Meet Our Faculty

Sarah Fisher Gardial joined Belmont University in 2020 as the first woman Dean in the Massey College of Business. Prior to Belmont, she was Dean of the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, and she held college and campus leadership positions at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, including Associate Dean of the Haslam College of Business and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.  She has had leadership positions in national/international business school associations, including president of the MBA Roundtable, and conference chairs for the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business.

Sarah has an extensive background in business and business education.  For over 30 years, she has personally engaged with industry in research, consulting, and executive education roles, as well as creating mutually beneficial partnerships between higher education and industry.  Her leadership awards include the Prometheus Leadership Medal (University of Tennessee Center for Educational Leadership), Leadership Knoxville, Women of Achievement in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Iowa), the Iowa Women’s Foundation Tribute to Women and the Corridor Business Journal (Iowa) Woman of Influence.

Sarah has served on public and private for-profit and non-profit governing boards (United Fire Group, Learning Tree, GreenState Credit Union, United Way and the Tennessee Justice Center).  In addition, she is an active public speaker for corporations, conferences, women’s leadership events, and industry associations.   She is an outspoken advocate for women in leadership as well as organizational diversity and inclusion. 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A. -  University of Memphis, Marketing (Dissertation:Interorganizational Negotiation in Marketing:An Assessment of a General Buyer/SellerModel Utilizing Competitive and Cooperative Orientations)
• M.B.A. - University of Memphis
• B.B.A. - Harding University, Marketing
• Six Sigma Black Belt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Dean, Belmont University, The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business
• Dean, University of Northern Colorado, Kenneth W. Monfort College of Business
• Associate Dean & Professor of Marketing, Univ. of N. Colorado, Monfort College of Business
• Chair, Department of Marketing, Univ. of N. Colorado, Monfort College of Business
• Market Research Analyst, Research America, Inc.
• Sales Associate, CPT, Inc. 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Lambert, R. P., Alexander, J. F., & Schenkel, M. (2015).  Belle Meade Plantation: Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at the First Non-profit Winery in the U.S.   Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship.
• Lambert, R, Schenkel, M., Alexander, J. F., and Cornwall, J. (2011).  Evans Glass Company:  You Make the Coffee, We’ll Bring the Cup, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 23 (1), 122 - 140..
• Reardon, J., Payan, J., Miller, C., and Alexander, J.F. (2008).Optimal Class Length in Marketing Undergraduate Classes: An Examination of Preference, Instructor Evaluations, and Student Performance, Journal of Marketing Education, 30 (1), 12-20.
• Alexander, J.F., Jares, T.E., and Latham, J. (2007). Performance Excellence in Higher Education: One Business School's Journey, Palmetto Review, 10, 34-45.
• Alexander, J.F. et. al. (2007). Contributor to Transformation to Performance Excellence: Baldrige Education Leaders Speak Out, (Minneapolis, Minn.: American Society for Quality). 

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Ned R. McWherter Leadership Award, Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (2014)
• Dean's Award, Belmont University Jack C. Massey College of Business (2012)
• Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright International Education Administration Program, Japan (2008)
• Award for Academic Excellence Leadership, Division of Academic Affairs, University of Northern Colorado (2006)
• Award for Distinction for Recognition to the State of Colorado, Colorado State Legislature (2005)
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Senior Leader, President of the United States (2004)
• Program of Excellence Leader, Colorado Commission on Higher Education (2000)
• Mortar Board Favorite Professor, University of Northern Colorado Honor Students (2000, 2004)
• University Faculty Member of the Year, University of Northern Colorado Pan-Hellenic Council (1997)
• Professor of the Year, University of Northern Colorado Marketing Students (1991, 1992, 1996, 1997)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Joe Alexander provides leadership for The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business M.B.A. and Master of Accountancy programs and teaches graduate courses in marketing management and performance excellence. Alexander joined The Massey School in 2007 after serving six years as dean of the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). Under his leadership, Monfort became the first business school in U.S. history to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the President of the United States (2004). Monfort was also recognized as a Program of Excellence by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. While at UNC, Joe received the university's top award for leadership in academic excellence and numerous teaching awards by university student groups, including the Pan-Hellenic Council, Mortar Board, Athletics Department and Marketing Department.
 
Since his coming to Belmont as associate dean in 2007, the Massey Graduate School of Business has built a national reputation for its high-quality graduate business programs, including repeated national rankings in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, and The Princeton Review.  In addition, the Masters of Accountancy program has become the largest private university MACC program in Tennessee.

Alexander earned his doctorate in business administration and M.B.A. from Memphis State University and a B.B.A. in marketing from Harding University (Arkansas). Prior to beginning his career in academia, his professional experiences were in industrial sales and market research and analysis. He has consulted for a variety of business, government, and educational clients, ranging from State Farm Insurance to the Colorado Legislature. Since 2005, he has addressed almost 100 audiences across the United States and abroad on the use of performance excellence techniques for enhancing organizational effectiveness.

Joe's research has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, and Journal of Marketing Education. His other intellectual contributions have included presentations to audiences such as the American Marketing Association and Marketing Educators Association. He has written books/chapters published by the American Society for Quality, the Association for Institutional Research, and South-Western Publishing Company.

Alexander currently serves on the panel of judges for the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (board chair from 2011-12), the TriStar Centennial Medical Center, and the Middle Tennessee Better Business Bureau, in addition to serving as a member of the board of trustees for Rochester College (Michigan).  He also completed a term as board chair of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Foundation (2009-10).  Additional service to his community has included work with the United Way, Junior Achievement, Rotary Club, and various church activities, including past service as an elder at Journey Christian Church (Colorado).  Dr. Alexander has the opportunity to work with graduate students personally as an advisor to the Massey Graduate Council, and he also serves as the liaison between The Massey School and its Alumni Association.  His philosophy of service is …to serve where needed and to do so in a manner that is above and beyond stakeholder expectations.

Joe and his wife, Tamera, have been married for 30 years. With both of their children now in their 20s, the couple lives in Brentwood.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A.  -  Argosy University, Sarasota, Florida, Accounting
• M.B.A.  -  Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, Accounting
• A.S.  -  New York City Technical College, Brooklyn, NY, Computer Science
• B.B.A.  -  Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, Information Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Instructor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Instructor, University of Phoenix
• Financial Auditor, Equitable Life Assurance Society
• Manager, Financial Analysis, Prudential Financial
• Internal Control Manager and Diversity Officer, Prudential Financial
• Assistant Manager, Equitable Life Assurance Society (now AXA Financial)
• Senior Compensation Analyst, Equitable Life Assurance Society (now AXA Financial)
• Data Analyst, Equitable Life Assurance Society (now AXA Financial)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Alleyne, B. J. (in press, 2014).  What Happened to the Tax Exemption? The Case of the Rice Tabernacle Church.   Journal of International Academy for Case Studies.   
• Elson, R. J. & Alleyne, B. J. (2014).  The Growth and Decline of the New Revival Pentecostal Church.   Journal of International Academy for Case Studies.   
• Alleyne, B. J. & Amaria, Dr. Pesi (2013).  The Effectiveness of Corporate Culture, Auditor Education, and Legislation in Identifying, Preventing, and Eliminating Corporate Fraud.   International Journal of Business Disciplines (IJBD).    [Status: Published]  
• Alleyne, B. J. (2013).  The Impact of Federal Regulations on Identifying, Preventing, and Eliminating Corporate Fraud.   Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues.   

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Outstanding Scholarly Activity (2014)
• Outstanding Teaching Award (2011)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Alleyne taught as adjunct faculty for the Undergraduate School of Business Administration beginning in 2003. She earned her B.B.A. with an emphasis in Information Systems and an M.B.A. in Accounting at Long Island University in New York. Beverley was awarded her D.B.A. in 2010 and is now a tenure track member of the faculty.

Her business experience includes serving as an Internal Control Manager, Diversity Officer, and Financial Analysis Manager for Prudential Financial in New Jersey and positions ranging from Data Analyst to Financial Auditor for Equitable Life Assurance (now AXA Financial) in New York.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  Kennesaw State University, St. Petersburg, FL, International Business, 2015.
• Ph.D.  Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, International Business (Strategic Management Emphasis), 2015
• M.B.A.  University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, Finance - International Business, 2009
• B.A.  American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Economics
• Harvard Case Method, 2017
• ISO 9002 - Lead Assessor Certification, 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Managment and International Business, Belmont University
• Instructor of Management and International Business, Belmont University
• Management Consultant, Road-5 LLC (2007 - Present), Clearwater, Florida.
• Managing Partner, Datex Regional Office, Datex International, Egypt (2004 - 2007), Cairo, Egypt.
• General Manager, Blacks Ltd (1997 - 2004), Cairo, Egypt.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Assouad, A. A. (2018).  Religion and innovation. A country institutional approach.   Journal of Management, Religion and Spirituality, 15 (1), 20-37.
• Assouad, A. A. (2018, June). Does Academic Pedigree Predict Performance? On the Predictive Power of University Prestige.  Academy of Internationa Business (AIB), Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Assouad, A. A. (2017).  Incorporating the X-Culture Project in International Business Curriculum: Challenges and Best Practices.   Academy of Internationa Business (AIB). 
• Assouad, A. A. (2016).  The Impact of Culture on Customer Expectations.   Journal of Management, Policy and Practice.
• Assouad, A., & Overby, J. W. (2016).  The Impact of Culture on Customer Expectations.   Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 17 (2), 19-32.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• 2015 – 2018:  Best Professor Award, X-Culture.
• 2016:  Best Reviewer Award, Academy of International Business.
• 2015:  Doctoral Award, Beta Gamma Sigma, National Honor Society in Business Administration.

BIOGRAPHY

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Carnegie Mellon University, Industrial Administration (Information Systems)
• M.S. - Carnegie Mellon University, Industrial Administration (Information Systems)
• M.B.A. - Georgia State University (Information Systems)
• B.A. -  University of North Carolina (Economics and Psychology), Chapel Hill
• IBM Consultant Certification
• SAP ABAP/4 Developer Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management, Belmont University
• SAP Technical Consultant, Hitachi Consulting
• SAP Technical Manager, Morrison Homes
• Senior SAP Consultant, IBM Corporation 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Balint, B. (2020). Evolving Attitudes toward the Personal Use of Technology While at Work. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Changes, 11(4)
• Balint, B. (2018). The Impact of Similarity and Self-Esteem on Facebook Behaviors, Perceptions and Attitudes. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Changes, 9(3)
• Balint, B., Forman, C., and Slaughter, S. (2017). Process Capability and Performance in Business Services Offshoring. International Journal of Services Sciences, 6(1)
• Balint, B. (2016). Maximizing the Value of Packages Software Customization: A Nonlinear Model and Simulation. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 13(1)
• Balint, B., Forman, C., and Slaughter, S. (2016). Effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms for Implementing Process Improvement Frameworks in Services Offshoring. Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences, 19(1)

RECENT PRESENTATION OF REFEREED PAPERS

• Balint, B., and Rau-Foster, M. (2014). Cybersnooping: I See What You Did There. Allied Academies Summer International Conference, Nashville, TN.
• Balint, B. (2014). Obtaining Value from the Customization of Packaged Business Software: a Model and Simulation. INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• Ballint, B. (2012). Standardization Frameworks in Services Offshoring: The Relationship between Process Implementation Thoroughness, Task Complexity, and Performance Improvement. Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI. 

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• NTC Community Leader of the Year - Nominee (2016, 2019)
• Jack C. Massey College of Business Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship (2015)
• NTC Technology Educator of the Year - Nominee (2014)
• Beta Gamma Sigma (2011)

BIOGRAPHY

Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Balint worked for more than 10 years as a consultant to companies implementing enterprise software systems such as SAP.  His duties included custom development as well as the management of development and technical resources.  His client list included IBM, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola Enterprises, UCB Chemical, Getrag Automotive, and others.  He developed and taught courses on SAP's proprietary programming language, ABAP/4.His research interests include an examination of process standardization in the context of business services off shoring, communication and privacy in electronic social networks, and organizational impacts of Information Systems. Dr. Balint also serves as Belmont's Faculty Coordinator for the SAP University Alliance, and as the Faculty Advisor for Belmont's Student Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.

Dr. Balint was selected to participate in two doctoral consortia in Information Systems.  His research has been published in Journal of Information Technology Case and Applications Research, Business Studies Journal, and Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict. He has also presented his research at the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Academy of Management (AOM), and the Hawaiian International Converence on System Sciences (HICSS).

Dr. Balint is a member of several professional organizations including INFORMS, Beta Gamma Sigma, and the Association for Information Systems. He has served as a deacon and a Bible study teacher at churches in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Nashville.  

Rudolph T. Bedeley joined Belmont University in Fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Business Systems, Analytics, and Data Science. He completed his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 2017, and obtained two M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Information/Technology Management from the University of Delaware in 2010 and 2013 respectively. He is an interdisciplinary faculty member who teaches in both the College of Business and the College of Sciences & Math at Belmont University.   

Dr. Bedeley’s teaching interests are in the areas of Business Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, Database Systems, and Managing Information Systems. Prior to joining Belmont, Dr. Bedeley Has developed and taught Data Mining courses to undergraduate and graduate students at UMass Amherst since 2017.   

His research interest centers on how analytics, business intelligence and data mining techniques/processes improve organizational performance. He is also interested in understanding how tools of analytics & business intelligence (A&BI); data mining and/or machine learning might be employed to better manage, organize, analyze healthcare organizations data for improved performance. 

Dr. Bedeley has published his scholarly research work in the: Journal of Computer Information Systems (JCIS) and the Communication of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS); under review top tier journals such as: Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and Information & Management Journal;  or presented in conferences such as: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), American Association on Information Systems (AMCIS), Southern Association on Information Systems (SAIS), and Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA). Additionally, he has also published a book chapter and collaborated with a colleague Assistant Professor in his previous institution and other renowned global research faculty members to secure a grant through the World University Alliance (WUN) program in 2018. 

He currently serves on the Belmont Data Collaborative Initiative committee led by Dr. Charlie Apigian where he participates in outreach programs designed to arouse interest in data literacy/fluence or the use data to tell stories and help Nashville communities flourish. 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.  – Entrepreneurship, Baylor University (2022)
• S.  – Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Carolina University (2016)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Brown, A. R., Wood, M. S., & Scheaf, D. J. (2022). Discovery Sells, But Who’s Buying? An Empirical Investigation of Entrepreneurs’ Technology License Decisions. Journal of Business Research. 144. 403-415.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Brown’s research is rooted in the insights of organization theory, which he uses to unpack the influence of context on entrepreneurs’ cognitive processes. His dissertation explores how the new venture ideation process transforms under distinct configurations of the entrepreneur’s surrounding ecosystem. Some of his previously published work investigates how decision context shapes entrepreneurs’ opportunity assessments, such as in the setting of university technology license decisions.

Dr. Brown’s teaching experience is predominantly in foundations of entrepreneurship courses, which he designs as semester-long hands-on boot camp for generating and evaluating new venture ideas. In addition, he has taught senior capstone courses in strategic management and first-year courses in theories of knowledge.

Prior to starting his Ph.D., he worked in the wine industry—both in North Carolina and Burgundy, France—with a primary focus on viticulture. However, at 22, he found himself missing his experience tutoring courses in Micro and Macro Economics and Organic Chemistry I and II, which led him to decide a life of grape farming wasn’t for him. This led him to take on a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Western Carolina University’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise, where continued working as a Teaching Assistant for Microeconomics and Ethics of Capitalism during the first two years of his Ph.D.

In his spare time, Dr. Brown enjoys fishing, hiking, and camping in the areas around Nashville, as well as playing games such as Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, and Old School Runescape. When none of that is going on, you can usually find he, his wife Paige, and their cat Appa hanging out in their home in East Nashville (likely watching Survivor).

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. – Mississippi State University, Industrial Engineering 
• M.S. – Auburn University, Industrial Engineering
• B.S. – University of Oklahoma, Petroleum Engineering
• American Society for Quality Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
• Registered Professional Engineer (Industrial, State of Alabama)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Supply Chain Management, Belmont University
• Professor of Supply Chain Management, Middle Tennessee State University
• Associate Professor of Management, Middle Tennessee State University
• Assistant Professor of Management, Middle Tennessee State University
• Affiliate Faculty, Regis College, Denver
• Quality Engineer, Quality Engineering Manager, Purchasing Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Micro Motion, Inc., Boulder, CO
• Process Engineer, Sterling Plumbing Group, Huntsville, AL
• Petroleum Engineer, Amoco Production Co., Denver, CO
• Consultant in process improvement and basic Excel skills, Supply Chain Doctors, LLP

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Welborn, C.A., Bullington, K.E. and Abston, K. (2022) Recruiting Students to an Undergraduate Supply Chain Management Program. Industry and Higher Education.
• Bullington, K.E. and Welborn, C.A. (2022) GOALs 4 Improvement: Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone and Visiting Your Suppliers. Quality Progress, accepted, awaiting publication.
• Bullington, K.E. (2018) Sticky Storms: Applying Basic Quality Tools. Quality Progress.
• Welborn, C. and Bullington, K.E. (2013) Benchmarking Award Winning Health Care Organizations in the United States. Benchmarking: An International Journal.

HONORS & AWARDS

• Jones College of Business Teacher of the Year Nominee, 2016.
• Jones College of Business award for longest participation in college advising for new students.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Kimball Bullington is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at Belmont University.   He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University, as well as an M.S.  degree from Auburn University and a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He has nineteen years of operations, engineering, and supply chain management experience within multinational companies, in oil production and in manufacturing.

Dr. Bullington worked in supply chain management either directly or indirectly throughout his career and managed a global supply chain. He remains connected with industry leaders in operations and supply chain management.

Professor Bullington teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations and supply chain management. He has taught several executive education courses for Middle Tennessee State University. While at MTSU, Bullington co-founded MTSU’s supply chain management undergraduate program which grew from a first cohort of 14 to over 120 in three years. Dr. Bullington has been a media contact for a variety of supply chain topics.

In Professor Bullington’s operations management and supply chain management courses, he emphasizes systems thinking and continuous improvement utilizing lean and six sigma methods, emphasizing basic tools.  He has volunteered with TNCPE to help TN organizations continuously improve using the Baldridge framework. His current research interests are in the areas of cause-and-effect diagram use, supply chain relationships, and lean Six Sigma implementation. Bullington served two terms as president of the Nashville chapter of the Institute for Supply Management. He is a frequent speaker for ISM and ASQ.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Louisiana State University, Economics
• M.Sc. - Louisiana State University, Economics
• M. A. - Williams College, Development Economics
• B.Sc. - University of the West Indies, Business, Economics and Social Statistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Instructor, Louisiana State University
• Balance of Payments Economist and Statistician, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, St. Kitts
• Country Economist, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, St. Kitts
• Statistician (Internship), Ministry of Sustainable Development, St. Kitts

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "Does the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Increase Fertility Behavior?" Journal of Labor Research, June 2014, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 105-132, DOI: 10.1007/s12122-014-9181-9.
• "20-Over Versus 50-Over Cricket: Is There a Difference?" with Bibhudutta Panda and Sudipta Sarangi. Journal of Sports Economics, September 24, 2013, DOI: 10.1177/1527002513505284.
• "State Abstinence Education Programs and Teen Birth Rates in the U.S.," Review of Economics of the Household, March 2012, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 53-75. DOI: 10.1007/s11150-011-9131-8.
• "The Impact of Education on Health Knowledge," with Naci Mocan and Duha Altindag (NBER Working Paper No: 16422).  Economics of Education Review, October 2011, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 792-812. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031.
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union" with Brian Francis and Troy Lorde.  Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, March 2007, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 23-49.

 HONORS AND AWARDS

• Huel Perkins Fellowship, Louisiana State University
• Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Louisiana State University and University of Virginia
• Joint Japan/World Bank Scholarship for graduate studies at Williams College
• Career Dynamics Role Model Award, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, St. Kitts

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Cannonier’s professional experience includes work as the Balance of Payments (BOP) Economist and Statistician at Eastern Caribbean Central Bank where he undertook missions to assist national BOP compilers in member countries and pursued development work in BOP. In addition, he also worked as the Country Economist for Anguilla, St Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

His scholarly work has been published in Economics of Education Review, Journal of Labor Research, Review of Economics of the Household, and Journal of Sports Economics. He has presented his research at the American Economic Association annual meetings, the Southern Economic Association, European Economic Association, European Society for Population Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute. Dr. Cannonier's research has also been featured in popular outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and UNESCO.

Cannonier’s awards include the Huel Perkins Fellowship from Louisiana State University, Joint Japan /World Band Scholarship for graduate studies at Williams College, and a Certificate of Outstanding Achievement in Cricket from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He also has the distinction of representing his country in two sports: cricket and soccer.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Kentucky, Business Administration,  Supply Chain Management concentration 
• M.B.A. - Baylor University
• B.E. - Vanderbilt University, Honors in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Management and International Business, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Management and International Business, Belmont University
• Adjunct Faculty, Western Kentucky University
• Engineering manager, SCA Personal Care, Bowling Green, KY
• R&D Process Manager, Paragon Trade Brands, Norcross, GA
• Plant Manager, Goodbaby Paragon Hygenic Products Company, Kunshan, China
• Research Scientist and Product Developer, Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• York, G.S., Wainright, C., and Chen D.C. (2017).  Healthcare Supply Chain Management: An Instructive Model Designed to Create Service Value.  Journal of Health Administration Education 34 (4), 525-559.
• Cannonier, C., Chen, D., and Smolira J.  (2016).  The effect of a homework grade cap in an Introductory Finance Class.  Journal of Education for Business 91 (2), 95-100.
• Chen, D. C., Overby, J., & Padgett, B. (2014).  Sprinkles Cupcakes: A Case Study of Creating a Successful Internationalizaion Strategy.   Journal of International Academy for Case Studies.    

• Chen, Dennis C. and Holsapple, Clyde W., (2009).  Knowledge Shared is Power: Utilizing Knowledge Management Activities to Replicate Lean Sigma Best Practices.   Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2009, v. 1 No. 2, 90-102.

HONORS & AWARDS

• United States Patent 7,838,721, "Disposable Articles Using High Column AUL Super Absorbents," issued November 23, 2010
• Most Inspirational Professor Award, August 2018, Massey PMBA Graduating Class
• Outstanding Teaching Award, 2016, Massey College of Business
• Finalist for University of Kentucky Provost's 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award
• Gatton College Luckett Fellowship, Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, and Max Steckler Fellowship, University of Kentucky
• Best Teacher Award, Department of DSIS, University of Kentucky

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Dennis C. Chen is an Associate Professor of Management and International Business at Belmont University.   He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky as well as a MBA degree from Baylor University and a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.  He has seventeen years of operations, engineering, and R&D management experience within multinational companies, specifically in the consumer products disposable diaper business.

Dr. Chen lived and worked in China on a two year international assignment as the startup plant manager for a production facility outside Shanghai, China.  He has since visited China and Taiwan on multiple occasions, leading groups of undergraduate and MBA students on study abroad trips.

Dr. Chen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations and supply chain management and international business and has also taught several executive education courses for Belmont’s Center for Executive Education.  In his operations management course, he emphasizes systems thinking and continuous improvement utilizing lean and six sigma methods.  He also volunteers with TNCPE to help TN organizations continuously improve using the Baldridge framework. His current research interests are in the areas of supply chain relationships, supply chain social responsibility, and lean Six Sigma implementation.   

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  -  Purdue University,  West Lafayette, IN,  Accounting
• J.D.  -  Suffolk University,  Boston, MA,  Law
• B.S.B.A.  -  Indiana University,  Fort Wayne, IN,  Accounting
• Certified Public Accountant
• Certified Financial Planner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Associate Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Accounting, Suffolk University
• Research/Teaching Assistant, Purdue University 
• Staff Accountant, Crowe Chizek
• Executive Officer, US Army

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Childs, B. D., Cochran, H. H., & Velikova, M. V. (2013).  How Course Management Technology Can Facilitate a Multimodal Pedagogy to Enhance Learning.   Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 0 (1), 135-140.   
• Childs, B. D., Cochran, H. H., & Velikova, M. V. (2012).  How Economic and Personal Freedom Affect the Fiscal Condition of the 50 States.   International Journal of Accounting Information Science & Leadership, 5 (13).   
• Childs, B. D., Cochran, H. H., & Velikova, M. V. (2012).  Factors Contributing to Better Fiscal Conditions among States.   Atlantic Economic Journal, 40 (4).  
• Cochran, Jr., H. H., Velikova, M. V., Childs, B. D., & Simmons, L. L. (in press, 2015).  Apps for Economics.   Journal of Economic Education.  

HONORS & AWARDS

• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award, Belmont University Jack C. Massey College of Business (2004)
• Who's Who Among American Teachers (2003)
• Faculty Member of the Year, Suffolk University Beta Alpha Psi (2001)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Childs is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University.  He has been the main instructor in Belmont’s CFP program since its inception in 2002.  A licensed attorney in Tennessee, a CPA and a CFP certificate, he earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University (Indiana) and his J.D. at Suffolk University (Massachusetts).

He served as an officer in the U.S.  Army before entering the field of accounting. He began his accounting career at Crowe Chizek prior to earning his Ph.D.

His service to Belmont University has included the establishment of a Belmont University chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an honorary organization for Financial Information students and professionals, and overseeing the administration of library budgets for the College of Business Administration as well as membership on various internal committees.

He has authored articles in professional publications that include Advances in Taxation, the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, and the Tennessee CPA Journal.

Dr. Childs received the College of Business Administration’s Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award in 2004.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.A.  - Middle Tennessee State University
• Harvard Graduate School of Education, Administrative Leadership
• AACBS Bridge Program in Finance, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• M.A.  - Wayne State University, Economics
• B.B.A.  - Walsh College,  Finance

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cochran, Jr., H. H., Velikova, M. V., Childs, B. D., & Simmons, L. L. (2015).  Apps for Economics.   Journal of Economic Education.  
• Cochran, Jr., H. H. & Plummer, J. D. (2014).  Developing a Domestic and International Sales Revenue Estimation Model of the For-Profit High Frequency Broadcast Industry.   Journal of Interdisciplinary Business Studies, 3 (1), 1-11.  
• Cochran, Jr., H. H. & Plummer, J. D. (2014).  High Frequency Broadcasters Consider Block and Spot Revenue Approaches along with Cost Containment Tactics to Improve Profitability.   Academy of Business Research Journal, 2.
• Cochran, Jr., H. H., Velikova, M. V., & Childs, B. D. (2013).  How Course Management Technology Can Facilitate a Multimodal Pedagogy to Enhance Learning.   Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 9 (1), 135-140.  

SELECTED HONOR & AWARDS

• Chaney Distinguished Professor Award Nominee (2009)
• Presentation Excellence Award for Does China Underreport International Merchandise Trade Statistics?, Academic Business World International Conference (2009)
• Best Paper Award, Academic Business World International Conference (2008)
• Chaney Distinguished Professor Award Nominee (2008)
• Presentation Excellence, Academy of Business Disciplines (2005)
• Recognized for guidance and mentoring of students., Delta Phi Omega.
  Awards (1996)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Howard H. Cochran, Jr., Professor of Economics and Finance, teaches both undergraduate and graduate economics and international business courses in Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey College of Business. He earned his B.B.A. in Finance from Walsh College, M.A. in Economics from Wayne State University, and Doctor of Arts in Economics from Middle Tennessee State University. He has also completed post-graduate study in administrative leadership at Harvard University, and the AACSB Bridge Program in Finance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

He has taught courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics and international business. Being a veteran of international studies, Dr. Cochran has also lead several Belmont student study-travel trips to China. His teaching, research, and consulting interests are in the areas of economic education, managerial economics, and international trade.

Dr. Cochran is an advisor for firms seeking to source and sell products in that country. His most recent research relating to China includes articles with working titles including E-Music Growth in China – Obstacles and Opportunities for Foreign Firms, Toward Developing an International Index of Music Piracy, Use Chinese Merchandise Trade Data with Caution, Assessing the Impact of Trade with China on U.S. Manufacturing Industries, and Asian Manufacturing Trade Dominance. His extensive travels have taken him throughout North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Far East, and the Indian Sub-Continent. While in Bangladesh he was able to spend time with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

His research has been presented at national and international professional conferences and published in academic journals including: International Advances in Economic Research, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal for Economics Educators, Journal of Economics and Finance and has an article accepted for 2008 publication in the Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics.

Dr. Cochran has served the economics profession, Belmont University, his community and his church in a variety of endeavors. He has been honored by Delta Phi Omega for his guidance and mentoring of students. He is a director of the Nashville Rescue Mission and a member of the Tennessee Export Council, an appointment made by the United States Secretary of Commerce.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A. -  University of Kentucky,  Management and Organization
• M.B.A. -  University of Kentucky, Finance
• B.S. - University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Business Administration

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship, Director Center for Entrepreneurship, Professor, Belmont University
• Sandra Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Department Chair, Professor, University of St. Thomas
• Associate Professor, Co-Director Center of Entrepreneurship, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
• Instructor, University of Kentucky

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• President/CEO and Co-founder, Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems (1988 - 1997).   Company began as a series of start-up ventures that were merged into this holding company. Responsible for overall executive management of the company. Business operated a full continuum of behavioral health programs, including outpatient clinics, community based services, and residential facilities throughout North Carolina. Grew from seven to over 300 employees. Revenues over $12 million. Raised over $5 million in debt and equity financing to fund growth. Negotiated successful sale of majority of business holdings in 1996, remainder of business sold in 1998.
• Co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneurial Mind, LLC (2014 - present).

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Schenkel, M., D’Souza, R., Cornwall, J., and Matthews, C.  (2015)  “Early Influences and Entrepreneurial Intent: Examining the Roles of Education, Experience, and Advice Networks” Journal of Small Business Strategy, 25(2).

• Cornwall, J.R. and Dennis, Jr., W.J. (2012).  “Peeling the Onion: Public Policy in Entrepreneurship Education.”  Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 1(1).

• Schenkel, M., Cornwall, J., & Finley (2012).  “Snappy Auction.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,  36(3).

• Schenkel, M., Cornwall, J., & Finley (2012).  “Teaching Note:  Snappy Auction.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,  36(3).

• Lambert, R.P., Alexander, J.F., Schenkel, M.T., & Cornwall, J.R. (2011). “Evans Glass Company: ‘You make the coffee, we’ll bring the cup!’”  Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 23 (1), 122-140.

• Morris, M., van Vuuren, J., Cornwall, J., & Sheepers, R. (2009). “Properties of Balance Necessary for Corporate Entrepreneurship.”  Business Horizons, 52 (3), 429-440.

• Naughton, M. and Cornwall, J.  (2006).  “The Virtue of Courage in Entrepreneurship: Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition and the Life-Cycle of the Business.”  Business Ethics Quarterly, 16, 71-95.

• Cornwall, J. and Naughton, M. (2003). “Creating an Integrating Capstone for Entrepreneurship Students.”  Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 4 (Fall), 62-67.

• Cornwall, J. and Naughton, M. (2003).  “Who is the Good Entrepreneur? An Exploration within the Catholic Social Tradition.”   Journal of Business Ethics, 44 (1), 61-75.
  

BOOKS

• Cornwall, J., Vang, D., and Hartman, J.  Entrepreneurial Financial Management.  4th Edition.  New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Scarborough, N. and Cornwall, J.  Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.  8^th Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2016.
• Scarborough, N. and Cornwall, J. Entrepreneurship: Effective Small Business Management.  11^th Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2015.
• Morris, M., Kuratko, D., and Cornwall, J.  Academic Entrepreneurship:  Innovative Transformation of the Modern University. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
• Cornwall, J.  Bootstrapping.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2010. (Chinese edition published in 2010).
• Cornwall, J. and Naughton, M.  Bringing Your Business to Life.  Ventura, CA:  Regal Books, 2008. (Hungarian edition published in 2011).
• Cornwall, J.  From the Ground Up: Entrepreneurial School Leadership.  Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press, 2003.
• Brown, R. and Cornwall, J.  The Entrepreneurial Educator.  Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press, 2000.
• Cornwall, J. and Perlman, B. Organizational Entrepreneurship.  Homewood, IL:  Irwin, 1990.
  

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the Jack  C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont University. He served as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship from 2003-2013.  Previously, he was the Sandra Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Cornwall earned a D.B.A  and a M.B.A . from the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In the late 1980s, he left academics to become the Co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. His company operated a variety of health care facilities and programs and employed over 300 people. After nine years of rapid growth, and negotiating the sale of most of the corporations' business interests, he returned to academics. Dr. Cornwall advises alumni of the entrepreneurship program on start-up and growth related issues. His current research and teaching interests include business modeling, entrepreneurial finance, and entrepreneurial ethics. Dr. Cornwall advises Collegiate DECA, which serves the interests of entrepreneurs across campus.

In 2006, Dr. Cornwall was named a Fellow of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).  In 2008, Belmont University's Center for Entrepreneurship received the USASBE National Model Undergraduate Program of the Year Award.  He served as President of USASBE in 2010.  In 2013, Dr. Cornwall was named the Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by USASBE. His blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is one of the most popular small business blogs on the web.  It was named by Forbesas a "Best of the Web" and is part of the Forbes blog network.  It is also linked to by Entrepreneur, Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and US News and World Report.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Rice University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• M.A. - Rice University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• A.B. - Duke University, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Management, Belmont University
• Instructor, Rice University
• Independent Consultant for non-profit and government organizations

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Motowidlo, S. J., Martin, M. P., & Crook, A. E. (2013).  Relations between personality, knowledge, and behavior in service encounters.   Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1851-1861.   
• Crook, A. E., Beier, M. E., Cox, C. B., Kell, H. K., Hanks, A. R., & Motowidlo, S. J. (2011). Measuring relationships between personality, knowledge, and performance using single-response situational judgment tests. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 19, 363-373.
• Crook, A. E., & Beier, M. E. (2010). When training with a partner is inferior to training alone: The importance of dyad type and interaction quality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16, 335-348.
• Kell, H. J., Rittmayer, A. D., Crook, A. E., & Motowidlo, S. J. (2010). Situational content moderates the association between the Big Five personality traits and behavioral effectiveness. Human Performance, 23, 213-228.

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• APA New Investigator Award (2011)
• SHRM Foundation Dissertation grant (2011)
• Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship (2011 – 2012) – For exceptional scholarship, Rice University
• Kenneth Laughery Award (2008) – Best Master’s thesis in psychology, Rice University

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Crook earned an A.B. in Psychology with distinction from Duke University and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Rice University. Her expertise is in organizational behavior and human resource management, with an emphasis on employee selection and training. Professionally, she has worked as a manager and as a consultant to several organizations, providing services such as training development, organizational needs assessment, selection system design, and program evaluation.

Her research has been published in academic journals and garnered various awards. Dr. Crook received the 2011 New Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association for her research on individual and team training. She was also awarded the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation Dissertation Grant for her doctoral research. Her recent research projects focus on interpersonal skills training, the development of non-traditional selection measures (situational judgment tests), and citizenship behavior in organizations.

Dr. Crook is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association. She also currently serves as a member of the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs for SIOP. She is passionate about equal education opportunities for all students and has worked with Education Pioneers on education reform in the U.S.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Florida State University, Strategic Management
• B.S. - United States Naval Academy, History

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Management, Tennessee State University
• Assistant Professor of Management, University of Southern Mississippi
• Instructor, Florida State University Center for Professional Development
• Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy Reserve
• Contact Team Instructor, United States Navy
• Flight Instructor, United States Navy

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Carrie, H., Baranik, L., & Daniel, F. (2012).  College Student Stressors: A Review of the Qualitative Research.  Stress and Health.
• Daniel, F. (2011).  Diversity as Technology: A New Perspective.   Journal of Diversity Management (JDM), 6 (2), 31-40. 
• Daniel, F. & Zantow, K. (2010). Managing Diversity from a Strategic Perspective: A Competing Values Approach. Review of Management Innovation and Creativity, Vol. 3(5), 12-2

 SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Faculty Excellence Award, 2001

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Francis Daniel received a B.S. from the United State Naval Academy, with a concentration in History.  He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida State University, specializing in Strategic Management.

A former Naval Aviator and flight instructor, Dr. Daniel held numerous executive and command positions during a decorated active and reserve military career. He served as Officer-in-Charge of forward logistics sites in Egypt and Turkey during Operations Desert Storm and Provide Comfort, and as Commanding Officer of a large executive reserve unit. He held the rank of Captain (O-6) at his retirement from the Navy Reserve.

His academic career has included appointments at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he was the Director of Graduate Academic Services for the Jack C. Massey College of Business and, more recently, Tennessee State University.  He has taught management courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. A member of Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society and Sigma Iota Epsilon national honorary and professional management fraternity, he has also received recognition for his teaching. 

Dr. Daniel's research interests include slack resources and performance, trust and commitment, the strategic management of diversity, and various aspects of strategic leadership. His research has been presented at professional conferences and published in professional journals including The Journal of Business Research, Industrial Management and Data Systems, and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.

He serves his profession as a reviewer of articles submitted for publication in The Journal of Management Educationand his institution as a member or chair of numerous college committees. Currently a member of East Brentwood Presbyterian Church, Dr. Daniel is an Elder in the Presbyterian (PC-USA) church. As such, he has been actively involved in church strategic planning, community outreach and Christian Education.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Arizona State University, Accounting (Accounting Information Systems specialization)
• B.S.B.A. -  University of South Dakota, Accounting
• Certified Information Systems Auditor
• Certified Public Accountant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Belmont University 
• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee 
• Instructor, University of Tennessee
• Manager - Operational Control, Citibank
• Manager, Deloitte & Touche
• Chief Financial Officer, Sullivan, Inc.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• DeVries, D. D. & Lee, T. (2014).  A Step-by-Step Learning and Feedback Technique for Systems Flowcharting.   Accounting Information Systems Educator Journal, 8 (1), 30-35. 
• DeVries, D. D. & Lee, T. (2013).  Understanding Management Control in a Small Business: An Entrepreneurial Micro-Business Case (The Hot Dog Cart).   Accounting Instructors' Report.
• Lee, T. & DeVries, D. D. (2013).  Selection of Reporting Measures Under Varying Performance Relevant Scenarios.   AABRI Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business, 6.  
• DeVries, D. D. & Lee, T. (2012).  Making Information Work For You.   Strategic Finance, 93 (2), 37-41.

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Appointed to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) subcommittee (2015)
• Best Paper Award for Ethical Implications of Using Human Resources Information Systems for Cost Management Decisions, AIS Educator Conference (2009)
• Outstanding Service Award for Distinguished Service in Membership Services, American Accounting Association - Information Systems Section (2008)
• Honorable Mention for the Mark Chain/Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA) Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award (2008)
• Honorable Mention - 2007 Carl Menconi Ethics Case Writing Competition. Delwyn D. DeVries and Harold H. Roth: Ethical Implications of Using Human Resources Information Systems for Cost Management Decisions, Institute of Management Accountants - Ethics Committee (2007)
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, ASU School of Accountancy and Information Management (1999)
• Nominated for a "Teaching Assistant Teaching Excellence Award"., Arizona State University College of Business (1997)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. DeVries earned his B.S.B.A. in Accounting at the University of South Dakota-Vermillion. He became a certified public accountant and obtained certification to be an Information Systems Auditor before earning his Ph.D. in Accounting from Arizona State University.

His non-academic experience includes work as the Chief Financial Officer for Sullivan, Inc. and management positions at Deloitte & Touche and Citibank. He holds memberships in the American Accounting Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

While at Arizona State University, he was a teaching assistant. He moved to the University of Tennessee as an instructor and remained there as an Assistant Professor. Dr. DeVries has taught accounting and information systems courses including: Accounting Information Systems, Strategic Information Management, Business Process Analysis, and Information Systems Audit, Security & Controls.

An active researcher, his research interests include: Accounting Information Systems, Decision Making, IT Governance, Strategic Information Systems, and Educational Research related to systems, auditing and controls. His findings have been published in the Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Compendium of Classroom Cases and Tools for AIS Applications, and CPA Journal.

In addition to teaching and research, Dr. DeVries serves as the advisor to Beta Alpha Psi, the student honor society for accounting, finance, and information systems majors.

Jim D. Doyle (Ph.D., Carleton University), Associate Professor of Marketing. Prior to joining the faculty of the Jack C. Massey College of Business, Dr. Doyle was Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Management, Marketing, and International Business at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Doyle has a wide array of teaching and research interests, seeking opportunities for synergy between them. Drawing from international industry experience, Dr. Doyle teaches courses in Personal Selling, Services Marketing, as well as the introductory Marketing course. When away from the classroom, Dr. Doyle enjoys family time, running, and do-it-yourself projects.

Selected studies in marketing strategy

Parnell, J., Acikdilli, G., & Doyle, J. 2019. The competitive uncertainty, marketing and nonmarket roots of capability deployment and organizational performance in Turkey. International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets. 11(1): 27–51.

Parnell, J., Koseoglu, M., & Doyle, J. 2015. Antecedents of growth in the Turkish hotel industry. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 32(8): 1099-1116.

Doyle, J., & Armenakyan, A. 2014. Value-creating mechanisms within the market orientation–performance relationship: A meta-analysis. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 22(3): 193-205.

Selected studies in consumer research

Doyle, J., & Heslop, L. 2018. Difference of opinion or something sinister? Context effects on consumer responses to exposure to erroneous product information in the blogosphere. Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior. 31(2018): 1-20.

Doyle, J. 2018. Identity-relevant and instrumental drivers of love and investment intention in the customer-possession relationship. Journal of Customer Behaviour. 17(1): 75-98.

Education & Certifications 

• Ph.D. – University of Texas at San Antonio, Management and Organization Studies 
• MPA – California State University, Long Beach 
• BA – University of California, Irvine, International Studies 
• BA – University of California, Irvine, Political Science 
• Paralegal Certified 

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor of Management, Belmont University 
• Instructor, University of Texas at San Antonio  
• Corporate Acquisitions 
• Legal, Real Estate 
• Property Management 

Dr. Faile has worked in multiple industries prior to academia with much of her experience being in the management, legal, and acquisitions side of large-scale real estate properties (i.e. mixed-use buildings, apartment communities, homeowners' associations, retail spaces, resorts etc…). Kristen is active in the community and a big proponent of dog rescue, acting as both a volunteer and a frequent dog foster. She serves multiple leadership roles in the academic community including acting as a mentor for the Middle Tennessee SHRM chapter and as a Board Member and the Webmaster for the Southwest Academy of Management.  Kristen enjoys international travel and learning to cook dishes from different countries. She is a passionate fan of all things performance-related and volunteered as a song/dance instructor for a children’s nonprofit theater group for 5 years. She loves hiking, running, boating, swimming and anything that allows her to get outside!

Dr. Faile’s academic research focuses on how individual characteristics and behaviors in employees (including in the CEO population) lead to diverse individual outcomes (i.e. loneliness, well-being, compensation and dismissal). Kristen is especially interested in unique working communities including fully distributed organizations and the upper echelons of organizations. Faile has presented her work at academic conferences including the Academy of Management, the Southwest Academy of Management, and the Southern Management Association (SMA), and her work as a reviewer has earned her the Best Reviewer Award from SMA. 

Recent Publications:

Bonner, B., Hyde, S., & Faile, K., 2022. “Examining strategic antecedents of the appointment of women to top management teams”. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal.  

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Louisiana State University, Finance
• M.B.A. - Louisiana State University  
• B.S. - University of Southwestern Louisiana, Mathematics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Finance, Belmont University
• Forensic  Economist; Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Ohio
• Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Finance, Louisiana State University
• Instructor, Department of Management, Southeastern Louisiana University
• Co-founder, Senior Vice President/Cashier, Southeast National Bank
• Owner, Vice-President, Kelly's Kiddie Kare, Inc.
• Assistant Vice-President/ Investments, First Guaranty Bank
• Assistant Vice-President/Data Processing, First Guaranty Bank
• Data Processing Officer, American Bank
• Computer Programmer, Louisiana National Bank

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cannonier, C., Faulk, G., & Smolira, J. (2014).  "The Impact of the Maturity and Source of the Risk-Free Rate in Equity Estimation Under the CAPM,.   Journal of Law and Financial Management.
• Faulk, G. K. (in press, 2014).  Economic Evaluation of Earnings Capacity Loss in Personal Injury Cases: Issues for Forensic Economists and Implications for Vocational Evaluators.   Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis.
• Renard, S., Faulk, G. K., & Goodrich, P. S. (2013).  Network Perspectives on the Relevance of the New Revenue Streams in the Digital Era Music Industry.   Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) Journal.  
• Faulk, G. K. (2011).  The relation of prerecorded music media format and the U. S. recording industry piracy claims: 1972 - 2009.   AABRI Research in Business and Economics Journal. 

 BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Greg Faulk, Professor of Finance, teaches Corporate Finance in the School of Business Administration.  His research interests include forensic economics, retirement asset allocation, the financial aspects of the music business industry and finance pedagogy.  He is also a forensic economist specializing in the area of human capital valuation.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Middle Tennessee State University, Economics
• M.A. - Middle Tennessee State University, Economics / Finance
• B.B.A. - Middle Tennessee State University, Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Economics and Music Business, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Economics with Entertainment Industry Focus, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Marian University
• Assistant Director, Heart of Tennessee Chapter of American Red Cross
• Financial Analyst, Northern Telecom, Inc.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Fowler, J., Fowler, S., & Hicks, R. (2013).  A Historical Investigation of Patterns in Sophomore Album Release.   Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) Journal, 13 (1), 61-74.   
• Fowler, S. J. & Fowler, J. J. (2012).  The Case for Intensive Skill-Biased Technological Change.   Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research (JEEER), 13 (2), 67-96.
• Fowler J. & Fowler, S. (2011). A Quantitative Analysis of Entertainment Consumption: 1984-2009. MEIEA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1.
• Fowler J. & Wacholtz, L. (2011). The Whoop Curve: Predicting Entrepreneurial and Financial Opportunities in the Performing Arts. Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Academy of Economics & Economic Education Distinguished Research Award for The Case for Skill-Biased Technological Change (2011)
• Academy of Entrepreneurship Distinguished Research Award for The Whoop Curve: Predicting Entrepreneurial and Financial Opportunities in the Performing Arts (2010)
• Jack C. Massey College of Business Service Award, Belmont University (2010)
• Nomination for the Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, Belmont University (2010)
• Excellence in Academic Advising Award, Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, Belmont University (2008)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Jennifer Fowler is an associate professor of economics and music business at Belmont University where she serves as the associate dean of the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business. Dr. Fowler also serves as an Associate Professor of Economics and Music Business at Belmont University. Since 2006, she had held a joint appointment with the Jack C. Massey College of Business and the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. Professor Fowler's teaching and research interests include entertainment industry economics, consumer expenditures and macroeconomic theory.

Recent publications include the International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Economic Modelling and the MEIEA Journal and she is currently in the process of writing an undergraduate textbook in entertainment industry economics. Dr. Fowler recently completed economic impact studies for the Nashville Zoo and the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy. Additionally, she completed a white paper for City National Bank entitled Georgia Film Study and Industry Analysis. She serves as an economic consultant to the advocacy committee of the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy, has been quoted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Extra Credit, as well as local and other media outlets on entertainment issues. Dr. Fowler is a member of the American Economic Association, the Southern Economic Association, Music Industry Research Association and the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - The University of Mississippi, Management Information Systems
• M.B.A. - The University of Mississippi, Management Information Systems
• B.S. -  Missouri State University, Biology     

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Management Informations Systems, Bemlont University
• Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management, Belmont University
• Graduate Instructor, The University of Mississippi
• Web Developer, Travelhost Magazine of Branson
• Food Microbiologist/Chemist, Dairy Farmers of America

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Garrison, G., Wakefield, R. L., & Kim, S. (in press, 2015).  The Effects of IT Capabilities and Delivery Model on Cloud Computing Success and Firm Performance for Cloud Supported Processes and Operations.   International Journal of Information Technology Management.
•  Noh, M., Lee, K., Garrison, G., & Kim, S. (2013).  The Impact of Collectivism on User Acceptance of Social Commerce (s-Commerce).   Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 14 (3), 244-260.
• Garrison, G. G., Kim, S., & Wakefield, R. L. (2012).  Success Factors for Deploying Cloud Computing.  Communications of the ACM, 55 (9), 62-68. 
• Garrison, G., Harvey, M., & Napier, N. (2008).  The Role of Managerial Curiosity in Assessing Potentially Disruptive Information Technologies.  Multinational Business Review, 16 (1), 21-52.

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Korea Association of Information Systems International Conference (2011)
  
• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award (2010)
• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award (2009)
• COBA Summer Research Grant (2009)
• Awarded with COBA's Top Researcher Award for 2008 (2008)
• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award (2008)
• COBA Summer Research Grant (2008)
• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award (2007)
• COBA Summer Research Grant (2007)
• Article "Challenges to Staffing Global Virtual Teams," with M. Harvey, & M. Novicevic, ranked 14 on the ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles for 2005, ScienceDirect
• Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award, Belmont University (2005)

BIOGRAPHY

Gary Garrison is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management at Belmont University. He received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Mississippi in 2002 and 2005, respectively and his B.S. in Biology from Missouri State University in 1993.

Dr. Garrison’s teaching interests include Database Management, Systems Analysis and Design, Project Management, and Managing Information Systems in Business.

His research is focused on virtual team collaboration and organizational identification and adoption of disruptive technology. Dr. Garrison’s publications can be found in Information Systems Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers in Human Behavior, Multinational Business Review, Management Research News, among others.

He is involved in the Nashville Technology Council where he serves as a member of the Workforce and Education committee, which is responsible for creating and implementing the Turning the Tide of Technology (T3) imitative in Middle Tennessee. T3 is a joint effort of the academic and business communities for the purpose of collaborating on solutions around the key challenges of resolving the IT labor shortage in Middle Tennessee. Dr. Garrison also serves on the Metropolitan Nashville Public School’s (MNPS) Business Marketing and IT Partnership Council. This council is tasked with developing Career Academies in Metro-Nashville that will provide curriculum guidance, advocacy, industry trend information, business/school partnership recommendations, and general assistance to the academies to ensure that the students are graduating with skills that are needed for today's workforce.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  - University of Kentucky, Finance
• M.S. - University of Kentucky,  Economics
• M.Ed. - Vanderbilt University,  Secondary Education
• M.B.A. - George Washington University, Finance
• B.B.A. - George Washington University, Finance
• Certified Investment Management Analyst
• Series 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Finance, Belmont University
• Assistant V. P., Asset Management Department, J.C. Bradford & Company
• Financial Planner, Office of the Vice Chairman, Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.

PUBLICATIONS

• Gonas, J. S. & Dolvin, S. (2011). Off the Rack Versus Savile Row: The Value of Custom Tailoring for Equity Investors. Journal of Financial Planning.
• Bradley, D., Gonas, J. S., Highfield, M., & Roskelley, K. (2009). An Examination of IPO Secondary Market Returns. Journal of Corporate Finance.
• Bradley, D., Gonas, J. S. , Highfield, M., & Roskelley, K. (2008).  An Examination of IPO Secondary Market Returns. Journal of Corporate Finance.
• Dolvin, S., Gonas, J. S. , & Pyles, M. (2008).  How Students Change Investment Objectives and Risk Tolerances After an Undergraduate Investments Course. Journal of Economics and Finance Education.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Student-Athelete Advisory Committee Inspiration Award, Belmont Athletic Department (2008)
• State of Tennessee Professor of the Year, The Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement (2008)
• Presidential Achievement Award for Service to the University and Community, Belmont University Presidential Achievement Award (2007)
• School of Business Outstanding Teaching Award, Belmont University School of Business (2007)
• Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award, State of Tennessee Higher Education Commission (2007)
• Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellowship, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) (2006)
• Outstanding Service Award, Belmont University School of Business (2006)
• Finalist: Presidential Achievement Award, Belmont University (2006)
  
   

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. John Gonas is a Professor of Finance in the Undergraduate and Jack C. Massey School of Business. Gonas teaches Corporate Finance, Introduction to Investments, and Investment Management, and his teaching philosophy revolves around real life application of a subject matter.

Prior to joining Belmont's faculty in 1998, Gonas worked in the financial planning industry for eight years (most recently with J.C. Bradford, Inc. in Nashville) primarily in retail brokerage, investment consulting and fee-based asset management. During the 2000-2002 academic years, he went on leave from Belmont to pursue a doctorate in Finance at the University of Kentucky, a degree he received in the spring of 2005.

Gonas also serves as a Sam Walton Fellow, responsible for advising Belmont's SIFE students. SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) is an international, non-profit organization active on over 1,500 college and university campuses in 47 countries. Under Gonas' leadership, Belmont's SIFE program has won numerous regional and national awards for its service projects. Beginning in  2006 with the National Rookie of the Year Award, from 2007- 2009 they placed in the Top 20 at the USA National Exposition, and in 2010 the team was named USA National Champions and placed third in the world. Belmont SIFE also won the Motion Picture Association of America 2007 Grand Prize for its Anti-Piracy Public Service Announcement.

In 2008, Dr. Gonas was selected as Tennessee's Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A. - Walden University
• M.B.A.  - Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business
• B.S.  - Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Belmont University
• Cofounder and Executive Director, Conexión Américas
• President, CIMA Financial Management LLC.  
• Financial Manager, Total Management Services Inc.  
• Financial Supervisor, Procter and Gamble

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Inducted into the Nashville Entrepreneur Center Hall of Fame
• Named 'CFO of the Year' by the Center for Nonprofit Management
• Recognized as one of a total of fifty most influential individuals leading and shaping Nashville's future., Nashville's Forward 50

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. González is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration. He joined the faculty in 2007. Dr. González teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and Leadership

Dr. González graduated from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City with a B.S. in Accounting. He later earned his MBA from The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University. His Doctorate of Business Administration is from Walden University.  Dr. González’s research focuses on Immigrant Entrepreneurship and economic development.

He is particularly interested in Social Entrepreneurship and the links between Economic Development and Entrepreneurship. He is passionate about promoting Study Abroad initiatives and one of his favorite activities as a college professor is to lead international academic trips.  For example, he has been involved in a couple of international economic development entrepreneurship projects working with fair trade coffee farmers in Guatemala; he has lead programs to Argentina to study International Entrepreneurship; to Cuba to study the emergence of private enterprise within the communist regime, etc.  In addition to his work in the classroom, Dr. Gonzalez leads strategic implementation of the University’s efforts to elevate the presence of, and connection with the Latino community.

He began his professional career working in financial roles for Organization BAMA and Procter and Gamble in Mexico City. Later, when he moved to Nashville, he worked in public accounting for several years before starting his own firm CIMA Financial Management, LLC where he provides business and financial management services for start-ups and small businesses.

Dr. González is the cofounder of Conexión Américas (www.conexionamericas.org).   a non-profit organization with the mission to build a welcoming community and create opportunities where immigrant origin families can belong, contribute and succeed. He was responsible for launching several successful initiatives – a homeownership program, an entrepreneurship course for Latino immigrants, and a Financial Literacy curriculum. Under his leadership, Conexión Américas received notable distinctions: Entrepreneurial Venture of the Year, Innovation in Action Award, and Strengthening Families Best Practices Award. Because of the recognition that Conexión Américas enjoys, President Obama came to visit in December 2014.

Dr. González has been recognized as one of a total of 50 most influential individuals leading and shaping Nashville's future. Nashville's Forward Fifty. The local newspaper, The Tennessean, named him as one of Nashville's "Top 40 under [the age of] 40" individuals, for service and commitment to improving the lives of individuals in Middle Tennessee. He is an alum of Leadership Nashville, and Leadership Tennessee; both initiatives that cultivate  networks of business, nonprofit, and government leaders committed to addressing community challenges and opportunities. He was named ‘CFO of the year’ by the Center for Nonprofit management and was inducted into the Entrepreneur Center’s Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN.

He serves on the Board of Directors of a couple of private firms in town. Actively involved in Nashville's civic community, his current and past roles include the Board of the Entrepreneur Center in Nashville, Board of directors at Sister Cities of Nashville, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and The Healing Trust. 

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. - Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Marketing
• M.S. - Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Marketing
• B.B.A. - Belmont University, Marketing and Promotions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Marketing, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Marketing, Belmont University
• Consumer Research Manager, The Buntin Group
• Account Executive, The Buntin Group

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Harding, Lora Mitchell (forthcoming), "Keeping Goliath on His Toes: A Case Discussion Method for Increasing Engagement and Individual Accountability in Large Classes," Marketing Education Review, DOI: 10.1080/10528008.2018.1437355.
• Harding, Lora Mitchell (2018), “Students of a Feather ‘Flocked’ Together: A Group Assignment Method for Reducing Free-Riding and Improving Group and Individual Learning Outcomes,” Journal of Marketing Education, DOI: 10.1177/0273475317708588.
• Harding, Lora Mitchell, and Mark T. Schenkel (2017), “Brand Advertising in an Access–Ownership World: How Marketing Channels Impact Message Persuasiveness,” Journal of Marketing Channels, 24(1-2), 51-72, DOI: 10.1080/1046669X.2017.1346981.
• Phillips, J. Mark, Kyle A. Higgins and Lora Mitchell Harding* (2016), “From Old Spice to The Texas Law Hawk: How Inbound Marketing, Content Leadership and Social Media Can Level the Playing Field for Solo Practitioners,” The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, 9(2), 389-409.
  * All authors contributed equally and are listed in reverse-alphabetical order

HONORS & AWARDS

• Pride-Ferrell Innovations in Teaching Competition Winner, Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference, 2017
• Best Paper in Marketing Education Track, American Marketing Association Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference, 2017
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University, 2017
• Outstanding Service Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University, 2015
• Brands and Brand Relationships Accelerator Workshop Grant, Boston University, 2015
• Haring Symposium Fellow, Indiana University, 2008
• Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2005-2011
• Outstanding Business Student of the Year, Belmont University, 1999
• Marketing Award of Excellence, Belmont University, 1999
• Presidential Scholar, Belmont University, 1995-1999

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lora Harding is an associate professor of marketing at Belmont University. She received her Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2011. In general, her research examines how consumers’ (and students’) motivations, perceptions and feeling states influence their judgment and behavior. This research falls into three main streams: persuasion, student engagement and consumer-brand relationships.

Prior to earning her Ph.D., Dr. Harding worked for eight years as an account executive and consumer research manager at The Buntin Group, a full-service advertising agency in Nashville, Tennessee. Her clients included the United Methodist Church, Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage, O’Charley’s Restaurants, Tennessee Valley Authority, Purolator oil and air filters, Servpro fire and water damage restoration services, Goodyear tires and Chinet disposable plates.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Doctorate in Organization Development and Change (D.ODC), Bowling Green State University
• Master of Entrepreneurship (M.E.), Western Carolina University
• Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A), Entrepreneurial and Small Business Management, American Public University
• Certified Professional Coach, American Public University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Belmont University
• Visiting Instructor of Management, Georgia Southern University
• Adjunct Instructor, American Public University, Bowling Green State University, Western Carolina University
• Founding Partner/Business & Operations Executive, F4 CoSolutions
• Business and Operations Executive, Bright Side Arts (a division of Arts for Life)
• VP, Marketing and Licensing, Uware Brands
• Associate Director, Retail Business Development and Licensing, Boy Scouts of America
• E-Commerce Manager, Boy Scouts of America
• VP, Strategic Services, The Jackson Group
• Co-Founder/Managing Partner, Taylor-Harkins Group
• EVP, Marketing, 2.718 Marketing (formerly Colman, Brohan Davis)
• Chief Marketing Officer & VP of Customer Care, Geneer Corporation
• VP, Marketing and Product Development, Nykamp Consulting Group
• Senior Project Manager, Marketing Information and Technology, Florida Blue
• Assistant Market Manager, Florida Blue
• Program Manager, Direct Marketing, Florida Blue
• Founder/President, PinPoint Marketing
• Media Director, The Arnold Agency
• Director of Marketing, Silver Creek Ski Resort
• Managing Director, Capital Plaza Theater (Renaissance Productions)

RECENT ARTICLES

• Harkins, D. L. (2021). The Boy Scouts of America: How society’s changing attitudes affect nonprofit culture. Organization Development Journal, 39(2), 83–96.
• Rogers, B. Q., O’Brien, K. I., Harkins, D. L., Mitchell, T. G., & O’Neil, D. A. (2021). COVID-19 and OD: Unplanned disruption and the opportunity for planned talent development. Organization Development Review, 53(2), 61–67.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. David L. Harkins joined Belmont University in 2022. He has earned a Doctorate in Organization Development and Change from Bowling Green State University, a Master of Entrepreneurship (ME) from Western Carolina University, and a BBA in entrepreneurial and small business management from American Public University. 

Prior to joining Belmont, Dr. Harkins taught entrepreneurship and general business at Georgia Southern University as a visiting professor of management.  He has also held adjunct positions at American Public University, Bowling Green State University, and Western Carolina University, where he taught courses in Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation, Innovation Design and Prototyping, Marketing, New Venture Creation, PR for Small Business, and Social Good for Small Business.

His teaching interests are social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, organization development, and leadership. His research interests include organizational culture, empathy in organizations, and entrepreneurial thinking and innovation leadership in the social sector.

 Dr. Harkins has significant experience as an entrepreneur, marketer, and strategic change practitioner. As a consultant and executive coach, he has worked with or advised organizations both large and small in the areas of strategic change, innovation leadership, earned revenue development, and social impact, including the Alzheimer's Association (National), American Bar Association, Arts for Life, Bob Moog Foundation, Boy Scouts of America (National), Disabled American Veterans (National), Girl Scouts of America (National), Microsoft, National FFA Organization, National 4-H, Organization, and many others. 

Born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, he likes to paint, hike, and explore with a camera in his spare time.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D., -The University of Georgia, Marketing

BIOGRAPHY

Yang He received his PhD degree in Marketing at the University of Georgia.

He’s research interests focus on consumer judgment and decision making. He follows the behavioral economics paradigm and investigates consumers’ behavioral anomaly in response to situational risk and uncertainty. Insights from his recent research projects provide guidelines for mitigating decision biases and preserving consumer welfare. Other research topics include the influences of risk and uncertainty on consumers’ mood and emotional functions in the domain of healthcare and healthy-driven lifestyle.

In teaching and practice, He is interested in developing consumer-oriented marketing strategies in the Big Data era. He collaborates with a number of industry partners to develop streamlined and automated one-stop shop processes for data-driven decision making.

 In his spare time, He enjoys outdoors activities and fiddling in his workshop.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

•         Ph.D., Indiana University
•         M.B.A., Indiana University
•         B.S., Indiana University
•         C.P.A. (inactive)

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS       

• DeVault Fellowship, Indiana University (2008-12)
• McQuiad Fellowship, Indiana University (2012)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Ken House's research focuses on the impact of accounting information on executive turnover.  He has presented his work at the American Accounting Association and has various papers in process.

Before entering the PhD program, Dr. House worked as an Audit Senior for Deloitte, specializing in utilities and non-for-profit clients.  He was self-employed as a Sarbanes-Oxley Consultant, working primarily on Sarbanes-Oxley readiness for a company owned by the private equity firm The Carlyle Group.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D., University of Arkansas
• M.B.A., Union University
• B.S., Union University

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Social Media Marketing Lecturer, Belmont University’s Center for Executive Education (2017-Present)
• Fundraiser, American Heart Association’s Congenital Heart Walk (2013-2017)
• AMBA Director, Belmont University (2013-2015)
• JMU Marketing Internship Coordinator (2011-2013)
• JMU Freshman Advisor (2010-2013)
• Chair, External Relations Committee for JMU Marketing Department (2010-2013)
• 2011 LINKS Simulations Honorary Fellow (2010-2013)
• Ad hoc Journal Reviewer:  Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, and the Journal of Interactive Advertising
• Ad hoc Conference Reviewer:  American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research, Marketing & Public Policy
• Consultant & Executive Education Coordinator (Various Companies)
• Rockingham County, VA March of Dimes Ambassador Family (2010-2011)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Ferrell, O.C., Ferrell, L., Huggins, K.A. (2017). Seismic Shifts in the Sharing Economy: Shaking Up Marketing Channels & Supply Chains. Journal of Marketing Channels, 24(1/2), 3-12.
• Huggins, K.A. Pretorius, M.T., Burger, J.A., Overby, J. (2016). The Two-a-Day Way: A Choice of Target Market Selection for South Africa’s Apple Export Business. Business Case Journal, 23(2), 56-71.
• Huggins, K. A. White, D. W., Stahl, J. (2016). Antecedents to Sales Force Job Motivation and Performance: The Critical Role of Emotional Intelligence and Affect-Based Trust. International Journal of Sales, Retailing and Marketing, 5(1), 27-37.
• Phillips, J.M., Huggins, K. A., Harding, L. M. (2016). From Old Spice to Texas Law Hawk: How Inbound Marketing, Content Leadership and Social Media Can Level the Playing Field for Solo Practitioners. Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Law, 9(2), 389-409.

• Huggins, K. A., Holloway, B. B., White, D. W. (2013). Cross Cultural Effects on E-Retailing: Differentiating Mexican Consumers from Non-Mexican Hispanic Consumers. Journal of Business Research, 66(3), 321-327.
• White, D., Absher, K., Huggins, K. A. (2011). The Effects of Hardiness and Cultural Distance on Socio-Cultural Adaptation in an Expatriate Sales Manager Population. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 31(3), 325-338.
• Bates, K., Burton, S., Huggins, K. A., Howlett, E. (2011). Battling the Bulge: Menu Board Calorie Legislation and its Potential Impact on Meal Repurchase Intentions. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 28(2), 104-113.
• Burton, S., Howlett, E., Bates, K., Huggins, K. A. (2009). Coming to a Restaurant Near You?  Potential Consumer Responses to Nutrition Information Disclosure on Menus. Journal of Consumer Research, 36(3), 494-503.
• Bates, K., Burton, S., Creyer, E., Huggins, K. A. (2009). The Roles of Gender and Motivation as Moderators of the Effects of Calorie and Nutrient Information Provision on Away-from-Home Foods. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 43(2), 249-273.
• Burton, S., Creyer, E., Kees, J., Huggins, K. A. (2006). Attacking the Obesity Epidemic: An Examination of the Potential Health Benefits of Nutrition Information Provision in Restaurants. American Journal of Public Health, 96(September), 1669-75. 

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Kenneth R. Bartee Award for Teaching Innovation Nominee (2011)
• JMU COB Best Practitioner Paper (2011)
• LINKS Hall of Fame Recipient (2011)
• John L. and Jenny Stein Crowly Family Endowment Award (2010)
• W. Carlton Family Endowment Award (2009)
• JMU COB Center for Entrepreneurship Fall Research Grant (2009)
• AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2006)
• Winter AMA Educator’s Conference Best Paper in Track Award (2006)
• Winter AMA Educator’s Conference Best Paper in Track Award (2005)
• Walton College of Business Award for Teaching Excellence (2005)
• University of Arkansas Baum Teaching Award (2005)
• Marketing & Public Policy Conference Best Paper Award (2004)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Kyle A. Huggins received a BS in Psychology and an MBA from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Dr. Huggins's teaching interests include Strategic Marketing Management, Social Media Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Sports Marketing. As a graduate student at the University of Arkansas, he won the 2005 Walton College of Business Award for Excellence in Teaching and the campus wide 2005 Baum Teaching Award.  In 2006, Dr. Huggins was selected as AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow from the University of Arkansas.  Then, in 2011, he was inducted as a LINKS Hall of Fame recipient for his distinguished work with LINKS competitive business simulations in the classroom.  Dr. Huggins is a passionate teacher, loving the classroom and pushing his students to be the best version of themselves. 

Administratively, Dr. Huggins served as the Accelerated-MBA Director at Belmont from 2013-2015 recruiting top college graduates from around the world, assisting placement in top companies in various industries, including Music Business, HealthCare, and Digital Marketing agencies throughout Nashville and the southeast region.  Before coming to Belmont, Dr. Huggins served as Chair of the External Relations Committee for the department of marketing at James Madison University, assisting career services in bringing employers to campus to recruit marketing graduates, including companies like ADP, Newell Rubbermaid, and SAP.  In coordination with this vision, Dr. Huggins was also the Marketing Internship Coordinator and a Freshman Advisor to incoming marketing majors.  Finally, Dr. Huggins served as the departmental liaison to the College of Business Executive Advisory Council, attending yearly EAC meetings and sharing departmental goals and concerns with council members.  Finally, Kyle has served his local communities as the Ambassador Family for the Rockingham County March of Dimes, and fundraiser for the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart and the Congenital Heart Walk in Nashville, TN.

Before arriving at Belmont, Dr. Huggins worked in various business capacities for The Pictsweet Company and Campbell Hausfeld, both located in his home state of Tennessee, and served as an assistant professor at Union University and James Madison University. He is married to his wife, Christie, and in 2007 became father to boy-girl twins named Blake and Lauren.  Personally, he enjoys golf, fly-fishing, fantasy football, and most importantly, spending time with his family and church community.

Len has over 35 years in designing effective management solutions for the private sector, government, non-profit organizations, and the educational community. He is experienced in business development, process reengineering, change management, strategic planning, knowledge management, market development, channel development, training, education, and ERP. Len has demonstrated and facilitated results- oriented outcomes for his clients and employers, in increasing market share, people productivity, and profitability, and developing product branding for new markets. His strategic management consulting engagements range from small organizations to Fortune 500 companies and major government organizations.

Len has over 35 years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and the graduate schools in management, entrepreneurship, and marketing programs at major Universities. Len is currently teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate management and marketing programs at Belmont University. He previously taught at MTSU, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 

In his role as Director of Business Development for IFS, North America, Inc, Len was responsible for developing and executing business models, and strategies for market penetration for IFS products and services, into key DOD agencies and arms-of service world-wide.

1. Manage and work with key partners to develop and execute CLS, MRO, and EAM business models for developing business opportunities and pursuing business in the A&D market sector.
2. Selecting and working with appropriate SI’s and OEMs for business opportunities pursuits. As a member of the IFS management team, conducted analysis of major opportunity pursuits to assess win probabilities, and assist in the team’s decision making on bid or no bid decisions.
3. Conduct initial sales campaigns with military –arms- services to brand IFS products, develop relationships, and uncover potential business opportunities both in domestic and international markets.
4. Functions as the key representative for IFSD, within the IFSNA organization.

Specific Activities:

1. Participated as a business development team member to capture JSF (F-35) business. IFS applications was selected for two (2) ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System) domains within the JSF program.
2. Functioned as the principal BD architect for developing and executing strategies to capture US Army aviation business. IFSNA won a major Army contract worth $10 million dollars.
3. Principal BD resource for branding and positioning IFS products within the USAF organization. This product branding enabled IFS to team with Oracle to compete for the USAF global logistics system contract (ECSS). Contract was worth $8 million dollars.
4. Secured a GSA contract and schedule for IFSNA.

In previous executive position, Len developed business for A&D employers and clients.

Some of these activities and successes include: Developing and selling ERP training services; successfully launching a major multi-media product line that produced over $ 8 million in sales; co-directed the development of a systematic market process for generating new business that increased the bid to win rate by 100%; key member of the ERP Planning team for a major aerospace company; internal consultant to three company SBU’s in the development of their strategic and marketing plans; designed major marketing training program for an Aerospace company, that produced $ 13 million dollars in new business. Re-engineered a major aerospace firm’s largest customer strategic marketing plan; conducted a major information technology initiative for restructuring the company’s IT core competency.

Kenny Jordan is an Instructor of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. Kenny completed both his Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Masters in Business Administration from East Tennessee State University. Currently, Kenny is finishing up his Ph.D. in Retail. Hospitality, and Tourism Management from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.

While at the University of Tennessee Kenny served as the Chancellor’s Event Management Fellow, and was responsible to plan, implement, and execute Chancellor sponsored and major University sponsored events. Evidence of his work as an event planner include the live television broadcasts of Pat Summitt’s Celebration of Life on ESPN and CBS as well as Al Roker’s “Rokerthon” featured on NBC’s Today Show. As an event planner, Kenny has been responsible for well over 300 events throughout his career, ranging in scope and size from five-person meetings to fifteen thousand-person events.

Prior to returning to school to complete his Ph.D., Kenny worked in the food and event industries for twenty-two years. Throughout his hospitality career in Food & Beverage and Event Management, Kenny held various management positions to include district and regional management positions and served as a managing partner of national restaurant companies. Kenny’s professional experience also includes working for Tyson Foods in Springdale, Arkansas at the company’s global headquarters as an associate product manager of processed meats in the consumer products division responsible for private label and institutional customer relationship management.

Kenny’s research focuses on tourism development and customer relationship management within hospitality and tourism.

Kenny is very excited to join the Belmont University family, specifically to have the opportunity to engage and collaborate within a Christian community.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A. - University of Memphis, Marketing
• M.S. - Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Business/Distributive Education
• B.S.B.A. - Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Marketing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Marketing, Belmont University
• Faculty Development Internship, Skanska, International
• Associate Dean, Undergraduate School of Business Administration, Belmont University
• Director of Training for Captain D's Division, Shoney's Inc.
• Sales/Service, Halliburton, Inc.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Lambert, R. P., Caudill, D. W. , Faulk, G., & Paul, H. (2008). Determining Attributes of Successful Acts of the Nashville Music Industry:  Implications for Marketing Strategy. Business Journal for Entrepreneurs.
• Lambert, R. P., Faulk, G., & Rolston, C. (2005). The Effects of Changing Technology and Government Policy on The Commercialization of Music. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing.
• Lambert, R. P., Faulk, G., & Cusic, D. (2005). Technology and Music Piracy: Has the Recording Industry Lost Sales? Studies in Popular Culture, 28 (1),15-24.

 
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• 2007: Received the College of Business Administration Outstanding Service Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business.
• 2007: Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Teaching Award, Belmont University.
• 2006: Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Teaching Award, Belmont University.
• 2005: College of Business Outstanding Research Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business.
• 2005: Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Professor , Belmont University.
• 2004: College of Business Outstanding Research Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business.
• 2004: Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Professor, Belmont University.
• 2003: Anthony L. Newberry Leadership Recognition Award, Ashland College.
• 1992: The Peabody Round Table Award for Teaching Excellence, Vanderbilt University.
• 1991: Given in recognition of outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award.
• 1991: Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, Belmont University.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Robert Lambert is Professor of Marketing, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate schools of business.  Dr. Lambert received his doctorate in marketing from the University of Memphis.  His coursework emphasized services marketing, marketing research, sociology, and logistics.  His undergraduate and master's degrees in marketing were earned at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. 

 His business experience includes work for Shoney's, Inc. and Haliburton, Inc.  Dr. Lambert has also been a marketing consultant to various Nashville businesses.  Evans Glass Company, Western Plastics, Nashville Gas Company, Comdata, and PIC, Inc. are among his list of clients.  He worked a faculty development internship in the marketing department of Skanska, International during the summer of 2003. 

Since coming to Belmont University, he has taught consumer behavior, marketing research, services marketing, and strategic marketing management in addition to principles of marketing and principles of marketing management.  Dr. Lambert also periodically leads study abroad trips on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  He served as Associate Dean of the Undergraduate School of Business from 1996  to 2001.

Dr. Lambert's research has published in academic journals including the Journal of Accounting and Finance Research and Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing.  His research has also been presented at regional and national professional conferences.  His classroom and marketing expertise were both utilized during his service as a reviewer for a marketing textbook published by Prentice Hall.

Professor Lambert has also been a leader in academics, receiving the Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, the highest award presented annually to faculty member at Belmont University.  The Sears - Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, student learning, and campus life, and the Peabody Round Table Award, presented for outstanding teaching/scholarship in the classroom, have also been awarded to him.  Dr. Lambert has also received College of Business Administration awards for Outstanding Service and Outstanding Research. 

Education:

Ph.D. (Management) – West Virginia University

M.B.A. (Healthcare Administration) – University of Louisiana at Lafayette

B.S. (Business Administration) – University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

Bio:

Luke Langlinais received his Ph.D. in Management from the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He also holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. he worked for a decade in healthcare administration. During his time as a licensed Nursing Facility Administrator he served in multiple leadership roles. When not on campus he enjoys traveling with his wife and four children. 

Dr. Langlinais teaches undergraduate and graduate business courses focused in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Management. In the classroom he merges theory with day-to-day life by using experiential exercises and case studies to help students engage in problem solving and develop critical thinking and clear communication skills. His primary research interests involve organizational behavior topics related to social influence in organizations, with an emphasis on how individuals build and repair trust in workplace relationships and overcome workplace challenges.

Recent Publications:

Geiger, M. K., Langlinais, L. A., & Geiger, M. (2022). Accent Speaks Louder than Ability: Elucidating the Effect of Nonnative Accent on Trust. Group & Organization Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011221117723

Langlinais, L. A., Howard, H. A., & Houghton, J. D. (2022). Trust Me: Interpersonal Communication Dominance as a Tool for Influencing Interpersonal Trust. International Journal of Business Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294884221080933

Maykrantz, S. A., Langlinais, L. A., Houghton, J. D., & Neck, C. P. (2021). Self-Leadership and Psychological Capital as Key Cognitive Resources for Shaping Health Protective Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Administrative Sciences, 11(2), 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci11020041

Maykrantz, S. A., Nobiling, B. D., Oxarart, R., Langlinais, L. A., & Houghton, J. D. (2021). Coping with the Crisis: The Effects of Psychological Capital and Coping Styles on Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 14(6), 650-665. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-04-2021-0085

Tomlinson, E. C., Nelson, C. A. & Langlinais, L. A. (2020). A Cognitive Process Model of Trust Repair. International Journal of Conflict Management, 32(2), 340-360. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCMA-03-2020-0048

Samantha Larson, originally from Charleston, South Carolina, joined Belmont University in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Management in the Jack C. Massey College of Business. Prior to Belmont, Sam earned her B.S. in Nutrition Science from the University of Minnesota, her M.P.H. concentrated in Health Policy and Ethics from Creighton University and Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Management, and Policy from the University of Florida. Sam spent many years working in the health insurance industry at BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont as the Director of Government Affairs, Medicare Compliance Coordinator, and Strategic Planning Associate. Additionally, she held roles at the University of Vermont in the Health Care Leadership and Health Care Administration programs as Program Coordinator.

Sam’s personal and professional experiences inspired her interest in healthcare management. From a research standpoint, she is interested in improving the quality, cost and experience of patient care through policy reform and evaluating patient outcomes in value-based payment systems. Inter-disciplinary collaboration and student mentorship are passions that Sam has grown in each of her past roles. At Belmont, she looks forward to developing partnerships aimed at advancing diverse research initiatives, cultivating new scholarship opportunities and enhancing holistic student mentorship. 

Sam recently relocated from Gainesville, Florida to downtown Franklin with her husband, Troy, and two dogs, Einstein and Newton. This is a homecoming as most all her has family moved to the greater-Nashville area over the last 20 years. From a military family, Sam has spent her life traveling the world and enjoys seeing new places in her free time. When not globetrotting, she also enjoys playing golf, competing in triathlon and distance running and eating great food!

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.M.   University of Maryland University College,  Adelphi, MD,  Management,  2012
• M.B.A.   Belmont University,  Nashville, TN,  2003
• B.A.   North Dakota State University,  Fargo, ND,  Speech Communications/Public Relations,  1991
• Rule 31 Mediator, 2014 (2014-2015), Nashville, Tennessee.
• Rule 31 Mediator, 2014 (2014), Nashville, Tennessee.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Professor, Belmont University, College of Business Administration
• Adjunct Instructor, Belmont University, College of Business Administration
• Direct Marketing Manager, Farmers Insurance

REFEREED ARTICLES

• Loes, C. & Gonas, J. (2014).  CAN A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SUSTAIN OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND PROFITABILITY IN AN OPEN MARKET? THE CASE OF SPRING BACK RECYCLING.   International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 
• Loes, C. (2014).  IMPROVING PROCESSES FOR EXPATRIATE SELECTION.   Business Studies Journal.

PRESENTATIONS OF REFEREED PAPERS

• Loes, C., Penn, S., & Henshaw, L. (2015-2016, September). "Full-Time Tenure-Track: Is that for me?" Transition from nontraditional terminal degree program to traditional higher education.   5th International Conference on Engaged Management Scholarship, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Gonas, J., Loes, C., & Summar, C. (2014-2015, November). Corporate form choice for social enterprises and its financial and social implications.   11th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Dent, E., Loes, C., & Weisberg, M. (2014-2015, June). The Integration of Ethics and Humane Values in Teaching: Experiential and Service Learning.   Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
• Loes, C. & Henshaw, L. (2012-2013). What can educators learn from innovative companies to implement into their teaching to align with the new AACSB standards? Current debate over innovative educational solutions.   Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Ashville, North Carolina.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Invited participant Engage Management Scholarship
• Strobel Award Finalist
• Jack C. Massey Graduate Student Award
• Our Kids Center Volunteer of the Year

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Cate Loes, is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Jack C. Massey College  of Business Administration. She joined the faculty in 2004.

Dr. Loes has taught courses in management, services marketing, non-profit marketing, service learning, business communications, and multi-culturalism in business. She is also an instructor for the Center of Executive Education at Belmont University specializing in Business Communications, Listening, and Writing, Generations.

She is a Sam Walton Fellow for the international student organization, Enactus. Through this organization, she mentors students and the greater business community in developing sustainable social enterprises. She enjoys traveling both domestically and internationally with her students. She currently works on projects with students in Ethiopia and Guatemala and across the United States.

Dr. Loes graduated from North Dakota State University with a B.S. in Mass Communications and Speech Communications. She earned an M.B.A. from the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business and her Doctorate of Management from University of Maryland.  Her research focused on Organizational Selection of Expatriates.

She is an active member of the Nashville non-profit community having served on the boards of The Our Kids Center, Nashville’s Table, and The Virtual School of Music, and as an examiner for the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence. Dr. Loes is also a certified State of Tennessee Rule 31 Listed Mediator.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Strategy, Program and Program Management, 2015 SKEMA (France) Dissertation: "Influence of Ethical Behavior in Corporate Governance"
• M.S. - Project Management, 2007, The George Washington University (USA)
• Licentiate - Naval Systems, 1996, Instituto Universitario Naval (Argentina) FIS equivalent to B.S.E.E.
• Program Management Professional (PgMP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
• PM@Siemens

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer of Management and International Business, Belmont University (2016-2017)
• Council Member, Gerson Lehrman Group, USA,  (2015-2016)
• Chief Project Officer (VP-Project Management), Bridgestone, USA (2013-2015)
• Senior Project Manager/PMO Director, Nokia Siemens Networks, USA/Canada (2007-2013)
• Senior Project Manager, Siemens com (2001-2007)
• Senior Project Manager, Ericsson, Mexico (2000-2000)
• Senior Project Manger, Miniphone-Unifon, Argentina (1997-1999)
• Telecommunications Officer, Armada Argentina, Argentina (1977-1997)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Lopez, E. (2017) Strategic Ethics and Governance. GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR) 5 (2).
• Lopez, E. (2016) Influence of Ethical Behaviors in Corporate Governance. Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrucken, Germany.
• Lopez, E., & Medina, A. (2016) Ethics and Governance in Project Management: Small Sins Allowed and the Line of Impunity. (Taylor and Francis: New York, NY).
• Lopez, E., & Medina, A. (2015) TRN: Influence of Ethical Behaviors in Corporate Governance. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 8(3).
• Lopez, E., (2015). Influence of Ethical Behaviors in Corporate Governance. Doctoral thesis, SKEMA Business School, France. Submitted October 2014, defended in February 2015.

RECENT PRESENTATION OF REFEREED PAPERS

• PMI NASHVILLE SYMPOSIUM 2018 “Project Management: The Power to Transform”
• Ethics and Governance in Project Management (Speaker)
• BIZ-STRATEGY 2017: STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTION (Singapore)    
  Speaker: Strategic Ethics, 2017
• IT METRICS AND PRODUCTIVITY INSTITUTE (USA)    
  How to Survive with Various Sets of Ethical Values (Webinar), 2017
• UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA (Costa Rica)    
  Keynote Speaker: The Importance of Strategy, 2016
• PMI SYMPOSIUM (Costa Rica)    
  Keynote Speaker: Ethics and Governance in Project Management, 2016
  
  SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS
• Best Research Paper. BizStrategy 2017 (Singapore) “Strategic Ethics and Governance”
• Highly Commended Award winner of the 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Management and Governance category: “Influence of Ethical Behaviors in Corporate Governance”

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Eduardo Lopez is a management professor and author, with more than 20 years of international experience working in the industry for companies such as Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, and Bridgestone. He is a key presenter and motivator.  Advocate of the Project Management profession, and champion of governance, ethics, and social responsibility.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Georgia Institute of Technology, Management (Organizational Behavior)
• M.S. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• B.A. - Hobart College, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Management, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Management, Wichita State University
• Assistant Professor, Leadership and Organizations, Vanderbilt University
• Major Subcontract Administrator, Rockwell International
• Subcontract Specialist, Litton Systems, Inc.
• Procurement Specialist, General Electric Company

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Maslyn, J.M., Schyns, B., & Farmer, S. (2017). Attachment style and leader-member exchange: The role of effort to build high quality relationships.  Leadership & Organizational Development Journal, 38, 450-462, DOI: 10.1108/LODJ-01-2016-0023

• Maslyn, J.M., Farmer, S.M., & Bettenhausen, K.L.  (2017). When organizational politics matters: The effects of the perceived frequency and distance of experienced politics. Human Relations. DOI: 10.1177/0018726717704706

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Massey Graduate School of Business. Received the COBA Researcher of the Year award in 2013.
• Massey Graduate School of Business. Received the Most Inspirational Professor Award by the 2011 graduating class of the Accelerated MBA program.
• Academy of Management. Outstanding Reviewer in Organizational Behavior for the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. John Maslyn is a Professor of Management in the Jack C. Massey College of Business. He earned his PhD in Management at Georgia Tech following a 10 year career in subcontract administration and negotiation in three major US corporations. Prior to Joining the faculty at Belmont he was on the faculty at Wichita State University and Vanderbilt University. He teaches leadership and organizational behavior in both the graduate and undergraduate business programs.

Dr. Maslyn's primary research interests are in the nature and effects of interpersonal work relationships on personal and organizational functioning, specifically positive outcomes associated with positive manager-subordinate relationships or positive coworker relationships. His research has been published in top journals in his field and he has presented his work at both national and regional conferences. He is an active member of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association.

The Accelerated MBA Class of 2011 presented him the Most Inspirational Professor Award.

EDUCATION 

• J.D. – Georgia State University College of Law
• B.A. – Rhodes College (Business Administration) 
• International Commercial Arbitration Certificate at Johannes Kepler Universität 
• Advanced Negotiation Certificate, Harvard Negotiation Institute at Harvard Law School

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Corporate Attorney – Weil, Gotshal, & Manges (New  York, NY)
• Corporate Attorney – King & Spalding (Atlanta, GA)
• Judicial Clerk – Delaware Court of Chancery (Wilmington, DE)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Recent scholarship can be accessed at SSRN
• Publication outlets include the American Business Law Journal, Maryland Law Review, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Harvard Business Law Review, Journal of Legal Studies Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, University of Miami Law Review, West Virginia Law Review.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Law & Society, Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business (MALSB), Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB)
• Various academic symposia including those hosted by American University, University of California, Hastings, University of Cincinnati, University of Notre Dame, University of St. Thomas
• Various nonprofit and bar association conferences including those hosted by the American Bar Association (Corporate Governance and LLC Institute), Center for Nonprofit Management, Nashville Bar Association

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Tennessee, Marketing
• M.B.A. - Millsaps College, Marketing/International Business
• B.S. - Mississippi State University, French/International Business
• Global Mindset Inventory (GMI) Certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Belmont University
• Researcher/Instructor/Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tennessee
• Assistant Professor, Florida State University
• Marketing Research Analyst, Entergy Corporation
• International Project Manager, Entergy Corporation

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Overby, J. W. (in press, 2015).  The Branding of Club Atlético de Madrid: Global or Local?   Case Research Journal.  
• Chen, D. C., Overby, J. W., & Padgett, B. L. (in press, 2014).  Sprinkles Cupcakes: A case study of creating a successful internationalization strategy.   Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.  
• Min, S., Overby, J. W., & Im, K. S. (2012).  Relationships Between Desired Attributes, Consequences And Purchase Frequency.   Journal of Consumer Marketing, 29 (6), 423-435.
• Overby, J. W. (2012).  Building a Model of Culture, Context, and the Means-End Value Hierarchy: An In-Depth Investigation of French and American Wine Consumers' Perceptions of Value.   Journal of Euromarketing, 21 (4), 193-218. 
• Overby, J. W. (2010).  Genesee & Wyoming: A Railroad Down Under?'.   The CASE Journal.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, Belmont University (2009)
• Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, Belmont University (2008)
• Nominated for Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, Belmont University (2007)
• Plaque of Appreciation, Florida State University International Business Association (2003)
• Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee, University of Tennessee Jack C. Massey College of Business (1999)
• SMA Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Society for Marketing Advances (1999)
• CLM Doctoral Consortium, Council of Logistics Management (1997)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Jeffrey W. Overby currently serves as Director of the Center for International Business and Associate Professor of Marketing at Belmont University.  His responsibilities include teaching marketing and international business at the undergraduate and graduate levels, expanding Belmont’s International Business major, establishing study abroad relationships with foreign universities, and promoting internationalization within the Jack C. Massey College of Business and the greater Nashville community.  He also regularly teaches in international study programs, including recent study abroad trips to Spain, France, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, South Africa and Botswana. 

He obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, an M.B.A. from Millsaps College, and a Bachelor of Science in French from Mississippi State University.  He has also studied at Odense University in Denmark, Birkbeck College in England, and in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Dr. Overby regularly consults with businesses and organizations specifically in the areas of customer value analysis, international branding, and multicultural marketing.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Business Council of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and on the Advisory Board of the Turkish American Chamber of Commerce, the Academy of International Business at Hillsboro High School, the Tennessee Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and the Tennessee World Affairs Council.   Dr. Overby is a past board member of the Danish American Chamber of Commerce, the German American Chamber of Commerce, the City of Tallahassee International Affairs Council, Jackson Sister Cities, the Southern Regional Chapter of Italy-America Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta, and the Capital Optimist Club in Jackson, Mississippi. He is a member of Sister Cities of Nashville, the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science, and the Academy of International Business.

His early career included six years as European Project Manager and Market Research Analyst for Entergy Corporation, four years as a graduate assistant in the College of Business at the University of Tennessee, and five years at Assistant Professor of Marketing and International Business at Florida State University.  While at Entergy Corporation, he recruited and managed European direct investment projects targeted at the Middle South region of the United States, and advised small and medium-sized business with their international marketing strategies.  While at Florida State, he was part of the core faculty in the International Business program and the faculty advisor to the International Business Association.  He also taught each summer in London, England and Valencia, Spain.

Dr. Overby's academic research interests are in the areas of international marketing, international business strategy, cross-cultural consumer behavior, and the ethics of globalization.  He has published in a number of leading journals and magazines, including Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science , Journal of Business Research, The CASE Journal, International Marketing Review, Industrial Marketing Management , The Service Industries Journal , Journal of Consumer Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, International Journal of Service Industry Management , International Journal of Management , and Competitive Edge .  He has also served as a book reviewer for Prentice Hall, Wiley & Sons, and South-Western Cengage.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Purdue University, Philosophy
• M.A. - University of Louisville, Philosophy
• B.A. - Mobile College,  Religion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Philosophy and Director, Ethics and Social Justice Program, Bellarmine University
• Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director, Ethics and Social Justice Program, Bellarmine University
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bellarmine University
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Louisville

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Padgett, B. L. (in press, 2014).  10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders.   Business Ethics Quarterly.
• Padgett, B. L., Chen, D., & Overby, J. (in press, 2014).  SPRINKLES CUPCAKES: A CASE STUDY OF CREATING A SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY.   Journal of International Academy for Case Studies.  
• Padgett, B. L. & Rolston, C. (in press, 2013).  Crowd Funding: A Case Study At The Intersection Of Social Media and Business Ethics.   Journal of International Academy for Case Studies.   
• Luthy, M. R. & Padgett, B. L. (2013).  SKÁLHOLTSSTÍGUR 2A: ECONOMICS, IMPLIED PROMISES, AND ETHICS.  Journal of International Academy for Case Studies, 19 (1 & 2),
• Padgett, B. L. & Rau-Foster, M. (2012).  Leadership Ethics: An Introduction.   Business Ethics Quarterly. 

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Wilson W. Wyatt Award for Academic Excellence, Bellarmine University, 2009
• President's Faculty Merit Award for outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarship and service, Bellarmine University, 2008 and 2009
• Outstanding Educator Award for Innovative and Creative Teaching, Academy of Educational Leadership, 2008

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Padgett received his B.A. from the University of Mobile, M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Louisville, and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He comes to Belmont after 10 years of teaching at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, where he has directed the Ethics and Social Justice Program since 2002.

At Bellarmine, he taught graduate courses in Business Ethics and Bioethics and undergraduate courses in Philosophy of Law, Logic, Marketing Ethics, Business Ethics, and Health Care Ethics. Believing that education, particularly applied ethics, works best when it challenges individuals to search introspectively for resolutions to difficult contemporary issues, he has received multiple awards for his teaching.

In addition to numerous articles in professional journals including the Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, he has authored two books. In the most recent, published in 2009 and entitled Professional Morality and ‘Guilty Bystanding:' Merton's Conjectures and the Value of Work, Padgett asserts that work has a central role in our lives and is a major component of self actualization and well-being. Using the works of Thomas Merton as a guide, Padgett contends that a renewal of our professional lives and the institutional contexts in which we operate is needed to humanize the alienating aspects of work and professions.

Dr. Padgett has served his university in various capacities, his community as a media expert and Better Business Bureau Torch Awards (business ethics) judge, and his profession as a guest speaker to professional organizations including the Louisville Bar Association and Louisville Public Library.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. – Colorado State University, Economics
• M.A. – Colorado State University, Economics
• B.A. – George Fox University, Philosophy, Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Instructor of Economics, Colorado State University
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University
• Research Assistant, Regional Economic Development Institute @ Colorado State University

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Petach, Luke, and Daniele Tavani. 2019. “No One is Alone: Strategic Complementarities, Capacity Utilization, Growth, and Distribution.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 50: 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2019.07.001.
• Petach, Luke, and Daniele Tavani. 2019. “Consumption Externalities and Growth: Theory and Evidence for the United States.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Advanced Access. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.02.021.
• Petach, Luke. 2018. “Inequality and the Rate of Return on Capital: An Institutional Approach to ‘The Piketty Problem,’” Journal of Economic Issues, 52(4): 925-946. DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2018.1518558.
• Peach, Nate, and Luke Petach. 2016. “Development and Quality of Life in Cities.” Economic Development Quarterly, 30(1): 32-45. DOI: 10.1177/0891242415620277

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• North American Regional Science Council 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award
• Colorado State University Department of Economics Dissertation Fellowship

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Luke Petach is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Luke completed a Bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy at George Fox University before receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Colorado State University. Luke’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic inequality and the interaction between inequality and long-run economic growth. In his free time, Luke enjoys reading fiction and poetry.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - George Washington University
• J.D. - New York University Law School
• M.B.A. - New York University, Stern School of Business
• B.A. - Johns Hopkins University, Political Science

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Belmont University
• Instructor, George Washington University School of Business
• Adjunct Faculty, Mount St. Mary's University School of Business, Emmitsburg, MD,  and Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD
• Associate Attorney, McKenna, Long &Aldridge, LLP; Miles & Stockbridge, PC; Schute, Roth & Zabel, LLP

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Phillips, J. Mark. Entrepreneurial Esquires in a New Economy:  Why Every Lawyer Should Learn About Entrepreneurship in Law School. Pepperdine Journal of Law, Business & Entrepreneurship, Fall 2014.
• Phillips, J. Mark, Messersmith, Jake. 2013.  Entrepreneurship in Professional Service Firms:  Corporate entrepreneurship as a mode of innovation in PSFs. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. 24, (2) (Spring): 79-96.
• Wark, John & Phillips, J. Mark. 2013. Pacific Marketing International:  A case study on building a start-up based upon trans-pacific entrepreneurial relationships. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. 24, (2) (Spring): 97-125.
• Phillips, J. Mark, May, Kevin & Bailey, James. “Engaged Scholarship”: In Encyclopedia of Management Theory, edited by Eric H. Kessler, 58-61. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2013.
• Phillips, J. Mark, May, Kevin & Bailey. "Bad Theories." In Encyclopedia of Management Theory, edited by Eric H. Kessler, 58-61. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2013.
• Phillips, J. M. 2012. The Entrepreneurial Esquire: Entrepreneurial Climate as a Mediator between Transformational Leadership and Performance in Law Firms. Ph.D. dissertation, The George Washington University School of Business.

• Best Paper Finalist, International Council for Small Business, 2010
• Institute of Corporate Responsibility Research  Grant, George Washington University
• Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2011, George Washington University
• Accepted to Doctoral Consortiums at the 2009 Academy of Management Conference and 2010 United States Association or Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference

BIOGRAPHY

Mark Phillips has been affiliated with law firms in New York, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He has sales and marketing experience with Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland and management experience at the Urban Assistance Corporation in New York City. He has taught a variety of organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, negotiation and legal courses as an adjunct professor, guest lecturer and instructor at the MBA and undergraduate levels. He also worked with the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence to develop its 3E Entrepreneurship Education program.

Phillips' article entitled “What Drives Attorney Performance in Large Law Firms? A Theoretical Framework Examining Attorney Performance” was published in the refereed proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Southern Management Association. His work was also a finalist for the Best Paper Award for a paper entitled “The Impact of an Entrepreneur of Small Business Owner’s Education on Knowledge Acquisition" in 2010.

Dr. Phillips received a George Washington University Graduate Fellowship Award, the John Hopkins University Provost’s Award for Academic Research and Excellence, and the ICR Research Grant of The Institute of Corporate Responsibility at George Washington University.

My wife of thirty years and I have three daughters, the middle of whom graduated from Belmont in May 2020.  We are recent empty-nesters and decided to build a house in Lebanon.  When I’m not working or teaching, I love coaching girls softball, which I did with all three of my daughters, both travel and recreational, and which I continue to do at Mt Juliet League. 

I earned a business degree from Wake Forest and later an MBA, with emphases in finance and accounting from Vanderbilt.  I have completed the coursework component of a DBA from Liberty and now face the dissertation phase with an accounting cognate. 

I started my career as a financial statement auditor for Coopers & Lybrand in St. Louis, followed by a short stint at Deloitte & Touche here in Nashville.  In 1997, I was recruited by my neighbor to join the Oracle implementation team for a Nashville-based company, which was launching a multi-year Oracle project.  I have been doing systems consulting and Oracle ERP project work ever since. 

I have always wanted to teach.  I started in 2014 teaching Excel to accountants at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN in what had to be a God-ordained moment.  I joined Belmont as an adjunct in the spring of 2020. 

I have had a professional career focused on client service where any spiritual significance was not apparent or visible and certainly not emphasized.  It was often difficult to see the real benefit of our work to the individuals who we interacted with on a daily basis for months at a time.  I am so very excited to be part of a Christ-focused organization where I can actively influence my students and the larger community with the love and peace of Jesus.      

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Alabama, Economics 
            (Dissertation: A Theoretical Economic Explanation of the Competition Policy Implemented in the European Community)
  
• M.A. - University of Alabama, Economics
  
• B.A. - University of Alabama, Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Jack C. Massey Dean of the Jack C. Massey College of Business and Professor of Economics, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University
• Professor of Economics and F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business, E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Richmond

RECENT ARTICLES

• Leathers, C. G. & Raines, J. P. (in press, 2014).  Natural Experiments and Debt-Driven Financial Crises: The Mortgage Debt Boom of the 1920s and 2000s.   International Journal of Social Economics.  
• Leathers, C. G. & Raines, J. Patrick (2014).  Veblen's Evolutionary Economics of Religion and the Evolutionary Psychology of Religion.   International Journal of Social Economics.
• Leathers, C. G. & Raines, J. P. (2013).  Friedman, Schumpeter, and Greenspan's financial policies: Spurious claims of intellectual links.   International Journal of Social Economics, 40 (5), 504-520, doi: 10.1108/03068291311315368. 
• Leathers, C. G. & Raines, J. P. (2012). Intuitive Psychology, Natural Experiments, and the Greenspan-Bernanke Conceptual Framework for Responding to Financial Crises. International Journal of Social Economics, 39 (4), 281-295.

BOOKS

• Raines, J.P. & Leathers, C.G. (2008) Debt, Innovations and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter and Minsky, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Raines, J.P. & Leathers, C.G. (2003) The Economic Institutions of Higher Education: Economic Theories of University Behavior, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Raines, J.P. & Leathers, C.G. (2000) Economists and the Stock Market: Speculative Theories of Stock Market Fluctuations, Elgar Publishing, Ltd.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Most Supportive Dean of the Year, Students in Free Enterprise (2009)
• Volunteer of the Year, Arts, Entertainment and Music Category, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce [Raines, J.P. & Brown, L. (2006) The Economic Impact of the Music Industry in Nashville, Tennessee]
• University of Richmond Nominee for Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (2000)
• Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond (1997)
• Fulbright Scholar Award, College of the Bahamas, Nassau (1989)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. J. Patrick Raines is both a Professor of Economics and the Dean of the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. He earned his B.A. in Economics, M.A. in Economics, and Ph.D. in Economics all from the University of Alabama, where he also played center on football teams coached by Paul ”Bear” Bryant. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he has taught comparative economic systems, money and banking and international business classes in The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University.In 1990, Dr. Raines was appointed as a Fulbright Scholar to the College of the Bahamas. His international experience also includes his leadership of one of the first industrial development groups to the former Soviet republics to establish educational and industrial relationships with emerging market enterprises. At the University of Richmond, he was instrumental in developing the curriculum and study abroad programs for the International Business program.Dr. Raines has published more than twenty articles in prestigious academic journals in his field of economics. His research interests include economic models of institutions of higher education, debt and deflation in the U.S. economy, and behavioral finance. His third book was released by Elgar Publishing Ltd. in 2008. Since assuming the dean’s position at Belmont University, new undergraduate degree programs have been added in entrepreneurship, economics and international business. The MBA program was selected by the 2006 Nashville Business Journal Reader’s Poll as the BEST MBA program in Nashville. The Massey School has been listed in the Princeton Review in 2005-2012. Under his leadership funds were secured to establish two endowed chairs and to build and endow the first university-based financial information center (“Trading Room”) in the State of Tennessee.Dr. Raines is a member of the Board of Directors for the Nashville Junior Achievement program, chair of the Board of Directors for Centennial Medical Center, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and the Middle Tennessee Research Institute. His dedication to teaching resulted in his receipt of the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award. In 2001, he was nominated by the Council of Higher Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Outstanding Faculty Award. He was also presented the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business Award for Scholarly Activities. He received a Nashville Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award for his economic impact study of the music industry in Middle Tennessee, released in January of 2006.

Education & Certifications

• Ph.D. – The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, Business Psychology
• MPA – Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, Non-Profit Management
• BS - Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, Interdisciplinary Studies (Africana Studies & Psychology
• Certified Business Advisor, Tennessee Small Business Development Center
• Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Management, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor of Management, Belmont University
• Belmont University Fellow in Business
• Executive Director, National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN
• Executive Director, Tennessee Small Business Development Center, Nashville, TN

Bio

Dr. Roberts has served as executive director of both the National Museum of African American Music and the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC).  During her time at the museum, she oversaw the foundational development of organizational and operating structures to ensure the success of the historic momentous project.  While at the TSBDC, Dr. Roberts facilitated the development, reorganization, and growth of hundreds of small to medium sized businesses throughout the US.  Under her direction, the Center created/retained 298 jobs and increased client sales by $37M with an additional $18M in contracts and loans awarded to the Center’s clients.  Today, in addition to teaching, she continues to serve as a strategy consultant specializing in building sustainable ventures, viable programs, and executive leaders.    

Active in the Middle Tennessee community, Dr. Roberts currently serves as secretary on the board of New Level CDC, and the advisory boards of the Nashville Area Salvation Army, and the Nashville Opera Association.  Paula was appointed to the Metro Nashville Arts Commission (MNAC) by Mayor Karl Dean in 2009, serving as Chair in 2012, and reappointed by Mayor David Briley in 2019.  She currently co-chairs the newly formed MNAC Committee on Anti-Racism and Equity.  She is also a proud graduate of Leadership Nashville Class of 2010, Leadership Middle Tennessee Class of 2012, and Leadership Music Class of 2013.  She is a former member of the Rotary Club of Nashville and has chaired the boards of both Urban League of Middle Tennessee Young Professionals and Young Leaders Council.

Dr. Roberts’ academic research is rooted in Behavioral Finance as she thoroughly enjoys exploring the behavioral and decision-making biases individuals exhibit regarding money management and financial investments.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Middle Tennessee State University, Economics, 2016
• M.S. -
• M.B.A. -
• B.A. - 
• PMP
• PgMP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer of Economics, Belmont University (August 2015 - May 2017)
• Instructor of Economics, Middle Tennessee State University (August 204 - May 2015)
• Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University (August 20012 - May 2015)

RECENT PRESENTATION OF REFEREED PAPERS

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Rumbaugh earned his Ph.D in Economics from Middle Tennessee State University.  His areas of expertise are industrial organization and labor economics, with an emphasis on the economics of education. 

His current research focuses on the impact of scholarship programs on student decision making and achievement.  He has presented his work at the Southern Economic Association and has various other works in progress.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:         

Undergraduate:               

Received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Lipscomb University; graduated magna cum laude with a major in Political Science and a minor in English.

Law Degree:                                    

Received a Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

* Order of the Coif (top 10 percent); 

* Student Materials Editor, Tennessee Law Review;

 *Member of National Moot Court Team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW:

    1982-83                                          

Clerked for Senior Judge Harry Phillips on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

    1983-90                                          

Employed as an Associate with the law firms of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and Denney Lackey & Cherneau in Nashville, Tennessee. 

    1990-1998                                      

Employed as Associate General Counsel and Senior Vice President at First American National Bank (now Regions Bank).   

    1998-present                                 

Partner with the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP.  Practice in the areas of Commercial Lending, Real Property, Creditors’ Rights in Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, Business Associations, Contracts and Commercial Litigation; and licensed as a Title Agent for various national title insurance companies.  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:        

Full Lecturer (previously an Adjunct Instructor) in the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs at Belmont University (Business Law I, Business Ethics and The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business); teaching since 2006.   

Instructor of American Government and Introduction to Political Science at Nashville State Community College.

Instructor of Business Entities and various other law- related courses at Southeastern Paralegal Institute. 

Taught Law and Banking Applications for the American Institute of Banking. 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:

Former President of the Young Lawyers Division of the Nashville  Bar Association.

Former Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the Nashville Pro Bono Program, Inc.

Past Chairperson of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Nashville Bar Association.

Member in good standing of the Tennessee Bar Association.

AV (highest) Rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

Voted among America’s Best Lawyers by Peers.

RESEARCH / PUBLICATIONS:   Received Grant from Belmont University in 2021 to research the development of alternative dispute resolution in Tennessee and the “Business Court” Plot Program in the Nashville Chancery Courts.

“The Right of Mental Patients in Public Institutions to Receive Supplemental Security Income,” 48 Tennessee Law Review 919 (1981)[an analysis of the Supreme Court Opinion in Schweiker v. Wilson, 450 U.S. 221 (1981)].

                                                            Assisted in editing and providing textual material (on Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code) for Law & Banking Applications, by Craig W. Smith, American Bankers’ Association (1996).

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS:   

Seminar speaker and the preparer of written materials for various Continuing Legal Education Seminars in Tennessee and other states:

*Commercial and Real Estate Loan Documents in  Tennessee.

*Recent Developments in Real Estate Law.

*Negotiating Commercial Real Property Leases.

*Ethical Considerations in Foreclosures.

*Real Property Evictions.

*Who’s Afraid of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

*Foreclosures and Repossessions in Tennessee.

*Common Problems Associated with Commercial    Lending.

* Notary Requirements in Tennessee.

*Authority Issues in Real Estate Transactions.

*Commercial Real Property Purchases.

*Secured Loan Transactions.

BRIEFS AND MEMORANDA:

OF LAW (Samples):            

Amicus Cure Brief for the Tennessee Banker’s Association filed with the Tennessee Supreme Court in  Community Trust & Banking Company (Tenn. Sup. Ct. Docket No. M2002-00337-SC-R23-CQ).

Memorandum of Law in Support of Summary Judgment in Wakefield v. Luna, et al. (Chancery Court for Giles County, Tennessee, Case #4838)(legal issues regarding adverse possession and prescriptive easements).

Trial Brief (example) in Hudgens v. West Realty, Inc., et al. (Chancery Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, Case #02-2195-I)(legal issues regarding breaches of fiduciary duties).

Memorandum of Law in Taylor v. (Chancery Court for Davidson County, Tennessee (legal issues regarding the dissolution of a limited liability company and breaches of fiduciary duties)

LICENSES:                                      

License to practice law in Tennessee

License as title agent (to write title insurance for title underwriters)

CONTINUING EDUCATION:      15 hours each year of continuing legal education with the Tennessee Law Institute (updating recent developments in the law for the prior year)

MISCELLANEOUS:                      

Served as court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem for disadvantaged clients before the Probate Court for Davidson County, Tennessee.

In the last 2 years handled 4 pro bono cases assigned through the Nashville Pro Bono Organization.

AWARDS:                                        

2020 Faculty Making a Difference Award from Belmont University’s Student Chapter of the Center for Public Trust.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• PhD – University of Mississippi, Accounting
• MPAcc – Murray State University
• BAB – Murray State University, Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor – Accounting, Mississippi State University
• Visiting Assistant Professor – Accounting, Texas Tech University
• PhD Student Instructor – Accounting, University of Mississippi
• Senior Accountant – Diversified Specialty Institutes, Inc.
• Audit Senior – Ernst & Young, LLP

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Howard, M., Seay, R.and Seay, R. (2019). Experimental Evidence on the Efficacy of Current Approaches to Increase Use Tax Compliance. Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, 22, 21-41.

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Don & Peggy Whitmire Fellowship Recipient (2017-2019), Mississippi State University
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2013), University of Mississippi
• Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award (2012), University of Mississippi
• Outstanding Doctoral Student in Accountancy (2012), University of Mississippi

BIOGRAPHY 
Dr. Ryan Seay is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University.  He joined Belmont in August 2019 after serving for four years as an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University and one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.  Ryan received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Mississippi, where he received the Patterson School of Accountancy Doctoral Student Teaching Award.  He also holds a Master of Professional Accountancy and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Murray State University. 

Prior to his doctoral studies, Ryan worked in Nashville as an auditor for Ernst & Young and as an accountant for Diversified Specialty Institutes.  He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the state of Tennessee.  Ryan’s primary research interests involve accounting issues within the healthcare industry. 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  - Saint Louis University - Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, International Business and Marketing, Minor in Research Methodology
• M.B.A. -  Saint Louis University - Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, Supply Chain Management

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Alexey V Semenov has a Ph.D. in International Business and Marketing from Saint Louis University in addition to his Graduate Minor in Research Methodology from the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Saint Louis University. Alexey also holds his Masters of Business Administration in Supply Chain from Saint Louis University. Alexey has been actively involved in research and teaching at several Universities including Saint Louis University, San Jose State University, and Belmont University. His research interests center on Cultural Intelligence (CQ) as well as microfoundations and managerial decision making. Additional interests include theory of FDI and the Multinational Enterprises, liability of foreignness, internationalization, internalization, international strategies, and regionalization. Alexey’s research has been presented at top international business and management conferences. Alexey has taught classes in International Business, Strategies for International Business, International and Comparative Management, and co-taught Graduate Global Strategy. Prior to his academic pursuit at Saint Louis University, Alexey worked in a financial industry in Russia as well as spent time working as a sales team manager in an IT company in Moscow.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  - University of Cincinnati, Business Administration, Strategy & Entrepreneurship
• M.B.A. -  Northern Kentucky University, Management
• B.A.  -  University of Cincinnati, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Entrepreneurship & Department Chair, Belmont University

• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Belmont University
• Assistant Director, University of Cincinnati Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research 
• Operations Manager, The Habegger Corporation
• General Manager, David E. Estes Engineering, Inc.
• Assistant Controller, The Hennegan Company.
• Operations Manager, Wright Bros., Inc.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Schenkel, M. T., D'Souza, R. R., & Hornsby, J. S. (2023). Entrepreneurship Competency Development: Where are We and Where Do We Need to Go? In C. H. Matthew & S. C. Santos (Eds.), Annals of entrepreneurship education and pedagogy (Vol. V, pp. 64-76). Edward Elgar.
• Khurana, I., Dutta, D., Schenkel, M. T. (2022). Crisis and Arbitrage Opportunities: The Role of Causation, Effectuation and Entrepreneurial Learning. International Small Business Journal, 40(2): 236-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426211061679
• Klyver, K., Schenkel, M. T., Nielsen, M. S. (2020).  Can’t Always Get What I Want: Cultural Expectations of Emotional Support in Entrepreneurship. International Small Business Journal, 38(7): 677-690.
• Schenkel, M. S., Farmer, S., & Maslyn, J. (2019). Process Improvement in SMEs: The Impact of Harmonious Passion for Entrepreneurship, Employee Creative Self-Efficacy, and Time Spent Innovating. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 29(1): 71-84.
• Harding, L. & Schenkel, M. T. (2017). Brand Advertising in an Access–Ownership World:  How Marketing Channels Impact Message Persuasiveness. Journal of Marketing Channels, 24(1-2): 51-72.
• Schenkel, M. T., Yoo, S. S., & Kim, J. (2016). Not All Created Equal: Examining the Impact of Birth Order and Role Identity among Descendant CEO Sons on Family Firm Performance. Family Business Review, 29(4): 380-400.
• Schenkel, M. T., D'Souza, R. R., Cornwall, J. R., & Matthews, C. H. (2015). Early Influences and Entrepreneurial Intent: Examining the Roles of Education, Experience, and Advice Networks. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 25(2): 1-20.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mark Schenkel joined Belmont University in 2005. He earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati, an M.B.A. from Northern Kentucky University, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the University of Cincinnati. While pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati, he served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research and Coordinator for the Small Business Institute® program.

Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Schenkel sharpened his entrepreneurship experience through service in a range of management and leadership roles in small closely held family firms, including The Habegger Corporation, David E. Estes Engineering, Inc., The Hennegan Company, and Wright Brothers Inc. where he was charged with developing and implementing strategies for achieving business growth and profitability objectives. He has continued to foster entrepreneurship through direct consulting and advising efforts, as well as through service on the Boards of local ventures in the Nashville area.

Dr. Schenkel’s research and teaching interests focus on the role entrepreneurial cognition (e.g., opportunity recognition and assessment) and strategic decision-making play in new venture creation, corporate venturing activities, and family business. His scholarly work has been published in professional journals including the Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, British Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Management Research News, and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. His work has been recognized with numerous research awards, including the Belmont University Scholarship Award in 2019.

He enjoys consulting students interested in starting entrepreneurial ventures in- and outside the classroom. Dr. Schenkel serves as a co-founding faculty adviser to the Belmont Chapters of Sigma Nu Tau Entrepreneurship Honor Society and Big Brothers Big Sisters, the founding adviser to the Belmont Aviation Club, and advises Belmont’s Collegiate DECA chapter. Beyond campus, he consults with local entrepreneurs and business owners.

Schenkel served his professional discipline as President for United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) in 2018, was recognized as a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow in 2020. He currently serves as a member of the national board for Sigma Nu Tau, Ombudsman for USASBE’s Ethics Commission, Associate Editor for Journal of Small Business Management, and on the editorial board for Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - The University of Tennessee, Economics
• M.A. - The University of Tennessee, Economics
• B.B.A. – Carson-Newman College, Economics and Spanish
• Lean Healthcare Certified (2016)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Economics, The University of Tennessee
• Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Business and Economic Research, The University of Tennessee
• Administrative Budget Analyst, Department of Finance and Administration, State of Tennessee

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Smith, Kara. “Is it Facetime or Structure and Accountability that Matter? Flipped versus Flipped/Hybrid Classroom." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (2020).
• Carruthers, Celeste and Kara Smith. “Are ‘Education Lotteries’ Less Regressive? Evidence from Texas.” Southern Economic Journal. 86.3 (2020): 1019-1040.
• Cannonier, Colin and Kara Smith. “Do Crib Sheets Improve Student Performance on Tests? Evidence from Principles of Economics.” International Review of Economics Education 30 (2019):100-147.
• Smith, Kara, and Robin Lovgren. "Empirical Evidence of Deep Learning in Learning Communities." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 10.3 (2018): 311-321.
• Smith, Kara D., and Bryan Shone. "Progressive State Taxes and Welfare." Poverty & Public Policy 8.4 (2016): 430-437.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Georgescu-Roegan Prize, awarded by the Southern Economic Association (2020)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Jack C. Massey Collee of Business, Belmont University (2015)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation Award, The University of Tennessee (2009)
• Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, Carson-Newman College (2004)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Smith joined Belmont University in 2010, where she teaches Healthcare and Public Finance Economics. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Dr. Smith worked in the State of Tennessee's Department of Finance and Administration where she assisted with the annual preparation of the state budget.  As a result of that experience, her research focuses on public finance economics with a particular interest in the economics of state lotteries, state and local taxes and the intersection of public programs, poverty, and health disparity. She presents her work at regional and national conferences, and her research appears in Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Journal of Poverty and Public Policy, and International Review of Economics Education. Dr. Smith is also an invited contributor to print and on-air media.

In 2020, Dr. Smith was honored by the Southern Economic Association with the Georgescu-Roegan Prize for her work on the regressivity of so-called “education lotteries.”  She holds a B.A. in International Economics and Spanish from Carson-Newman University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she taught a variety of classes and worked as a research assistant in the Center for Business and Economic Research. Dr. Smith serves on the Board of Nashville Ballet, and is an active member at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Kentucky, Finance
• M.B.A. - Marshall University, Business Administration
• B.A. - Wheeling Jesuit University, Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Finance, Belmont University
• Sales representative, Prudential

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cannonier, C., Faulk, G. K., & Smolira, J. C. (2014).  The Impact of the Maturity and Source of the Risk-free Rate in Equity Estimation under the CAPM.   Journal of Law and Financial Management, 13 (1), 30-37.
• Smolira, J. C. & Travis, D. H. (2013).  A Note on Long Real Interest Rates and the Real Term Structure.   Financial Decisions.  
• Smolira, J. C. & Travis, D. H. (2011).  Applying Options in the Classroom: Selling Calls and Puts on Grades.  Journal of Financial Education.  

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Joe Smolira has taught at Belmont University since 1999.  He received his B.B.A. from Wheeling Jesuit University, M.B.A. from Marshall University and Ph. D. in Finance from the University of Kentucky.  His professional education also includes achieving certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

His research interests include financial planning, mutual funds, and pedagogy and has appeared in Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, Mid-American, Business Journal, The Journal of Investment Consulting, and The Journal of Financial Education.

Dr. Smolira has served on the Board of Directors for the CFA Society of Nashville and as a securities arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.  He is a member of The CFA Society of Nashville, GARP, the Financial Management Association, the Southern Finance Association, and other professional organizations.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• D.B.A. - Mississippi State University, Marketing
• M.B.A. - Nicholls State University, Marketing
• B.S. - Nicholls State University, Marketing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Dean, Belmont University, Jack C. Massey College of Business
• Associate Professor of Marketing, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Marketing, Valdosta State University
• Assistant Professor of Marketing, State University of West Georgia
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mississippi State University Department of Marketing
• Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University Department of Marketing
• Instructor of Marketing, Department of Management and Marketing, Nicholls State University
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Management and Marketing, Nicholls State University
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Economics and Finance, Nicholls State University
• Analyst/Developmental Business Relations Specialist, General Operating Department, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a division of Tenneco Inc.
• Field Accountant III, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a division of Tenneco Inc.

PUBLICATIONS

• Taylor, S. L. & Finley, J. B. (2011).  Adding Value to the Masters of Accounting Curriculum Through an International Travel Experience. Global Perspectives on Accounting Education, 8, 47-66.   

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• 2005: Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University.
• 2004: Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award, Belmont University, Jack C. Massey College of Business.
• 1999: Innovative Teaching Award, Valdosta State University.
• 1999: Quality Research Award, Valdosta State University.
• 1998: Quality Research Award, Valdosta State University.
• 1996: Teaching Innovation Award, West Georgia College.
• 1996: Annual Publication Award, West Georgia College.
• 1994: Teaching Innovation Award, West Georgia College.
• 1991: Best Paper in Track Award -- Service Marketing/Consumer Satisfaction Track, Southern Marketing Association.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Susan Taylor, Professor of Marketing, earned a B.S. in Marketing and an M.B.A. from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA.  She taught for two years in the Marketing and Management Department at Nicholls State University before returning to school to earn her D.B.A. degree from Mississippi State University.  Dr. Taylor spent seven years in the Georgia System of Higher Education prior to accepting a faculty position at Belmont University in 2000.  

A native of Kentucky, Dr. Taylor worked as a Field Accountant for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a division of Tenneco Inc.  She then transferred to the company headquarters in Houston, Texas, where she gained business expertise as an Analyst/Developmental Business Relations Specialist.  These experiences provided her with insight into practical business applications and laid the foundation for the advanced development of her marketing expertise.

Dr. Taylor has taught a variety of courses in both The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business and in the Undergraduate School of Business Administration.  Her teaching experience includes:  Principles of Marketing, Advertising, Market Research, Direct Marketing, Personal Selling, Consumer Behavior, and Strategic Marketing Management.  She served as Associate Dean of the Undergraduate School of Business from 2004  to 2012, during which time the program earned recognition by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a "Best Undergraduate B-School" and maintained accreditation by AACSB International.

Dr. Taylor's research interests lie in the areas of international education, nonprofit marketing, e-commerce, collaborative teaching practices, health care marketing, and internal marketing. She has published in such scholarly journals as the Journal of Teaching in International Business, Journal of Education for Business, Journal of the Academy of Business Education, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Health Care Marketing, Marketing Health Services, Health Care Management Review, Business Forum, Nonprofit World, Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing,  Supervision, HRfocus, Journal of Transportation Management, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, and International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration. 

During her academic career, Dr. Taylor received the Jack C. Massey College of Business Scholarly Activity Award in 2004 and 2005. She has also received innovative teaching and quality research awards from her prior institutions.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. - The New School for Social Research, Development Economics & Labor Economics, 2021
• MPhil - The New School for Social Research, Development Economics & Labor Economics, 2018
• A. - The New School for Social Research, Economics, 2016
• MPhil - University of Ghana, Monetary Economics, 2011
• A. - University of Ghana, Economics, Geography and Resource Development, 2007

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Distinguished / Visiting Professor of Economics, St. John’s University, Economics and Finance Department, Queens, New York
• Adjunct Professor of Economics, Fordham University, Department of Economics, New York, New York
• Teaching Fellow in Economics, The New School for Social Research, Department of Economics, New York, New York
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Eugene Lang College, The New School, Department of Economics, New York, New York

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Tontoh, E. A. (2021). The Triple Day Thesis: Three Theoretical Essays on the Capability Perspective and Economics of Motherhood—ProQuest. ProQuest Dissertations. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2557398079?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
• Tontoh, E. A. (2021). The Triple Day Thesis: Theorizing Motherhood as a Capability and a Capability Suppressor Within Martha Nussbaum’s Feminist Philosophical Capability Theory. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2021.2014425

REGIONAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• 2021 Southern Economics Association Conference, USA
• 2021 Association for Heterodox Economics Conference, United Kingdom,
• 2022 Association for Heterodox Economics Conference, United Kingdom
• 2022 International Association for Feminist Economics, Switzerland
• 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting - American Economic Association, USA

ACADEMIC AWARDS & HONORS

• 2021 Best Early Career Research Prize, The Association for Heterodox Economics Conference.
• 2021 Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award Recipient in Economics, Civil Affairs, and Education for Dissertation, The New School for Social Research.
• 2018 Dissertation Fellowship Award, The New School for Social Research.
• 2016 Doctoral Tuition Fellowship Award, The New School for Social Research.
• 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Master of Arts, Economics, The New School for Social Research.
• 2007 Akuafo Hall of Excellence Award, First Class Honors, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of Ghana.

NON-ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2019 Ghanaian Shining Star Award, Catholic Migration Services, Diocese of Brooklyn, 2019

            - 2019 Shining Stars: Ghanaian Catholics Lead Hymns of Praise

• 2007 Certificate of Merit for Selfless Service, International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS-PAX ROMANA), University of Ghana, Legon Local.
• 2007 Certificate of Honor for Leadership, Star of the Sea Catholic Church, Dansoman, Accra-Ghana
• 1998 Certificate of Recognition for Invaluable Service, Local Council of Churches of Ghana, Mamponse Mpoase Zone

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Tontoh is a Maternal Feminist Theorist and a Development Economist. She joined Belmont University in June of 2022 as a Faculty Fellow in Economics. For her doctoral dissertation., Dr. Tontoh developed the Triple Day Thesis (TDT) which explains the concept of self-reproductive work from an economic and capabilities perspective for women who experience motherhood. The objective of her ongoing theoretical economic research is to promote human flourishing within motherhood towards a positive realization of the dignity and essence of women and mothers within capitalist societies. She presents her work at regional, national, and international conferences, and her research appears in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

In 2021, Dr. Tontoh was honored by the Association for Heterodox Economics with the Best Early Career Research Prize for her work on “Theorizing Motherhood within the Capabilities Approach and Social Reproduction Theory” and, The New School for Social Research with the Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, Civil Affairs, and Education for dissertation, "The Triple Day Thesis: Three Theoretical Essays on The Capability Perspective and Economics of Motherhood” . She holds a B.A. and MPhil degree in Economics from the University of Ghana, and M.A., MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the New School for Social Research.

Dr. Tontoh has experience teaching development economics through the lens of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Her teaching focus on LDCs from Africa, Asia & the Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean is  motivated by her previous internship experience at the Least Developed Country unit of UN-OHRLLS. Moreover, because of her research, Dr. Tontoh is currently developing a course on Women in Development with an emphasis on economic, human, and social development.

Education and Certifications

Ed.D. Leadership and Professional Practice
Trevecca Nazarene University

M.A. Philanthropy and Development
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

M.B.A. Organizational Administration
University of Toledo

B.S. Business Administration
Findlay College

Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Grant Professional Certified Designation (GPC)
Grants Professionals Certification Institute

Certificate of Completion
The Experiential Classroom IX – Reaching and Teaching Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs
Syracuse University

Certificate of Achievement
Executive Management Institute
Christian Brothers University - Memphis, Tennessee
Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Social Entrepreneurship; Program Director, Social Entrepreneurship, Belmont University

Associate Vice President, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Meharry Medical College

Chief Consulting Officer, Bernard Turner Consulting
Vice President, Fund Development, The New Hope Foundation, Inc./Priority Hospice Care, Inc.

Development Director, Comprehensive Care Center/Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Mid-South Minority Business Council

Director of Grant Development, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing,

Senior Program Officer, National Community AIDS Partnership (now the AIDS United),

Fund Distribution Manager & Grant Writing Specialist; Project Manager, AIDS Initiative, United
Way of Middle Tennessee

Business Management Consultant, Nashville Minority Business Development Center

Director of Marketing & Public Relations; Recruiter, JTPA Program, General Services & Products,
Inc.,

Methods Analyst; Personnel Specialist; Supervisor, Employment; and EEO Coordinator, Blue
Cross & Blue Shield of Northern Ohio

Project Coordinator, Industrial Sales Department, Dunbar Mechanical, Inc.

Publications

HBCUs: An Educational System at the Crossroads. Black Issues in Higher Education, Last
Word Article, August 23, 2001.

HBCUs: An Educational System at the Crossroads. ERIC (Educational Resources Information
Center) Database. Full Paper. 2001.

Grant Professionals as Social Entrepreneurs. Lead article for the Journal of the American Association of
Grant Professionals, Fall 2008, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Social Entrepreneurship and Higher Education, Tennessee Business, Vol. 20, No.1. (2011) Business &
Economic Research Center, Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University.

Teaching: A New Career, A New Journey. The Art of Teaching, Vol. 15, No. 2. Belmont University.
Recent Scholarship

• USASBE 2009 Annual Conference. Presentation Title: Development of an Undergraduate Curriculum in Social Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Model for Educating Future Social Entrepreneurs.

• Institute of International Education, 2009 Nashville Fulbright Enrichment Seminar Panel Discussion: Social Entrepreneurship: From Vision to Action.

• Institute of International Education, 2010 Nashville Fulbright Enrichment Seminar Panel Discussion: Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Fostering Change through Social Entrepreneurship

• 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement in Critical Times Presentation Title: Social Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Educating Tomorrow’s Change Agents in the Social Sector.

• 12th Annual American Association of Grant Professionals Conference 2010. Presentation Title: Developing and Implementing a College Grant Writing Course: A Learning/Training Model for Replication.

• American Baptist College Community Breakfast 2011. Presentation Title: Sustaining A Nonprofit Like the Church in an Economic Recession: Faith & Finance.

• Christian Community Development Association 2012 Conference. Presentation Title: Social Enterprise: Innovation, Impact & Sustainability.

• 2013 Gulf South Summit Conference. Presentation Title: Utilizing Service-Learning as an Effective Pedagogy for Teaching Social Entrepreneurship.

• 16th Annual Grant Professionals Association Conference 2014. Presentation Title: Lessons Learned: Results for a College Grant Writing Course.

• Christian Community Development Association 2014 Conference. Presentation Title: Grant Writing Tips: Insights from a Grant Reviewer.

• Nonprofit Leadership Alliance 2015 Conference. Presentation Title: Social Enterprise: Innovation, Sustainability, and The Future of the Nonprofit Sector.

• 6th Annual Symposium on Service-Learning 2015. Co-Presenter with Tim Stewart, Belmont’s Directory of Service-Learning. Presentation Title: Connecting Campus to Community: Integrating a Web-based Software Platform to Support Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.

Selected Awards & Honors

Teagle Teaching Fellow.

Best Teaching Award, Experiential Classroom, USASBE & Syracuse University.

One of twenty persons selected nationwide to attend the first Minority Advancement
Institute: Conference for Diverse Managers presented by the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education.

First African American male to graduate from Trevecca Nazarene University with a
doctorate degree.

Selected as 1 of 36 persons nationwide for first federal grant review process for the Ryan White CARE Act, Special Projects of National Significance Funds, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.

Bio

Dr. Bernard Turner, GPC is an Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Belmont’s undergraduate program in social entrepreneurship was the first in the nation when it launched in the fall of 2008. He has been affiliated with the Center for Nonprofit Management in Nashville for over 30 years. He has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector. His career includes, fundraising for colleges/universities and nonprofits; program development; and economic development positions working with minority and women-owned businesses. He has experience in program development, training, strategic planning, organizational assessments and other training and technical assistance to nonprofits. He is currently a board member and treasurer for the Grant Professionals Association. He holds the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) designation. He also serves or has served on the board of Project Return, Nashville Social Enterprise Alliance, Interfaith Dental Clinic, and Soles4 Souls, a global nonprofit dedicated to wearing out poverty. Dr. Turner was also the Senior Program Officer for the National Community AIDS Partnership (now AIDS United) based in Washington, DC, an initiative developed by The Ford Foundation. He provides consultation and technical assistance consultations to nonprofits and organizations. His academic qualifications include an Ed.D. in Leadership and Professional Practice, an MA in Philanthropy and Development, an MBA in Organizational Administration, and a BS in Business Administration from four different universities.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - Mississippi State University, Applied Economics
• M.A. - Mississippi State University, Financial Economics
• B.A. - Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Economics: International Relations; French 

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Belmont University
• Secretary/interpreter, Kindness Foundation 
   

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Cochran, Jr., H. H., Velikova, M. V., Childs, B. D., & Simmons, L. L. (in press, 2015).  Apps for Economics.   Journal of Economic Education.  
• Cochran, Jr., H. H., Velikova, M. V., & Childs, B. D. (2013).  How Course Management Technology Can Facilitate a Multimodal Pedagogy to Enhance Learning.   Journal of Learning in Higher Education.
• Arano, K. & Velikova, M. V. (2012).  Transportation Corridors and Cointegration of Residential Natural Gas Prices.   International Journal of Energy Sector Management.  
• Childs, B. D., Cochran, Jr., H. H., & Velikova, M. V. (2012).  Factors Contributing to Better Fiscal Conditions among States.   Atlantic Economic Journal, 40 (4(2012)).
   

  SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Best Paper Award: International Business Scholarship Trends: An Exploratory Study of the Directions Of Research, Clute Institute Conference (2008)
• Best Paper Award: Real Deposit Insurance Coverage an International Study, Clute Institute Conference (2008)
•  Nomination for the 2008-2009 Presidential Faculty Achievement Award, Belmont University (2008)
•  Nomination For The 2007 Chaney Award, Belmont University (2008)
• IT'S ALL BELMONT TO ME Award for The First Principle Show We Care, Belmont University (2007)
• The faculty Member Who's Had A Significant Role in Intellectual & Personal Development at Belmont., Alpha Chi Society (2007)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Velikova received her undergraduate degree from the People's Friendship University of Russia. Her M.A. in Financial Economics and Ph.D. in Applied Economics were both earned at Mississippi State University, where she worked as a research assistant, academic tutor, and instructor of economics.

She teaches economics and international business courses in Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey College of Business, where she also advises members of SIFE, Students in Free Enterprise, and has been involved in the creation of the IB Society, an organization for students interested in international studies.

Her research interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics; however, her primary area of specialization is the effectiveness of deposit insurance coverage in the international banking system, including U.S. banks. An article she authored, entitled "Real Deposit Insurance Coverage at U.S. Banks," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business and Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Georgia, Accounting
• M.B.A. - Vanderbilt University, Finance
• B.A. - Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Economics
  Certified Public Accountant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Consultant for various organizations Including Sarah Cannon Research Institute, EA Sports, HCA, Verari Systems, Ingram Book Group, and United Methodist Communications
• Controller, BMR Financial Group
• Controller, Kuss Corporation
• Financial Analyst, Planning and Control Analyst, Corporate Controller, International Operational Aud, Fleetguard, Inc.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Warren, D. L. & Young, M. (2011).  Developing and Assessing Critical Thinking Exercises for an Introductory Accounting Course.   Issues in Accounting Education, 26 (4), 859-881.
• Warren, D. L. & Young, M. (2011).  Integrated Accounting Principles: A Best Practices Course for Introductory Accounting.   Issues in Accounting Education, 27 (1), 247-266.  

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Bea Sanders AICPA Award for the Most Innovative Accounting Course in the Introductory Sequence - Honorable Mention, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2008)
• College of Business Teaching Award (2007 - 2008), Jack C. Massey College of Business - Belmont University (2008)
• Bea Sanders AICPA Award for the Most Innovative Accounting Course in the Introductory Sequence - Honorable Mention, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2007)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lee Warren, Associate Professor of Accounting, teaches undergraduate and graduate accounting courses in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. After receiving her B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and her M.B.A from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, Dr. Warren held several domestic and international positions at Cummins Engine Company. She then entered the financial services industry, serving as CFO and consultant for BMR Financial Group in Atlanta, Georgia.

She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia and taught at Boston College before coming to Belmont University in 1998. She served as Associate Dean of the Jack C. Massey College of Business from 2002 through 2004 and has chaired various university and college committees during her years at Belmont University. She is active in AACSB International and the American Accounting Association.

Dr. Warren received the Bea Sanders AICPA Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the Most Innovative Accounting Course in the Introductory Sequence - Honorable Mention in 2007.

Mr. Matthew Wilson is a Nashville entrepreneur with involvement in several ventures.  Most recently, he launched Boosey Wilson Group, a legal and professional recruiting firm with a national focus.  As a co-founder, he serves as COO.

Previously, Matthew served as President & CEO of Gateway Property Services, a second-generation commercial real estate firm.   Matthew spent time in different sectors of the commercial real estate industry, including investment, brokerage, and development.  During a span of two decades, he worked with clients to successfully complete more than $250 million in real estate transactions and projects.

Drawing on his professional background, Matthew brings his entrepreneurial experience to the classroom.  He has served as a faculty member at Belmont University on some level since 2007.  In addition to his teaching, he presents workshops on the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation.    

Matthew holds a B.B.A. in Accounting and an M.B.A. from Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey School of Business.  He has also pursued additional studies at New York University. 

Matthew is active in the Nashville community through his involvement with Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity (past board chair), Young Leaders Council, Junior Achievement, Monroe Carell Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Williamson County Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center and Downtown Nashville Rotary.  He has been recognized for his work in both the non-profit and business community with multiple awards.

Matthew resides in Nashville with his wife, Tara, and daughter, Kennedy.  He is an active member of Christ the King Catholic Church.  In his spare time, he enjoys running marathons.

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Why Belmont?  As a native Nashvillian and Belmont alumnus, I love remaining engaged with the Belmont University community.  I am continually energized and inspired by our students and faculty, but work to give back much more than I receive.  Through my faculty position, I strive to act as a bridge for students and faculty by connecting our academic classroom teaching and activities to the business community and current industry environment.  I do this by sharing my knowledge, experiences, and network so that our students can better relate learned principles to current trends to be fully prepared for their business careers and opportunities.    

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. – University of Alabama at Birmingham, Administration – Health Services, Specialization in Strategic Management (Dissertation: Strategic Alliance Value)
• B.S. – University of Alabama, Health Care Management 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Belmont University (2015-present)
• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Middle Tennessee State University  (2007-2015)
• Chief Executive Officer, Around the Way Dog, Murfreesboro, TN (2009-2011)
• Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Nebraska at Omaha (2001-2007)
• Chief Executive Officer, Wilstar Construction, Omaha, NE (2004-2007)
• Visiting Professor of Management and Marketing, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2000-2001) 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Wilson, Rachel C. (2015). Mayhem: A Hands-On Case Playing Activity for Teaching Porter’s Five Forces to Undergraduate Business Students. Small Business Institute Journal, 11(2).
• Wilson, Rachel C. (2012). Around the Way Dog. Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics, 9(5).
• Wilson, Rachel C. (2010). Management Perspectives of High-Technology Strategic Alliance Outcomes. Journal of Strategy and Management, 3(1), 4-19. 

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Best Paper Award, Teaching Track, Small Business Institute Conference (2015)
• Highly Commended Paper Award for “Management Perspectives of High Technology Strategic Alliance Outcomes,” published in the Journal of Strategy and Management (2011)
• Dean’s Recognition for Teaching, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, MTSU (2008 - 2012)
• Dean’s Recognition for Research, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, MTSU (2009, 2010)
• Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Service, University of Nebraska at Omaha (2006)
• Entrepreneurship 101 Award, Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education for UNO’s Maverick High School Entrepreneurship Program (2006)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Rachel Wilson serves The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business by teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship and management and as the director of the Accelerated M.B.A. program.  She received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Administration - Health Services and Strategic Management.  She received her B.S. in Health Care Management in 1997 from the University of Alabama.  After teaching at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as the Director of the startup Maverick Entrepreneurship Institute and then at Middle Tennessee State University, she joined the faculty at The Massey School in 2015.

Dr. Wilson accompanies Belmont University AMBA students to South Africa for study abroad, and has planned and supervised graduate and undergraduate study abroad programs in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Argentina, and Bangladesh.  She teaches courses in entrepreneurship, small business consulting, and strategic management, and incorporates her consulting experience and prior ownership of both Around the Way Dog, a restaurant, and Wilstar Construction, Inc. into her classroom.

Her primary areas of research focus on strategic alliances used by small and medium enterprises in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. In this research, her objective has been to determine what types of activities and beliefs enhance the value received from partners in those alliances, and what factors diminish that value. Her works have been published in Health Care Management Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, the Journal of Global Competitiveness, Advances in Health Care Management, the Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, and the Journal of Strategy and Management, among others.  She has been awarded the Highly Commended Paper award by the Journal of Strategy and Management for her work on strategic alliances and the Best Paper, Teaching Track award from the Small Business Institute for her classroom innovation in industry analysis.

Wilson has been married to her husband, Scott, for twelve years and is the proud mother of a daughter, Emily, and two stepsons, Brayton and Brogan.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

•     Ph.D. - Georgia State University, Accounting
•     M.P.A. - Georgia State University, Master of Professional Accountancy
•     B.B.A. - University of Georgia, Accounting
•     Certified Management Accountant
•     Certified Public Accountant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

•     Associate Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
•     Instructor, Georgia State University
•     Senior Corporate Accountant, Yancey Bros. Company
•     Audit Senior, Coopers & Lybrand CPAs

 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

•     Wooten, T. C. & Dillard-Eggers, J. (2013).  An Investigation of On-line Homework: Required or Not Required?  Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER).
•     Wooten, T. C. (2011).  The Effect of Audit Tenure on Risk Assessment.   Oil & Gas Tax Quarterly.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

•     Awarded a Summer Belmont Time-out for research into teaching effectiveness for accounting students., Belmont University.
•     GTA Teaching Excellence Award, Georgia State University

BIOGRAPHY

His research interest in teaching pedagogy has resulted in articles published in the College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, Tennessee CPA, Journal of College Teaching and Learning, and Advances in Accounting Education. Articles relating to auditing have been published in the CPA Journal and papers presented at regional and national professional conferences.

Dr. Wooten has served his profession as a past editor of the Nonprofit Management & Leadership journal and holds membership in the American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Management Accountants, and other professional organizations.

Dr. Wooten has earned memberships in Beta Gamma Sigma (business), Sigma Beta Delta (business) and Beta Alpha Psi (accounting) honor societies. He received the GTA Teaching Excellence Award while at Georgia State University.

David K. Wyant, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University and the Thomas F Frist, Jr College of Medicine, Belmont University. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research Policy and Administration (Finance) from the University of Minnesota and MBA (Finance) and MA in Economics (International Trade) from the Ohio State University. His healthcare career began in 1977 as Staff Economist for the Ohio Nursing Home Commission of the Ohio Legislature. He has held positions with healthcare providers, in healthcare policy and on university faculty. 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS 

• Ph.D. - Temple University, Finance
• M.B.A. - IESE, Barcelona, Business Administration
• B.S. - The University of Buckingham, Economics with Honours of First Class 

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Finance, San Diego State University/Imperial Valley
• International Assets Manager, Market Analyst, Dongsuh Securities
• Olympic Village Coordinator, Barcelona Olympic Games Organization Committee

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Yoo, S. S., Schenkel, M., & Kim, J. (2014).  Examining the Impact of First Son versus Non-First Son Successions on Family Firm Performance.   Journal of Small Business Management, 52 (2), 246-265.  
• Schenkel, M., Yoo, S. S., & Kim, J. (2014).  Not All Created Equal: Examining the Impact of Descendent CEOs on Family Firm Performance.   Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC).
• Byoun, S., Kim, J., & Yoo, S. (2013).  Risk management with leverage: evidence from project finance.   Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (Cambridge University Press), 48 (2), 549-577.    [
• Byoun, S., Kim, J., & Yoo, S. (2011). Risk Management with Leverage: Evidence from Project Finance. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 48, 549 - 577

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sean Sehyun Yoo joined the Belmont University faculty in August of 2008. He earned a B.S. in Economics with Honours of First Class from the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom), a Bilingual M.B.A. from IESE, Barcelona (Spain), and a Ph.D. in Finance from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Possessing international experience, he worked as Olympic Village Coordinator for the Olympic Games held in Barcelona, Spain in 1992 and was an International Assets Manager and Market Analyst for Dongsuh Securities in Seoul, Korea before pursuing his doctorate in the United States.

His academic experience includes working as a graduate assistant in the Department of Finance and teaching summer classes at Temple University. He taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in finance at San Diego State University before joining the  Belmont University faculty.

Dr. Yoo’s research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and presented at international conferences such as the Financial Management Association International and the Academy of International Business. His research interests include corporate governance and ownership structure and their relations to firm performance, stock trading patterns by investor type and their effects on market parameters, project finance, and family firms. 

He is a member of the Financial Management Association, The American Finance Association, and the Korea America Finance Association.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS  

• Ed.D. - University of Tennessee, Administration
• M.S. - Auburn University, Organizational Psychology
• B.A. - Tennessee Temple University, Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Dean, Belmont University, Jack C. Massey College of Business
• Associate Professor of Management, Belmont University
• Principal Consultant, Organizational Resource Group
• Chief Operating Officer, FamiliesFirst, Inc.
• Chief Financial Officer, FamiliesFirst, Inc.
• Chief Financial Officer, Tri-City Mental Health Center
• Financial Controller, James Hardie Building Products, Inc.
• Financial Manager, Pilgrim Place Health Services Center
• Fiscal Officer, University of Tennessee

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• York, G. S., Schenkel, M. T., & Smith, K. M. (in press, 2014).  Mission, Ministry, and Margin: The Case Store Ministries and the YMCA.  Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship.  
• York, G. S., Schenkel, M., & Wainright, C. (2013).  Hospice Practices, Perceived Satisfaction, and Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Strategic Insights across Geographic Settings.  Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, 18 (1), 51-75.
• Churchman, R., York, G. S., Woodard, B., Wainright, C. F., & Rau-Foster, M. (2013).  Revisiting Perceptions of Quality of Hospice Care Managing for the Ultimate Referral.  American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.  
• Wainright, C., York, G. S., & Woodard, B. (2012).  A Transformative Framework for Improving Healthcare Management Education.Journal of Health Administration Education, 29 (1), 39-70.  
• York, G. S., Churchman, R., Woodard, B., Wainright, C., & Rau-Foster, M. (2012).  Free-Text Comments: Understanding the Value in Family Member Descritpions of Hospice Caregiver Relationships.  American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 29 (2), 98-105.  

PRESENTATIONS

• Wainright, C. F. & York, G. S. (2013, June). Strategic Succession Planning As A Forgotten Healthcare Imperative: Moving Beyond The Present To The Future! Annual Association of University Programs in Health Administration, Monterey, California.
• Wainright, C., York, G. S., & Schenkel, M. T. (2012). Hospice Practices in Quality and Innovation: Examining Patient Family Experiences. International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Schenkel, M. T., York, G. S., & Smith, K. M. (2012). Mission, Ministry & Margin: The Case of Restore Ministries and the YMCA. USASBE, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Wainright, C., York, G. S., & Woodard, B. (2011, June). Bridging the GAP Between Healthcare Management Education & Perceptions of Career Satisfaction. Association of University Programs in Health Administration, Charleston, South Carolina.
• Wainright, C., York, G. S., Woodard, B., & Churchman, R. (2010, June). A Survey Analysis of Healthcare Management Competencies, Skills, and Satisfaction of Junior Healthcare Management Executives. Association of University Programs in Health Administration, Portland, Oregon.
• Wainright, C., York, S., Woodard, B., & Churchman, R. (2010, March). Healthcare Management Education & Social Information Processing (SIP) Theory: A Framework for Understanding the Relationship Among the Perceptions of Junior Healthcare Executives Regarding Competencies, Job Satisfaction and Career Success. ACHE Association for Continuing Higher Education, Chicago, Illinois. 

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• Beta Gamma Sigma (2013)
• Senate Certificate of Recognition, Healthcare Finance, State of California (2000)
• Who's Who International, Who's Who (1994)
• Who's Who In Industry And Finance, Who's Who (1987)
• Phi Psi Sigma Honor Society, Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, Tennessee (1982)
• National Alumni Graduate Fellow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (1983)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. York, Assistant Professor of Management and Associate Dean of the Undergraduate School of Business, obtained a B.A. in Psychology from Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His M.S. in Organizational Psychology was earned at Auburn University (Montgomery, AL) and his Ed.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Dr. York's professional experience includes more than 25 years in operations management and strategic management across an eclectic range of industries from manufacturing, healthcare and education. As both a chief financial officer and chief operating officer his responsibilities have included strategic planning, budget planning, facilities management and quality and compliance. His educational experience includes more than eleven years on the faculty of the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University where he now serves as Associate Dean.

He maintains an active research agenda with topics of interest in operations management, supply chain management, process improvement and the linkage between satisfaction, quality and performance outcomes in healthcare. His research has been published in the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Health Administration Education, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and Journal of the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel.

He was twice named Most Inspirational Professor in the Massey Graduate School of Business and has received the Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award and Dean’s Award from the Jack C. Massey College of Business.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. – University of Alabama at Birmingham, Health Services Administration, (Specialization in Strategic Management) 
• M.Sc. – Bocconi University (Italy), Economics and Management of Public Administration and International Institutions
• B.Sc. – Università di Siena (Italy), Economics and Management of Public Administration and International Institutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Healthcare Management, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Management, Widener University
• Graduate Assistant, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Health and Social care Management (CERGAS), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Durant, D. J., & Young, C. G. (2021). Can Emergency Department Wait Times Predict Rates of Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Infection? A Study of Acute Care Facilities in New York State. Journal of Patient Safety. 18(2), e508–e513.
• Guerrazzi Young, C., Feldman, S. S., & Hernandez, S. R. (2020). Inter-organizational information sharing and bundled payment reimbursement: Do hospitals in the US use health information exchange to collaborate? International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104298.
• Guerrazzi, C., & Feldman, S. S. (2020). Health information exchange: What matters at the organizational level?. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 102, 103375.
• Guerrazzi, C. (2019). An International Perspective on Health Information Exchange: Adoption in OECD Countries With Different Health Care System Configurations. Medical Care Research and Review, 1077558719858245.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• William J. Zahka Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, Widener University (2022)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Claudia Guerrazzi Young joined Belmont University as an Associate Professor of Healthcare Management in 2022. Prior to joining Belmont University, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration at Widener University, where she taught undergraduate management classes and graduate classes in the Health Care Management MBA. She received her Ph.D. in Health Services Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Before her doctoral studies, she obtained both her MSc and BSc degrees in economics and management of public administration in Italy, from Bocconi University and the University of Siena, respectively.

Her research interests are related to the strategic management of innovation in organizations, especially technological innovation, in organizations that operate in industries that intend to serve the public good, such as health care. Over the years, her research activity has focused on several different topics, including the adoption and implementation of Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, mobile health, quality and process improvement in healthcare, and rural hospitals’ performance. Her approach to research has been characterized by diverse perspectives, from the organizational to the international one, and by different research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods analyses.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. - University of Mississippi, Accounting
• M. Tax - University of Alabama
• B.S. - University of Alabama, Accounting
  • Certified Public Accountant 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Accounting, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor, Lipscomb University
•  Tax Consultant, Frasier, Dean & Howard
• Tax Accountant, Berol Corporation
• Tax Associate, Deloitte & Touche

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Charron, K. & Young, M. (2014).  Experiencing the Accounting Profession in the Russian Federation. Strategic Finance (feature section), 95 (12), 49-55.  
• Warren, L. & Young, M. (2012).  Integrated Accounting Principles: A Best Practices Course for Introductory Accounting.   Issues in Accounting Education, 27 (1), 247-266.
• Young, M. & Warren, L. (2011).  Encouraging the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Introductory Accounting Courses Using the Challenge Problem Approach.   Issues in Accounting Education, 26 (4), 859-881. 

AWARDS & HONORS

• Most Inspirational Professor Award, August 2009, Massey Graduate School, Belmont University.
• Most Inspirational Professor Award, August 2007, Massey Graduate School, Belmont University.
• Faculty Member of the Year, Beta Alpha Psi Chapter, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University. (2005)
• Most Inspirational Professor Award, December 2005, Massey Graduate School, Belmont University.
• Most Inspirational Professor Award, May 2005, Massey Graduate School, Belmont University.
• Chaney Distinguished Professor, Belmont University. (2005)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University. (2003)
• Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award, Honorable Mention, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. (2008)
• Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award, Honorable Mention, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. (2007)
• Faculty Summer Research Grant, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University. (2003)
• Faculty Summer Research Grant, Jack C. Massey College of Business, Belmont University. (2002)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Marilyn Young began teaching at Belmont University in 2001. She has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Master of Tax Accounting from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi. 

 A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), her industry experience includes work as a Tax Accountant for Deloitte & Touche, and Frasier, Dean, and Howard and as a Tax Specialist in Corporate Finance at Empire Berol Corporation.

Before coming to Belmont University, she taught at Lipscomb University. Her teaching experience at Belmont includes both undergraduate and graduate classes in taxation and corporate accounting. Dr. Young also helps non-accounting students prepare to enter the Master in Accountancy program by teaching in the Summer Accounting Institute.

She has presented her research at various regional and national conferences. Articles she has written have been published in professional journals including the International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, Tennessee CPA, Economics and Politics, and Journal of S Corporation Taxation.

Dr. Young holds membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, and American Taxation Association. McGraw-Hill/Irwin sought her expertise as a textbook reviewer for a new textbook entitled Taxation for Individuals. She has overseen Belmont students working in the IRS-sponsored VITA program to assist low income and elderly residents of Middle Tennessee prepare their income tax returns and she presented basic financial accounting concepts to entrepreneurs participating in The Growth Challenge Program.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants awarded her honorable mention in the Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award. She received an Outstanding Teaching Award from Lipscomb University and Outstanding Teaching Award from the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University. Named multiple times as the Most Inspirational Professor of The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business and the Faculty Member of the Year by the Beta Alpha Psi chapter in the Jack C. Massey College of Business, Dr. Young was presented with Belmont’s highest faculty honor, The Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, in 2005.