Spears School of Business

Jason B. Aamodt, Esq. is a practicing attorney with 20 years of experience working with Indian Tribes and individuals. My career is today comprised of four parts: Teaching, litigating Indian Trust and Environmental cases, starting a small brewery, and conducting social research concerning Justice and Sustainable Development. I am licensed to practice in all Oklahoma courts, the Northern, Western and Eastern Federal Districts of Oklahoma, the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas, the United States Federal Court of Claims, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Federico Aime is the Spears Chair of Business Administration at the Spears School of Business, at Oklahoma State University. Federico is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the social psychological drivers of organizational decision making and performance. His research has been published in numerous outlets, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management journal, the Academy of Management Annals, and the Journal of Management where he serves on the editorial board. He is also an active leader in the development of international scholarly research and faculty capabilities leading programs with a focus on building capabilities in developing economies. He has also received an honorary doctorate from MOI University (Kenya). Before becoming an academic, Dr. Aime occupied several senior management positions in foreign and international organizations such as Citibank and Zurich.

Todd J. Arnold (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Gary L. Trennepohl Chair and Professor of Marketing in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. His research interests lie broadly within the areas of the organizational frontlines (service, retailing and sales). His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others. He has eight times received the Spears School of Business Richard W. Poole Research Excellence Award, as well as being awarded the Regents' Distinguished Research Award in 2024. He serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, as well as serving as associate editor for the Journal of Service Research and European Journal of Marketing. Todd's teaching interests include marketing strategy and consumer behavior. He teaches a majority of his courses in the MBA program at Oklahoma State, and has received the Chandler-Frates & Reitz Graduate Teaching Excellence Award and MBA Teaching Award, as well as the OSU-Tulsa President's Teaching Award. In addition, Todd has taught marketing strategy in the Executive MBA Program for Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Todd served as co-chair of the 2012 American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conference.

Mehtabul Azam's primary research interests are in the area of development and labor. Specific topics that he has examined include teacher quality, returns to language skills, wage inequality, intra-household allocation, and intergenerational mobility. He also has worked on numerous policy issues for The World Bank, International Labor Organization (ILO), and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His research has been published or accepted for publication in scholarly journals including Journal of Development Economics, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, and Journal of Development Studies.

Dr. Chenzhang Bao is an associate professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He holds William S. Spears Professorship in Business Administration. His research focuses on the implications of health IT and analytics in the value-based care environment. Specifically, he has examined the role of IT innovations in facilitating patient engagement in care delivery and shaping the coordination behavior among caregivers. In addition, he is also interested in quantifying the value of care delivered to various stakeholders and evaluating value-based care initiatives from a policy perspective. Dr. Bao has published his work in leading academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Melissa Baucum holds a doctorate in marketing from the University of Tennessee. Before pursuing her doctorate, she worked as a researcher in the streaming industry (Hulu - The Walt Disney Company) and at a global market research agency (LRW). Now as an Assistant Professor of Marketing, she collaborates with industry partners to evaluate the short- and long-term implications of managerial interventions in B2B and retailing.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University.

My research focuses on understanding how anthropomorphic technologies transform work, managerial practice, and human–technology relationships. I examine how differences across human-like form and function reconfigure traditional human-technology relationships, as well as the design and experience of work. Across contexts, my work explores and tests how organizations and individuals adapt to, make sense of, and work alongside increasingly human-like technologies.

Matt Bowler served on the faculty at The University of North Texas and is an Associate Professor of Management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic career he worked as a field manager for a relief organization in Guatemala. Dr. Bowler's research interests include social networks, leadership, OCB and deviance. His research has been published in journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management and Human Resource Management Review among others.

Aaron Burt is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University's Spears School of Business, where he holds the Greg Massey Professorship in Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Washington and has research interests spanning asset pricing, corporate finance, governance, and venture capital. His published work includes studies on director influence on firm value (Review of Financial Studies, 2020) and return predictability from economically linked firms (Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021). His current working papers have earned recognition at leading conferences, including Best Overall Paper at Finance Down Under 2023 and Best Corporate Finance Paper at the Eastern Finance Association 2023. His corporate finance work focuses particularly on the advisory role of directors and VC partners, examining how their commitment and expertise shape firm outcomes. His asset pricing work studies stock market efficiency, with a particular emphasis on risk factors and anomalies.  

Dr. Byers is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Finance in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, and an adjunct Professor of Financial Engineering at WorldQuant Univesity.   Dr. Byers received his PhD from the Department of Finance in the Spears College of Business at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma in May 2004.  He has taught at Oklahoma State University, Montclair State University, Georgian Court University, Our Lady of the Lake University, the University of Tulsa, and Barton County Community College.  His previous teaching experience includes undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral seminars covering financial management, risk management, quantitative finance, capital structure, energy finance, derivatives, and corporate finance.

Dr. Byers is a Finance Professional and Academic with leadership, management, and technical expertise in financial management, business strategy and planning, quantitative analytics, risk management, and financial controls. He has experience in industry and academia include investment valuation analysis, strategic financial planning, and risk analysis associated with a business or investment. His knowledge of finance, economics, and statistics have been enablers for innovative and creative approaches to financial management and analysis.