Meet Our Faculty
The CBA has 65 highly-qualified and dedicated full-time faculty members who have come to Akron from across the country and around the globe. CBA faculty are known for both their teaching and their scholarship.
- In the classroom, our faculty combine time-tested techniques, such as traditional lectures, seminar presentations, and case method, with innovative approaches to learning that lead students to apply new knowledge and skills in real-world settings.
- Close ties with industry and the business community ensure that CBA faculty remain current with changing practices and technologies.
- Our faculty also remain current through their scholarship and have published numerous research papers that enrich the various disciplines of business and are relevant to today’s business practices. CBA Faculty Publications 2010
The CBA also employs highly experienced business professionals as part time faculty members.
Faculty News Highlights
Marketing department chair, Dr. Bill Baker, has been asked by Jeff Salamon, Director of Cub Cadet Marketing at MTD, to serve as one of five judges in Cub Cadet’s Future Vision Contest.
Jerome Apple, J.D. Thomas Calderon, Ph.D. Akhilesh Chandra, Ph.D. John Cheh, Ph.D. Edward Conrad, Ph.D. Gary Frank, Ph.D. James Hesford Darlene Kausch Pamela Keltyka, Ph.D. Il-woon Kim, Ph.D. Alvin Lieberman, J.D. Emeka Ofobike, Ph.D. Colin G. Onita, Ph.D. Li Wang, Ph.D. Mark Welfley, MBA Amber M. Whisenhunt, Ph.D.
Raj Aggarwal, D.B.A. Aigbe Akhigbe, Ph.D. Bhanu Balasubramnian, Ph.D. Thomas Costigan, MBA John Goodell, Ph.D. Suzanne Gradisher, J.D. Douglas Kahl, Ph.D. Karen Eilers Lahey, Ph.D. John Matejkovic, J.D. Melinda Newman, Ph.D. Harri Ramcharran, Ph.D. Stephen Washington, MBA
Steven Ash, Ph.D. Ken Aupperle, Ph.D. Robert Chalfant, MBA Jeong Hoon Choi, Ph.D. Asoke Dey, Ph.D. James Divoky, D.B.A. Robert Figler, Ph.D. R Ray Gehani, Ph.D. Steve Hallam, Ph.D. Maria Hamdani, Ph.D. Susan Hanlon, D.B.A. Ravi Krovi, Ph.D. Liping Liu, Ph.D. Robert Martin, MBA William McHenry, Ph.D. David Meyer, Ph.D. Debmalya Mukherjee, Ph.D. Barbara Osyk, Ph.D. YoungKi Park, Ph.D Jayprakash Patankar, Ph.D. Sheri Schulte, M.S. Mahesh Srinivasan, Ph.D. Bindiganavale Vijayaraman, Ph.D.
William E. Baker, Ph.D. Frederik Beuk, Ph.D. David Cockley, MBA Terry Daugherty, Ph.D. Gregory Dumont, D.B.A. Federico de Gregorio, Ph.D. William Hauser, Ph.D. Doug Hausknecht, Ph.D. Naveen Jain, Ph.D. Fredric Marich, MBA Linda Orr, Ph.D. Deborah Owens, Ph.D. Prashant Srivastava, Ph.D. Andrew Thomas, Ph.D.