Shown below are individuals who have joined the College of Business since last fall.
Shailesh Godambe is a Supply Chain executive with extensive global experience. He has been recognized for developing Supply Chain strategies, reducing costs and achieving best in class customer responsive operations.
Shail joined Motorola in 1974 in the Operations Research Group. He successfully progressed through increasing responsibilities in various functions and ultimately was the Senior Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain, supporting all of Motorola's global businesses. After retiring from Motorola he formed a consulting company, Optimal Supply Chain Incorporated.
Shail has made several professional presentations on Supply Chain in Universities and at Conferences; and has participated in Industry Panel Discussions.
Shail brings real world experiences to the courses he teaches and believes that the classroom experience is enriched by relating it to actual case studies in business and industry. He will be teaching OMIS 340 Supply Chain Management, OMIS 498 Operations and Information Management, OMIS 685 Supply Chain Strategy at NIU.
Shail holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Shail is on the Board of Advisors at Northwestern University's Industrial Engineering department, Mercy College - NY Internet Business Systems M.B.A. department and Information Integrity Coalition group.
He is married and has two daughters, who got married in the summer of 2008.
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Jasmin Chia-Jung Lin is expecting her Ph.D. degree in Organizational Studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale by December 2008. Jasmin has served in human resource, sales, service, and non-profit organization areas before entering academic field. Her research is focused on employee behaviors (especially TMT and layoff managers' reactions to layoffs) and consumer behaviors. Jasmin has taught various courses in Taiwan and Southern Illinois, including Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Computer Information Systems, Software Package Applications, Management Science, Operations Research, Business Calculus, and Managerial Mathematics.
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Bart Sharp is currently completing the dissertation requirement for his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Purdue University, expecting completion in December 2008. Bart comes to academics by way of a background in aerospace engineering which has informed his research interests in innovation, organizational learning, and entrepreneurship. Bart has previously taught strategic management at both the undergraduate and Executive M.B.A. levels, as well as undergraduate courses in operations management and principles of management. In his leisure time he enjoys woodworking, motorcycles, and spending time with his wife and two beautiful daughters.
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Professor Simpson is Chairman of the Department of Finance and teaches courses in many of the subfields within finance. Simpson holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Fordham University and two B.A.s from Oregon State University. Simpson also holds a charter as a Chartered Financial Analyst. He taught at Marshall University and at the University of Texas - Pan American, where he was Director of the Business Administration Ph.D. program. Simpson's research is focused, broadly, on investments; from asset pricing models and the intersection of the macro-economy and financial markets, to models of exchange rate determination and foreign exchange hedging strategies. Simpson has authored or coauthored over 20 scholarly articles, which are published, or forthcoming, in peer-reviewed finance journals, including: the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Futures Markets, the Financial Review, the Quarterly Review of Economic and Finance, and the Journal of Investing.
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Dr. Waymire joined the faculty in August 2008 following completion of her Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas. While a doctoral student, Tammy held the Distinguished Doctoral Fellow Award, presented papers at national meetings, and was nominated for the Walton College of Business Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Prior to beginning an academic career, Tammy worked in public accounting for five years and for the State of Arkansas for seven years. Her experience with the State of Arkansas included investigating Medicaid fraud for three years and serving as a public utility regulator for four years. In these capacities, she served as an expert witness in criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings. In addition, Tammy has been a licensed CPA in the State of Arkansas since 1994.
Tammy's research interests include the impact of control mechanisms on performance, and she has specific interest in these effects within governmental and nonprofit entities. She has presented her work at the American Accounting Association national meetings. Tammy teaches Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting to both undergraduate and graduate students at NIU. She can be reached at twaymire@niu.edu.
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Professor West joined the NIU faculty in August 2008, after serving on the faculty of the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1976 and joined the Kansas City office of Touche Ross & Company as a staff auditor. He received his CPA in 1977 and his license to practice in 1978. He left Touche Ross as an audit manager in 1983 to become director of finance at a manufacturing firm in Northwest Missouri. In 1990, Professor West entered the doctoral program at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 1993 with a PhD in accounting and a support area of industrial engineering.
Professor West also has been on the faculty of Iowa State University, and Washington University – St. Louis. He has won numerous teaching awards and recently began investigating the impact of academic dishonesty in the classroom. His work in this area has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today and BusinessWeek. Primarily, however, his research focuses on cost prediction and performance measurement in two industries: health care and manufacturing. For the past 10 years, Professor West has worked closely with the U.S. Army Medical Command to assess the operational efficiency of Army medicine. He has authored numerous research papers including publications in Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Advances in Management Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of Healthcare Finance, and The American Journal of Managed Care.
Professor West teaches Intermediate Cost Accounting and Introduction to Assurance Services. He can be reached at tdwest@niu.edu.
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