Faculty
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Scott Bozman

Professor of Marketing

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 9
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-3409

Office Location
Jepson Center

B.Sc., University of Idaho, 1980; M.A.,University of Victoria, 1983; Ph.D., Washington State University, 1990

Dr. Bozman teaches courses in Principles of Marketing, Research Methods, Business Planning, and New Product Development. His research interests include demand estimation methods and the new product development process. Professor Bozman also consults in the areas of new product development and demand assessment.

 
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Paul Buller

Director, Professor

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 9
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-3438
Fax: (509) 313-5811

Office Location
Jepson Center,

B.S., University of Utah, 1974; M.S.W., University of Utah, 1976; M.B.A., University of Washington, 1981; Ph.D. University of Washington, 1982.

Dr. Buller is a Professor of Management and holds the Kinsey M. Robinson Chair in Business Administration at Gonzaga University where he teaches courses in strategic management and entrepreneurial leadership. He is the founding Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga. He has done research and consulting in private and public sector organizations on various aspects of organizational effectiveness, including strategic management, global ethics, human resource management and organizational change. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of World Business and Human Resource Management Journal and is past president of the Western Academy of Management.

 
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Dr. Scott Hedin

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 9
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-3437

Office Location
Jepson Center

B.S./M.B.A., University of Idaho, 1982; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1993.

Scott, an Assistant Professor of Operations Management, teaches operations management courses at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. His current teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of international production and supply chain management, quality management, flexible manufacturing, and project management. His research has appeared in IEE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Operations Research, and Production and Inventory Management Journal. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. During his last sabbatical he completed Georgetown University's Executive Program in International Business Management.

 
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Kent Hickman
Professor of Finance

502 E Boone Ave
AD Box 9
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-3442
Fax: 509-313-3442

Office Location
Jepson Center

B.A., California State University, 1973; M.S., University of Northern Colorado, 1986; Ph.D., Washington State University, 1990.

Dr. Hickman teaches Principles of Finance as well as courses in Valuation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance. He has held appointments as a Teaching and Research Fellow at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business in Rouen, France. The co-author of Foundations of Corporate Finance, his refereed publications appear in Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Management, Journal of Portfolio Management, Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Business Horizons, among others. He enjoys biking and fishing and watching the Zags.

 
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Jim Roberts
Adjunct Faculty

Jim Roberts teaches the ENTR 490A New Venture Creation course on market research for new ventures and co-teaches the ENTR 490C New Venture Creation course on operations planning and project management. He is currently Director of the Northwest Office of Foresight Science and Technology. He conducts technology assessments, market research, and due diligence for technology-based companies and venture capital firms nationwide. He also prepares business plans, negotiates licensing deals, and seeks both private and public sources of financing for small company clients. Jim has previously worked as manager of technology commercialization at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute and as vice president of development for BioGenetic Ventures in Spokane. He has a Juris Doctorate from the Gonzaga University School of Law.