Oregon MBA Faculty & Research
When it comes to teaching MBA students, our faculty members give their best both inside and outside the classroom. They start memorizing students’ names before the very first class. They are approachable and helpful. They keep generous office hours and even complain when students don’t take advantage of those hours. By the end, you will have gotten to know each other well, whether over lunch and coffee or through the give-and-take of class. Click on a name or photo to view a more detailed profile.
Accounting
Scharpf Professor of Accounting
David A. Guenther is the Scharpf Professor of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Professor Guenther is a leading scholar in the field of taxation as it applies to accounting issues. Professor Guenther has served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he has been an invited visiting scholar at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to his academic career he was a tax consultant and a certified public accountant. He is married with three children, and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
Senior Instructor of Accounting
Professor of Accounting
Professor Matsunaga's teaching interests include introductory and intermediate financial accounting. His main research interests involve the design of managerial compensation contracts. He is currently studying the valuation of employee stock options. Matsunaga is a co-recipient of the 1995 outstanding manuscript award from the American Taxation Association. In addition, he received the 1994 Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association and is a past recipient of a KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Tax Research Opportunities Award.
Professor Emeritus of Accounting
Professor Morse taught at Cornell University from 1978 to 1991. He has also taught courses in Nepal, New Zealand, China, Finland, Indonesia, and Kenya, where he was a Fullbright Scholar. His teaching and research interests are in financial and cost accounting. Morse has written a book on market efficiency and accounting and a book on cost accounting. He has also published in the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Financial Analyst Journal.
Decision Sciences
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Professor Aydinliyim’s main research interests include coordination and competition issues in production planning and supply chain management, with particular emphasis on outsourcing and subcontracting. As opposed to the common approach in supply chain management research focusing on coordination at the aggregate inventory level, his research places more emphasis on the timeliness of the production activities and the coordination benefits at the shop floor level. In his research, Professor Aydinliyim uses mathematical modeling techniques and utilizes tools from economics, such as game theory, to model coordination with different information sharing structures among the supply chain members.
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
John Goodale is Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences in the Lundquist College of Business where he teaches courses in operations management. John has been an active member of INFORMS, the Production and Operations Management Society, and the Decision Sciences Institute. In addition, he is a member of the Editorial Board for the Cornell Quarterly. John's research is focused on scheduling and quality in service operations, and papers on recent projects have appeared in Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Cornell Quarterly, and other journals.
Assoc. Dean-Acad.Affairs; Philip H. Knight Prof.; Dept Head-DSC
Professor Koreisha specializes in the areas of forecasting, mathematical model building, applied econometrics, energy modeling, production analysis, and manufacturing strategy. Some of his latest works in forecasting include articles on new fast estimation methods for large-scale, multiple-time series models, new approaches for identifying the mathematical structures governing the behavior of economic time series, and how causality among economic and business variables might be ascertained and used to formulate more accurate models. He has taught courses in Europe, South America, and the Pacific. He also provides consulting services for companies interested in doing business in Brazil.
Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Nagesh N. Murthy is an associate professor of operations management in the Department of Decision Sciences at the Lundquist College of Business. He received his PhD and MA in business administration, as well as an MS in mechanical engineering, from The Ohio State University. His prior work experience includes faculty positions at Michigan State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also held management positions with Indian Railways and Sundaram Clayton, India Ltd.
Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Before joining the Lundquist college faculty, Professor Pangburn taught at Penn State and earned his doctoral degree in 1997 from the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business Administration. His research interests include retail inventory management, supply chain coordination, capacity and pricing strategies, product versioning, and operations/marketing interfaces. Professor Pangburn teaches courses in both the operations and MIS (Management Information Systems) domains.
Instructor of Decision Sciences
Finance
Assistant Professor of Finance
Julian Atanassov is an assistant professor of finance. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance, and international finance. Dr. Atanassov's 2009 publication in the Journal of Finance examines how the interaction between labor laws and investor protection affects corporate restructuring decisions of poorly performing firms around the world. One of his current projects investigates how the threat of hostile takeovers affects the innovative output of U.S. firms. Another project analyzes how a firm's choice between arm's length and bank financing is related to the creation of novel innovations. A third project studies investor activism around the world by examining whether the degree of investor protection affects whether mutual funds vote with or against corporate CEOs.
Associate Professor of Finance, Department Head
Professor Chalmers' interests include the study of taxes and transaction costs and their impact on security returns. He has served as a reviewer for The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Finance, and The Journal of Financial Economics, and is a member of the American Finance Association.
Professor Emeritus of Finance
Professor Dann's interests include corporate financial policy and corporate governance. He has done extensive research on corporate stock repurchases and on the effect of management policies designed to thwart takeover attempts on the welfare of the firm's common stockholders.
Assoc. Professor of Finance, Finance Department Head
Professor Del Guercio's current research interests include the investment practices of institutional investors and the role of pension funds in corporate governance. She has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Queensland. She is currently the Finance Department Head.
Associate Professor of Finance
Ro Gutierrez is an assistant professor of finance. His research focuses on the pricings of stocks and bonds, the informational efficiency of the financial markets, and the efficacy of trading strategies. Dr. Gutierrez’s research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Financial Markets. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and economics from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Gutierrez has taught courses in investments and asset pricing at the undergraduate, M.B.A., and Ph.D. levels and was previously on the faculty at Texas A&M University.
Professor Emeritus of Finance
Wayne Mikkelson holds the Cameron Distinguished Chair in Finance. His research focuses on corporate financing decisions and corporate governance. His published research deals with equity and convertible bond financing, dual class share structures, transactions in the market for corporate control, initial public offerings, corporate spin-offs and carve-outs, corporate liquidity policies, and tracking stock. Currently, he is investigating the stage of development of companies when they decide to go public. He is also investigating the role of cash reserves in explaining how firms fare when an industry goes into a downturn. Professor Mikkelson received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1980. In addition to the University of Oregon, he has served on the faculty of Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and University College Dublin.
Management
Senior Instructor of Management
Beth Hjelm has more than twenty years of experience in financial management, marketing strategy, organizational planning, and performance improvement. Prior to joining the faculty at the Lundquist College of Business, she headed a consulting firm focused on strategic management and new venture start-ups. Hjelm was a member of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting for fourteen years. Her functional practice focused on delivering services to the chief financial officer and the financial organization, and her industry focus was the telecommunications industry. Hjelm is a co-author of Reinventing the CFO: Moving From Financial Management to Strategic Management (McGraw-Hill), which presents a vision and an implementation methodology to develop best practices in the financial function.
Associate Professor of Management
Jennifer Howard-Grenville is an associate professor of management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. She studies processes of organizational and institutional change and has explored the role of routines, issue selling, and culture in enabling and inhibiting change. She is particularly interested in how people change their organizations in response to environmental and social demands. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization & Environment, Law & Social Inquiry, California Management Review and several other journals. She is the author of Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice (Edward Elgar, 2007), which documents her in-depth study of a high-tech company, and coauthor or editor of two other books on industrial ecology. Howard-Grenville received her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her MA at Oxford University, and her BSc at Queen’s University, Canada.
Professor Emeritus of Management
As academic director for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE), Meyer has two responsibilities: (1) heading research programs that are turning LCE into a nationally recognized center for research in innovation and entrepreneurship, and (2) overseeing the college's graduate and undergraduate academic degree programs.The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Alan’s current research focusing on corporate venture investing and the emergence of the nanotechnolgy investing community. He also serves as research director for the Oregon Technology Entrepreneurship Consortium (OTEC) an NSF-funded program that provides opportunities for Lundquist College of Business M.B.A.s to team up with graduate students in law and the sciences to pursue the commercialization of leading-edge technologies invented by scientists at UO and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Assistant Professor of Management
Andrew Nelson is assistant professor of Management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. His research focuses on the evolution of knowledge diffusion networks, the commercialization of university research, and the measurement of innovation. With Tom Byers (Stanford University) and Dick Dorf (University of California, Davis) Professor Nelson is the author of Technology Ventures (McGraw-Hill, 2010). His doctoral dissertation on technology transfer in the digital audio and biotechnology sectors won the 2008 Best Dissertation Award from the Technology Management Section of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). He has also been named one of five inaugural Kauffman Foundation junior faculty fellows for promising research in the field of entrepreneurship. Nelson holds a Ph.D. in management science and engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. from Oxford University, and a dual B.A. from Stanford.
Associate Professor of Management
My research involves firm boundary decisions, concurrent sourcing, vertical interfirm relationships, and firm capabilities. Formerly a procurement manager, I worked in manufacturing industries for ten years and am certified as a professional purchasing manager (CPM). I have received research grants from the Institute for Supply Management and the Sloan Foundation. I was recently selected as one of three young scholars honored as a 2010 Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar. I serve on editorial boards for the Journal of Management and the Strategic Management Journal. My research has been published in the Journal of Management Inquiry, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, European Management Review, and the Strategic Management Journal.
Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management
Professor Russo's research interests are the influences of society, politics, and the natural environment on corporate strategy. He has also worked as an energy planner specializing in commercialization of wind and solar energy.
Senior Instructor of Business Management
Before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business, Ron Severson taught business writing, American and Chinese cultural studies, and literature at the University of Utah as part of his Ph.D. program. Prior to that, he directed the writing program as an assistant professor at Salt Lake Community College. Severson teaches courses in cross-cultural business negotiation, business writing, communication, and leadership. He also directs the International Business Communication Program. He has taught cross-cultural negotiation and conflict resolution at Lviv National University in Ukraine and at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. In the summer of 2007, he traveled to Hangzhou and Shanghai, China, to help a local company develop a long-term business relationship with a company in China.
Entrepreneurship Instructor/Advisor
After earning his Ph.D., Upson spent twenty-eight years in the chemical industry, with twenty-one of those years in director or executive positions. He has authored twenty-seven publications, holds sixteen U.S. patents, and was the founder of an Internet start-up company. Upson was a faculty member in the chemistry department at the UO from 2003 to 2005, and he has taught New Venture Planning and supervised the Technology Entrepreneurship Program at the Lundquist College since 2004. He has also served as the operations liaison between the UO Office of Technology Transfer and the University Venture Development Fund since 2007.
Marketing
Adjunct Instructor of Marketing
Gerald B. Bashaw Professor Associate Dean for Administration
Professor Boush's research interests center on the relationship between consumer behavior and marketing management decisions. Recent studies have focused particularly on the way consumers respond to advertising and on the way consumers use brand image in the process of choosing products. He has done consulting and executive training for US West, the Donaldson Company, P.W. Pipe, and the Bank of Newport. He is also a former marketing research analyst for Hallmark Cards. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Association for Consumer Research, the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Society for Consumer Psychology.
Associate Professor of Marketing
Professor Giese's research interests focus on consumer responses to information, including the resulting implications on marketing strategy. Her current research projects extend across four integrated streams of study: 1) affect as information in making judgments and decisions; 2) design (including typeface) influences on consumer responses; 3) the role of interpersonal communication on consumer responses; and 4) influences on customer satisfaction and retailer commitment. Professor Giese has worked with the Corporate Marketing Group at Microsoft Corporation on several projects, and she has made presentations to and facilitated focus groups for several private and governmental organizations. She is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Association for Consumer Research, and the Society for Consumer Psychology.
Associate Professor of Marketing
Professor Madrigal has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate classes in sports management at Ohio State University and Arizona State University. His research interests center on the application of pertinent theories of social psychology and consumer behavior to issues related to sport and tourism. He is particularly interested in those theories that explain the perceptions of sports fans and tourists. He is currently involved in a number of studies examining the ability of Weiner's (1986) attributional theory of motivation and achievement to explain fans' and tourists' satisfaction judgments.
Donald A. Tykeson Senior Instructor of Business
Mark Phelps' recent activities include teaching in the Oregon Executive M.B.A. program, participating in a faculty development program in Southeast Asia, serving as faculty advisor to Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and serving on the Lane Community College Business Advisory Board. In addition to teaching at the Lundquist College of Business, Phelps has been engaged in the private practice of law since 1975. His areas of research and interest include the law as it relates to international business, entrepreneurial organizations, and sports marketing. Phelps is a member of the Oregon State Bar Association and has served as a municipal judge, city attorney, and legal counsel to numerous business organizations. He is also a small business owner.
Managing Director
Paul Swangard is the Woodard Family Foundation Sports Business Fellow and the Managing Director of the James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. Since 2001 Swangard has led the day-to-day operations of the internationally recognized center, teaches both at the undergraduate and graduate level and serves as one of the center’s primary industry analysts on sports business issues. His comments on the industry have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today along with appearances on ABC’s Nightline, ESPN’s Outside the Lines, CNBC’s Power Lunch and NBC’s Olympic Games coverage. In addition to numerous consulting projects with leading sports firms including EA Sports and Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Swangard in frequent guest speaker and lecturer and has taught courses in both Europe and Asia.
Instructor of Sports Business and Industry Analyst
Whitney Wagoner is Senior Instructor of Sports Business/Industry Analyst for the University of Oregon's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. Whitney returned to the Warsaw Center in the fall of 2003 to teach various sports business courses at both the undergraduate and MBA level, including Sports Marketing and Sports Sponsorship. A 1996 graduate of the U of O, she spent seven years in a variety of marketing positions with the National Football League in New York. While at the NFL, she was responsible for the management of several key sponsorship programs including Motorola, Sony and IBM. Whitney also spent four years with Peter Jacobsen Productions as event staff for the Fred Meyer Challenge. She completed her graduate business studies at the Stern School of Business at New York University, earning an MBA in Marketing & Economics.
Leadership & Communication
Senior Instructor of Business
Anne Forrestel is currently an instructor in two fields at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business: marketing and leadership/communications. During her nine years with the college, she has taught courses in leadership and communication, marketing strategy, international marketing, and introductory marketing. For the past three years, she has been a lead participant in the new leadership and communication curriculum initiative at the college. She has earned multiple undergraduate teaching awards, including Most Influential Faculty Member and the BAC Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Senior Instructor of Leadership and Communication
Chuck joined the Lundquist College of Business in 2003 after retiring from a twenty-year career with the U.S. Coast Guard. He was an organizational development consultant at the Coast Guard's Leadership Development Center at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
Instructor of Leadership and Communication