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“At the Isenberg School of Management, students, faculty and alumni with exceptional drive are driven even further.”
— Mark A. Fuller, PhD
Dean, Isenberg School of Management Thomas O’Brien Endowed Chair
FROM THE DEAN
To drive Isenberg students and advance the mission of UMass Amherst’s flagship, land-grant campus, our faculty must themselves be driven. Driven to go above and beyond when connecting with Isenberg’s remarkable undergraduate and graduate students. Driven to embark on meaningful research that advances business education and society itself. That’s why we continue to invest in our international reputation for innovative thinking and intrepid research, notably in business leadership, sport management, alternative investments, quality management, large-scale networks, organizational change, and behavioral accounting. Our faculty are Isenberg’s greatest resource, and I am proud to introduce thirteen new faculty members to our accomplished community of researchers, practitioners, teachers and mentors. They are proof positive that we continue to invest in the best and brightest.
— Mark A. Fuller, PhD
Dean, Isenberg School of Management Thomas O’Brien Endowed Chair
NEW FACULTY
Jeremiah W. Bentley Elizabeth B. Delia Matthew Katz Matthew P. Linn E. Nicole Melton Amber G. Young Yao Yu
NEW LECTURERS Michele Burch
Ginnie Gardiner Matthew Glennon Renee Pratt
NEW LEADERSHIP BERTHIAUME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Birton Cowden
Charles J. Johnson
N E W F A C U LT Y
Jeremiah W. Bentley
Assistant Professor, Accounting An assistant professor of Accounting, Jeremiah Bentley tests psychological and economic theories in experiments that examine reporting behavior by managers. A graduate of Cornell University’s PhD program in accounting, he completed a dissertation that examines narrative accounting reporting and its effects on operational distortion and surrogation. His research has also explored the role of beliefs, beliefrevision, and meetings in persuasiveness. And he is currently studying self-deception and operational and reporting distortion. Dr. Bentley’s teaching interests are in financial and managerial reporting.
EDUCATION PhD, Accounting (Management), Cornell University, 2016 MS, Management, Cornell University, 2015 g
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MAcc, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 2010
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N E W F A C U LT Y
Elizabeth B. Delia
Assistant Professor, Sport Management An assistant professor in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Elizabeth Delia recently received her PhD in sport management from Florida State University. Her research in sport consumer behavior, branding, sponsorship, and qualitative methods will complement departmental strengths in sport marketing and consumer behavior. Dr. Delia’s dissertation title is What Is the “Team” in Team Identification, a study of group identity. Her research has explored the exclusiveness of group identity in celebrations of group success and subconscious attachment and unattachment to a sponsor in facility naming rights. Her teaching strengths are in sport marketing and sport governance.
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PhD, Sport Management, Florida State University, 2015
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MBA, State University of New York at New Paltz, 2007
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BS, Marketing, State University of New York at New Paltz, 2006
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Matthew Katz
Assistant Professor, Sport Management An assistant professor in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Matthew Katz earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and was most recently a faculty member in Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research explores fan communities, their social networks, and the socialization of new fans. Dr. Katz’ published research has explored empowerment within brand communities, the NCAA’s struggle for reorganization and the emergence of Division III athletics, and other topics. He has taught sport marketing, introduction to sport management, sport law, and strategic and ethical issues in physical culture in sport.
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PhD, Sport Management, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014
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MS, Sport Management, Louisiana State University, 2011
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MA, History, Louisiana State University, 2011
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N E W F A C U LT Y
Matthew P. Linn
Assistant Professor, Finance An assistant professor in Finance, Matthew Linn has research interests in empirical and theoretical asset pricing, financial econometrics, options, and credit risk. With PhDs from the University of Michigan in both finance and statistics, he brings research and teaching prowess in finance and its mathematical foundations. Dr. Linn has published in the journals Communications on Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic Processes and their Applications. He has taught classes in financial management, probability, and statistical analysis of financial data. At Isenberg, he is teaching mezzanine-level courses in risk management and fixed income.
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PhD, Finance, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2015
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PhD, Statistics, University of Michigan, 2009
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E. Nicole Melton
Assistant Professor, Sport Management An assistant professor in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, Nicole Melton earned her PhD in sport management from Texas A&M University and previously held faculty positions at Seattle University and Texas Tech University. Her research in diversity and inclusion in sport will complement current faculty strengths at those areas. Dr. Melton has published in 14 peer reviewed journals and has sport industry experience with NIKEGOLF, the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, and Thrasher Soccer at Rice University in Houston. Her teaching strengths include sport policy, human resources and diversity management in sport organizations, sport marketing research, and sport sales and fundraising.
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MS, Kinesiology emphasis Sport Management, Texas A&M University, 2009 g
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N E W F A C U LT Y
Amber G. Young
Assistant Professor, Operations & Information Management An assistant professor of Operations & Information Management, Amber Young explores how different types of organizations forge and evolve their identities using digital and print media. She also studies the role of website design, social media, and other channels in identity-related social and organizational outcomes. In a recent paper, she compared the impact of traditional and social media in discourse involving the Stop Online Piracy Act legislation. A PhD graduate in Management Information Systems at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in project management, and has taught data base management and advanced mathematics.
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PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Oklahoma, 2015
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BSEd, Secondary Mathematics Education, University of Oklahoma, 2009
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Yao Yu
Assistant Professor, Accounting Yao Yu’s research focus in behavioral accounting includes investor judgment and decision making. A PhD graduate in accounting from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Dr. Yu brings a strong research agenda to Isenberg, including articles under review at top-tier journals and five additional research projects at different stages. Dr. Yu’s dissertation and a subsequent article investigated faithful representation, measurement similarity, and financial information comparability. Her research has also examined how differences in detailed disclosure and measurements affect financial information comparability and investment decisions. Dr. Yu’s teaching focuses on financial accounting.
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PhD, Accounting, Nanyang Technological University, 2015
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BBA, Financial Management, Xiamen University, 2009
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NEW LECTURERS
Michele Burch
Operations & Information Management A lecturer at Isenberg, Michele Burch has taught Operations & Information Management courses at Isenberg for the past eight years. She has taught lean systems, quality management, management science, supply chain management, high performance organizations, process management, and facilities planning. A graduate of Isenberg’s PhD program in Management Science (she also earned an MBA from Isenberg), Dr. Burch has research interests in lean systems, continuous improvement, idea systems, and employee involvement. She is also Strategic Operations and Organizational Development consultant to FloDesign Sonics, a start-up in Wilbraham, Massachusetts that employs acoustics in filtering blood and other fluids.
EDUCATION PhD, Management Science and Organizations Studies, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 2008 g
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MBA, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 1996
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BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1992
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Ginnie Gardiner Finance
A lecturer in Finance, Ginnie Gardiner teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in that discipline. A PhD graduate of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, Dr. Gardiner does research in real estate, where, as a lifetime member of the American Real Estate Society, she has published in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research, and other leading journals. She comes to Isenberg from the University College of the Cayman Islands, where she was an associate professor of business.
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PhD, Business Administration, The University of Georgia, 1988
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MBA, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981
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Matthew Glennon Marketing
A lecturer in Marketing, Matthew Glennon has more than 20 years of industry experience in sales, account management, product management, and upper-level management. He will teach Mastering Marketing sections in Isenberg’s new, state-of-the-art Fundamentals of Marketing course, which incorporates team-based learning, analytics, and real-world problem solving. A 2003 graduate of Isenberg’s Professional MBA Program, Glennon has been a regional manager since 2008 with QualiChem, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of water treatment chemicals and metalworking fluid solutions. In that role he has expanded sales in New England and opened new markets in New York, New Jersey, and Canada. He has taught marketing courses at Isenberg since 2011.
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MBA, Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, 2003
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BS, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1990
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Renee Pratt
Operations & Information Management A lecturer in Operations & Information Management, Renee Pratt is teaching the course, Introduction to Business Information Systems—a requirement for all Isenberg sophomores. A PhD graduate of Florida State University, she is an expert in the diffusion of IT in healthcare and has published widely in that area. As a Fulbright Grant Scholar awardee, Dr. Pratt conducted research that explored postadoption behaviors among electronic medical records in German hospitals. Dr. Pratt was most recently at Washington and Lee University.
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NEW LEADERSHIP
BERTHIAUME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Birton Cowden
Associate Director A lecturer in Management and Strategy, Birton Cowden is Associate Director of Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Cowden teaches courses in entrepreneurship and strategy and his research explores disruptive innovation, entrepreneurship, and other topics. Through the Berthiaume Center, Dr. Cowden is creating and implementing a curriculum and extracurricular activities that are energizing an entrepreneurial culture at Isenberg and UMass. Dr. Cowden earned his PhD from the Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business and his MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. As an instructor at the Cook School, he taught courses in entrepreneurship and international business.
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BS, Business Administration/BA, Political Science, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, 2005 g
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Charles J. Johnson Associate Director
A Clinical Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship, Charles Johnson is Associate Director for Mentorships and New Venture Services with Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. A partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston, Mr. Johnson draws on 32 years as a corporate lawyer in his course, New Venture Financing. He is also marshaling his extensive network of contacts in Greater Boston’s business community to forge mentorship relationships for Isenberg and UMass students with experienced entrepreneurs. Charles Johnson has been a frequent guest lecturer at MIT Sloan, Babson College, and Bentley University. He has a JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Founded in 1947, the Isenberg School of Management on the University of Massachusetts flagship Amherst campus has over 42,000 alumni in 86 countries. Isenberg offers its AACSB accredited courses to 4,800 students on campus, online and in blended formats. The School’s 3500 undergraduates major in seven business disciplines, including industry specialties in sport management and hospitality and tourism management. Isenberg’s 1,400 graduate students earn the M.B.A., M.S., and PhD. Degrees. The Isenberg faculty has research strengths in alternative investments, quality management, large-scale networks, organizational change and culture and behavioral accounting. Isenberg’s undergraduate business program is ranked 36th by BusinessWeek, and 11th in the magazine’s Employer Survey. The Financial Times ranked Isenberg’s online MBA 11th worldwide.
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