Cal Poly Experts Directory: Business

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Accounting

Douglas Cerf, Ph.D., CPA
Associate Professor of Accounting
(805) 756-2871/2704   e-mail: dcerf@calpoly.edu

Member, American Accounting Association.
Author of material on environmental liabilities.
Recipient, Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, College of Business (1991-92).
Areas of expertise:
* financial accounting
* capital market and financial analyst reaction to financial disclosures
* environmental liabilities

M. Zafar Iqbal, Ph.D., CPA
Professor of Accounting
(805) 756-2977/2704   e-mail: ziqbal@calpoly.edu

Certified management accountant.
Certified internal auditor.
Author of International Accounting and many articles and papers.
Founding president, Institute of Management Accountants, Central Coast Chapter.
Member, board of trustees, University of Nebraska School of Accounting.
Recipient, Certificate of Distinguished Service, Institute of Management Accountants.
Areas of expertise:
* international accounting
* advanced cost and managerial accounting
* intermediate accounting
* accounting control systems
* international business
* global economy
* financial reporting

Earl Keller, Ph.D., CPA
Professor of Accounting and Director, College of Business Graduate Programs
(805) 756-2588/2704  e-mail: eckeller@calpoly.edu

Author of materials on not-for-profit accounting and reporting, public utility accounting and ratemaking, securities regulations.
Member, American Institute of CPA's SEC Regulations Committee, American Institute of CPA's Accounting Practice CPA Exam Committee (1979-82), American Institute of CPA's Committee on State and Local Government Accounting (1978-81); Editorial Board, Accounting Horizons.
Expert witness, federal and local courts on accounting, auditing, SEC and public utility matters.
Areas of expertise:
* financial accounting
* not-for-profit accounting
* federal securities regulations
* financial reporting issues

Charles R. (Tad) Miller, Ph.D., CPA
Professor and Area Coordinator of Accounting
(805) 756-2831/2704 / e-mail: cmiller@calpoly.edu

Author of materials on savings and loans, principal-agent relationships in audit firms.
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, California Society of CPAs.
Areas of expertise:
* intermediate accounting
* auditing
* savings and loans
* auditors' business risk

Jack Robison, Ph.D., CPA
Professor of Accounting
(805) 756-2931/1384  e-mail: jrobison@calpoly.edu

President, Central Coast Chapter of CalCPA (2000-01), Chair of Tax Committee.
Member, board of directors, CalCPA (1999-present & 1991-93), Committee on Taxation, and American Accounting Association.
Consultant on various tax issues.
Recipient, Ernst & Young Teaching Excellence Award (1997), Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, College of Business, (1986, 1989, 1992, 1995) and California Society of CPAs Faculty Merit Award (1994).
Author of more than 30 articles on various tax topics.
Areas of expertise:
* taxation
* independent contractors
* Subchapter S corporations
* individual tax matters

The Economy

Phillip Fanchon, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
(805) 756-1766/2783  e-mail: pfanchon@calpoly.edu

Former consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy and research economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Areas of expertise:
* the state and future of the economy
* international trade
* economic theory
* labor economics, statistics and modeling
* economics impact studies, feasibility studies and forecasts

Michael Marlow, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
(805) 756-1764/2783 e-mail: mmarlow@calpoly.edu

Senior financial economist for the U.S. Treasury Dept. 1983-88, responsible for forecasting real output and inflation, conducting research on the economic effects of budget deficits and advising the undersecretary for monetary affairs and the assistant secretary for economic policy.
Economic consultant since 1988.
Areas of expertise:
* the state and future of the economy
* public finance
* monetary theory and policy
* economics of tax policy and federal spending policy
* economics of Social Security
* economics of education reform

Kenneth D. Riener, Ph.D.
Professor and Area Coordinator of Finance
(805) 756-1763/1472  e-mail: kriener@calpoly.edu

* the stock market
* initial public offerings -- IPOs
* mergers and acquisitions

International Business

Allan Bird, Ph.D.
Professor of Global Strategy and Law
(805) 756-7344/2704  e-mail: abird@calpoly.edu

Fellow, Fulbright graduate research, Japan (1987).
Author of three books including Executive no Kenkyu (research on Japanese executives, 1988, in Japanese).
Author of 21 articles on Japanese business and management.
Member, Academy of International Business and Academy of Management.
Member and vice president, Association of Japanese Business Studies.
Member, editorial board, Journal of Management Inquiry and Venture Japan.
Co-author of international assignment software "Expatriate Profile."
Areas of expertise:
* Japanese business and management
* Japanese human resources management
* foreign subsidiary human resources
* top management careers and compensation
* Japan-U.S. trade issues
* cross-cultural management
* international negotiations
* business-government relations
* expatriate selection and management
* overseas subsidiaries
* executive teams
* careers and new science perspectives

J. Michael Geringer, Ph.D.
Professor of Global Strategy and Law
(805) 756-1755  e-mail: mgeringe@calpoly.edu

Service on university faculties in the United States, Canada, Korea, Indonesia, Finland, Hungary, Africa, and Australia.
Author, co-author or editor of more than 100 papers, three books, and six monographs.
Recipient, 10 "best paper" awards and numerous teaching awards, including the Cal Poly university distinguished teacher award.
Consultant for business and government on five continents, including several Fortune 500 firms and many smaller, technology-based and international firms.
Member, Licensing Executives Society, Strategic Management Society, Mensa International, Academy of International Business, and Academy of Management.
Areas of expertise:
* international business
* corporate strategy
* joint ventures
* strategic alliances
* industry and competitor analysis
* strategic management of human resources
* mergers, acquisitions & divestitures
* management of technology & knowledge

John A. McKinstry, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
(805) 756-2097/2260   e-mail: jmckinst@calpoly.edu

Fulbright scholar, Japan (1982-83).
Visiting professor, University of Kyushu, Japan (1982-83).
Resident director, CSU International Program--Japan (1988-89).
Fulbright scholar and instructor, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (2000-01).
Author of Jinsei Annai: Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column (1991).
Co-author of Who Rules Japan? The Inner Circles of Economic and Political Power (1995).
Author of "Fortune telling in Japan" in Mangajin (May 1994).
Author of nine entries for The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management (forthcoming).
Areas of expertise:
* Japanese culture and society
* Japanese industry and economy
* Japanese social institutions (family, education and religion)
* effects of technical innovations in modern societies
* social change and industrial society
* global ethnic and race relations and conflict (including in the states of the former Yugoslavia)

Management

Unny Menon, Ph.D.
Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
(805) 756-1180/2341  e-mail: umenon@calpoly.edu

Chartered professional engineer, United Kingdom.
Fellow, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, and senior member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Author of Concurrent Engineering and several papers in journals including International Journal of Product Research, International Journal of Automation & Integrated Manufacturing, and Engineering Optimization.
Consultant on system design and expert witness on business productivity and performance audits.
Areas of expertise:
* rapid prototyping
* integrated product development
* concurrent engineering
* cycle time reduction
* business re-engineering to improve performance
* enabling manufacturing companies to compete
* training for managers and technical staff
* facilitating executive decision making

Donald E. Morgan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
(805) 756-2341   e-mail: dmorgan@calpoly.edu

Consultant to Pertamina Oil Co., Indonesia, in continuing education.
Developed conceptual design of space habitation for 10,000 for NASA.
Member, American Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Human Factors Society.
Areas of expertise:
* industrial and municipal wastes disposal
* grey water purification and utilization
* salt water desalination
* waste treatment and renewable energy
* management
* space habitations
* maintenance management
* business re-engineering
* product quality management
* mathematical modallins
* desalination and wastewater reclamation
* human factors and ergonomics

B. Christine Shea, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Speech Communication
(805) 756-2909/2553 / e-mail: cshea@calpoly.edu

Author or co-author of more than 30 papers, articles, and book chapters on organizational behavior, gender issues and communication.
Reviewer for Management Communication Quarterly.
Consultant and speaker for business, education, and service organizations.
Member, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, National Communication Association, International Communication Association, and Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.
Areas of expertise:
* organizational due process systems
* organizational justice/fairness
* employee participation programs
* gender issues in the workplace
* women's employment
* sexual harassment
* sex discrimination
* male-female communication
* organizational and management communication

Plastic Products & Packaging

David Braun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
(805) 756-1464/2781 e-mail: dbraun@calpoly.edu
Web: http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ and 
http://www.chipcenter.com/eexpert/dbraun/main.html

Researcher in polymer electronics, including work at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1992-1996).
Areas of expertise:
* semi-conducting polymers -- plastics that conduct electricity
* polymer light-emitting diodes -- plastics that emit light
* polymer photodiodes and solar cells -- plastics that detect light and produce electricity
* future products that could use electricity-conducting plastics, including flat, lightweight and flexible computer monitors and television screens, flexible electronic circuits, image sensors and plastic solar cells

Larry W. Gay, Ed.D.
Professor of Industrial Technology and Director of Packaging Program
(805) 756-2058/2704  e-mail: lgay@calpoly.edu

Member, Society of Plastics Engineers and Institute of Packaging Professionals.
Consultant to TRW, SONOCO, Coors and others, including more than 75 small companies.
Artios CAD and Konsburg sample table experience.
Areas of expertise:
* plastics -- products and tool design, material selection, and manufacturing processes
* packaging design, material selection, and testing
* high-speed video testing for solving problems with manufacturing lines and tools
* display packaging

Statistics

Steven Rein
Professor of Statistics
(805) 756-2941
srein@calpoly.edu
Personal Web page: click here

Areas of expertise
* correlation and regression
* errors in statistics sampling