The College Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members:
Dr. Asli Arikan
Management and Information Systems Department
Formerly with The Ohio State University, her areas of expertise include competitive strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, growth after IPO and technology management.
Dr. Ilgaz Arikan
Management and Information Systems Department
Formerly with The Ohio State University, his areas of expertise include competitive advantage, global strategy, entrepreneurship, human capital, electric utility industry, international market entry and market selection.
Dr. Steve Dennis
Finance Department as the Firestone Chair of Corporate Finance and Department Chair
Formerly with the University of North Dakota where he held the Aarestad Endowed Chair of Financial Services, his areas of expertise include financial institutions, asset pricing and sports markets.
Dr. Natalia Dragan
Management and Information Systems Department
Formerly with the University of Akron, her areas of expertise include software engineering, program comprehension, textual analysis and information retrieval and mining software repositories.
Dr. Shunlan Fang
Accounting Department
She holds Ph.D. in Accounting from Temple University. Her areas of expertise include interface of financial accounting, managerial accounting, contracting and performance management, earnings behavior and corporate governance.
Dr. Jeremiah Harris
Economics Department
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University. His areas of expertise include empirical industrial organization and financial economics and mergers and acquisitions.
Dr. Iryna Hayduk
Economics Department
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston. Her areas of expertise include labor, health and public economics.
Dr. Austin Kwak
Management and Information Systems Department
He holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin. His areas of expertise include charity website design, online donation, persuasion, gamification and enterprise systems.
Ms. Mindy Malbasa, CPA
Accounting Department
She was previously Managing Director at Grant Thornton, LLP. Her areas of expertise include partnerships, entity restructuring, due diligence and learning strategy.
Mr. Walt Sokira
Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department
Dr. Tony Via
Finance Department
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Alabama. His areas of expertise include innovation and firm risk incentive structures, IPO underwriter selection and firm visibility, corporate finance and investments.