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NEW FACULTY University of Massachusetts Amherst www.isenberg.umass.edu

FROM THE DEAN

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t is no state secret—our faculty are as driven as our students. Driven to inspire them as innovators and problem solvers. Driven to explore new business horizons and span interdisciplinary boundaries. Driven to advance the education and societal mission of UMass Amherst’s flagship, land-grant campus.

By investing in our faculty, we also invest in our students and our national reputation. In the classroom and research, that reputation is ascendant in business leadership, sport management, alternative investments, quality management, large-scale networks, organizational change, and behavioral accounting.

Our faculty investment also includes our state-of-the-art $62 million Business Innovation Hub, on schedule to open for the spring 2019 semester. The facility will substantially improve Isenberg’s classroom, laboratory, and professional resources, not to mention our visual identity. All are worthy of our faculty, students, and alumni.

I am proud, then, to introduce seven new Isenberg faculty members, all of whom will make an outstanding business school better.

Without question, our new faculty will add value to our students, our reputation, and to Isenberg’s unique, driven culture.

— Mark A. Fuller, PhD Dean, Isenberg School of Management Thomas O’Brien Endowed Chair

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NEW DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

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NEW FACULTY

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NEW DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

ISENBERG IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE David Lepak (left), Berthiaume Endowed Chair of Business Leadership & Professor, as new chair of the Department of Management and David Piercey (right), John Spinney Faculty Fellow & Professor, as new chair of the Department of Accounting.

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William Timothy Mitchell

Associate Department Chair and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Accounting Tim Mitchell teaches managerial accounting, performance measurement and organizational control, and managerial control and costing systems. He held previous professorial positions at the University of Waterloo in Ontario (2013-2017) and Georgia State University in Atlanta (2008-2013). A CPA, he brings extensive professional experience to Isenberg in financial management, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and auditing. In 2013, Tim shared first place honors at the American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting for the Outstanding Management Accounting Paper, “Detecting Misreporting in Subordinates’ Budgets.”

EDUCATION PhD, Accounting, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, 2008 g

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BS, Accounting, Auburn University, 1987

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Rudolph Bedeley

Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Information Management Rudolph Bedeley’s research interests include business intelligence and analytics, healthcare data/informatics, data mining and machine learning, predictive modeling, and decision support systems. His forthcoming chapter on “Business Analytics Capabilities and Use” will appear in an Annals of Information Systems special issue on Analytics and Data Science (Springer). Rudolph’s teaching explores business analytics, database design and development, business intelligence and competitive strategies, privacy and security, and other topics. “I always try to promote creativity and uniqueness by rewarding students who think outside the box,” he remarks.

EDUCATION PhD, Information Systems, Bryan School of Business & Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2017 g

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MS, Information Systems, University of Delaware, 2013

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MCE, Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 2010

BS, Geodetic Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana, 2007 g

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Szu-Han “Joanna” Lin

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Joanna Lin’s research in self-regulation, leadership, proactive behaviors, and personality has yielded articles in the refereed Journal of Applied Psychology and Personality and Individual Differences. Her dissertation investigated the precursors to abusive behaviors and why leaders intentionally engage in them. Joanna has taught courses in managing human resources and in management skills.

EDUCATION PhD, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, 2017 g

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MA, International Business, University of Florida, 2011

BA, Public Finance and BS, Accounting, National Chengchi University g

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Emily (Jintao) Ma Associate Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management Emily Ma’s research explores organizational behavior in the hospitality and tourism industries, hotel and restaurant service management, and employee motivation, satisfaction, and turnover. Her work has appeared in International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, Cornell Quarterly, and other leading publications. In the classroom, she focuses on organizational behavior, research methods, human resource management, and hospitality and tourism marketing.

Before joining Isenberg, Professor Ma was a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

EDUCATION Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, 2013 g

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PhD, Hospitality Management, Oklahoma State University, 2010

MS, Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2006 g

BA, Tourism Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005 g

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Huan Yang

Assistant Professor, Department of Finance Huan Yang’s research targets empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation. That includes his current focus on labor and finance, financial institutions, corporate innovations, and mergers and acquisitions. In a recent paper, Huan analyzed the impact of shareholder-creditor conflicts on corporate risk taking. In another paper, he examined labor power as a determinant of payout policy.

In the classroom, he teaches finance, financial modeling, financial management, investments, and securities and derivatives. Fluent in English and Chinese, he has two PhDs—in finance and chemistry.

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PhD, Finance, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, 2017

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PhD, Chemistry, Brown University, 2011

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MA, Chemistry, Brown University, 2009

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BS, Chemistry, University of Science & Technology, Hefei, China

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Yi “Zoe” Zou

Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Information Management Zoe Zou’s research targets two areas: online persuasion and factors that influence online collaboration and the exchange of knowledge. She has presented papers in these domains in refereed publications associated with the International Conference on Information Systems, the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, and other conferences and proceedings. Her teaching encompasses business intelligence and its modeling, text and web mining, and statistics and statistical techniques, including regression analysis and multivariate analysis. From 2007 to 2010, Zoe was a senior consultant and data analyst with the social and marketing consulting firm, Focal Research Consultants, in Halifax.

EDUCATION PhD, Management Information Systems, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 2017 g

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Master’s Degree in Electric Commerce, Dalhousie University, Halifax

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BS, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology

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Kerri Bohonowicz

Lecturer, Department of Accounting Kerri Bohonowicz teaches auditing, financial accounting, and financial reporting. In 2016, she developed and taught courses in not-for-profit accounting in Isenberg’s Master of Science in Accounting program. Prior to becoming a full-time lecturer, Kerri was the former CFO of Community Health Care Center of Franklin County in Greenfield, Kerri oversees annual budgetary compliance and administers treasury, budget, audit, tax, accounting, purchasing, real estate, debt, and insurance activities. Before her CFO role, she was VP of Financial Reporting with Chicopee Savings Bank, and an auditor with Wolf and Company in Springfield and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston.

EDUCATION MSA, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007 g

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BA, Accounting, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006

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CONGRATULATES our recently promoted faculty that continue to contribute to the academic excellence of our programming.

Nefertiti Walker, Sport Management, tenure and Associate Professor Elaine Wang, Accounting, tenure and Associate Professor Shirley Shmerling, Operations & Information Management, Senior Lecturer II Michele Burch, Operations & Information Management, Senior Lecturer Herman Fong, Business Communication, Senior Lecturer II Michael Lewis-Schurter, Business Communication, Senior Lecturer Michael Malkovich, Business Law, Senior Lecturer

To learn more about our faculty visit www.isenberg.umass.edu/people

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Elaine Wang, Associate Professor

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ISENBERG BUSINESS INNOVATION HUB Opening Spring 2019 isenberg.umass.edu/construction

Founded in 1947, the Isenberg School of Management on the University of Massachusetts flagship Amherst campus has over 43,000 alumni in 86 countries. Isenberg offers its AACSB accredited courses to 5,100 students on campus, online and in blended formats.

The School’s 3,600 undergraduates major in seven business disciplines, including industry specialties in sport management and hospitality and tourism management. Isenberg’s 1,500 graduate students earn the M.B.A., M.S., and PhD. Degrees.

The Isenberg faculty has research strengths in alternative investments, quality management, large-scale networks, organizational change and culture and behavioral accounting.

Isenberg’s undergraduate business program is ranked #11 among publics by Bloomberg Businessweek, and 7th in the magazine’s Recruiter Survey. The Financial Times ranked Isenberg’s online MBA 3rd worldwide.

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