Carroll School of Management and Area of Specialization.

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Accounting/Auditing

Billy Soo – Associate Professor of accounting
Ph: 617 – 552-3963
http://www2.bc.edu/~soob/

Specialization: SEC disclosure requirements; auditor changes; the impact of financial accounting standards and federal securities regulations on capital markets, managerial incentives and disclosure policies.

Gil B. Manzon – Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph: 617 552-4637
http://www2.bc.edu/~manzong

Specialization: Effects of taxation on corporate financing; investment and valuation; earnings management; effects of tax policy on horizontal tax equity; relationships between efficient asset utilization and market share.

Arnold Wright – Arthur Andersen professor of accounting
Ph: 617-552-0876
Specialization: Auditing; international accounting; corporate governance

Kenneth B. Schwartz – Associate professor of accounting
Ph: 617 – 552 – 3942

Specialization: Business failure; reorganization; liquidation; SEC reporting; Financial Statement analysis; effects of financial distress on corporate policy

Theresa A. Hammond – Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph: 617 552 4525
http://www2.bc.edu/~hammonth/

Specialization: African-American participation in the accounting profession

Louis S. Corsini – Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph: 617 552 –3951
http://www2.bc.edu/~corsini/

Specialization: Professor Corsini's research interests lie in the problems of financial reporting and disclosure and business valuation.  He has published numerous articles in the accounting journals and presented papers at various accounting conferences.

Jeffrey R. Cohen – Associate professor of accounting
Ph: 617 552 3165
http://www2.bc.edu/~cohen/

Specialization: Accounting ethics; international differences between ethical accounting decisions; auditor judgments and behaviors

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Bankruptcy/Corporate Restructuring

Thomas J. Chemmanur – Associate professor of Finance
Ph: 617 552 3240
http://www2.bc.edu/~chemmanu/

Specialization: Initial Public Offerings (IPOs); Venture capital financing; corporate spin-offs and other corporate restructuring

Edith Hotchkiss – Associate professor of finance
Ph: 617 552 3240
http://www2.bc.edu/~hotchkis/

Specialization: Corporate finance; restructuring; bankruptcy; corporate debt markets

Kenneth B. Schwartz – Associate professor of accounting
Ph: 617 552 3942

Specialization: Business failure; reorganization; liquidation; SEC reporting; financial statement analysis; effects of financial distress on corporate policy

Robert A. Taggart – Professor of Finance, Associate Dean of Graduate programs
Ph: 617 552 4634
http://www2.bc.edu/~taggartr

Specialization: Corporate finance; capital markets; evaluation of investment decisions

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Business and Employment Law

Stephanie Greene – Assistant professor of business law
Ph: 617 552 1169

Specialization: International business law; intellectual property; business law

Christine Neylon O’Brien – Professor of Business law
617 552 0413

Specialization: Employment discrimination and labor law; intellectual property; business lay/legal studies curriculum; regulation of accountants.

Frank J. Parker S.J – Professor of Business law

Specialization: Commercial real estate; international business; international political affairs

David P. Tworney – Professor of Business Law
617 552 0415

Specialization: Employment law; labor arbitration and business law

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Computers and Information Technology

Mary J. Cronin – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: 617 552 4031
http://www2.bc.edu/~cronin/

Specialization: Internet business strategies; managing networked information; national information policy; global connectivity and competitive advantage

John Gallaugher – Assistant Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: 617 552 2519
http://www2.bc.edu/~cronin/

Specialization: Electronic commerce; strategic information systems; information technology

James Gips- Professor of Computer Science
617 552 3981
http://www2.bc.edu/~gips/

Specialization: Computers and the disabled; future trends in computers;human and computer interaction; robotics

Peter Kugel – Associate professor of Computer Science
617 552 3979

Specialization: Intelligence in machines and human beings

Esward Sciore – Associate professor of computer science
617 552 3928
http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/

Specialization: Computer database systems

Robert P. Signorile – Associate professor of Computer Science
617 552 3936

Specialization: Data communication networks; simulation, especially in artificial intelligence and learning algorithms, specifically as they apply to actual business problems

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Entrepreneurship/Small Business Development

Lawrence Halpern – Senior Lecturer, Operations and Strategic Management
617 552 0465
http://www2.bc.edu/~halpernl/

Specialization: Entrepreneurial strategy; corporate culture; strategic management; ethical decision-making; apparel industry; investments

Candace Jones – Associate professor of organization studies
617 552 0457
http://www2.bc.edu/~jonescq/

Specialization: Careers in and the evolution of creative industries; network forms of organizing; strategies of small professional service firms; project-based organizing

John McKiernan- Executive Director of Management Center
617 552 4194

Specialization: small business, especially economic development programs

Michael P. Peters – Associate professor of marketing
617 552 0421

Specialization: Start-up small business ventures; new product development; entrepreneurship

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Finance

Elizabeth Strock Bagani – Associate professor of Finance
617 552 3994
http://www2.bc.edu/~strock/

Specialization: Investor use of information; financial analyst’s forecasts of earning; personal investments

Clifford G. Holderness – Professor of Finance
617 552 2768
http://www2.bc.edu/~holderne/

Specialization: Corporate control; property rights; large-block shareholders; mergers

Edward J. Kane – Cleary Professor of Finance
617 552 3986
http://www2.bc.edu/~kaneeb/

Specialization: Banking; banking crises; institutions emerging trends in deposit institutions industry; financial regulation and legislation; financial safety nets

Alan J. Marcus – Professor of Finance
617 552 2767
http://www2.bc.edu/~marcusal/

Specialization: Security and derivative marketing; investments; capital market theory; mutual funds

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Management Education
 

Louis S. Corsini – Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph: (617) 552-3951
http://www2.bc.edu/~corsini/

Specialization: Management and accounting education

Richard Keeley – Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Carroll School of Management
Ph: (617) 552-4014
http://www2.bc.edu/~keeley/

Specialization: Undergraduate management education; service learning; some aspects of business ethics; importance of liberal learning in management education

Joseph A. Raelin – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0474
http://www2.bc.edu/~raelin/

Specialization: Managing professionals in organizations; executive leadership; innovative models of advanced education

William R. Torbert – Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0459
http://www2.bc.edu/~torbert/

Specialization: Psychological and organizational conditions conducive to humans; development and organizational transformation; continual quality improvement; management education

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Marketing

Michael Brady – Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-0425
http://www2.bc.edu/~bradymp/

Specialization: Market research; services marketing

Victoria L. Crittenden – Associate Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-0430
http://www2.bc.edu/~crittend/

Specialization: Functional strategies and the marketing mix; product line planning; interface between marketing and manufacturing; pricing implications of marketing and manufacturing decisions

John Hogan – Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-0424
http://www2.bc.edu/~hoganjs/

Specialization: Profitability models; value and manage strategic marketing

Katherine N. Lemon – Assistant Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-1647
http://www2.bc.edu/~lemonka/

Specialization: Customer relationship Management; wireless CRM; customer equity; branding; customer lifetime value; e-marketing; mobile commerce; marketing of services

Michael P. Peters – Associate Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-0421
Specialization: Start-up small business ventures; new product development; entrepreneurship

Gerald Smith – Associate Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-0427
http://www2.bc.edu/~smithgg/

Specialization: Positioning strategies in advertising and marketing communications; pricing and the communications strategies for influencing price sensitivity and perceptions of value; managing competition

Arch G. Woodside – Professor of Marketing
Ph: (617) 552-3069
http://www2.bc.edu/~woodsiar/

Specialization: Marketing strategies; new product development; tourism/travel research; pricing research and consumer psychology

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Operations Management

Samuel B. Graves – Associate Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0464
http://www2.bc.edu/~graves/

Specialization: Corporate research and development; models of optimal research and development choice

Jeffrey L. Ringuest – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0461
http://www2.bc.edu/~ringuest/

Specialization: Decision making and risk analysis; management science; project selection

Larry Ritzman – Galligan Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0475
http://www2.bc.edu/~ritzman/

Specialization: Operations strategy; forecasting; facility layout; production & inventory control; process management; total quality management

Hossein M. Safizadeh – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0476
http://www2.bc.edu/~safizade/

Specialization: Operations management; operations strategy

Robert P. Sroufe – Assistant Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0469
http://www2.bc.edu/~sroufe/

Specialization: Operations management; environmental business practices including: environmental management systems; environmentally responsible manufacturing; green supply chain management; green purchasing.

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Real Estate

Frank J. Parket, S.J. – Professor of Business Law
Ph: (617) 552-0412

Specialization: Commercial real estate; international business; international political affairs

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Strategic Management

Mary J. Cronin – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-4031
http://www2.bc.edu/~cronin/

Specialization: Internet business strategies; managing networked information; national information policy; global connectivity and competitive advantage

Lawrence Halpern – Senior Lecturer, Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0465
http://www2.bc.edu/~halpernl/

Specialization: Entrepreneurial strategy; corporate culture; strategic management; ethical decision-making; apparel-industry; investments

Candace Jones – Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0457
http://www2.bc.edu/~jonescq/

Specialization: Careers in and the evolution of creative industries; network forms of organizing; strategies of small professional service firms; project-based organizing

Hassell H. McClellan – Associate Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-3774

Specialization: Corporate strategies; strategic management of financial institutions; global competitiveness; strategic implications of financial policy; strategic management in boards and non-profit institutions

Sandra A. Waddock – Professor of Management
Ph: (617) 552-0477
http://www2.bc.edu/~waddock/

Specialization: Corporate Citizenship, corporate responsibility, business/society issues, multi- or inter-sector collaboration/partnership

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Tax Policy

Gil Manzon – Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph: (617) 552-4637
http://www2.bc.edu/~manzong/

Specialization: Effects of taxation on corporate financing; investment and valuation; earnings management; effects of tax policy on horizontal tax equity; relationship between efficient asset utilization and market share

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Workplace Issues

Jean M. Bartunek – Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0455
http://www2.bc.edu/~bartunek/

Specialization: Organizational change and transformation; social cognition and conflict

Stephen Borgatti – Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0452
http://www2.bc.edu/~borgatts/

Specialization: Social and organizational networks; mathematical models of organizations

Judith Clair - Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0451
http://www2.bc.edu/~clairju/

Specialization: Crisis and natural environment management; management of multicultural diversity; organizational change; fraud detection

Dalmar Fisher - Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0453
http://www2.bc.edu/~fisher/

Specialization: Managerial effectiveness; relationship between stages of adult development and individuals’ managerial performance; team building and communication

Judith R. Gordon - Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0454
http://www2.bc.edu/~gordonj/

Specialization: Career development, especially of professional women; organizational design, managerial effectiveness; human resources management; organizational behavior; work and family issues

Joseph A. Raelin – Professor of Operations & Strategic Management
Ph: (617) 552-0474
http://www2.bc.edu/~raelin/

Specialization: Managing professionals in organizations; executive leadership; innovative models of advanced education

William R. Torbert – Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-0459
http://www2.bc.edu/~torbert/

Specialization: Psychological and organizational conditions conducive to humans; development and organizational transformation; continual quality improvement; management education

Donald J. White – Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies
Ph: (617) 552-2909
http://www2.bc.edu/~donwhite/

Specialization: Negotiating; conflict resolution; worker-management relations; arbitration; collective bargaining; labor economics.

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