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Chancellor
Ringeisen and Provost Cheney
welcome
the new Dean of the College of Business and Management:
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 Ronald
McNeil is Dean of the College of Business and Management and Professor
of Business Administration.
His
fields of interests and teaching experiences are in the areas of
strategic management, organizational development and change, and
entrepreneurship. His research interests include public policy formulation,
international trade and competitive advantages, e-commerce and strategic
advantages, and assessment.
He
is the author or co-author of over 50 publications and has delivered
invited presentations in China, Taiwan, Italy, France, England and
the United States. Dean McNeil was Dean of the Charlton College
of Business, a Professor of Management at Georgia College and State
University and an Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Prior
to entering academia he was president of a mining company, senior
consultant to Fortune 500 companies and a manager for a not-for-profit
organization. Dr. McNeil received his Ph.D. and masters degrees
from the University of Memphis and completed his undergraduate degree
in England.
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Ronald
McNeil
Dean
of the College of Business and Management welcomes these new faculty
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 John
Grznar joins the College of Business and Management faculty
as an assistant professor of Operations Management.
He
holds a B.B.A, M.B.A., and Ph.D. from Kent State University. His
dissertation was “The Use of Robust Smoothers in Nuclear Material
Safeguards and Statistical Process Control.”
He
has also published in the areas of cellular manufacturing, fuzzy
and robust neural networks, and product scheduling.
He
comes to us from the University of Texas at Arlington where he spent
five years as a Visiting Professor/Jr. Lecturer in Operations Management
and Management Information Systems.
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 Xia
Pan is finishing his Ph.D. in Decision Science from the University
of Rhode Island in 2002. He got his BS in Opto-electronic Engineering
from Tsinghua University, China and MS in electronic Physics from
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He
worked more than six years in international business for CEIEC where
he operated export and overseas business cooperative projects. He
also worked as a policy researcher on high-tech (specifically, IT)
industries for Beijing municipal government that administrates “Chinese
Silicon Valley”, and as an engineer in scientific instrument
industry where he was involved in importing manufacturing techniques
from Varian Inc., a U.S. company.
Beside
his early studies in optical electronics and semiconductors, Xia
Pan’s academic research on business, as part of the preparations
of his doctoral program, is mainly found in recent years’ Proceedings
of Decision Science Institute Annual Meetings, as well as in the
recent years’ Proceedings of Northeast Decision Science Institute
Annual Meetings.
His
research was also presented in other events such as Financial Management
Association Annual Meetings, etc. His research interest is on decision
science, time series analysis, quality control and risk control,
etc. His consulting expertise also includes international operations
and international business, especially for China and Southeast Asia
markets.
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 Amir
Parssian received his B.S. (1988) and M.S. (1990) degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands.
He
worked for European companies as an electronics engineer from 1990
to 1994. Subsequently, he joined the graduate school of management
at University of Texas at Dallas where he received an M.S. in MIS
(1995), an MBA (1997), and Ph.D. in Management Science (2002).
Amir
has worked as an IT consultant for several high-tech companies in
Texas and Milwaukee where he had project management and senior architect
positions.
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 Tayana
Zabotina received her Ph.D. in Finance from State University
of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton in 2002. Her MA in Economics and
Finance is from SUNY Binghamton (1998) and her BS in Operations
Research is from Kazan State University in Russia (1996).
She
joined the faculty of the Department of Business Administration
at the University of Illinois at Springfield in the fall of 2002.
Professor Zabotina research interests include market microstructure,
investments and time series analysis. Her research has been published
in the Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Futures Markets
and Applied Economic Letters.
She
is a member of Financial Management Association (FMA) and has made
presentations at the FMA and the FMA Doctoral Seminar meetings.
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