David Kirch is a certified Pulblic Accountant and has taught at Ohio Univeristy for over 10 years. He was recently named as a prestigious “University Professor adn has won numerous other teaching awards. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University (accounting) in 1989. Prior to returning to school, he worked in public accounting for thirteen years. He has worked with both Big Five and local CPA firms. He was the managing partner of a local firm which consisted of three partners and a professional staff of nine. Professor Kirch obtained his BBA and MBA from Ohio University. Before joining the faculty at OU, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Kent State University for six years.

Dr. Dawn Deeter is Assistant Professor of Marketing t Ohio University. She earned her B.S. in Clothing and Textiles from Morehead State University and M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of South Florida. Prior to earning her doctorate, she spent 10 years working in the shoe industry, first as a department manager of children’s shoes and later as a retail buyer of children’s, men’s, and athletic shoes for several department store chains. Dr. Deeter has experience teaching a number of marketing courses, including personal selling, business to business marketing, services marketing, services marketing, consumer behavior, retail management, and principles of marketing. Her research interests include customer service teams, sales management and buyer-seller relationships, and scale development. She has published in the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of marketing Theory and Practice, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of Business Logistics, and Journal of Travel Research,among others.

Edward B. Yost, Director of Graduate and Executive Education at the Ohio University College of Business, holds a B.A. in industrial management and an M.B.A. from the University of Akron. He earned his Ph.D. at Ohio State University. Prior to joining Ohio University, he taught at Ohio State University and Franklin University. His professional interests include executive and management development, strategic human resource management, global human resource management, and competitive strategy. He has been a consultant to a number of public and private sector manufacturing and service organizations both in the USA and abroad. He designed a corporate MBA program for Tenaga National, the national electric cooperative of Malaysia, and spent three years in Kuala Lumpur as coordinator. His publications include textbooks and journal articles as well as experiential learning exercises and personality inventories.

Hugh D. Sherman is associate professor of policy/strategy in the College of Business at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University in strategic management and international business. His current research interests include strategic change, corporate governance and entrepreneurship. He has published articles on the role of firm institutional owners and the board of directors in implementing strategic change. He is currently completing a book on factors that affect the speed at which major corporations institute comprehensive strategic change. Before coming to Ohio University, Sherman had founded and directed International Footwear which included six factory outlet shoe stores and an import business. He was also the Vice President of Marketing for SMH Corporation, a large Swiss watch and electronics manufacturer. In this position he was responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies for a $50 million sales division.

John L. Keifer is a cum laude graduate of the Ohio State University where he majored in economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Ohio University and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining Ohio University, he practiced for nearly twenty years during which time he represented the interests of commercial firms in the banking and savings and loan industries and the fast-food franchise industry among others. Since joining Ohio University College of Business, he has coordinated their operations in Malaysia and now serves as the Director of the Center for International Business Education and Development. Since joining Ohio University, he has co-developed the Corporate MBA program with a fellow faculty member that was implemented for Tenaga National Berhand, the Malaysian electric company, and teaches in the areas of strategy, international business and comparative management. He has done research in the areas of competitive strategy, organizational development and configuration, and corporate renewal strategies.

John R. Schermerhorn Jr. joined Ohio University in 1989 as the Charles G. O’Bleness Professor of Management. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an MBA with distinction from New York University. He is the author or co-author of many scholarly articles and four books: Management, Managing Organizational Behavior, Basic Organizational Behavior, and Management and Organizational Behavior Essentials. His teaching and consulting in management and organizational development focus on human resources strategies for productivity improvement. He has conducted training programs for firms in the United States and other parts of the world. Before joining the faculty at Ohio University, he taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he also served as head of the Department of Management and associate dean of the College of Business Administration.

Lane Tracy professor of management, received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington after teaching at Haile Selassie I University in Ethiopia. He has also taught at MARA Institute of Technology in Malaysia. He is a prolific writer whose articles have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, California Management Review, and Human Relations. Most of his research has been conducted in the areas of collective bargaining, personnel, leadership, role stress, decision making, motivation, and systems theory. Dr. Tracy has written books on human resource management and living systems theory. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Mid-American Journal of Business.

Nanda Rangan joined Ohio University in 1995, and holds the distinguished Charles E. O’Bleness Chair in Banking and Finance. He chairs the Finance Department and is the College of Business Associate Dean for operations. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Ohio University, he served as chair of the finance department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has published extensively in leading finance and economics journals. His teaching, research, and consulting interests include corporate finance, financial institutions, financial markets, and public policy. He is the recipient of several awards for excellence in teaching and research and serves on the editorial boards of three journals

Rajesh P. Narayanan is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance in the College of Business at Ohio University. He holds the Gardner Fellowship in Finance. Dr. Narayanan teaches in the areas of corporate finance and financial markets. His current research interests are at the intersection of corporate finance and financial intermediation. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Florida State University in Tallahassee. Prior to joining Ohio University, Dr. Narayanan was on the faculty of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Narayanan has also been a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta.

Robert Sarikas is an Associate Professor of Accountancy at Ohio University. His Ph.D. in accountancy is fromthe University of Texas at Austin. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has professional accounting experience with an international accounting firm and a petroleum industry specialty accounting company. Prior to joining the Ohio University College of Business, he had previous international teaching experience in Russia, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.

A.R. Shivaprakash (Fellow, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune) has specialized in the areas of Banking and Finance. While on the faculty of T.A.Pai Management Institute, he taught courses in Financial Services, Management of Banks and Financial Institutions. He has coordinated Management Development Programs for commercial bank managers and Faculty Development Programs for the Management Institutes. Currently, he teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Management and Statistics. He is the recipient of the ‘Award for Administrative Excellence’ by the Ohio University during 2002. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at the College of Business, Ohio University.

S.R. Sridharamurthy (MBA University of North Carolina, USA) has been on the faculty of Indian Business Academy, Institute for Technology & Management, St. Joseph’s College of Business Administration, Bangalore, teaching courses in International Business, Marketing, and Advertising Management. His research interests have been in the areas of International Business, Marketing and Advertising strategies. He has been honoured with fellowships, scholarships and merit awards during his academic life. Currently, he guides students on Applied Research Projects and coordinates Internship and Placement activities of the Ohio-Manipal School of Business.

N.S.Viswanath the Resident Director at Ohio- Manipal School of Business, Bangalore is a doctoral degree holder in Economics from Karnataka University with academic accomplishments in Statistics, Economics and Agricultural Marketing Management. He is the founder principal of M.P.Birla Institute of Management, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore and taught in B-Schools including the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). As Asst. General Manager for over 2 decades in the Karnataka State Agricultural Marketing Board, he prepared several research projects for the World Bank and evolved a Market Intelligence System in collaboration with National Informatics Centre (NIC). He has 8 years of teaching experience and two decades of research experience in the industry. Dr. Viswanath has over 60 publications in reputed journals. He teaches Marketing, Market Research and Research Methods. He is also Referee, IIM, Bangalore for fellow programmes.