Business/economics :: UW–Madison Experts

Fabio Gaertner

Assistant professor, accounting and information systems

Expert on accounting, taxation, asset prices, executive compensation, and management incentives

Robert (Bob) Batt

Associate professor, operations & information management

Expert on service operations management with a focus on healthcare delivery operations, econometrics, and spreadsheet modeling.

Deb Houden

Director, Family Business Center; faculty associate, School of Business

Expert on issues concerning family business including succession, next generation leadership, and communication and conflict.

Matthew Hora

Associate Professor, Adult & Higher Education; Director, Center for Research College-Workforce Transitions

Expert on college-workforce transitions, with focus on internships, "soft" or "21st century skills," and postsecondary teaching from a cultural, historical and learning sciences perspective.

Lawrence Berger

Professor, School of Social Work

Expert on the economic resources, sociodemographic characteristics, and public policies affecting parental behaviors and child and family well-being

Julie Dahl

Faculty associate, Division of Continuing Studies

Expert in business and professional Spanish, language courses for adults, and working cross-culturally in Spanish-speaking countries.

Peter Lukszys

Distinguished Lecturer / Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management / Department of Operations & Information Management

Expert on logistics, supply chain management, and enterprise resource planning systems

Sarah Marty

Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration

Arts entrepreneur, arts management educator, performing arts professional, nonprofit arts and cultural leadership, production manager for campus and community events

Martin Ganco

Professor, management & human resources

Expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and technology, business strategy and complexity theory.

Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn

Professor emeritus, marketing

Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,

Cliff Robb

Professor, Department Chair, Consumer Science

Expert on financial decision-making and consumer financial capability

Oliver Levine

Assistant professor, finance; Patrick A. Thiele Fellow in Finance

Expert on corporate finance, corporate investment, mergers and acquisitions, agency problems.

Thomas Linsmeier

Thomas G. Ragatz Distinguished Chair in Accounting & Professor, Accounting & Information Systems

Expert on financial reporting, particularly issues relating to standard setting activities, and the economic effects of changes in accounting standards.

Timothy Smeeding

Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social and economic mobility across generations; inequality of income, consumption and wealth; and poverty in national and cross-national contexts.