FACULTY
 
 
   
  Ramji Balakrishnan 
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 Ph.D. in accounting, Columbia University, 1986
·
 Ernst & Young Research Professor of Accounting and Director of the Accounting Ph.D. Program at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Balakrishnan's teaching and research expertise is in managerial accounting. Professor Balakrishnan was named an outstanding faculty member in the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. A Member of American Accouting Association.

  
 
   
  Doug DeJong 
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 Ph.D. in Accounting, University of Michigan, 1980
·
 John F. Murray Professor of Accounting at
  The University of Iowa
 
  Professor DeJong's teaching interests include financial accounting, managerial accounting, and microeconomics. Current research includes experimental economics: agency and game theory, financial markets, corporate governance, and organizational design and incentive issues within the firm.

  
 
   
  Gary Fethke  
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 Ph.D. in Economics, The University of Iowa, 1968
·
 Dean of the Tippie School of Management, Professor of Economics, and Leonard A. Hadley Professor of Leadership at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Fethke has been the Dean of the Tippie College of Business since 1993. His research has been published in many of the leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Bell Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is a past recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award in the Executive MBA Program and for the past ten years has continued to teach strategic management and business policy to executive MBAs.

  
 
   
  Robert Forsythe   
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 Ph.D. in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1975
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 Senior Associate Dean of the Tippie School of Management, Professor of Economics, and Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Forsythe was chairman of the Department of Economics from 1990-1994 before being named senior associate dean in 1994. He served as president of the Economic Sciences Association from 1993 to 1995 and since 1997 has been the associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Economics. He is an accomplished researcher with an international reputation in the field of experimental finance and economics. His work in the area has been published extensively in such prestigious journals as the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, Econometrica , the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Finance. He was cited in the Top 50 of the Dusansky-Vernon Profile of Individual Faculty Production, 1990-94 and has been named to the Who's Who in Economics. He is the 2002 recipient of the Iowa Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence.

  
 
   
  Gary Gaeth  
·
 Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology,
Kansas State University,1984
·
 Associate Dean of the Tippie School of Management and Professor of Marketing at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Gaeth oversees the Full-time MBA, Evening MBA, and Executive MBA programs. His research focuses on models of consumer decision-making and marketing management for the service industry. Gaeth has published widely in marketing, retailing and decision-making journals and has consulted extensively with companies in the service industry, with a special interest in service quality measurement and improvement processes. He received the Collegiate Teaching Award, and Teacher of the Year award from the Executive MBA, Full-Time MBA, and Ph.D. students.

  
 
   
  Timothy Lowe   
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 Ph.D. in Operations Research, Northwestern University, 1973
·
 Professor of Management Sciences and C. Maxwell Stanley Professor of International Operations Management at The University of Iowa
 
  Professor Lowe is known for his work in operations management, logistics, and optimization. He has also consulted for various manufacturing and service companies. Lowe received the 1999 Executive MBA GREAT Instructor of the Year award. Professor Lowe is a member of American Production and Inventory Control Society and A member of Council on Logistics.

  
 
   
  John Murry   
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 Ph.D. in Marketing, University of Kansas, 1988
·
 Associate Professor of Marketing at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Murry's teaching interests include marketing management, product management and consumer behavior. He is the recipient of this year's Executive MBA GREAT Instructor of the Year award. Among the corporations he has provided executive teaching for are ALCOA, AT&T, IBM, LTV Steel, and Samsung. He has also served as a Research Consultant to 3M, Du Pont, Transamerica, and Pizza Hut.

  
 
   
  Jarjisu Sa-Aadu   
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 Ph.D. in Real Estate and Finance,
University of Wisconsin, 1981
·
 Professor of Finance, Chester A. Phillips Professor of Business Finance and Real Estate and Executive Director of Department of Finance at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Sa-Aadu has served as chair of the Department of Finance for the past twelve years. Sa-Aadu's areas of teaching expertise are: corporate finance, real estate finance and investment analysis, fixed income securities and structured finance/asset backed securitization. His research interests include the fields of real estate finance and investment, asset-backed securitization, real estate investment trusts, and real estate asset pricing. Among the corporations and agencies he has provided consulting services to are: Alliant Energy/Wisconsin Power and Light, Vertex Financial Services (Tanzania), the Ghana Stock Exchange, the Ghana Banking College and the Federal National Mortgage Association.

  
 
   
  Greg Stewart   
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 Ph.D. in Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior, Arizona State University, 1993
·
 Associate Professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow in Management and Organizations at The University of Iowa
   
 
  Professor Stewart's areas of expertise include: leadership and personal development, strategic human resource management and designing and leading teams. He has published in many of the leading journals in his area. The corporations that Stewart has worked with include LG Electronics, Eli Lily, General Electric and Goodyear.

  
 
   
  Jude West  
·
 Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Iowa, 1969
·
 Professor of Management and Organizations at
  The University of Iowa
 
  Professor West's expertise is in executive development, stress/burnout of managerial and professional personnel, employee involvement through teams, and organizational behavior. A 39-year veteran of the Tippie Business School, West served many management roles including Director of the EMBA program from 1978 to 1981. He also serves as a consultant to and speaker for many businesses and organizations.
  
 
 
 
  Yinyu Ye
· Ph.D. in engineering-economic systems and operations research, Stanford University, 1988
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 Professor of Management Sciences at The University of Iowa
·
 Professor of Management Science and Engineering at
  Stanford University
 
  Professor Ye's research centers on interior-point algorithms and its applications to large scale and combinatorial optimization. His publications include a book, Interior-point Algorithm: Theory and Analysis, plus papers in several top journals. He has served several times on the VP Research's CIFRE (spell out so it is clear what CIFRE is) Committee as well as numerous College research evaluation committees. Professor Ye maintains an internationally recognized record of research.

  
 
  Jay Akridge
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 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 1986
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 Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, and Director of the Executive MBA in Food and Agribusiness at Purdue University
   
 
  Professor Akridge's primary responsibilities include leading the Center and EMBA programs, working with food and agribusiness managers in the Center's professional development programs, conducting research on agribusiness management and marketing issues, and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in strategic management for food and agribusiness firms.

  
 
   
  Frank Dooley
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 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics,
Washington State University, 1986
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 Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University
 
  Professor Dooley's research program in food and agribusiness focuses upon strategic management, logistics, and quality management. He is an active presenter in programs sponsored by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, and serves as faculty advisor to the Ag Econ Club. He is currently chairperson of the American Agricultural Economic Association's Resident Instruction Committee.

  
 
   
  David Downey
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 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 1967
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 Professor of Agricultural Sales and Marketing and Executive Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University
   
 
  Professor Downey has been instrumental in the development of a curriculum in which students can earn a B.S. degree in Agri-Sales and Marketing - the first such program in the U.S. Because of his outstanding efforts within his profession, Downey has received several recognitions, including four major teaching awards from Purdue University and two national awards from The American Agricultural Economics Association.
  
 
   
  Wally Tyner
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 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland, 1977
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 Professor of Agricultural Economics and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University
   
 
 

Professor Tyner has been focusing on agricultural trade and policy issues in developing economies for over twenty-one years. Tyner has extensive overseas experience in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe including short-term assignments in more than thirty countries. Tyner was responsible for building agricultural policy analysis capability in the Morocco Ministry of Agriculture.