Professor Gillett's areas of research and interest include corporate transparency and corporate governance, fraudulent financial reporting, audit committee characteristics, auditing and audit evidence, uncertain reasoning, theoretical foundations of imprecise probability theory, ontology, philosophy of science, and research methodologies. He has published articles in The Journal of Business Ethics, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, and Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, as well as contributing to other journals and books. His teaching has focused in recent years on accounting information systems, philosophy of science and research methods. Prior to returning to the academic world, Dr. Gillett spent nine years with Price Waterhouse and eight with Grant Thornton, where he was the Partner in charge of Advanced Audit Techniques and European Director of Audit Methods. Professor Gillett holds B.A. and M.A degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Kansas.

Expertise: Auditing, accounting information systems, uncertain reasoning and imprecise probabilities, expert systems, quantitative research methodologies, philosophy, corporate transparency and its impacts.

Professor Eastman’s interests include employment at will and federal labor policy, litigation strategy, bondholder stockholder relations, and the history and politics of managerial and legal theory. He has published articles in law, management, and social science journals. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Expertise: Employment and Labor Law, History and Politics of Managerial and Legal Theory, Law and Economics, Litigation Strategy

Professor Kettenring's interests include the nonprofit sector broadly, and non-profit arts management in particular. A longtime volunteer on several Boards, she is director of Rutgers Business & the Arts and Executive Director of GlassRoots, Inc. She holds an M.A. in European History from the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill.

Expertise: arts management, non-profit management, corporate philanthropy and entrepreneurial social ventures.

Professor Kolben is a lawyer who writes and teaches on international labor rights, human rights, international trade law, and India. He has worked extensively in South and Southeast Asia on issues of labor rights and labor law, and consults to various labor and human rights organizations. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers Business School, he was a senior associate with Human Rights First in its Workers Rights Department where he worked on issues of corporate accountability and international labor regulation.  Professor Kolben holds a B.A. (1994) from Oberlin College, and a J.D. and M.A. (2002) in South Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.

kkolben@rbs.rutgers.edu

Expertise: labor rights,  international labor law, corporate social responsibility, international trade law, Asian business, South and Southeast Asia.

William Newburry's research interests are in the management of international subsidiaries (including joint ventures, acquisitions and greenfield investments) and collaboration in international environmental management. His work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, the Journal of Management Studies, International Business Review, the Journal of International Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the Journal of World Business and the Journal of Third World Studies. In addition, his work has also been included in the Proceedings of the Academy of Management. Bill holds a Ph.D. in International Business and Management from New York University.

Expertise: Managing Overseas Subsidiaries, Environmental Management, Organizational Attractiveness to Outside Stakeholders, NGO Networks

Professor Warren specializes in the effects of social and financial influences on constructive and destructive conformity and deviance in business organizations. She is not only interested in examining what causes certain behaviors but also the standards used to judge conduct. Her empirical studies include an intensive multi-method examination of traders on the floor of financial exchanges, quantitative and qualitative survey research on social exchange (guanxi) in Chinese business, and experimental research on protecting and deceiving customers in product marketing. She holds a Ph.D. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Expertise: Constructive and Destructive Deviance at Work, Social Influence, Financial Incentives, Social Exchange, and International Business Standards

Harold M. Davis, MD is a consultant providing a unique insight and expertise on issues related to business integrity and mentoring. Dr. Davis is the former senior vice president and chief ethics officer at Prudential Financial, Inc. Prior to his retirement in January 2002, he was responsible for maintaining an Enterprise-wide focus on achieving high ethical standards in Prudential’s operation. Dr. Davis has a BA degree from Wesleyan University and an MD degree from Yale University Medical School.

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