________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Ana Christina Siqueira Associate Professor of Management & Director of the Center for Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation Dr. Ana Siqueira is Associate Professor of Management, and Director of the Center for Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Cotsakos College of Business She studied at Lucy Cavendish College during her PhD and enrolled in innovation practices among UK and US businesses and how these practices are different among startups which she praises for being essential to her position now.
________________________________________________________________________ Bahar Ashnai Professional Sales Bahar Ashnai received a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. Her research has appeared in academic journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. Ashnai has presented at a number of conferences including the American Marketing Association, Industrial Marketing and Purchasing, and the Academy of Marketing Science. Her primary interests are business-to-business marketing and selling, buyer-seller relationships, international marketing/selling and quantitative methods. Her research contributes to understanding how businesses can enhance their sales growth and performance, successfully manage buyer-seller relationships, manage and handle complaints, build trust, motivate cooperative behavior in business relationships and networks, and improve inter-functional collaboration. Ashnai’s work has implications with regard to selecting and training personnel, especially in the sales force. Her focus on firms’ sales and marketing strategies in a global environment makes her research very timely for business managers.
________________________________________________________________________ Chen-Ho (Mike) Chao Marketing and Management Sciences Mike Chao holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and International Business from Saint Louis University and joins the Cotsakos College of Business from Baruch College. Chao’s research and teaching interests center on the internationalization/regionalization of multinational enterprises (MNEs), standardization vs. localization of their Web sites, and country-of-origin (COO) effects in international marketing. The results of his research provide guidance to business managers such as a recent article that argues that international marketing managers should try to find solutions to the problems caused by the complexity of product diversification and that adopting an international diversification strategy appears to be a good option. His research has appeared in academic journals such as the Journal of International Marketing and the International Marketing Review. He has presented numerous papers at the annual meetings of academic associations such as the American Marketing Association and the Academy of Management.
________________________________________________________________________ Shan Feng Marketing and Management Sciences(Appointed Fall 2011) Shan Feng earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from Drexel University. Her research interests focus on behavioral pricing and the role of memory in consumers’ information processing. For example, her research shed some light on when and how consumers are more likely to use price information as a quality indicator in product evaluation. Her research also explored how working memory capacity affects the use of consumer product knowledge in such evaluation. Feng has presented her research in many national academic conferences such as American Marketing Association Annual Conference, Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, and Association for Consumer Research Conference. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Feng worked for a marketing research firm in China. She also consulted for China National Packaging Import & Export Corporation.
________________________________________________________________________ Priya Nagaraj Economics, Finance, and Global Business Priya Nagaraj received a Ph.D. in Economics from the City University of New York. Her primary research interest is in the field of international trade and industrial organization. In her research, she studies the effect of firm characteristics (like firm size, ownership, financial health, exports and import status) on its decision making, performance and growth. She is particularly interested in the relation between a firm’s financial health and its exporting decision. Nagaraj’s research contributes to business managers’ understanding of the effect of government policy and global economic environment on firm performance. She is an active researcher and has presented her research at various conferences. Prior to her academic career, Nagaraj has held various corporate positions in sales and marketing in the service sector.
