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Meet the Faculty

Arizona State University boasts one of the finest business schools in the United States. We understand that degree program quality is only as good as the faculty that teach and design the courses and curricula.

The W. P. Carey School of Business faculty are highly regarded and acknowledged globally as influential researchers and consultants. They actively teach in all programs offered in the business school. Our faculty members hold worldwide recognition as researchers in their fields and extensive ties to the business community.

In addition to publishing in top-tier, internationally recognized academic journals, many faculty members have written widely adopted textbooks or contributed to professional books.

For more information about our W. P. Carey faculty work, consult Knowledge@W. P. Carey New Window , a biweekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information, and research from a variety of sources. The site includes analysis of business trends, interviews with industry leaders and W. P. Carey faculty, articles based on recent business research, book reviews, conference and seminar reports, and links to Web sites.

Sample Faculty Profiles

More than 50 faculty members teach core business courses and specialization classes in the W. P. Carey MBA program. Learn more below about some of our faculty members.

Blake Ashforth
Rusty Lyon Chair in Strategy
Professor of Management

Dr. Ashforth has published more than 80 journal articles and book chapters on identity and identification in organizational settings; socialization and newcomer work adjustment; the dysfunctions of organizational structures and processes; and the links among individual-, group- and organization-level phenomena.

Jeffrey Wilson
Associate Professor of Economics

Dr. Wilson specializes in managerial statistics and teaches MBA courses in biostatistics, categorical data analysis, survival analysis and generalized linear models. He is former director of the School of Health Management and Policy and has served as an expert witness in several medical court cases.

Marianne Jennings
Professor of Management
Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar

Professor Jennings is an expert on legal and ethical issues in business. She is a lawyer and teaches courses in the MBA program in business ethics and the legal environment of business. She has written hundreds of articles in academic, professional and trade journals, and currently has six textbooks and monographs in circulation. She has done consulting work for such companies as Boeing, Dial Corp., Mattel, Motorola, Coca-Cola, DuPont and IBM.

Gerry Keim
Associate Dean, W. P. Carey MBA
Professor of Management

Dr. Keim is an award-winning teacher, researcher and consultant whose areas of expertise are business and public policy and the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in existing corporations. He has done consulting work for such major corporations as ARCO, Arizona Public Service Co., Bayer, Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical.