Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Minnesota, 1992 J.D., Northwestern University, 1984 B.A. in economics, Northwestern University, 1981 Select Publications “The Untolled Problems with Airport Slots Constraints,” Economics of Transportation, March 2014, V.3., # 1, pp 16-28. "Congestion Pricing of Canadian Airports," Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No.1, pp.290-324. "Pricing the Major U.S. Hub Airports," (with Katherine Thomas Harback) Journal of Urban Economics 64 (2), pp....
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Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Tennessee, 2014 M.A. in economics, University of Tennessee, 2010 B.A. in economics, Salisbury University, 2008 Curriculum Vitae Download Julianna Butler's CV (PDF)
Biography Robert R. Nelson, Ph.D.is an associate professor and past chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management. He came to the University of Delaware as an assistant professor in 1990 and served as department chair from 2007 to 2011 and associate chair from 2000 to 2007. Prior to coming to the University of Delaware, Dr. Nelson was among the founding faculty of Drexel University’s hospitality program. Dr. Nelson’s research on tourism...
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Virginia, VA, 1977 B.A. in economics, Wilkes College, PA, Magna Cum Laude, 1971 Select Publications “Ending Bretton Woods: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes,” (with Scott Ohlmacher), Economic History Review, November 2021, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 922-945. "The Political Economy of Wage and Price Controls: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes," (with Burton A. Abrams), Public Choice, January 2017. 170, pp. 63-78. "The Original Operation Twist: The War Finance...
Biography Tim DeSchriver is an associate professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management at the University of Delaware. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of Northern Colorado, M.A. from Penn State University and B.A. from Villanova University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in sport management. Dr. DeSchriver’s research interests are in the fields of sport finance, economics and marketing; specifically in the areas of professional sport and...
Biography Joanne Jung-Eun Yoo is an associate professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management. Prior to joining the University of Delaware in 2010, she was an assistant professor at the University Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. Dr. Yoo has several years of tourism/hospitality industry experience across the globe. She worked for Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in Thailand as an assistant director of the Strategic...
Education Ph.D. in economics, Yale University, 2015 M.Phil. in economics, Yale University, 2011 M.A., in economics, Yale University, 2011 B.A. in economics and mathematics, Magna cum Laude, Wellesley College, 2007 Select Publications Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not (with Adrienne M. Lucas, Waqas Halim, and Umar Saif), forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Digitization and Development: Property Rights and Land and Labor...
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1987 B.S. in economics, Boston College, MA, 1979 Select Publications "Tax Effects on the Real Exchange Rate," (with Cagay Coskuner), Review of International Economics, Vol. 15(5),pp. 854-768, 2007. "The Cost of Financial Capital- Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter? Evidence from Selected Caribbean Countries," (with Joseph Carlton Augustine), International Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 83-100, 2005....
Biography Zvi Schwartz is a professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, Dr. Schwartz was the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Senior Faculty Fellow for Hospitality Finance and Revenue Management in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Tech where he served as the director of graduate programs, and an associate...
Biography Elizabeth Bayley is an assistant professor and the associate chair for the undergraduate program in the Department of Economics at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. She currently teaches introductory and intermediate microeconomics theory courses and serves as the undergraduate program advisor for the Department of Economics which involves advising all junior and senior economics students as well as the freshmen through senior honors...
Biography Brian Miller is an associate professor, with expertise in hospitality IT, at the University of Delaware. Dr. Miller has a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in curriculum development where his dissertation was “Technology and Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom.” He has published research articles and conference presentations in the area of course and student outcomes in distributed education classrooms and has continuously taught online courses in...
Biography Francis Kwansa is an associate professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management, with previous positions including associate chair, interim chair, director of graduate studies and coordinator of the MBA/HRIM 4+1 program. He teaches courses in financial management, managerial accounting and strategic management. He has been on the faculty of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Department at Virginia Tech and the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell...
Biography Dr. Fred DeMicco is professor and ARAMARK Chair in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management at the University of Delaware. Formerly, he was associate director in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management at Penn State University, where he was professor-in-charge of the HRIM undergraduate program (and graduate program for five years), and presently is a Conti Distinguished Professor at the Pennsylvania State University’s School of Hotel, Restaurant...
Biography Srikanth Beldona is a professor, chair and the graduate director in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Newcastle, Australia. His focus of research is in consumer psychology as it relates to hospitality-based experiences and digital marketing in hospitality and travel. He has published over 65 articles/papers that have appeared...
Education Ph.D. in economics, Ohio State University, 1974 M.A. in economics, Ohio State University, 1972 B.S. in economics, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968 Select Publications "Cash for Clunkers: The Uneasy Case for Subsidizing Energy Efficiency" (with G. R. Parsons), Milken Institute Review, forthcoming. "Is CARS a Clunker?" (with G. R. Parsons), The Economist’s Voice, 6(8), 2009. "Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results" (with...
Biography More than eleven years Federal Court administration experience, 2001 - 2012 Babst Calland Clements and Zomnir PC, Associate attorney, litigation, 1997 - 1999 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Associate attorney, litigation, 1993 - 1997 Bank of New York, internal auditor, 1986 - 1990 Education J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School B.B.A. in accounting, Bernard M. Baruch College, N.Y. B.A. in sociology, City College of New York Bar membership: Pennsylvania and...
Biography Stewart Shapiro, professor of business administration; chairperson, received a B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. in marketing at the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Arizona. Professor Shapiro is currently the chairperson within the Department of Business Administration. Prior to starting his academic career in marketing, Professor Shapiro was a marketing research consultant for the scuba diving industry. His primary research interests examine how consumer...
Biography Anuradha (Anu) Sivaraman is an assistant professor of marketing and Director of the Lerner Diversity Council (#LDC) at the Alfred Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware. At the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, she teaches undergraduate and graduate marketing and introduction to business courses. Anu's primary research interests include examining how counterfactual thinking (CFT) impacts consumption patterns and studying the impact of various factors on...
Biography Dustin J. Sleesman is an associate professor of management and UD-SWUFE Joint Institute Fellow at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. He received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and a B.S. and B.A. from The Ohio State University. Dr. Sleesman conducts research in multiple areas. First, he studies the psychology of decision-making, including why people become committed to their decisions and how biases can influence them. Second,...
Biography Wendy Smith earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, and is currently a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics and Co-director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware. Wendy’s research focuses on strategic paradoxes – how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas. She studies how organizations and their leaders simultaneously explore new possibilities while...
Biography Junbo Son is currently an assistant professor of operations management at the University of Delaware. Junbo has strong background in advanced engineering systems and applied statistics. Junbo has been closely working with major firms in automotive industry and IT-driven healthcare companies. Also, Junbo has been involved in many statistical consulting projects in engineering and healthcare. His research has focused on business data analytics and data-driven operations management...
Biography Daniel P. Sullivan, professor of global studies, is a renowned scholar and educator specializing in globalization and international business.. With a doctorate from the University of South Carolina, he specializes in various areas, including globalization, global enterprise management, international management and digital globalization. Professor Sullivan is well-known for his co-authorship of International Business: Environments and Operations. Now in its 17th edition, 46 years...
Biography Suresh joined Lerner College in fall 2007 as an assistant professor of marketing. Suresh also serves as faculty director for the professional selling and sales management minor and faculty director for study abroad semester and internship programs. Suresh has taught several undergraduate and graduate marketing courses at UD. Suresh has over 24 years of experience teaching Marketing. He started his teaching career as a graduate student at the University of Houston in 1998 and later at...
Biography An accomplished professor of strategic management, Dr. Katalin Takacs Haynes brought her expertise to the Lerner College from Texas A&M University. Dr. Haynes' research covers critical areas such as corporate governance, strategic decision-making, greed and corruption, with her work being published in reputable academic journals like Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Management Journal. Her pioneering studies on...
Biography Sharon Watson is a professor of management at the University of Delaware. She has published studies on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, the management of foreign subsidiaries, international aspects of top management compensation and the effects of cultural differences on behavior in organizations. Her research has won several awards and has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Management International...
Biography Amanda Bullough is a professor of management, specializing in global and women’s leadership, and co-founder and research director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics. She is also a principal co-investigator on the GLOBE Project: GLOBE 2020. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship and leadership at Thunderbird School for Global Management in Arizona, a premier university of business...
Biography Carlos J. Asarta is the James B. O’Neill Director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) and Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Delaware. He holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His scholarly work focuses on the areas of economic education, technology in the classroom, and financial literacy. Asarta is the author of Principles of Economics (McGraw-Hill), a “digital-first” product...
Large enough to lead and small enough to care. The Lerner College hospitality and sport business management department (HSBM) is ranked 4th among hospitality programs in the country and in the top 25 in the world. Our resources – of faculty, facilities and learning experiences – make us a leader among hospitality programs, yet we pride ourselves on how we care for each student personally. You can see this combination of excellence and personal attention not only in our...
Our students have many opportunities to experience various aspects of the hospitality industry. Annual career development events, conferences and corporate visits allow students to interact with future employers. Each year, students plan and execute Newark Live! A Celebration of Hospitality and events at local clubs. The Paul Wise Executive in Residence Series invites industry leaders to speak on campus, challenging students to think creatively and keep them informed of...
Our faculty members have received numerous awards for scholarship and regularly publish research in top journals. These research endeavors enable our faculty to teach cutting-edge material in our classes.
Our faculty members have received numerous awards for scholarship and regularly publish research in top journals. These research endeavors enable our faculty to teach cutting-edge material in our classes.
Our faculty members have received numerous awards for scholarship and regularly publish research in top journals. These research endeavors enable our faculty to teach cutting-edge material in our classes.
Our faculty members have received numerous awards for scholarship and regularly publish research in top journals. These research endeavors enable our faculty to teach cutting-edge material in our classes.
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The business community has long recognized the value of mentoring as a means of developing both its leaders and its future workforce. Business professionals who act as mentors and role models help students gain insights that allow them to hone their skills in preparation for successful employment. The Lerner College is leading the way with this unique educational resource through its Graduate Executive Mentors Program. This initiative establishes 1:1 mentor-student...
The United States Military Academy began hosting the Sandhurst International Regimental Skills Competition in 1967, nine years before the first female cadets arrived on campus in 1976
A Delaware Growth Agenda report published this summer by the Delaware Business Roundtable ranks Financial Services Sector as the state’s largest traded sector.
A Delaware Growth Agenda report published this summer by the Delaware Business Roundtable ranks Financial Services Sector as the state’s largest traded sector.
A Delaware Growth Agenda report published this summer by the Delaware Business Roundtable calls for a new Delaware economy characterized by highly skilled managers, innovators and entrepreneurs.