Management and Leadership Issues

Jean Bartunek, Boston College
Jean Bartunick is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and a professor of Organizational Studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Her primary research interests concern the intersections of social cognition, conflict, and organizational change and transformation.

Sharon Lobel, Seattle University
Sharon Lobel is a professor of Management at the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. Her research interests are diversity, women in management, work and family, and team building.

Morela Hernandez, University of Washington
Morela Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Foster School of Business. Her research focuses on the role of leaders in instilling in followers a sense of responsibility to others, the effects of trust in leadership and management behaviors, and how self-identity is shaped by ethnicity, cultural origin, and gender.

Cynthia Stevens, University of Maryland
Cynthia Stevens is an associate professor of human resource management and organizational behavior at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on recruitment and interviewing, job search and choice, behavioral skills training effectiveness, and decision making in top management teams.

Minority- and Women-Entrepreneurship

Timothy Bates, Wayne State University
Timothy Bates is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Wayne State University. He is the author of more than five books and more than 80 journal articles on issues of African American entrepreneurship, minority business financing, and inner city economic development.

Alicia Robb, UC-Santa Cruz and Beacon Economics
Alicia Robb is a Senior Economist at Beacon Economics and a Research Associate at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research includes minority entrepreneurship, firm performance, discrimination in lending,
community development, and intergenerational links in self-employment.

Charles West, Dynamic Functions Consulting
Charles West, Ph.D. is the founder and Chairman of Dynamic Functions Consulting Group, a management consulting firm based in Atlanta. Prior to founding DFCG, he was the manager of Economic Development for the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn.

Robert Fairlie, UC-Santa Cruz
Robert Fairlie is a professor or economics and director of Masters Program in Applied Economics and Finance at University of California Santa Cruz. His research areas are Entrepreneurship, Labor Economics, Technology, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity.

Multicultural Marketing

Anthony G. Greenwald, University of Washington
Anthony G. Greenwald is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and an adjunct professor of marketing at the Foster School of Business. His research interests are unconscious cognition, implicit social cognition, prejudice, stereotypes, and attitudes and attitude change.

Sonya Grier, American University
Sonya Grier is an associate professor of marketing at the Kogod School of Business at American University. Her research converges on topics related to the influence of social context on consumers and the social impact of marketing efforts. Some of her current research investigates the relationship between marketing efforts, both corporate and social, and consumer health-related attitudes and behaviors.

David Luna, Baruch College, The City University of New York
David Luna is an associate professor of marketing at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He is an expert in language in marketing communications, advertising to bilingual consumers, consumer information processing, and culture and marketing.

Jerome Williams, University of Texas at Austin
Jerome Williams is the F.J. Heyne Centennial Professor in Communication at the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a joint appointment in the Center for African and African American Studies and he has served as Director of the Center for Marketplace Diversity at Howard University. His research interests cover a number of areas in the consumer marketing and advertising domains with particular emphasis on issues related to multicultural advertising.

Americus Reed, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Americus Reed is an associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the role consumers’ self concepts play in guiding buying decisions. He examines how social identity, social influence, values, attitudes and judgments interact in shaping purchase decisions and consumer behavior, but from a social psychology point of view.