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Amir Javadinia , Ph. D., is a new assistant professor in the Marketing Department at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. Professor Javadinia recently earned his Ph. D. in marketing from the University of South Carolina and his research uses big data to investigate issues in marketing strategy, especially at the intersection of marketing and finance. Using data from the automobile...

Bryan Caplan , Ph. D., is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice theory, psychology in economics, and the economics of the family. Caplan's book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies , was named the best political book of the year (2007) by the New...

Milad Baghersad earned his Ph. D. in Business Information Technology from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Florida Atlantic University, Professor Baghersad was a visiting faculty member at Cleveland State University. His primary research interests include supply chain disruptions and disaster operations management. Professor Baghersad has published papers in top-t...

Lakshman Chandrashekhar earned his Ph. D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2003. He brings a wealth of experience from having taught all over the world in locales such as China, Finland, France, India and across the United States. Professor Chandrashekhar has also published extensively. He's written three books and more than thirty refereed journal articles. Professor Chandr...

Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined The Wall Street Journal in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member...

Terry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow. He is the past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University where he won many teaching awards during his 25 year career. Dr. Anderson is one of the founders of “free market environ...

Carol Alexander is Professor of Finance at Sussex and  Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Prior academic appointments were as Chair of Financial Risk Management at the ICMA Centre in the Henley Business School at Reading (1999 – 2012) and lecturer in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Sussex (1985 - 1998). She holds degrees from the University of Sussex (BSc First Class,...

Andrew S. Gallan , Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and the Director of the FAU Center for Services Marketing & Management . His almost 20 years of business experience in sales, sales management, and marketing, which, combined with his academic qualifications, enable him to have a distinct perspective on research and teaching. Andrew's areas of research interest include serv...

Robin Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics, a Joint Professor at the Department of Statistics at Rice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate at the Ovideo (Spain) Efficiency Group and a Member of Executive Committee for the International Finance and Banking Society. Professor Sickles is also the Editor-in-Chief of the J...

Michael Crain , FAU Instructor & Director of the Center for Forensic Accounting @FAUbusiness, talks about the Forensic Accounting program's recent #2 ranking by BestColleges.com for Best Online Master's in Forensic Accounting. Dr. Crain also discusses some of their latest applied research on the the cost of capital, and the center's participation in an annual conference with the...

Rajeev Sawant , Ph. D. joins FAU as an experienced assistant professor, coming to us from Baruch College at the City University of New York. He earned his Ph. D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. With expertise in various aspects of international business and foreign direct investment, his articles have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of International Business Studies...

Melanie Lorenz , Ph. D. is an experienced assistant professor. A native of Germany, she has worked in banking and consulting. She then decided to become an academic, and earned her Ph. D. in marketing from the University of Alabama in 2016. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. Her focus is in international business and marketing; her research has been published in the J...

Joao Faria , Ph. D. joins us as a tenured associate professor. He comes to FAU from the University of Texas–El Paso, where he was a tenured professor. He has published more than 100 articles, primarily in macroeconomics, development economics, and most recently in the economics of terrorism.  Originally from Brazil, he is now a U.S. citizen, and he earned his Ph. D. from the University of Kent in...

William Luther , Ph. D. comes to FAU as an experienced assistant professor, having previously been at Kenyon College. His expertise is in monetary economics and alternative currencies, including Bitcoin. He is also the director of the Sound Money Project at the American Institute for Economic Research , and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives...

Douglas Cumming , Ph. D. and Sofia Johan , Ph. D. join @FAUbusiness from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. While they each have impressive scholarly records on their own, together this husband-and-wife team has produced three books and more than 30 refereed journal articles. Support the show Business.fau.edu/podcasts

At FAU, our goal is to build a first-class, nationally-recognized, public business school in South Florida. To accomplish that goal, we need three things: top-notch people, first-rate facilities, and outstanding programs. Together, we will continue to build a university that has a lasting, positive impact in Florida and across the United States of America. Support the show Business.fau.edu/podcast...