Faculty Consultant Profiles

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Education:
M.S., Business Education, Indiana University
B.A., Social Science, DePauw University

Areas of Expertise:
Ms. Bizal specializes in business communication--verbal and nonverbal--and career planning and professional development.  Her consulting experience is in written and oral business communication.

Professional Activities:
Ms. Bizal is a member of the Association of Business Communication, the National Business Education Association, and the Indiana Business Education Association.  She serves on the advisory board of the Ivy Tech State College Administrative Office Technology Program.  Ms. Bizal’s publications have been in the areas of teaching-effectiveness and professional development.  Her working papers include a paper on business protocol and employment interviewing, a study of business communication students’ attitudes, a study of computers in the business communication classroom, and a study of casual dress in the workplace.

Education:
D.B.A., Marketing, Mississippi State University
M.B.A., University of North Texas

M.I.M., International Management, American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird)

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Choe has broad expertise in the area of marketing functions.  He specializes in distribution strategy and consumer studies.

Professional Activities:
Professor Choe's experience includes studies of retail market penetration, market expansion, shopping patterns, and American's attitudes toward Japanese businesses in America.  His research interests are Korean business strategy and international business.  He has presented papers at national and international marketing conferences.  Professor Choe's articles have been published in the SAM Advanced Management Journal, the Journal of Food Products Marketing, and the International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management.

Education:
D.B.A., Business Administration, Southern Illinois University
M.A.S., Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C.P.A., C.F.E.

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Ehlen specializes in auditing, financial accounting, and fraud auditing and forensic accounting.  He has twenty years of experience in public accounting and senior management in both large and small public companies.  He also has been a corporate director and a director of several overseas joint ventures and has substantial experience in  negotiating mergers and acquisitions as well as joint venture contracts.

Professional Activities:
Professor Ehlen has published in a number of academic and professional journals including Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The CPA Journal, The Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, The Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research.  He is active in professional organizations including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and the Indiana CPA Society (INCPAS). Professor Ehlen has served on several statewide committees for INCPAS and on both the national research committee  and the editorial review board of ACFE.

Education:
Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Indiana University
M.B.A., Indiana University
B.A., Mathematics, Indiana University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Foroughi specializes in designing business processes, decision support systems, electronic meeting systems, E-Commerce/E-Business, Internet Web page planning and design, Web server planning and design, and network configuration, planning, and design.

Professional Activities:
Professor Foroughi is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, the Association for Computer Machinery, the Association of Information Technology Professionals, and the American Production and Control Society.   Dr. Foroughi has published a number of journal articles on the use of negotiation support systems and recently published an article on network security threats and countermeasures in the Journal of Computer Information Systems

Education:
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Mississippi
M.B.A., Louisiana State University
B.S., Management, University of New Orleans

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Hall specializes in the study of strategic management, strategic planning, strategic audits, diversification, and the development of competitive advantage.  His current research focuses on international diversification, diversification/performance relationships, and methodological issues related to measuring strategy.  He teaches courses in strategic management, small business/entrepreneurship, and small business consulting.

Professional Activities:
Professor Hall has been involved in workshops and consulting for several businesses and local government agencies.  His research has been published in the International Journal of Organization Analysis, the International Association of Management Journal, the Journal of Business Strategies, the Australian Journal of Management, the Academy of Management Journal, and Industrial Marketing Management.

Education:
Ph.D., Decision Sciences, Saint Louis University
M.S., Decision Sciences, Saint Louis University
B.A., Business Administration, Gar Younis University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Hemaida specializes in quantitative analysis of decision making.  His current research is in the area of multiple criteria decision analysis with primary goals on Goal Programming and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP).  His most recent journal articles were in the area of auditing.  Dr. Hemaida primarily teaches courses in Operations Research, Quantitative Analysis, and Operations Management.

Professional Activities:
Professor Hemaida has published studies in a number of professional journals including: the Journal of Operational Research Society, the Journal of Applied Business Research, the Managerial Auditing Journal and Applications of Management.  He has done a study of value added by manufacturing in Evansville.  Professor Hemaida is an active member of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Education:
Ph.D., American Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., American Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kellog Certification in Developmental Education
B.A., English and Psychology, University of Evansville

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Johansen specializes in business communication: writing basics (grammar and punctuation), writing style, letters, memos, e-mail, fax writing, report writing, oral presentations, business etiquette, editing techniques, and life-long learning.

Professional activities:
Professor Johansen teaches classes in business communication and life-long learning.  She owns and operates an academic and professional editing company and manages and produces a classical music radio program.  She is a member of the Association of Business Communication and the National Business Education Association.

Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Temple University
M.A., Economics, Temple University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Khayum specializes in economic impact studies, cost/benefit analysis, econometric and other data analysis, forecasting, research and project design, and writing proposals, grants, and business plans.

Professional Activities:
Professor Khayum has published a book on macroeconomic modeling and articles in academic journals such as Applied Economics, Services Industries Journal, the International Economic Journal, Global Business and Finance Review, and the Journal of Economics and Finance.  He has conducted economic impact studies for a range of organizations including hospitals and charitable organizations and has developed an economic index for the local economy.

Education:
Ph.D., Accounting, University of Istanbul
M.B.A., University of Louisville
B.S., Ege University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Kocakülah specializes in cost and management accounting.  His current research is in the area of health care costs and new trends in cost accounting such as activity-based costing and cost of quality.

Professional Experience:
Professor Kocakülah has published articles in the Journal of Cost Management, the Journal of Bank Cost and Management Accounting, the International Association of Management Journal, Health Progress, the Journal of Accounting Education, and the Journal of Systems Management.  He has consulted with small businesses on financial and cost accounting and accounting information systems matters.

Education:
M.B.A. University of Southern Indiana
B.S., Accounting, University of Southern Indiana
C.P.A.

Areas of Expertise:
Ms. Maier-Lytle's teaching emphasis is in the areas of financial, managerial, and cost accounting.  Her current research efforts focus on cost behavior in manufacturing and health care facilities, with particular emphasis on activity based costing.

Professional Activities:
Ms. Maier-Lytle is a CPA and has professional experience in corporate accounting and consulting.  She has served as a staff accountant and consultant in a financial institution and as a management  accountant in a manufacturing facility.  She has worked on consulting projects in the areas of software vendor evaluation, software design and implementation, procedure development and documentation, new program implementation and survey analysis.  She is currently providing managerial accounting training for a local manufacturing company.   Ms. Maier-Lytle is a member of the local Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants.

Education:
Ph.D., Accounting, University of Central Florida
M.B.A., University of South Alabama
B.S., Accounting, University of South Alabama
C.P.A., C.M.A.

Areas of Expertise:
Professor McGuire specializes in managerial accounting and accounting information systems.  He has professional experience in both public and private accounting.  He has served as an administrator of a medical center and as director of corporate operations for a hospital holding company.   He has consulted for numerous medical groups in the areas of accounting, reimbursement, fee schedules, information systems, and office administration.

Professional Activities:
Professor McGuire's research has been published in the Journal of Cost Management, The Journal of Bank Cost and Management Accounting, and the International Association of Management Journal.  He is a member of the National Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and serves on numerous national committees of the IMA.  Professor McGuire has served as President of two IMA Regional Councils and a local chapter of IMA.

Education:
J.D., University of Denver
B.A., University of Evansville

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Nunn has 30 years of law practice experience in areas of business, governmental, and international law in such fields as entrepreneurship, contracts, import-export, distribution, governmental relations, foreign contracts, immigration, and government contracts.  A former municipal judge, Professor Nunn teaches courses in business law and entrepreneurship.  He has experience in negotiating international contracts, drafting agreements, and working out import and export difficulties with the governments of the United States and countries in Europe, Mexico, and Asia, and most recently the African country of Guiana.

Professional Activities:
Professor Nunn has written numerous articles for general readership on such topics as international trade, licensing, property matters, agriculture, contracts, and entrepreneurship.  His current activities include research on the tax deductibility of certain business losses, writing a general handbook on construction law for building contractors, and a textbook on entrepreneurial law.  Professor Nunn is admitted to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, various federal courts, and the supreme courts of Colorado and New Mexico.

Education:
Ph.D., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
M. S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
B. A., Public Policy Studies, James Madison College, Michigan State University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Partridge specializes in human resource management, labor relations, organizational design and development, and change management.  He has presented management development programs on topics including employee involvement in quality improvement and managing workforce diversity.

Professional Interests:
Professor Partridge’s research has appeared in the Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector and the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.  He is active in professional organizations including the Society for Human Resource Management where he serves on the national College Relations Committee.  He has also served on the advisory committee for the Ivy Tech State College Business Administration Program.  Current research areas include the effect of pay structures on worker attitudes and gender differences in perceptions of sexual harassment.

Education:
D. B. A. Business Administration, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
M. S., Industrial Relations, West Virginia University
B. S. B. A., West Virginia University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Peluchette specializes in the study of organizational behavior and employee relations, specifically in the areas of diversity, individual differences, team-building, and conflict resolution.  Her current research focuses on the management of diversity and cultural differences, team effectiveness, and career success.  She teaches courses in management and organizational behavior, management of diversity and social issues.

Professional Interests:
Professor Peluchette has been involved in workshops and consulting for local non-profit organizations.  Her research has been published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Journal of Social Psychology, the Journal of Contemporary Business Issues, Cross Cultural Management, and the Journal of Applied Business Research.

Education:
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Rhim specializes in financial analysis and performance evaluation using various measures including concepts such as EVA (economic value-added) and MVA (market value-added) for profit and non-profit organizations.  He has expertise in the evaluation of long-term investment projects, optimal financing combinations, business forecasting, break-even analysis, and the analysis of operating and financial leverages.  He has done research on dividend policy, capital structure management, and capital budgeting, option pricing and international financial management.

Professional Activities:
Professor Rhim has published numerous articles in academic journals and proceedings, is actively involved in many professional organizations, and serves as a reviewer for academic journals and conferences.

Education:
Ph.D., Marketing, University of Memphis
M.B.A., Keller Graduate School of Management
B.S., Accounting, Illinois State University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Saxby specializes in marketing strategy, market research, and relationships between organizations.  He has eighteen years of industry experience primarily in the electronics and automotive industries.  Three years of this experience were as principal of a market research firm.  He is currently a director of an electronics firm.  He has substantial experience in start-up situations such as new businesses and new divisions of existing companies.

Professional Activities:
Professor Saxby has published in the Journal of Marketing Management and presented in numerous international, national, and regional conferences.  He has written several papers on marketing strategy, consumer complaints, and service quality.  He is a member of the American Marketing Association and the Academy of Marketing Science.

Education:
D.B.A., Management Information Systems, Southern Illinois University
B.S., Computer Information Systems, Western Kentucky University

Areas of Expertise:
Professor Williams teaches in the areas of systems analysis, decision support systems, strategic information systems, management of information, and advanced microcomputer applications.  Her most recent publications focus on the legal issues surrounding web page development and Internet usage policies for employees.   She has also conducted research in the areas of information systems planning, visual decision support systems, methods of delivery for microcomputer courses and EDP auditing.   Professor Williams has taught continuing education classes on microcomputer skills, spreadsheet and database technology, and the Internet.

Professional Activities:
Professor Williams is an executive board member and past president of the Society for the Advancement of Information Systems and is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP).  She reviews texts in the areas of decision support, systems analysis, and management information systems.  Professor Williams has published research in the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Strategy: The Executive’s Journal, the International Business Schools Computing Quarterly, Internal Auditing, and Real Estate Accounting and Taxation.