Dr. David Shields, Dean, Haworth College of Business
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.B.A., B.S., The Ohio State University

In 2006, Dr. Shields assumed the role of Dean of the Haworth College of Business, home to one of the largest undergraduate business programs in the United States, with an enrollment of more than 4,500. Prior to joining WMU, he served as associate dean for graduate and professional programs and professor of accountancy and taxation at the University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business. His background includes a four-year post as director of the James C. and Cherie H. Flores M.B.A. Programs and was the James C. Flores Endowed Chair of M.B.A. Studies at Louisiana State University. During his time at LSU he also served as interim associate dean for academic programs and then as associate dean for M.B.A. and executive education.

Dr. Ajay Samant, Associate Dean and Professor of Finance
Ph.D, Indiana University
M.A., B.A., University of Bombay

Dr. Samant's duties include administrative responsibility for academic activities within the College, coordinating with department chairs and program directors to ensure effective operations, accreditation and assessment.

In addition to his role as Associate Dean, Ajay holds the National City Endowed Chair in Finance. His research focus is in the areas of Financial Markets and Institutions and International Finance. He is the author of many research papers, published in the Journal of Financial Services Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, Managerial Finance, Journal of Global Business, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Mid-American Journal of Business, and International Journal of Commerce and Management, among others. He is a Special Editor of Managerial Finance and also serves as a reviewer for several academic journals. Ajay's research has been presented at many national and international conferences in Banking and Finance. He has been nterviewed on national television and on radio, and quoted several times in newspapers for expert opinions on issues in the areas of Banking, Corporate Finance and International Finance Markets.

Dr. Jack Ruhl, MBA Program Director and Professor of Accountancy
Ph.D Case Western Reserve University
MSA, Western Michigan University
B.A., Western Michigan University

Professor Ruhl teaches courses in managerial accounting, cost accounting, control and analysis and accounting concepts. He served the College as Chairperson of the Department of Accountancy from 1996 to 2005 and is currently M.B.A. Program Director. Dr. Ruhl's research interests include activity-based costing, the Theory of Constraints and attribution theory, with publications appearing in Issues in Accounting Education, the CPA Journal and the Journal of Cost Management. Professor Ruhl also has traveled three times to Singapore to teach managerial accounting to students enrolled in WMU's M.B.A. program there. During these trips, he uses an innovative, hands-on approach to learning in which students "manufacture" Lego automobiles according to just-in-time principles. Currently Professor Ruhl serves as past president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group, the national association of chairpersons of accounting departments. He has served this organization in other capacities in the past, including newsletter editor and chairman of the annual program committee. Professor Ruhl is a volunteer for Hospice of Southwest Michigan. In this capacity he works with individuals in the final stages of their lives. He also does volunteer work with the nonprofit organization Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Dr. Bernard Han, Chair and Professor of Business Information Systems
Ph.D, University of Washington
M.B.A., Arizona State University
B.S. National Chiao-Tung

Dr. Han's teaching and research interests include Database Management, Data Communication and Networking, System Analysis and Design, and Mathematical Modeling and Optimization.

Dr. Han is currently serving on the editorial review board for International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management and Journal of Information Technology and Management. His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Information and Decision Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, European Journal of Operational Research, and Annals of Operations Research.

Dr. James DeMello, Professor of Finance and Commercial Law
Ph.D, Kent State University
M.B.A., Kent State University
B.B.A., Bombay University

Dr. DeMello's primary teaching interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Investments, and Security Analysis. He has taught in New Zealand and Singapore. DeMello is the author of "Cases in Finance." He has presented seminars on "Finance for Non- Financial Managers" as well as
research papers at various regional, national, and international conferences. His primary research interests include Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Market Efficiency, and Stock Selection
Strategies. His publications have appeared in the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Fixed Income and Financial Practice and Education.

Dr. Zahir Quareshi, Professor of Marketing
Ph.D, Michigan State University
M.B.A., Michigan State University

Dr. Quraeshi has been teaching at Western Michigan University since 1978 and has been a Visiting Professor at universities here and abroad and was the Tan Sri Noah Distinguished Chair of Business at University Kebangsaan Malaysia (1995-1996). Dr. Quraeshi's teaching, research and consulting interests are in the areas of international business and marketing.

Dr. Quraeshi was the founding editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Business. He has published numerous articles in journals including Business Horizons, Journal of Health Care Marketing, International Marketing Review, MSU Business Topics, Food Policy, Long- Range Planning, Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, Journal of International Marketing and Marketing Research, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management, International Journal of Management, Food Policy, Mid-American Journal of Business, Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management, Journal of Marketing Channels and Journal of Consumer Marketing. Dr. Quraeshi was the co-editor of three books of readings in international business serves as a reviewer for professional journals and is currently on the editorial board of Advances in International Marketing, The Journal of Global Business, Journal of Teaching in International Business, The Journal of Transnational Management Development and Advances in Competitiveness Research. He is also on the Board of Advisors for the International Business Press of Haworth Publishing Company. Dr. Quraeshi has participated as a speaker in international business workshops and has served as an organizer, session chair, moderator, panel member, discussant and reviewer on various occasions at professional international, national and regional conferences. Dr. Quraeshi was the recipient of the WMU Teaching Excellence Award in 1988. He has served as the chair of the International Business Education Committee in the Haworth College of Business. Dr. Quraeshi was on the board of the West Michigan Chapter of the American Marketing Association and chaired the Global Marketing Committee (1988- 90) of that organization. He has been a member of the Academy of International Business, Academy of Marketing Science, American Society for Competitiveness, International Management Development Association. Dr. Quraeshi was listed in Who's Who in the Midwest (1982-83).

Dr. Roger Tang, Professor of Accountancy
Ph.D, University of Nebraska
M.B.A., Eastern New Mexico University
BComm, National Taiwan University

Professor Tang teaches courses in management accounting and international accounting. He has published six books and numerous articles in transfer pricing, accounting in developing countries, business chair professorships, and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Tang joined the WMU faculty in 1988. Currently, he holds the Upjohn Chair in Business Administration. Before joining WMU, Professor Tang taught at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, McGill University and The University of Calgary. During his sabbaticals, he also taught at Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University and National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. He has lived and worked in many countries, including Burma, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States.

Dr. Roberta Schultz, Associate Professor of Marketing
Ph.D, University of Missouri
M.B.A., University of Missouri--Kansas City
B.S.B.A., University of Missouri--Columbia

Dr Schultz's teaching interests include e-business, marketing management, sales management, and marketing research at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Schultz has been the recipient of 1st Place honors in the 1997 and 1996 Research Forum. She was selected to the 1995 AMA Doctoral Consortium at Wharton, and was awarded the 1995 Graduate Teaching Award and 1994 Graduate Achievement Award. Dr. Schultz's research interests include cross-functional marketing teams, inter-organizational relationships, marketing communication and technology and marketing. Her dissertation involved analysis of the effects of internal and external collaborative communication and team characteristics of members of a Fortune 500 consumer goods company and their customer counterparts. She has previously published articles in Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, Journal of Professional Services Marketing, Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, and Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. She is is co-author of the book Strategic, Organizational, and Managerial Impacts of Business Technologies (2000), Quorum Books. Dr. Schultz previously worked in the telecommunications industry as a Sr. Account Executive. She has previously owned her own consulting business and recently has worked with Primo Manufacturing Company, Procter & Gamble, the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and Central Missouri Physicians for Women.

Dr. Thomas Scannell, Associate Professor of Management
Ph.D, Michigan State University
M.B.A., Western Michigan University
B.S.E.E., Western Michigan University

Tom Scannell teaches courses in operations, supply chain and quality management. He also served as MBA Program Director for three years. His research interests include supply chain management and manufacturing technology management. Tom’s publications have appeared in Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Sloan Management Review and Journal of Product Innovation Management. His professional memberships include DSI, NAPM and PDMA. Dr. Scannell's twelve years of industry experience includes manufacturing engineering, electronics design engineering, systems engineering and program/project management.

Dr. Timothy Palmer, Associate Professor of Management
Ph.D, Arizona State University
M.B.A., Northern Arizona University
B.S., University of New Hampshire

Professor Palmer teaches project leadership and strategic management. His primary research focuses on elements of managerial cognition and includes decision making in top management teams and risk taking. His research has appeared in numerous publications including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Management, Health Care Management Review, Advances in Applied Business Strategies, and numerous conference proceedings. Prior to joining WMU in 2000, Dr. Palmer was on the faculty of Louisiana State University. He also spent ten years in branch management in the Arizona banking industry and worked on Idaho’s NezPerce National Forest in fire and timber management.

Dr. K. C. O’Shaugnessy, Professor of Management
Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., GMI Engineering

Professor O’Shaughnessy teaches strategic management, human resource management, and managing change. His research focuses on the implications of strategy in the study of human resource management. Of particular interest is how organizational change and downsizing influence the performance of firms. Current projects include an analysis of change in the skills of white collar employees and an analysis of the relationship between middle management compensation and the financial performance of firms. He is also involved in the Wharton Financial Institutions Center study of productivity issues in the Life Insurance industry.

Dr. Christopher Korth, Professor of Finance
D.B.A., Indiana University-Bloomington
M.B.A. Detroit

Prior to joining the faculty at the Haworth College of Business, Professor Korth, taught at the University of South Carolina, University of Michigan, and Pennsylvania State University. He was also the Chief International Economist for the 1st National Bank of Chicago. His principal areas of teaching are International Finance, Banking, and Capital Markets. Professor Korth's principal areas of research are Tax Reform, International Capital Markets and International Investments. He has written numerous articles in academic and business journals and is the author of three books. He is currently writing a comprehensive proposal for fundamental federal tax reform.

Mr. Lance DuBos
Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics, majoring in Finance, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Juris Doctor, Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lance spent his childhood moving around, with stops in Texas, Florida, Peru and Venezuela before settling in Connecticut, where he completed high school. He attended the Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics in 1984, majoring in Finance. He then attended Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1987.

Lance's professional career began in Honolulu, Hawaii, as an associate attorney practising in the areas of business, admiralty, and general litigation in both Hawaii state and U.S. federal courts. In 1993, he became an Adjunct Professor of Business at Chaminade University, teaching business law primarily to active duty U.S. military personnel through Chaminade's extension programs. Bitten by the teaching bug, he moved to Singapore in 1996 after acquiring a certificate in ESL teaching. In 2003 he joined CAE to teach in the Western Michigan University MBA program in Singapore, and since January 2007 he have taught Business Law and English in the BC program.