Faculty and Staff

Staff

We respect the time and energy it takes to manage and lead a company while pursuing an M.B.A. degree.  Our EMBA staff is determined to make your journey, from prospect to applicant to student to graduate, a seamless process.  We take great pride in sharing in your achievement.  We are dedicated to providing outstanding personal customer service.

Susan C. West

Assistant Dean and Director, Executive MBA Program
Office: 103 Bidgood Hall, 205.348.8957
swest@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Strategic marketing, integration of acquisition, front-end e-commerce, and web design.

Education: University of Alabama (B.S. and M.B.A.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Ms. West currently serves on the Executive MBA Council's Board of Trustees. She is involved with the Rotary Club of Tuscaloosa, is an executive board member and president of the Tuscaloosa Co. Alumni Association, past president of the Nashville Alumni Association, a committee chairperson for Cystic Fibrosis, a Nashville Tennis Association board member and corporate fundraising chairperson, Hands on Charlotte Strategic Marketing Committee member, and a Young Leader's Council board member. Ms. West has also achieved national ranking in women's tennis singles and doubles (#7 and #2) and has competed in the North Carolina and Alabama Amateur Golf Championship.

Donna Blackburn

Assistant Director, Executive MBA and Executive Programs
Office: 103 Bidgood Hall, 205.348.8748, Mobile: 205.310.9693
dblackburn@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Marketing, recruitment, and communications strategies, research and tactical planning, cross-culture, leadership training and development, and team-building.

Education: Georgia State University (B.A., Journalism, and M.S., Educational Psychology)

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Ms. Blackburn is a member of the Executive MBA Council, Japan American Society, The Association of Psychological Type, and is MBTI qualified. She also served on the Executive MBA Council's Board of Trustees and was a board member of the Georgia Chapter of Meeting Professionals International. She is also a member of various Chambers of Commerce in Alabama.

Amy Smith

Program Assistant, Executive MBA Program
Office: 103 Bidgood Hall, 205.348.0954
asmith@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Admissions, program operations and meeting planning.

Education: The University of West Alabama (B.A., Sociology)

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Ms. Smith is a member of the Executive MBA Council and the Jr. League of Tuscaloosa. She has also served on the local board of the Leukemia Society.

Our wonderful MBA/EMBA Staff!

(Pictured: Amy Smith, Martha Carroll, Donna Blackburn, Susan West, Connie Chambers, Anne Margaret Vincent, and Angelia Knight)

Faculty

• Thomas L. Albright, J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting (UA)
• David Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Marketing; Chairman, Department of Management & Marketing (UAH)
• James F. Cashman, Professor of Management (UA)
• Ronald E. Dulek, Professor of Managerial Communications and Head, Department of Management and Marketing (UA)
• James L. Flinn, Executive In-Residence for Management/Marketing (UAH)
• J. Brian Gray, Professor of Statistics, The James I. Harrison Family Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow (UA)
• Gregory A. Harris, University of Alabama-Huntsville Faculty (UAH)
• Chadwick B. Hilton, Associate Professor of Managerial Communication and Director of International Business Programs (UA)
• Diane E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Management and Miles-Rose Professor of Leadership (UA)
• Charles G. Leathers, Professor of Economics (UA)
• Louis D. Marino, Associate Professor of Strategic Management and James D. Nabors Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow (UA)
• Gene Marsh, Professor of Law (UA)
• Robert W. McLeod, Professor of Finance, John Bickley Faculty Fellow, and Director of General Business Programs (UA)
• David M. Miller, Professor of Management Science and Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow of Manufacturing Management (UA)
• David Mothersbaugh, Associate Professor of Marketing and James D. Nabors Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow (UA)
• Stephen E. Parker, University of Alabama-Huntsville Faculty (UAH)
• Richard G. Rhoades, Research Professor of Management and Director of UAH Research Institute (UAH)
• Clyde J. Scott, Associate Professor of Management (UA)
• Charles Sox, Professor and University Chair of Manufacturing Management (UA)
• A.J. "Lonnie" Strickland, Professor of Strategic Management (UA)
• Allen W. Wilhite, Professor of Economics; Chairman, Department of Economics & Information Systems (UAH)

 

Thomas L. Albright

J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting
Office: 323 Alston Hall, 205/348-2908
talbrigh@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Cost management.

Education: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (B.F.A.), California State University (M.B.A.), University of Tennessee (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Albright has published his research in scholarly and applied journals including: the Journal of Managerial Research (JMAR), Accounting Horizons, Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA), Management Accounting Research, Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Managerial Issues, Management Accounting, and The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.

Dr. Albright also has published a variety of teaching cases based on his work with industry. Two teaching cases were published as part of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Professor/Practitioner Case Development Program.  Two additional teaching cases were published by the Institute of Management Accounting (IMA) and used by the organization for its National Student Case Competition.  The IMA also awarded Dr. Albright the Certificate of Merit for his work in the area of quality costs in a manufacturing environment. Together with Rob Ingram at the University of Alabama, Bruce Baldwin from Arizona State West, and John Hill from Indiana University, he has authored textbooks titled Managerial Accounting: Information for Decisions;Accounting:  Information for Decisions; Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions; and Accounting: Managing Business Information.

He has been presented the MBA or Executive MBA Professor of the Year award on nine occasions since joining the faculty in 1990.  In 2005, the University of Alabama National Alumni Association presented him with the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award. Dr. Albright has served on the board of directors for the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and has co-chaired the Management Accounting Section mid-year conference. He has received grants, public and private, to support his work in the area of cost management, including federal support of his research efforts to determine the economic viability of high-speed vessels capable of servicing the middle market between air cargo and conventional ocean freighters.  He also has consulted with a variety of manufacturing firms in the United States and Mexico in the area of Activity-based Costing.

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David Berkowitz

Associate Professor of Marketing Chairman
Department of Management & Marketing (UAH)
Office: BAB 355E
Phone: 256/824-6952
Fax: 256/824-6328
berkowd@uah.edu

Education: Rutgers University at Camden (B.S.), University Texas at Austin (M.B.A.), University of Alabama (Ph.D.)

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Berkowitz is an associate professor of marketing and director of the Center for the Management of Technology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  His research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Advising, European Journal of Marketing, European Journal of Innovation Management, Defense Acquisition Review Journal and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.  At UAH, Dr. Berkowitz teaches Marketing High Technology Products, Managing Technology Development, and Marketing Management.

He received his Ph.D. in Marketing and Applied Statistics from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.  Before receiving his P.hD., Dr. Berkowitz worked for 12 years with Hallmark Cards.  Dr. Berkowitz developed and implemented several analytical models and managed new product introductions while working with Hallmark Cards.  He was involved with site selection, retail acquisition, international licensing and franchising.  Dr. Berkowitz also owned and operated organizations on performance based logistics, customer satisfaction, strategic planning, brand loyalty and product development issues.

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James F. Cashman

Professor of Management
Office: 123 Alston Hall, 205/348-8940
jcashman@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Leadership, team building, organizational learning, reengineering, strategic management systems, teamwork applications, organization diagnosis and change.

Education: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S., M.A., and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Cashman is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Academy of Management at the national and regional levels. He has published in the top psychological and managerial journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Psychological Reports. He works extensively with the auto industry, especially General Motors and Saturn. He also works with the forest, wood products and packaging industries in the areas of strategic management and re-engineering.

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Ronald E. Dulek

John R. Miller Professor of Management
Office: 151 Alston Hall, 205/348-8930
rdulek@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Management communications and business strategy.

Education: St. Mary's College (B.A.), Purdue University (M.A. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Ron has published eight books and more than 50 refereed academic articles. He is the 2006 recipient of the Kitty Locker Outstanding Researcher Award from the Association of Business Communication. Additionally, in the past year Ron received the Thomas Moore Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award and the College of Continuing Studies Outstanding Teacher Award and was selected as the inaugural speaker for the University of Alabama’s Last Lecture Series. The speaker for this series is selected based on a vote of all seniors at The University of Alabama. Previously Ron has received the National Alumni Association’s Outstanding Teacher Award and the Penny Allen Award for service to students. He has also been named OutstandingMBA/EMBA Instructor more than 15 times.

In the past five years, Ron has presented business and academic lectures in Shanghai, China; Helsinki, Finland; Dresden, Germany; Seoul, South Korea; Riga, Latvia; Moscow, Russia; and, Pretoria, South Africa.

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James L. Flinn

Executive In-Residence for Management/Marketing
Office: BAB 339, 256/824-6680
flinnjl@email.uah.edu

Education: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (B.A.), University of Southern California, Zweibruecken, Germany (M.A.)

Professional Experience:

• Executive-in-Residence, College of Business Administration – The University of Alabama in Huntsville, September 2004 - Present
• Deputy to the Commanding General – US Army Aviation and Missile Command,
  Jul 2000 – Jul 2004
• Executive Director, Integrated Materiel Management Center– US Army Aviation and Missile Command, 1988 - 2000
• Assistant Program Manager for Support, PATRIOT Program Office, 1984 - 1988
• Assistant Director for Policy - US Army Materiel Command, 1983 -1984
• Assistant Director for Supply – Headquarters, Department of the Army, 1981 -1983
• Deputy Director, Materiel Management, US Army Aviation Systems Command
• Assistant Director, Materiel Management, US Army Armament Command
• Command and staff assignments with Department of Army, Army Materiel Command and US Army, Europe

Professional Affiiliations:

• Society of Logistics Engineers – past president, local chapter
• Association of the United States Army – past Board of Directors, local chapter
• Army Aviation Association of America

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J. Brian Gray

Professor of Statistics,
The James I. Harrison Family Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow
Office: 346 Alston Hall, 205/348-8912
bgray@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Applied statistics, exploratory data analysis, data mining, regression analysis, statistical computing and graphics

Education: University of Alabama at Birmingham (B.S.), Clemson University (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements, and Affiliations: Dr. Gray is an active member of the American Statistical Association. He has published research articles in journals such as Technometrics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, The American Statistician, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Statistics and Computing. Dr. Gray received the Wilcoxon Prize for Best Practical Application Paper in Technometrics in 1984 and is the co-author of two books, "Basic Statistical Ideas for Managers" (Second Edition) and "Business Cases in Statistical Decision Making: Computer Based Applications." Dr. Gray has received several teaching awards from the MBA and Executive MBA Associations of The University of Alabama and Texas Christian University. In 2006, the University of Alabama National Alumni Association presented him with the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award.

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Gregory A. Harris

Specialty Areas: Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Education: Auburn University (BIE), St. Edwards University (MBA), University of Alabama in Huntsville (Ph.D., ISE)

Honors, Achievements, and Affiliations: Greg is director of the Alabama Technology Network Center and the Office for Freight, Logistics and Transportation at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also the deputy director of the Center for Management and Economic Research. Greg has more than 25 years of experience as an industrial engineer, quality engineer, operations manager and plant manager in the metal stamping, electrical, sewing, defense, and financial industries. He is a Certified NIST Lean Manufacturing Instructor and Professional Business Advisor, a Lean Aerospace Initiative EdNet member and Lean Academy Instructor for the LAI. Greg Specializes in Value Stream Mapping and Analysis. He is a member of the Forum for Supply Chain Innovation at M.I.T.

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Chadwick B. Hilton

Associate Professor of Managerial Communication and Director of International Business Programs
Office: 122 Alston Hall, 205/348-9432
chilton@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Written international and cross-cultural business communication, the effects of language variation in print advertising, workplace literacy.

Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (A.B.), North Carolina State University, Raleigh (M.A.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Hilton has published and presented papers in the areas of reader response to advertising language, Japanese management and cultural literacy. He has published in a number of academic journals including Journal of Advertising Research, The Journal of Business and Technical Communication, The Journal of Business Communication, and Journal of Direct Marketing. He was a member of the joint Chiba University-Chiba, Japan/University of Alabama Research Project and is particularly active in communication-related research on Japanese business. As director of International Business Programs, Dr. Hilton is the coordinator for the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration of the University of Alabama Cooper Cuba Initiative.

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Diane E. Johnson

Associate Professor of Management and Miles-Rose Professor of Leadership
Office: 127 Alston Hall, 205/348-6344
djohnson@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Employee attitudes and behaviors, leadership, motivation and work performance, human resource management studies.

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (B.B.A.), Cornell University (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Johnson has made numerous presentations to the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management. She has published articles in such journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Academy of Management Journal. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologies, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Cornell chapter. She has served as director of operations of the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University.

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Charles G. Leathers

Professor of Economics

Office: 227 Bidgood Hall, 205/348-8968

cleather@cba.ua.edu 

Speciality Areas:  Financial institutions and markets, economics of religion, history of economic thought 

Education:  Central State University (B.A.), University of Oklahoma (M.A. and Ph.D) 
 
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:  Dr. Leathers has received the EMBA Faculty Excellence Award five times.  He is the co-author of Economists and the Stock Market published in 2000, and of The Economic Institutions of Higher Education, published in 2003.  He has published articles in such journals as Cambridge Journal of Economics, History of Political Economy, The Adam Smith Review, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, International Journal of Social Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, International Review of Economics and Business, Journal of Business Ethics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of the History of Economic Thought.  Nine of his articles have been reprinted in special volumes, the latest volumes being Globalization and Economy, and Economics and Religion.  His current research activities include a focus on the role of monetary policymakers in dealing with financial instability, with particular attention to the impact of financial derivatives.

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Louis D. Marino

Associate Professor of Strategic Management and
James D. Nabors Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow
Office: 163 Alston Hall, 205/348-8946
lmarino@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Strategic management with subspecialties including strategic alliances (domestic and international), business-government relationships and partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and new venture creation.

Education: SUNY at Geneseo (B.S.), SUNY at Buffalo (M.B.A.), Indiana University (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Professor Marino is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategic management at The University of Alabama where he is currently the head of the Entrepreneurship Program in the College of Commerce and Business Administration. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, his M.B.A. from SUNY Buffalo and his undergraduate from SUNY Geneseo. His primary areas of research and teaching include strategic management and entrepreneurship with subspecialties including strategic alliances, strategic management in small and medium sized enterprises, and new venture creation. His research has won two national Best Paper Awards and appears in top management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Professor Marino has presented his research at both national and international meetings. In the teaching arena, Professor Marino is an award -winning teacher who has developed cases and supplemental teaching materials for various courses. He currently teaches classes at the Executive MBA, MBA, Ph.D. and undergraduate levels in Entrepreneurship, Negotiations and Strategic Management. Professor Marino is active in consulting and teaches in the University of Alabama's Executive Leadership Series where he has conducted courses for companies such as Avocent, a leader in the Digital Switching industry, and Protective Life Corporation, a leader in the insurance industry.

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Gene Marsh

Professor of Law
205/348-8946
gmarsh@law.ua.edu

Education: Professor Marsh received his B.S. and M.S. (combined degree) summa cum laude from Ohio State University in 1978 and his J.D. from Washington and Lee University in 1981. Previously he served in the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division (The Old Guard), from 1971 to 1974. He received the Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1987 and the University of Alabama National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award in 1988. He was Director of the University Honors Program from 1989 to 1993. He received the Student Bar Association Outstanding Faculty Member Award in 1997 and 2001. He was the reporter for the Multiple Party Accounts Act and Revised UCC Articles 1, 3, 4 and 7 in Alabama. He has written numerous articles and a book on consumer protection, financial institution and dealer liability, payment systems, commercial law and NCAA-related topics. He was the Faculty Athletic Representative at Alabama from 1996 to 2003, has served on numerous NCAA and Southeastern Conference Committees, and is currently the Chair of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. He has been a member of the Committee on Infractions since 1999. He teaches courses in the School of Law on Consumer Protection, Contracts, Payment Systems and Business Organizations. In the College of Commerce and Business Administration, he teaches a course on Legal Issues in the Accounting Profession. He has testified in numerous cases in state and federal court and has worked for state and federal regulatory agencies in enforcement actions.

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Robert W. McLeod

Professor of Finance, John Bickley Faculty Fellow, and Director of General Business Programs
Office: 231 Alston Hall, 205/348-8993
rmcleod@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Financial institutions and markets, personal financial planning and investing, valuation analysis, industry and company analysis, family businesses.

Education: University of Southern Mississippi (B.S.B.A. and M.B.A.), University of Texas-Austin (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. McLeod holds the professional designations of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), and Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA). He previously has served as the executive director of MBA Programs and Professional Education for the College, director of the UA Family Business Forum and  president of the Academy of Financial Services. He has also served the Academy as vice president for finance and as the executive vice president for programs. He has been a member of the investments planning panel of the Certified Financial Planners Board. Dr. McLeod is the author of Bank Credit Cards for EFTS: A Cost Benefit Analysis, and co-author of four other books. He has been published in numerous journals, including Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Economics and Finance, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Financial Services Review, Journal of the American Society of CLU & ChFC (winner of the Outstanding Paper Award for 1990), Mortgage Banker, Journal of Banking and Finance and Issues in Bank Regulation.

Selected Publications:

• “An Expert System for Financial Ratio Analysis,” The International Journal of Financial Services Management, Vol. 1, Nos. 2/3, 2006 (with G. Moynihan, V. Jain, and D. Fonseca).
• “Investment Selection and Open- and Closed-end Bond Fund Expenses,” Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2003,(with D.K. Malhotra and Rand Martin).
• “Closed-End Fund Expenses and Investment Selection." Financial Review. (With D.K. Malhotra) February 2000
• "An Analysis of Nondeductible IRA Contributions and Roth IRA Conversions," Financial Services Review. (With S. Horan and J. Peterson.) Summer 1998.
• "An Empirical Analysis of Mutual Fund Expenses." The Journal of Financial Research. (With D. K. Malhotra.) Summer 1997.
• "The Effect of Rule 12b-1 on Bond Fund Expense Ratios." The Journal of Economics and Finance. (With D. K. Malhotra.) April 1996.
• "Intra-Year Compounding and Fundamental Bond Valuation." The Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics. (With H. Jeng.) Summer 1995.
• "Hedging Interest Rate Risk in Real Estate Financing: The Use of Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions." Real Estate Finance Journal. Spring 1995.
• "Artificial Neural Systems in Commercial Lending." Bankers Magazine. Nov./Dec. 1994.
• "A Reexamination of Equity Fund Expense Ratios and 12b-1 Plans." Journal of Financial Research. (With D. K. Malhotra.) Summer 1994.
• "The Risks in Pension Plans." Financial Services Review. (With A. Phillips and S. Moody.) 1993.
• "Predicting Credit Risk - A Neural Network Approach." Journal of Retail Banking. (With D. K. Malhotra and R. Malhotra.) Fall 1993.
• "Emerging Trends in Interest Rate Swaps." The Bankers Magazine. (With D. K. Malhotra.) May/June 1993.
• "Planning for Retirement: Defined Benefit Plans and Planner Due Diligence." Journal of the American Society of CLU & ChFC. (With S. Moody and A. Phillips.). March 1993.
• "Choosing Between C Versus S Corporate Status in the Closely Held Corporation." Journal of the American Society of CLU & ChFC. (With W. D. Samson.) September 1990. (Outstanding paper award for 1990)
• "Interest Rates and Bank Portfolio Adjustments." Journal of Banking and Finance. (With P. Thistle and B. L. Conrad.) 1989.

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David M. Miller

Professor of Management Science and Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow of Manufacturing Management and Director, Alabama Productivity Center; Director, UA Alabama Technology Center
Office: 349 Alston Hall, 205/348-8913
dmiller@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Inventory control, scheduling, quality control, forecasting, productivity analysis, and Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System.

Education: The University of Alabama (B.S.), Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Miller has authored over 50 articles in journals such as Management Science, International Journal of Production Research, and Harvard Business Review. He is a former editorial board member and national director of the Operations Research Division of IIE. He has served on the faculty of Georgia Tech, LSU, and VPI universities and as an examiner for the national Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award. Before joining The University of Alabama, he served as corporate productivity director for the Ethyl Corporation. He currently holds the position of director of the Alabama Productivity Center , and is a fellow in the World Academy of Productivity Sciences. As Center director, he oversees 15 or so applied research projects with Alabama firms each semester, including organizations such as Vanity Fair, Mercedes, Johnson and Johnson, Hyundai, Anniston Army Depot, and Sony. In addition, he has done extensive consulting with a variety of firms during the last 30 years on topics ranging from Strategy Planning to Lean Manufacturing.

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David Mothersbaugh

Associate Professor of Marketing and
Cassel Faculty Fellow and Marketing Coordinator
Office: 109 Alston Hall, 205/348-8949
dmothers@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Consumer and market research, advertising, and services marketing.

Education: The Pennsylvania State University (B.S. and M.S.), University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Mothersbaugh has published numerous articles in such journals as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Service Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, and Psychology and Marketing. He has chaired sessions and presented papers at various national conferences and is an ad hoc reviewer for such journals as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of Advertising. He is on the executive board of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He is also co-author of the textbook Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy.

He teaches in a variety of programs, both undergraduate and graduate. He was presented the EMBA Professor of the Year Award in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and was presented the T.D. Moore Endowed Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2006. He has consulted in the areas of branding, services and customer satisfaction as well as conducted executive education seminars in the area of customer-centric communications.

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Stephen E. Parker

Specialty Areas: Acquisition Strategy

Education: University of Virginia (BS, Mechanical Engineering), University of Texas-Austin (MBA).

Honors, Achievements, and Affiliations: Stephen E. Parker is the US Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration Lead. He is the former Chief Engineer for the US Army Utility Helicopter Program: UH-60 (Blackhawk) and UH-1 (Huey). He previously served on the faculty of Defense Acquisition University. His previous industry positions include Director of Aviation Programs for Quality Research, Inc. and Director of the Aviation Engineering Center for Teledyne Brown Engineering.

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Richard G. Rhoades

Research Professor of Management
Director of UAH Research Institute
Office: Von Braun Research Hall E47, 256/824-6343 ext. 267
rhoadesr@uah.edu

Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BCHE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D.)

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Rhoades began his Army career in uniform, serving as an Ordinance Officer from 1963-1965.  He then became a civilian propulsion research engineer and technology program manager, before being selected for his first Senior Executive Service position in 1973 as Director of Propulsion.  Subsequently, he served in both of the Missile Research Development, and Engineering Center’s Associate Director positions- serving as Associate Director for Technology from 1981-1989 and (in his final Government position) as Associate Director for Systems beginning in 1989.  As such, he was responsible for all the Center’s activities in support of weapon system development, acquisition, and sustainment.  In essence, he functioned as “Chief Operating Officer” of the Center, focusing on strategic and business planning, personnel development, and customer relations issues.

In addition to his normal assignments, Dr. Rhoades has been asked to serve on a number of senior-level ad-hoc groups within the Army and Department of Defense.  In so doing, he has played a leadership roal for over a decade in the development and implementation of strategy for fundamentally restructuring and improving the Army’s science and technology organizations.  For example, he developed the organizational design and operating concepts used or Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers, helped to develop the Army’s response to the Defense Management Review and helped to guide the LAB-21 study that led to the formation of the Army Research Laboratory.  In 1990-1991, he lead an AMC-wide team to convert AMC’s Vision-2000 downsizing concept to reality through the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission process.  The BRAC-95 decision to form the Aviation and Missile Command is direct outgrowth of that planning.  More recently, he chaired a tri-service Implementation Panel created to execute quality improvement initiatives (a “Reinvention Laboratory”) for DOD laboratories.  Under his leadership, this Reinvention Laboratory obtained legislation to permit significant improvements in laboratory construction, personnel management, and research contracting.

In October 1997 Dr. Rhoades became Director of the UAH Research Institute and was also appointed to the faculties of the Colleges of Engineering and Administrative Science as a Research Professor.  The Research Institute, including the Aerophysics Research Institute, has a staff of over 30 professionals and annual revenue of approximately $4 million, primarily from DOD customers.  Dr. Rhoades currently teaches courses in the graduate Management of Technology program.  Dr. Rhoades has published numerous articles on propulsion and management topics and holds two patents on propulsion intentions. 

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Clyde J. Scott

Associate Professor of Management
Office: 153 Alston Hall, 205/348-8942
cscott@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Industrial relations and human resources management, particularly union election activity, labor law collective bargaining agreement readability levels and arbitration.

Education: The Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), University of Minnesota (M.A. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Professor Scott has published articles in journals including Journal of Labor Research, Labor Law Journal, Personnel, Personnel Journal, and Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector.

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Charles Sox

Professor and University Chair of Manufacturing Management

Office: 343 Alston Hall, 205/348-8992

csox@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Supply network analysis and design, production planning and scheduling for uncertainty, inventory control, logistics and transportation.

Education: Furman University (B.S.), Cornell University (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Sox has published articles in journals of management science and production/operations management, including Management Science, IIE Transactions, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, and International Journal of Production Economics. He has served as associate editor of Management Science and IIE Transactions and has served on the editorial board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. He was the 1997 and 1999 Outstanding ISE Faculty Member and the 2000 Alumni Engineering Council Senior Faculty Research Award recipient at Auburn University. Dr. Sox is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He also received the 1997 IIE Transactions Best Paper in Scheduling and Logistics award sponsored by i2 Technologies, Inc.

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A. J. "Lonnie" Strickland

Professor of Strategic Management
Office: 148 Alston Hall, 205/348-8924
astrickl@cba.ua.edu

Specialty Areas: Strategic management, industry and competitive analysis, strategic repositioning, mergers and acquisitions.

Education: University of Georgia (B.S.), Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S.), Georgia State University (Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations: Dr. Strickland is author with Arthur A. Thompson of five books, all of which are in multiple editions. The latest book is the fourteenth edition of Strategic Management. This particular book is the best-selling strategic management textbook in the country. Dr. Strickland, recipient of the 1979 University of Alabama National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, is a very popular speaker on the subject of industry and competitive analysis and implementing strategic management.

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