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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
2005
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College Announces Seven New Faculty MembersSeven highly-qualified faculty members were hired by San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration for the Fall 2005 semester. “Because of our college’s reputation, we were able to attract bright, accomplished faculty,” said College of Business Administration Dean Gail Naughton. “We continue to be ranked among the top 10 programs for International Business by U.S. News and World Report and the international business acumen and research focus of our new talented colleagues will complement our existing expertise.” New faculty are: John Francis, Management
His work experience includes positions in project management and financial analysis for BE&K Inc. and Rust International, large international engineering and construction firms. Dr. Francis also spent three years doing research and program development for the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The University of Memphis. Francis has published ten peer-reviewed articles and has spoken at numerous international conferences. His area of expertise is international strategic management, specifically concerning strategies for firms as they enter foreign markets. Richard Gore, Accounting
Gore is a certified public accountant and has worked in numerous CPA firms in the San Diego community, including Ernst and Young and KPMG. After leaving San Diego, Gore received his Ph.D. from Washington State University. He was previously an associate professor position at Boise State University. His areas of expertise are financial accounting and mergers & acquisitions. Victoria Krivogorsky, Accounting
Krivogorsky's area of expertise includes corporate governance and control,the effects of governance mechanisms and information environments on accounting and managerial behavior in uncertain economic environments. Krivogorsky will offer an international perspective on business management. Amy E. Randel, Management
Randel’s area of expertise is identities in organizations, diverse group dynamics, group efficacy, cross-cultural management and social capital. She has written 14 different publications and is a frequent presenter. Congcong Zheng, Management
Zheng is currently working on a cross-country project investigating the behavior of entrepreneurial firms from four emerging countries: South Africa, Mexico, India and China. Apart from international entrepreneurship, Congcong’s research interests include risk-taking, high technology entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and innovation. Prior to joining LBS, Congcong worked as a consultant in BDA China Ltd., a boutique consulting firm in Beijing, specializing in advising customers on market entry and investment decisions in China’s Internet and Telecom sector. Her areas of expertise include: the behavioral theory of the firm, decision-making, risk-taking, capability development and high technology entrepreneurship. Marie-Eve Lachance Marie-Eve Lachance has been a finance professor at Cass Business School with City University in London. She received her Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in two majors: Risk Management and Finance. Her bachelor’s is in Actuarial Science at Laval University in Quebec. Lachance has won numerous awards, published in several journals and has been a frequent presenter on issues such as investments, pensions, management of insurance products and financial risks, financial and actuarial mathematics, derivatives and economics of uncertainty. Fei Xie, Finance
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John Francis comes to SDSU from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Montevallo in Alabama. He received his masters in business administration from Samford University in Alabama and then he achieved his Ph.D. from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Dr. Francis has taught MBA and undergraduate courses in International Management, Business Policy and Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. 
Most recently a senior lecturer at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, Richard Gore has returned to SDSU where he received his B.S. in 1978.
Fluent in three different languages, Victoria Krivogorsky, has been an assistant/associate professor at Morgan State University in Maryland for the last five years. She graduated with her Ph.D. from the Institute of Economics of Academy of Sciences of USSR in Kiev, Ukraine in 1991. Her publications in Russian include one monograph and eight articles. Then she received her doctorate's degree in accountancy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. During her affiliation with American Academia she has published eight articles and has presented her ideas to over 13 different national and international conferences.
Amy Randel, formerly assistant professor at Wake Forest University, graduated from University of California, Irvine’s Ph.D. management program with an emphasis in organizational behavior. She has a B.A. in psychology from Brown University and has received both research and teaching awards from Wake Forest University. 
Congcong Zheng received her Ph.D. from the London Business School (LBS) in the United Kingdom. She is the recipient of the Huntsworth Scholarship from the LBS and also the People’s Scholarship from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE), where she obtained her undergraduate degree.
Fei Xie received his Ph.D. in finance from Vanderbilt University. His areas of expertise include corporate governance and venture capital. One of his papers won the Best Doctoral Student Research Award at the Southern Finance Association 2003 Annual Meeting. He received his bachelor degree in finance from Tsinghua University in China in 1998.