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At Robert Morris University School of Business, we like to say that our heritage IRA A. ABDULLAH, PH.D., CMA Asst. Prof., Accounting is your future. That’s because for nearly a century, we have been preparing Accounting behavioral research, students to excel in a demanding professional world. decision making, managerial accounting “ The companies that recruited from Robert Morris Since 1921, our School of Business has relied on faculty who combine extensive ARTEMISIA APOSTOLOPOULOU, real-world professional experience with a commitment to teaching and were the companies I wanted to work for.” PH.D. Univ. Prof., Sport Management mentoring. Graduates of our AACSB-accredited bachelor’s and master’s degree Sport marketing, sponsorship, programs on campus and online advance to positions of leadership in the and licensing; international He knew he wanted to study national honorary fraternity of sport management corporate and nonprofit world throughout southwestern Pennsylvania and business, but JORDAN FRAZIER accounting and finance. On top of across the country. wanted to keep his options open. all that, he completed an impressive ROBERT G. BEAVES, PH.D. So Jordan wound up triple-majoring 150 credits with a perfect 4.0 GPA, Prof., Finance Investments, capital budgeting, at RMU in accounting, finance, and The educational mission of the School of Business is strengthened by our ready for his CPA exam. No wonder financial planning economics. And quadruple-interning Jordan already had a job offer from long-standing corporate partnerships, which provide students with an — twice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC when he graduated last year. established pipeline to internships and careers in management, accounting, once at KPMG, and once at a local He works Downtown now as an finance, marketing, hospitality, sport management, and economics. Our health care technology startup, audit associate — the job he was SCOTT E. BRANVOLD, ED.D. MICHELLE L. PATRICK, PH.D. Prof., Sport Management proven curriculum integrates key principles of business ethics and successful where he worked directly under the shooting for since freshman year. Sociology of sport and CFO helping to prepare for their first athletics, business ethics, Dean communication skill-building with a focus on the global marketplace, For nearly a century, Robert Morris real audit. sport public relations School of Business supplemented with state-of-the-art technology in the PNC Trading Center, University has been training U. S. Steel Videoconferencing and Technology Resource Center, and the If it sounds like Jordan was in over talented accountants for the LOIS D. BRYAN, D.SC., CPA ATI Center’s interactive marketing wall. his head, think again. On campus he Pittsburgh region and beyond. Univ. Prof., Accounting also was president of the Association Students like Jordan go from Assurance of learning, for Future Accountants for two years successful internships at major individual income taxation, You can read some recent success stories involving our School of Business managerial accounting and an officer for the RMU chapter Downtown firms to full-time careers students in these pages. I’m proud to say they each selected RMU School of of Beta Alpha Psi, the prestigious with leading public, private, and MANMOHAN D. CHAUBEY, PH.D. Business not by chance, but by choice. We look forward to welcoming more government employers. Asst. Prof., Management excellent students for the next step on their path to career success. Human resource management, international business, business strategy

YUN CHU, PH.D. Prof., Marketing International marketing, consumer behavior, cross-cultural negotiation

• Bloomberg-equipped classrooms JOHN S. CLARK, PH.D. and labs, plus telepresence center Univ. Prof., Sport Management Sport strategy, sport sales, for videoconferencing sport marketing

• Fully redesigned M.B.A., online STEVEN R. CLINTON, PH.D. or traditional, with two professors Prof., Marketing team-teaching every class International supply chain management, marketing management and strategy • Nationally ranked in U.S. News

& World Report Best Colleges, MICHELE T. COLE, J.D., PH.D. Best Online Bachelor’s, Best Univ. Prof., HR Management E-learning, human resource Online M.B.A., and Best Graduate management, nonprofit management Non-M.B.A. Business DARIA CRAWLEY, PH.D. Assc. Prof., Management Organizational behavior, international business, gender wage gap 2 3 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

ZANE A. DENNICK-REAM, M.B.A. JAY J. KATZ, J.D., LL.M. Asst. Prof., Finance Visiting Asst. Prof., Taxation Corporate finance, Income taxation of estates, forecasting and modeling, trusts, estate taxation financial institutions “I knew RMU would be the perfect fit for me to build

RIZA EMEKTER, PH.D. GREGORY J. KRIVACEK, upon the skills I learned in the Marine Corps.” PH.D., CPA Prof., Finance Asst. Prof., Accounting Asset allocation, portfolio performance, speculative bubbles Financial reporting research, After retiring as a sergeant in organizations, serving as president financial and intermediate accounting the Marines after four combat of the local student chapter of FRANK R. FLANEGIN, PH.D. deployments in Afghanistan, the Society for Human Resource Univ. Prof., Finance MYRON ELLIS was ready to start Management, acting vice president DENISE C. LETTERMAN, M.B.A. Investments, financial analysis, Assc. Prof., Finance thinking about a career in either of the Student Veterans Association, finance technology Corporate finance, financial labor relations or human resources. and a member of the Black Student planning and education His wife was from Pittsburgh, so Union. Myron also had an internship that was where they decided to take at Highmark in university relations ELIADA S. GRIFFIN EL, PH.D. the next step. After speaking to a Assc. Prof., Management and talent acquisition. number of universities in the area, JASMIN LIN, PH.D. Entrepreneurship, social After graduation, Myron plans to go innovation, global political Myron decided RMU was the best Assc. Prof., Management on to graduate school to study labor Downsizing, HR practices, economics place to build on the skills he had relations or human resources. But first customer satisfaction already learned. JEFF K. GUILER, PH.D. he plans to take some time with his Prof., Management He didn’t waste any time getting wife to celebrate the birth of their Labor relations, human resources started. Myron had already taken first child. For veterans like Myron JIANYU MA, PH.D. four RMU online classes to prepare who are in a transition period from Assc. Prof., Finance “ The online M.B.A. program has allowed me Mergers and acquisitions, to become a full-time student. On serving their country, RMU provides capital asset pricing, to earn my degree while working full time – campus he majored in management excellent opportunities to build a investment evaluation MARK H. HANEY, PH.D. Assc. Prof., Management and got also involved with campus successful civilian career. Business analytics, organizational even when my job took me to Germany control, operations management CAROL S. MACPHAIL and China.” Asst. Prof., Accounting Tax policy and social impact, financial planning, taxation DAVID J. HESS, M.B.A., CPA For KATIE MARSEILLES, challenging shared in class gave her a realistic Asst. Prof., Accounting Taxation, not-for-profit projects are all in a day’s work in her understanding of the business world, accounting, auditing role as an investment coordination not just academic cases. When Katie JILL K. MAHER, PH.D. and analysis specialist at Covestro chose to get an M.B.A. to help her Univ. Prof., Marketing in Leverkusen, Germany. She move into a management position, Children’s food packaging STEVEN Z. HODASZY, J.D., LL.M. and branding, consumer holds a highly strategic role that the quality of instruction for her behavior, surveys Asst. Prof., Taxation supports the company’s European Business and individual income undergraduate degree made RMU taxation, federal tax procedure and North American polycarbonate a natural choice. The flexibility and manufacturing sites, coordinating pace of the online program have been DEAN R. MANNA, PH.D. projects, ensuring regulatory pivotal for her success earning an Univ. Prof., Marketing compliance, and developing business advanced degree while working in Sales strategy, emotional ALBENA I. IVANOVA, PH.D. cases for large projects with capital intelligence, sustainability Assc. Prof., Management Germany and traveling for business Quality assurance, operations investment over 2 million euros. to China and other locations. and supply chain management Her portfolio includes sustainability, RMU’s new M.B.A. program offers efficiency, license to operate, and GAYLE J. MARCO, PH.D. quality team-taught education for growth projects. Prof., Marketing CATHLEEN S. JONES, D.SC. professionals, even overseas. Katie Sustainability, consumer Assc. Prof., Marketing Both Katie’s undergraduate and was recently asked by her employer behavior, innovation in teaching Restaurant research, graduate coursework at RMU played to be a co-facilitator for their finance qualitative research, social media for marketing a key role in her job advancement. As academy, and she traveled to all of a matter of fact, she was hired as soon Covestro’s U.S. sites to teach a two- RICHARD J. MILLS, PH.D. as she graduated with her accounting day course in accounting. No doubt ERSEM KARADAG, PH.D., CPA Prof., Hospitality/Tourism Prof., Hospitality/Tourism degree in 2009, in a recession when her RMU experience was excellent Food and cultural studies, jobs were not easy to find. The real- preparation for this important hospitality marketing, Executive development, convention management IT and financial management world knowledge her professors assignment. in hospitality 4 5 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

JAMES R. SHOCK, D.B.A. MARCEL C. MINUTOLO, PH.D. Asst. Prof., Marketing Assc. Prof., Management Innovation, market pioneering, Strategy, sustainability and product management lifecycle governance, innovation and technology transfer “ The skills I learned at RMU helped me to

KIHYUN PARK, PH.D. realize that, because I know how to communicate ALAN D. SMITH, PH.D., CPGS Assc. Prof., Ops. Management Univ. Prof., Marketing Supply chain risk management and resilience, operations effectively, the sky is the limit for me.” E-commerce, supply chain strategy management, vendor relations management

As a marketing major at the School her and two of her classmates with JACOB C. PENG, PH.D., CISA of Business, MEGAN GOLD learned the three students at the University of JOHN S. STAKELEY, D.SC. Assc. Prof., Accounting value of communicating messages St. Gallen in Switzerland. The team Lecturer of Management Entrepreneurship, quantitative Accounting information systems, effectively. That’s something she collaborated on a feasibility study for XBRL, text analytics analysis, strategic management applies every day in her job at Trumpf — a leading global maker of Lockheed Martin as a software machine tools, laser technology, and engineer. Megan doesn’t have a industrial electronics — to market JODI A. POTTER, PH.D. science background, but she is a new power tool in the United LOUIS B. SWARTZ, J.D. Assc. Prof., Management Prof., Legal Studies effective at explaining complex States. Besides meeting new friends Innovation in firm-based Online teaching, business law, practices, strategic topics to other audiences who lack a and getting to soak in some lovely estate law knowledge and development technical focus. She credits her time mountain scenery, Megan and her at RMU with preparing her for this Swiss and American teammates role, including an internship at the put together a prize-winning report YASMIN S. PUROHIT, PH.D. company that eventually hired her. recognized at a Young Leader Award DAVID P. SYNOWKA, PH.D. Prof., HR Management Prof., Sport Management gala in the town hall in St. Gallen. Human resource management, Megan was a member of Alpha Mu Career development, trends diversity and inclusion, in sport and entertainment, Alpha, the marketing honor society, Megan’s story is one example of organizational behavior “ RMU taught me how to set myself apart event management plus a dean’s scholar every semester, how the RMU School of Business and to network, which ultimately sets me up and played defense on RMU’s NCAA maintains a global focus in every Division I lacrosse team. But perhaps major to prepare students for an YANBIN TU, PH.D. STANKO RACIC, PH.D. Prof., Marketing for success in my career.” most memorably, she was part of a interconnected business world. Prof., Finance E-commerce, database International finance, study abroad business project teaming marketing, marketing analytics investments, capital budgeting ANDREW MILLER loves a big game, Those served him well the three and he came to RMU to pursue his years he headed up Colonial Chaos, PRASAD VEMALA, PH.D. RONALD R. RUBENFIELD, M.B.A. dream of being a sports broadcaster. a free-throw fundraiser for cystic Assc. Dean Assc. Prof., Accounting However, once he started taking fibrosis that brings in close to 400 Asst. Prof., Management Ethics, corporate governance, classes, he discovered other participants. cost accounting International business, opportunities to explore that led international finance, Excellence in his studies and at his him in directions he wouldn’t have corporate governance internship led to a full-time job dreamed of in high school. offer from the Trail Blazers after DENIS P. RUDD, ED.D., FMP JOEL A. WALDMAN, J.D. As a dual major in marketing and he graduated. Instead, Andrew Univ. Prof., Hospitality Asst. Prof., Legal Studies Management sport management, Andrew helped decided he was ready for another Personal injury cases, Hospitality, travel, tourism to organize the department’s annual side of business entirely. He recently criminal cases operations career and internship event. At the accepted an offer from Bloomberg event, he met with an RMU alumnus BNA, an established provider of now at the Portland Trail Blazers, tax, legal, and compliance research QIN YANG, PH.D. TAPAN SETH, PH.D. and before he knew it Andrew had for financial professionals, to join Prof., Management Asst. Prof., Management an internship as a season ticket their outside sales trainee program International management, Strategic management, innovation strategies, entrepreneurship, human capital account manager for the NBA in suburban Washington, D.C. Now corporate entrepreneurship team. As a member of the student Andrew is on track for an exciting chapter of the American Marketing career — just not one that he would Association, Andrew learned some have been able to even describe a ZHAOYUN SHANGGUAN, PH.D. QIONGYAO ZHANG, PH.D. Assc. Prof., Accounting good techniques in promotion. few years ago. Asst. Prof., Accounting Financial accounting and Financial accounting, reporting, capital markets, information asymmetry mergers and acquisitions research, executive compensation 6 7

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