Faculty and Staff – Tulane University Online Master Certificate Programs in Business Management and Marketing

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The Master Certificate in Business/HR Management Faculty:

Business Essentials I
Melissa Johnson Morgan, William A. Reese Jr, Russell P. Robins, Karen M. Foust

Business Essentials II
James H. Biteman, Salvatore Cantale, Paul Hooper, Mary J. Waller

Advanced HR Strategy
Marla Baskerville, Arup Varma, Christopher McCusker, Alice Williams McGrath

Melissa Johnson Morgan, PhD

Melissa Johnson Morgan is an adjunct professor at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business, University of Southern Queensland. She has also taught marketing to undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD students in Australia, Malaysia, South America, North America, China, and Taipei. Melissa completed her PhD in the fields of sports marketing and consumer behavior and has a continued interest in both these areas. She also enjoys working in the areas of experiential consumption, eMarketing, and eCommerce, and teaching subject matter such as Global Marketing, eCommerce, Marketing Strategy and Consumer Behavior. Melissa has worked as a consultant for on-line curriculum development at several major universities both in Australia and the USA. She has published academic papers in European Advances in Consumer Research and Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research, Gold Coast.

William A Reese Jr., PhD

Bill Reese has been an assistant professor of finance at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business since 1997. He holds an MBA from Virginia Tech, a PhD from the University of Arizona, and has published academic research papers in the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. Bill has ten years of work experience in insurance and commercial banking and is a chartered financial consultant. He has taught finance courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level for Tulane in New Orleans, China, and Colombia. For the past three years he has also taught financial planning courses through the NFL's educational development program to the New Orleans Saints.

Russell P. Robins, PhD

Russell Robins is Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Morton A. Aldrich Professor at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. Russell received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at San Diego. His research and teaching interests include: Econometrics, Macroeconomics, and Financial Economics. He has previously taught at Harvard University Summer School, University of California at San Diego, San Diego State University, and National University. Russell has also published academic papers in The Journal of Derivatives, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, the Journal of Forecasting, and Econometrica, among other journals.

Karen M. Foust, PhD

Karen Foust is a clinical professor of business administration at Tulane University. She worked in public accounting, private industry and nonprofit organizations for ten years before earning her PhD in accounting. Foust has won several teaching awards during her decade of teaching. She has published and presented several academic papers in nonprofit accounting, financial accounting, managerial accounting, and pedagogical issues.

James H. Biteman, PhD

For the past nine years, Dr. Biteman has taught in international programs delivered to students in their home countries, including countries in Eastern Europe, Mexico, South America, Taiwan and China – and in programs presented “in-house.” Over the past seven years, he has received sixteen awards for teaching excellence, including three Outstanding Teacher awards. Dr. Biteman has guided clients and facilitated their management activities, including restructuring operations in Latin America for an international insurance company and strategic planning and implementation assistance to a global provider of oilfield services. Dr. Biteman has also provided valuation assessment and testimony, including damages for restraint of trade and has carried line management responsibility for global enterprises in multiple industries with responsibilities ranging from management of research and development to plant management.

Dr. Biteman attended Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration where he received his Doctor of Business Administration. Special Field: Organizational Behavior. Dissertation: Management of Rapid Organizational Change. Dr. Biteman also attended Purdue University where he received his BS in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Biteman has also completed advanced studies in polymer chemistry and education.

Salvatore Cantale, PhD

Salvatore Cantale, PhD is a professor at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Dr. Cantale has a bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from the University of Catania (Italy), and a Master’s Degree in Management and a PhD in Finance from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). Before moving to New Orleans, Dr. Cantale was a member of the faculty at City University of Hong Kong, and has been visiting faculty at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Erasmus University (The Netherlands), and Fudan University (China), and has worked in a large investment house and M&A in London (U.K.). His research interests include the way corporations structure their liabilities and choose their financing options, and his research papers explore these possibilities. Salvatore is also head of the research department of the Italian Association of Bankers (ABI).

Paul Hooper, PhD

Paul Hooper, PhD has taught in Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business graduate programs since 1998. He currently teaches in the various Executive MBA programs of the Freeman School. Professor Hooper holds a PhD from Tulane University. He has published five books in the areas of financial accounting, auditing, and information systems, and over twenty articles in accounting, business, finance, and information systems journals. In addition to Tulane, Professor Hooper has taught at the Universities of Delaware, Virginia, Missouri, and New Orleans, as well as at Pepperdine University.

Mary J. Waller, PhD

Mary J. Waller, PhD is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business. Professor Waller earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin, her MS degree in Management Science from the University of Colorado at Denver, and her undergraduate degree in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to obtaining her graduate degrees, Professor Waller worked for several firms, including Amoco Corporation, 3M, Delta Air Lines, and Columbine Systems.

Professor Waller’s research focuses on team dynamics under time pressure. Her field research has included studies of commercial airline flight crews, nuclear power plant crews, and air traffic controllers, and has been funded by NASA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Professor Waller’s research has received awards from both the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. Her work has been published in various journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review. She currently serves on the Executive Boards of the Organizational Behavior Division and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management, and on the Review Boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science journals.

Professor Waller has taught undergraduate, graduate, and executive university classes for over 10 years, teaching classes ranging in size from 7 to 600. Subjects she has taught include Leadership, Introduction to Management, Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Group Dynamics, Project Management, and Organizational Behavior. She has consulted for numerous organizations, including Brackenridge Hospital (Austin, TX), the Federal Aviation Administration, Archer Daniel Midlands Company (ADM), and NASA.

Marla Baskerville, MEd

Marla Baskerville is currently completing her doctorate in Organizational Behavior at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Prior to attending Tulane, Ms. Baskerville received a Master’s in Counseling from the University of Georgia and a BS in Psychology from Howard University. She has also worked as a marketing manager at an affinity marketing company in New York City.

Arup Varma, PhD

Dr. Varma is Indo-US Professor of Management Studies in the Institute of Human resources and Employment Relations at the School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. He has served as the Director of the Institute, and also as Chair of the HR department. Dr. Varma received his PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University, an MS in HR from XLRI (India) and a BS in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta. He has published numerous papers in leading journals, and has presented over 50 papers at leading management, psychology and international HR conferences. Dr. Varma has won several awards for teaching and research.

Christopher McCusker, PhD

Dr. McCusker is a Clinical Professor of Organizational Behavior at Tulane University. He received his PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he won a “Dissertation Research Award” from the American Psychological Association. Dr. McCusker has also served on the faculty of Yale School of Management and Columbia Business School. He has taught subjects including organizational behavior and human resource management, leadership, negotiation, business ethics, power and politics, and cross-cultural management.

Alice Williams McGrath, MA, SPHR, CFCC

Ms. McGrath has extensive experience as an HR executive, senior manager and consultant. She has held positions in human resource policy, management and operations in both the private and public sectors. She is President of McGrath HR Associates, LLC, a Human Capital Development company.

Ms. McGrath is a graduate of the University of Georgia with an MA in Business Administration, Human Resources Management, and a BBA in Industrial Relations. She is accredited by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) as a Senior Professional in Human Resources and is an experienced Employment Disputes Mediator certified by the Justice Center of Atlanta. In addition, Ms. McGrath is a certified Franklin-Covey Coach specializing in corporate and personal goal setting and attainment.

Alice McGrath is a faculty fellow at Tulane University where she teaches human resources courses in both the Business Studies and Casino/Resort Studies programs through the School of Continuing Studies. She facilitates the SHRM Professional Development Courses for Tulane University and conducts the Master in ROI Methodology Certificate Program at Villanova University. She is a partner in the ROI Institute as well as a member of SHRM and the American Society for Training and Development.