Business Graduate Faculty

John J. Anderson (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) is a Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration. Dr. Anderson's work has been published in such prestigious journals The Accounting Review, Journal of Data Management, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and New York Certified Public Accountant, among others. He has published three books: Computer Accounting Cases, Business Computing with Lotus 1-2-3, and Practical Guide to GAAP Applications. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Information Systems Auditing and Control Association, and Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Robert J. "Bud" Banis (Ph.D., Biochemistry, North Carolina State University; MBA, Marketing & Finance, University of Chicago) is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He joined the UM St. Louis Business Faculty in 1987 as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Business, and became a full time Lecturer in 1997. His academic career follows 20 years in new product development, manufacturing support and Operations Management in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as Director of Operations & Finance for The Searle R&D Division of Monsanto Company in St. Louis. He has served as officer, committee and/or Board member of a variety of community and professional organizations, including the Institute of Management Accountants, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, the St Louis Publishers Association, and various United Way committees. He has published scholarly articles on Lipid biosynthesis, large scale industrial protein isolation, and Operations modeling in Journals such as The Journal of Biochemistry, Biochim et Biophys Acta, and Computers and Operations Research. He has authored chapters in and edited books on Sexually transmitted diseases, Presidential Addresses, and Business Education topics. In 1994, he founded and continues to serve as Publisher and CEO of Science & Humanities Press, with over 100 titles under 6 Imprints, growing at the rate of about 20 titles a year.

James F. Campbell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Logistics and Operations Management Area of the College of Business Administration. He has published over 50 articles, book chapters, and reports in leading scholarly and practitioner journals in logistics, transportation, operations research, and information sciences, including Operations Research, Transportation Research, Computers and Operations Research, Parallel Computing, Journal of Business Logistics, and the Journal of Transportation Management. Dr. Campbell has been involved in research in a wide range of areas including snow removal and disposal in Montreal, transportation hub location and network design, geographic information systems for tracking barges on the Upper Mississippi River, and pricing for time-definite freight transportation. He served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia, and has received grants from organizations and governmental agencies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Michael T. Elliott (D.B.A., Mississippi State University) is an Associate Professor of Marketing. His areas of research and teaching include consumer behavior and marketing strategy. Professor Elliott's research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, as well as many others. He is currently investigating the effects of web site characteristics on consumer evaluations and the impact of the internet on consumer decision making. Dr. Elliott has served as a consultant for the Public Policy Research Center at UM-St. Louis, and for the law firm of Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage in St. Louis, MO.

Thomas H. Eyssell (Ph.D., Texas A&M University) is the Director of Graduate Programs in Business, the Director of the UM-St. Louis Financial Planning and Counseling Program, and a Professor of Finance. He has published numerous articles in such scholarly journals as The Journal of Banking and Finance, the Financial Review, Financial Research, and the Financial Services Review, as well as a book , The Law and Finance of Corporate Insider Trading: Theory and Evidence, (with Nasser Arshadi). Dr. Eyssell sits on the board of the Missouri-Southern Illinois chapter of the Financial Planning Association, writes regularly for the chapter newsletter, and is a co-founder and principal in The Financial Education Network, LLC, a training organization for financial advisors. Prior to entering academia, he worked in financial analysis positions in insurance, banking, and manufacturing.

Geraldine E. Hynes (Ph.D., St. Louis University) is an Assistant Professor of Business Communication at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. Professor Hynes is currently investigating the effects of the Internet on student learning and the Role of Communication in Corporate Culture. Her work has been published in Business Communication Quarterly, Contemporary Business Communication, Communication Briefings, and the Journal of Communication. The third edition of her textbook, Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, was published in 2004. Professor Hynes is a member of the Sam Houston State University Graduate Faculty and has engaged in consulting for applied biosystems in Palo Alto, CA, The May Department Stores, the City of Bellefontaine Neighbors, St. Louis Science Center, and the Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis.

Julius H. Johnson, Jr. (Ph.D., The George Washington University) is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business. He has more than 15 years of senior management experience in the transportation, investment banking, and defense industries. Dr. Johnson has served as Corporate Manager of Public Policy and Business Economics for Grumman Corporation, Special Assistant for International Operations for Grumman International, Manager of Community Affairs and Municipal Marketing for Grumman Flxible, and other professional experiences as an investment research analyst, project cost analyst, and security analyst. His primary research and teaching interests focus on the content of international strategy, international public affairs, Sino-North American joint ventures, and the strategic management of multinational corporations. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Management, Journal of Global Business, Global Focus, and the Journal of Psychology.

Charles R. Kuehl (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an Associate Professor of Management and the Director of the Center for Competitive Analysis. Dr. Kuehl has published numerous articles in such journals as the Journal of Business, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Global Business. He has also published several books, including Small Business: Planning and Management, A Practical Guide to Small Business Management, and Entrepreneurship. Professor Kuehl has also served as the Coordinator of the Small Business Development Center, Coordinator of Management Area, and Interim Dean of the Graduate School of UM-St. Louis.

Mary Lacity (Ph.D., University of Houston) is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Research Affiliate at Templeton College, Oxford University, and Doctoral Faculty Advisor at Washington University. She has given executive seminars world-wide and has served as an expert witness for the US Congress. She was the recipient of the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael Corbett and Associates. She has written five books: Netsourcing Business Applications (Prentice Hall, 2002; co-authors Thomas Kern and Leslie Willcocks); Global IT Outsourcing: Search for Business Advantage (Wiley, 2001; co-author Leslie Willcocks); Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems (Wiley, 1997;co-author Leslie Willcocks); Beyond the Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response (Wiley, 1995; co-author Rudy Hirschheim) and Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors, and Realities (Wiley, 1993; co-author Rudy Hirschheim). Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM and many other academic and practitioner outlets. She is Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive and US Editor of the Journal of Information Technology. She has previously worked as a consultant for Technology Partners International and as a systems analyst for Exxon Company, USA.

Stephen R. Moehrle (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Accounting. His areas of research and teaching include financial reporting, earnings management, and financial accounting, among others. Dr. Moehrle has published his research in top accounting and business journals such as The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Accountancy, and the CPA Journal. Steve has won prestigious research and teaching awards such as the 2003 Missouri Society of CPAs Outstanding Educator, the 2003 Midwest American Accounting Association Best Paper Award, the 2002 Douglas E. Durand Award for Research Excellence, the Indiana University Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award, the Indiana University School of Business Doctoral Students Association Teaching Award, and the Indiana Teaching Excellence Recognition Award. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Rajiv Sabherwal (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is a University of Missouri System Curators' Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Business Administration (with information systems emphasis) at University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and the Departmental Editor (information technology) for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and serves on the editorial boards for Information Systems Research and Journal of AIS. Dr. Sabherwal's research focuses on knowledge management, information systems strategy, and social aspects of systems development. It has been published in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Decision Science, California Management Review, and Communications of the ACM. He has co-authored a textbook on knowledge management. He has previously taught at Florida State University and Florida International University, and worked as a systems analyst in India. He earned a Ph.D. in business administration (with information systems concentration) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989.

Paul Speck (Ph.D., Texas Tech University) is an Associate Professor of Marketing. His teaching and research interests include and e-Commerce Market Opportunity Analysis, Marketing Strategy, Global Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Brand Management, Advertising, Advertising Media. Dr. Speck is a former section editor for the Journal of Marketing. He has published in California Management Review, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Direct Marketing, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Proceedings of the American Marketing Association, and Proceedings of the Association for Consumer Research.

Michael J. Stevens (Ph.D., Purdue University) is a management professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for International Studies, and in the Center for Non-Profit Leadership and Management. His primary areas of expertise include:

Improving organizational performance through teamwork, empowerment and cross-cultural effectiveness
Individual assessment and selection (especially for teams, emotional intelligence, and cross-cultural work assignments)
Leadership development and its impact on organizational culture and employee performance
Interpersonal effectiveness in the global workplace.

Professor Stevens received his Ph.D. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, where he received the Ralph G. Alexander Best Dissertation Award from the International Academy of Management. He is a widely cited author who has conducted pioneering research in the areas of measuring a person's aptitude for working successfully in teams and in culturally diverse work environments. He is the lead author of the commercially distributed "Teamwork-KSA" employment test and also a key developer of the "Global Competencies Inventory." In addition, he consults with a wide variety of organizations, has held leadership and board positions in industry, government, consulting, and not-for-profit enterprises, and is active in several professional societies.