francesca Toscano
- Associate Professor of Finance
- Financial Economics
- Applied Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Credit ratings
- Regulations
- Role of equity analysts
- Dynamics of CEO turnover
- Trade Credit
- Policy Uncertainty
- Debt Maturity Structure
- toscanof@wayne.edu
- 313-577-6884
- Viet Tran
- Ph.D. Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Corporate Misconduct
- Earnings Management
- Organizational Capital
- Political Corruption
- Strategic Alliances
- Venture Capital Investment
- vietphtran@wayne.edu
- William Volz
- Distinguished Service Professor of Business Law and Ethics
Commercial law and regulation, Business ethics, Constitutional law, Taxation policy
- ab9241@wayne.edu
- 248-644-1035
- Dennis Weislo
- Part-Time Faculty in Management
Specialties: employee and labor relations, recruiting and staffing, compensation and benefits, payroll management and administration, training and development, University-level college instruction, health, safety, and security (OSHA Compliance), mergers and acquisitions, and labor and employment law.
Additional Expertise: Human Resource Management, Employee Relations, Onboarding, Recruiting, Personnel Management, Employment Law, New Hire Orientations, Organizational Development, Employee Training, Payroll Management and Administration, Performance Management, Benefits Administration, Interviews, Sourcing of Employment Candidates, Health, Safety and Security, Mergers and Acquisitions, Employment Policy Development and Administration.
- ai0132@wayne.edu
- David Williams
- Emeritus Associate Professor of Marketing
Marketing research, Consumer behavior, Marketing strategy
- ad4287@wayne.edu
- 313-577-4842
- Leah Wolf
- Part-Time Faculty in Management and Information Systems
- Business management
- Project administration
- Management information systems
- Supply chain, Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Production operations
- fz7680@wayne.edu
- 989-430-5309
- Chao Wu
- Assistant Professor of Global Supply Chain Management
Experimental and Quasi-experiment Designs; Analytical Modeling; Nonprofit Operations, Sustainability, and behavioral topics.
- Chao-Wu@wayne.edu
- Attila Yaprak
- Professor of Marketing and International Business
Cross-cultural consumer behavior issues; marketing in emerging markets; strategy and structure in internationalizing firms; international business theory; marketing theory; and marketing strategy questions
- aa4506@wayne.edu
- 734-730-4240
- Hakan Yildiz
- Chair, Department of Global Supply Chain Management
Associate Professor of Global Supply Chain Management Research themes: Supply chain risk management and logistics optimization
Research topics: 1. Supply chain risk management during COVID-19, 2. Risk mitigation strategy efficiency evaluation and 3. Reliable supply chain design
- hakan@wayne.edu
- 313-356-6860