Faculty in Business and Management

David Bainbridge
Associate Professor, San Diego
MS, 1973
University of California Davis

Research interest: environmental studies

Recent News: CUE and MGSM-BMD San Diego 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.

 

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

Research interests: consumer psychology, sustainable and international marketing

Recent 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.

Jamrozy, U. (2007). “Marketing a Performing Arts Network: Creating a Jazz
Community.” Proceedings ANZMAC conference, Dunedin, NZ, Dec., 2007.

Jamrozy, U. (2007). “Marketing of Tourism: A Paradigm Shift toward Sustainability.” International Journal of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, 1 (2) 117-130.

 

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

Research interest: strategic entrepreneurship in developing countries; self-efficacy, social networks, diversity, top management teams, and strategic leadership; family business and women economic empowerment; technology strategies in developing countries; strategic metrics and risk assessment.

Recent news: 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.

 

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

Research interest: finance

 

Recent news: 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.

 

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

Research interests: quantitative methods and TQM

 

 

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Rachna Kumar
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1994
New York University

Research interest: software process and productivity metrics, transfer of technology skills to developing cultures, technology synchronization and organizational performance, technology mediated learning and knowledge retention, technology intervention and emotional maturity.

Recent News: Dr. Kumar presented on the following topics in the past six months: Team project Infusing Emerging Technology into the Curriculum: Faculty Peer-to-Peer Mentoring at the Sloan-C International Symposium in Carefree, AZ in May 2008; Managing human issues in offshore projects: communication, coordination, culture and conflict management in March 2008 at the WDSI Conference in San Diego, CA; Moprosoft: An Economically Viable Alternative to the CMMI for Small Business Settings in Latin American Organization in the Academy of International Business, in Houston, TX in March 2008.

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Alfred Lewis
Professor, San Diego
DBA, 1989
United States International University

Research interest: strategic management

 

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René M. Naert
Associate Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1996
Walden University

Research interest: information systems

 

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Fred Phillips
Associate Dean
Associate Provost for Research
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1978
University of Texas at Austin

Research interest: technology management, high-tech regional economic development, management education

 

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Hamid Rahman
Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1987
Syracuse University

Research interest: finance

Recent news: 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.

 

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

Research interests: management and economics

 

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