Faculty Member
Ambrose, Brent
Brent Ambrose is the Smeal Professor of Real Estate and director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. His research focuses on issues related to real estate investment trusts (REITs), loss mitigation programs associated with mortgage default and foreclosure, government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), fixed-income securities, and consumer credit contracts.
Baumgartner, Hans
Hans Baumgartner is the Charles and Lillian Binder Faculty Fellow and a professor of marketing at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behavior and research methodology.
Bolton, Lisa
Lisa Bolton is an associate professor of marketing at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2008. Bolton is currently conducting research focused on judgment and decision-making by managers and consumers, with substantive interests in new products, pricing, risk perceptions, consumer finances, and cross-cultural marketing.
Briscoe, Forrest
Forrest Briscoe serves as an assistant professor of management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. His research focuses on the institutionalization and diffusion of new employment practices and professional organizations and careers.
Cahoy, Daniel
Daniel Cahoy is an associate professor of business law in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2001. His current research concerns issues such as the intersection of intellectual property enforcement and human rights, patent ownership in alternative energy technologies, and mechanisms for increasing the relevance of patent citation networks. In general, he has an interest in pursuing projects related to the legal and regulatory rules that create economic incentives for desirable business behavior.
Carton, Andrew
Drew Carton is an assistant professor of management and organization at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. His research examines the psychological (cognitive and interpersonal) foundations of organizing and leadership.
Coupland, Jennifer Chang
Jennifer Chang Coupland joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 1998. She currently serves as the Paiste Fellow in Teaching and Learning and as a clinical associate professor of marketing. Coupland’s research focuses on consumer behavior and brand meaning in households and grocery stores. She specializes in qualitative methods including ethnography, interviews, focus groups and projective techniques.
Craighead, Christopher
Christopher Craighead joined Penn State’s Smeal College of Business as an assistant professor of supply chain management in 2008. His primary research interests lie in the area of strategic sourcing and supply management, with a focus on global supply chain disruptions/risk.
Crocker, Keith
Keith Crocker is the William Elliott Chaired Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.
DeSarbo, Wayne
Wayne DeSarbo is the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Distinguished Professor of Marketing and executive director of the Center for Sports Business and Research at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.
Dirsmith, Mark
Mark Dirsmith is the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Accounting in the Penn State Smeal College of Business. His research expertise is in expanding boundaries of the audit function, shifting nature and location of professional expertise, planning and control activities within professional bureaucracies, behavioral implications of internal and external information reporting practices, and organizational and societal determinants of decision-making.
Enis, Charles
Charles Enis has been a member of the faculty at the Penn State Smeal College of Business since 1981. He currently serves as an associate professor of accounting. Enis researches tax and other policy issues.
Farnsworth, Heber
Heber Farnsworth joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 2010 as an assistant professor of finance. His research interests include contract theory, portfolio performance evaluation, credit risk, term structure of interest rates, and empirical asset pricing.
Ferris, D. Lance
Lance Ferris is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization in the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests primarily focus on motivation, investigating self-enhancement and self-verification, approach/avoidance, and self-determination motivation processes in organizations.
Fong, Duncan
Duncan Fong joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 1987. He currently serves as the chair of the marketing department and as a professor of marketing. Fong’s research interests include marketing research, Bayesian statistics, experimental economics, forecasting and supply chain management.
Gebhardtsbauer, Ron
Ron Gebhardtsbauer is in charge of the actuarial science program, which is housed in the Insurance and Real Estate Department at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. He teaches financial mathematics, life contingencies, and financial economics for actuaries to undergraduates.
Ghadar, Fariborz
Dr. Fariborz Ghadar has been a faculty member at the Penn State Smeal College of Business since 1994. He is the William A. Schreyer Professor of Global Management, Policies, and Planning and is the founding director of the Center for Global Business Studies. His research focuses on the impact of long term trends on global corporate strategy and implementation, global economic assessment, and international finance and banking.
Gioia, Dennis
Dennis Gioia, Chair of the Management and Organization Department and Professor of Organizational Behavior, has been with Penn State’s Smeal College of Business since 1979.
Givoly, Dan
Dan Givoly serves at the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Givoly joined Smeal in 2002, serving as the chair of the accounting department until 2008. Givoly’s research areas include the effects of financial disclosure on stock prices and the quality and information content of accounting numbers.
Gong, Guojin
Guojin Gong serves as an assistant professor of accounting at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of financial reporting strategies (such as earnings management, voluntary disclosure) and the impacts of corporate governance mechanisms (such as executive compensation, board monitoring, creditor monitoring) on firms’ decisions.
Grewal, Rajdeep
Rajdeep Grewal arrived at the Penn State Smeal College of Business in 2001. He currently serves as the Irving & Irene Bard Professor of Marketing and the associate research director of the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. His research focuses on empirically modeling strategic marketing issues.
Guide, Daniel
As a professor of operations and supply chain management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, Dan Guide’s research focuses on the development and control of closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing, sustainable operations, and producer responsibility legislation.
Hambrick, Donald
Donald Hambrick joined Penn State’s Smeal College of Business in 2002 as the Smeal Chaired Professor of Management. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of top management and his current research focuses on executive psychology, top management team dynamics, and the history and evolution of the field of strategic management.
Harrison, Terry
Terry Harrison joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 1982. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain management and modeling, large-scale production and distribution systems, decision support systems, applied optimization and the management of renewable natural resources.
Huddart, Steven
Steven Huddart has been a member of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business Accounting Department since 1999. As KPMG Professor of Accounting, he teaches undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses in financial and managerial accounting, tax planning, and management decisions.
Humphrey, Stephen
As a member of the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty, Stephen Humphrey, associate professor of management, focuses his research on the structure of work with a primary focus on building successful teams and managing team change.
Kreiner, Glen
Glen Kreiner, associate professor of management and organization at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, teaches organizational behavior and design, team facilitation, and team process and performance to undergraduates and graduate students.
Kumar, Alok
Alok Kumar's primary research interests are in the areas of inter-organizational governance, business-to-business relationships, distribution systems, and marketing strategy. In particular, he is interested in the roles of specialized ownership agreements, idiosyncratic investments and various ‘private ordering’ mechanisms in supply chain relationships. He also teaches a course in marketing strategy.
Lilien, Gary L.
Dr. Gary L. Lilien joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 1981. His research interests lie in the areas of marketing decision support, marketing engineering, market segmentation, new product modeling and marketing-mix issues for business products, bargaining and negotiations in business markets, modeling the industrial buying process, and innovation diffusion modeling.
Louis, Henock
Henock Louis is an associate professor of accounting at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, where he has served on the faculty since 2001. His current research focuses primarily on earnings management, managerial financial reporting incentives, merger and acquisitions, market anomalies, and signaling.
Lin, Dennis
Dennis Lin currently serves as the University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management at the Penn State where he arrived in 1995. He serves as an adjunct professor in the Smeal College of Business. Much of his research has been in the areas of data mining, experimental design, response surface methodology, quality engineering, statistical process control and reliability. He is currently working on radio frequency identification (RFID) and search engine problems.
Meloy, Meg
As associate professor of marketing at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, Meg Meloy teaches theoretical perspectives of buyer behavior to graduate students and buyer behavior to undergraduates.
Misangyi, Vilmos
Vilmos Misangyi is an assistant professor of management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, where he teaches top-level management courses to Ph.D. students.
Novack, Robert
Robert Novack has served as an associate professor of supply chain and information systems at the Penn State Smeal College of Business since 1986. His current research interests focus on the quantification of logistics value and supply chain performance measurement.
Pollock, Tim
Tim Pollock, professor of management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses on entrepreneurship, power and influence, organization theory, and organizational research design.
Rangaswamy, Arvind
Arvind Rangaswamy is the senior associate Dean for Research and Faculty and Anchel Professor of Marketing at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.
Snow, Charles
Charles Snow arrived at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business in 1974. He is currently Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow and professor of business administration, teaching undergraduate courses in principles of management and strategic management.
Song, Fenghua
Fenghua Song joined Penn State’s Smeal College of Business in 2007 as an assistant professor of finance. In addition to teaching financial management to undergraduates, he conducts research on corporate finance, financial intermediation, and economics of information.
Sun, Amy
Amy Sun joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 2005. She currently serves as an assistant professor of accounting. Her research focuses on the effect of financial disclosure on capital markets and the role of accounting information in investment decisions.
Thomchick, Evelyn
Evelyn Thomchick serves as an associate professor of supply chain management at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. She teaches strategic procurement at the undergraduate level and in the online graduate-level program for Penn State’s Master of Professional Studies in the Supply Chain Management Program.
Trevino, Linda
Linda Trevino has been a faculty member in the management and organization department at the Penn State Smeal College of Business since 1987. Her research is centered around ethical leadership, values-based leadership, moral awareness, moral disengagement, impacts on speaking up in organizations, and academic integrity issues.
Tsai, Wenpin
Wenpin Tsai currently serves as a professor of business administration at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. His research interests include social capital formation, relational transfer, knowledge sharing, cooperation, and network evolution inside and across organizations. He is currently involved in research projects that investigate cooperative and competitive networks in both manufacturing and service industries.
Wang, Qiong
Qiong Wang joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business in 2006 as an assistant professor of marketing. Her primary research focuses on inter-organizational exchange behavior, relationship development, and governance mechanisms. Currently, Wang is research asymmetrical inter-organizational relationships, trust development process, and creating an innovative culture in business-to-business relationships.
Williams, Jared
Jared Williams is an assistant professor of finance at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. Williams teaches advanced corporate finance to undergraduates. In addition to teaching, his research focuses on behavioral biases and market efficiency.
Winterich, Karen
Karen Winterich joined the Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty in 2010 as an assistant professor of marketing. She conducts research in the area of consumer behavior, with specific interests in the effects of consumer identities and emotions on consumer judgments and decision-making.
Yoshida, Jiro
Jiro Yoshida is an assistant professor of business and fellow at the Institute for Real Estate Studies with the Penn State Smeal College of Business. His research interests include asset pricing, real estate finance, and macroeconomics.
