Core Faculty

Vanderbilt business professors bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by their innovative and enlightening research. Known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching, you’ll gain cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together.

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Paul Chaney

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Accounting

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Paul Chaney joined the Owen faculty in 1984. His landmark study—which found direct correlation between public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company's market value—received significant national news coverage in the wake of the Andersen-Enron debacle.
Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
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Bill Christie

Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management in Finance; Faculty Director, Executive MBA; Professor of Law

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Bill Christie’s studies of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s concluded that Nasdaq market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research resulted in sweeping reform of the Nasdaq, introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules, and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants. Bill won first prize for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance based on this research. He is a five-time recipient of the EMBA Teaching award and was ranked either first or second among star faculty in each Business Week ranking from 1992 through 2000.
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Bruce Cooil

The Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management

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Bruce Cooil has wide-ranging business and academic experience as a statistical modeler. He has worked with health-care firms, including HCA, Solucient, TeamHealth, Tennessee Oncology, and LIFETEST creating models for the delivery of more effective health care services, and to develop forecasts of mortality and morbidity rates. In the area of marketing research, he has worked with Ipsos Loyalty and AT&T. Bruce has also written and consulted on medical malpractice and automobile insurance claims and indemnities, and has developed predictive insurance models for AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Video: Embracing Managerial Statistics
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Luke Froeb

William C. Oehmig Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise

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Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.
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Steve Hoeffler

Associate Professor of Marketing

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Steve Hoeffler is an expert in consumer products marketing, brand management and consumer behavior, including the marketing of "really new" (novel) products and the development of consumer preferences. He has also served a variety of marketing roles for NCR/AT&T and has consulted for Procter and Gamble, IBM and Fujitsu.
Video: Radically New Products
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Dawn Iacobucci

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing

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Dawn Iacobucci, who joined the Owen faculty in 2007 after spending the previous three years at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is a renowned expert on networks, customer satisfaction, service marketing and quantitative psychological research. A noted teacher and researcher, Iacobucci’s recent textbook, MM (Marketing Management), is quickly gaining critical acclaim.
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Mumin Kurtulus

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

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Mumin Kurtulus has presented at conferences worldwide, received the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award in 2006, the gold medal in the 2004 ECR Student Paper Competition and was a finalist for the EURO 2003 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize. His current research interests include supplier-retailer collaboration practices in the consumer goods industry with a focus on investigating recent supply chain collaboration practices such as collaborative forecasting and category captainship.
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Michael Lapré

E. Bronson Ingram Associate Professor of Operations Management

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Michael Lapré is an internationally known expert on organizational learning curves. He is primarily interested in empirical research on improving organizational performance. Michael has been awarded the Shingo Research Prize, the Stan Hardy Award, Wickham Skinner Awards for Best Paper presented at the annual conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at Owen.
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Brian McCann

Visiting Faculty in Strategic Management

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Brian McCann is an expert in strategic management and entrepreneurship. He joined the Owen faculty in 2009 after completing his PhD in strategic management from Purdue and is a co-author, with Luke Froeb, of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.
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David Owens

Clinical Professor of Business Strategy and Innovation; Faculty Director, Executive Development Institute

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David Owens’s research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the London Guardian and NPR’s Marketplace. His work in the area of business strategy, innovation process and product development has included engagements with NASA, LEGO, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has also performed product design consulting work for a variety of firms including Daimler Benz, Apple Computer, and Coleman Camping. Most recently, while on leave from Vanderbilt University, Owens served as CEO of Griffin Technology Inc., the largest consumer electronics firm in the MP3/iPod accessory market space.
Video: Strategic Innovation
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Kimberly Pace

Clinical Professor of Communication

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Kimberly Pace teaches courses in leadership communications and public relations at Owen and uses her formal training in the performing arts to bring a unique perspective to business education and practice. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served in marketing and communications roles for two international faith-based non-profit agencies located in Nashville, served as a communications consultant and has taught branding and public relation seminars for professional communicators.
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David Parsley

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Finance

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David Parsley's distinguished record of achievement in the field of international finance spans both the academic and government communities. He joined the Owen faculty in 1990 after serving in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is an expert in exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets and labor markets.
Video: Business, Big Macs and the World Economy
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Rangaraj Ramanujam

Associate Professor of Management

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Rangaraj "Ranga" Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of errors in high-risk work settings. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Medical Care, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other journals.
Video: Reducing Errors in the Health Care Environment
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Gary Scudder

Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management; Faculty Director, International Programs

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Gary Scudder earned the Dean's Teaching Award in 1994 and the James E. Webb Teaching Award in 1999. Through the course of his career, he has consulted with a number of large corporations including United Airlines, 3M, IDS, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Philips Corporation, Motorola, Novartis, RR Donnelly, Air Products, the Methodist General Board of Discipleship, and Bridgestone/Firestone primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning.
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Tim Vogus

Assistant Professor of Management

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Tim Vogus joined the Owen faculty in 2004 and specializes in such topics as leading teams and organizations, as well as negotiation. Prior to his academic career, he was a business process analyst for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he worked on competitive intelligence systems and multiple system implementations.
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Richard Willis

Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Associate Professor of Accounting

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Richard Willis has extensive experience in the accounting profession as a corporate accountant and market research analyst, as well as a distinguished body of academic research in many leading publications. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand, LLP, where he developed materials pertaining to accounting for stock-based compensation.

Affiliated Faculty

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Paul Seguin

Visiting Professor of Finance

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Paul J. Seguin, PhD, is (Visiting) Professor of Finance and Statistics. Dr. Seguin has published over 25 peer-reviewed publications in the top journals in Finance, Economics and Real Estate and has literally written the book on Quantitative Skills for MBA students on behalf of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.