Underscoring its commitment to providing its students with the very best in thought leadership, Fisher College of Business proudly welcomed its new faculty members for the 2016-17 academic year.

These new additions will further enhance the blend of theory and practice that distinguishes the Fisher curriculum and elevate the college as a leading source of academic research.

Department of Finance

Benjamin Bennett
Benjamin Bennett

Benjamin Bennett
Visiting Assistant Professor

Benjamin Bennett joined Fisher in 2016 as a visiting assistant professor after earning a PhD in Finance from Arizona State’s WP Carey School of Business. His research interests include executive compensation and corporate governance. Ben teaches Investments at the undergraduate level at Fisher.

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Mary Beth McCormick


Mary Beth McCormick
Senior Lecturer

Mary Beth McCormick joined the Finance Department as a Senior Lecturer in 2016. She has extensive industry experience in institutional investing and commercial real estate. Mary Beth was responsible for directing the real estate investments for Ohio Public Employees Retirement System for many years.

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Kennia Papadakis


Kennia Papadakis
Senior Lecturer

Kennia (MBA '03) spent 18 years working in a variety of industries. She started her career as an Industrial Engineer specializing in process improvement and operations management in Venezuela’s Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industries. She later joined Emerson Electric Corp – a multinational, diversified industrials corporation, where she held positions in logistics management, international business development, marketing and product management, new product development and corporate development and strategic planning. Her areas of expertise include business and corporate strategy, corporate finance, new product/new service development and business development in mature and emerging markets.

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Michael Schwert


Michael Schwert
Visiting Assistant Professor

Mike Schwert joined the finance faculty from Stanford University where he pursued his PhD in Finance. Mike’s research spans corporate finance, banking, and credit risk. In his research to date, he explores the ways credit market frictions affect behavior of borrowers and lenders, market equilibria and the pricing of securities. Mike will be teaching Undergraduate Corporate Finance.

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Jim Sexton
Jim Sexton


Jim Sexton
Senior Lecturer

Jim Sexton joined Fisher after a 35-year career with JPMorgan Chase and acquired affiliates. At Chase, Sexton rose to managing director in the Asset Management division where he held positions as an equity analyst, equity portfolio manager, fixed income portfolio manager, supervised fixed income and counterparty risk and worked in multi-asset portfolio management.

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Shaojun Zhang


Shaojun Zhang
Visiting Assistant Professor

Shaojun Zhang joins the Department of Finance faculty from the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business in 2014. Shaojun’s research spans the areas of asset pricing, international finance and macro finance. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from Peking University. She teaches Derivatives at HKU and will be teaching Undergraduate Investments, a required course for Fisher finance majors in Spring 2017.

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Department of Management & Human Resources

Charles Buchanan
Charles Buchanan

Charles Buchanan
Senior Lecturer

Charles Buchanan (EMBA, Ohio State) joins MHR as a senior lecturer. Charles recently retired after 16 years with the Ohio National Guard where he rose to the rank of Major. Charles has extensive experience as a military leader and teaching leadership to military personnel. He will teach graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior and leadership.

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Trish Gorman
Trish Gorman


Trish Gorman
Senior Lecturer

Dr. Gorman will teach the core undergraduate strategy course and will serve as an Innovation Expert with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where her focus will be on translating research that brings the Center’s rigorous academic insights to the attention of practitioners around the world. She served on the faculty at Columbia Business School, as academic director of the Global Consulting Practicum at the Wharton School, and dean of the Jack Welch Management Institute.

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  • Open/Close Tell us about your current research and your research interests.

    My research focuses on organizational growth and in particular examines the internal processes and analytical tools managers and leaders use to determine and evaluate their growth strategies. My work spans the boundaries between academia, consulting and business practice, and I enjoy translating rigorous academic research to make it more accessible to thoughtful practitioners.

  • Open/Close What makes for a great classroom experience for students?

    A great classroom experience is engaging, interactive, challenging and useful. I emphasize the application of concepts to real problems and situations to help bring them to life, and approach my classes with different student learning styles in mind. Especially in teaching strategy, it is easy to discuss concepts at a theoretical level, so I strive to make connections with the real world and to demonstrate why topics like strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth matter in our daily lives .

  • Open/Close What attracted you to Fisher?

    Fisher houses a community of scholars who are conducting first class research, and also are positively impacting the business community through the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Operational Excellence and many other connections. This emphasis on research and business impact, combined with their dedication to teaching and strong curriculum development--including initiatives to add new courses in data analytics and innovation--is very attractive to me.

  • Open/Close What are your interests or hobbies outside of work?

    I enjoy running, tennis, skiing and other sports. Whenever possible I get outdoors to enjoy the changing seasons and to explore new places.

Tim Judge
Timothy Judge


Timothy Judge
Professor and Joseph A. Alutto Chair

Tim Judge joins Fisher as the inaugural holder of the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness. Tim is one of the most prolific and influential scholars in organizational behavior and human resource management. He has published more than 150 journal articles and several dozen more book chapters on topics including personality, attitudes, selection, and of course, leadership. Tim will be working on the initiative to develop a leadership brand for Fisher's academic and research programs.

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John Schaffner


John Schaffner
Senior Lecturer

John Schaffner's career began on the tour bus of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis where he served as his tour manager for five years. From there he attended Columbia Business School and subsequently, Teachers College where he earned an MBA and Certification in Executive Coaching, respectively. Schaffner will be teaching an HR Survival course called Business Excellence 2, and three Organizational Coaching courses: Introduction to Organizational Coaching, Advanced Organizational Coaching and Developing Coaches and Leaders.

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  • Open/Close Tell us about your current research and your research interests.

    I'm keenly interested in coaching, culture and coaching cultures.

  • Open/Close What makes for a great classroom experience for students?

    One in which students practice thinking differently and embrace the discomfort that can be learning something new, differen and opposable.

  • Open/Close What attracted you to Fisher?

    While leading the Global Training & Development team at Abercrombie & Fitch, I got the opportunity to speak with Professor Ray Noe's class. Not only was I impressed, but I was drawn to the practitioner-academic environment of Fisher.

  • Open/Close What are your interests or hobbies outside of work?

    My career started as a jazz musician Wynton Marsalis' tour bus in the 1990s. There I served as his road manager, taking his tours out globally as a naive 20-something. Getting that opportunity to see the world and be exposed to one of the greatest cultural thinkers (and practitioners) of our time inspired me to pursue excellence in many forms.

    After leaving the road, I then went off to get my MBA, build a film start-up in New York City, run retail stores and build my leadership development skills. Ultimately much of my passions landed me back at Columbia's Teachers College, where I got my Executive Coaching Certification, which is the backbone of my teaching and passions today.

Department of Management Sciences

Pete Geier
Peter Geier

Peter Geier
Senior Lecturer

Peter E. Geier is a principal in P. Geier Consulting, LLC, and will serve as a senior lecturer and executive in residence at Fisher. As The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center’s chief operating officer since 2001, he assumed the task of turning the organization around and improving financial performance. In 2003, Geier was asked to take on additional responsibility for the OSU Health System as chief executive officer and served in both positions until stepping down in early 2016.

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Richard Guba
Rick Guba


Rick Guba
Senior Lecturer

Rick Guba is an Executive in Residence in the Management Sciences department. He came retired from General Electric, where he worked for 35 years. While at GE, he held multiple manufacturing and design positions in multiple locations. His most recent role was to manage Lean transformation in the 87 Aviation division global facilities. These facilities included new make component manufacturing, assembly, and engine test and overhaul operations.

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Shannon Harris


Shannon Harris
Assistant Professor

Shannon Harris, joins Fisher as an assistant professor, having earned her PhD from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Systems Engineering from George Mason University. Her research focuses on appointment scheduling optimization in health care settings.

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Mi Kyong Newsom
Mi Kyong Newsom


Mi Kyong Newsom
Visiting Assistant Professor

Mi Kyong Newsom is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Management Science. She rejoined Fisher in 2016 and is responsible for the coordination and teaching of the undergraduate core operation management courses. Dr. Newsom also teaches Lean Six Sigma in Fisher’s EMBA and MBOE programs.

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Department of Marketing & Logistics

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Joseph Goodman

Joseph Goodman
Assistant Professor

Dr. Joseph Goodman joins Fisher from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an Associate Professor of Marketing. His primary research interest is consumer judgment and decision making, particularly how material and experiential consumption shapes consumer happiness and well-being, consumption over time and construal, and the role of variety and large assortments affect the decision making process. Joe will teach the undergraduate Principles of Marketing course.

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  • Open/Close Tell us about your current research and your research interests.

    My research area is consumer behavior, and my main research interest is in consumer judgment and decision making. Recently I've been spending a lot of my time investigated who consumers choose between material and experiential purchases (whether it is for themselves or a gift), and how these types of purchases affect consumer happiness.

    I also look at how consumers make decisions when they are faced with too many choices (or what we call large assortments in marketing)--something that is becoming more and more common in the consumer world.

    I'm also in the process of writing another paper on Amazon's Mechanical Turk--a crowdsourcing website that has become very popular in the social sciences.

  • Open/Close What makes for a great classroom experience for students?

    That really depends on the class: the size, the topic, and even the setup of the classroom. Teaching drums is very different than branding, or even calculus to 300 people. But there are some commonalities.

    One is passion. Whether I'm teaching the drums (which I don't) or intro to marketing, I have to love what I'm teaching and try to share that passion and excitement with students. The nice thing about a top research institution like Ohio State is that we have so many great research faculty that have literally devoted their lives to being experts in their area.

    The other is engagement. This is much more challenging when teaching 300 people, but you have to find a way to have a conversation with everyone in the room individually.

    The last is storytelling. Before books, human learning was passed down through storytelling, so humans have adapted to learn by story telling. This is why storytelling is to powerful in elections too. It's the same in the classroom. I always loved history because it was taught to me as one big long dramatic story (shout-out to Mr. Thompson at Valley High School!).

  • Open/Close What attracted you to Fisher?

    I have two little kids (5 1/2 and 1 1/2), so they're my hobby outside of work these days. But I still find time to cook (you have to feed the kids), travel (even with the kids), and getting outdoors for live music, a bike ride or whatever is going on in the area.

  • Open/Close What are your interests or hobbies outside of work?
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Scott LaCross


Scott LaCross
Senior Lecturer

Scott LaCross has served as an adjunct lecturer at Fisher for several years, and beginning this fall, he will be joining Fisher full-time as a senior lecturer. Scott earned his MBA from Northern Illinois University and has previously held positions in brand management at Abbott Nutrition and Sara Lee Corporation. He will be teaching several courses in the undergraduate program including Marketing Strategy, Marketing Projects, and Promotional Strategy. He will also be leading the Consumer Packaged Goods section of the Industry Cluster program.

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Selin Malkoc


Selin Malkoc
Assistant Professor

Dr. Selin Malkoc was most recently the Marcile and James Reid Associate Professor of Marketing at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Selin earned her PhD in Marketing from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests are consumer behavior, judgment and decision making, intertemporal preferences, scheduling, heuristics and biases. This spring, Selin will be teaching the undergraduate Consumer Behavior course.

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  • Open/Close Tell us about your current research and your research interests.

    My passion has always been to study "time." Anything and everything to do with time. How consumers perceive time? How consumers behave when they need to delay their products or experience to a later time? Do they make different purchase decisions if the party they are shopping for this weekend or next month? Does having a temporal separation between the product choice (e.g., adding a product to a basket) and the purchase decision (e.g., actual purchase) influence the ultimate product purchases? Does scheduling/allocating our time to leisure activities increase or decrease our enjoyment? Why do some "hours" feel shorter than others? What might be stopping consumers from balancing their time between fun and work tasks? These are some of the questions my current research is trying to answer.

  • Open/Close What makes for a great classroom experience for students?

    I am a firm believer in learning by doing. While theories are useful frameworks for storing knowledge, I think actual learning takes place once students actively engage in their own learning. In the classroom, this often means lots of discussion and class exercises. To that end, I try to facilitate lively discussion during class and make sure to incorporate demonstrations/exercises to take theory to application.

  • Open/Close What attracted you to Fisher?

    Consumer behavior research at Fisher has a long history and tradition. The marketing group has been very productive and is growing. So, it is exciting to be here at the right moment and join in the movement. In addition, I am thrilled to be a part of Ohio State -- a premier research institution, with a long standing research tradition. I hope to form collaborations with colleagues across the campus (the psych department come to mind). Finally, my husband has a huge love of college football!

  • Open/Close What are your interests or hobbies outside of work?

    I have two kids: 21 months and 5.5 years old. So, a lot of my time is spent with them. It gives me an opportunity to play like a kid again and see the world from kids' eyes -- which is a lot of fun. As a family, we like to walk, listen to music (jazz is my go-to, if I can) and cook. I am originally from Turkey, so we like to cook a lot of Turkish food, but we also regularly try new recipes. We also love to travel -- domestically and internationally. Seeing new places, meeting new cultures and trying new cuisines might be our most favorite thing to do.

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Daniel Zantedeschi


Daniel Zantedeschi
Assistant Professor

Dr. Daniel Zantedeschi joins Fisher from the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida, where he was an assistant professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department. His research interests are in marketing and business analytics, mediating effects of technology on choice in emerging domains such as crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, statistical methodology and data science. Daniel will be teaching the undergraduate Marketing Research course, the graduate Marketing Research & Analytics course and a new elective, Data Driven Marketing.

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