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GEOFFREY BELL, Ph.D, CA
Associate Professor of Management
University of Minnesota (1999)

Dr. Bell came to UMD from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where he taught Strategic Management at both an Undergraduate and MBA level. Prior to entering his Ph.D., Geoff completed his Chartered Accounting designation (the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba) and spent 9 years in public practice and computer consulting.

Dr. Bell’s current research interests include the influence of geography, networks and trust on various aspects of firm performance, including innovation, firm size, and knowledge transfer. He has published his research in The Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Financial Review, and has edited a volume on decision making. He has presented his research at the Academy of Management’s Annual Meetings, the Strategic Management Society meetings, and the Seventh and Tenth Annual International Conferences Promoting Business Ethics.

Dr. Bell teaches Strategic Management at both an Undergraduate and MBA level, as well as elective courses in Cooperative Strategy and Business Ethics.

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PATRICIA BORCHERT, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2006

Pat Borchert teaches courses in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.

Pat's primary research interests are in the integration of strategy and entrepreneurship, particularly the evolution of the management team in new ventures, and the role the top management team plays in the success of the transition from a "garage shop" company to a sustainable, well-managed firm. She has given presentations at conferences on technology and entrepreneurship, as well as at the yearly international Entrepreneurship Conference sponsored by Babson College and the Kaufmann Foundation. She has published articles in journals that concentrate on issues in strategy and entrepreneurship, such as Managerial and Decision Economics, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Pat recently was awarded her Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. Prior to returning to academia, Pat was on the management team of several start-up firms serving the telecommunications industry. She managed engineering and product planning at Secure Computing (computer and network security products) and at NetStar (routers for the core of the internet).

ANNE CUMMINGS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997

Anne Cummings joins the Management Studies Department, UMD, from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School where she taught Organizational Behavior, Teams, Negotiations, and Leadership for Undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Education audiences, and received several teaching awards for her ability to lead, stimulate and challenge students.

Her research focuses on how organizational systems and leadership behaviors enhance and maintain creative and useful contributions from employees. She has studied how networks and problem solving styles are related to these contributions, and her research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, California Management Review, and Leadership Quarterly. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Cummings held a variety of education and management positions for a large non profit organization in Wisconsin. Her interests in organizational behavior, teams and women's leadership development were enhanced by her experiences there.

JANNIFER DAVID, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Human Resoures
Michigan State University (2001)

Jannifer David teaches Human Resource Management. She received her Ph.D. in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University. Prior to her graduate studies she worked as a Human Resource Consultant for Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

Her teaching interests and experience include classes in employee recruiting and selection, international human resource management, training and development, employee compensation and collective bargaining and an introductory class in human resource management. She has taught HR courses at UMD, Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University.

Her primary research interests follow two tracks: the use of contingent workers and how they affect the work relationships of others within organizations and international human resource management practices specifically with respect to recruiting and selecting. Her work has been published in Human Resource Planning and the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.

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SANJAY GOEL, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entreprenuership
Arizona State University (1995)

Dr. Goel came to UMD from Suffolk University in Boston. He also worked as a management consultant to rural organizations for two years in the areas of business planning and financial appraisal in the largest management and financing organization for rural cooperatives in India before joining the Ph.D. program. His current research interests are corporate governance and its effect on strategy and firm performance and other outcomes (e.g. alliance quality), especially in knowledge intensive contexts, comparative corporate governance systems, and effect of governance and firm level factors in knowledge acquisition in young firms. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, as well as key academic conferences such as Academy of Management's Annual Conference,the Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, and European Academy of Management. His theoretical model on superior corporate governance is being tested in New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, and Spain. He was a Visiting Professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Karlskrona, Sweden in Fall 2001. He currently teaches strategic management, organization studies, international management, management of innovation and technology at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He serves on two non-profit boards at city and state levels. Home Page

Constance J. Johnson, Executive Official and Administrative Specialist
Management Studies Dept.

Connie Johnson came to UMD in 1986 from I.S.D. 709, Duluth Public Schools, where she served as administrative clerical support for the music and art program supervisors, gifted/talented program supervisor, and the health education director. Previously, she had worked as the sole support person to the Executive Secretary of the American Cancer Society in the northeastern region of Minnesota. Since joining the Management Studies Department, she has worked with five department heads and numerous faculty striving to provide an efficiently run academic unit that serves the students' educational needs. In 1988-89 and again in 2004-05 she won the UMD Outstanding Service Award for Continuing Service. She currently serves on the LSBE Research Committee.

While at UMD she has taken courses in a variety of areas, including anthropology, history and geology.

KJELL R. KNUDSEN, Ph.D.
Dean, Labovitz School of Business and Economics;
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Administrative Behavior;
University of Minnesota (1973)

Kjell Knudsen teaches Strategic Management, Policy Formulation and Implementation, Organizational Management and Entrepreneurship. He joined the School of Business and Economics in 1979, having served previously as Project Manager at the Royal Norwegian Council for Industrial and Scientific Research in Oslo, Norway. Knudsen served for several years as a consultant to the Norwegian Center for Organizational Learning in Oslo, Norway as well as the Foundation for Strategic and Industrial Research in Trondheim, Norway. His articles on management culture, organizational learning, and economic
development have appeared in the Journal of Management Development, the Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation, the Norwegian Journal Bedriftsokonomen and the Economic Development Review. Knudsen has developed a “Strategic Management and Organization Laboratory” which has been run for executives both in Norway and the U.S. and in the M. B. A. program at UMD. From 1986 to 1998 Knudsen was the Director of the UMD Center for Economic Development, a large regional business development and technology transfer organization working closely with the private sector.

Knudsen became Dean of the School of Business and Economics on January 1, 1998.

JENNIFER MENCL, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of HRM and Organization Behavior
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004

Jennifer Mencl joined the Management Studies Department in 2004. She teaches introductory human resource management, training and development, and organizational behavior.

Her current research interests include ethical decision making in human resource management, emotions in the workplace, and training related self efficacy.

Prior to graduate school, she worked in a variety of positions at a Midwestern advertising agency.

JON L. PIERCE, Ph.D.
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Organization and Management
University of Wisconsin Madison (1977)

Jon Pierce's teaching and research interests are in organizational behavior and management. He teaches Leadership, Management Inquiry, and Organization Behavior. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. He is the co-author of seven books--The Manager's Bookshelf: A Mosaic of Contemporary Views (now in its 7th edition), Alternative Work Schedules, Management, Windows into Organization, Leaders and the Leadership Process (now in its 4th edition), Managing, Management, and Management and Organization Behavior: An Integrative Perspective. In addition, Pierce has authored over 70 papers that have been published in academic journals and presented at organization and management conferences.

He has served on the Editorial Review Board for the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Management, the Board of Directors for the Midwest Business Administration Association, and currently reviews for several leading organization management journals. In 2005 he received UMD's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research, and was awarded by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents the Horace T. Morse Alumni Award for his outstanding contributions (e.g. excellence in teaching, advising, research, academic program development, and educational leadership) to undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota. He was recently inducted into the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame. Along with Randall B. Dunham (University of Wisconsin-Madison) he received the YODER-HENEMAN Personnel Research Award from the American Society for Personnel Administration. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Blandin Foundation, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Universities of California-Berkley, Wisconsin-Madison, and Minnesota, the U.S. Office of Employment and Training Administration, and the Office of Naval Research. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Pierce's research includes organizational determinants and organization-based self-esteem, psychological ownership within the organizational context, employee ownership, job design and technology, and alternative work scheduling.

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STEPHEN RUBENFELD, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Resource Management
University of Wisconsin Madison (1977)

Stephen Rubenfeld teaches Human Resource Management, Compensation, Staffing, Issues and Trends, and Labor Relations. In addition he is the instructor of Human Resource Challenges in the MBA curriculum. He is the faculty advisor to the LSBE chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. He has been on the SBE faculty since 1981, and prior to this, was on the faculty of the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. Rubenfeld’s research interests include employee attitudes toward job security, human resource policies, personnel challenges of small business organizations, and the role of human resource practices in facilitating organizational adaptation in a turbulent environment.

His articles have appeared in such journals as Psychological Reports, Personnel, Compensation Review, Industrial Relations Law Journal, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and Employee Relations Law Journal, as well as the proceedings of professional organizations which include the Industrial Relations Research Association, Decision Sciences Institute, ORSA/TIMS, and the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning.

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