Alec Johnson
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship
Phone: (651) 962-4121
Areas of expertise include:
- Entrepreneurial strategy, management and finance
- Opportunity identification
- Business models
- Competition
- E-commerce
- Emerging business
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Faculty Contacts
AnneMarie Thomas
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship
Phone: (651) 962-5509
Areas of expertise include:
- Women in technology
- Creativity
- Playful learning
- Product design for an aging population
- Environmental sustainability
- Design thinking and innovation process
- Engaging learning environments for learners and educators
- The next generation of STEM innovators
- Familiarity with engineering in K-12 schools
Christopher Michaelson
Professor, Ethics and Business Law
Phone: (651) 962-4349
Areas of expertise include:
- Business ethics in practice and scholarship
- Meaningful work and purpose driven-organizations
- Managing compliance and ethics
- The purpose of business in society and the common good
- Business in the arts, literature, and film
- Principled leadership
Daniel McLaughlin
Adjunct Faculty, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Phone: (651) 962-4143
Areas of expertise include:
- Health care policy
- Innovation in the business of health care
- Affordable Care Act
- Implications of health care reform for hospitals
- Why physicians need business skills
- Health care operations management
- Health care leadership
- Blockchain technology and health care
- Hospitals making money on Medicare
Jay Ebben
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship
Phone (651) 962-4118
Areas of expertise include:
- Entrepreneurial finance and strategy
- Business development
- Small business management
- Small firm growth
- Operational strategy
- Study of entrepreneurship and employers
- Our “big umbrella” approach to entrepreneurship and the local economy
- St. Thomas alumni as an economic engine
John Spry
Associate Professor, Finance
Phone: (651) 962-4689
Areas of expertise include:
- The economy
- State and local public finance
- Economics of state lotteries and casinos
- Effects of tax rates on tax bases
- International financial management
- Managerial economics
- Governance
- Economic markets – domestic
- Competition
Katherina Pattit
Associate Professor, Ethics and Business Law
Phone: (651) 962-4283
Areas of expertise include:
- Business ethics
- Principled leadership
- Corporate social responsibility
- Investor decision making
- Privacy in social networking
- The growth imperative
- Strategic growth
- Corporate governance
- Socially responsible investing
Ritch Sorenson
Professor, Entrepreneurship
Phone: (651) 962-4252
Areas of expertise include:
- Family business governance
- Leadership
- Conflict management
- Entrepreneurship
- Organizational communication
- Emerging business
- Moral and social values in family firms and businesses
- Family social capital
- Business success through collaborative relationships
Stefanie Lenway
Professor, Management
Phone: (651) 962-4201
Areas of expertise include:
- Corporate strategy
- International business
- The politics of international trade strategy
- Multinational competitive strategy
- Global technology innovation
- Competitive dynamics of strategic alliances for operational growth
- The strategic importance of innovation in the global supply chain
- The need for global knowledge creation in the development and commercialization of new technologies
- How governments matter to new industry creation