Accounting
Barry Grove
bgrove@wharton.upenn.edu
Barry Grove teaches ACCT 411: Financial Accounting and FNCE 412: Corporate Finance for WPWP. He also teaches Entrepreneurial Management in the Wharton undergraduate division and Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Management in The Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Program. Mr. Grove has also taught courses in statistics, finance, accounting, and management/entrepreneurship. He has worked as a tax attorney and consultant with the firm of Arthur Andersen and he founded a company specializing in academic consulting for university students, providing services to undergraduate and graduate student.
Mr. Grove graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School, holding a bachelor of science degree in Economics, with a concentration in finance. In addition, he graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and completed a year of graduate study in (mathematical) economics through the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
William Lenney
lenneyw@wharton.upenn.edu
Bill Lenney teaches ACCT 411: Financial Accounting and FNCE 412: Corporate Finance for WPWP. He is a Specialist in the Regulatory Applications area of the Supervision, Regulation and Credit (SRC) department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He performs research on bank mergers and acquisitions and analyzes bank and bank holding company regulatory applications. Mr. Lenney joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in April 1997 and held a number of positions in the Audit Department prior to transferring to SRC in June 2005.
Mr. Lenney has a bachelor of science degree in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University and a masters in Business Administration from Wilkes University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).
Peggy de Prophetis
peggy.upenn@gmail.com
Peggy de Prophetis teaches ACCT 411: Financial Accountingand ACCT 412: Managerial Accounting for WPWP. She served for three years as a Strategic Planning Officer and Executive Assistant to the Deputy Provost. She served as the CPA advisor and faculty advisor to both Beta Alpha Psi and the Accounting Society. She has taught accounting continuously since 1983.
Dr. de Prophetis also teaches managerial accounting at Sasin, the graduate business school of Chulalongkorn University, in both the MBA and Masters of Management Programs, in Bangkok, Thailand. Her interests include accounting education, business ethics, and accounting literature. She is a prize-winning, published poet of accounting. She earned her MBA from the Wharton School and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Norman Sigmond
nsigmond@wharton.upenn.edu
Norman Sigmond teaches ACCT 411: Financial Accountingand ACCT 412: Managerial Accounting for WPWP. Sigmond is a former auditor at Ernst and Young, and he has been a quality review consultant to regional CPA firms.
Mr. Sigmond earned his MBA from La Salle University and an MS in Taxation from Temple University. He is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Finance
Frank LaMay
fnl@wharton.upenn.edu
Frank LaMay teaches FNCE 412: Corporate Finance for WPWP. He has taught finance, economics, and investment management at Wharton since 1981.
In addition to teaching, Mr. LaMay has had extensive practical experience in the field of finance, including leadership of the corporate planning and analysis function for CIGNA, a Philadelphia-based Fortune 200 company. He also has experience in financial management of not-for-profit organizations and investment management oversight.
Frank earned his AB magna cum laude from Princeton University and has an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School. He received awards for his outstanding teaching in the Wharton Evening School in 1998 and in 2002.
Stephen Mullin
smullin@wharton.upenn.edu
Stephen Mullin teaches FNCE 411: Monetary Economics for WPWP and has taught various public finance, macroeconomics and urban economics courses at the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Center of Government, City and Regional Planning. He is a Principal with the Philadelphia economic consulting firm Econsult Corporation. Mr. Mullin is an economist with nearly two decades of experience at the highest levels of government and economic development policy-making in Philadelphia and St. Louis. He has served on numerous boards and commissions and as City Representative and Director of Commerce, under former Mayor Ed Rendell. He currently is Chairman of Optimum Funds Trust mutual funds, and serves as a Director of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Mr. Mullin graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard and holds an MA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Tayyeb Shabbir
shabbir@ssc.upenn.edu
Dr. Shabbir teaches FNCE 411: Monetary Economics and FNCE 412: Corporate Finance for WPWP and is also consultant to international financial and development organizations. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, emerging capital markets, globalization, and economic development. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Asian Development Bank. He is president of Econometrix International, a business and financial consulting firm.
Previously he was a faculty member in the doctoral program at Pennsylvania State University and Chief of Research at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Islamabad.
Kenneth Thomas
khthomas@wharton.upenn.edu
Kenneth Thomas teaches the finance course FNCE 411: Monetary Economics for WPWP. Dr. Thomas is also a consultant to the banking industry on community reinvestment, fair lending, and related regulatory issues.
Dr. Thomas received the Wharton Evening School's Director's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001 and 2004. He has written two books and several papers on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Because of his expertise in finance, he has been an adviser to federal bank regulators and testified before Congress several times on bank regulation and public policy issues.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the Wharton School and is regularly quoted in financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist, and has made numerous presentations to groups such as the American Bankers Association.
Management
Keith Ellison
elliso83@wharton.upenn.edu
Keith Ellison teaches MGMT 411: Introduction to Management for WPWP. He is also the president of The Ellison Group, Inc., an executive coaching and management consulting firm, with an emphasis on skill development and cycle-time reduction.
Keith served as the Director of Consulting Services at the Wharton Small Business Development Center. In addition, he launched Next Step, a quarterly magazine about cultural diversity.
As a member of the Urban League of Philadelphia, Keith runs the Entrepreneurship Center (ULEC) leading a team of 13 consultants and subject-matter experts in removing the internal and external barriers small businesses face throughout the Philadelphia region. In addition, he facilitates a ten-month leadership development course for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Development Institute in Harrisburg, PA.
His corporate background includes positions at IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Manor Care, Inc. Mr. Ellison earned a BS in electrical engineering and mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Ann Fischer
fischera@wharton.upenn.edu
Ann Fischer teaches MGMT 411: Introduction to Management and MGMT 438: Organizational Behavior/Psychology. She has taught for the Wharton MBA and Executive MBA programs. Previously, she was on the Management faculty at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and at the University of North Carolina business school. She is co-author of the book Impact: A Guide to Business Communication (Prentice-Hall).
Ms. Fischer has consulted for organizations and coached executives from across industries: AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Massachusetts General Hospital, Morgan Lewis LLP, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Unisys, and Merck.
Angela Francesco
afrances@wharton.upenn.edu
Angela Francesco teaches MGMT 422: Human Resource Management for WPWP. Her skills include management consulting, organizational change, employee relations, and mergers and downsizing.
From 1995–99, she served as vice president of human resources at MCP Hahnemann University, where she helped to manage a merger between two medical schools, including the design of a consolidated faculty benefits package and the introduction of a new sexual-harassment policy.
Ms. Francesco was previously vice president of human resources at a division of Sterling Drug Company in Collegeville, PA, where she designed and implemented an HR strategy to support a 1,500-person research and development operation in the U.S., U.K., and France. She has a JD from Temple University.
Lawrence Gelburd
lgelburd@wharton.upenn.edu
Lawrence Gelburd teaches MGMT 406: Formation and Implementation of Entrepreneurial Ventures for WPWP. He also teaches for Wharton's Small Business Development Center and the Leadership in the Business World program.
In addition, at the undergraduate and graduate level, Lawrence teaches entrepreneurship at Wharton and engineering entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
An accomplished record producer, Lawrence received his MBA from Wharton with a concentration in marketing and a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. He is an independent consultant, developing business plans and strategies for low and high-tech start-ups. Lawrence is a regular contributor to MSNBC's show Your Business.
Lawrence co-founded Pittsburgh-based American Auto-Matrix (AAM). While with AAM, Lawrence worked as an engineer, manager, product planner, and director of national and international accounts. He traveled extensively, selling products and training customers across the U.S., Great Britain, Singapore and Japan. He was a member of the ASHRAE special project committee which created ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2001, BACnet — A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, now approved as International Organization for Standardization ISO 16484-5 and European Committee for Standardization CEN 16484-5. AAM was sold in 1989.
Anne Pauker Kreitzberg
annepk@wharton.upenn.edu
Anne Pauker Kreitzberg teaches MGMT 422: Human Resource Management and MGMT 423: Business Policy and is a leadership, organization, and team effectiveness advisor to private and public companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, including Neuberger Berman, Crunch, The Port Authorities of New York and New Jersey, and Catalyst. The firm she leads, Cognetics Corporation, is a consulting and product company, which uniquely leverages world-class expertise in software and Web usability with innovative human resource strategies.
Ms. Kreitzberg was the Director of Affirmative Action Compliance for New York State Agencies working out of the State Division of Human Rights. She was a senior human resource executive with Continental Insurance, where she pioneered the use of actors in corporate training, writing and producing the successful video series The Power of Diversity. Under her direction, Continental received national recognition for its early work-life, workplace flexibility, and innovative HR work. Anne is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and received her MBA from the New York Institute of Technology.
Shirit Kronzon
kronzon@wharton.upenn.edu
Shirit Kronzon teaches MGMT 491: Negotiations for WPWP. In addition, Dr. Kronzon teaches a variety of applied psychology courses, including negotiation, leadership, organizational behavior, and public speaking for Wharton MBA, undergraduate students and students in the Executive Master's in Technology Management (EMTM) program. She has published research in the fields of negotiation and decision-making. Dr. Kronzon received a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Stanford University and her PhD in Social Psychology from Princeton University.
Stephen Oliver
olivers@wharton.upenn.edu
Stephen Oliver teaches MGMT 482: Strategic Implementation and MGMT 422: Human Resource Management. His expertise includes leadership development, customer service, and facilitation and training.
During a human resources career spanning nearly 20 years, he has recently been manager of learning and organizational development at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a human resources consultant at Tenet Healthcare Corporation. He holds an MA in Human Resources Development from Marymount University in Arlington, VA, and has certifications in conflict resolution, project management, leadership essentials, and related disciplines.
As a consultant, he provides human resources training and organizational development services to healthcare groups, including Hahnemann University Hospital and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. His consultancy group, Stephen W. Oliver & Associates, helps organizations improve communications and productivity through leadership development and employee training.
Marcia Wilkof
maciaw@wharton.upenn.edu
Marcia V. Wilkof teaches MGMT 411: Introduction to Management for WPWP and is a guest lecturer in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research on high technology companies and women-friendly organizations has been published in academic journals and presented at various conferences.
Dr. Wilkof is the founder of mvwGroup, a consulting firm that helps organizations in both the public and private sectors solve complex problems that most often manifest as group performance issues related to strategy, structure, processes, and people. She has consulted to major corporations including Intel, Lockheed Martin, Cisco Systems, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the State of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia.
Dr. Wilkof earned her PhD from the Wharton School. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women.
Marketing
Paul Hockenbury
paulhock@wharton.upenn.edu
Paul Hockenbury teaches MKTG 421: Consumer Behavior and MKTG 453: New Product Management for WPWP. He is the Executive Director of Market Research and Analysis for Comcast. He manages the team responsible for all of the Marketing Research work and the Analysis team for core cable business. An award-winning researcher in the cable industry, Paul has twenty years of experience in Market Research and Competitive Intelligence. Paul Hockenbury earned an MBA from Binghamton University and is a member of the American Marketing Association and Cable Television Advertising and Marketing Association.
William M. Madway
wmadway@wharton.upenn.edu
William Madway teaches MKTG 423: Marketing Research for WPWP. Bill combines his passion for teaching with a wealth of practical marketing experience, particularly in the marketing research and advertising fields. He is the Founder and Principal of Madway Business Marketing, LLC, a marketing research, strategy and communications firm specializing in B2B marketers and media companies. Prior to that, Bill was Vice President of Marketing Research for American City Business Journals, a leading B2B and sports media company. He also ran his own marketing research company for six years and worked for The Gallup Organization for two years.
Bill holds an MBA from the Wharton School, with a concentration in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and a BS in Accounting.
Keith E. Niedermeier
keith1@wharton.upenn.edu
Keith E. Niedermeier teaches MKTG 411: Introduction to Marketing for WPWP. Dr. Niedermeier also teaches Introductory Marketing at the undergraduate level and Consumer Behavior at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD level. He received the Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005, and the Whitney Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2006, and was nominated for the Wharton Anvil Award in 2007.
Dr. Niedermeier has also taught specialized executive education sessions to firms such as Merrill Lynch, Janney Montgomery Scott, and AXA/Equitable and teaches executives sessions on branding and behavioral finance. Additionally, he is the past president of the American Marketing Association, Collegiate Chapters Council. He has consulted for General Motors, Proctor and Gamble, ESPN, and the U.S. Floral industry.
Dr. Niedermeier's research focuses on the social cognitive elements of consumer decision-making. His specific research interests involve mental simulation, counterfactual thinking, regret, and the role of possessions in consumers' self-concept. Dr. Niedermeier has published in theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Psychology and Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and several other journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Niedermeier is also the co-author of a book on longitudinal categorical analysis.
Michael F. Smith
Michael F. Smith teachesMKTG 411: Introduction to Marketing and MKTG 477: Marketing Strategy for WPWP. At Wharton, Dr. Smith has taught Marketing Channels and Retailing and Marketing Research. Dr. Smith's research has appeared in several national proceedings and academic journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science,Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management,Journal of Marketing Channels, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Consumer Marketing, andPsychological Reports. Dr. Smith's research and expertise are frequently quoted in the local Philadelphia media.
As a marketing consultant, he has conducted several studies and seminars for firms in the Philadelphia and New Jersey area. Dr. Smith earned a doctor of business administration from Indiana University and is a member of the American Marketing Association and Association for Consumer Research. He is a Board Member of the Philadelphia American Marketing Association.
Alex Stein
astein59@wharton.upenn.edu
Alex Stein teaches MKTG 477: Marketing Strategy for WPWP. In addition to his background in academia, Dr. Stein has held various management positions in technology industries, including senior positions in corporate management and consulting. He has served as Vice President of Marketing for Siemens Medical Systems and Director of Strategic Planning for Siemens Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of German technology conglomerate Siemens GmbH.
Dr. Stein's research interests include customer relationship management (CRM), international marketing, marketing management, and business strategy. He has authored articles in Industrial Marketing Management and The Journal of Professional Pricing. He earned a PhD and MBA in marketing from Temple University's Fox School of Business.
