MARGERITE (ZITE) HUTTON

Professor Marguerite (Zite) Hutton is Professor of Accounting and has been a WWU faculty member since 1989. A native New Orleanian, she received her PhD from the University of Houston and her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Texas. She teaches courses in taxation and accounting, and is a recipient of Western's Excellence in Teaching Award (1992).
 
The Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants honored Professor Hutton as the “2005 Outstanding Accounting Educator for Washington State.” In 2002, she was the first recipient of the College of Business and Economics Excellence in Teaching Award, and received the 2005 Allette & Cayden Chase Franklin Excellence in Teaching Award for CBE. In 2000, she received the American Taxation Association/Arthur Andersen Teaching Innovation Award. She has also served for 14 years as Faculty Advisor for the Theta Phi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi and the WWU Accounting Society. In 1999, she was honored nationally as Outstanding Faculty Advisor by Beta Alpha Psi. She served as Chair of the Department of Accounting from 1998 until 2002, and has been involved in TaxAide (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) since 1991. Professor Hutton is a contributing author on the Pratt & Kulsrud series of taxation textbooks, and has published in a variety of academic and professional journals.
 
Professor Hutton has also been a Revenue Agent with the Internal Revenue Service and Comptroller for Marin Designs, Inc., a jewelry importer.

DAVID NELSON

David M. Nelson is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Western Washington University. He is Founder and Director of Western’s Center for Economic Education which was established in 1978 with the objective of improving the quality and expanding the scope of economic and personal financial education in the state of Washington. The Center does this by training teachers how to integrate basic economic and financial principles and concepts into the curriculum. Nelson received his BA degree in economics from Whitworth College and his MA and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon. He taught at Oregon State University prior to joining Western. Nelson’s teaching and research interests include money and banking, macroeconomics, public finance, economic education, forensic economics, and the economics of petroleum marketing. He taught at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan in 1992 and at Centro Mexicano Internacional in Morelia, Mexico in 1995. Three times his students have scored highest on the national norming of the Educational Testing Service Money and Banking Exam.
 
Nelson was awarded a three year CBE Distinguished Teaching Fellowship in 2005. Nelson serves on the board of the Washington Council on Economic Education and on the board of Childcare International, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping the world’s poorest children.
 
He and his wife Lynne have four children and live in Bellingham, Washington.

PETER HAUG

Peter Haug is a Professor of Manufacturing Management in the Department of Decision Sciences at Western Washington University, where he supervises the Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management program and the Manufacturing and Operations Management Industry Advisory Board. He received his MBA degree with a concentration in operations management from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D in Production and Operations Management from the University of Washington. His teaching areas are project management, process analysis and design, lean manufacturing principles, and global operations strategy. His research work concentrates on empirical studies of and mathematical techniques for global plant location decisions. During 1997-98, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the School of Business at Renmin University of China Beijing, People’s Republic of China). In 1998-99, he had a sabbatical leave at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) researching the locational dynamics of value chain activities in the personal computer industry. In 2001, he conducted an exchange with Professor Pall Jensson and taught project and operations management courses at the University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland).
 
Professor Haug also serves as faculty sponsor for the Western Washington University Student Chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), and several student teams under his supervision have won first place in the Full-Time, Undergraduate Category of the Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition.

GEORGE ZHANG

George Zhang is a professor of quantitative methods in the Department of Decision Sciences at Western Washington University. Dr. Zhang received his BS in Computer Science and MA in Economics from Nankai University in China; his MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University; and his PhD from the University of Waterloo.
 
During the past 10 years, Professor Zhang has published over 40 articles in leading journals. Recently he published "Vacation Queueing Models - Theory and Applications," the first book on this topic. He first developed vacation queueing models with multiple vacation types and multi-server vacation queueing models. As extensions of the classical queueing theory, these models can be used to study various stochastic service systems with multi-task server(s) such as call centers, computer network and telecommunication systems, and border-crossing stations.
 
His current research interests are stochastic modeling for supply chain systems, queueing and simulation theory, statistical data analysis, and maintenance and reliability models.
 
As an expert in data analysis and quantitative modeling, he has consulted in industry and given research seminars and short lectures at universities in North America and China.
 
Professor Zhang is an associate editor of INFOR and is on the editorial board of Computer and Operations Research.
 
Dr. Zhang is listed in several major biographical references, including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

STEVEN GLOBERMAN

Steven Globerman is currently Director of the Center for International Business at Western Washington University. Previously Dr. Globerman held tenured appointments at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and at York University, Faculty of Administrative Studies in Toronto. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California, University of British Columbia, Stockholm School of Economics, and the Helsinki School of Economics. Dr Globerman earned his BA in economics from Brooklyn College; his MA from University of California, Los Angeles; and his PhD from New York University.

Dr. Globerman is a highly regarded academic with an international reputation. A prolific researcher, he has published over 130 articles and monographs dealing with a wide range of public and private sector policy issues. His current research is focused on international business and multinational corporations, trade and investment policies, and international comparisons of health care policies.

As an educator and expert, he has consulted for many major international organizations including the World Bank and the OECD and has also served on two Canadian Government Royal Commissions on the economy. He has also provided management seminars and lectures to government policy makers throughout North America and in several Asian countries.

Currently a member of the Canadian Economics Association, the Academy of International Business, and Academy of Management, Dr. Globerman is also listed in Who's Who Among Economists and Who’s Who in International Business.

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