MBA
Debra Medlar – BBUS 503 (590) Financial Reporting and Analysis Deborah Medlar is a senior lecturer at the University of Washington, teaching full time at UWB during fall and winter quarters and at UW Seattle during spring quarter. She teaches Tax, Law and accounting courses. She is a graduate of the LLM (Graduate Law degree in Taxation) program at NYU and earned a JD from the University of Washington. She practiced law in Alaska and Washington states prior to beginning her teaching career. She has received numerous teaching awards as well as an award for National Beta Alpha Psi Advisor (National Accounting Honorary) of the Year.
Brandon Fleming - BBUS 507 Global Business Brandon Fleming is a full-time lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Washington, Bothell. At the University of Washington, Seattle, he received his PhD in Strategic Management, and he holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has presented his research on networks and earnings manipulation at the Academy of Management annual meetings. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr. Fleming worked in research at the William Davidson Institute, which is the leading think tank on transition and development.
Surya Pathak – BBUS 509 OP & Project Management Dr. Pathak is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the UWB School of Business. He received his PhD in interdisciplinary management of technology from Vanderbilt University in 2005. Prior to joining University of Washington, Bothell he has served as a research and technical lead at the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education developing next generation network based data storage technologies, and as a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering Management Program and Systems and Decision Making group at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. While Supply chain management is his primary focal area of research, Dr. Pathak is very interested in using the Complexity theory and Network theory lens to understand diffusion of lean manufacturing practices in a supply chain, project management in large organizations, and understanding the interface between marketing, finance and operations. His methodological orientations include agent-based simulations and cellular automaton models on grid computing infrastructure along with mathematical modeling, robust and reliability-based design optimization, archival data analysis, and game theoretic modeling techniques. Recently Dr. Pathak has also used qualitative research methods and secondary data based empirical techniques to enhance the richness of his research investigations. He is a founding member of the Center for Supply Network Science at Arizona State University, at Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Pathak’s work has been published in the Decision Support Systems, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He frequently reviews research papers for the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Supply Chain Management as well as the IEEE Transactions on Engineering. In 2012 he was named MBA Professor of the Year.
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