Asbjorn Osland serves as a tenured full professor at San Jose State University in California where he has worked since 2002. He previously taught at George Fox University and Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. He received his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in 1994 where he also earned an MBA in 1987. He worked abroad extensively prior to becoming an academic. He was the Country Human Resources Manager for Chiquita Brands International in Panama (1990 to 1992) and a field director in various countries in Latin America and West Africa for Plan International (1974 to 1984), a large nongovernmental organization. He began his work in developing countries with Peace Corps in Colombia (1973 to 1974). He has taught organizational behavior and international business throughout his academic career, to both upper-division undergraduates and MBA students. His primary publishing focus has been cases for business instruction but he has also published numerous refereed academic articles. In 2016 he won the Frederick W. Petri International Business Fellow Award, a $7,000 grant, for publications by a full professor. He published 23 refereed cases and articles, 2 nonrefereed book chapters, and 3 cases for a text during the last 5-year accreditation round (2011 to 2015). He’s been married for 45 years to Joyce Osland, an internationally known scholar in global leadership. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.
Cheryl Prachyl received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington, MS in Accounting, and BBA in Marketing from Texas A&M University. She is currently serving as an assistant professor at the University of Dallas—Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business. She also worked with Allyson Turner, PC, as a staff accountant and system specialist doing small business system troubleshooting. Other work experience includes NCR Corporation and Bosque County Bank.
Fabiola H. Gerpott is interested in studying learning and (ethical) leadership in the context of societal changes. Her research has been published in a wide range of national and international journals. Furthermore, she teaches statistics for students obtaining a bachelor or master’s degree at different universities. In these courses, she aims to educate students not only on the mathematical foundations of statistics, but also discusses ethical challenges with them. Fabiola Gerpott is a research fellow in Business Administration and Psychology in the joint PhD program at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. She holds a master’s degree in Corporate Management and Economics from Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and a bachelor’s degree in Business Psychology from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Moreover, she has been a visiting scholar at the University of Western Australia’s Business School and at the Singapore Management University’s Business School. Fabiola Gerpott has received a number of awards for her research projects and social commitments. In addition, she obtained a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. She regularly gives academic guest lectures and workshops for practitioners on her research topics.
Fernando Arellano is an assistant professor in the College of Business at the University of Dallas where he teaches finance courses. He holds an MS in Finance and a PhD in Economics, both from Colorado State University. His areas of interest are in corporate finance and business and financial modeling. He has developed various computerized business simulations, such as FINANCESIM, which simulates corporate financial decisions, FORECASTSIM, which assesses sales forecasting and financial statement projections, and SIMBANK, which simulates commercial banking operations. He has also provided executive and academic training in Ecuador and Spain and has performed financial consulting activities for companies in Peru. He was an instructor at Colorado State University and professor at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudio Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and Centrum Catolica, both in Peru. Before joining academia, in Peru, his native country, he was the CEO of a food processing company and vice president of the Finance Division of an agricultural bank, both, government owned. He is a member of the Financial Management Association (FMA) and of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL).
Henrietta Onwuegbuzie leads sessions in Entrepreneurship on the MBA and executive programs at Lagos Business School (LBS). She is currently the academic director for the Owner Manager Programme and project director for the Impact Investing policy initiative at the School. She has an MSc degree with honors in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Navarre in Spain, an MBA from LBS, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria, and a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Lancaster University, UK. Prior to joining LBS, she had worked in educational projects for women’s development and in the banking sector. Henrietta is a member of the Governing Council of the African Forum in Brussels, and sits on the Board of a number of Nigerian companies. She has extensive consulting experience and is an active member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
Henrietta is passionate about the development of Nigeria and the African continent, and has presented papers on Entrepreneurship and sustainable development at several international conferences. Her areas of interest include strategies for entrepreneurial growth and sustainable development in emerging economies, as well as low-cost, high-impact business models applicable to small- and large-scale businesses.
Ignacio Ferrero Muñoz is Professor of Business Ethics and Dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Navarra. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Business Ethics, the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), and the Humanistic Management Network. He has been a visiting scholar at Bentley University in 2010, 2011, 2015, at Harvard University in 2011, and at Notre Dame University (Mendoza College of Business) in 2012. He has published several books on the History of Economic Thought and articles in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly; Journal of Business Ethics; Business Ethics: A European Review; Business and Society Review.
He is currently working on virtue ethics, and the common good in finance. He holds a BS in Philosophy and in Business Administration (University of Navarra) and a PhD in Economics (University of Navarra).
Ijeoma Ugwuanyi is a research assistant in the area of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the LBS, Pan-Atlantic University. She holds a BSc Hons degree in Management from the University of Nigeria. She is a graduate member of the Nigerian Institute of management (chartered) and student member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. Prior to joining the LBS, she worked in the finance and administrative department for a USAID (United states Agency for International Development) funded project targeted at improving the livelihood of vulnerable children and their caregivers. She has also been involved in other development-related projects that involve entrepreneurial capacity development, women development, and disease control and management. Her research interests include: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Family business, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Venture capital.
Jenny Gu is an assistant professor of Finance at the University of Dallas. She holds her PhD in Finance and MA in Economics from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Before her academic career, she worked as a Finance Manager at Shanghai’s Bank of Communications Credit Card Department, a joint venture with HSBC. She teaches Managerial Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Intermediate Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Modeling, Corporate Treasury Management, and Principles of Microeconomics. She is the faculty adviser of University of Dallas Student Investment Fund since the inception of the Fund in September 2013. She is the responsible faculty for CFA University Recognition Program at the University and sponsors students for their CFA program scholarship. She has published in the Journal of Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Banking and Finance Review, American Journal of Business Research, and so on. Her fields of specialization include investments, credit ratings, banking, corporate finance, and financial innovations.
Kemi Ogunyemi is the director of the Christopher Kolade Center for Research in Leadership and Ethics at the LBS, Nigeria. She holds a degree in Law from University of Ibadan, Nigeria; an LLM from University of Strathclyde, UK; and MBA and PhD degrees from LBS, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. She leads sessions on business ethics, managerial anthropology, self leadership, and sustainability management at LBS and is the academic director of the School’s Senior Management Programme. Her consulting and research interests include personal ethos and organizational culture, responsible leadership andsustainability, and work-life ethic. She has authored over 20 articles, case studies and book chapters, and the book titled “Responsible Management: Understanding Human Nature, Ethics and Sustainability.” She’s also the editor of a key resource for management educators, “Teaching Ethics across the Management Curriculum: A Handbook for International Faculty.” Kemi worked as director, team lead, and mentor in various projects of the Women’s Board (ECS) before joining LBS. She is a member of ABEN, BEN-Africa, EBEN, and ISBEE, and codeveloped the UNGC-PRME Anti-Corruption Toolkit.
Liz Mulig received her doctorate in Accounting from Louisiana Tech University, and she is an assistant professor of Accounting at the University of Dallas. Her undergraduate degree in accounting is from Louisiana State University (LSU) in Shreveport, and she earned an MBA and MPA from Louisiana Tech University. After completing her degree at LSU Shreveport, Dr. Mulig worked 1 year in public accounting and 10 years in industry.
Lynn Kendall is an assistant professor of Finance at the University of Dallas. She received a BS in Mining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an MBA with a specialization in Finance and her PhD in Finance from the University of North Texas. Dr. Kendall’s research interests include corporate finance, ethics, transportation and energy economics, financial distress and bankruptcy, and international finance, as well as banking and financial markets. Dr. Kendall began her career as an analyst and consultant with an energy database and consulting firm, and later as vice president and director of the firm’s international consulting and forecasting practice. As vice president of consulting, Lynn was editor and coauthor of a series of coal and energy market studies and economic forecasts. In addition to her quantitative expertise, Dr. Kendall is an experienced qualitative market research professional.
Marta Rocchi is a PhD candidate at the University of Navarra, with the Chair of Business Ethics. She holds an MSc in Economics (Sapienza University of Rome). She is Research Assistant and member of the Management Team at the Markets, Culture and Ethics Research Center (Rome), and Lecturer of Corporate Social Responsibility at ISSRA, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. She has been Visiting Scholar at Bentley University (MA, USA) in 2015 and is a member of the Academy of Management and of the Society for Business Ethics. In the last years, she has been in the Organizing Committee of the series Colloquium on Christian Humanism in Economics and Business (Washington DC 2012, Barcelona 2015, Berlin 2016). Research areas: finance ethics, virtue ethics in business, MacIntyrean ethics in business and finance, shared value, corporate social responsibility.
Osaretin Kayode Omoregie is a fellow at the LBS. He leads sessions in corporate and entrepreneurial finance, financial strategy, business strategy, and financial modeling. He is the academic director of the International Management Programme (IMP). His research interests include default risk prediction and evaluation of capital utilization capacity of SMEs, and assessment of the diffusion of corporate financial intelligence and implication for firm performance.
A graduate of chemistry from the University of Lagos, he is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), with over two decades’ experience in audit, tax, corporate finance, strategy, corporate restructuring, and performance management. His professional experience includes senior consulting positions at Arthur Andersen, Chief Financial Officer at Kiwi Nigeria Limited (A Sara Lee Chicago Company), and Finance Director of Chartered Aluminium Systems Plc. He is a partner with the firm of Osaretin Omoregie & Co (Chartered Accountants).
Kayode earned his MBA from the LBS, and is an Alumnus (IFP 2011) of IESE Business School, Barcelona. He is a council member of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN), a member of the board of Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring Faculty of ICAN, and sits on the board of a couple of Nigerian companies.
Robert Walsh holds a PhD, MBA, MS, and BBA from the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as an associate professor of accounting at the University of Dallas, Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business. He previously taught at Marist College where he also served as department chair and interim dean. Prior to entering academia, he was employed in the audit department of Deloitte Haskins and Sells and the tax department of Coopers and Lybrand in Detroit, Michigan.
Shawn Groves is an affiliate professor at the Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas. He received a BBA in Finance from Texas Christian University and an MBA with a specialization in Accounting, Finance, and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has an extensive career in corporate and investment finance at the executive level, including roles as the chief investment officer at Simran Capital Management and Portfolio Manager at Highland Capital Management where he directed portfolios of corporate debt, public and private equities, derivatives, and currencies. He also assumed investment advisory roles where he partnered with both businesses and individuals in directing assets at Lone Star Funds, Verizon, and Merrill Lynch. He is a faculty adviser of the University of Dallas Student Investment Fund and responsible for development of student-driven finance and investment programs. His areas of teaching interest include derivatives, investments, corporate valuation, and portfolio management.
Steven F. Pittz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published in venues such as the Journal of Politics and Global Topics. His research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and economics, and he is currently working on a book manuscript that addresses ethical dilemmas faced by individuals in liberal, capitalist democracies.
Susan Rhame is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Dallas, Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her undergraduate and master’s degrees are from Mississippi State University and Louisiana State University, respectively. After completing her degree at LSU, Dr. Rhame worked in the tax department of the Dallas office of Arthur Young & Co. and later as the controller of a finance company.
Sven C. Voelpel is Professor of Business Administration at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Voelpel founded the WDN—WISE Demographics Network in Bremen (Germany) and has been the director ever since. Sven Voelpel’s research focus on the fields of (ethical) leadership, (team) learning, team effectiveness, knowledge management, and change management, as well as demographic and diversity management. He has contributed more than 200 books and journal publications to these domains. His work has been published in academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Academy of Management Executive/Perspectives. Professor Voelpel has served as the editorial board member for the Journal of Change Management (2004 to 2010), the Journal of Knowledge Management (2004 to 2006), and has been the member of editorial board for Organization Studies since 2008. Voelpel received his MA in economics, social sciences, and business administration from the University of Augsburg in 1999, and his PhD from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland in 1993. He started his academic career as postgraduate at Harvard University in 2003, and continued his research at Oxford University until 2008. In the year 2003 to 2004 he was Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, and in the Norwegian School of Economics. In 2004, he moved to the Jacobs University Bremen, where he is conducting research and teaching until today.
Tabani Ndlovu is a fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD) in the United Kingdom, where he also sits on the IOD Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regional committee. He holds a PhD in Corporate Governance from Oxford Brookes University, an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from the University of Nottingham, a BCom in Marketing, a PGCTHE, and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He lectures in Marketing, Sustainability and Strategy at the Nottingham Business School. His research interests span sustainability, responsible business practices, and corporate governance, as well as marketing and internationalization.
Thomas G. Pittz is an assistant professor at University of Tampa with a PhD from New Mexico State University. His research interests lie in strategy, entrepreneurship, ethics, and sustainability. He has previously published work on ethical strategic decision making in the inaugural volume of Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum: A Handbook for Faculty (Kemi Ogunyemi, Ed.), strategic deception in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, absorptive capacity in cross-sector social partnerships in Management Decision, entrepreneurial pedagogy in the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, sustainability in the book Quantum Storytelling (David Boje Ed.).
Tim London’s career has largely been in the public sector; for the last nine years, he has worked in higher education in a variety of capacities, including as an academic and in senior leadership roles. This has led him to his current position as a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, the top business school in Africa and one of the best in the world. Over the years, he has designed and taught programs on different aspects of leadership, teaching postgraduate students, including doctoral candidates, as well as executive education and speaking engagements. The chapter authored by him speaks to his recent and current lecturing responsibilities. He designed and taught a master’s program in collaborative leadership, currently teach a core module on the School’s MBA program related to leadership, he is studying entrepreneurial issues in business, and he will be lecturing on an MPhil in Inclusive Innovation program. His chapters in this book series are borne out of the questions and challenges he engages with his students about conceptually and, most importantly, in their own work and personal lives.
Yetunde Anibaba (PhD) is a management educator and organizational development professional. She teaches Analysis of Business Problems (ABP) and decision making on full-time and Executive MBA, as well as other senior executive education programs at LBS. She has designed and taught on several highly rated, short-focused seminars and custom executive programs in the School, including the yearly Problem Solving and Decision Making for Executives and Driving Digital Revolution. Prior to joining the LBS, she occupied several positions in the Information Technology sector,with progressive experience in the areas of ICT and Human Resource Management. Yetunde holds a BSc and MSc degrees in Sociology, and International Law and Diplomacy, as well as MPhil and PhD degrees in Management (Organizational Behavior). She is an alumna of the University of Lagos, LBS, IESE Business School, and the Wharton School. She is also a member of the Humanistic Management Network (HuMaNet) and affiliated as faculty to the Christopher Kolade Center for Research in Leadership and Ethics, at the LBS.