PRAVEEN AGGARWAL, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing and Department Head
Syracuse University (1998)

Praveen Aggarwal came to UMD in the Fall of 1998. He has several years of work experience as a senior executive in the food products industry in India. Praveen has a masters degree in economics and another masters in management. He got his Ph.D. in marketing from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. He teaches marketing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Praveen's research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behavior, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Communications, Marketing Management Journal, Journal of Small Business Strategy, International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Advertising, Journal for the Advancement of Marketing Education, and Journal of Product and Brand Management. He has presented research papers at various national and international conferences, including those sponsored by AMA, ACR, MEA, and AMS. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of E-Business Research. His research interests are in the areas of consumer decision-making processes, strategic marketing, and price and non-price promotions.
Praveen has won several teaching, research, and advising awards including Blehart Distinguished Teaching Award, SBE SOCC Outstanding Professor Award, UMD Outstanding Advisor Award, Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year Award, and MCB Press Literati Club Award for Outstanding Research paper. He co-directed a $380,000 US Dept of Education grant for internationalizing business curriculum at UMD. He has also provided consulting services to advertising, utilities, and health care organizations.

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GEOFFREY BELL, Ph.D, CA
Assistant 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 as edited 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 has 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. Candidate
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Instructor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

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 was most recently at the Carlson School of Management on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota where she is pursuing her Ph.D. 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).

STEPHEN B. CASTLEBERRY, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
University of Alabama (1983)

Dr. Castleberry teaches Marketing Research, Fundamentals of Selling, and Business Ethics.

He has had over 40 articles in national publications, including: Journal of Advertising, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Consumer Marketing. Dr. Castleberry has written a best-selling textbook and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice and the Journal of Applied Business Research. He was past editor of the Journal of Applied Business Research. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, and has done consulting work for a number of businesses. He also owns and operates a publishing company. Current areas of research include informal organization of sales teams, business ethics, and salesperson listening.

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SEUNGWOO CHUN, PH.D. Candidate
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Instructor of Marketing

Seungwoo Chun teaches Consumer Behavior, Sports Marketing, and Marketing Research courses at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He also has experience in teaching Principles of Marketing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

He is a Ph.D. candidate in Marketing at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He earned his M.B.A. in marketing at Baruch College, the City University of New York. He majored in Korean Philosophy in SungKyunKwan University in Seoul, Korea.

His research interest lies in cross-cultural consumer research and sports marketing. He coauthored "A Review of Gendered Consumption in Sport and Leisure" in the Academy of Marketing Science Review, and presented several articles in the field of sports fan behavior at the conferences of the Association of Consumer Research.

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 Resources 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 M@n@gement and Insight to a Changing World.

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SANJAY GOEL, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
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, Inernational 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.

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

Constance 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 four department heads and numerous faculty striving to provide an efficiently run academic unit that serves the students' educational needs. In 1988-89 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.

JOHN L. KRATZ, MBA
Instructor of Marketing
Univerity of Minnesota (1992)

Mr. Kratz teaches Business-to-Business Marketing, International Marketing, Advertising and Marketing Communications and Fundamentals of Selling.

He brings 20 years of relevant industry experience to his post, having served in a diverse range of business development and marketing management positions with MCI, Gage Marketing Group, The Pillsbury Company, Land O’Lakes, Inc. and Actmedia (now part of NewsAmerica Corp.)

Mr. Kratz serves as a Board Member of UMD’s Alumni Association.

Mr. Kratz holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management in Marketing Management.

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.

JOHN W. NEWSTROM, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Management
University of Minnesota (1971)

John Newstrom came to UMD after teaching previously at Arizona State University for six years. From 1976-2004 he taught Organizational Behavior & Management, Managing Change, and Interpersonal Relations. He is the co author of over 20 books, including: Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work (2002), The Manager's Bookshelf: A Mosaic of Contemporary Views (2002), Supervision: Managing for Results (2001), Leaders and the Leadership Process (2002), and Transfer of Training (1992). Newstrom also published more than 50 journal articles, for both practitioner (e.g., Academy of Management Executive, Human Resource Planning Systems, Business Horizons, Training and Development, Journal of Mgt. Development, California Management Review, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Training) and academic (e.g., Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational Behavior, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review ) audiences.

He also held elective leadership positions at the national level in the Academy of Management and the American Society for Training and Development. Locally, he served as the President of The St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center (The Depot), sang bass in the "Dukes of Duluth" (barbershop quartet), volunteered with St. Luke's Hospice Program, and was a five gallon blood donor.
Professor Emeritus Newstrom currently resides in Aitkin, where he revises textbooks, plays golf, hunts, serves on the Riverwood Hospital Board of Directors, acts as a caregiver, travels, and practices the art of neoteny (joyful living).

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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LINDA ROCHFORD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing
University of Minnesota (1989)

Linda Rochford is Associate Professor of Marketing. She has a B.S. in Chemistry, an MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing, all from the University of Minnesota. She has taught at San Diego State University and has held research, sales, and marketing management positions with firms such as 3M and Cargill.

Dr. Rochford has teaching and research interests in the areas of new product marketing, industrial marketing, and marketing management. She is currently conducting research on the marketing offering and on buyer and seller perspectives of what is exchanged. Her publications include articles appearing in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Industrial Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management and Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing.

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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 SBE 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.

Peter Stark teaches Strategic Management, Managing Change and Entrepreneurship classes. He has taught and guest lectured at a number of institutions, including Concordia University,
University of Monterrey, Mexico, Pepperdine University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of Washington, Seattle, and Johns Hopkins University in Nanjing, China.

Peter is also an ABD doctoral student in the organization change program at Pepperdine University. His research interests are in the area of embedded ontological and ideological archetypes that inhibit culture change in organizations.

Peter is also an international consultant who has worked with many global companies, including Asia Pacific Breweries, Ltd. (Singapore), Cintra S.A. DE C.V. (Mexico City), Economic Development Board of Singapore, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Government of New Zealand, Korean Airlines (Seoul), and Reuters International (Hong Kong). He was country manager in China for Northwest Airlines and speaks four languages. He is currently the managing principal and senior consultant for his company, Chaos Navigation, Inc..

RAJIV VAIDYANATHAN, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Washington State University at Pullman (1993)

Rajiv Vaidyanathan is Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of MBA Programs. He teaches classes in consumer behavior, data analysis & statistics, and others. He has authored numerous publications in leading journals and conference proceedings including the Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Product and Brand Management on topics ranging from consumer behavior and marketing theory to the educational impact of technology innovations. Starting in 2000, Rajiv spent two years as Vice President of Marketing at Active Learning Technologies where he was responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategy for a series of e-learning products

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