Faculty

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John specializes in teaching micro economics, industrial organization and is the author of several papers relating to competition policy, and deregulation. His teaching at Cranfield School of Management has contributed to the electives on Economic Perspectives on Globalization; Advanced Macroeconomics Economic, Economics of Organizations' and Strategy, and Quantitative Methods. John has recently completed a sector risk assessment for a European Bank. John has also completed a report on Scottish Licensing Law which formed part of the British Entertainment and Discotheque Association's (BEDA) response to the Home Office White Paper on Licensing Law Reform in England and Wales. John has a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales and an MSc in Economics from the University of Salford.

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Dr. Jerry Lynch is Academic Director of Master's and Executive Education Programs at Purdue's Krannert School of Management and a Professor of Economics. Previously he was Associate Dean for Programs and Student Services at the Krannert School of Management. Prior to taking that position he was the Associate Dean of the German International School of Management and Administration (GISMA), Krannert's international outreach MBA program in Hannover, Germany. In the spring of 2006 he was a visiting researcher at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and has since attended advanced summer workshops at Harvard and Princeton. He was named the outstanding instructor in the MSM program for the Fall Semester of 1992, received the Salgo-Noren Award as the outstanding instructor in the MSM program for the 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1998-99 academic years, was nominated as a Fellow of the Teaching Academy at Purdue in 2000, was included in a list by Business Week magazine of the twelve best teachers in schools of business in the country in October 1994, and was named Distinguished Economist by the Kentucky Economics Association for 1996. Dr. Lynch's areas of specialty are monetary theory and policy, macroeconomics, and international trade and finance. He has published in a number of journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Regional Science, the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Economics and Business, Applied Economics, the Review of Financial Economics and the Journal of Economic Education. He is co-author of the principles text Economics for Irwin Publishing Company, co-author of a text entitled Intermediate Macroeconomics for Addison Wesley, co-author of a book of readings entitled Food, Policy, and Politics for Westview Press and co-author of a book aimed at Highs School Economics Teachers entitled Focus:International Economics for the National Council on Economic Education. Dr. Lynch is active as an economic consultant and has worked for, among others, the State of Indiana, B.F. Goodrich, Ross Gear and TRW, BATUS, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co., BankOne, Wabash National, Sears, CoBank, and Caterpillar. He has worked on anti-trust cases, product liability cases and death and disability cases for numerous law firms in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, New York, and Florida and has worked for the Attorney General of the states of Ohio, Virginia, and Arkansas. His executive education activities include sessions for General Electric, the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Pioneer Seed Co., and in the Krannert School's Executive Master's Degree Program. In addition, Dr. Lynch has international teaching experience. He taught in a Master's program on Air Force bases in Zweibruecken, Germany and Heraklion, Crete and was a visiting professor at Essex University in Colchester England, the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland and Institut Superieur du Commerce in Paris, France. In the summer of 1994, he conducted a workshop in the Crimea for Ukrainian university economists that introduced them to a more market oriented approach to teaching college economics.

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Professor Tang's teaching interests are applied statistics and quantitative methods. His current research includes the areas of applied statistics, statistical quality control, and reliability analysis. Professor Tang also has considerable expertise in the distribution theory of statistical multivariate analysis. Ph.D. Mathematical Statistics, Bowling Green State University.

Professor Tang has published 37 articles in professional journals and various internal technical reports/References for Bell Communications Research (formerly part of Bell Labs and currently Lucent Technologies). His recent journal publications include: "Estimating the Limits for Statistical Process Control Charts: A Direct Method Improving Upon the Bootstrap," (2007), with S. Teyrachakul and S. Chand, European Journal of Operational Research,, 178, 472-481; "A Multivariate Two-Factor Skew Model," (2007), with A. K. Gupta and J. T. Chen, Statistics, 41, 301-309; "A Modified EM-Algorithm for Estimating the Parameters of Inverse Gaussian Distribution Based on Time-Censored Wiener Degradation Data" (2007), with M. Y. Lee, Statistica Sinica, 17, 873-893; "Sample Size Determination for Achieving Stability of Double NEWMA Controller," (2007), with S. S. Tseng and C. H Lin, Technometrics, 49, 409-419. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1991, Professor Tang was a member of technical staff at Bell Communications Research (1984-91) and an assistant professor at Marquette University (1981-84). He is a member of the editorial board for IIE Transactions (1996-present). He is a member of Operations Research Society of America and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

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Professor Schleicher's teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate courses in both Human Resources (HR) and Organizational Behavior (OB). Her current research interests focus on job attitudes (including perceptions of fairness/justice, personality (especially self-monitoring personality), performance appraisal and management, assessment centers, and cognitive processes underlying OB and personnel practices. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management, among others (click on "Publications" tab for a list of these publications). She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Management and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology and the journal of Social Influence. Prior to coming to Krannert, Professor Schleicher was an assistant professor of Industrial/ Organizational Psychology at Kansas State (1998-99) and at the University of Tulsa (1999-2003). She is a chapter advisor and member of SHRM, and a member of the Academy of Management and SIOP.

Professor Schleicher's research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management, among others (click on "Publications" tab for a list of these publications). She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Management and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology and the journal of Social Influence. Ph.D. Psychology, Penn State.

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Richard L. Rogers, Ph.D., CPA (inactive) is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Richard has published in a number of academic journals, including, The Accounting Review, Management Accounting, The Journal of American Taxation Association, Tax Notes, Educase Quarterly, Technological Horizons in Education, The Journal of Clinical Engineering, and the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. His research interests include; issues in financial reporting, forensic accounting and innovative technologies in online education.

Professor Rogers has taught at the Kelley School of Business for the last 29 years. Classes he taught included Financial Accounting and Reporting (MBA and Executive MBA) Accounting Theory (Ph.D.), Auditing, Advanced Auditing, Financial Statement Analysis and Management Accounting (undergraduate and Master's level).

Professor Rogers has taught in the Purdue Executive MBA program and the Weekend MBA for the last 2 years. He was also a Visiting Professor at The Quinn School of Business, University College Dublin for the Spring semester of 2005.

EDUCATION
1977-1981 - Doctor of Philosophy, 1981 - The Pennsylvania State University
Major field: Accounting
Minor fields: Finance and Statistics

1976-1977 - Master of Business Administration - Lehigh University

1970-1974 - Bachelor of Science - Rider College
Major: Accounting

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Accounting Association
American Institute of CPAs (Certified State of PA - 1978)
Institute of Management Accountants
Beta Gamma Sigma

PUBLICATIONS
"Analysis of the impact of a radiofrequency identification asset-tracking system in the healthcare setting", Journal of Clinical Engineering (2010), 35(1), pp 49-55., (with Barbara Christe and Elaine Cooney).

"Technology Is Too Important to Leave to the Technologists", The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, (Volume 8, Issue 3, June 2004), pp 34-39, (with Jeremy Dunning, Richard Magjuka, et al).

"Learning from the Past: Distance Education can Succeed by not Repeating the Mistakes of Correspondence Education", Number 1 issue, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, (February 2002), pp. 34 - 38, (with Douglas L. Heerema).

"Avoiding the Quality/Quantity Trade-Off in Distance Education", THE Journal (Technological Horizons in Education), (December 2001), Vol. 29, No. 5, pages 14-21 (with Douglas L. Heerema).

"Cash vs. Accrual: IRS Challenges Small Business," Tax Notes (Nov. 1996), pp. 587-590 (with F. Pen Cosby).

"Is Your Cost Accounting System Benching Your Team Players?" (with Douglas Heerema), Management Accounting (Sept. 1991), 1991 NAA Certificate of Merit Award.

"The Impact of Price Volatility on the LIFO Liquidation Problem" (with Jerrold J. Stern), Management Accounting (Nov. 1986).

"Accounting for Deferred-Payment Notes" (with Krishnagopal Menon), The Accounting Review (July 1985), pp. 547-557.

"The Security Market Reaction to Tax Legislation as Reflected in Bond Price Adjustments" (with Allen Bathke and Jerrold Stern), The Journal of the American Taxation Association (Spring 1985), pp. 37-49.

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Professor Thoman teaches courses in both managerial and financial accounting. Her current research focuses on auditing issues, the source of the demand for auditing, how the legal system disciplines auditors, how accounting standards are chosen, and agency problems - what makes hierarchies advantageous and how the agency contract is affected when firms must compete for managers. Her recent publications include "On Auditors and the Courts in an Adverse Selection Setting" (with Nahum Melumad), Journal of Accounting and Research (Spring 1990); and "An Equilibrium Analysis of Optimal Audit Contracts" (with Nahum Melumad, Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 1990). Professor Thoman's prior professional work experience was as an economics instructor at Santa Clara University (1981-83) and Scripps College (1983-84). She is a member of the American Accounting Association.

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Patrick Duparcq is a lecturer of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He holds a Ph.D. in Marketing & Econometrics from Purdue University.

Professor Duparcq's teaching and research interests are marketing strategy, hi-tech strategy, electronic marketing, and technology consulting. He taught in executive education programs at Purdue University, The Netherlands Business School (Nijenrode University), Tilburg University, The University of Rouen, German International School of Management and Administration, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and The University of Vienna.

Professor Duparcq has advised companies on electronic commerce in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. and has served on the Board of a number of Internet companies. He lives in Chicago. Professor Duparcq was until 2004 director of the Center for E-Business Education and Research (CEER), a member of the executive board of the "e-Enterprise Center", as well as the Biometrics Center at Purdue University. He has served in an advisory function on the Technology Commercialization Task Force of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Areas of Expertise
Internet Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Technology Forecasting

Education
PhD, 1993, Marketing & Econometrics, Purdue University
MS, 1982, Quantitative Methods & Econometrics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
BA, 1980, Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Academic Positions
Lecturer, Marketing Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997-present
Clinical Professor, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, 1995-2004
Assistant Professor, Netherlands Business School, Nijenrode University, 1993-1995
Lecturer , Mathematics, University of Antwerp, 1984-1987

Other Professional Experience
Director, Purdue University, 2000-2004
Chief Information Officer (CIO), Nijenrode University, 1993-1995

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Prof. Kfuri teaches in graduate and executive programs at universities in Argentina, Austria, France, Germany, Mexico and the US. His main interests are strategy, marketing, international business and entrepreneurship. He is an academic member of the Marketing Science Institute, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Decision Sciences Institute and the Review Board of Business Management.

Prof. Kfuri works as a consultant and trainer for the private as well as the public sector. Among others, he has worked with the Argentinean, Canadian and Mexican Government, Audi, BNP Paribas, Cadbury Schweppes, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Nestlé, Phillip Morris and Volkswagen.

Ph.D., Business Adminsitration, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 2002
M.B.A., Purdue University / GISMA Business School, 2001
B.Sc., Business Aministration, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 1997

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Professor Lewellen joined the Krannert faculty in 1964. His areas of teaching and research are corporate and international finance. He was director of the School's Executive Education Programs from 1985 to 2006, and Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Management since 1988. He has held visiting appointments at the Harvard Business School, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His publication credits include Executive Compensation in Large Industrial Corporations, Columbia University Press, 1968; The Ownership Income of Management, Columbia University Press, 1971; The Cost of Capital, Kendall-Hunt, 1981; and Financial Management: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, South-Western College Publishing, 2000; plus more than 90 articles in professional journals. He has had extensive consulting experience in the areas of business valuation, executive compensation, commercial banking, and public utility rate regulation with such firms and organizations as Bank of America, AT&T, General Electric, Ameritech Indiana, GTE, Sun Trust Banks, American Water Works Company, IPALCO Industries, the U.S. Treasury Department, Johnson & Johnson, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, and the Federal Reserve Board. He has served or is serving on the editorial boards of Financial Management, Strategic Management Journal, Managerial and Decision Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Financial Research, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Research and the Journal of Economics and Finance. He has received the Salgo-Noren Award as the Outstanding Teacher in Graduate Professional Programs at the Krannert School on four different occasions. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Industrial Dielectrics, Inc., and he served on the Board of USF&G Corp. from 1992-98. Professor Lewellen was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1996.

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Professor Iyer is the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and the Director of DCMME (Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises)and GSCMI (the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative) at the Krannert School of Management. Previously, he was Purdue University Faculty Scholar from 1999-2004. His teaching and research interests are operations and supply chain management. Professor Iyer's research currently focuses on analysis of supply chains including the impact of promotions on logistics systems in the grocery industry, and analysis of the impact of competitors on operational management models and the role of supply contracts. His other topics of study include inventory management in the fashion industry, effect of supplier contracts, and use of empirical data sets in operations management model building. His published works (with co-authors listed in the publications list)include "An Approach to Identifying Beneficial Collaboration Securely in Decentralized Logistics Systems, MandSOM (to appear),"Efficient Supply Chain Management at the US Coast Guard using Part Age Dependent Supply Replenishment Policies", Operations Research, 2006, 'A Principal Agent Model for Product Specification and Production", Management Science, 2005,"The Logistics Impact of a Mixture of Order Streams in a Manufacturer-Retailer System", Management Science, 2003,"The Supply Chain Impact of Smart Customers in a Promotional Environment" with Huchzermeier and Freiheit, MandSOM, 2002; "Inventory Cost Impact of Managing Lead Times using Priority Queues based on Demand Uncertainty," Naval Research Logistics, 2002; "A Logistics Model in a Promotion Sensitive Grocery Environment" with J. Ye, Networks, 2001; "Assessing the Value of Information Sharing in a Promotional Environment" with J. Ye, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2000; "Quick Response in Manufacturer Retailer Channels" with Mark Bergen, Management Science, 1997; "Backup Agreements in Fashion Buying - The Value of Upstream Flexibility" with G. Eppen, Management Science, 1997; and "Separating Logistics Flows in the Chicago School System" with D. Elsenstein, Operations Research, Vol. 44, No. 2, 1996. He was the FMC Scholar in 1990-91. He is a Department Editor of Management Science, Associate Editor of Operations Research, on the editorial boards of Operations Research Letters ,IIE Transactions, the ECR Journal and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management editorial board, and member of INFORMS. He was president-elect of the MSOM Society of INFORMS in 2001-02 and served as president for the year 2002-03. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1996, Professor Iyer taught at the University of Chicago. He has been affiliated with the Production and Distribution Research Center at Georgia Tech, and a consultant to Daymon Associates, Sara Lee, Turner Broadcasting and others. He served his Chicago community as a pro bono consultant to the Chicago School System and the Chicago Streets and Sanitation Department.

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Joe joined the Cranfield School of Management in 1984 and contributes to the full range of the School's postgraduate and post-experience management programs. He was formerly Academic Dean of the Faculty of Management (2003-05) and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University (2005-08). He is currently Director of the Policy, Strategy & Performance Academic Community within the School and sits on the School's Executive Board.

Prior to life at Cranfield, Joe studied at the Universities of Ulster and Warwick and was on the staff of the Universities of Loughborough and Keele. He has spent two years as a teacher on Voluntary Service Overseas in Ghana. He makes regular return visits to Ghana.

He has held Visiting Professorships at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue, Indiana, USA; Central European University (CEU), Budapest; Tias Business School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Management Center Innsbruck, Austria; GISMA in Hannover, Germany, the Ghanaian Institute of Management and Public Administration and the University of Ghana Business School. He is a member of The Association of MBA's International Accreditation Advisory Board. In 2000, he received an 'Outstanding Professor' award in Hungary for his contribution to curriculum development, funded by the TEMPUS Program of the European Union. He is recipient of the '2005 Distinguished Graduate Award' from the University of Ulster, and in 2008 and 2009 he received the 'Best Professor Award' from GISMA/Purdue University.

Joe has published 18 books and over 200 academic and practitioner journal articles. His research encompasses analysis of business developments in a changing world in terms of the macro economy, the role of government, the impact of technology, societal and demographic trends.

Joe is a frequent contributor to a wide range of international conferences and is a consultant to a number of UK and international companies in the areas of strategy and business environmental analysis, strategy formulation and management development. He has also acted as a consultant to several central government departments and public sector organizations.

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Since 1976, collective bargaining, negotiations, and dispute resolution are Chancellor Dworkin's main teaching interests. His current research interests include unionism in professional sports, why doctors join unions, and arbitration acceptability.

Dworkin is the author of two books, Owners Versus Players: Baseball and Collective Bargaining (Boston: Auburn House Publishing Company, 1981), and Reflections on the Transformation in Industrial Relations (Scarecrow Press, 1989) and numerous articles.

He has been a consultant to the assistant secretary for policy, evaluation, and research at the U.S. Department of Labor; Employer and Employee Education Services, University of Minnesota; and various publishing companies. Dworkin is a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, and the American Arbitration Association. He serves as an arbitrator, mediator, and fact-finder in a variety of labor-management disputes in the private and public sectors.

He came to Purdue University North Central from the Purdue Krannert School of Management in West Lafayette. Dworkin joined Purdue in 1976, served as an associate dean for the Krannert School for 10 years, and served as acting dean before coming to PNC.

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Areas of expertise: Management & Organisation, Strategic Management in Organizations, Strategy & Innovation

Research: Professor Filip Caeldries's research and teaching interests focus on strategic management, institutional theory and globalization.

Filip Caeldries is Professor of Strategy and Associate Dean Company Specific Programs, TiasNimbas, the business school of Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology. He earned his PhD at Purdue University, Strategic Management.

He previously taught at New York University (Stern School of Business) and Nijenrode University (The Netherlands) His research has been published in Advances in Strategic Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Journal of Socio-Economics. From 1992-1999 he served as a member of the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Caeldries has extensive experience as a trainer and instructor in strategic management programmes to various corporations in Europe. At TiasNimbas Business School, he holds responsibility for all in-company executive education programs.

Publications:
"International and External Communication Flows in International New Product Development", Forthcoming in The Journal of Product Innovation Management

"Informatiestromen in Internationale Productontwikkeling: Interne en Externe Interfaces", M&O, 1998

"Architectural Redesign, Interpersonal Communication, and Learning in R&D", The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1996

"On the Sustainability of the Capitalist Order: Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Revisited", Journal of Socio-Economics, 1993

"How Belgian Companies Make Strategic Planning Work", Long Range Planning, 1988

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James S. Kirsch was appointed to the Court of Appeals in March 1994 and served as Chief Judge from March 1, 2004 to February 28, 2007. A native of Indianapolis, Judge Kirsch is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis (J.D., cum laude, 1974) and Butler University (B.A. with honors, 1968).

Judge Kirsch served as Judge of the Marion Superior Court from 1988 to 1994 and as presiding judge of the court in 1992. From 1974 to 1988, he practiced law with the firm of Kroger, Gardis & Regas in Indianapolis in the areas of commercial and business litigation and served as managing partner of the firm. Since 1990, he has held an appointment as Visiting Professor of Law and Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.

Judge Kirsch is a past-president of the Indianapolis Bar Association and of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation and is a former member of the Board of Visitors of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He is a past-president of the United Way/Community Service Council Board of Directors and a current or former member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Central Indiana, the Board of Associates of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, and of the Boards of Directors of the Goodwill Industries Foundation of Central Indiana, Community Centers of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Urban League, the Legal Aid Society of Indianapolis, and the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Association. He is a Fellow of the Indiana State Bar Foundation and of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation.

Judge Kirsch is a frequent speaker and lecturer and has served on the faculty of more than 200 continuing legal education programs. He has been named a Sagamore of the Wabash by four different governors.

Judge Kirsch and his wife have two children. He was retained on the Court in 1996 and 2006.

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Norbert Homma is currently Managing Director and Partner of business performance consulting GmbH (bpc), Heidelberg (Germany), an organisation he founded in 1997. He is also President and co-founder of bpcUSA LLC, bpc's North American affiliate. As a management consultant, he specialises in the management of organisational change and the advancement of individual and organisational learning. More specifically, he is an expert in

• Change Management/Post-Merger Integration
• Restructuring Organisations
• Leadership Development
• Team Development
• Intercultural Training
• Experiential Learning
• Management Tools (Balanced Scorecard, Risk Management)

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Professor Lewellen joined the Krannert faculty in 1964. His areas of teaching and research are corporate and international finance. He was director of the School's Executive Education Programs from 1985 to 2006, and Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Management since 1988. He has held visiting appointments at the Harvard Business School, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His publication credits include Executive Compensation in Large Industrial Corporations, Columbia University Press, 1968; The Ownership Income of Management, Columbia University Press, 1971; The Cost of Capital, Kendall-Hunt, 1981; and Financial Management: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, South-Western College Publishing, 2000; plus more than 90 articles in professional journals. He has had extensive consulting experience in the areas of business valuation, executive compensation, commercial banking, and public utility rate regulation with such firms and organizations as Bank of America, AT&T, General Electric, Ameritech Indiana, GTE, Sun Trust Banks, American Water Works Company, IPALCO Industries, the U.S. Treasury Department, Johnson & Johnson, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, and the Federal Reserve Board. He has served or is serving on the editorial boards of Financial Management, Strategic Management Journal, Managerial and Decision Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Financial Research, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Research and the Journal of Economics and Finance. He has received the Salgo-Noren Award as the Outstanding Teacher in Graduate Professional Programs at the Krannert School on four different occasions. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Industrial Dielectrics, Inc., and he served on the Board of USF&G Corp. from 1992-98. Professor Lewellen was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1996.

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Professor Urban currently works for the EBRD in London as a Member of the Board on behalf of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia. His previous positions included Chief Financial Officer of OTP Bank, the largest bank in Hungary and a publicly traded banking group present in 9 countries in Eastern Europe. Earlier he was Vice President, Business Planning Director at Citigroup, New York, NY, where he was responsible for Global Product Strategy formulation and implementation, including product development, revenue and expense budgeting, management reporting, client and product profitability analysis and Pricing of a product group (Clearing and Direct Custody). Prior to his international career he worked for two major banks in Hungary: Postabank, Budapest, where he was the Deputy CEO and Member of the Board of Directors, and ABN-AMRO, where he held the position of Director of Planning and Chief Economist.

Professor Urban has fulfilled several positions in Policy making.
As a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Property Agency, Hungary he had an important role in the control of the privatization transactions in Hungary in 1990-92.

He became Member of the Hungarian Parliament in 1994, and he was a member of the Budget Committee.

He was Visiting Fellow, Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC between 1995 to 1996.

His academic career started in 1985 in Eotvos University of Budapest, where he taught courses in the fields of Economics, Business and Political Science until 1992.

Professor Urban has been an Adjunct Visiting Professor at the Central European University Business School since 2006.

He is a Member of the Presidential Board of the Hungarian Economics Society since 2008.

Professor Urban holds a degree of Univ. Doctorate from the Budapest University of Economics, and an M.A. degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the same university.

He completed several post-gradutate programs, namely:
Advanced Management Program (2000 ) in Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Treasury Program (1997) ABN-AMRO Academy, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Mid-Career Fellow (1992-1993) in Princeton University, W. Wilson School
Visiting Fellow, (1988-89) UC Berkeley, Schools of Business Administration

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CEU Business School, Senior Lecturer of Management & IT Management
Mr Vörös has over 15 years of experience in information systems and management. He is holding an MSc in Maths, Physics and Information Technology (Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest) and currently finishing his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire. Mr Vörös worked at a variety of multinational companies and SMEs, leading corporate trainings and taking part in projects ranging from office automation and systems development to knowledge management, business intelligence and corporate strategy related issues. His technical expertise in the area is underlined by a Project Leader role for the University of Stockholm. More recently Mr Voros took part in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization campaign: he also taught at a variety of institutions, including University of Hertfordshire, University of Durham and University of Sunderland. Mr Voros also took a leading role in developing scenarios for complex business simulations and designing cross-cultural themes in higher education. Mr Voros should be approached with management and information technology related questions, concentrating on business intelligence and knowledge management. Research interest extends to neural networks, robotics, biomechanics and systems modelling.

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She graduated at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. Since then has been teaching Macro- Micro - Comparative and Business Economics at different universities for graduate and postgraduate students. Her PhD dissertation earned from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was entitled: The privatization of the natural monopolies - the British case.

At CEU Business School Maria is head of the EEP (executive education) programs and member of MBA faculty, teaching Economics. She is the program director of the IMM (International Master in Management) International Exec. MBA program, ranked in the top 25 by the Financial Times. Her main focus is to develop and deliver programs, training for the business community and working executives.

She is adjunct professor of the Columbia University New York, where she taught International competitiveness at SIPA School in the Fall of 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. She is also member of the international research team at Columbia University focusing on FDI in emerging markets.

Her main research interest is: competitiveness and its factors. She published about 50 articles and 3 books on international competitiveness, different models of the market economies and privatization.