The University
Business Essentials I
Melissa Johnson Morgan, William A Reese Jr, Russell P. Robins, Karen M. Foust
Business Essentials II
James H. Biteman, William A. Reese Jr, Paul Hooper, Mary J. Waller
Advanced Marketing Strategy
Melissa Johnson Morgan, Edward C. Strong, Dan Padgett, William A. Mindak
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.
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.
Edward C. Strong, PhD
Information technology has been one of Professor Strong’s principal interests since both his father and grandfather were involved in the newspaper business. His undergraduate work in Psychology at Stanford University was heavily slanted towards communication, and his MBA and PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford were in Marketing. At the Freeman School he has taught all of the different courses within the Marketing area, and since 1978 he has also taught computer and information systems classes. As a result, one of Professor Strong’s ongoing interests is the impact of the digitization of the communications media on marketing management.
Dan Padgett, PhD
Dan Padgett is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He received his PhD in marketing from the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on marketing strategy and customer responses to pricing and promotion tactics, and has been published in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Advertising, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing. He has been a frequent presenter at both international and domestic conferences and has industry experience in personal selling. He has consulting experience on such topics as sales compensation, sales forecasting, retailing, and promotion strategy, and has had experience training domestic sales managers in company specific programs and internationally for the China Europe International Business School.
William A. Mindak, PhD
Dr. William A. Mindak (PhD from University of Illinois) has enjoyed a multifaceted career, much of it in the international area, as university teacher (in the last three years alone he has conducted EMBA programs in China, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador); administrator (he was the first director of Tulane's Executive MBA program); consultant (with multinational companies as LaFarge in France, General Mills in US) and researcher (he's interested in cross-cultural consumer behavior). He has taught at the University of Texas, Northwestern, Minnesota as well as Aix en Province and HEC in France.
