The world economy is in turmoil. Every day brings news of more layoffs, more Ponzi schemes and major changes to the way the U.S. economy is governed. What does all this mean? When will people start seeing some real relief? Is this just politics as usual, or will any of these government fixes actually work? From the economic stimulus package's impact on industry and banks to the downturn's affect on housing and mortgages, Georgia Tech experts are available to help journalists put this economic crisis into perspective.
To arrange an interview with one of our experts from the College of Management and the School of Economics profiled below, please contact Matt Nagel or David Terraso at the numbers or e-mails listed to the right.
Nathan Bennett
Catherine W. and Edwin A. Wahlen Professor of Management, College of Management
Areas of Expertise
- Leadership and Strategy Execution
- Managing Innovation and Change Processes
- Top Management Team Dynamics
- Contextual Influences on Individual Behavior in Organizations
Nate joined the College of Management as Associate Dean of faculty and programs in the fall of 1999. In the spring of 2003, he was named Senior Associate Dean with responsibility for executive education, corporate and career development, and graduate programs. In the fall of 2007 he returned full time to the faculty where he is the Catherine W. and Edwin A. Wahlen Professor of Management.
Professor Bennett has published his work in respected academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Additionally, he has published in many widely-read resources for managers including the Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. He is co-author (with Stephen Miles, Managing Partner in the Leadership Consulting Practice at Heidrick and Struggles) of the 2006 Stanford University Press title Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO.
Professor Bennett came to Georgia Tech from E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University where he had been a faculty member since 1989. While at LSU, he served as Chair of the William W. and Catherine M. Rucks Department of Management and as Associate Dean for Academic Programs.
He received both a Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1983 and a Master's degree in Applied Social Research in 1984 from Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1989, he earned his PhD in Management from Georgia Tech.
Bennett is a frequent speaker and commentator in business press. He has been invited to lecture in programs internationally at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institut Commercial de Nancy, and Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires. Finally, he is involved in the design and delivery of executive development programs for companies in a wide range of industries, and has an active practice as a consultant on issues related to top management team performance, innovation and change management, and strategy execution.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Professor Nathan Bennett
Thomas (Danny) Boston
Professor, School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; CEO of EuQaunt
Areas of Expertise
- Economic Stimulus Package
- Small Business
- Economic Status of Minorities
- Public Housing
- Unemployment
- Federal Reserve
Boston is a national and international consultant on the economic status of minorities and minority business and community development issues.
He currently serves as a member of the Black Enterprise Board of Economists and a member of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's Council of Economic Advisors. Boston is the creator of the Gazelle Index, a quarterly survey of 350 CEO's of the nation's fastest growing African American-owned businesses.
Formerly, he served as president of the National Economic Association, editor of The Review of Black Political Economy and Senior Economist to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.
A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Boston received a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1985.
Contact David Terraso for information on how to reach Dr. Boston
Lucien Dhooge
Sue and John Staton Professor of Law, College of Management
Areas of Expertise
- International Business Law
- Ethics
After completing an undergraduate degree in history at the University of Colorado, Professor Dhooge attended the University of Denver College of Law where he received his Juris Doctor in 1983. He received his LL.M. in 1995 from the Georgetown University Law Center where he specialized in international and comparative law. Prior to coming to the College of Management, Professor Dhooge spent eleven years in private law practice and twelve years serving on the faculty of the University of the Pacific in California.
Professor Dhooge is the author of three books and more than forty law review articles and has presented research papers and courses throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. Professor Dhooge is the recipient of numerous research awards given by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, including six Ralph C. Hoeber Awards granted annually for excellence in research. He was designated the outstanding junior business law faculty member in the United States by the Academy in 2002 and received the Kay Duffy Award for outstanding service in 2005. Professor Dhooge was designated as an International Scholar by the Soros Foundation in 2006.
Professor Dhooge currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and is a past editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies Education.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Professor Lucien Dhooge
Vivek Ghosal
Associate Professor, School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Expertise
- Economic Stimulus Package
- Financial Markets
- Regulatory Reform
- Automobile Industry
- Antitrust
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Ghosal is an expert on big business, investments under uncertain economic conditions, innovation strategies of businesses, mergers and acquisitions, as well as antitrust issues. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2001, he served as an economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Ghosal is a national and international consultant on issues related to regulatory reform at the local and national levels, and antitrust policy and enforcement.
He is co-editor of the book The Political Economy of Antitrust published by Elsevier Science, and his edited book, Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions and Enforcement, will be published by MIT Press. He is a research fellow at CESifo (Munich), a research affiliate at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a research professor at the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing and Service, German Economic Institute (Berlin)
Ghosal received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida.
Contact David Terraso for information on how to reach Dr. Ghosal
David Herold
Professor Emeritus, College of Management
Areas of Expertise
- Executive Development
- Organizational Design
- Human Resources Systems
- Leadership
- Managing Organizational Change
Professor David Herold is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior. He has published widely in the major psychology and management journals, contributed to books, presented numerous papers at professional meetings, and serves as reviewer and editorial consultant for book publishers, journals, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute for Mental Health. His research interests include: behavioral problems in implementing new technologies, performance feedback in organizations, group performance, leadership and various aspects of workplace problems such as stress, alcohol, drugs, and AIDS.
Dr. Herold is active as a management consultant, helping companies address a wide range of organizational and human resources issues, including: organizational planning and design, change management, management and executive development, attitude surveys, team building, and the implementation of new technologies.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Dr. David Herold
Dan Immergluck
Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Areas of Expertise
- Housing Policy
- Fair Lending/Real Estate Finance
- Neighborhood change
- Regulatory response to the economic crisis
- Foreclosure impact on communities
- Community reinvestment
- Consumer-focused help
Dan Immergluck is Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning Program. Dan has authored dozens of studies on community development, economic development, community reinvestment, fair housing, and related topics. He conducts research on neighborhood change, mortgage and small business finance, development finance, residential segregation, and small and minority business development. His research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including Urban Affairs Review, Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and others. His most recent book is Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the U.S. (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). Dan has testified before the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, federal agencies, and state and local legislative bodies. He also works regularly with research and policy groups around the country.
Dan teaches Principles of Real Estate Finance and Development, Government and Housing Markets, and Advanced Planning Methods. He has received funding from organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Aspen Institute. He has also contracted with local government and nonprofits in a variety of locales.
Before moving to Atlanta, Dan was at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of the Woodstock Institute in Chicago, a policy research organization that works on community and economic development issues. He has also worked as a community economic development practitioner in the nonprofit and public sectors. He has a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Dr. Dan Immergluck
Narayanan Jayaraman
Area Coordinator for Finance; Evelyn T. and Mallory C. Jones, Jr. Professor, College of Management
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate Financial Distress
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Experimental Finance
- Options and Equity Market Linkages
Narayanan Jayaraman is the Evelyn T. and Mallory C. Jones, Jr. Professor and Area Coordinator for Finance in the College of Management. He received his Ph. D. from the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh. His previous degrees include an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras. Prior to attending the Ph. D. program, he was employed as a planning manager for five years at Premier Automobiles Ltd., a large automobile organization in Mumbai, India. Dr. Jayaraman received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification in 2004.
Dr. Jayaraman's research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Options Markets, Japanese Capital Markets, Corporate Bankruptcy, and Entrepreneurship. He served as a director on the board of Eastern Financial Association. He is a member of the Program Committee for the Financial Management Association Annual Meetings as well as an ad-hoc referee for several professional journals. He has made over 60 presentations at national and international conferences including the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, the European Financial Management Association, and the Pacific-Basin Finance Association. He has published over thirty scholarly articles in various journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Financial Markets, the Strategic Management Journal, the Financial Review, and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. His research has been cited in major press publications including the Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Money Magazine, and The Street.com. His paper on the post-listing puzzle won the best paper award at the fourth annual Pacific-Basin conference in Hong Kong.
He has won several teaching awards including Institute Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence award, Roe Stamps, IV Excellence-in-Teaching award, Lilly Teaching Fellowship award, and the Core Professor of the year award in the MBA program. He has also been recognized for outstanding teaching in the BusinessWeek Guide to Best Business Schools. He has taught in several executive education programs. He has also served as a consultant for several organizations.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Dr. Narayanan Jayaraman
Charles Mulford
INVESCO Chair; Professor; Faculty Director, MBA Program; Director, GT Financial Reporting & Analysis Lab, College of Management
Areas of Expertise
- Areas of Specialization
- Economic Consequences of Accounting Standards
- Earnings forecasts
- Accounting Data and Security Risk
- International Financial Reporting
- Financial Reporting and Credit-Decision-Making
INVESCO Chair Charles W. Mulford is both a professor of accounting here at the College and a professionally qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Florida and Georgia. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, Dr. Mulford practiced public accounting with the firm of Coopers & Lybrand. In addition to winning several teaching awards, Mulford has published numerous papers in scholarly and professional accounting and finance journals and recently co-authored the book, Financial Warnings.
His research interests center in the effects of accounting standards on investment and credit decision making, earnings forecasts, the relationship between accounting-based and market-based measures of risk, international accounting and reporting practices, and reporting issues facing commercial lenders.
Contact Matt Nagel for information on how to contact Dr. Charles Mulford