Dr. Laurel Newman, Management Chair
Director of CBM Online Programs
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Email: newman.laurel@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7931
Office: UHB 4072
Dr. Ranjan Karri
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Washington State University
Email: rkarr2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7917
Office: UHB-4068
Areas of Specialization: Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics, and Strategic Management (more)
Dr. Donald E. O’Neal
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Email: oneal.don@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7932
Office: UHB-4062
Areas of Specialization: Strategic Management & Leadership, Organization Theory, Human Resource Management, Business Ethics and Managing Change (more)
Donna Rogers Skowronski, MEd., SPHR
Visiting Instructor
Master of Education in Human Resources Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Email: droge1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8264
Office: UHB-4073
Areas of Specialization: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior (more)
Bruce Sommer 
Visiting Instructor
Master of Business Administration, Whittemore School of Business and Economics at University of New Hampshire
Email: bsomm2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-6712
Office: UHB-4043
Areas of Specialization: Entrepreneurship, Private Equity/Venture Capital, Quantitative Methods, Emerging Business Start-ups and Early-Stage Venture Investing (more)
Dr. Nathan Steele
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Email: nstee2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7928
Office: UHB-4063
Areas of Specialization: Power & Negotiation, Managing Organizational Behavior, Group Processes, Teamwork, Game Theory and Game Theoretic Paradigms (more)
Dr. Benjamin Walsh 
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Email: bwals2@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8566
Office: UHB-4066
Areas of Specialization: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior - Research Interests: Workplace mistreatment, training effectiveness, and organizational climate (more)
Dr. Yuanyuan Zhou
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Email: yzhou37@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8275
Office: UHB-4066
Areas of Specialization: International Management and Strategic Management
