Faculty

By bringing their research and business experiences into the classroom, Argyros faculty expose students to the latest ideas in contemporary business. At the same time, Argyros teachers give of themselves to ensure students begin deriving ideas of their own.

Full-Time Faculty

Esmael Adibi

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Hank Adler

MBA, University of California, Los Angeles, CPA

Assistant Professor of Accounting, Mr. Adler was in public accounting for almost thirty-four years, the last twenty as a top partner at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Adler serves on several corporate and community boards of directors. His research has been published by Prentice Hall and Tax Magazine. His interests include theories of taxation and board governance.

Ayca Altintig

Ph.D., Louisiana State University

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Kaan Ataman

Ph.D., The University of Iowa

Donald Booth

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

John B. Broughton

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Scott Browne

DBA  - Nova Southeastern University

Visiting Professor of Strategy and Management. Dr. Scott Browne has over ten years of industry experience in sales, sales management, and operations management positions with Deloitte Haskins and Sells CPAs, BusinessLand Computers, Ashton-Tate Software Publishers, and Sungard Financial Systems.  Dr. Browne held teaching and administrative positions with Concordia University Irvine, Vanguard University, UC Irvine, and Loyola Marymount University prior to joining the faculty at Chapman University.

Hsin-Hui Chiu

Ph.D.  - Georgia State University

Assistant Professor of Finance. Dr. Chiu earned her Master's in Economics and received her Ph.D. in Finance from Georgia State University, where she also taught Corporate Finance for two years. Dr. Chiu's primary research interests include corporate finance, mutual funds, and corporate governance. Her teaching interests are in the areas of financial management, investments, and financial markets. Dr. Chiu is an active participant in several professional finance conferences and has presented her research papers to the Financial Management Association.

Gokcen Coskuner-Balli

Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin-Madison

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Coskuner-Balli’s main research interest includes cultural and ideological shaping of consumer-market relationships. Her current research examines the context of emergent lifestyle segments in which new social roles, cultural identities, and brand relationships are being forged through innovative interactions with the commercial marketplace. Within this context her research explores the role of consumption in creation and legitimization of non-traditional social identities in the marketplace.  Coskuner-Balli’s work has been published in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Culture and Association of Consumer Research.

Bruce Dehning

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

John Dickhaut

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus

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James L. Doti

Ph.D., University of Chicago

President and Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Business & Economics at Chapman University. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Dr. Doti was an Edward Hilman and National Science Foundation Fellow while at Chicago. He joined Chapman in 1974 and in 1978 founded the University’s Anderson Center for Economic Research which, under his leadership, has become nationally recognized for its scholarly research and economic forecasts. Dr. Doti’s articles have appeared in many academic journals as well as business publications such as The Wall Street Journal. He also co-authored books entitled, Econometric Analysis - An Applications Approach and The Market Economy - A Reader, which received the Templeton Honor Award for Scholarly Excellence. Dr. Doti is a leading figure in the Orange County business and academic communities, and hosts the weekly KOCE-PBS television show, “The Economic Journal.” He also serves on the boards of several corporations headquartered in Southern California.

Lynne Pierson Doti

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Lynne Pierson Doti, the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, is the author of Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California 1878 - 1905 and co-author of California Bankers and Banking in the American West.  She has also written about 25 articles on banking, using history as a laboratory to test theories of branching, structure and regulation.  Current research is focused on financing sources for real estate development.   In April, 2006 Lynne became the Editor of Essays in Economic and Business History. She has served on a number of corporate, civic, and charitable boards including the board of directors of Plaza Bank and Eldorado Bank, the Anaheim and Orange Budget Commissions and the state boards of two political organizations.  Her Ph.D. in Economics is from the University of California, Riverside.

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Selected Publications and Activities

Grigori Erenburg

Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton

Cris Giannantonio

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Jianli Hu

Ph.D., Washington State University

Jianli Hu graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. degree in Operations Management in 2004. Her general research areas of interest involve supply chain management and inventory theory. She has published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Interfaces. She won the Harriett B. Rigas Award as the Outstanding Female Ph.D. Student at Washington State University in 2004. She has also presented her research papers in major conferences.

Amy E. Hurley-Hanson

Ph.D., New York University

Laurence Iannaccone

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Laurence R. Iannaccone is a Professor of Economics at Chapman University. Prior to joining Chapman’s faculty in 2009, he was the Koch Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Before that he was a Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and spent two years at Stanford’s Hoover Institution as a National Fellow (1989/90) and Visiting Scholar (1996/97). Iannaccone earned his MS in Mathematics and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, and wrote his doctoral thesis on habit formation and religious behavior in 1984. His thesis committee included Nobel Laureates Gary S. Becker and George J. Stigler. In more than fifty publications, Iannaccone has applied economic insights to study denominational growth, church attendance, religious giving, conversion, extremism, international trends, and many other aspects of religion and spirituality. His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Journal of Sociology, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is currently writing two books on the on the economics of religion.

David Kang

Ph.D., University of Southern California

Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. from the Marshall School of Business Administration, University of Southern California. Dr. Kang’s primary research interests are in the areas of IT adaptation, IT infrastructure management, and knowledge management.  Dr. Kang’s research has been published in leading journals such as CACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information and Organization, Journal of Database Management, and Journal of Organizational Computing & Electronic Commerce. Dr. Kang also worked in the banking industry for a number of years.

Ekaterina (Kate) Karniouchina

Ph.D., University of Utah

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Ph.D., University of Utah. Dr. Karniouchina's research concentrates on interdisciplinary issues, in particular she aims to improve managerial decision making by synthesizing insights from marketing, finance and strategy domains. Her research has been published or accepted for publication in various academic journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Marketing Letters, and the European Journal of Operational Research. She is currently working on several projects related to the motion pictures industry.

Ravi Kathuria

Ph.D., Drexel University

James L. and Lynne P. Doti Chair in Operations Management; Ph.D., Drexel University. Dr. Kathuria worked as a production engineer, industrial engineer and operations consultant for over eight years before embarking on his Ph.D. His current research interests include operations strategy, supply chain management, the Internet and entrepreneurship, and global operations management. His work has been published in several leading journals, such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Education, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, and others. He has presented papers at numerous conferences and has been nominated and awarded best paper distinctions on various occasions, including the Decision Sciences Institute’s Distinguished Paper Award and Chan Hahn Prize for the Academy of Management Best Paper Award in the Operations Management Division. He served as a board officer of the Academy of Management's Operations Management Division from August 2006-August 2008, and currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management.

Publications, Honors and Awards

Radhika Lunawat

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Assistant Professor of Accounting. Radhika Lunawat graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. degree in Accounting. Her general research areas of interest include foundations of accounting, the role of higher-order beliefs in financial markets, trust and institutions and experimental economics.

Tibor R. Machan

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Tibor R. Machan, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, AL, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, CA.  He is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA.

Machan is a syndicated and free lance columnist, author of 30+ books—most recently, The Morality of Business: A Profession for Human Wealth-Care (Springer, 2007)—editor of 20+ others and has written over hundred scholarly papers some of them now featured in various philosophy readers (including "A Brief Defense of Free Will," "The Non-existence of Welfare Rights," and "Do Animals Have Rights?").  Hoover Institution Press has published 10 volumes in the series, Philosophical Reflections on a Free Society, which Machan has edited. His first trade book, Putting Humans First (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) was sold in many books stores in American and the UK.

Machan was visiting professor at the US Military Academy, West Point, 1992-93.  He edited Reason magazine for two years and had been editor of Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for 25 years. He lectures in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, the Republic of Georgia, and Latin America on business ethics and political philosophy. He has appeared on the late Bill Buckley's Firing Line, more recently on PBS-TV's Religion and Ethics in America and Life & Styles, John Stossel's John Stossel Goes to Washington, and on WABC AM Radio's John Batchelor Program in NYC as well as numerous other media around the globe. His memoir, titled A Man Without a Hobby, was published in 2004. His web site may be found at www.Tibormachan.com. His columns are syndicated by Freedom News Wire.

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Matthew W. McCarter

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kenneth Murphy

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Kenneth E. Murphy (Ken) is an Associate Professor of Operations Management.  He holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Operations Research.  Dr. Murphy’s recent research focuses on governance and management of business process redesign initiatives in global organizations.  He has also published in the areas of scheduling and organizational learning.  Dr. Murphy has published in Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Communications of the ACM and Information Systems Journal.

Noel Murray

Ph.D., Penn State University

Director of the Walter Schmid Center for International Business and Associate Professor of Marketing. Ph.D., Penn State University. Dr. Murray’s areas of expertise include international marketing, cross-cultural issues in marketing communications and advertising strategy. His research has been widely published in leading academic journals including, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Advertising and Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. His research on advertising disclosure has been profiled in The Los Angeles Times and in Media Life Magazine. Professor Murray plays an active role in the Academy of Marketing Science and has recently served as congress co-chair at the World Marketing Congress in Malta. His business affiliation experience includes Digital Computer, Inc., Irish State Merchant Bank, Apple Computer and Bank of Ireland.

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Niklas Myhr

Ph.D., University of Virginia

Niklas Myhr, Assistant Professor of Marketing, holds a Ph.D. from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and has taught at American University and at Tulane University. Dr. Myhr’s teaching interests include Internet Marketing, International Marketing, and Marketing Management. Dr. Myhr’s research which addresses the role of Business-to-Business Partnerships and e-Commerce in Global Supply Chains has been awarded $40,000 by The Hans Werthén Foundation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and a Best Paper Award by Supply Chain Management—An International Journal.

Previously, at the Swedish Institute of Management, Dr. Myhr worked with Executive Education programs held for large Swedish multinationals in Europe, the United States, and China. He also holds an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University in Sweden. Dr. Myhr is an American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and has served as an Executive Director on the Board of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC.

Prashanth Nyer

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Glenn M. Pfeiffer

Ph.D., Cornell University

Glenn M. Pfeiffer is Professor of Accounting at the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University.  He received his M.S. in Finance and Ph.D. in Accounting from Cornell University after he earned a bachelors degree in Economics from Hope College.  Prior to joining the faculty at the Argyros School, he held faculty appointments at the University of Washington, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, and San Diego State University.

Professor Pfeiffer’s research focuses on financial reporting and capital markets.  He has investigated issues relating to lease accounting, LIFO inventory liquidation, earnings per share, employee stock options, corporate reorganization, and technology investments.  He has published articles in The Accounting Review, the Financial Analysts Journal, the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, the Journal of Applied Business Research, the Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Journal of Accounting Education, and several other academic journals.  In addition, he has published a financial accounting textbook, an accounting casebook, and numerous case studies in financial accounting and reporting.

Professor Pfeiffer teaches financial accounting and financial analysis to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students.  He has also taught managerial accounting for MBAs.  He has won several teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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David Porter

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Professor of Economics and Finance. Dr. Porter utilizes experimental methods in economics to design, develop, test and implement new and complex market systems. He was the principle architect of the Cassini Resource Exchange that made resource trading possible on the Cassini mission to Saturn. Dr. Porter also helped develop the Sears Logistic Auction for allocating truckload traffic, the Automated Credit Exchange for trading pollution permits, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s new source credit auction for NoX emissions and BondConnect, which facilitates portfolio trades of various bond classes. Dr. Porter has designed and developed combinatorial markets that enable the efficient trading of packaged commodities. He also uses experiments to examine price formation in asset markets, including bubbles and the microstructure of asset markets and its affect on price dynamics.

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Stephen Rassenti

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Raymond Sfeir

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Roman Sheremeta

Ph.D., Purdue University

Assistant Professor of Economics. Roman Sheremeta graduated from Purdue University with a Ph.D. degree in Economics in 2009, where he won five teaching awards and was elected as an Associate Fellow of the Purdue University Teaching Academy. His general research interests include experimental and behavioral economics, game theory, industrial organization, labor economics, and public economics. He has published in Economic Inquiry and Games and Economic Behavior. He has received a National Science Foundation grant, Purdue Research Foundation grant, and Robert W. Johnson Award for his dissertation research.

Timothy Shields

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Assistant Professor of Accounting. Dr. Timothy Shields received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota in 2007, where he repeatedly won the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Teaching Award teaching financial and managerial accounting. Dr Shields’ current research focuses upon how accounting information either facilitates or hinders individual and group welfare, and uses methods from experimental economics, analytical modeling, and cognitive sciences. He is currently researching how repeated transactions versus one-time interaction effect subjects’ depth of strategic thinking, how conflicts of interest effect communication, and how simple heuristic models offer insight into one’s choice of action over time. Dr Shields has presented his research at major conferences.

Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Shields worked as a Certified Public Accountant and a Financial Officer in Reno, Nevada.

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Pradip K. Shukla

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Charu Sinha

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Assistant Professor of Management Science. Ph.D., Stony Brook University (SUNY). Prior to joining Chapman University, Dr. Sinha worked for 10 years at AT&T, where she was involved in the design and deployment of various business communication services in voice, data, and voice-over-internet protocol. Her research interests are in the quantitative modeling of various business settings in the areas of operations, MIS and finance, using either stochastic modeling techniques or empirical analysis. Her primary teaching interests are in the areas of statistical and operations research techniques applied to business settings in general and operations management in particular. Dr. Sinha was previously a faculty member at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she taught in the MBA program.

Vernon Smith

Ph.D., Harvard University

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Richard Sudek

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Ph.D. in Management from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Dr. Sudek’s primary research interests are in the area of entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial leadership, and team leadership.

Dr. Sudek has taught at INSEAD in France, the Rotterdam School of Management in Holland, and at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of CGU.

In 1982 he founded Nadek Computer Systems, a computer consulting firm, and in 1999, sold the company to SAIC. He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco. In addition, he currently consults extensively with startup companies on matters related to strategy, financing, operations, and executive coaching.

Currently an active angel investor (venture capital) with over 20 investments in startup companies, Mr. Sudek sits on the Tech Coast Angels board of governors (the largest angel investment organization in the US). In addition, he is on the board of directors for the Angel Capital Association, a national angel trade association. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies.

Francis Douglas Tuggle

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Professor. Ph. D. Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Tuggle has served as dean three times: at Chapman from July 1, 2002 until December 31, 2005, and also at the Kogod School of Business at American University from 1990-1996. Prior to this, he was the Jesse H. Jones Professor and Dean of the Jones School of Management at Rice University. Dr. Tuggle is also a prolific scholar with an extensive portfolio of published works — two books and more than 50 refereed journal articles. Most recently, his research has been in the area of supply chain management and knowledge management. He has served on the board of directors of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and on the board of INFORMS, The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. He is on several corporate boards of directors, and has extensive experience consulting with for-profit and non-profit firms. A former Ford Foundation Fellow, he is a member of Sigma Xi, Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Kappa Psi.

Vita and Publications

Thomas Turk

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Associate Professor of Management. Professor Turk joined Chapman University in 1992 after serving on the faculty at Texas A&M University. He earned a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of California, Irvine in 1988.

Professor Turk's research on corporate strategy and corporate governance regularly appears in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Economic Inquiry, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, and Journal of Economics and Business. His research on corporate governance, mergers and hostile takeovers has appeared in Corporate Governance and The Management of Corporate Acquisitions, both collections of articles by internationally recognized scholars.

Professor Turk lectures widely in executive education programs for both public and private organizations. He frequently consults with businesses on strategic planning and strategic change issues. He also frequently serves as an expert witness on top executive compensation and business valuation issues. Professor Turk’s current research and consulting assists firms in reducing bureaucracy and increasing their capacity to take entrepreneurial initiative.

Vita and Publications

Can Uslay

Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Assistant Professor of Marketing. Dr. Uslay got his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he also taught for three years. Dr. Uslay’s research interests lie broadly within marketing strategy, policy, and theory construction. His research is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Business Review, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Marketing Education Review, and the Review of Marketing Research. He is the co-author of a book, Deregulation and Competition: Lessons from the Airline Industry (2007, Sage Publications), and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of Research for the Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG of the American Marketing Association. His work experience prior to academia includes various organizations/functions such as internal consulting at a conglomerate, hotel administration, international marketing of consumer electronics for Vestel Foreign Trade (the top exporter of Turkey), and assisting the State of Georgia for high-tech based economic development.

John Virchick

MBA, Eastern New Mexico University, CPA

Associate Professor of Accounting. C.P.A., MBA, Eastern New Mexico University. Prior to joining Chapman, Mr. Virchick was a sole proprietor in public accounting for 12 years, concentrating in the areas of taxation, auditing and accounting services. He also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. in the field of auditing.

Clas Wihlborg

Ph.D., Princeton University

Fletcher Jones Chair in International Business. Ph.D., Princeton University. Dr. Wihlborg has held faculty positions in Finance and International Business at New York University, and in Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California, At Göteborg University in Sweden he was Head of the Financial Economics programs before moving in 2000 to the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark, where he was a Professor of Finance and Director for the Center for Law, Economics and Financial Institutions (LEFIC). He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). His research and teaching have focused on International Finance, International Financial Management, Law and Economics, and Financial Institutions. In these areas he has published numerous journal articles and books, most recently as coauthor of Corporate Performance and the Exposure to Macroeconomic Fluctuations.

Bart Wilson

Ph.D., University of Arizona

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Abel Winn

Ph.D., George Mason University

Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics, Dr. Winn’s research interests include economic systems design and experimental economics. Prior to joining the faculty at Chapman University he was director of experimental economics at the Market-Based Management Institute, in affiliation with Koch Industries and Wichita State University, where he conducted research on expectation formation, incentive compensation and hold-out problems. Dr. Winn helped to develop the auction system for Commonwealth of Virginia's nitrous oxide emission credits, and has conducted research on buyer-only and two-sided multiple unit call markets.

Candace Ybarra

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Associate Professor of Management. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Dr. Ybarra’s research centers on strategic alliances, corporate structures and evaluation criteria in organizations. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. Her teaching interests include strategic management, international business and business and society. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Ybarra worked as a financial analyst for Cox Cable and as a financial consultant for real estate investors/developers in San Diego, Calif.

SangHo Yoon

Ph.D., George Mason University

Adjunct Faculty - Fall 2009

Steve Abbott

Nas Ahadiat

Dave Arnold

Bill Arnold

Tom Ashley

Stu Atkins

Sergio Barron

Dave Berkovitz

Bob Cristiano

Lacy Ertel

Brent Evans

Suzanne Fradette

Mark Ghamsary

Pierre Habis

Brian Harmon

Clark Higgins

Cameron Jolly

Yvette Jolly

Erik Kimbrough

Dennis Laurie

Fadel Lawandy

Jason Lee

Bob McClure

Steve Miller

Phil Quigley

Joe Rooks

Luca Sartori

Praveen Sinha

Nikki Smith

Carolyn Stephens

John Stupar

Philip Trevezas

Karen Weidner