Since his arrival at Wright State in 2003, Dr. Dewett has developed and taught courses in leadership, creativity and innovation, organizational change and business strategy.  His research interests include employee creativity and motivation. Dr. Dewett’s work has been widely published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Organization Science, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Creativity Research Journal. 

His has been quoted widely in the media including the  The New York Times, Business Week, CNN, Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, and the Christian Science Monitor.  Dr. Dewett has received numerous awards for teaching and research including the Presidential Award for Excellence – Early Career Achievement and the Dayton Business Journal’s “40 Under 40 Award”. Dr. Dewett holds a Ph.D. in Management from Texas A&M University, an MBA from the University of Tennessee, and a BBA from the University of Memphis.  Prior to joining the Raj Soin College of Business, Dr. Dewett worked in consulting with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ernst & Young focusing on process reengineering and change management.  He continues to work with many organizations through speaking, executive development, training and consulting.  

Dr. Akhbari earned her Ph. D. in finance from the University of Cincinnati, an MBA from Wright State University with concentrations in accountancy and finance, and a BA in romance languages from Bowdoin College.  She joined the Raj Soin College of Business faculty in the fall of 1999.  She has been the recipient of the Outstanding Finance Teacher Award four times in seven years and the Outstanding MBA Teacher for the academic year 2002-2003.

  Dr.  Akhbari’s teaching and research interests are primarily in the field of Financial Management. She has had the pleasure of instructing students at both the MBA and undergraduate levels for the University of Cincinnati and the University of Dayton, as well as the Raj Soin College of Business.  She has developed challenging case courses for both the undergraduate and graduate programs and has taught cohorts of Chinese students in Dayton and in Shanghai.
Dr. Akhbari’s prior business experiences range from retail buying to accounting for  Montgomery County’s Community Development Block Grant Program.  Additionally, she has had the opportunity to provide executive training to area businesses while at the Raj Soin College of Business. Her most recent publications have been on the efficiency of forward foreign exchange markets and the use of patterned momentum strategies in investing in no-load mutual funds.

Dwight E. Smith-Daniels received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona.  Prior to joining Wright State University,  Dr. Smith-Daniels was on the faculty of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he was the Director of the MBA Specialization in Supply Chain Management. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Smith-Daniels has concentrated his teaching efforts

in the areas of project  and supply chain management at the masters degree level, in addition to teaching several doctoral seminars on those topics. He has developed courses for full-time, part-time, online and executive MBA programs.  In all of his courses, active learning principles are used to engage participants in the various problems that they encounter in their business environment.  Dr. Smith-Daniels also conducts professional development seminars on project management to a variety of leading technology companies.  He served as a faculty liason on a U.S. Department of Commerce grant that was awarded to leading Arizona companies to fund the education of over eight hundred engineers and managers on program management from Boeing Helicopters, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Intel, Motorola, On Semi-Conductor, Raytheon Missile Systems and Maricopa County Workforce Connections.  On the international front, Dr. Smith-Daniels recently facilitated a executive education program on the challenges of global project management at the China Europe International Business School, one of the leading international executive education programs. 
Dr. Smith-Daniels is widely published in a variety of aca­demic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics and Production and Inventory Manage­ment.  He has served as an Associate Editor for The Project Management Journal, The Journal of Operations Management and The Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.  His research focuses on project management and planning in technology and supply chain environments, including software, new product and supply chain development.  Dr. Smith-Daniels is a member of the Project Management Institute, the leading international society in the field of project management, as well as the Decision Sciences Institute, the Insti­tute of Industrial Engineers and the Production and Operations Management Society.  He has served as consultant to a number of organizations, including Intel, DialCorp, Honeywell and the J.M. Smucker Co. 

Dr.Kellar received his Ph.D. and MBA with a concentrationin Supply Chain Management/Logistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  He also holds a Master of Science and B.S. in Mathematics from Brigham Young University. Prior to joining Wright State University, Dr. Kellar was Assistant Professor at Penn State University, Media, Pennsylvania. He has also held teaching positions at Holy Family University in Philadelphia and

State University of New York (SUNY) in Westbury, New York.Dr. Kellar also served as the Director of the Logistics Management Institute and Assistant Professor at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University for five years.  Dr. Kellar’s teaching interests focus on the areas logistics, operations management, decision science  and supply chain management.  His research exepertise includes the strategic application of advanced modeling in supply chain management,efficiency and activity based costing in transportation services, customer relationsp management and the relationship of company size, growth and inventory.  His  research is published in numerous refereed journals including: Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, Journa of Academy of Business and Economics,Issues in Information Systems, International Journal of Business Discipline, Journal of Business Logistics, The Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy and the Journal of Transportation Management. 
Dr. Kellar has delivered numerous seminars and presentations for executive decision-makers at organizations such as Federal Express, Symol Technologies, Inc., the Counsel of Logistics Management, and Warner-Lambert Corporation,  He is also the recipient of significant grant and research support  funded by industry.  

Dr. Munshi received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi and an M.C.S. from the University of Mississppi Medical Center, Jackson.  Prior to joining Wright State, Dr. Munshi served as Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Cass Business School, City University, London, UK and as a Research Scholar for the U.K.’s premier management research program, the Advanced Institute of Management Research. 

While at the Cass Business School, Dr. Munshi developed and delivered the flagship strategic management course for the full-time and modular EMBA program. She has also taught at HEC Lausanne and University of Lugano in Switzerland and in the Cass Business School EMBA program in Shanghai, China.  Her research and teaching interests include corporate strategy, strategic management of technology and innovation, corporate social responsibility issues. Based on her her expertise in creative industries, she has been invited as a guest speaker to speak at the World Whiskies Conference, Edinburgh and the British Film Institute, London and has published on the Scotch whisky industry. Dr. Munshi’s research on science entrepreneurship has focused on entrepreneurial search, entrepreneurial cognition, innovation and entrepreneurship, and leadership and innovation. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Strategies, Business and Society Review and most recently, will be co-editing a special issue of Journal of Asia-Pacific Business on the topic of ‘Value creation, social innovation and entrepreneurship in global economies’.  She also has previous experience as a research assistant for the departments of surgery and biochemistry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and interned in sales and marketing for SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare Division, Pittsburgh and for Piramal Healthcare Limited, India.

Dr. Goodrich received a Ph.D. in marketing from Florida Atlantic University, his MBA from Northwestern University (Kellogg School) and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia. Dr. Goodrich teaches in the areas of entrepreneurship, retailing, marketing technology, Internet marketing and marketing strategy.
 Dr. Goodrich’s research explores areas of consumer behavior such as

advertising stimuli effects, cognitive processing and market segmentation, as well as supply chain optimization. His writing has appeared in publications such as the European Business Review and in conference proceedings such as American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, and Association for Consumer Research. He has been a Fellow of the AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium and a reviewer and session chair for multiple business publications and marketing conferences.   His research in progress includes optimal positioning of web page banner advertisements, the boundaries of e-commmerce and the influence and application of social power theory on teen purchases.  Dr. Goodrich has extensive private sector marketing experience with a variety of technology and consumer companies including AT&T Global Information, Citrix Sytems, Topspeed Clarion Software, Iconomy.com and the Home Shopping Group.