Seminar Faculty
Anthony F. Buono, PhD
Professor of Management and Sociology
Coordinator, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility
abuono@bentley.edu
781.891.2529
Professor Buono is Professor of Management and Sociology and Coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility. He is also a former Chair of Bentley’s Management Department. Tony’s primary research, teaching and consulting interests include organizational change, inter-organizational strategies, and ethics and corporate social responsibility. He has written or edited nine books including The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions (1989, 2003), A Primer on Organizational Behavior (6th ed., 2005), and, most recently, Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Management (2005). He is a past chair of the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division, a Research Fellow with Bentley’s Center for Business Ethics, and has received Bentley’s highest honors for both teaching and research. He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, and an MA and PhD with a concentration in Industrial and Organizational Sociology from Boston College.
Beverley Earle, JD
Professor of Law
bearle@bentley.edu
781.891.2915
Beverley Earle is a professor of Law at Bentley College and the McCallum Graduate School of Business as well as a Fellow at the Bentley Center for Business Ethics. She has a BA from University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Boston University School of Law and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. She has published in the Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment, the Cornell Journal of International Law, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality, Berkeley Business Law Journal, and the American Business Law Journal (forthcoming). She is co-author of a major text used in business schools, International Business Law and Its Environment (6th Ed., West).
Golpira Eshghi, PhD
Associate Professor of Management
geshghi@bentley.edu
781.891.2181
Golpira Eshghi is an associate professor in the Management Department at Bentley College. She received her PhD from University of Illinois in 1984. Her publications include five edited books in the international business discipline and journal articles in the California Management Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, and the International Trade Journal.
Eshghi has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Strategic Management, International Business, and Cross-Cultural Comparative Management. She has served on numerous committees dealing with international business education at Bentley College.
Since 1992, Professor Eshghi has taught and led a graduate-level short term study abroad trip to Japan. She has also traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and taught in France, Estonia, Bahrain, and Iran.
Abdi Eshghi, PhD
Professor of Marketing and Director
International Summer Institute at Bentley
aeshghi@bentley.edu
781.891.2288
Professor Eshghi’s current research interests focus on customer relationship management and marketing strategy in Eastern and Central Europe. His articles have appeared in the Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods , Marketing Management Journal, Journal of Business Strategies, The American Statistician, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Eastern European Economics, International Marketing Review, and Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.
Professor Eshghi has also published several edited books: Internet Marketing, Global Marketing Perspectives, Global Financial Perspectives, Global Microeconomics Perspectives, Global Macroeconomics Perspectives, and Global Accounting Perspectives.
Professor Eshghi has extensive experience teaching MBA/executive-level courses in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Iran, and The Netherlands. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign.
Jeffrey Shuman, PhD
Professor and Director
Entrepreneurship Studies
Cofounder, The Rhythm of Business Inc.
jshuman@bentley.edu
781.891.2533
Professor Shuman combines a deep understanding of the economic forces driving business model change with an entrepreneur’s intuitive grasp of collaborative innovation. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Shuman has united practicing business with studying business and political economy, giving him a unique perspective on how organizations must structure and operate to succeed in our globally interdependent world.
Professor Shuman has co-founded five companies and consulted for numerous others, from startups to Global 10, in diverse arenas ranging from retailing, manufacturing, and distribution to technology, energy, and pharmaceuticals. His experiences include establishing and operating numerous global alliances and supplier networks. For more than three decades, he has integrated the classroom with the boardroom, transforming breakthrough theories into practical business applications.
Heikki Topi, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Information Systems
htopi@bentley.edu
781.891.2799
Heikki Topi received his PhD in Information Systems from the Graduate School of Business at Indiana University — Bloomington. He is currently an associate professor of Computer Information Systems and Chair of the CIS Department at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. He teaches primarily graduate courses in advanced systems analysis and design, data management, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications and information industries. He conducts research on human factors and usability issues related to enterprise systems and information search. He has published widely on these topics in a number of journals in Information Systems and Information Science. He is also the co-editor of Auerbach’s IS Management Handbook. Recently, he has played a significant role in international curriculum development and evaluation efforts in computing through ACM and AIS.
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