UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Key Persons


Ahmed Abbasi

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Ahmed Abbasi is the Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations. He serves as Director of the Analytics Ph.D. program and Co-Director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab. Ahmed completed his Ph.D. work in Information Systems at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab. He attained an M.B.A. and B.S. in Information Technology from Virginia Tech. His research interests relate to text and predictive analytics. Ahmed has published nearly one hundred articles in journals and conferences, including several in top-tier outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of MIS, ACM TOIS, IEEE TKDE, and IEEE Intelligent Systems. His work has been funded by over a dozen grants from the National Science Foundation and industry partners such as Microsoft, eBay, Deloitte, and Oracle. Ahmed serves as Senior Editor for ISR and Associate Editor for ACM TMIS and IEEE Intelligent Systems. He is a recipient of the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, INFORMS Design Science Award, and IBM Faculty Award. Ahmed's work has been featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Associated Press, WIRED, CBS, and Fox.

Aimee Cole-Laramore

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor / Management & Organization
Aimée Cole-Laramore is a sought-after consultant, trainer and speaker whose areas of expertise include: Diversity in Development; The Implications of Donor Demographics in Faith-based Giving; Creating a Culture of Generosity; Expanding the Understanding of Philanthropy; and The Spirituality of Fundraising. She is a passionate teacher, trainer, consultant, and coach with more than two decades of experience. Organizational Capacity Building is her core business. Her current work in pursuit of nonprofit excellence can be seen with Northminster Presbyterian Church, Indiana Minority Health Coalition, Woman Preach! and Horizons Stewardship. A strategic thought leader and non-profit administrator, her passion is the pursuit of excellence with an orientation toward Intentional Progress Over Perfection. There is an intentional diversity among ALlyd clients which include: medical, religious, non-profit, academic and research institutions. She has worked with congregations in rural and urban settings, across denomination and socio-economic structures; and has an astute understanding of the role theology, executive leadership styles and diversity play in philanthropic infrastructure. Owner/Lead Consultant for ALlyd Image Solutions (Fishers, IN), a boutique consulting firm dedicated to building organizational capacity and effective development practices, Aimee has also served successfully in leadership roles throughout a variety of mission driven agencies across the country, in the health, human services and community development fields. She has presented at over 90 congregations, seminaries, development conferences, and leadership training events through her posts as Associate Director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, Director of Seminary Advancement for Christian Theological Seminary and in her consulting role. Her influence can be found in the Lake Institute Executive Certificate for Religious Fundraising and Creating Congregational Cultures of Generosity courses where she served as a lead presenter, in addition to workshops and seminars across the nation with the Spirituality of Fundraising, Fundraising as Ministry and efforts to systematically address fostering a culture of generosity and shaping intentional diversity in giving as the focus. Specializing in facilitation, strategic planning and outcomes-based measurement, her work can be seen through more than 120 non-profit agencies within the Midwest region. She currently dedicates her time as Philanthropic Strategist for the first PhD in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric, led by Dr. Frank A. Thomas. The bold vision of the program is to ensure that there is no life altering debt for students who enroll in the program, while raising endowment funds to secure sustainability for the directorship, sponsored scholarships and long-term operational excellence. Aimée serves as Affiliate Faculty for the University of Notre Dame where she teaches Board Governance and Nonprofit Management, in addition to Fund Development for Nonprofit Organizations for Mendoza College of Business. Her generosity can be seen in institutions, nonprofit organizations and intermediaries across the country. An active volunteer in her local community, she serves on the advisory board for the Katie G. Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership and the Board of Visitors for the Howard University School of Divinity. She is a charter member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Circle City Chapter and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. for more than 25 years. Her background in community organizing, economic development and the intersection of faith and giving, has fostered her fundraising effectiveness with diverse demographic data, infrastructure development, relationship building and vision alignment. She is passionate about nonprofit excellence and capacity building in faith communities and the world.

Andy Imdieke

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Accountancy at the University
Andy Imdieke is an Assistant Professor of Accountancy at the University of Notre Dame. He earned a Ph.D. in accounting as well as an MBA from Michigan State University. He is also a graduate of Hope College (B.A.) and earned a CPA designation in the state of Michigan (inactive). Prior to entering academia, he worked for 3 years at Borders Group, Inc. (Borders Books & Music) in Ann Arbor, MI serving as Director of Internal Audit and as Supply Chain Controller. He also practiced public accounting at Plante & Moran, PLLC. Professor Imdieke's research focuses on internal controls over financial reporting as well as factors that impact audit quality.

Angela R. Logan

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Angela R. Logan, Ph.D. is an Associate Teaching Professor and the St. Andre Bessette Academic Director of the Master of Nonprofit Administration in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. In her role as Academic Director, she provides leadership to the team that oversees both formats of the Master of Nonprofit Administration degree, and as a member of the College's Department of Management and Organization, she teaches core courses for both programs as well. Prior to joining the College in 2013, Angela had nearly 20 years of experience in higher education and philanthropy, with a particular focus in the areas of education and diversity. Over the course of her career, she has served as the Program Officer for Education at The Harvest Foundation (Martinsville, VA), the Director of the Bonner Scholars Program at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH), and the Director of Multicultural Affairs and the Admissions Counselor/Coordinator of Multicultural Admissions at Defiance College (Defiance, OH). Angela's research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and nonprofit and philanthropic leadership. A trained facilitator of Anti-Racism Study Circles, she also provides training on leadership, conflict resolution, stress and time management, and cultural sensitivity, both nationally and internationally, including to the IBM Research Global Internship Program in Beijing, China, and at the Young African Leadership Initiative Regional Leadership Centers in Nairobi, Kenya and Accra, Ghana. She has a movie credit to her name, appearing in the documentary The Business of Good: Young Africa Rising. She currently serves as Vice President for Membership for the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. In her civic life, she serves as a board member of the Alumni Board of The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, is a board member of The CASIE Center, and is a Life Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, immediate past president of the South Bend Area (IN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated and a sustaining member of the Charity League, an affiliate of the Association of Junior Leagues International. She is also an active member of South Bend City Church, serving as a liturgist and Communion Coordinator. She loves good dinner parties, traveling, and football. Angela is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Arnie Ludwig Outstanding

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Carol Elliott - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications
  • Director of Communications / Marketing Communications
Carol Elliott is the director of communications and the executive editor of the biannual Mendoza Business magazine and annual Dean's Report. She joined Mendoza in 2006 after previously working as a business writer, columnist and features editor for The South Bend Tribune. In addition to publications, her responsibilities include media relations, internal communications, dean's communications and special events. Recipient of several journalism awards, including the Hoosier State Press Association award for business feature writing, Elliott's work has received recognition from the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards and the Higher Ed Marketing Report for magazine publishing. She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and a bachelor's in English from Indiana University South Bend.

Chris Fruehwirth

Job Titles:
  • Director of Information Technology

Dale Nees

Job Titles:
  • Advising Professor Emeritus
  • Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Dr. Amanda G. McKendree

Dr. Amanda G. McKendree teaches business communication, strategic communication, and corporate communication at the University of Notre Dame, where she is an Associate Teaching Professor of Management in the Fanning Center for Business Communication. She also holds the Arthur F. and Mary J. O'Neil Directorship at the Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication in the Mendoza College of Business. Professor McKendree's research examines crisis communication, conflict communication, and the influence of rhetoric on organizational identity. She is published in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity, Business Communication Quarterly, Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course, Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, and Review of Communication. She is a coauthor of Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2nd ed., 2018). She is a member of the Arthur Page Society, Management Communication Association, National Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, and Pennsylvania Communication Association. She currently serves as the 1st Vice President of the Eastern Communication Association. She is a past Chair of the Communication Ethics Division of the National Communication Association and a past President of the Pennsylvania Communication Association. She is also a member of the executive committee for the Midwest Regional Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Consortium. She is the recipient of the 2018 Carroll Arnold Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Communication Association and the 2019 Faculty Service Award from the Department of Management & Organization, Mendoza College of Business. She received her BA in Global Policy Studies from Chatham University and MPA in Nonprofit/Public Management from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She was awarded a one-year fellowship in public affairs at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership and Carnegie Mellon University, and earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Duquesne University. When not serving her students and the discipline, she dedicates her time to Strikeout PSP, an awareness and fundraising initiative for progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative brain disease. Based in southwestern Pennsylvania, Strikeout PSP was founded by Amanda in 2017.

Features Matsumura

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Leader
Environmental Leader, Features Matsumura, Prakash, and Vera-Munoz (2014), Firm-value effects of carbon emissions and carbon disclosures. The Accounting Review (Vol. 89/2). See: Matsumura, Prakash, and Vera-Munoz (2014), Firm-value effects of carbon emissions and carbon disclosures. The Accounting Review (Vol. 89/2). See: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/04/high-carbon-emitters-are-valued-lower/, April 20, 2011

James Leady

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Associate Teaching Professor / Finance
Jim Leady enjoys teaching finance and economics courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs. He serves as associate dean for undergraduate education in Mendoza. Leady served as Co-Chair of the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Microeconomics Test Development Committee from 2018-2021 and continues to serve on the leadership team for the annual AP Microeconomics Exam Readings. Prior to joining Mendoza in 2006, Leady taught courses in public finance, labor economics, game theory, intermediate microeconomics, and principles of economics at Centre College in Danville, KY and at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI. Leady earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Michigan as well as an MA in Economics and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Complex Systems. He graduated with a BS in Economics from West Point. Leady recently retired from the US Army. His 20-year career included active duty assignments as a combat engineer in the 25th Infantry Division (Light) and multiple assignments as a logistician and instructor in the US Army Reserve. He served in two operational deployments (Iraq, Kuwait) and four humanitarian deployments (Kauai, the Philippines, Guatemala, and El Salvador). He is married and has two children, a son who is a recent graduate of Rollins College and a daughter who is attending Notre Dame.

Jason A. Colquitt

Job Titles:
  • Franklin D. Schurz Professor
Jason A. Colquitt is the Franklin D. Schurz Professor in the Department of Management & Organization at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. He previously served as a faculty member at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida. Professor Colquitt received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business and earned his B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University. His research interests include justice, trust, work meaning, and personality. He has published almost fifty articles on these and other topics in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among other outlets. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Journal and previously served as an Associate Editor for that journal. Professor Colquitt is currently serving on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly. He is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award and the Cummings Scholar Award for early to mid-career achievement, sponsored by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management. He also authors one of the top-selling organizational behavior textbooks, now in its seventh edition.

John Cardinal O'Hara

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Marketing Department
Shankar Ganesan is The John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Chair of the Marketing Department and Professor at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. Professor Ganesan's research interests focus on the areas of inter-organizational relationships, customer relationship management, buyer-seller negotiations, service failure and recovery, product recalls, and new product innovation. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior, and Human Decision Processes, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Recently, he edited the Handbook of Marketing and Finance published by Edward Elgar. He is the past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Retailing, ranked among the top business journals. Professor Ganesan has received numerous awards and honors for his research (Lou Stern Award, the Davidson Award, Robert Buzzell Award, and the 2012 William O'Dell Award finalist), teaching (outstanding module in the EMBA program), and editorial service (outstanding reviewer on the Editorial Review Board from the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Retailing). He teaches customer management to the MBAs.

John W. Berry Sr.

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair and Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations Department
  • Department Chair, and Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations
Robert F. Easley is a Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. in Decision and Information Systems from Indiana University, Bloomington, and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. His current research focuses on economic modeling of Internet auctions, network neutrality and ecommerce.

K.J. Martijn Cremers

K.J. Martijn Cremers is the Martin J. Gillen Dean and the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. He served as interim dean at Mendoza from July 2018 to June 2019. Prior to joining Notre Dame in 2012, Cremers was a faculty member at the Yale School of Management from 2002 to 2012. His research and teaching areas are investment management, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate law, business ethics and Catholic social thought. His co-authored paper "How Active is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure that Predicts Performance" (published in 2009 in the Review of Financial Studies) introduced Active Share, an innovative tool for determining the extent of active mutual fund management by measuring the percentage of stock holdings in a manager's portfolio that differs from the benchmark index. Active Share has become widely used in the financial industry and was incorporated in Morningstar Direct and FactSet. His recent awards and distinctions include receiving an honorary degree and serving as the 2019 commencement speaker for Holy Cross College at Notre Dame in May 2019. Cremers has long-standing consulting relationships with various investment managers, including State Street Associates and Touchstone Investments. He serves as an independent director at Ariel Investments, an investment company located in Chicago. A native of the Netherlands, Cremers earned his master's degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and his Ph.D. from New York University's Stern School of Business. Cremers and his wife Liesbeth reside in South Bend, Indiana, and have six children.

Kara Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administration
Kara Palmer joined Mendoza in 2017 and holds the position of Director of Administration. In this position, she serves as the dean's chief of staff and is responsible for Mendoza's overall staffing and organizational strategies, executing the dean's key initiatives with leaders across the College, talent and development planning, recruiting and engagement strategies. In addition, she leads a staff of employees who support faculty and staff across the College. In 2008, Palmer began her career at Notre Dame in Human Resources and participated in the University's elite Leadership Rotation Program prior to coming to Mendoza. Palmer earned her B.S. in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue University. She holds her Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) Certificate from World and Work. In addition, she is certified in change management, project management, advanced facilitation skills, MBTI and in delivering feedback with the CCL 360 instrument. She also holds her coaching certificate and is Green Belt Certified. Kara serves on the board for the University's THRIVE Inspiring Women resource group and is also an active member of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management).

Ken Kelley

Job Titles:
  • Edward F. Sorin Society Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
  • Professor
  • Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and Edward F. Sorin Society Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Ken Kelley is the Edward F. Sorin Society Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations (ITAO) and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Kelley is in the analytics group within the ITAO Department and works to advance analytic methods in his research in a variety of ways from a variety of perspectives to improve the methods used in human-centered research, from the foundational area of psychology to applied areas in business. His work crosses several traditional disciplinary boundaries, which he believes is important when considering various aspects of the human condition. More specifically, he evaluates, improves, and develops methods to better study human-centered research from a methodological perspective. The entire effort is in the data science space, particularly from the psychometric and statistical traditions of framing inferential questions. His most significant methodological contributions are in research design involving the interplay between effect size, confidence intervals, statistical significance, and sample size planning. My work depends heavily on statistical computing, with most of the methods I have developed implemented in R packages (e.g., MBESS, BUCCS, SMRD). In addition to methodological work, he collaborates in a variety of human-centered areas in which I develop needed or apply advanced or nonstandard methods to best address questions. Kelley is co-director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab (HAL) in the Mendoza College of Business. HAL is an interdisciplinary mash-up of technology, psychology, methodology, and business. Professor Kelley is an Accredited Professional Statistician™ (PStat®) by the American Statistical Association, former associate editor of Psychological Methods, recipient of the Anne Anastasi early career award by the American Psychological Association's Division of Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics, an elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Currently, Professor Kelley is a faculty affiliate of iNDustry Labs, which is an initiative to help advance the regional economy, particularly as they move toward more advanced manufacturing.

Kristen Collett-Schmitt

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Advisor for MoneyThink
  • Associate Dean for Specialized Master 's Programs, and Associate Teaching Professor
  • Associate Dean for Specialized Master 's Programs, Associate Teaching Professor / Finance
Kristen Collett-Schmitt teaches microeconomics in the undergraduate studies, Executive Master of Nonprofit Administration (EMNA), Master of Nonprofit Administration (MNA), Master of Science in Management (MSM) and Executive MBA programs in the Mendoza College of Business. Her current research focuses on economics education and literacy, encouraging students to develop an interest for economics through the use of real-world applications. Professor Collett-Schmitt's honors and distinctions include the Department of Finance James Dincolo Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award (2016), the Joe and Gina Prochaska Family Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award (2015), the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2014), the EMNA Program Outstanding Professor Award (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020), the MNA Program Outstanding Professor Award (2021) and the Leo Burke Outstanding Professor Award for the Chicago EMBA Program (2021). In 2017, she was named to Michiana's Class of Forty under 40 and a Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professor by Poets & Quants. In 2019, Professor Collett-Schmitt was appointed as the Associate Dean for Specialized Master's Programs in the Mendoza College of Business. Her portfolio includes the Master of Science in Management (MSM), Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA), residential Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), residential Master of Science in Finance (MSF), Master of Nonprofit Administration (MNA), and Executive Master of Nonprofit Administration (EMNA) programs. Prior to serving as an associate dean, she oversaw accreditation for the College as Director of Special Projects. Kristen Collett-Schmitt serves as the faculty advisor for MoneyThink, a student organization that seeks to promote financial literacy by placing college mentors in South Bend high schools to teach personal finance lessons, and is devoted to the social cause of providing necessities for hospitalized premature infants through her family's non-profit organization, "Wishes for Preemies."

Leo Burke Outstanding

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lindsey McIntyre

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, MSBA Career Development
  • Mendoza in 2019 As Associate Director
Lindsey McIntyre joined Mendoza in 2019 as Associate Director, Graduate Business Career Development. She serves as the Career Coach for Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) students in both the on-campus Residential and Chicago programs. In this role, she provides strategic guidance and tactical tools and resources to help each student create a customized job search strategy that supports long-term career success. McIntyre began her career at Notre Dame in 2007, and has served in various research and analysis roles in the Office of Budget & Financial Planning, the College of Engineering, and the Offices of Corporate & Foundation Relations. McIntyre holds a B.S. in Business, Marketing from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Nonprofit Administration from the University of Notre Dame. She is very active in board service and leadership in her local community and the Notre Dame community. She currently serves as a board member for Leadership Marshall County and the Bourbon Public Library, Mentoring Committee member for the University's THRIVE Inspiring Women resource group, member of Mendoza's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council, and a Worship Leader for the Etna Green Church of Christ.

Martin J. Gillen

Job Titles:
  • Dean and Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance
  • Dean, and the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance

MENDOZA ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

Job Titles:
  • Dean 's Office

Mike Mannor

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for the MBA Program, and John F. O'Shaughnessy Associate Professor of Family Enterprise

Rafael Zambrana

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Assistant Professor of Finance at the University
Rafael Zambrana is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame. His research deals broadly with the investment behavior of institutional investors and the impact of their trades on stock markets. His current research projects explore portfolio manager incentives and the role of political identity and business connections in the asset management industry. His academic work has been published in top academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science, and it has been presented at global academic conferences, such as the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the European Finance Association. Rafael has taught courses in corporate finance, asset valuation, and financial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He received a Ph.D. in Finance and an MSc. degree in Business Economics and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain). Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he worked as a hedge fund accountant for State Street.

Rev. Basil Moreau

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Business, and Chair of the Management and Organization Department

Robert Battalio

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair of the Finance Department

Robert F. Easley

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Information Technology
Robert F. Easley is a Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. in Decision and Information Systems from Indiana University, Bloomington, and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. His current research focuses on economic modeling of Internet auctions, network neutrality and ecommerce.

Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz

Job Titles:
  • Deloitte Foundation Accountancy Department Chair
  • Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy, and Associate Professor
Sandra C. Vera-Muñoz is the Deloitte Foundation Accountancy Department Chair. She currently teaches Sustainability Accounting and Reporting and Impact Invesing and Strategic Cost Management. Her research focuses on climate risk disclosures and assurance, and judgment and decision making. She received a B.B.A. (Accounting) from the University of Puerto Rico, an MBA from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. (Accounting) from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation on accounting knowledge and opportunity costs was honored with the AAA/ABO Outstanding Dissertation Award. She has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and the Journal of Business Ethics, among others. She served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research, among others. She has also served on the AAA/Grant Thornton Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, the AAA/Publications Committee, the New Faculty Consortium Planning Committee, and as a faculty liaison with KPMG. At Notre Dame, Sandra serves on the Department Chairs Advisory Group to the Provost, the Search Commmittee for the AVP of Undergraduate Enrollment, and the Building Bridges Mentoring Program. She has served in the Ryan Ethics Chair Search Committee and the Sustainability Strategy Standing Committee. Professor Vera-Muñoz was inducted into the 2021 All-Faculty Team at Notre Dame. American Accounting Association's Newsroom, Features Matsumura, Prakash, and Vera-Munoz (2014), Firm-value effects of carbon emissions and carbon disclosures. The Accounting Review (Vol. 89/2), in "Wall St. exacts stiff penalties for carbon emissions - and failure to disclose them."

Shankar Ganesan

Job Titles:
  • the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Chair of the Marketing Department / Marketing
  • the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Professor of Business, and Chair of the Marketing Department

Timothy Bohling

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing and Graduate Enrollment Officer, Teaching Professor / Marketing
  • Chief Marketing and Graduate Enrollment Officer, Teaching Professor of Marketing
Timothy Bohling joined the University of Notre Dame in January 2019 and currently serves as Teaching Professor of

Walter Clements

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Executive Education, and Teaching Professor / Finance
  • Associate Dean of Executive Education, and Teaching Professor of Finance
Walt joined Mendoza in 2012 after teaching at Indiana University for 2 years. Walt has 27 years of international business experience with BP plc prior to teaching, most recently as CEO and Chairman of Aral AG, a subsidiary of BP and Germany's market-leading fuels and convenience store company.