PROFESSIONAL MBA Selected Faculty at Mays DR. BALA SHETTY Dr. Bala Shetty is the Paula and Steve Letbetter ’70 Chair in Business and serves as executive associate dean. In addition to serving on the faculty of Texas A&M University since 1985, he’s had faculty positions at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Madrid Business School in Spain. He also served as a research fellow at Princeton University in 1996 and 2008, while on faculty development leave from Texas A&M University. Dr. Shetty is passionate about providing his students an outstanding education that will impact their lives and careers. He says with pride, “I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to work with so many bright young men and women who will be the next generation of leaders of this country.” He’s received a number of teaching awards at Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University, including the EMBA Outstanding Faculty Award (2008), the MBA Outstanding Faculty Award (1998, 2000, 2001 and 2005), the Alpha Kappa Psi Undergraduate Teaching Award (1990, 1991) and the prestigious Association of Former Students Teaching Award (2002). Dr. Shetty has also served in a number of leadership positions within Mays Business School’s Department of Information and Operations Management, including director of the PhD program, assistant department head and department head. More recently, he served as associate dean of Graduate Programs, leading the school’s MBA and Executive MBA Programs. PhD, Southern Methodist University, 1985; M.S., Southern Methodist University, 1981 DR. MARY LEA MCANALLY Dr. Mary Lea McAnally is associate dean for Graduate Programs and the Ljungdahl Chaired Professor of Accounting. She obtained her PhD from Stanford University and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta. She worked as a chartered accountant (in Canada) and is a Certified Internal Auditor. Prior to arriving at Texas A&M in 2002, Dr. McAnally had positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Canadian National Railways, and Dunwoody and Company. At Texas A&M, Dr. McAnally oversees a suite of master’s programs, including the Full-Time, Professional, and Executive MBA Programs, as well as master’s programs in accounting, finance, management, information systems and marketing. She teaches financial reporting, analysis and valuation in the FullTime, Professional and Executive MBA Programs. Through the Mays Center for Executive Development, she works with a number of corporate clients, including Halliburton, AT&T, and Baker Hughes. She has also taught at University of Calgary, IMADEC (in Austria) and at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Dr. McAnally has received numerous faculty-determined and student-initiated teaching awards. In addition, she co-authors four textbooks widely used in MBA and executive programs in the United States, Canada, and Europe. PhD, Stanford University, 1994; B. Comm., University of Alberta, 1981 PROFESSIONAL MBA Selected Faculty at Mays JOHN KRAJICEK John Krajicek is an executive professor and the assistant director of Business Communication Studies for the Full-Time, Professional, and Executive MBA Programs. He’s been on the faculty at Texas A&M since 1996. Before joining the MBA Programs in 2005, he taught scientific and technical writing, rhetoric and composition, and an introduction to literature in Texas A&M’s Department of English, as well as an introduction to taxation in the Department of Accounting. Mr. Krajicek has received two Association of Former Students teaching awards, along with the Nancy and William J. Gardiner Teaching Excellence Award, the Creswell Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Killingsworth Award in Teaching Excellence. His primary research and pedagogical interests include communication theories, public speaking best practices, professional presence, mindfulness and emotional and social intelligence. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. M.A., University of North Texas, 1993; M.S.A., North Texas State University, 1982; B.A., North Texas State University, 1979 DR. MIKE KINNEY Dr. Mike Kinney teaches classes in the Full-Time, Professional, and Executive MBA Programs, as well as courses offered by the Center for Executive Development at Texas A&M. He has also taught tax and management accounting courses in the Professional Program in Accounting and a tax research course in the PhD program. He currently serves as coordinator of the PhD Program in Accounting. Dr. Kinney’s primary research interests are the effects of corporate income taxation on business decisions and earnings management using real activities. He’s published scholarly and practitioner articles in several tax journals and top accounting journals, and he has co-authored two widely adopted textbooks in cost and management accounting. Dr. Kinney has received several college and departmental teaching awards, as well as an international research award. He’s also been a Price Waterhouse Teaching Excellence Professor and is currently a KPMG Faculty Fellow. PhD, University of Arizona, 1989; M.S., University of Wyoming, 1985; B.A., Hastings College, 1978 DR. SORIN SORESCU Dr. Sorin Sorescu is a professor of finance and the Patricia and Bookman Peters Research Professorship recipient. He currently serves as the head of the Finance Department. His research interests focus on financial markets, asset pricing and active portfolio management. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Sorescu served as an assistant professor at University of Houston. His research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of International Money and Finance. Dr. Sorescu also served as expert witness in matters related to informational content of security prices. PhD, Southern Methodist University, 1985; M.S., Southern Methodist University, 1981 DR. MICHAEL WESSON Dr. Michael Wesson currently teaches in the Full-Time, Professional, and Executive MBA Programs. He also teaches leadership, human resource management and organizational behavior courses in the Master of Science in Human Resource Management program. Dr. Wesson has received several teaching grants, and he has been honored as a Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar. He’s also co-author of a textbook about organizational behavior. Dr. Wesson’s research interests focus on the areas of recruitment, selection, socialization, compensation and leadership. He’s published research articles in numerous top-tier journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Review and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards for several of these journals. Before returning to school to earn his doctoral degree at Michigan State University, Dr. Wesson worked as a human resources manager for Baker Hughes, Inc. He’s also served as a consultant to the automotive supplier, oil and gas, and technology industries in areas dealing with recruiting, selection, onboarding, leadership development, compensation and turnover. PhD, Michigan State University, 2002; M.S., Texas A&M University, 1992; B.B.A., Baylor University, 1991 PROFESSIONAL MBA Selected Faculty at Mays DR. ASGHAR ZARDKOOHI Dr. Asghar Zardkoohi is the T.J. Barlow Professor of Business Administration. Dr. Zardkoohi’s research and teaching interests are in corporate governance, decision making under uncertainty and executive compensation. In addition to receiving the Texas A&M University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching in 2011, Dr. Zardkoohi has received numerous teaching awards at Mays Business School, including the Executive MBA Faculty Excellence Award (2013), the Teaching Fellowship Award (2010), the Teaching Performance Award (2010), the Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the MBA Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the Executive MBA Faculty Recognition Award for Teaching (2006), and the Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award (1989, 2003). Dr. Zardkoohi teaches a course on the economic analysis of contract law at EDHEC, a business school in Lille/Nice, France. In addition, he teaches a class to Aramco’s executives at the company’s headquarters in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Zardkoohi has received research grants from NASA, the American Banking Association, AT&T and the Small Business Administration. In addition, he won the Texas A&M Association of Former Students University Distinguished Research Award in 1985. He is a research fellow at Texas A&M University’s Private Enterprise Research Center. PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977; M.S., Auburn University, 1973; B.A., Abadan Institute of Technology, 1968 DR. SURESH RAMANATHAN Dr. Suresh Ramanathan is a professor of marketing and the David R. Norcom ’73 Endowed Professor at the Mays Business School. Dr. Ramanathan teaches in the Full-Time and Professional MBA Programs and MS in Marketing programs. He studies the dynamics of affective and motivational processes in judgments and choice. His research focuses on the role of changing emotions and goals in different domains, such as social consumption of experiences, self-control and impulsive behavior, health-related marketing and sales promotion effectiveness. Before joining Mays, Dr. Ramanathan taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for nine years, and he has considerable industry experience. He worked with Unilever in its tea and coffee business for three years and has seven years of experience in the advertising industry at JWT, Lintas and McCann Erickson. He also worked with MTV India where he was part of the core team responsible for launching the channel in India. Dr. Ramanathan is on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology and also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals in marketing. He has published his work in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Psychological Science and Marketing Letters. In 2007, he was identified by the Marketing Science Institute as a leading Emerging Scholar, in recognition of his work and potential. He is also the recipient of the SCP-Sheth Foundation award for best doctoral dissertation proposal in 2001, and the Herman Krooss award for best doctoral dissertation at the Stern School of Business in 2002. PhD, New York University, 2002; M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1987; B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, 1985