School of Business Faculty
GW’s School
of Business (GWSB) faculty are committed to excellence
in teaching and practice. They are a community
of professionals whose experiences include editorial
board members, government and business consultants,
World Bank and IMP advisors, management consultants,
corporate board members, and United Nations experts.
This provides students a rich breadth of knowledge
to draw upon whether they are beginning their
first introductory level course or are completing
their senior year thesis.
Selected notable GWSB faculty include:
Angela Gore
Assistant Professor of Accountancy. Professor
Gore’s expertise lies in financial accounting, auditing, public policy and government/nonprofit.
She currently is on the editorial board of Accounting
Horizons. While teaching, she conducts research
in regulation, disclosure, compensation, and goverance.
Vanessa Perry
Assistant Professor of Marketing. Professor Perry’s expertise lie in consumer financial decisions, marketing and public policy, consumer information
acquisition and use, credit markets and underserved consumers. Her current
research focuses on retailer power, consumer credit and social marketing. Professor
Perry was recently quoted in the New York Times on credit card debt and how
consumers handle it successfully or unsuccessfully.
Lynda M. Maddox
Professor of Marketing and Advertising. Professor Maddox’s area
of expertise lies in advertising, consumer behavior, communications, focus group research, marketing management, and experiential learning. She has been noted
in several publications, including an article that focused on measuring web advertising effectiveness in China in the Journal of Advertising Research.
Robert F. Dyer
Professor of Marketing. Professor Dyer’s areas of expertise include electronic commerce and marketing, customer relationship management, marketing strategy, marketing decision support, and health services marketing. His research has focused on marketing and public policy, marketing
decision support systems, and customer relationship management. In 2006 Professor
Dyer received a grant from the Society for Marketing Professional Services
to study client relationship management systems in the U.S. architecture, engineering,
and building industries.
Theodore M. Barnhill
Professor of Finance. Professor Barnhill areas of expertise within business
are that of futures, options, modeling, and risk management. His current research
focuses on modeling correlated
market and credit risk and modeling bank risk levels.
William C. Handorf
Professor of Finance. Professor Handorf’s areas of expertise include banking, real estate and risk management. His current research includes all
general areas of banking and real estate. Also, outside of the classroom, Professor
Handorf currently serves as a director with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.
Previously, he directed the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he chaired
the Baltimore Branch.
Susan M. Phillips
Dean and Professor of Finance. Professor Phillips's areas of expertise in
education and research include finance, monetary policy, regulation and supervision
of financial institutions, derivatives, and economic theory of regulation.
She has been highlighted in the Journal of International Banking Regulations. Her current fields of research are monetary policy, financial
derivatives, and economic/financial regulation.
Hossein Askari
Professor of International Business and International Affairs. Professor
Hossein has been at GW since 1982 teaching students with a focus in international trade and finance, economic development in the Persian Gulf, and oil economics.
His current research includes economic development, militarization, and corruption
in the Persian Gulf, econometric oil and gas models, Islamic economics and finance,
and economic sanctions.
