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Faculty Publications and Research Projects
Decision Sciences
- SF State's Decision Sciences department has been recognized in the November-December 2009 issue of Interfaces (Vol. 39, No. 6). For more information, see News + Events.
- Ramesh Bollapragada, associate professor of decision sciences, was featured in the April/May 2009 issue of Tyre Asia on the topic of building strong supply chains.
International Business
Management
- Management Professor Ron Purser to examine effective virtual organization in research and design, September 10, 2009
- Professor Denise Kleinrichert coauthors chapter in a new book about corporate boards and risk management, August 27, 2009
- This column references research on furloughs by John Sullivan, professor of management. San Jose Mercury News, July 15, 2009
- Sanjay Jain, assistant professor of management, is the lead author of an article published in the July 2009 issue of Research Policy. The article is entitled Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity.
Marketing
- Culture counts in marketing efforts; Marketing Professor Judi Strebel coauthors new study, August 19, 2009
- In a study coauthored by Associate Professor of Marketing Judi Strebel, researchers explored consumer reaction to unexpected promotional gifts. Thaindian News, July 21, 2009
- Professor Sanjit Sengupta receives Fulbright Grant, July 6, 2009
2011 Tenure and Promotion Appointments
The College of Business is pleased to announce that SF State President Robert Corrigan has made the following tenure and/or promotion to the following faculty members, effective with the first day of the Fall 2011 semester.
Please join us in congratulating these faculty members on their significant accomplishments!
Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
Antoaneta (Toni) Petkova, Management
Antoaneta P. Petkova teaches senior-level business policy and strategy classes. Her research focuses on the role of intangible assets and processes through which they can be accumulated by firms.
Hui-Ming (Deanna) Wang, Marketing
Deanna Wang enjoys teaching marketing research and international marketing. Her current research interests include pharmaceutical marketing, retail management, corporate social responsibility and application of Bayesian models to marketing problems. Before joining academia, she was a research manager for Procter and Gamble, Asia.
Tenure and Promotion to Full Professor
Theresa Hammond, Accounting
Colin Johnson, Hospitality & Tourism Management
Promotion to Full Professor
Brenda Mak, Information Systems
Brenda Mak’s research interests include data mining, neural networks, rough sets, genetic algorithms, knowledge modeling, computer art, and effect of technology adoption on employee retention.
Judi Strebel, Marketing
Judi E. Strebel joined the college in fall 2000. She had taught for three years at the University of Arizona after receiving her Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley. She teaches marketing and marketing research, which complement her research in marketing models and purchase behavior in high tech industries.
Sameer Verma, Information Systems
Sameer Verma's research focuses on the diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies. He is currently working on several academic research projects which include the diffusion of open source software, mobility issues in wireless networks, identity management across disparate networks and communication modes in messaging systems.
About the College of Business Faculty
The College of Business has 104 tenure-track and tenured faculty with Ph.D.s., and there are approximately 18 part-time faculty members.
Full-time faculty members received their Ph.D. degrees from institutions such as University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles (UCLA); Stanford University, Harvard University; University of Southern California; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Georgia State University; Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University; University of North Carolina; and University of Washington.
Non-US born faculty members were originally from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Korea, Russia, Bulgaria, Philippines, Great Britain, Australia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Germany.
Ethnicity
| Ethnicity* | Percent |
|---|---|
| *Self-reported; includes non-U.S. born faculty | |
| Asian American | 26.5 |
| Hispanic | 1.1 |
| African American | 4.2 |
| Pacific Islander | 4.8 |
| White | 59.8 |
| Other | 3.7 |
Gender
| Gender | Percent |
|---|---|
| Female | 33.3 |
| Male | 66.7 |
