Helen Adams
Lecturer in Accounting
Helen Adams hails from Australia where she received her BA in accounting from Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW Australia, (with honors). She holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the Michael G. Foster Business School in accounting, finance and economics. She has worked for Price Waterhouse in Sydney, Australia, Macquarie University, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington since 1992. Adams also is an adjunct lecturer in pharmacy. At the University of Washington, she teaches managerial accounting to undergraduates, MBA and Business Fundamental programs (undergraduate equivalent of CBA). She has taught accounting information systems and cost accounting. An expert on small business accounting, she has worked with small businesses in engineering, food services and dry cleaning. She also has been an instructor in Pacific Coast banking School.

Leta Beard
Lecturer, Marketing
Leta Beard is an award winning educator who specializes in sales and marketing management. She has been on the faculty of the Foster Business School since 1996. During her tenure, she has won numerous awards including, the Wells Fargo Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2007 and the Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Marketing, 2006. Beard led an MBA study tour in 2007 and was chosen to lead an undergraduate Exploration Seminar to Ireland at the end of the summer. Beard is also the lead faculty member in the Certificate in Marketing program. She has an extensive marketing background. As a consultant Beard focuses on communications network systems. Her professor expertise is primarily in the telecommunications industry.

Jane George-Falvy, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Management
Jane George-Falvy is a lecturer for the University of Washington Business School. She is the Faculty Director of Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition which draws teams of students from around the world to Seattle to present plans for social enterprises. She also is the Faculty Advisor, UW Society of Human Resources Management. This year, she championed the UW team to a first place regional win in the SHRM knowledge jeopardy games. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1997, she was an Assistant Professor, Australian Graduate at the School of Management in Sydney. She is an expert on the topics motivation and performance management, social cognitive theory, skill acquisition, training, managerial skills, group dynamics, negotiation, compensation.

Vandra L. Huber, Ph.D.
Professor of HRM and Management
Vandra L. Huber is a Professor of Human Resources and Management at the University of Washington Business School and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy. She coordinates the highly successful Essentials of Business certificate (Admin510) program, serves the faculty coordinator of Global Study tours for CIBER, and is actively involved with the Business and Economic Development Center (BEDC) conducting research on minority and women owned small businesses. She received an MBA and D.B.A. in human resources and social psychology from Indiana University. She has previously served on the faculties of the New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and the University of Utah.

Karrin Klotz
Lecturer
Karrin Klotz is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in litigation and general business law matters. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Washington Business School and an adjunct professor at Seattle University Law School, specializing in business law and intellectual property law issues. She also has her own legal practice, specializing in representing entrepreneurs on the wide range of issues faced by small businesses operating on a worldwide level. She is the past chairman of the Public Information and Media Relations Committee of the Washington State Bar Association.

Suresh Kotha, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategy, UW Business School
Kotha received his B. Arch (1980) from the University of Madras, his M. B. A. (1983), M. Arch (1985), M.S. (Industrial Engineering) (1986), and Ph. D. (1988) from Rensselaer. Kotha, who joined UW in 1996, teaches courses in competitive strategy and business policy, competing on the internet and corporate entrepreneurship at both the MBA and executive MBA programs. He also served on the faculty of the Stern School of Business, New York University (1988-1996) and the School of Management at Rensselaer (1986-1988). In 1993, he was a visiting professor at the International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan where he taught courses in technology management and strategic management of manufacturing. His primary research interests are in the areas of competitive strategy, corporate entrepreneurship, manufacturing strategy, and International Management. Currently, he is on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal. He was also an Associate editor of the Journal of Operations Management and has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal.

Lynda Livingston, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance
Professor Livingston is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Puget Sound's School of Business and Leadership. She holds a Ph.D. in finance and business economics from the University of Washington, an M.S. from Texas A& M University and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the faculty at UPS, she was a lecturer at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial share sales as well as corporate finance and corporate control issues. She has worked in the personal finance area for Texas A & M University and University of Puget Sound. Professor Livingston teaches a variety of finance courses, including investments, financial markets, and personal finance.

Richard McPherson
Lecturer
Richard McPherson has 25 years of business and industry experience including serving as a Vice President at T-Mobile and at AT&T Broadband, and as a Partner in a small consulting firm. He has been a leader of various aspects of 7 different mergers, acquisition and divestiture projects, ranging in scope from $2.5 billion to $60 billion in value. He has started 4 different business units within large corporations, and has also been involved with small business and non-profit strategic planning and operations improvement. Semi-retired, Rick is currently a Lecturer at the University of Washington where he teaches courses in management, strategy, and leadership and is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Seattle University.

Kevin Steensma, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
H. Kevin Steensma is an Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management at the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to his appointment in 2000, Professor Steensma was on the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business. Professor Steensma received a Bachelor's of Science in Organic Chemistry (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from Washington State University. He worked in software industry prior to returning to Indiana University for his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management. Professor Steensma teaches International Strategy in the MBA, Executive MBA, and executive education programs at the University of Washington. Professor Steensma is currently conducting studies on the influence of national culture on technology alliance formation and entrepreneurship.

Instructors are subject to change.