Colleen O. Zern
Lecturer
J.D., Saint Louis University School of Law
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Washington University in St. Louis
Olivier Rubel
Professor
Professor Olivier Rubel is fascinated by two related questions: How can firms make better decisions in highly competitive environments? And what are the optimal strategies for implementing these decisions over time?
Rubel’s research examines how companies can best determine and allocate resources to marketing activities when facing a realistic chance of encountering a product harm crisis such as the SUV rollover controversy faced by Ford and Firestone in 2000 or the many product recalls Mattel was forced to make in 2007. His findings point to no single, simple answer to invest less or invest more. Rather, each firm’s best solution depends on the characteristics of the crisis, including its likelihood, its impacts on sales and on the effectiveness of marketing instruments.
Richard Armstrong
Lecturer
MBA, University of California, Davis
B.S., Cornell
Teaching Expertise
Accounting
Richard Armstrong is currently director of finance at Gallo Glass, where he leads all financial planning and reporting activities. In this role, Armstrong is responsible for the integrity of financial data, driving financial results through cost leadership, capital planning and pricing management, and leading finance and technical strategy for the company.
Armstrong was previously a senior director at G3 Enterprises, where he directed procurement, supply chain planning, scheduling and forecasting activities, as well as
Alexander F. McCalla
Professor Emeritus
Active efforts to organize the Graduate School of Administration, as it was known in 1981, were launched under the leadership of Professor Emeritus Alexander F. McCalla, professor of agricultural economics and former dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. McCalla was asked to serve as the founding dean of the nascent program from 1979 to 1981. Together with a 13-member planning committee, McCalla was responsible for the School’s initial organization and development. In two years, McCalla and his team put in place a fully functioning organization with six full
Robert Marquez
Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Expertise
Banking and corporate finance
A leading expert in banking and corporate finance, Professor Robert Marquez tries to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the behavior of financial institutions. One important focus of his research is the effect low interest rates have on banks and whether they encourage banks to take on more leverage. Marquez joined the Graduate School of Management faculty in July 2012.
Before graduate school, Marquez worked for several years for the Federal Reserve in San Francisco. Marquez spent eight years on the
Michael W. Maher
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Expertise
Accounting, cost-effectiveness of online education, healthcare costs, corporate crime and misconduct
A recognized expert on managerial accounting, Professor Emeritus Michael Maher is also an authority on corporate crime (e.g., fraud, bribery, antitrust). He develops profiles on companies and managers that commit corporate misconduct, and studies and lectures on corporate ethics and the responsibilities of business and auditors to stakeholders.
Maher focuses his research on the efficiency of recent developments in managerial accounting
Dickson Louie
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Chicago
Lecturer Dickson Louie is principal of Louie & Associates, a boutique San Francisco Bay Area consultancy that provides strategic planning, competitive analysis, and executive development services to start-ups, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies.
Louie is also co-founder, president and CEO of Time Capsule Press, a book publishing imprint that focuses on the creation of books from archival material. Time Capsule Press’ content partners include Getty Images, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Time Capsule Press’ first
Brian Kennedy
Lecturer
J.D., McGeorge Law School
Teaching Expertise
The development of persuasive, professional speaking and writing skills for business, and critical thinking protocols to optimize decision making
Lecturer Brian Kennedy is an attorney, focusing on criminal defense. He has his own law practice in San Diego.
He employs cognitive restructuring techniques to increase students’ self-confidence and skills for professional presentations. He applies a series of six steps to improve students’ writing abilities, regardless of their initial capabilities. He uses critical analysis techniques developed by
Doug Findlay
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), California State University, Sacramento
Lecturer Douglas Findlay brings over 30 years of experience in the technology sector, building extensive expertise and practical knowledge in the areas of product marketing, product management, new market development, market strategy, channel strategy, sales management, and business operations.
Findlay has 25 years of experience working for large, industry-leading, multinational technology companies (Intel Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Joseph Chen
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Programs and Curriculum
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Expertise: Empirical asset pricing, mutual funds, and foreign exchange
Even in these roller coaster financial times, Associate Professor Joseph Chen believes it is possible to make sense of Wall Street. Chen’s research reveals that stock market returns behave asymmetrically: they are more likely to make extreme moves on the downside than on the upside, and when markets go down, different stocks are more likely to move down together than when markets move up. Chen states that this lopsidedness implies that portfolio diversification provides the least amount
Richard P. Castanias II
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Research Expertise
Finance, capital market theory, monetary economics, management control systems, international finance and accounting
An expert in international finance and trade, Professor Emeritus Richard Castanias focuses his research on corporate financial theory, resource economics, industrial organization, economics and financing of small firms, small business bankruptcy, small business valuation, informal capital markets, economics of executive compensation and succession, financing of cooperative organizations, economics of information and monetary
Srinivas (Srini) Koushik
Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence, 2021
Srini Koushik is an innovative and dynamic executive with a track record of leading organizations of all sizes to deliver business results through the use of digital technologies, design thinking, agile methods, lean processes, and unique data-driven insights.
This winter, Koushnik joins IBM as the executive leader for the Global Hybrid Cloud Applications Services Platform
In his most recent prior role, he was the chief technology officer for Magellan Health. Before Magellan, he was the president and CEO of NTT Innovation Institute Inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on building multi
Gary Pieroni
Visiting Professor
Master of Business Administration (MBA), John F. Kennedy, 1993,
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Accounting, California State University, 1980
Gary Pieroni has more than 14 years corporate financial reporting in a Fortune-50 company. He assisted in the standard setting process as an Academic Fellow at the International Accounting Standards Board in London from 2015-2017. Pieroni has more than 33 years teaching students at all stages in life at the UC, State University, and Community.
Awards
- Resolution from the California State Board of Accountancy for serving on the Ethics Education Committee
Justin Virrey
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Justin Virrey brings over 15 years of Corporate Finance, Strategy, and Project Management experience to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has previously worked in the Semiconductor Capital industry and has recently transitioned to Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Virrey focuses on managing strategic initiatives related to next-gen financial systems as well as the ensuing training initiatives involved to onboard users and to accelerate adoption. He has led various international and cross
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