Marc Ross Manashil

Lecturer

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Master in Public Administration (MPA), Harvard Kennedy School
Master of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Marc Ross Manashil is a consultant and educator specializing in leadership and organizational development. His background is in global health and philanthropy, having served in director roles with an international grant-making foundation, a medical relief organization, and an NGO preventing child mortality in West Africa. 

Paul A. Wong

Assistant Professor

Paul A. Wong

Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Research Expertise
Financial reporting, financial analysts, corporate disclosures, auditor/audit firm networks and the role of the audit committee 

Assistant Professor Paul Wong joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 2015 after having worked for Crowe Horwath (formerly Crowe Chizek) from 2007–2011 as a senior staff auditor in the not-for-profit and higher education group.

Paul A. Griffin

Emeritus Distinguished Professor
2025-2026 Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professor

Paul A. Griffin

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1974

Research Expertise
Accounting, accounting and financial theory, evaluation of accounting methods, financial information and disclosures

Areas of Expertise
Accounting, Finance

Professor Paul Griffin is a leading international expert in accounting, financial information, and corporate disclosure.

Marybeth Kavanagh

Lecturer

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Marybeth Kavanagh joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in 2018 after spending 30 years with IBM Corporation leading numerous software development and technical consulting engagements. Kavanagh’s extensive experience working with clients to achieve critical business goals through technological improvement and organizational change strategies gives her an excellent foundation for advising MBA student teams’ Integrated Management Project consulting projects for client organizations.

Donald A. Palmer

Professor Emeritus

Donald A. Palmer

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

Research Expertise 
The causes, processes, and consequences of wrongdoing in and by organizations, and the role of power and politics in corporate decision making.

Consulting 
Community health needs assessments, group decision-making facilitation.

Gina Dokko

Professor

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Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Expertise 
Careers, job mobility, organization theory, organizational behavior, social networks, technology and innovation

Catherine Yang

Professor

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Ph.D. Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Master of Arts (M.A.), Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Management Information Systems, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 1998

Research Expertise
Business analytics, big data analytics, predictive modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning

Professor Yinghui (Catherine) Yang focuses her research on business intelligence, big data, machine learning, data mining methods for business applications, online shopping patterns analysis, user profiling, etc. Her research has been published in top-tier journals in Information Systems, Marketing and Computer Science, including Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

Shannon W. Anderson

Professor Emerita

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Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Expertise
Empirical analysis of quantitative and qualitative field-based data as well as survey data to study performance management and cost accounting in and at the boundaries of the firm (e.g., lean production, supplier performance management, customer profitability and lean consumption), integration of strategy, operations management and management accounting practices, and design of cost accounting systems, cost allocation mechanisms, and cost-based transfer pricing policy

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