FROM THE PROVOST
Planting for the
Future
Dr. Stephanie Dellande, Associate Professor Marketing
It must be Spring! Provost Jim Kelly is “planting” for the future.
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f you know me at all and you’ve been to the campus during the past three years, you know that two of my passions are gardening and growing Menlo College. In fact, building a business school is like planting a garden. I’d like to think that as we progress we are bringing “brightness” and dimension to the campus each spring with the ever-growing, rich array of brilliant and colorful new professors who join our faculty—in the same way we carefully embellish our landscape with dazzling assortments of flowering plants and bulbs. We are thrilled this year to welcome four new faculty: three in marketing and one in finance. We expect them to be part of producing an excellent crop of student outcomes in the coming academic year. Please drop by for a visit!
Provost Jim Kelly
Dr. Stephanie Dellande, Professor of Marketing, joins Menlo College from the University of New Orleans. She also taught at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University and at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Dellande’s primary research is in the area of consumer behavior in compliance dependent services, i.e., how people act when they use self-policed programs such as weight loss, prenatal care, renal disease care, and tax preparation, among many others. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Irvine, an MBA from the University of California, Riverside, and a BS in Medical Technology from Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dr. Fabian Eggers, Assistant Professor Marketing Dr. Fabian Eggers comes from San Jose State University where he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Business, Department of Marketing and Decision Sciences. He has taught courses in entrepreneurial marketing, strategic planning and management, and small company growth and marketing. He continues to work with the University of Liechtenstein. He has started two businesses and consulted on startups in Lüneburg. His article, “Grow with the flow— entrepreneurial mar-keting and thriving young firms,” will appear in the Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. His doctorate is in Entrepreneurship from Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and his MBA in Management/ Marketing is from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Dr. Dima Leshchinskii,
Dr. Deborah Brown McCabe,
Assistant Professor Finance
Associate Professor Marketing
Dr. Dima Leshchinskii comes from the University of Maryland. He also taught at the Lally School of Management of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and the HEC School of Management, Paris, France. An expert in venture capital and valuation, his article “VC Funds: Aging Brings Myopia” with Eugene Kandel and Harry Yuklea was published by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He was chief economist for Grizzly Peak Group LLC, Emeryville, CA and senior economist for Cornerstone Research, Inc., Menlo Park, CA. His Ph.D. in Management (Finance) is from INSEAD (Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires or European Institute for Business Administration), France.
Dr. Deborah Brown McCabe comes from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She taught marketing, research methods and business communications in the U.S. She was a Visiting Professor in the International Master’s in Marketing program at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. She has worked with Aetna Casualty and Surety, AT&T, Andersen Consulting, the FDIC, the National Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She was a founding partner of Gallegos, Brown, Silvey and Associates, an organizational development training, and consulting firm. Her doctorate in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing is from Arizona State University.
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