College of Management Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
- Dr. Stacy Wood joins the college as its Langdon Professor of Marketing, in the Department of Business Management. Wood’s areas of research include consumer innovation, new product design and adoption, and consumer response to technology advances. Wood joins NC State from the University of South Carolina (USC) where she has been on the faculty since 1998. Most recently, she was Moore Research Fellow and associate professor of marketing in the Darla Moore School of Business. She also founded and served as the director of the USC Center for Neuroeconomic Research, an emerging field of study that uses brain imaging technologies to observe which parts of the brain are engaged during decision-making processes. Wood received her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Florida in 1998. During her time at USC, she has won the university’s top undergraduate teaching prize, the Mungo Award, and the business school’s top teaching award, the Alfred G. Smith Award. She also has received teaching awards for MBA classes at both the University of South Carolina and Duke University.
- Dr. Roger Mayer joins the college’s Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He comes to the college from The University of Akron’s College of Business Administration in Akron, Ohio. Mayer received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management. His dissertation topic was “Understanding employee motivation through organizational commitment,” and his research has focused most recently on organizational trust. He has received several awards for research and teaching, including a Research Excellence Award in 2009 from the University of Akron’s College of Business Administration. He also received two awards – Best of the Second Decade Award for Frame-Breaking Innovative Theory and Influential Article Award 1995-1999 – for his research paper, “An Integrative model of Organizational Trust,” published in the Academy of Management Review, Conflict Management Division.
- Dr. Nora Traum joins the college’s Department of Economics as assistant professor of economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University in May 2010, and wrote her dissertation on the topic: “Three Essays on the Effects of Fiscal Policies of Theory and Evidence.” Her research fields include monetary economics, macroeconometrics, and open economy. Traum’s paper on the “Dynamics of Fiscal Financing in the United States” was published in the Journal of Econometrics in June 2010. In the course of her doctoral program, she served as a summer associate in the Congressional Budget Office in 2009, and as a dissertation intern with the Federal Board of Governors in fall 2009.
- Tracey Freeman joins the college as teaching assistant professor in the college’s Department of Business Management. Freeman comes to the college with extensive experience as a supply chain management practitioner, including 12 years’ experience as a supply chain partner with Accenture, working on various projects in the areas of including strategic sourcing, procurement transformation and procurement organizational design. Previously she was a network supplier management with AT&T in Atlanta, GA. Freeman received an MBA from Appalachian State University in 1983. She is a Certified Production and Inventory Manager (CPIM), and completed executive and advanced management programs at Duke University and Rutgers University.
- Christopher McKittrick, CPA, MBA, CFE, joins the Department of Accounting as lecturer following a professional accounting career which he began in 1976 as an audit senior/staff accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, now PWC. His significant corporate experiences include financial analysis, internal audit, financial planning, new channel sales, CFO, controller, self-employed consultant, and director of members in business, industry, and government for AICPA. McKittrick received his MBA degree from Drexel University in 1981. He was certified as a fraud examiner in 2009.
Also joining the college as visiting lecturers in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship this fall are Amanda Elam and Wendy Murphy.
Elam received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2006. Her research areas of interest are entrepreneurship, culture and institutions, and social stratification. Her dissertation was on the topic: “Gender and Entrepreneurship in 28 Countries: A Multilevel Analysis Using GEM Data. She will be teaching MIE 310, Introduction to Entrepreneurship.
Murphy received her MBA from Regis University in 2000 and is program manager with IBM, with a passion for leadership development. She has IBM and PMI Project Management Certification. She will be teaching MBA 557, Management Consulting.
