CommerceUVA Fall 2007 (Investors' Report) - McIntire School of ...

has served on the faculty of the Stonier
School of the ABA, CBA’s Graduate
School of Retail Bank Management, and
the VBA’s School of Bank Management.
Pettit also specialized in community
banking, credit administration, strategic
planning for financial institutions, small
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business finance, and venture capital.
Pettit’s expertise led to his participation
in the design and teaching of a number
of credit and corporate lending seminars
for international, national, and regional
banks and insurance companies. he also
organized and led strategic planning and
Glenn Browne (Ph.D., Business Administration, Carlson
School of Management, University of Minnesota) is an Associate
Professor in the Information Technology Area. Browne is a
specialist in information requirements determination, business
process analysis, systems development, and managerial
decision making. his current research focuses on information
search, information filtering, and decision support problems on
the World Wide Web and cognitive and behavioral issues in
information requirements determination. he teaches courses in
project management, systems analysis, and decision making.
Amanda Cowen (D.B.A., Business Policy, harvard Business
School) joins McIntire as an Assistant Professor in the
Management Area. her recent research examines the dynamics
of organizational status and how this competitive asset
is affected by merger transactions and integration processes.
Before joining McIntire, Cowen taught courses on leadership,
organizational behavior, and strategy to graduate students and
executives at the harvard Business School and the Kennedy
School of Government.
Mary Erickson (M.B.A., George Mason University) is a Lecturer
in the Accounting Area. erickson began her professional
career in public accounting as an auditor specializing in the
insurance industry. She has also been employed as an investment
professional specializing in credit analysis and fixedincome
portfolio management and as a faculty member teaching
accounting and finance courses at George Mason University.
Most recently, she was Director of examination Development
for the CFA Institute, where she designed and assisted
in the evaluation of questions appearing on the Chartered
Financial Analyst examinations.
profit planning for both community and
regional financial institutions. Perhaps
most notable are the many generations
of students and graduates whom Pettit
mentored and the countless jobs that
he helped to identify and secure for his
students.
Adam Koch (Ph.D., Accounting, The University of Texas at
Austin), an Assistant Professor in the Accounting Area, is an
expert in financial reporting and managerial accounting. his
research focuses on the valuation of earnings news, dividend
signaling, and voluntary disclosure. Koch has taught a variety
of financial and managerial accounting courses and is currently
teaching an elective course in intermediate accounting. Before
joining McIntire, Koch taught at Carnegie Mellon University
as well as in a number of executive education programs.
Robert Patterson (Ph.D., Communication Studies [Rhetoric
and Culture], University of Nebraska-Lincoln) joins the
Management Area as an Assistant Professor, teaching courses
in McIntire’s Management Communication Program. his
professional experience in academia includes teaching courses
in rhetoric, rhetorical theory and criticism, fundamental areas
of communication, campaigns, small-group problem solving,
business and professional communication, and public speaking.
Patterson’s professional experiences in the nonprofit sector
include nonprofit [501(c)(3)] executive management and leadership
and postsecondary accreditation/compliance.
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