Biography:

Dr. Jim Albers has 30 years experience in the development and management of high technology with collaborations between the United States and international industry, government agencies, and universities. With experience at three NASA field installations and NASA headquarters, he has managed organizations as large as 1,000 employees and budgets of more than $100M. He is first author of over 50 publications in various areas including knowledge and technology management. He has led the development of the Technology & Innovation Management program in the School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University and has taught at PLU since 1996. He has been a Senior Consultant for the Carlson Group and was head of his own management consulting company. Specialty areas in teaching include: knowledge management, strategic management, information systems management, innovation management, and operations management. His educational background includes an M.B.A. in Management, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Engineering Science, B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, and a Certificate in Technology & Innovation Management.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Technology & Innovation Management

Biography:

Dr. Thad Barnowe teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in global business, organizational design, leadership, and organizational change. He has a baccalaureate degree from the University of San Francisco and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Ongoing scholarly interests include the study of managers' personal value systems; economic development and management reforms in China, Poland, and the Baltic states; and the relationship between organizational culture, change, and knowledge management. He has presented his research findings at conferences in Australia, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA and has published them in a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of three year-long Fulbright grants: Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China; Oslo Business School in Norway; and Poznań School of Management and Banking in Poland. He has been a Presidential Fellow at the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and has directed a Title VI-B Business and International Education grant from the U.S. Department of Education aimed at promoting U.S.-China trade and international business education for students and faculty. He has taken numerous groups of PLU students to China for J-term and semester-long study away experiences. Dr. Barnowe served as Interim Dean of PLU School of Business in 2003-04. His community service includes more than ten years on the Board of Directors for World Trade Center Tacoma (including President), and for more than ten years as an officer and board member for the South Puget Sound chapter of the Northwest Human Resource Management Association/Society for Human Resource Management.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Management

Biography:

I graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit. After graduating, I went to General Electric and completed their Manufacturing Training Program: six jobs, in five plants, in four cities, in three years. I worked in jet engines, aerospace, and the electric motor business as a planner, production foreman, manufacturing engineer, and quality engineer. After GE, I went to Israel for 11 years where I worked as a consultant to the kibbutz movement, private industry, cooperatives of many kinds, and government institutions. I built factories, designed work, and worked as a manager in a firm bent on producing rotary engines. Work has been the focus of my professional career. Over the years, I found that I could design good places to work. I could not get people to jump through the hoop. I needed to learn more about human and organizational concerns and management systems. I went to UCLA to study Management and joined the staff of the Center for Quality of Working Life. I did my dissertation on the nature of human work. UCLA added the management and organizational sciences to my education. I have taught at many business schools including UCLA, University of Southern California, the University of Colorado-Denver, and the Industrial Engineering Department at Wisconsin in Madison. At Pacific Lutheran University, I teach Operations Management and Management Information Systems to M.B.A. and undergraduate students. I have also taught in Estonia and France to graduate students. I have also consulted for U.S. West, Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in the fields of inventory control, team design, work organization, technology transfer, and management strategy. I taught in Estonia and France during my sabbatical and was a Faculty Fellow at Boeing working in the 737/757 assembly plant on cost improvement. These experiences have deepened my appreciation for the advantages of American society and the challenges we will face in the world economy. Over the years, I developed and delivered special management training seminars focused on organization design. Customized seminars were delivered to Intel, Hewlett-Packard, U.S. West, Boeing, and United Telephone. I chaired a Ph.D. dissertation that developed the first parametric test of Normal Accident Theory, an important theory of systems and organizational failure. This research is being extended to financial, managerial, and operational models in order to identify successful methods to reduce risk in organizations and their production systems. My hobbies are gardening and reading. I garden "thoughtlessly" as a way to relax. I read in many fields that I only half understand so as to loosen the brain. One of my joys is discovering interesting connections between all kinds of disparate phenomena.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Operations

Biography:

Dr. Kevin K. Boeh teaches finance at the School of Business. Prior to PLU, he taught in the M.B.A. programs at Seattle University and at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Boeh is an experienced investment banker and management consultant. After his B.A. (1990) in Economics from the Colorado College, he worked in management consulting for both A.T. Kearney and Accenture. He completed his M.B.A. (1996, Beta Gamma Sigma) in Finance at UCLA and moved to a career on Wall Street. His investment banking experience includes over 100 successful strategic advisory, public and private corporate finance, and M&A clients for which he has raised over $6B (US), and completed over $5B (US) in M&A transactions. After collecting a couple of million frequent flier miles, he returned to academia and obtained his Ph.D. at the Ivey School of Business. Dr. Boeh's research involves the intersection of corporate finance and corporate strategy with an international emphasis. His international experience has included long-term assignments in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, plus extensive work with clients in France, Germany, Israel, and Japan among others. He currently serves on the boards of directors of two private companies, runs a merchant banking fund, and is the Faculty Advisor to the PLU Student Investment Fund.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Finance

Biography:

James L. Brock began his work on August 1, 2008 as Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University. From 1996 until 2007 he served as Dean of the Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. During spring 2008, he pioneered an exchange partnership with the University of Macau, serving as Visiting Professor there and overseeing eight Susquehanna students. While at Susquehanna, Dr. Brock traveled with students to and/or consulted in several countries. Dr. Brock also led the business school's London Program in spring semester 2003. From 1991 to 1996, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Pacific Steel & Recycling at the corporate offices in Great Falls, Montana. Pacific operates 37 branches in five Western states. He previously served as Dean of the College of Business at Montana State University (1987-91), where he began his academic career as a member of the marketing faculty in 1979. Dr. Brock earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University and has authored a book and over a dozen scholarly publications. He enjoys reading, flyfishing, hiking, backpacking, skiing, and woodworking. He and his wife Elaine live in Puyallup. They have six grown children and a granddaughter.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Finance

Biography:

Dr. Linda K. Gibson has taught courses in human resource management, organizational behavior, management of effective organizations, career management/self-assessment, organizational development and change strategies. Her scholarship and consulting work, with companies such as Weyerhaeuser and higher education institutions, have been focused on: mentoring in business, managing careers, managing performance, partnerships between business and academe, assessment, and accountability issues for higher education, leadership, and changing cultures. She was also the Director of a two-year FIPSE grant at PLU on infusing assessment and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) into higher education. In addition, Dr. Gibson has been a Faculty Fellow at Boeing, doing a strategic analysis of compensation systems. (Ph.D. in Management and M.A. in Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia) Dr. Gibson's hobbies include reading, nature photography, interior decorating, tending to her cats and llamas, and spending time outside gardening, hiking, snowshoeing, and just enjoying the mountains.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Human Resources & Management

Areas of Emphasis:

• Marketing

Biography:

Dr. Chung-Shing Lee is an Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) and the Director of the ePLU E-Commerce & Technology Management Center (http://eplu.plu.edu). He is also a Research Associate in the Institute of Knowledge Service and Innovation (www.iksi.org.tw) at Yuan Ze University in Taiwan. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty research associate in the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. His research has appeared in journals such as the Research Technology Management, Internet Research, International Journal of Services Technology and Management, Competitiveness Review, Journal of International Technology and Information Management, and the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization. Dr. Lee is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (World Scientific Publishing) and the Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK) and the chief guest editor for the special issue on Regional Clusters and Global Competitiveness. Dr. Lee earned his B.A. from National Taiwan University (1980), M.A. (Economics) from University of Maryland (1985), and D.Sc. (Engineering & Technology Management) from The George Washington University (1997).

Areas of Emphasis:

• Technology & Innovation Management

Biography:

Diane B. MacDonald, J.D., is teaching both undergraduate and graduate law classes. She is a practicing attorney licensed in the states of Illinois and Washington. Her primary areas of practice include acting as general counsel for start-up and privately held businesses, legal risk management for small to mid-sized businesses, and financial planning. Prior to obtaining her law degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Professor MacDonald held various management positions at two Chicago metropolitan banking groups with responsibilities in commercial and consumer lending, investment management, and trust operations. Professor MacDonald's publications include co-authoring the textbook Personal Finance: Tools for Decision Making published by South-Western College Publishing. She has also written a number of articles on privacy rights in the online environment, including "Collecting Personal Information Online: Best Privacy Policy Practices" published in the Journal of Digital Business (2006), and "Transborder Privacy Protection: Does It Help U.S. Consumers?" in the International Business Law Review (2005). You may view a copy of this article at http://www.alsb.org/international/ijrnl/. Her articles have also appeared in the journals Employment Relations Today, the Journal of Professional Services Marketing, and The Journal of Legal Studies Education. In addition to academic writing, she has published articles on business and legal issues in publications such as Independent Business, Nation's Business, and Executive Female magazines, and numerous other industry trade journals. Professor MacDonald is an avid traveler and recently traveled with a group of MBA students to France where they engaged in company visits to Michelin (based in Clermont-Ferrand) and Microsoft's Paris office. They also enjoyed the cultural sites and French cuisine.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Business Law & Ethics

Areas of Emphasis:

• Management

Biography:

Dr. Janet Luft Mobus joined the accounting faculty at PLU in the 2008-09 academic year. Her teaching background includes financial accounting, managerial accounting, auditing, and financial statement analysis. She has ongoing research interests at the intersection of accounting and public interest, and she has published work on environmental accounting and ethics topics in Research on Accounting Ethics; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; and Accounting and the Public Interest. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Davis (Economics), an M.B.A. from San Diego State University (Accounting), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas (Accounting). While away from campus she enjoys hiking, skiing, and traveling and does her best to outpace the weeds in her garden. She lives in Gig Harbor with her husband, George. They have launched one son into the college years and have another son still in high school.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Accounting

Biography:

Dr. Gerry Myers received his Master's Degree in Accounting from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1975. After a brief stint in academic administration, he attended the University of Iowa, where he earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1984. Dr. Myers has been on the PLU faculty since 1982. He teaches managerial accounting, cost accounting, and accounting information systems. Since his arrival here at PLU, he has worked aggressively to promote the use of computers and spreadsheet technology in managerial and cost accounting classes. He has also been a vocal advocate of greater use of the Web as a tool for both instructors and students. Dr. Myers' research interests focus on cases about small businesses. He is currently Chair of the Faculty Committee on Admission and Retention of Students. Dr. Myers does have a life outside PLU. He keeps busy remodeling a 94-year-old house. He is an amateur meteorologist and routinely tracks weather conditions across the United States. His home weather station is linked to a desktop computer where he monitors local conditions as well as nationwide real time weather radar. Dr. Myers and his wife, Martha, have two daughters. They live in Renton, Washington.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Accounting

Biography:

Dr. Catherine Pratt is an Assistant Professor of Management and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in organization behavior, organization design, and leadership. She is also the Associate Dean of the School of Business. She holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University, an M.A. from Pacific Lutheran University, and an Ed.D. from Seattle University. Ongoing research interests include leadership development, learning leadership across generations in family firms, ethics practices, and governance in family firms. She has led the PLU Family Enterprise Institute since 1998 and is actively involved with family firms in the state of Washington. She encourages students to appreciate the corporate and society impact of strong interpersonal skills combined with professional competence. Dr. Pratt is advisor to the Latter-day Saint Student Association on campus.

Biography:

Dr. Simpson has been a full-time member of the faculty of the School of Business since 1998, before which he was a systems and programs engineer at Loral Corporation and Ford Aerospace in California, managing systems development programs for government and corporate customers. After graduating from the University of San Francisco he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force and completed an active duty career of 24 years, including senior command and staff assignments in Norway, Germany, and Greece. Dr. Simpson teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs of the School of Business. His teaching interests are services marketing and marketing research. He has also taught the B.B.A. strategic management capstone course and other management courses. His research interests focus on services marketing with particular interest in international airline service quality and the internationalization of services. He has been the advisor to the University chapter of the American Marketing Association since 2000. His outside interests include Irish heritage, travel, and photography.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Marketing

Biography:

Dr. Sven Tuzovic is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Pacific Lutheran University. He was born in Velbert, Germany, which is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north-east of the state capital Duesseldorf. He holds a BBA degree from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA, a Diplom-Kaufmann (German MBA equivalent) degree from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and a Doctoral Degree in Marketing from the University of Basel, Switzerland. After receiving his Doctorate Degree in October 2003 he joined a management consultant company in Munich, Germany. In 2005, Dr. Tuzovic decided to go back into academia, and he was offered a position as a visiting professor at the University of New Orleans (UNO). However, after just settling in, he had to evacuate the city due to hurricane Katrina. Before returning to New Orleans for the beginning of the spring semester, his “odyssey” made him to stay in hotels and with friends and colleagues at various places across three states (Dallas, TX, Americus, GA, and Mandeville, LA) in the U.S. as well as Switzerland and Germany. After ending his visiting position at UNO Dr. Tuzovic started another visiting position with Murray State University in Murray, KY. Since joining PLU for a tenure-track position he teaches classes in Principles of Marketing, Sales and Sales Management, Services Marketing and e-Marketing. His research focuses on areas such as service quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and relationship marketing. Dr. Tuzovic has presented his research in a number of conferences and published in proceedings and the following journals: Managing Service Quality, Journal of Relationship Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing and International Journal of Business Performance Management.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Marketing

Biography:

Dr. Glenn Van Wyhe is a full-time Associate Professor of Accounting at PLU. Prior to joining the PLU Faculty in 1979, he was employed by Arthur Andersen & Co. in the Chicago office's small business division. The work consisted primarily of auditing, with some related work in tax reporting and government contract reporting. He holds a Ph.D. in Education (1991) from the University of Washington and a Master's in Accounting (1977) from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Washington Society of C.P.A.s, American Accounting Association, Beta Gamma Sigma, Beta Alpha Psi, and has a C.P.A. certificate in Illinois and Washington (received after one sitting for the exam, when the entire exam was given in two-and-one-half days). His primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of auditing, financial accounting, and managerial accounting, though he also does some teaching in managerial finance. Rather than using standard textbooks, he incorporates his own insights into a course by using his own book-length materials in the auditing and financial accounting courses. He has also presented papers on business ethics and has published a book on the history of higher education in accounting. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary (1974), and a Bachelor's in Journalism from the University of South Dakota (1968). He enjoys reading, thinking, and writing about theological, philosophical, and historical topics. He also enjoys reading and writing fantasy books. His greatest accomplishment has been holding on to the most wonderful of women, his wife Melony, since their marriage in 1968. Their three sons-Gabriel, Joshua, and Michael-are good, godly, and great sources of pride.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Accounting

Biography:

Dave Wittenberg joined the PLU School of Business in 2009. Prior to joining PLU he enjoyed a diverse array of experiences in general management, capital investments, strategic analysis, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, business planning, private equity and investor relations. During this time he developed a high interest in understanding behavioral traits that regularly impact ‘rational’ decision-making as well as the potential disruptive influences that improper performance measures can have on a firm’s mission. Dave grew up in a family lumber business in Canada. He later served in a variety of finance and strategy roles across Weyerhaeuser Company for over fourteen years. During his years in Weyerhaeuser Dave discovered his passion for teaching and leadership development. He created and taught business case development seminars as well as corporate finance classes to both financial and non-financial professionals across the company. This led to engagements as a guest speaker at universities in Washington State and the Province of British Columbia. His current position at PLU’s School of Business represents an exciting opportunity to engage with bright, motivated students pursuing careers in both business as well as not-for-profit organizations. Further, PLU’s strong commitment to preparing students for a purposeful life of achievement, inquiry, integrity, leadership and service represents an ideal match with Dave’s teaching goals. Happily married for over twenty-three years, Dave and his wife, Shannon, have two children: a boy in high school and a girl in middle school. A family highlight of each year is a backcountry canoe trip across a chain of freshwater lakes near Powell River on the coast of British Columbia.

Biography:

After completing her M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Fern Zabriskie had a successful business career spanning over 20 years before returning to the University of Washington to earn her Ph.D. Throughout her career, she held jobs of increasing responsibility including information systems, strategic planning, financial accounting, budgeting, financial planning, and investor relations. She began her business career with a small, privately held corporation in New York State and last held the title Vice President/Controller for a division of Pitney Bowes, Inc. She has lived and worked in New York, Florida, Switzerland, New England, and on the West Coast. She earned her C.P.A. in Maryland and holds a Certificate in Management Accounting. Dr. Zabriskie completed her Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2002 with a major in accounting, and minors in finance, economics, and econometrics. Her dissertation is entitled “The Costs and Benefits of Managing Earnings to Meet an Earnings Target.” Zabriskie’s research interests continue to be in the area of managing earnings, but have been expanded to include research aimed at improving teaching in general and the teaching of accounting specifically. She teaches courses in accounting and finance at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Areas of Emphasis:

• Accounting