Ji-Hee Kim, PhD, director, associate professor
Phone: 888-2606
E-mail: kim15@canisius.edu
Stephen Molloy, PhD
Phone: 888-2635
E-mail: molloy@canisius.edu
Ronald Rivas, PhD
Phone: 888-2603
E-mail: rivasr@canisius.edu
Alan Weinstein, PhD, professor
Phone: 888-2644
E-mail: agw@canisius.edu
Gregory R. Wood, PhD
Phone: 888-2645
E-mail: gwood@canisius.edu
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BA, Consumer Economics -- Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
MS, Consumer Economics and MBA -- Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
PhD, Family Business with Entrepreneurship and International Perspectives -- Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Ji-Hee Kim, PhD is new to Buffalo. She was named associate professor and director of entrepreneurship at Canisius in 2006. Her areas of expertise include entrepreneurship, family business, small business, international business and economic development. Prior to this appointment, she was associate professor of entrepreneurship at Minot State University from 2002-2006 and visiting professor of entrepreneurship and family business at the Jefferson Smurfit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Saint Louis University.
Kim was a German National Government Fellowship Invited Scholar at the Munich University in Germany, Korean Research Foundation Scholarship Fellow at the Ohio State University and Ewha Women’s University Excellence Fellow at Cornell University. She has taught both graduate and undergraduate classes for nine years.
She was a researcher at the Institute for Socio-Economics of Household in Germany, international project coordinator at Johns Hopkins University and also held a position at the Asian Regional Association for Consumer Economics in Korea. Kim was director of the Korean Consumer Economics Association and co-director for the Asia Foundation Project.
Kim's research includes work on family business and entrepreneurship from multi-cultural, environmental, and international perspectives. She conducted The German Family Business Survey Project and The U.S. National Family Business Survey, research which has appeared in several academic journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Family Business Review, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Korean Journal of Small Business Management. She also conducted several grant project productions in family business, entrepreneurship, small business, home-based business and curriculum and innovative education program development in entrepreneurship and family business management.
In addition, she wrote Family Business: How to Start and Manage, the first textbook on family business in Korea. She is also the author and co-author of more than 40 research papers on various aspects of family business and entrepreneurship. Kim is one of the most cited independent family business researchers in Korea.
Kim is currently a regional coordinator of Family Firm Institute, an internationally recognized family business institute. She has been an advisory board member of The Korea Small and Medium Business Administration, The Korean Federation of Small and Medium Business, and The Center of Korean Women Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century. She is an associate director of The High-Tech Business Development and Research Institute and head researcher of Korean Family Life Improvement Institute and Institute of Ecology and Environment.
Recently, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) named Kim the CEO Chapter Advisor of the Year at its national conference in Chicago, IL. The CEO also conferred upon the Canisius Chapter the Best Chapter Award in the E-Diffusion category. E-Diffusion is an initiative that promotes entrepreneurship to non-business students. CEO is a global, non-profit organization that develops entrepreneurial leadership through team building, as well as knowledge in entrepreneurship through the planning and implementation of educational outreach and experiential projects.
She is the recipient of a $73,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation which will support her “Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs’ Program.” The program is designed to give students access to entrepreneurship and self-employment.
Courses she has designed and taught at Canisius include: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management and Planning, New Venture Creation and Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship.
Stephen Molloy, PhD, Associate Professor of Management and Marketing
BA, Marketing — Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
MBA — York University, Toronto
PhD., Business Policy — Indiana University
Dr. Molloy’s strong interest in entrepreneurship is reflected in his design of four courses offered at Canisius: "Franchising," "Introduction to Management and Business," "New Venture Management," and "Small-Business Consulting." His research, which focuses on the same field, has resulted in a number of articles published in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship and various conference proceedings. He provided consulting services to Artpark during its move toward privatization.
Dr. Molloy is affiliated with the Decision Sciences Institute, the International Council for Small Business, and the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has served on the college’s Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee and Entrepreneurship Curriculum Committee, as director of the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program, and as faculty advisor to the Student Society for Entrepreneurship.
Ronald M. Rivas, PhD, Associate Professor of ManagementBS, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering -- Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú.
MA, (Magíster en Administración) -- Universidad ESAN, Lima, Perú
PhD, Strategic management and International Comparative Management -- Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles
A global management specialist fluent in four languages, Dr. Rivas’ professional activities have taken him to 15 countries in Asia, the Americas and Europe. His research and teaching focus on the dynamics of globalization and its impact on global strategy and international entrepreneurial strategy. One area of his research is the globalization of Latin America and Pacific Rim economies. Another aspect of his work is concerned with foundational issues in business strategy, such as entrepreneurial strategies, first-mover advantages, and the impact of technology and resource strategies on business performance.
Dr. Rivas joined the Canisius College faculty in 2005. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Rivas served as assistant professor of management at Bentley College in Boston, Long Island University in New York, and University ESAN in Lima, Perú. While earning his doctoral degree, Dr. Rivas won the university-wide competition for a dissertation graduate fellowship at UCLA and held two fellowships. Dr. Rivas is an active participant in the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, and the Business Association of Latin American Studies. His research has been published in DSpace of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s International Motor Vehicle Program and in a number of conference proceedings.
Dr. Rivas has designed and taught "Strategic Management," "Introduction to Management," and "Competing in Global Markets" courses taught at Canisius College, and co-designed "Global Strategy for the Information Age," and "Business Processes and Strategy" courses taught in MBA program at Bentley College. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the T.O.P.S. enterprise, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of the Jefferson Avenue area of Buffalo.
In April 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant. To learn more, click here.
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BA, Psychology; MA, Industrial Psychology — University of New Hampshire
PhD, Industrial Psychology — Wayne State University
Aspiring entrepreneurs often look to Alan Weinstein, PhD for guidance in writing a successful business plan. With his help, one former student launched a highly popular laser-tag facility that evolved into a multi-million-dollar enterprise. Growing interest in entrepreneurship led Weinstein to design both an undergraduate major and an MBA course in entrepreneurship at Canisius.
Most of his current research centers on issues related to small and family-owned businesses. Such topics are the subject of papers he has presented at conferences in the U.S., Italy, South Africa, and Finland. His presentation with Carmen Bianchi on "Qualification of the CEO in a Family Business" was named Best Workshop at the February 2000 conference sponsored by the USASBE. He also is the author or co-author of articles published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.
Weinstein has won grants and research support from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; the U.S. Department of Labor; the National Science Foundation; the city of Buffalo; the state of New York; the U.S. Congress; and the Buffalo School Board. He is the recipient of the 1996 Economic Impact Award from the Western New York Health Care Industries Association and was a finalist for the Upstate New York Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
He is founder and former director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, former chair of the Department of Management and Marketing. Among other college appointments, Weinstein has served on the Wehle School of Business Executive Committee and the Entrepreneurship Program Design Committee. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Society, the Small Business Institute Directors Association, the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior Divisions of the Academy of Management.
Weinstein is an experienced CEO coach and serves on several boards of local companies.
Gregory R. Wood, PhDAssociate Professor of Management and Marketing
BA, Psychology — Oakland University, Rochester, MI
PhD, Social Psychology — State University of New York at Albany
For over two decades, Dr. Wood has taught marketing courses at Canisius College with an emphasis on the role that psychology and human behavior play in the development of marketing strategies. His specific areas of expertise include consumer behavior, human judgment, and attitude formation and change. In recent years, Dr. Wood has increasingly challenged his students to seek a deeper understanding of the role that materialism and consumer culture play in their lives and our society. In his innovative course entitled, “Money, Heaven and Right Living” (MKT310), Wood taught students time tested methods of wealth creation alongside teachings from the Judeo/Christian and Buddhist traditions that offer advice about the dangers of emphasizing money and material things as sources of happiness. At the graduate level, Dr. Wood offers courses in Consumer Behavior (MBA634) and Marketing Strategy (MBA630). This latter course is taught as a business simulation where students compete with one another, running simulated companies over the course of a semester. The business simulation comes very close to approximating the marketing challenges and decision situations that modern managers confront on a daily basis and help students understand the close link between “concept” and “practice.”
In addition to the academic areas previously cited, Dr. Wood continues to build expertise in the growing phenomenon of social media with a specific focus on ways that businesses and not-for-profit organizations can use Web 2.0 capabilities to improve and solidify stakeholder relationships. Dr. Wood is also working with other campus faculty to promote the use of Ignatian pedagogical methods on campus. He believes that identifying ways of merging the traditions of faith and reason will be one of the great challenges for Jesuit and other Christian institutions of higher learning in the coming decade.
He is the author of a number of articles on human judgment and decision making and is frequently invited to facilitate workshops on marketing for local entrepreneurs as part of the Canisius College Women’s Business Center. Dr. Wood is also the principle owner of HausMark Research Services, a company that provides research and consulting services to not-for-profit and faith based organizations with the goal of “Helping those who help others.” Through his community based activities, Dr. Wood hopes to demonstrate to his students how traditional business skills can be used to make the world a better place.