College of Business

Business

Joe Bell
Associate Professor, Management

  • Entrepreneurship

Steve Edison
Professor, Marketing and Advertising; Director, Center for Professional Selling

  • Business to Business
  • Strategy
  • Sales
  • Sales Management

Erick Elder
Associate Professor, Economics

  • Unemployment
  • Inflation
  • Interest Rates
  • Macro-Economics/Pricing

Nona French
Associate Research Extension Specialist, Institute for Economic Advancement

  • Agricultural Economics
  • Public Policy

Mark Funk
Associate Professor, Economics and Finance

  • International Economics

Gary Geissler
Associate Professor, Marketing and Advertising

  • Retail
  • Marketing Research (Surveys, Focus Groups)
  • Marketing Management
  • Product and Service Strategy

John Hall
Associate Professor, Economics and Finance

  • Banking

Gregory Hamilton
Director of Research Group, Senior Research Specialist
Institute for Economic Advancement

  • Economic Demography
  • Economic Development and Growth
  • Urban and Regional Economics
  • Economic Modeling and Forecasting
  • Public Policy

John Hendon
Instructor, Management

  • Organizational Strategy
  • Business Planning
  • Organizational Structure
  • Organizational Issues
  • Human Resources

Mildred Holley
Technology Programs Manager and Arkansas’ Small Business Innovation Research State Representative
Arkansas Small Business Development Center

  • Innovation- and Technology-Related Business Development

Nancy Landrum
Associate Professor, Management

  • Sustainability
  • “Green”
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Strategic Management
  • Base of the Pyramid Strategies for Emerging Markets

Bruce Lindeman
Professor, Finance

  • Real Estate

Robert Mitchell
Professor and Chair, Management

  • Management
  • Human Resources

Robert Oliva
Professor/Chair, Accounting

  • Corporate Taxes
  • International Taxes
  • Taxes – Research and Procedure

Jie Pan
Associate Professor, Economics and Finance

  • Micro- and Macro-Economics

Phyllis Poche
Associate Research Specialist, Institute for Economic Advancement

  • Census Data

Lawrence Powell
Assistant Professor and Whitbeck-Beyer Chair of Insurance and Financial Services, Finance

  • Insurance

Janet Roderick
Director, Arkansas Small Business Development Center

  • Small Business
  • Economic Development

Warren Stone
Associate Professor, Management

  • Strategic Management (for-profit and nonprofit)
  • Outcomes Assessment
  • Compensation Planning

Andy Terry
Associate Professor, Finance

  • Corporate Finance
  • Investments
  • Market

Tom Tudor
Associate Professor, Management

  • Human Resources

Gary Wagner
Associate Professor, Economics

  • Government Spending
  • Local, State and National Taxes
  • Individual Impact

Michael Watts
Associate Professor, Accounting

  • Taxation in Arkansas

Jane Wayland
College of Business Interim Dean
Department of Marketing and Advertising

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Philanthropic Marketing to Women

Jim Youngquist
Director, Institute for Economic Advancement

  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Economic Development