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About
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Terri
Albert, Ph.D. - Dr. T. Albert’s research
and teaching focus is e-business marketing. She has multiple
publications (scholarly articles, conference presentations,
and an academic text) in the application of technology in
e-business. Dr. Albert has been teaching Digital Marketing
(graduate level) for seven years and the undergraduate course
for four years. She developed and conducted three Internet
conferences for the business and academic communities. Technology
and its implications for marketing, legal, and information
management were the focus of the conferences. Additionally,
she co-founded an e-business outreach program with another
faculty member. Dr. Albert is also active in the development
of public policy and high tech products and services. She
is specifically involved with the local, urban communities
and their various technology initiatives.
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Sudip
Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Operations and Information Management in the School of
Business, University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D.
in Management Science and Systems, with a minor in Industrial
Engineering, from SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Bhattacharjee's research
interests lie in distributed systems, multi-objective optimization,
information systems economics and related issues of intellectual
property rights, and supply chains. His research has been
published or is forthcoming in various journals such as INFORMS
Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems,
Journal of Business, Journal of Law and Economics, Communications
of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, Decision Support Systems, and
other journals and conference proceedings. He received the
School of Business Innovation in teaching award in 2002, the
Graduate teaching award in 2004, and the Best research paper
award in 2005. His research has been highlighted in various
media outlets such as Connecticut Public Television, Business
Week, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Der Spiegel,
Christian Science Monitor, slashdot.org, Business 2.0 Web
Guide, and others.
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Wayne
Bragg is an independent business consultant and educator.
At the University of Connecticut, Wayne teaches Cost Analysis
for the Executive MBA, Part-Time MBA and the Executive Education
Programs. He is also a facilitator for the Family Business
Program. Wayne holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut
and was recognized as “outstanding professor”
by the Stamford EMBA Class of 2005. Prior to joining the University,
Wayne enjoyed a 30+ year career at United Technologies Corporation,
most recently as Controller at Sikorsky Aircraft. His responsibilities
ranged from coaching senior executives in financial planning,
capital budgeting, and supply chain strategy, to identifying
and developing productivity and quality initiatives to improve
operating performance. As company project leader, working
collaboratively with Price Coopers and A.T. Kearney, he led
several financial system implementations and strategic studies.
In his private consulting business he provides business coaching
and training for small business owners. His areas of interest
are business plan development, performance measurement, profitability
analysis and project management.
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Timothy
J. Dowding, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor-in-Residence
for the Uconn Operations & Information Management Department
in Stamford, CT. Dr. Dowding received his Ph.D. in Instructional
Media & Technology from UConn, with a minor in Cognitive Psychology.
He focused on improving the usability and effectivness of
software interfaces and functional design. As an Associate
Professor with UCONN, his teaching duties focus on undergraduate
courses in business information systems, database design,
and operations management. He has over 22 years experience
in training and education for adults, specializing in instructional
design and development of large-scale training programs for
Fortune 500 corporations including G.E. Capital, American
Express, Hoffman-LaRoche, Johnson & Johnson. In addition,
he has completed projects for the U.S. Navy, State of Connecticut,
and Canadian government. He also was founder and president
of a corporation that provided computer software training
services throughout Connecticut over a seven-year period.
Dr. Dowding is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and currently
holds the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserves (Retired).
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Dr.
Paulo B. Goes,
Ph.D. is a Professor of Operations and Information Management
and a Gladstein Professor of Information Technology and Innovation.
A former Associate Director of the Connecticut Information
Technology Institute, he played a fundamental role in the
conceptualization and implementation of edgelab. He is director
of the endowed Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative (TECI)
and from 1996 to 1999 he was the Technology Director of UConn’s
School of Business. He has been teaching information technology
courses for UConn since 1990 and has received several teaching
awards. His research interests include Internet technologies
and electronic commerce, design and evaluation of models for
e-business, online auctions, database recovery/security, computer
networking and technology infrastructure.
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Ram
D. Gopal,
Ph.D. is a GE Endowed Professor of Business and Associate
Professor of Operations and Information Management in the
School of Business, University of Connecticut. He currently
serves as the Ph.D. director for the department. His current
research interests include economics of information systems
management, data security, economic and ethical issues relating
to intellectual property rights, and multimedia applications.
His research has appeared in Management Science, Operations
Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems
Research, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Management Information
Systems, Decision Support Systems, and other journals and
conference proceedings. He is the recipient of the School
of Business Undergraduate teaching award in 2002 and the School
of Business Graduate teaching award in 2003.
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Wynd
Harris is a member of the University of Connecticut and
the GE edgelab marketing faculties. At UConn Stamford, she
is the leader of both the global marketing and business intelligence
marketing initiatives for the professional MBA program. In
addition, she is the former director of eLearning for the
campus and a founder of the faculty eLearning support lab.
Doctor Harris’ articles have appeared in the Journal
of Consumer Research, the Journal of Advertising, and Advances
in Consumer Research. She has been a consultant to GE, Exxon-Mobil,
IBM and number of smaller firms and organizations. She currently
serves on the broad of directors for the Westchester-Fairfield
Promotional Marketing Association. Before coming to UConn,
she was a Yale Post Doctoral Fellow, Chair of the Marketing
Department and Director of the Masters of Health Administration
at Quinnipiac University. She worked in public administration,
healthcare, and telecommunications for a number of firms and
public organizations before becoming a college professor.
Her current research interest are in the areas of brand management,
CRM, new product development, and global marketing.
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Wei-Kuang
Huang,
Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence of the Uconn
Operations & Information Management Department. He received
his Ph.D. in Computer Information System and MBA from Rutgers
University, NJ. He teaches web application development, systems
analysis and design, database management and business programming
at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has more than
5 years industrial consultation experience with an expertise
in web development and project integration. Dr. Huang's main
research area includes data security, access control policy
and workflow management. His research appears in Journal of
computer security, Journal of intelligent information system
and information security related conferences.
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Richard
E. Hurley earned a BA from Syracuse University, a MS in
Accounting from the State University of New York, a JD from
the Albany Law School, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the
University of Connecticut. In addition, he maintains a license
to practice as an Attorney and a Certified Public Accountant
in the State of New York. He is admitted to practice before
the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Federal Courts and the U.S. Supreme
Court. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Accounting
Department at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. Since
joining the University of Connecticut in 1999 he has taught
several diverse accounting topics including, Financial Statement
Analysis, Accounting and Security Fraud, Financial Accounting
and Reporting and Managerial Accounting. His research interest
includes Accounting Fraud, Detection of Fraudulent Financial
Reporting, Accounting for Internal Controls and Corporate
Governance and Data Mining within the financial regulatory
environment.
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Dr.
James R. Marsden serves as the UConn Director of edgelab.
He joined UConn in 1993 as Professor and Head of the Department
of Operations and Information Management. He was part of a
three-person team that conceptualized, initiated and oversaw
the development of the Connecticut Information Technology
Institute and is currently serving as its Executive Director.
He also developed and implemented the Treibick Electronic
Commerce Initiative. Dr. Marsden also serves as Director of
the OPIM/SBA MIS Research Lab and served for several years
as a member of the Advisory Board and Steering Committee of
CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research).
He currently serves on the edgelab Steering Committee which
selects and resources projects and oversees operations. Dr.
Marsden is a two-time winner of the Chancellor's Award for
IT Excellence and a co-winner of the Team Connecticut Program
Award from the Office of Economic Development.
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Norm
Moore
- Norman H. Moore holds a B.B.A., a M.B.A. from the University
of Alaska and a Ph.D. in Finance from Florida State University.
Prior to earning his Ph.D. he held a variety of management
positions including Treasurer and Controller of a Savings
and Loan Association, Vice-president of Finance for a large
mineral exploration company and CEO of a computer software
development and consulting firm. During his tenure in private
industry he also obtained the CPA and CMA designation. Since
earning his Ph.D. Norman has held faculty positions at the
University of Alaska, University of Texas, University of Notre
Dame and Indiana University. He currently teaches graduate
courses in global corporate finance and investments, advanced
corporate finance, short-term corporate finance, valuation
and financial modeling. Norman has published in many of the
top academic finance publications including the Journal
of Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Financial
Review, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, The
Journal of Futures Markets, and The Journal of Quantitative
Finance and Accounting. He has also published a variety
of articles in leading economic and international journals
and serves as Associate Editor for the Asian Banker’s
Digest and The Malaysian Journal of Management.
He is the author of 25 Key to Budgeting published
by the New York Times.
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Zhongju
(John) Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Information
Systems in the School of Business, University of Connecticut.
He received his Ph.D. in Management Science (with minors in
Economics and Operations Management) from University of Washington
Business School. He also holds a B.Sc. (with honors) in Computer
Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a M.Sc. in
Computer Science & Information Systems from National University
of Singapore. Dr. Zhang’s main research area is in the
area of e-business/e-commerce. His research interests include
pricing of data communication services, economics of information
technology/systems, product differentiation, technology adoption
and diffusion, data warehousing and data mining. His research
has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing, European
Journal of Operational Research, International Journal on
Human Computer Studies, Communications of the ACM, Electronic
Commerce Research and Applications, as well as in leading
international conference proceedings. He currently serves
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