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Merton Bernstein
 Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus of Law

Merton Bernstein, a nationally recognized expert on Social Security, served as principal consultant to the National Commission on Social Security Reform, counsel to the National Enforcement Commission, attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee ...

Expertise: social security, health insurance, universal health care

Direct contact: 508-896-8383
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bernstein@wulaw.wustl.edu

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William Bottom
 Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior

William Bottom, Ph.D. is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses on Negotiation, Team Development, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, and Organization Design. A member of the Olin School faculty since 1988, he was ...

Expertise: organizational behavior, negotiation, conflict resolution, organizational change and development, behavioral decision theory

Direct contact: (314) 935-6351
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bottomb@olin.wustl.edu

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Stuart Boxerman
 Associate Professor and Director of the Health Administration Program

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Boxerman's research focuses on the areas of process improvement, safety and reduction/elimination of medical errors in health-care delivery systems.

Expertise: Health care policy, workplace safety, process improvement, health care delivery

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Howard Brick
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

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Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...

Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4251
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hbrick@wustl.edu

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J. Stuart Bunderson
 Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior

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Before coming to the Olin Business School, Professor Bunderson taught at the University of Minnesota and at Brigham Young University. He has worked in organization and management development at PepsiCo, Inc., studied change management at Allina Health System, and held several training and development ...

Expertise: organizational behavior, management, human resources, team work, learning, knowledge management, industrial relations

Direct contact: (314) 935-4943
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bunderson@wustl.edu

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Kurt T. Dirks
 Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior

Professor Dirks's main area of expertise focuses on interpersonal relationships in the workplace. In particular, Dirks studies the issue of gaining or breaking trust, the development of a sense of ownership and the nature of teams. Prior to joining Olin, Professor Dirks served as an assistant professor ...

Expertise: behavioral science, human resource management, industrial relations, motivation, trust

Direct contact: (314) 935-5206
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dirks@wustl.edu

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Barton Hamilton
 Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship

Hamilton has directed the Hatchery™ Entrepreneurship Program at the Olin School of Business. Before joining Olin, he was an assistant professor of economics at McGill University for five years. In addition to being an expert on entrepreneurship, he also expertise in the economics of health and aging, ...

Expertise: applied microeconomics, econometrics, entrepreneurship, health economics, labor economics, efficacy of HIV treatment, advanced infertility treatment, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8057
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hamiltonb@olin.wustl.edu

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Daniel Keating
 Vice Dean and Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law

Dan Keating teaches courses on bankruptcy, commercial paper and a seminar on reorganization in the School of Law. He is the author of two casebooks on commercial law, Sales: A Systems Approach (Aspen 1998) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with LoPucki, Warren & Mann; Aspen 1998), ...

Expertise: bankruptcy, employment law, commercial law, sales law, creditors' rights, debtors' rights

Direct contact: (314) 935-6481

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Panos Kouvelis
 Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management

Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security and on the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. He's also an expert source on a variety of business-related ...

Expertise: marketing, e-commerce, operations management, manufacturing management, facility layout, inventory control, production planning, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4604
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kouvelis@wustl.edu

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Glenn MacDonald
 John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics & Strategy

Professor MacDonald is an expert source on general business issues and business strategy as well as on economic growth and strategy, employment and labor, unions, trade, aging workforce issues, technology, and mergers, compensation and investor protection.

Expertise: applications of game theory, economic strategy, industrial organization, industry dynamics, research and development, the evolution of organizations, economic growth, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-7768
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macdonald@olin.wustl.edu

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Judi McLean Parks
 Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior

McLean Parks' areas of expertise include behavioral science, human resource management, industrial relations, international business, management development, motivation, negotiation, organizational behavior, and organizational change and development. She is qualified to speak on the psychological contract ...

Expertise: conflict management and dispute resolution, diversity and socio-cultural management factors, organizational behavior, psychological contracts and workplace justice, revenge in the workplace, cross-cultural conflict, employee behaviors, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-7451
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mcleanparks@olin.wustl.edu

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Gary Miller
 Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences

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Miller's primary interest has been decision-making in bureaucracies, committees and small groups. His teaching assignments include a graduate seminar in the politics of the U.S. bureaucracy, a graduate course on mathematical modeling and the undergraduate introduction to American politics. He has done ...

Expertise: public bureaucracy, social choice and institutions, legislative decision making, political economy of the firm, formation of institutions, experimental research on committee decision making, hierarchical decision making, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5874
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gjmiller@artsci.wustl.edu

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Jackson Nickerson
 Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy

Nickerson's area of expertise includes corporate strategy and policy, economic policy, microeconomics, industrial organization, organizational economics, new institutional economics, intellectual capital management, technology licensing, organizational theory, human resource management, organizational ...

Expertise: business strategy & public policy, intellectual capital management, new institutional economics, organizational economics, organizational theory, technology licensing, corporate strategy and policy, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6374
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nickerson@olin.wustl.edu

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Robert A. Pollak
 Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business

Pollack specializes primarily in economics and demography. His research interests include economics of the family, price and cost-of-living indexes, and environmental policy. He is the author of three books and more than 70 articles and serves on the editorial boards for a number of economic journals. ...

Expertise: business and government, environmental economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, law and economics, political economy, public affairs, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4918
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pollak@wustl.edu

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Annette Veech
 Senior Lecturer of Business Communications

Professor Veech worked as an evaluation specialist at Arthur Andersen and Co. She also worked in training and development, external client consulting, and program evaluation at Maritz Performance Improvement Company. She now teaches full time at Washington University and consults with professional ...

Expertise: business communications, business training, business development, business consulting, program evaluation, managerial communications strategies, client-supplier relationship

Direct contact: (314) 935-6370
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veech@olin.wustl.edu

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Peter Wiedenbeck
 Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of Law

Peter Wiedenbeck is an expert in the areas of federal income taxation and the regulation of employee benefit plans. He is the author of several articles and two casebooks, Cases and Materials on Employee Benefits and Cases and Materials on Partnership Taxation. Currently, he is writing a book on ...

Expertise: federal income taxation, income tax reform, regulation of employee benefit plans, tax policy, partnership taxation, federal labor law regulation of pension benefit plans, federal labor law regulation of welfare benefit plans, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6442
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peter.wiedenbeck@wustl.edu

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Todd Zenger
 Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business Strategy

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Zenger's research centers on organizational forms, organizational boundaries, and employee compensation. His current research seeks to understand new organizational forms, shifting organizational boundaries, and group-based pay initiatives.

Expertise: economic theories of the firm, employee compensation, managing technology, organizational design, business strategy, innovation

Direct contact: (314) 935-6399
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zenger@olin.wustl.edu

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