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Faculty
Sung K. Ahn, Ph.D.
Sung K. Ahn is a professor in the Department of Finance and Management Science
at Washington State University. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Ahn’s primary research and teaching interests include modeling and forecasting
of time series data, especially in business and economics. He has numerous research papers published in
Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Econometrics,
and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, among others. Dr. Ahn served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist
between 2002 and 2006.
Genevieve Briand, Ph.D.
Genevieve Briand earned her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from
Washington State University. She is currently an instructor in the School of Economic
Sciences.
Dr. Briand’s areas of interest include economics education, econometrics, microeconomic
theory, natural resource economics, and public finance and policy. She is a member of the American
Economic Association and the Western Economics Association International.
Kenneth D. Butterfield, Ph.D.
Dr. Butterfield is an associate professor of management at Washington State University.
He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Pennsylvania State University. Dr.
Butterfield has taught courses on managerial leadership and general management at the
undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels. His current research focuses on the management
of ethics, moral awareness, and restorative justice in the workplace. Dr. Butterfield has
received various research grants, including one for work on the clean-up process at the nation’s nuclear
weapons complex. He has presented his work at a variety of national and international conferences as well as
served on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Learning and Education and Business Ethics
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