Her research interests are primarily in the areas of earnings management, the effect of taxes on asset prices and state taxation. Her work has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Issues in Accounting Education and Journal of Accounting Education, among others.

His research focuses on agency issues in public corporations, corporate governance and executive compensation. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science and the Journal of Corporate Finance. Cicero’s research has also been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review and Businessweek. Before entering academia, he spent time practicing corporate law and served as a financial economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

His areas of expertise include payday lending, personal finance, banking, corporate finance and corporate governance. He is the author of more than 80 articles published in a variety of professional and academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Research, the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Research in Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics and the Journal of Banking & Finance.

Before coming to the Harbert College, he served as the founding director of the Analytics Research Center at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has been a visiting research scientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Gupta’s research interests include data analytics, healthcare informatics, sports analytics, and organizational and individual performance. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, IEEE Transactions, Information Systems Journal and Decision Support Systems. His recent research interests include the develop of algorithms to detect “fake news.”

His areas of interest include business analytics, statistics and quality and statistics process control. His research has appeared in such journals as Decision Sciences, Management Science, and the International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management. He is also the author of the book “Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement.”

Paradice has published more than 50 articles and book chapters on the use of information systems in support of managerial problem formulation. He has served on several corporate advisory boards and worked as a consultant.

Ferrell is president-elect of the Academy of Marketing Science and is the past president of the Academic Council of American Marketing Association and the former vice president of publications for the Academy of Marketing Science. His research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing and AMS Review, among others. Ferrell has written weekly business ethics summaries and reviews for the Wall Street Journal and has served as an expert witness in high profile ethics, legal and marketing cases.

Baker helped launch the $50,000 Tiger Cage student business pitch competition, which discovers and rewards the best early stage products, services or business concepts that emerge from Auburn University students. She also served as the director of the inaugural Auburn Regional Alabama Launchpad Competition, which enables entrepreneurs from a five-county area to compete for funding. Her academic research has appeared in top journals, including Academy of Management Journal, The Leadership Quarterly and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Before entering academia, she spent 11 years at 3M Corporation.

His areas of expertise include entrepreneurship and franchising, strategic management and supply chain management. Ketchen has written six books and more than 160 academic journal articles focusing on effective organizational management. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited more than 26,000 times by colleagues. He is the former chair of the board for Alabama Launchpad, a statewide competition for start-up businesses, and serves on the teaching team for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities at Florida State University. He is also part of a multidisciplinary teaching team for Auburn University’s graduate certificate in brewing science and operations. In 2018, Ketchen earned the Southeastern Conference’s Auburn Faculty Achievement Award.

Cegielski’s areas of expertise include information security, information technology innovation, business analytics and information technology strategy. He has authored more than 50 articles that have been published in international information systems journals, including Information & Management, Decision Support Systems and Information Systems Journal. He is also the co-author of the textbook “Introduction to Information Systems: Enabling and Transforming Business.” In 2006, with support from KPMG, Cegielski developed the nation’s first interdisciplinary information assurance program in a college of business.

His research explores the ways in which corporate governance structures, such as shareholders and boards, affect competition and strategic outcomes. Some of the foundations of his work include signaling theory, social network theory and tournament theory. Connelly is associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal and has been published by the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and the Journal of Management. His work has also been cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He two decades of corporate experience in engineering and international business include stints with Westinghouse and Hughes.

Bock, who joined the Harbert College in 2015, is an expert in marketing research, consumer behavior and relationship marketing. Her research focuses on customer relationships, gratitude and decision making. Bock’s work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Journal of Retailing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Psychology & Marketing and Journal of Consumer Marketing, among others. In 2016, Bock and her co-authors received the Best Article of the Year Award from the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice for their research on retirement decision making. Bock’s research and expertise have also been cited by a variety of media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, AL.com, HR Magazine and Retail Operations Insights.

Her areas of expertise include the global supply chain, offshoring decisions, sustainability in the supply chain, consumer responses to sustainable operations and regulatory and policy implications for supply chains. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and International Journal of Logistics Management, among others. Her recent media appearances have included interviews pertaining to potential labor strikes in the logistics sector, truck driver shortages, supply chain labor conditions and Amazon’s strategy pertaining to last-mile logistics.

His research has appeared in the International Journal of Business Logistics: Research and Applications, International Journal of Logistics Management, Journal of Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management Review. Gibson participates in executive education, corporate training and consulting projects, serving as a curriculum planner and instructor for Accenture’s Supply Chain Academy and delivering training programs for such organizations as IKEA, Ryder Integrated Logistics, Saturn, Unilever, WC Bradley and Transfreight. In his role as director of Auburn University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation, Gibson has coordinated an annual “State of the Retail Supply Chain” report examining industry trends.

His areas of expertise include logistics, marketing strategy, wholesaling and retailing, supply chain management, cross-cultural management and business partnerships. Richey’s research has been published in more than 70 peer-reviewed journals, including Business Horizons, Journal of Applied Psychology, Supply Chain Management Review, Journal of Operations Management and Journal of Business Logistics, among others. Before entering academia, he served in corporate managerial roles in procurement, sales, retail consulting, warehousing, finishing/manufacturing and logistics and supply chain operations for Scott Paper Co. and Genuine Parts Company’s S.P. Richards Division. (205) 310-5973, richey@auburn.edu

Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Frank Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. There, he was involved in a wide range of homeland security and counterterrorism strategies, policy initiatives and served as a principal advisor to Director Tom Ridge, directing the president’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. Cilluffo has publicly testified before Congress on numerous occasions, serving as a subject matter expert on policies related to counterterrorism, cyber threats, security and deterrence, weapons proliferation, organized crime, intelligence and threat assessments, emergency management and border and transportation security. Similarly, he works with U.S. allies and organizations such as NATO and Europol. He has presented at a number of bilateral and multilateral summits, including the U.N. Security Council, on cybersecurity and counter-terrorism. He has published extensively in academic, law, business and policy journals, as well as magazines and newspapers worldwide. His work has been published through ABC News, Foreign Policy, The Journal of International Security Affairs, The National Interest, Parameters, Politico, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Quarterly and The Washington Post.

He has published more than 200 research articles, many of them in the most prestigious journals in global change science, including four papers in Nature and Science. One of his studies, published March 10, 2016, in Nature, "The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere," for the first time looked at the net balance of the three major greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide—for every region of the earth's landmasses. He says it revealed, surprisingly, that human-induced emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from ecosystems overwhelmingly surpass the ability of the land to soak up carbon dioxide emissions.

His research interests include white-tailed deer ecology and management, wild pig ecology and management and wildlife nutrition. He is widely cited in professional journals and by media outlets such as Deer and Deer Hunting, Field and Stream and Scientific American.

He directs the EcoDogs program that uses detection dogs for ecological research, such as finding pythons in the Everglades and studying the black bear population in Alabama. His lab is broadly interested in the population ecology, species interactions and behavior of wildlife, especially mammalian predators and their prey. He is particularly interested in applying knowledge learned in the above areas to better conserve and restore species.

General topic areas include, parasite-host dynamics, primatology, wildlife disease ecology, vector-borne diseases, public health, and conservation biology. Zohdy is interested in the ecological and evolutionary drivers of disease in human and wildlife communities. Most of her research takes place in Madagascar, along the Gulf coast of Alabama, where she is taking a One Health approach to evaluate how anthropogenic disturbance influences vector-borne disease dynamics that threaten human and wildlife health.

It is anticipated that biobased industries, which includes wood processing, construction, chemicals and energy, bioplastics, and packaging will be our next area of significant economic growth. Our goal is to become a top research program that will lead the transformation of traditional industries into a new era with an emphasis on producing green chemicals, materials and biofuels from forestry. Via’s research is focused on advanced wood products processing, wood composites development, forest biorefinery and nanotechnology.