Michael J. Braunscheidel, PhD., PE
Phone: 888-3710
E-mail: braunscm@canisius.edu
Lynn Ann Fish, PhD
Phone: 888-2642
E-mail: fishl@canisius.edu
Michael J. Gent, PhD
Phone: 888-2638
E-mail: gent@canisius.edu
Ji-Hee Kim, PhD
Phone: 888-2606
E-mail: kim15@canisius.edu
Rev. Frank LaRocca, S.J.
Phone: 888-3717
E-mail: laroccaf@canisius.edu
Erin Makarius, PhD
Phone: 888-2644
E-mail: makariue@canisius.edu
Gordon W. Meyer, PhD
Phone: 888-2634
E-mail: meyerg@canisius.edu
Stephen Molloy, PhD
Phone: 888-2635
E-mail: molloy@canisius.edu
Ronald Rivas, PhD
Phone: 888-2603
E-mail: rivasr@canisius.edu
Girish Shambu, PhD
Phone: 888-2796
E-mail: shambu@canisius.edu
Coral R. Snodgrass, PhD
Phone: 888-2607
E-mail: snodgras@canisius.edu
Howard Rick Stanger, PhD
Phone: 888-2649
E-mail: stangerh@canisius.edu
Raymond W. Vegso, PhD
Phone: 888-2643
E-mail: vegsor@canisius.edu
Michael J. Braunscheidel, PhD.,
P.E.Assistant Professor of Management
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Detroit
Masters of Business Administration, Canisius College
PhD, Operations and Supply Chain Management, State University of New York at Buffalo
Dr. Braunscheidel joined the Department of Management at Canisius College in August of 2009. Prior to his time at Canisius, he spent 4 years at the College at Brockport and 24 years in industry working for Ashland Petroleum Inc., West Valley Nuclear Services, Inc., and Pierce and Stevens Corporation. During his time in industry he held positions such as project engineer, construction supervisor, maintenance supervisor, senior engineer, engineering manager and plant manager. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York State.
Dr. Braunscheidel teaches operations and supply chain management classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, he also teaches quality management and management science. In conjunction with Dr. James Goldstein of the Accounting Department and Ralph Jeswald, a Canisius alumnus and CPA, he has created an inter-disciplinary case study that pairs teams of accounting and management students that must work together in order to improve a business process.
Dr. Braunscheidel’s research focuses on supply chain management, quality systems and organizational behavior as it relates to these topics. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, the International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Academic Exchange Quarterly and the Academy of Management and Information Systems Journal. Dr. Braunscheidel also serves as a reviewer for various academic journals
Since joining Canisius College, Dr. Braunscheidel has served as a freshman advisor, on the Graduate Curriculum Committee for the Wehle School of Business, an ad-hoc internship committee and the evaluation committee tasked with selecting a new Learning Management System.
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Professor of Management
BS, Industrial Engineering; MBA; MS, Industrial Engineering;
PhD, Industrial Engineering — State University of New York at Buffalo
During her 18 years at Canisius, Dr. Fish has twice been honored as the Donald E. Calvert Distinguished Professor and once as the Undergraduate Teaching Professor. Her strong background in industrial and production systems engineering provides her students with a real-world understanding of concepts presented in the classroom. Her "hands-on" teaching methods have been recognized twice on a national scale, as she was asked on two different occasions to present her techniques at the Decision Sciences Institute’s national meetings. Several of these techniques have been published in the prestigious Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.
Dr. Fish’s expertise in ergonomics and industrial efficiency has made her a valuable consultant to industry. Her clients have included Fisher-Price, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, General Motors, and General Mills. Balancing her consulting responsibilities with extensive research, she has written or co-authored more than 50 articles published in scholarly journals, books, conference proceedings, and professional publications. Dr. Fish has given presentations at numerous professional meetings in the U.S., Canada, and England. Her research interests span the spectrum of operations management and in particular, RFID, supply chain management, quality management, project management, and ergonomics.
Dr. Fish serves as director for the undergraduate global logistics and supply chain management minor and the graduate global supply chain management concentration, as well as co-director for the management of technology undergraduate minor. She has designed and taught several courses offered at Canisius, including the popular “Global Supply Chain Management” and “Project Management” for graduates and undergraduates. Among her various service activities, she has served on the Wehle School of Business Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum Committees, the MBA Strategic Planning Committee, Wehle School of Business Graduate Admissions Committee, the Business Advisory Council, the Canisius College Oishei Committee, and as a faculty advisor.
She is affiliated with the APICS – The Association for Operations Management - the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Production and Operations Management Society, and Beta Gamma Sigma - the National Business Honor Society. Dr. Fish has been extensively involved in community service for such organizations as the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the United Way, and Future City Competition.
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Professor of Management
BA, Psychology — St. Mary’s University
MS, Industrial/Organizational Psychology; PhD, Organizational/Social Psychology — Texas Christian University
Dr. Gent has an abiding interest in applying his organization studies background in the context of the developing world. To that end, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar during the 1993-1994 academic year, Dr. Gent traveled to southern Africa to help the fledgling business department at the University of Namibia. In addition to teaching, he advised on curriculum development and acted as consultant to the University and the Ministry of Home Affairs. He also conducted a nation-wide survey of human resources management practices in Namibia. More recently Dr. Gent completed a nine-month consultancy with the Catholic Relief Services micro-lending unit in El Salvador. He has returned to El Salvador since, twice with student study groups. An offshoot of his trips has been research on the growing evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Central America.
In the past Dr. Gent has conducted training courses and workshops for a number of local employers, including General Motors, the United Auto Workers Union, DuPont, and several United Way agencies. His scholarly activity has resulted in publications on a range of topics.
Dr. Gent has designed and enjoys presenting two Canisius College courses, including "Employee-Labor Relations" and a high-involvement version of the MBA course "Organizational Behavior." He has also developed on-campus service projects for his MGT101 classes. Growing out of several of these projects is a new student organization, “United Students for Fair Trade.”
Dr. Gent is a member of the Association for Psychological Science, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association. In the community at large, he has served on the Amherst Library Board of Trustees, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Merit Board, the Catholic Diocesan Service Corps Advisory Board, and VOICE Buffalo’s Sprawl/Transportation Task Force. He was in charge of producing two videos for VOICE designed to generate awareness of and solutions to Western New York’s economic decline.
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Director, Associate Professor Entrepreneurship
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.
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.
Rev. Frank LaRocca, S.J.Assistant Professor of Management
Rev. Frank LaRocca, S.J., began teaching courses in Management at Canisius College in 2009. His specialties are business ethics and the fundamentals of international business. In addition to his priestly studies for the Society of Jesus, he holds a JD from Boston College Law School and an MBA from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He has also studied and worked extensively in Europe and Latin America, taught business ethics at Fordham University for three years, and served as a Pastoral Associate at St. Francis Xavier parish in Manhattan.
Erin E. Makarius, PhDAssistant Professor of Management
Prior to Canisius Dr. Makarius was an instructor in the Department of Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. The focus of Makarius’ research is to better understand how image and reputation affects outcome in the workplace. She holds a PhD in philosophy, labor & human resources from Ohio State University, a master’s degree in business administration, and a bachelor’s degree in management and marketing from John Carroll University.
Gordon W. Meyer, PhD, Interim Chair, Management; Associate Professor of Management
BA, Sociology — University of Delaware
MOB (Master of Organizational Behavior) — Brigham Young University
PhD, Organizational Behavior — New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
Prior to beginning his 20 plus years as a management educator, Dr. Meyer worked full-time at General Motors in human resources and organizational consulting and in the public sector in training and development. He has also consulted to Harley-Davidson Corp., the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Moore Business Forms, and Tenneco Oil, among other clients.
Dr. Meyer is the author or co-author of articles which have appeared in Human Relations, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Administrative Science Quarterly, and other professional publications. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Education.
Dr. Meyer served on the Board of Directors of the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management as well as serving on the Merit Board of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
Dr. Meyer designed the "Empowerment and Workplace Teams" course taught at Canisius College and co-designed "Introduction to Management." Among other college appointments, he has served as a freshman advisor, as faculty advisor to the student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, and as a member of the Faculty Senate, the Student Development Committee of the college’s Business Advisory Council, and the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
Stephen Molloy, PhD
Associate Professor of Management
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, PhDAssociate Professor of Management
BS, 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.
Girish Shambu, PhDAssociate Professor of Management
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering — Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, India
PhD, Management Systems/Computer Science — State University of New York at Buffalo
Dr. Shambu’s skills as a teacher and his genuine interest in his students twice led to his selection as the recipient of the Donald E. Calvert Teaching Excellence Award, in 1992 and 2000. He was also named Undergraduate Professor of the Year for 1997-98 by the Canisius chapter of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
As an advisor to the Canisius College chapter of the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS), Dr. Shambu has been instrumental in expanding networking opportunities through club activities and arranging plant tours of local business for students. The tours also introduce the students to professionals who can potentially open doors to internships and permanent employment opportunities.
Dr. Shambu is a certified APICS Fellow in six areas of production & operations management: just-in-time systems, capacity management, systems & technologies, master planning, production activity control, and inventory management. He also conducts APICS certification classes for managers and engineers at Fisher Price.
An interest in hybrid cellular manufacturing systems led to several of his most recent co-authored articles, published in the European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and the textbook Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation. He also has presented papers at meetings of the Decision Sciences Institute.
Dr. Shambu designed the undergraduate elective course, "Basics of Supply Chain Management," which targets APICS certification and requires students to apply their operations management skills to a large variety of practitioner-significant issues. Among college appointments, he has served on the advisory board of the Canisius Center for Teaching Excellence, the Committee on Faculty Status, the Academic Computing Advisory Committee, and the Educational Policy Committee of the Faculty Senate.
Coral R. Snodgrass, PhDProfessor of Management
BA, German/English — Duquesne University
MBA; PhD, Strategic Planning and Policy — University of Pittsburgh
A specialist in international business, Dr. Snodgrass currently holds a Peter Canisius Professorship with Dr. Julia Wescott, professor of modern languages. The pair is team-teaching courses that combine studies in Spanish language with a foundation in international management. Students in the program have an opportunity to serve internships in Western New York, Mexico, or Spain.
With more than 31 published articles and book reviews and 23 conference papers to her credit, Dr. Snodgrass has been recognized for the integrity of her work with research grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Canadian Embassy, and the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, among other agencies. She is a reviewer for seven professional journals and serves as book editor for the Information Resources Management Journal.
In the community, Dr. Snodgrass serves on the Executive Committee of Buffalo-Niagara World Connect. She is active in 13 professional organizations, including the Association of Japanese Business Studies, the Association of Canadian Studies in the U.S., and the World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara.
Dr. Snodgrass designed five courses offered at Canisius: "Comparative Management," "Doing Business with Canada," "Doing Business with Mexico," "Doing Business with Japan," and "Culture, Language, and Management," as well as the MBA Integration Modules. She has served as chair of the Department of Management and Marketing, director of the International Business Program, chair of the International Students Advisory Council, and member of the MBA Curriculum Review Committee, Sexual Harassment Hearing Committee, and Campus Safety Advisory Committee. In 1995, she was honored with the college’s Dr. I. Joan Lorch Women’s Studies Award for her work in promoting the welfare of women at Canisius.
Howard Rick Stanger, PhDAssociate Professor, Organization Studies
BA, Economics, minor in history -- Queens College (CUNY) MA, Labor Studies -- Institute of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University PhD, Labor and Human Resources, minor in business and labor history -- Max Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
Dr. Stanger teaches undergraduate and graduate business courses in labor relations, human resources, management, and business history. He was named the 2004 Donald E. Calvert Distinguished Professor, an award voted on by MBA students for the Outstanding Professor in the MBA program.
His research on newspaper and printing industry labor relations has appeared in academic outlets such as Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, the Industrial Relations Research Association’s Annual Research Volume, Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector (2002), Labor Studies Journal, and various IRRA/LERA conference proceedings.
Dr. Stanger also has studied and written about Buffalo’s once prominent Larkin Company, featuring the development of its unique corporate culture (Business History Review); its progressive employee relations practices (New York History), which was named a best article in 2005; its buying club-based marketing practices (forthcoming in Enterprise & Society), and its failed foray into retailing. This work covers the company’s history from 1875 through the early 1940s.
At present, Dr. Stanger is writing a book (with Richard Greenwald, Drew University) titled, American Business: A History (Harlan Davidson), which examines the history of American business from Colonial days to the present. Their approach studies the economic, social, and cultural aspects of business in society.
He has regularly made presentations to academic and popular audiences, appearing on National Public Radio in 2001. He also has been interviewed by local news outlets for labor-related stories. In 2006, Dr. Stanger was awarded the Wehle School of Business’s Outstanding Researcher award.
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Associate Professor of Management
BS Industrial Engineering — General Motors Institute
MBA. — Miami University of Ohio
PhD, Management — University of Cincinnati
Few people have traveled as extensively as Dr. Vegso. He has visited some of the best-known companies in the world’s major capitals and taught professional courses in Russia, acquiring in the process a keener sense of how other countries do business. He also taught for a year in Italy, two years in Germany, and guest lectured in France. His cosmopolitan view provides students with a valuable introduction to the global marketplace.
Dr. Vegso’s research has examined topics ranging from effective teaching methods to exporting issues and sound management practices. He has presented papers at conferences in the U.S. and abroad and has done consulting work for a number of companies and organizations, notably The Buffalo News, Bufkor Corp., and the Erie County Division of Social Services., Lakeshore, and Gemcor. He is a member of the International Trade Council in Buffalo, The Academy of Management Society, the Small Business Institute Directors Association, The Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the American Society for Quality Control.
Winner of the 1989 Donald E. Calvert Outstanding Professor Award, given by the college’s MBA students, Dr. Vegso designed several courses offered at Canisius, including "International Management," "Seminar in Decision-Making and Planning," and "Seminar in Applying Behavioral Science Concepts to Management," among others.
Dr. Vegso has taught a very broad array of courses including Production, Marketing, Management, and Organizational Behavior. He presently teaches Business Strategy, and The Managerial Environment (including Ethics, Social Responsibility, and other issues between business and society). His 13 years of experience in industry as engineer and supervisor in General Motors Corp. helps in linking theory to practice.
He has served on the college’s Faculty Senate Welfare Committee, the International Committee, and the President’s Long-Range Strategic Planning Committee.