Ross Named Ph.D. Director
William Ross, professor of marketing at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named the next director of the college's Ph.D. program, effective July 1. Ross replaces Hans Baumgartner, who was recently appointed chair of the Marketing Department.
Ross Named Ph.D. Director
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 16, 2007) – William Ross, professor of marketing at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named the next director of the college's Ph.D. program, effective July 1. Ross replaces Hans Baumgartner, who was recently appointed chair of the Marketing Department.
As Ph.D. director, Ross will work closely with Smeal's academic departments on student recruitment, admissions, funding issues, graduate-level curriculum design, and Ph.D. candidate research requirements. He will also serve as an ombudsman for the college's doctoral students and as adviser to the Smeal Ph.D. Association.
Prior to joining the Smeal faculty in July 2000, Ross served as assistant dean for research and doctoral programs and director of the Ph.D. program in business administration at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management. He also served on the faculty of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
His research interests involve the application of behavioral decision theory, cognitive psychology, and the examination of how individuals make decisions. He specializes in the areas of sales force management, ethical decision-making, and buyer decision-making.
He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Research in Marketing, the Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Letters.
Ross' teaching experience includes marketing and business ethics courses in undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, doctoral, and executive education programs.
Ross holds a Ph.D. in business from Duke University and a bachelor's degree in history from Wake Forest University.
For more on the Smeal Ph.D. program, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/phd.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
