Experts Guide

A.J. Chauradia is an assistant professor of instruction who specializes in strategy and entrepreneurship. Recent studies have examined how companies decide whether to develop and promote employees from within or "buy" talent through recruitment and the impacts of automation through robotics on human workforces in manufacturing.

Hevner's areas of research interest include design science research, digital innovation, information systems development, software engineering, distributed database systems and healthcare systems.

Bhattacherjee is a professor in the School of Information Systems and the Exide Professor of Business Ethics. His research focuses on a broad range of information systems topics related to healthcare informatics, algorithm biases, social media and organizational innovations. He teaches classes on statistical data modeling, text analytics, and research methods.

Tandon is an associate professor of instruction in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in financial policies and strategies, investments, corporate and international finance.

Dong's research includes focuses on causes and consequences of alternative accounting choices, accounting regulation, voluntary disclosures, auditing and capital market. Her research on financial disclosure and auditing has been published in multiple journals.

Hansen is associate director of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and a leading expert on sustainable tourism practices, sports tourism, adventure travel and ecotourism. Her work has been featured in local and national news publications.

Hadden is Regional Director for the Florida SBDC at University of South Florida, leading a staff of 20 who serve the 10-county Tampa Bay region. He is a marketing specialist with experience in workforce development, sales, insurance, entrepreneurship and training.

Osborne directs the Zimmerman Advertising Program and teaches basic marketing and promotion management as an instructor in the School of Marketing and Innovation. She has more than 30 years' experience in the professional marketing sector, including 11 years at Cox Media Group as vice president of marketing.

Morgan teaches courses in social media marketing and digital marketing. His primary research focus is consumer behavior, including consumer responses to visual symbols in marketing, consumer identity-motivated behavior and the downstream consequences of choice architecture interventions.

Pantzalis teaches MBA courses and a PhD seminar on financial markets and is the recipient of the 2003 University President's Award for Faculty Excellence and can discuss market efficiency, international finance, corporate finance and areas where finance overlaps with political science.

Daniel teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in business intelligence, business data communications, business application development, distributed information systems, managing information resources, case method publications, systems analysis, healthcare analytics and design, computational problem solving and cybersecurity.

Bradley is a professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance and holds the Lykes Chair in Finance and Sustainability. He currently teaches MBA, Executive MBA and a PhD empirical seminar course. He can discuss business analytics and corporate and international finance topics.

Yin studies emotional expression in online environments, user-generated content (e.g., online word-of-mouth) and AI-generated content (e.g., chatbots). His primary expertise in methodology is laboratory experimentation, and he has also used other methods such as field experiments, econometric analyses, surveys and machine learning.

Biswas teaches basic marketing, brand management and sensory marketing. He studies sensory marketing, digital marketing, AI and smart technologies, and his research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research and other academic publications.

Libaers is the John and Beverly Grant Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and the director of the USF Nault Center for Entrepreneurship at the Muma College of Business. He teaches courses in Strategies in Technology Entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship, and Creativity and Design in the School of Management. He was a visiting professor at the University of Kent and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and the University of Queensland in Australia. He currently is visiting professor at the University of Vaasa in Finland.

Hughes has more than two decades of corporate experience in marketing, sales and general management, having worked as CEO of a business services firm and as a senior executive in both marketing and sales at Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. He also has consulted for a variety of firms across multiple industries.

Danneels is a professor in the School of Marketing and Innovation and teaches a graduate level entrepreneurship course in new product development. He was a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Javidi teaches courses in cybersecurity in USF's School of Information Systems, Muma College of Business. She also serves as the academic director of the Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Management undergraduate program. Her research interests include design solutions for secure smart devices, cybersecurity management and analytics and data analytics applications in business.

Gill is a professor in the School of Information Systems and the academic director of the Doctor of Business Administration program. Within the DBA, he teaches a variety of courses that include informing science, a second-year publication course and two issues courses in which candidates present their research. At the master’s level, he teaches the capstone courses in the Online and Executive MBA programs and also teaches Advanced Systems Analysis and Design in the MS-BAIS program.

Smersh is director of the advisory board for the Real Estate Society at USF and teaches finance and real estate in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. He studies the variation in housing price appreciation due to risk factors such as hurricanes and sinkholes. His paper on pricing residential amenities in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics in 1998 has been cited more than 800 times.

Areas of expertise include Cloud Computing, IT Infrastructure, Mobile App Development and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Reck's research on government accounting/auditing, accounting information systems and the reporting and use of non-financial information has appeared in several top academic journals and she is a frequent presenter at academic and practitioner conferences. She is a licensed CPA, a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of CPAs, the Association of Government Accountants and the Government Finance Officers Association.

Stock's research focuses on product returns, supply chains and sustainability. He is a professor in the School of Marketing and Innovation, was an AAAS Fellow in 2017 and was the Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair of Business & Economics at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, on a flex Fulbright Award in 2016 and 2017.

Wells is an associate professor in the USF Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program, within the School of Hospitality and Sport Management. Through her love of sport, Wells earned a collegiate athletic scholarship, progressed into the coaching ranks and then transcended into the private sector and classroom as a professor of practice.

Joe Askren is a professor of instruction and director of the USF Brewing Arts certificate program. He teaches a variety of food and beverage courses and his research interests involve the brewing industry and restaurant operations.

Jermier is a professor in the School of Management where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational theory and behavior, corporate environmentalism and environmental policy, and the measurement of organizational change and effectiveness. He also serves as a professor of sustainable enterprise research in the Patel College of Global Sustainability.

Park is associate director of the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance and director of the Master of Science in Financial Analytics program. Park spearheaded the development of USF's innovative fintech programs and developed international finance as the first Global Citizens course for undergraduate students.

MacAulay's research focuses on the areas of organizational change and history. She has served on the USF Muma College of Business case competition committees since 2011 and is a member of the Academy of Management Association and the Southern Academy of Management Association.

Areas of expertise include government contracting and financial reporting.

Dutta has 22 years of professional and research experience in the field of enterprise IT infrastructure, data analytics and big data systems. He is a professor in the School of Information Systems. His current research interest is big data analytics. Dutta's primary expertise combines operations research and data mining techniques with computer science systems knowledge to efficiently handle big data and manage large IT infrastructure. He has been the mentor of two startups out of USF in the NSF-iCorps program.

Cowart is an associate professor of marketing in the School of Marketing and Innovation in Sarasota-Manatee. Prior to joining the USF faculty, she was an associate professor at Grand Valley State University. She is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research and the National Black MBA Association.

Myers teaches graduate classes on forensic accounting encompassing white-collar crime, fraud, money laundering and financial investigation. He is part of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity. Prior to USF, Myers worked for 25 years as both an attorney and an accountant with the FBI. He was an original member of the Tampa Bay Bank Fraud Task Force and served on the Tampa Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was a certified bomb technician with the FBI and worked on cases including the Oklahoma City bombing, the Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta and the TWA Flight 800 crash off of Long Island Sound. He testified against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols during their respective trials and his FBI terrorism financing and bombing investigations have taken him to Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Thailand and Greece. Myers received the Federal Law Enforcement Officers' Association Annual Award for Bravery in 2008 for his work in Afghanistan with improvised explosive devices and a Director's Award from then-FBI Director Louis Freeh for leading a national terrorism undercover operation.

Chang teaches corporate finance, financial management, international finance and financial institution. His research interests include institutional investors, corporate social responsibility, international corporate finance, corporate governance, cash management, mergers and acquisitions and security offerings. He has published in various premier journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies.

Lei Wedge is an associate professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance who teaches courses in real estate and finance. Her expertise is in field of real estate and specializes in housing trends in Tampa Bay.

Penney is a professor in the School of Management in Sarasota-Manatee where she teaches undergraduate and MBA courses on management, leadership and organizational behavior. She is an award-winning researcher who has spent nearly 20 years studying the causes and consequences of job stress, particularly the antecedents and psychological processes that underlie harmful stress reactions, such as counterproductive work behavior and burnout.

Steele's research focuses on the intersection of innovation and leadership. He also examines how people navigate ethical dilemmas in the workplace, including what work conditions managers should create to foster employees' interest in exploring new ideas, when managers are most helpful in facilitating the creative work of their employees and when is their influence irrelevant, and how senior leaders' well-intended inspirational appeals go awry.

Jarrett is an instructor in the School of Marketing and Innovation, joining the faculty in August 2019. She previously served as vice president of marketing strategy and public relations at Synapse, overseeing marketing and public relations for the 2019 Synapse Summit, which was attended by more than 5,000 people and featured 80 breakout sessions, 320 speakers and 300 exhibitors. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa for four years, ending in 2018.

Richardson is an associate professor of instruction and Kerkering Barberio Fellow in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. He teaches courses in taxation of individuals and business entities and is a past recipient of the Advisory Council’s Outstanding Teaching Award. He also serves as a faculty advisor for the Delta Gamma chapter of Beta Alpha Psi.

Richardson, a licensed CPA and lawyer in Florida, worked with Deloitte prior to taking his position at the university. He serves as an editor and author on Pearson’s Federal Taxation textbook and has published articles in practitioner journals such as Tax Notes, The Tax Adviser, and the Journal of Accountancy. He also continues in his professional practice and has been featured as a tax expert in many print and television news media outlets.

Richardson completed a juris doctorate at the Stetson University College of Law and bachelor’s and graduate degrees in accountancy at the University of South Florida.

Schmidt is a professor of instruction of finance in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance in St. Petersburg. A certified tennis pro, she brings that enthusiasm from the courts to the classroom. She has taught at USF since 2000 and is a licensed real estate broker who has published work in peer-reviewed journals, coached men’s and women’s tennis teams and traveled the world.

Karlins is a professor in the School of Management who teaches required courses in the principles of management. He also teaches behavior-oriented courses organizaational behavior. Twice named Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the Muma College of Business, Karlins has also received USF's President's Award for Outstanding Achievement.

His varied research interests include stress and time management, leadership, motivation, aviation crew resource management, interpersonal effectiveness, aging and the psychology of gambling. The author of 30 books, he has had more than 150 articles published in a wide spectrum of professional, academic and popular journals. He was an instructor at Princeton University and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, City College of CUNY and Southern Illinois University. He has served as a special consultant for Singapore Airlines for 20 years, training employees at all levels in operations, customer service, teamwork, communication and interpersonal effectiveness.

Mullarkey is a professor of instruction in the School of Information Systems at the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. Mullarkey is a Fulbright core research scholar, an extraordinary associate professor in the Centre for Applied Research in Management at the North West University (South Africa), an IIIS interdisciplinary Fellow, a member of the advisory board for the Innovation Value Institute at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, a member of the governance committee for the USF Institute of Applied Engineering, and a Fellow at Tampa General Hospital Research (the academic medicine partner for USF).

Mondello is a professor in the School of Hospitality and Sport Management and associate program director of the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program. He teaches sport business analytics and sport & entertainment finance. His research interests include stadium financing, contingent valuation method (CVM), employee compensation, analytics and ticket pricing. He has published in the leading journals in the field including the Journal of Sport Management, Management Decision, the International Journal of Sport Finance, and Sport Management Review.

Harrolle is the director of the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management Program and can discuss sales and fundraising in sports, marketing research and internships in sports/entertainment.

Hartmann is an expert in selling and sales management and is an associate professor and research fellow in the School of Marketing and Innovation. He serves as a senior researcher for the USF's Center for Marketing and Sales Innovation. He teaches undergraduate courses in basic marketing and professional selling and graduate courses in marketing management and brand management.

Sutton teaches courses in advanced corporate finance, working capital management, principles of finance and the financial markets seminar. Her research interests include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and market efficiency. Her work has been published in various journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Financial Research.

Wang's research interests include entrepreneurial finance, household finance, corporate finance, education finance and industrial organization. Her work has been published in the Journal of Economic & Financial Studies.

Anderson is the co-founder and former chairman of the board of a real estate and credit fund management business. He is an expert in commercial and residential real estate trends, housing access and affordability and the overall economy. His current research focuses on topics including opening the door for everyday investors to access commercial real estate, the growth of the private markets more broadly, the state of the housing market and whether housing has become a luxury good.

Borghesi is a professor of finance in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. Borghesi’s research interests include corporate finance, compensation in collegiate athletics, betting markets and corruption, and prediction markets. His work has been covered by national and international news organizations including ESPN, Fox News, and Voice of America, and featured in periodicals such as The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. Borghesi earned a PhD in finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago.

Kelso is a professor of instruction in the School of Management where he teaches the undergraduate Strategic Management capstone course and the MBA Integrated Business Applications graduate capstone course at the Muma College of Business. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate management courses and is the recipient of the Muma College of Business Outstanding Teaching Award and two-time recipient of the university-wide Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Rob Hammond is the director of the Center for Marketing and Sales Innovation. He is an expert in enterprise strategy, product management and sales innovation.

Hooker is director of the Monica Wooden Center for Supply Chain Management & Sustainability. He can discuss supply chain management, technology and innovation, logistics, sustainability

and general marketing topics. He is a senior faculty fellow at USF’s Global and National Security Institute, as well as an affiliated faculty member at the TECO Clean Energy Research Center.

Rutherford studies corporate and real estate finance, real estate investment and valuation. His research interests include housing markets and foreclosure, leasing, real estate investment trusts and agent productivity.

Clayton teaches and studies managerial communication, organizational behavior and emotional intelligence. His research has been published in the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and has been mentioned in media outlets including Psychology Today, NBC News, Fox News, Inc. and Fast Company.

Varki teaches courses in global marketing, marketing management, promotions management, marketing strategy and marketing research. His expertise in marketing, advertising and strategy draws from experience as a business economist and advertising agency account manager in India. His research has been published in various academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising and Marketing Letters.

Özkul leads USF's Supply Chain Innovation Lab, which brings industry and academic supply chain management experts together to work on research projects tackling some of the industry’s biggest challenges. He is an affiliated faculty member with the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research with experience in funded research project management as principal investigator in the areas of operations management, supply chain and logistics modeling/optimization, logistics activity center location/site selection optimization and freight mobility and planning for national, state and locally funded research projects for both public and private entities. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida.

Doğan studies artificial intelligence and tourism. She can discuss how travelers can now get a full, personalized vacation itinerary -- from restaurants to tours to transit options -- generated in seconds by AI-powered tools, which travelers have embraced. She can also discuss the arrival of a new ‘physical’ era of travel, where smart technology and human service blend to shape the next generation of hospitality.

Shivendu is an associate professor of information systems whose research focuses on the emerging business and policy issues at the intersection of technology, economics and public policy. He is also an expert in blockchain technology and crypto economy, including fintech.

Budd has experience leading, developing and growing entrepreneurship education programs and assisting early-stage businesses. He was founding associate director of the USF Nault Center for Entrepreneurship and part of the founding team of the USF Tampa Bay Technology Incubator. His expertise includes venture finance, entrepreneurship, strategic and business planning, industry and market research, finance and financial modeling and identifying and assessing potential financing strategies and sources.

Mithas is a World Class Scholar and professor, and serves as director (rankings and reputation) at the Muma College of Business. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the UNSW Business School, Sydney. Previously, Mithas was the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he served as associate chair, and co-directed two centers. He has held visiting positions at the University of California Davis, UNSW Sydney, University of Mannheim, and HKUST Hong Kong.

Yang teaches international finance and financial modeling, focusing on financial theories and concepts. She studies corporate governance and social responsibility.

Triparna de Vreede is an assistant professor of information systems. Her research expertise covers how AI can be harnessed to benefit society, human responses to AI and its impact on workplace behavior and AI consciousness and ethics in human-AI collaboration

Mistry is an assistant professor at the School of Hospitality and Sport Management, teaching courses that focus on hospitality human resources management, strategic management, and organizational effectiveness. Mistry's research interests are centered around human resources management, organizational behavior, employee well-being, and the impact of leadership styles within the hospitality industry.

Murthy is the associate dean for research, graduate programs, and international affairs in the Muma College of Business, while also serving as the Quinn Eminent Scholar in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. Murthy also served as the school's director for eight years until 2019. He has received several research awards, including the Muma College of Business Outstanding Research Achievement Award in 2004 and 2010 and the Grant Thornton USF Faculty Research Award for 2005 and 2006. Murthy teaches graduate courses in accounting information systems and PhD seminars in research methods and accounting information systems.

Varol Kayhan is an associate professor who teaches students the techniques of understanding data visualization and machine learning and how that can be relevant to careers and solve problems in everyday life.

Mike Sinclair is a senior instructor in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. He teaches classes related to auditing, federal income taxation, federal taxation of business entities and financial accounting.

Rosario studies entrepreneurship, small business assistance and business certifications.