Vanderbilt MAcc Faculty

Vanderbilt business professors bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience as well as insights afforded by their innovative and enlightening research. Our professors are known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching, you’ll gain cutting-edge knowledge of how business theory and practice come together.

	Germain Boer Professor of Accounting; Director of Owen Entrepreneurship Center MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Germain Böer has initiated numerous innovative entrepreneurship activities at Owen, including an annual conference and student sessions with venture capitalists. Germain currently serves as an advisor to startup companies in the Nashville area and is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Strategic Finance. Video: The Owen Entrepreneurship Center

	William Christie Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management in Finance; Professor of Law MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Bill Christie’s studies of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s concluded that Nasdaq market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research resulted in sweeping reform of the Nasdaq, introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules, and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants. Bill won first prize for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance based on this research. He is a five-time recipient of the EMBA Teaching award and was ranked either first or second among star faculty in each Business Week ranking from 1992 through 2000.

	Luke Froeb William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.

	Karl Hackenbrack Associate Professor of Accounting; Faculty Director, MAcc Program; Associate Dean of Evaluation and Program Development MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Karl Hackenbrack’s writings and teachings address corporate governance issues associated with external financial reporting, including fraudulent financial reporting, the structure of accounting standards, the public accounting industry, corporate valuation, and the regulation of professional services. Karl has been an editorial board member of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory since 1996, an editorial board member of The Accounting Review from 1996 to 1999, and an ad hoc reviewer for many journals.

	Debra Jeter, CPA Associate Professor of Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Debra Jeter is a certified public accountant with a distinguished record of professional achievement and participation in the activities of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She has also won numerous accolades for her teaching excellence. Debra is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review. She has served as an ad hoc Associate Editor of a second AAA publication, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Issues in Accounting Education. The fourth edition of her textbook, Advanced Accounting, coauthored with Paul Chaney, was released in 2009.

	Salvatore March David K. Wilson Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Salvatore March’s primary research interests are in the areas of Information System Development, Electronic Commerce, Logical and Physical Database Design, Distributed Database Design, and the Economics of Information. His research in these areas has appeared in journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information and Management, The Journal of MIS, Information Systems, and Information Systems Research.

	Kimberly Pace Professor for the Practice of Communication MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Kimberly Pace teaches courses in leadership communications and public relations at Owen and uses her formal training in the performing arts to bring a unique perspective to business education and practice. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served in marketing and communications roles for two international faith-based non-profit agencies located in Nashville, served as a communications consultant and has taught branding and public relation seminars for professional communicators.

	Gary Scudder Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management; Faculty Director, International Programs MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Gary Scudder earned the Dean's Teaching Award in 1994 and the James E. Webb Teaching Award in 1999. Through the course of his career, he has consulted with a number of large corporations including United Airlines, 3M, IDS, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Philips Corporation, Motorola, Novartis, RR Donnelly, Air Products, the Methodist General Board of Discipleship, and Bridgestone/Firestone primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning.

	Bart Victor Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Bart Victor joined the Owen faculty from the Institute for Management Development International (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland where he was Professor of Management and Director of the Program for Management Development. Prior to IMD, Bart was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University of Nebraska. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.

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	William Henderson Professor for the Practice of Tax Accounting; KPMG Partner, Tax (Retired) MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
William Henderson’s experience spans 37 years providing a full range of tax services for a wide variety of clients ranging. By the time of his retirement as a Partner at KPMG, he had combined his expertise as an educator and tax professional, teaching the firm's "Advanced Taxation of Partnerships" seminar for tax partners and managers. As a tax professional, William provided services to a wide range of industries including oil and gas; real estate; manufacturing; public utilities; banking; savings and loan; insurance; and financial services.

	James Jones Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Professor Jones entire professional career was with KPMG LLP, from which he retired in May 2006 after serving as Managing Partner of the Nashville office since 1999.

	Mark Schmadtke Adjunct Professor of Management; Partner, Dixon Hughes PLLC MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mark serves as Director of the Dixon Hughes Risk Services Group. He focuses on providing outsourced and co-sourced internal audit service, business risk identification and management and strategic change development. Mark is experienced in the areas of financial and operational controls, having directed the outsourced internal audit function of three public registrants, led multiple Sarbanes-Oxley - Section 404 compliance implementations and designed multiple compliance risk management functions. In addition, Mark has served as partner-in-charge of external audit services on multiple public company engagements.

	Philip K. Woodlief Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Phil has been Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Doane Pet Care since June 2000 and served as Vice President, Finance for Doane from February 1999 to June 2000. Prior to joining us, Phil was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Insilco Corporation, a diversified consumer and industrial products manufacturing company. Phil joined Insilco as the Corporate Controller in 1989 and prior to that was a senior manager at KPMG.

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