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Influential media routinely feature our experts

  • November 13, 2024

    Fortune featured an article co-authored by Feng Gu, professor and chair of accounting and law, to mark the launch of The M&A Failure Trap, which explores why 70-75% of M&A deals fail based on analyzing 40,000 deals over 40 years.

  • Veljko Fotak.

    November 12, 2024

    CNBC quoted Veljko Fotak, associate professor of finance, in an article about how President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff plan has sent companies scrambling for lobbyists and loopholes.

  • November 4, 2024

    Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed Jennifer Gammell, assistant dean for enrollment management, for a story about the steady rise of female students enrolled in MBA programs. 

  • Photo of Daniela Goya-Tocchetto.

    November 1, 2024

    MSN featured research by Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, assistant professor of organization and human resources, that reveals two factors that mask economic inequality.

  • November 1, 2024

    Inc. featured a previous study conducted by Emily Grijalva, associate professor of organization and human resources, showing that the more people tweet, the higher their level of narcissism generally is.

Meet our Experts

  • Veljko Fotak, Assistant Professor of Finance.
    9/6/22

    Veljko Fotak, PhD

    Associate Professor of Finance

    Expertise: international corporate finance, sovereign wealth funds, syndicated loan markets, currency markets, short selling, government interventions and equity bailouts, and the intersection of finance and politics

    Contact: Veljko Fotak can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Nallan C. Suresh, Department Chair of Operations Management and Systems; Interim Chair of Management Science and Systems.
    9/16/22

    Nallan C. Suresh, PhD

    UB Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Systems

    Expertise: global supply networks; supply chain disruptions; U.S. and global manufacturing; international trade; logistics; infrastructure; economic development

    Contact: Nallan Suresh can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Stephanie Argentine, executive in residence, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness.
    9/19/22

    Stephanie Argentine

    Executive in Residence, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

    Expertise: employee engagement, recruitment and retention; startups and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs); compensation and benefits; the future of work; succession planning; board governance; strategic planning

    Contact: Stephanie Argentine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Susan Steffan, executive directer, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
    9/12/23

    Susan Steffan

    Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

    Expertise: entrepreneurship; small business; startups; finance for entrepreneurs; consulting; negotiations; adult and online learning

    Contact: Susan Steffan can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Indranil Goswami, Associate Professor of Marketing.
    1/12/24

    Indranil Goswami, PhD

    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Expertise: motivation and self-control; incentive policies; charitable giving and pro-social behavior; cognitive biases; deadlines and procrastination; judgment and decision-making; market research; consumer behavior

    Contact: Indranil Goswami can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Timothy Maynes, Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources.
    8/15/22

    Timothy Maynes, PhD

    Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

    Expertise: employee-driven innovation and change; employee productivity, engagement and performance; effective team functioning (especially in sports)

    Contact: Timothy Maynes can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Cristian Tiu, Associate Professor of Finance.
    8/15/22

    Cristian Tiu, PhD

    Associate Professor and Chair of Finance

    Expertise: stock market, hedge funds, financial fraud, risk management and asset allocation, institutional investors

    Contact: Cristian Tiu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Natalie Simpson, Associate Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy.
    9/7/22

    Natalie Simpson, PhD

    Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

    Expertise: emergency services and disaster response; supply chain risk and resilience; creative and temporary operations; complex networks

    Contact: Natalie Simpson can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • G. James Lemoine, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources.
    9/7/22

    G. James Lemoine, PhD

    Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

    Expertise: servant leadership; business ethics and moral leadership; gender and leadership; leadership and motivation; entrepreneurial leaders; managing under volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

    Contact: James Lemoine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Joshua Khavis, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law.
    1/26/24

    Joshua Khavis, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law

    Expertise: financial accounting and reporting, auditing and crowdsourcing

    Contact: Joshua Khavis can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Charles D. Lindsey, Associate Professor of Marketing.
    11/9/21

    Charles D. Lindsey, PhD

    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Expertise: consumer behavior, advertising, marketing strategy and research, brand loyalty, serving and package sizes

    Contact: Charles Lindsey can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Inho Suk, Associate Professor of Accounting and Law.
    9/20/22

    Inho Suk, PhD

    Associate Professor of Accounting and Law

    Expertise: corporate voluntary disclosures; accounting fraud; environmental, social and governance (ESG) accounting; mergers and acquisitions (consolidation) accounting; executive and employee turnover; accounting-marketing interface 

    Contact: Inho Suk can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Feng Gu, Professor and Chair of Accounting and Law.
    9/19/22

    Feng Gu, PhD

    Professor and Chair of Accounting and Law

    Expertise: financial reporting; mergers and acquisitions; intangibles; corporate governance; insider trading

    Contact: Feng Gu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Emily Grijalva, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources.
    9/19/22

    Emily Grijalva, PhD

    Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

    Expertise: narcissism, gender, leadership

    Contact: Emily Grijalva can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Dominik Roesch, Associate Professor of Finance.
    9/16/22

    Dominik Roesch, PhD

    Associate Professor of Finance

    Expertise: arbitrage, liquidity, international markets, market efficiency, market microstructure

    Contact: Dominik Roesch can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Arun Lakshmanan, Associate Professor of Marketing.
    8/15/22

    Arun Lakshmanan, PhD

    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Expertise: sensory marketing and visual perception; consumer attention and learning; new product use and design; advertising and social media

    Contact: Arun Lakshmanan can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Tom Ulbrich, executive director of UB's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
    8/15/22

    Thomas Ulbrich

    Executive in Residence for Entrepreneurship

    Expertise: entrepreneurship and startups, entrepreneurial skills and attributes, entrepreneurial education, small business, family business, customer loyalty, social entrepreneurship

    Contact: Thomas Ulbrich can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Michael Dambra, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law.
    5/5/23

    Michael Dambra, PhD

    Associate Professor of Accounting and Law

    Expertise: economic consequences of regulatory changes, initial public offerings (IPOs), pension accounting, valuation of privately held equity, executive compensation

    Contact: Michael Dambra can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Mike Mingcheng Wei, associate professor of operations management and strategy.
    9/15/22

    Mike Mingcheng Wei, PhD

    Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy

    Expertise: supply chain management; dynamic pricing; revenue management; strategic consumer behavior; online learning and decision-making; online recommendation systems; assortment optimization; high-dimensional machine learning

    Contact: Mike Wei can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Jennifer Wu, Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance.
    9/15/22

    Szu-Yin (Jennifer) Wu, PhD

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance

    Expertise: corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; shareholder activism; corporate governance; investment management

    Contact: Jennifer Wu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Scott Ptak, Clinical Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Strategy.
    9/15/22

    Scott Ptak, PhD

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Strategy

    Expertise: global economics, including inflation, currencies and exchange rates; international trade; business location strategies

    Contact: Scott Ptak can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Kyle Hunt, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems.
    1/26/24

    Kyle Hunt, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise: machine learning, operations research, game theory, homeland security and defense, information management, health care analytics, fake news/misinformation

    Contact: Kyle Hunt can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Min-Hsuan Tu, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources.
    9/9/22

    Min-Hsuan Tu, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources

    Expertise: abusive leadership; power and influence; leader identity and development

    Contact: Min-Hsuan Tu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Robert Neubert, Director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs.
    2/16/24

    Robert Neubert

    Director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs

    Expertise: entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship and corporate innovation; business model development for early-stage firms; lean startup methods; mentoring early-stage technology companies

    Contact: Robert Neubert can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Joana Gaia, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems.
    11/9/21

    Joana Gaia, PhD

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise: health information systems; business intelligence; digital security and privacy; data analytics; emergency management; girls and STEM careers

    Contact: Joana Gaia can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Dominic Sellitto, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems.
    4/24/23

    Dominic Sellitto

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise:  Artificial intelligence (and machine learning) and AI interplay with cybersecurity and privacy; usage and concerns surrounding platforms like ChatGPT and image generators like stable diffusion; cybersecurity; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; data analytics; health care analytics; automation technologies

    Contact: Dominic Sellitto can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Kate Bezrukova, Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources.
    9/15/22

    Kate Bezrukova, PhD

    Associate Professor and Chair of Organization and Human Resources

    Expertise: team chemistry in business and sports; managing a diverse workforce; unconscious bias at work; negotiations and gender; work-life balance; conflict management; artificial intelligence in teams

    Contact: Kate Bezrukova can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Kevin Cleary, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems.
    1/5/24

    Kevin Cleary

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise: artificial intelligence (and machine learning) and AI interplay with cybersecurity and privacy; usage and concerns surrounding platforms like ChatGPT; cybersecurity; information security; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; automation technologies; cybersecurity pedagogy; AI pedagogy

    Contact: Kevin Cleary can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Brandon Szerwo, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law.
    9/15/22

    Brandon Szerwo, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law

    Expertise: financial reporting and audit quality, corporate governance, financial regulation, management disclosures, auditor disclosures, financial accounting

    Contact: Brandon Szerwo can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Aditya Vedantam, Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Strategy.
    9/6/23

    Aditya Vedantam, PhD

    Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy

    Expertise: sustainability in operations and supply chains; clean energy technologies; recycling; recycled content claims, including for plastics; apparel and other resale markets; eco-certifications

    Contact: Aditya Vedantam can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Tom Murdock, clinical assistant professor of entrepreneurship.
    9/14/22

    Thomas Murdock

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

    Expertise: emerging entrepreneurship, business incubation, economic development (particularly technology-based), startups as economic drivers, startup business plans/business models, customer discovery, social entrepreneurship

    Contact: Thomas Murdock can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Sanjukta Smith, Associate Professor of Management Science and Systems.
    9/16/22

    Sanjukta Smith, PhD

    Associate Professor and Chair of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise: online social networks, cloud computing, data center operations

    Contact: Sanjukta Smith can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Sunyee Yoon, associate professor of marketing.
    1/12/24

    Sunyee Yoon, PhD

    Associate Professor of Marketing

    Expertise: social status and mobility; socially responsible consumption; products that promote animal welfare; consumer behavior

    Contact: Sunyee Yoon can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.