Faculty in Business and Management

David Bainbridge
Professor Emeritus
MS, 1973
University of California Davis

Research Interest: Sustainability

Recent News and Publications: Business Professor David Bainbridge joined Jose Javier Ramirez Almoril in presenting a paper on alternative irrigation systems and water conservation at Tribuna del Agua – Exposición Internacional de Zaragoza 2008 in Spain this past summer.

Ute Jamrozy
Assistant Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1996
Clemson University

Research Interests: Consumer psychology, sustainable and international marketing, and sustainable tourism.

Recent News and Publications:

• Jamrozy, U., and Walsh, J. (2008). “Destination and Place Branding- A Lost Sense of Place?” in McCool, S. F., Moisey, R. N. (2nd Ed) Tourism, Recreation, and Sustainability CABI Publishing.
• Jamrozy, U. (2008). “Sustainable Tourism Development: Ingenuity in Marketing Strategy.” in Sustainable Tourism III, edited by F..D. Pineda and C.A. Brebbia the WIT (Wessex Institute of Technology) Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Volume 115.
• Jamrozy, U. (2007). “Moving towards integrated urban marketing: A Vision of Sustainability & Creative Strategic Collaboration.” Proceedings ANZMAC conference, Dunedin NZ, Dec 2007.

Louise Kelly
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1996
Concordia University, Canada

Research Interest: Strategic and business management; leadership; sustainable leadership; family business; entrepreneurship; environmental entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in developing countries- Kenya, Mexico, Vietnam, Guatemala and others; women entrepreneurs; women entrepreneurs in developing countries; social entrepreneurship; managing clean tech firms; top management team development; social networks; innovation and trust; leadership and management for psychologists; executive decision making.

Recent News and Publications:
Empathetic Listening. Leadership Excellence. Jan. 2010
Dr. Louise Kelly, Professor of Strategy, MGSM-BMD San Diego gave three presentations at the ACACIA conference over the summer:

• Is Family Business a Blessing or a Curse? A Conceptual Model to Transform Family Influence into Competitive Advantage. Academy of Administrative Sciences Tijuana, Mexico May 2008.
• “Social Networks for Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Transnational Enterpreneurs in the San Diego Baja Region.” Academy of Administrative Sciences Tijuana, Mexico May 2008.
• “Sources of Competitive Advantage” Keynote Panel Academy of Administrative Sciences Tijuana, Mexico May 2008.

Mohamed Ali Khalil
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1967
University of California Los Angeles

Research Interest: Finance.

Recent News and Publications: MGSM Professor Mohamed Khalil’s new book, Soft Computing Application to the Field of Finance, is now with the publisher, Dorence Publishing of New York. Soft Computing is one of the growing areas in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Meenakshi S. Krishnamoorthy
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1960
Manchester University

Research Interests: quantitative methods and TQM

Rachna Kumar
Program Director and Professor, Business and Management Programs
PhD, 1994
New York University, Stern School of Management

Research Interest: Establishing trust in virtual teams, sustainable work design for success in outsourcing/offshoring contexts, impacts of technology on self-efficacy, transfer of technology skills to developing economies, technology synchronization and organizational performance, technology mediated learning.

Recent News and Publications: Dr. Kumar presented on the following topics in the past six months:

• Greening the Impacts of Outsourcing versus Offshoring: Focus on Sustainability of Peopel and Society, Annual Academy of Management, August 2009;
• Establishing Trust in Offshore Outsourcing of Information Systems and Technology Development. Chapter in IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Application. Ed Amant, K. S., Business Science Reference Publications, July 2009;
• A Program Reliability of Internet Environment Using Colored Petri Net. Journal of Korean Association of Information Education, March 2009.

René M. Naert
Program Director (Undergraduate Programs-MGSM) and Associate Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1996
Walden University

Research Interest: information systems.
Recent News and Publications:Dr. Rene Naert, (2010, May) Strategic Resources Management as a New Paradigm for Sustainable Operations. Presentation to the Managerial Training Conference, via VIDEO CONFERENCIA SATELITAL (en vivo y en directo) Video Conference Satellite, Global Knowledge University, San Diego.

Fred Phillips
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1978
University of Texas at Austin

Research Interest: Technology management, technology-based economic development, and intersectoral relations.

Recent News and Publications:“Inter-institutional Relationships and Emergency Management.” International Journal of Society Systems Science, accepted April, 2010.

Hamid Rahman
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1987
Syracuse University

Research Interest: finance.

Recent News and Publications:

• “Is Over Confidence also an Industry Phenomena? The Case of REITs” February 24-27, 2010: Mid West Finance Association Conference (La Vegas, NV)
• Is the author of The Great Reformer. The newly published book is the English translation of an Urdu book written by Rahman’s grandfather Dr. Basharat Ahmad. The book is the autobiography of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, a hot button issue in many Islamic countries.

James V. Sullivan
Associate Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1993
United States International University

Research Interests: management and economics

Henry L. Petersen
Associate Professor, San Diego
PhD, 2004, University of Calgary, Canada

Research Interests: Corporate governance, sustainable development strategies, corporate social responsibility.

Recent News and Publications:

• Paper “Avoiding a financial Crisis: A Practical Approach from Turnaround Managers” published in the Journal of Business Strategy with Dr. H. Kierulff, 2009.
• Paper “Morals or Economics? Institutional Investor Preferences for Corporate Social Responsibility” published in the Journal of Business Ethics with Dr. H. Vredenburg, 2009.
• Paper “Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility and Capital Markets: Exploring the Institutional Investor Mental Model” published in the Journal of Corporate Governance, with Dr. H. Vredenburg, 2009.
• Paper “An ecosystem approach to stakeholder engagement: extending the descriptive view of stakeholder theory” presented at the International Association for Business in Society Annual Conference 2010
• Research “360°CSR: “Responsibility” is in the Eye of the Beholder” presented at the School of Business and Economics, Seattle Pacific University, 2010.
• Keynote speaker, Sustainable Urban Landscape Conference, Cuyamaca College, 2010.

Fred Lemke
Assistant Professor, San Diego
PhD, 2003
Cranfield School of Management, UK
MBA, 1996
Oxford Brooks University, UK

Research Interests:
Experience marketing, relationship quality, hidden needs analysis, business-to-business marketing, innovation management, and product design.

Recent News and Publications:

• “Creating the Great Customer Experience” January 19, 2010: San Diego – Direct Marketing Association, (San Diego, USA)
• Lemke, Fred; Goffin, Keith and Koners, Ursula: Hidden Needs – Versteckte Kundenbedürfnisse entdecken und in Produkte umsetzen [Hidden Needs: Driving Innovation by Discovering Customers' Hidden Needs]. Schäffer-Poeschel: Stuttgart, Germany; ISBN: 978-3791025384 (forthcoming).
• Lemke, Fred; Wilson, Hugh and Clark, Moira (2009): A Conceptual Model of Customer Experience Quality. ‘18th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference’ in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; 29th October-1st November 2009.

Lee White
Assistant Professor, San Diego
DBA, 2009
Argosy University
PhD, 2009; Webster University, CA

Research Interest: Performance metrics, balanced scorecard implementation, effect of stress and trust on outsourced team performance.

Wendy Chung
Research Interests:
Organizational Communication; Organizational Culture and Climate; Multiculturalism and Diversity in Organizations, Integrated Marketing Communications.
Recent News and Publications:

• Disabled Literature—Disabled Individuals in American Literature: Reflecting Culture(s)( 2010) in Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal; VOL 6; Issue 1, pgs 4-17 (co-author),
• Tryvertising: A New Mindset (2010) A White Paper published on the SDDMA and Sample U websites

Jennifer Roney
Visiting Professor, Director of Sustainability Initiatives
PhD
University of Utah, 1996

Research Interests: Sustainability, Change, Networks.