Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA
Dean, Akio Morita School of Business

Message from Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA
Dean, Akio Morita School of Business

The faculty and staff of Anaheim University's Akio Morita School of Business take great pride in our cutting-edge Online Global Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program. We invite you to consider becoming a part of the legacy of Anaheim University and the Akio Morita School of Business.

Our academic programs are designed to meet the highest standards of academic excellence and provide an outstanding foundation for students seeking success in the global world of business. Our dedicated faculty and staff have structured our programs to ensure the development of basic core competencies and essential professional skills. These core competencies and professional skills are further enhanced through the development of the professional competencies emphasized by many CEOs of the world's largest corporations. Our academic program also promotes the development of independent ideas and concepts with an emphasis on continued improvement and excellence.

Our student body is talented and diverse. Our MBA curriculum offers a non-traditional approach to global business education that captures the complexity and the changing demands of business in the 21st century.

Finally, the School of Business and its faculty and staff are student-focused, constantly seeking to provide our students with a positive, well-rounded academic experience which is second to none in quality. We are committed to helping all of our students develop the confidence and skills needed to achieve successful careers in their chosen professions.

Again, we invite you to become a part of the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business Online Global MBA degree program.

Sincerely,

Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA
Dean, Akio Morita School of Business

Caryn Callahan, Ph.D.

Message from Caryn Callahan, Ph.D.

I am delighted to have this opportunity to work with you in this program. I hope that you learn many useful things about how organizations operate and gain much information that will be useful to you in your career. Let me tell you something about myself. I was born and raised in New Jersey, but I now live in Honolulu. After I completed an MBA in Finance/Accounting at UCLA, I worked for W.R. Grace in New York City as a capital budget analyst in their international division for two years. Although analyzing overseas investment projects for Grace was exciting, especially the travel, my real love was Wall Street.

As it happened, Merrill Lynch was looking for MBAs who were fluent in Asian languages. Since I speak and read Japanese fluently (along the way, I had earned a doctorate in East Asian languages and civilizations from Harvard University), Merrill Lynch recruited me in New York, and then sent me to Japan for five years. I was in Tokyo during the heady days of the economic "bubble" of the 1980s, when the stock market and land prices more than tripled in value. I acted as Merrill Lynch's worldwide spokesperson and chief analyst for the Japanese consumer electronics industry, covering exciting companies, such as Sony, Sharp, Fuji Photo, Sanyo, Matsushita, JVC, Pioneer and TDK. My job involved frequent contact with top management at these companies, analysis of financial statements and production of investment recommendations, ranging from short daily updates and recommendations, to quarterly reports of up to 70 pages on each company. My recommendations earned me the honor of being chosen as number-one analyst for Japanese consumer electronics industry by Euromoney magazine. My opinions were also frequently quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune magazine and others. It was very exciting, and I loved the job.

Caryn Callahan, Ph.D.
Professor

Craig Cleveland, Ph.D.

Message from Craig Cleveland, Ph.D.

Welcome to Anaheim University! I look forward to meeting and speaking with you throughout the MBA Online program.

I see teaching as involving a reciprocal relationship between professors and students - I believe that professors have duties to their students and that students have duties to their professors. I believe that it is my responsibility as a professor to provide students with the following:

• an environment conducive to learning,
• knowledge that will help them be successful in achieving their goals,
• materials, opportunities, and feedback that will help them learn
• help them become and remain motivated to be successful both in their studies while simultaneously applying knowledge to solve problems in their lives.

I will be your facilitator in the learning process, rather than the deliverer of information. I recognize that students learn in a variety of ways, and I attempt to accommodate these methods. I encourage you to find personalized methods to understand and retain concepts, and I will assist you in providing my own customized examples for explanation of concepts that elude you. In addition to different learning processes, I often find that students must simply be given the confidence to experiment in the application of newly gained knowledge and to ask questions that promotes individual thinking. In an effort to encourage discussion, I am always available to you.

Craig Cleveland, Ph.D.
Professor

Jay Edwards, Ph.D.

Message from Jay Edwards, Ph.D.

Welcome to Anaheim University! I am an adamant believer in creating learning experiences that address our many different learning styles and needs. The models of learning that I promote are structured to help learners manage information and technology in a constant changing global business economy. Therefore, the environment that best promotes learning is one that requires personal commitment and dedication. I hold true to these principles in my quest to make the difference in the lives of our students.

Jay Edwards, Ph.D.
Professor

Jacqueline Gilliard, Ph.D.

Message from Jacqueline Gilliard, Ph.D.

Welcome to Anaheim University! I embrace teaching as an opportunity to inspire and empower my students through a lively and interactive classroom. I want students to feel personally changed by their participation in any course I teach. Teaching is not just about lecturing; it is about presenting theories, concepts, and empirical material in such a way that students can immediately integrate this information into their personal and professional life.

I am passionate about finding the most effective ways of stimulating and sustaining intellectual growth among those who enter my classroom. Learning is a complex process that is individual, content and context specific. As an instructor, I am attentive to these factors and work to be flexible, adapting my approaches according to the needs of students, subject matter and setting. I believe it is crucial for instructors to cultivate learning partnerships with students. Teaching is about igniting transformative learning; empowering students to take responsibility for their learning, inspiring courage to grow intellectually, cultivating curiosity, providing opportunities for developing relationships, clarifying values, uplifting the spirit and igniting action.

Jacqueline Gilliard, Ph.D.
Professor

William Hartley Ph.D.

Message from William Hartley Ph.D.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Anaheim University. By enrolling in our university, you will embark on an exciting venture in your professional development. Whether you are studying for the Master of Business Administration or the Master of Science in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), our programs are carefully crafted to be part of a completed end product - namely the development of yourself as a knowledgeable and competent teacher of English, or a manager of a business operation equipped with the global business skills required to succeed in today's highly competitive business world.

I look forward to having you join us, and wish you great success.

William Hartley Ph.D.
President of the University

Scott A. Hipsher, Ph.D.

Message from Scott Hipsher, Ph.D.

I am very excited about joining the Anaheim University team. Although an American, I have spent more than a decade living and working in Asia. I have lived in Japan, Thailand and now Vietnam. I have held a number of jobs including the Northeast Thailand Regional Manager for a Dutch-owned export company and the General Affairs Manager for ZOA Thailand which provided educational support for ethnic minority refugees fleeing violence in Burma/Myanmar.

I have taught at a number of universities in Thailand, but primarily at Bangkok University. I have also taught at branches of U.S. universities in Asia as well as an online U.S. university. Currently, I am teaching at a branch of an Australian University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

I am an active researcher and writer. My most recently completed book, Expatriates in Asia: Breaking Free from the Colonial Paradigm, Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited, 2008, focuses on the impact of one’s own culture as well as the culture one is interacting with in cross-cultural professional relationships. I am also the lead author of The Nature of Asian Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective, Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited 2007 as well as the author of a number of journal articles, book chapters and conference papers that deal with the issues involving international business. I am currently working on a book on the business environments found in the Theravada Buddhist regions of Southeast Asia.  

Scott A. Hipsher, Ph.D.
Professor

Steve Landry, Ph.D

Message from Steve Landry, PhD

Steve Landry, Ph.D
Professor

William McPherson, Ph.D.

Message from William McPherson, Ph.D.

Welcome! I plan on providing an online teaching environment that facilitates student learning. To provide a better understanding of who your instructor is, I have provided some tenets of my teaching philosophy for your perusal.

My philosophy of teaching is to provide a learning atmosphere where I function as a teacher, facilitator, advisor, listener, member, and moderator. I believe my enthusiasm comes through the moment students encounter me. I seek to achieve a rapport with students. I provide students information and experiences that will prepare them for their current or future careers. I think teachers should be upbeat, postive, and entertaining. I make the online learning atmosphere tension-free and enjoyable.

As a business educator, I seek to ensure that all of my students get educated for and about business. I encourage active, rather than passive learning. While estimates vary, many researchers believe that most people learn 12% from hearing and 82% by doing. With this in mind, I actively engage my students in discussions and practical activities. I incorporate a wide variety of learning resources into my teaching repertoire. All are designed to promote active learning.

I truly believe any type of activity, if each student assumes responsibility, is appropriate for facilitating learning. The practical nature of the business curriculum lends itself to coincide with my teaching style. In most classes I try to provide projects that allow students to apply their knowledge and experience to a business-related topic.

My teaching philosophy mirrors the sentiments of the following:

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Chinese Proverb)
• What we have to do, we learn by doing. (Aristole)

I believe these to hold true. My assignments and activities relate the importance of learning by doing. My teaching philosophy applies various tenets of Malcolm Knowles' Adult Learning Theory and Bloom's Taxonomy. The learning activities and class projects incorporate one or more of the following tenets: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. I foster an environment that is conducive to student learning and is student-centered. My philosophy makes me effective because I engage students and myself in "doing", interacting, praising, guiding facilitating, coaching and mentoring.

I look forward to and welcome feedback from students. I communicate expectations and believe that given these expectations and groundwork that each student will suceed. My teaching promotes an online classroom environment that welcomes learning. I feel that main objectives of education for and about business are acheived through my philosophy on the importance of active learning with a focus on the practical nature of the curriculum.

I look forward to a great experience for you and I!

John Nebeck, Ph.D.<

Message from John Nebeck, Ph.D.

Welcome fellow learners,

I began my academic career quite by accident and it has been a wonderful experience. After more than twenty years in consumer and organizational marketing, with emphasis on planning and analysis, I accepted a three-year position with Viterbo University (then Viterbo College). The intent was to return to private industry after this "sabbatical." This fall I will have been with Viterbo for sixteen years where I serve as the marketing department chair and primary instructor for marketing as well as the capstone courses in management for the undergraduate program. The last fifteen years have been rewarding as they have fostered the merger of the practitioner with the academic; that is, the ability and opportunity to move academic thought and theory out of the classroom into the real world. Everything we will be doing in Strategic Planning and Management relates the application of academics to real world situations. My view of strategic management includes the combination of intuition and analysis, what you think plus what you know.

I very much enjoy working with adult learners especially at the graduate level where I view the student as a peer learner. I look forward to working with each of you and believe you will find this study a rewarding experience.

John Nebeck, Ph.D.
Professor

David Nye, Ph.D.

Message from David Nye, Ph.D.

Hello Students,

I have served as a Professor of Management at a small, upper-division university near Huntsville, Alabama. A few additional facts about me:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Ph.D. in management from Auburn University
• Prior to joining my home university in Alabama, I was a human resources executive for a major oil company.
• Teach a variety of management courses, but concentrate mainly in human resources management and labor relations. Courses include both conventional classroom and distance learning formats.
• Have published articles and commentary in scholarly journals and management publications such as The Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly, the Conference Board magazine, Across the Board, and Harvard Business Review.
• Serve on the editorial board of a management and technology journal and participate in academic conferences.

Many of the students I have taught are mid-career professionals returning to college, after having discontinued their studies at some point in the past. These student profiles are remarkably like those of Anaheim University students. That's one of the things that attracted me to Anaheim; I enjoy working with adult learners who can bring professional experience and a real dedication to their studies. I look forward to getting to know each of you as you pursue your studies at Anaheim University.

David Nye, Ph.D.
Professor

Patricia Ray, JD

Message from Patricia Ray, JD

Dear Students,

Welcome to BUS 590 Mergers, Acquisitions & Negotiations. This is a 6-week course devoted to providing you with a learning experience about the merging and integration of companies. In today's competitive business world more and more companies must involve themselves in mergers in order to survive. After taking this course you will have an understanding of the type of business approaches that have been used to create a successful merger.

I am Dr. Patricia Ray, your instructor for the course. My background as a business lawyer and teacher includes experience with numerous companies involved in mergers, including Texas Instruments and Exxon Mobil. I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experiences with you during our time together in this course.

Welcome, and happy learning,

Patricia Ray, JD
Professor

Barbara Son, Ph.D.

Message from Barbara Son, Ph.D.

Hi, I am Dr. Barbara Son. I enjoyed teaching U.S. Marines at a U.S. Marine Base, Air Force personnel, and engineers at the Boeing Corp. I've been teaching online at AU since the beginning of 2003 and at Devry Institute of Technology (online) as well, and am currently in the Dept. of Economics & Statistics at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA).

My husband and I live in Rancho Palos Verdes in Southern California. We have a romantic ocean view. I have also been assisting my husband, who is the President of three engineering companies (Pressure Profile, Medical Tactile and Siera Scientific Instruments) which design, develop, and manufacture tactile sensing systems for the U.S. Army, the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Johnson and Johnson.

Let's enjoy all our activities!

Barbara Son, Ph.D.
Professor

John Volpe, Ph.D.

Message from John Volpe, Ph.D.

I am excited about the opportunity to be associated with Anaheim University, and I am looking forward to working with you as you pursue your graduate degree. With experience in the corporate, trade association, foundation, think tank, consultancy and academic arenas, I believe I can make an important contribution to your studies. I have taught courses in economics, finance, international business, research methods and management, among other subjects, over the past three decades, and am eager to work with you in the online setting, which allows a significantly greater breadth of experiences among the student population. I know I will learn much from you as I work with you to achieve your academic goals and objectives.

John Volpe, Ph.D.
Professor

John Wang, Ph.D.

Message from John Wang, Ph.D.

Are you really ready to face the ever-changing and challenging world? Are you ready? You need to adapt yourself to the environment, but not vice- versa. You will never achieve a high goal if you set your goal low. Like climbing a mountain, learning is fun, but not torture. AU will help you. You can do it!

John Wang, Ph.D.
Professor