Meet our Experts

School of Management faculty can provide expert opinions and analysis on topics in the news. For help finding an expert, contact Jacqueline Molik Ghosen, APR, at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

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.
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.
11/9/21
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

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.
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.
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.
11/1/22
Indranil Goswami, PhD
Assistant 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.
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.
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.
10/3/22
Nicole Hunter, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance
Expertise: environmental economics, international trade, public policy, taxation, personal finance

Contact: Nicole Hunter can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9/9/22
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.
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.
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.
9/19/22
Dominic Sellitto
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: cybersecurity; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; artificial intelligence and its interplays with cybersecurity; 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9/30/22
Aditya Vedantam, PhD

Assistant 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.
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.
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.
9/7/22
Sunyee Yoon, PhD
Assistant 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.
9/16/22
Larry Zielinski
Executive in Residence for Health Care Administration
Expertise: the business and economics of health care; health care delivery, innovation and reforms; health insurance reimbursement models

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

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