FAU College of Business Faculty

Anita Pennathur

Stone Fellow & O'Maley Distinguished Professor
Finance Department
Email: pennathu@fau.edu  

Research Interests: International Financial Market Integration, Developing Countries and Economic Development, Performance, Governance, Regulation of Multinational Institutions and Markets.

Cheryl Burke Jarvis

Chair & Phil Smith Professor of Free Enterprise
Marketing Department
Email: jarvisc@fau.edu 

Research Interests: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Higher Education, Philanthropy

Christopher Boudreaux

Associate Professor
Economics Department
Email: cboudreaux@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise:  Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Small Business

Chul Woo Yoo

Associate Professor
ITOM Department
Email: yooc@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise: Information Security, Business Analytics in Social Media, Consumer Behaviors in Electronic Commerce

David Javakhadze

Associate Professor
Finance Department
Email: djavakhadze@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise: Finance

David Menachof

Associate Professor
ITOM Department
Email: dmenachof@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise: Global Supply Chain Management with a focus on Supply Chain Security and Risk, Logistics and Transportation, Liner Shipping and Containerization, Business Process Improvement

Derrick Huang

Associate Professor
ITOM Department
Email: dhuang@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise: Digital Transformation, Technology Strategy, Data Analytics, Healthcare Information Systems, Risk Management

Donald Neubaum

DeSantis Distinguised Professor of Management/Entrepreneurship
Management Programs - Entrepreneurship
Email: dneubaum@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise: Management, Entrepreneurship

Douglas Cumming

Professor
Finance Department
Email: cummingd@fau.edu  

Area of Expertise: Financial Market Misconduct & Fraud, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Crowdfunding

Eric Chiang

Associate Professor
Economics Department
Email: chiang@fau.edu  

Research Interests: International Economics, Economics Education, Intellectual Property Rights

Areas of Expertise: Economics of Education, International Economics, Game Theory

James Wainberg

Associate Professor
Economics Department
Email: jwainberg@fau.edu  

Research Interests: My research examines decision making in accounting and auditing contexts using behavioral decision theory. Specific interests include audit risk factors, regulatory inspections of audit firms, professional skepticism, and whistleblower reporting.

Julia Higgs

Professor
School of Accounting
Email: jhiggs@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise: Auditing, Financial Accounting, Accounting and Cybersecurity Issues, Audit Committees, Risk Disclosures

Mark Kohlbeck

Professor
School of Accounting
Email: mkohlbec@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise: Financial Accounting, Fair Values, Intangible Assets, Audit Markets

Melanie Lorenz

Associate Professor
Marketing Department
Email: lorenzm@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise: Cross-Cultural Service Encounters, Innovation and Creativity, Global Marketing Strategy, Cultural Intelligence

Michael Harari

Associate Professor
Management Programs - Leadership & Human Resources
Email: mharari@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise: Performance Appraisal, Personality, Employability, Talent Acquisition

Milad Baghersad

Assistant Professor
ITOM Department
Email: mbaghersad@fau.edu

Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Disaster Resilience, Business Analytics, Machine Learning

 

Ravi Behara

SBA Communications Professor
ITOM Department
Email: rbehara@fau.edu

Research Interests: Healthcare Services and Service Analytics

Area of Expertise: Information Technology and Operations Management

 

Rebel Cole

Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor of Finance
Finance Department
Email: coler@fau.edu  

Areas of Expertise:
Small Business Finance, Financial Institutions, Commercial Banking, Corporate Governance, Real Estate

Roland Kidwell

Chairl, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Management/Entreprenuership & Director, Adams Center for Entrepreneurship
Email: kidwellr@fau.edu   

Areas of Expertise: 
Family Business, Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics

 

Scott Seavey

Assistant Professor
School of Accounting
Email: seaveys@fau.edu   

Areas of Expertise: 
Accounting

Siri Terjesen

Professor & Associate Dean for Research and External Relations at FAU Business
Management Programs
Email: sterjesen@fau.edu   

Areas of Expertise:  Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Higher Education, Philanthropy

Steven Caudill

Chair & Kaye Family Professor
Finance Department
Email: scaudill@fau.edu   

Areas of Expertise: 
Economics

Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

William Luther

Assistant Professor
Economics Department
Email: wluther@fau.edu 

Areas of Expertise: Business Cycles, Economic Growth, Monetary Policy, Cryptocurrencies