New Faculty Begin Fall Semester
August 26, 2007
New
faculty join the department
The Department of
Management is pleased to announce that several new
faculty members have joined us beginning in the fall
semester.
Ms. Dana Simmons graduated from WKU with a Master of Arts in Organizational Communication in 1994. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership, Human Resource Education Track at the University of Louisville. Ms. Simmons has over 20 years of executive experience. Most recently, she served as Human Resource Executive at the corporate headquarters of Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems. In this capacity, she maintained multiple responsibilities: Executive Oversight of Executive Compensation and Succession Planning; Corporate Compensation and Benefits Strategy; HR Planning for Corporate Restructuring Activities; Public Relations and Government Affairs; and Lead for Corporate Human Resources Development. She holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Society for Human Resource Management and as a Certified Compensation Professional. Ms. Simmons has published an article on job analysis in WorkSpan, the trade magazine for the American Compensation Association.
Dr. Leanne Coder recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. She has considerable experience in human resources and industrial engineering and will teach human resources courses at WKU.
David Cherry has over 25 years of business experience working with large multinational and entrepreneur-led organizations in senior and executive level positions with responsibilities for distribution, finance, planning, forecasting, information technology, and supply chain management. He has worked in international operations and successfully completed training, integration, and process improvement projects in Canada, Europe, Central America, and the Caribbean. David earned a Bachelor and a Masters in Business Administration from Western Kentucky University.
In Hyeock (Ian) Lee received his Ph.D. in Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in 2007. He received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and his master’s degree in Public Administration from Seoul National University in Korea. He worked as a deputy director at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) in Korea since 1995 before joining academia. One of his major accomplishments at MOCIE was the development of long- and medium-term policy for local industrial development with particular focus on industrial cluster formation. Research topics he is interested in involve understanding and analyzing the location choices of multinational enterprises and entrepreneurial firms in a cluster and their strategic implications. He is especially interested in applying a tight game theoretical model to these issues by creating a blend of business economics and management strategies. Some of his papers currently under review at journals include: Cluster Formation by Entrepreneurial Break-offs: A Game-Theoretic Approach (co-authored with Dr. Moren Levesque at University of Waterloo); Cluster Formation by Relocation in Host Countries: A Calculative View of Clusters; Multinationals, Globalization, and Public Policy in Korea towards FDI (co-authored with Dr. Alan M. Rugman at Indiana University), and Strategic Responses of International Joint Ventures to Security Shocks. His wife, Hai Ri, is a graduate student in the MFA program at Purdue University. He has two children. Chan Ik (Bryan) became a second grader at the Briarwood Elementary School from this fall and Nayoon is a lovely three-year old girl.
Dr. Michelle Lane will join us as well. With a Ph.D. in operations management and extensive industry experience, she will be a great asset and will teach production and operations courses.
Ms. Dana Simmons graduated from WKU with a Master of Arts in Organizational Communication in 1994. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership, Human Resource Education Track at the University of Louisville. Ms. Simmons has over 20 years of executive experience. Most recently, she served as Human Resource Executive at the corporate headquarters of Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems. In this capacity, she maintained multiple responsibilities: Executive Oversight of Executive Compensation and Succession Planning; Corporate Compensation and Benefits Strategy; HR Planning for Corporate Restructuring Activities; Public Relations and Government Affairs; and Lead for Corporate Human Resources Development. She holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Society for Human Resource Management and as a Certified Compensation Professional. Ms. Simmons has published an article on job analysis in WorkSpan, the trade magazine for the American Compensation Association.
Dr. Leanne Coder recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. She has considerable experience in human resources and industrial engineering and will teach human resources courses at WKU.
David Cherry has over 25 years of business experience working with large multinational and entrepreneur-led organizations in senior and executive level positions with responsibilities for distribution, finance, planning, forecasting, information technology, and supply chain management. He has worked in international operations and successfully completed training, integration, and process improvement projects in Canada, Europe, Central America, and the Caribbean. David earned a Bachelor and a Masters in Business Administration from Western Kentucky University.
In Hyeock (Ian) Lee received his Ph.D. in Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in 2007. He received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and his master’s degree in Public Administration from Seoul National University in Korea. He worked as a deputy director at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) in Korea since 1995 before joining academia. One of his major accomplishments at MOCIE was the development of long- and medium-term policy for local industrial development with particular focus on industrial cluster formation. Research topics he is interested in involve understanding and analyzing the location choices of multinational enterprises and entrepreneurial firms in a cluster and their strategic implications. He is especially interested in applying a tight game theoretical model to these issues by creating a blend of business economics and management strategies. Some of his papers currently under review at journals include: Cluster Formation by Entrepreneurial Break-offs: A Game-Theoretic Approach (co-authored with Dr. Moren Levesque at University of Waterloo); Cluster Formation by Relocation in Host Countries: A Calculative View of Clusters; Multinationals, Globalization, and Public Policy in Korea towards FDI (co-authored with Dr. Alan M. Rugman at Indiana University), and Strategic Responses of International Joint Ventures to Security Shocks. His wife, Hai Ri, is a graduate student in the MFA program at Purdue University. He has two children. Chan Ik (Bryan) became a second grader at the Briarwood Elementary School from this fall and Nayoon is a lovely three-year old girl.
Dr. Michelle Lane will join us as well. With a Ph.D. in operations management and extensive industry experience, she will be a great asset and will teach production and operations courses.