Dr. Dawn Deeter is Chair and Associate Professor of Marketing at OHIO University. She earned her BS in Clothing and Textiles from Morehead State University and MBA and PhD in Marketing from the University of South Florida. Prior to earning her doctorate, she spent 10 years working in the shoe industry, first as a department manager of children’s shoes and later as a retail buyer of children’s, men’s and athletic shoes for several department store chains. She has experience teaching a number of marketing courses, including personal selling, business to business marketing, services marketing, consumer behavior, retail management, and principles of marketing. Her research interests include customer service teams, sales management and buyer-seller relationships, and scale development. She has published in the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of Business Logistics, and Journal of Travel Research, among others.

Dr. James S. Cox is a long-time Associate Professor of Accountancy at OHIO University. He earned his baccalaureate degree (Chemistry) from Denison University, his MBA (accounting, finance and economics) from the University of Chicago, and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh (accounting). He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute and OHIO Society of CPAs. During his career at OHIO University, Professor Cox has taught widely in the accounting area. In recent years, he has concentrated on income taxation and managerial accounting. Professor Cox has served the University's programs both in Africa and Asia. For nearly twenty years, Professor Cox was the principal administrator of the College's original "twinning" program with the MARA Institute of Technology in Malaysia.

Dr. John L. Keifer is a cum laude graduate of OHIO State University where he majored in economics. He also holds an MBA degree from OHIO University and Jurist Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining OHIO University, he practiced for nearly twenty years during which time he represented the interests of commercial firms in the banking and savings and loan industries and the fast-food franchise industry among others. Since joining OHIO University, he has co-developed the Corporate MBA program with a fellow faculty member that was implemented for Tenaga National Berhand, the Malaysian electric company, and teaches in the areas of strategy, international business and comparative management. He has done research in the areas of competitive strategy, organizational development and configuration, and corporate renewal strategies.

Dr. John R. Schermerhorn Jr. joined OHIO University in 1989 as the Charles G. O’Bleness Professor of Management. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and an MBA with distinction from New York University. He is the author or co-author of many scholarly articles and four books: Management, Managing Organizational Behavior, Basic Organizational Behavior, and Management and Organizational Behavior Essentials. His teaching and consulting in management and organizational development focus on human resources strategies for productivity improvement. He has conducted training programs for firms in the United States and other parts of the world. Before joining the faculty at OHIO University, he taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he also served as head of the Department of Management and associate dean of the College of Business Administration.

Dr. Ken Cutright is the Chair, Management Systems Department and also Associate Professor of Management Systems. A PhD in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University he holds a MS in Mathematics from the same University. His research interests are in simulation software, innovative teaching methods and he has extensive consulting experience.

Dr. Nanda Rangan joined OHIO University in 1995, and holds the distinguished Charles E. O'Bleness Chair in Banking and Finance. He chairs the Finance Department and is the Executive Director of International Operations. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Madras and his MS and PhD from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining OHIO University, he served as chair of the finance department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has published extensively in leading finance and economics journals. His teaching, research, and consulting interests include corporate finance, financial institutions, financial markets, and public policy. He is the recipient of several awards for excellence in teaching and research and serves on the editorial boards of three journals.

Dr. Rajesh P. Narayanan is an Associate professor in the Department of Finance in the College of Business at OHIO University. He holds the Gardner Fellowship in Finance. Dr. Narayanan teaches in the areas of corporate finance and financial markets. His current research interests are at the intersection of corporate finance and financial intermediation. He obtained his PhD degree from Florida State University in Tallahassee. Prior to joining OHIO University, he served as an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Narayanan has also been a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Dr. Robert Sarikas “Zeke” is an Associate Professor of Accountancy at OHIO University. He did his PhD in Accountancy and Taxation in 1992 from University of Illinois. He is also MAS from University of Illinois and MPA from University of Texas. His research interests are in the fields of International Accounting, Taxation and Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant with experience as a tax professional working for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Houston, Texas and an oil and gas specialty accounting firm (Thomas Leger & Co.) in Houston, Texas. Dr. Sarikas is a visiting Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Boise State University, the University of Texas and Loyola University of Chicago. His overseas teaching assignments include China, England, India, Russia, and Vietnam. Apart from that, he has had consulting assignments in financial accounting, management accounting, and taxation in Russia, the United States and Vietnam. He also served as an Air Force Officer in an ICBM unit of the Strategic Air Command.

Prof. Shivaprakash A. R. is a Fellow of National Institute of Bank Management, Pune. He is the Director of the OHIO University Christ College Academy for Management Education and is specialized in the areas of Banking and Finance. While on the faculty of T.A. Pai Management Institute, he taught courses in Financial Services, Management of Banks and Financial Institutions. He has coordinated Management Development Programs for commercial bank managers and Faculty Development Programs for the Management Institutes. Currently, he teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Management and Statistics. He is the recipient of the ‘Award for Administrative Excellence’ by the OHIO University during 2002. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at the College of Business, OHIO University.

Dr. Ted Compton is Professor Emeritus of Management Information Systems Department at OHIO University. He did his PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 1980. He is an Accounting Major. He is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Systems Professional (CSP). His research interests include: Information systems and Managerial/Cost Accounting. He was appointed as the O'Bleness Professor of MIS beginning fall quarter 2001-2002. He has held positions with Cincinnati Milicron, Sperry Rand Corporation, and W.G. Seinshiemer and Associates, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm. He is the Author of a training manual on Activity-Based Costing which has been used at numerous CPE training sites throughout the United States.