CountryManager

Dr. Martin S. Roth is Chief Innovation and Assessment Officer, and Professor in the Sonoco International Business Department.  Previously he served as Executive Director of the International MBA Program.  His areas of expertise include global corporate and marketing strategy.  He teaches global marketing management, foreign market entry and growth, and strategy courses in USC’s top-ranked international graduate and undergraduate programs.  He has been awarded the Alfred G. Smith, Jr. Award as the Moore School of Business outstanding teacher, the Outstanding Elective Professor Award, and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of South Carolina Alpha Chapter of the Mortar Board.  Prior to joining the Moore School, he held faculty positions in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.  He has also taught at the Katz Graduate School of Business (University of Pittsburgh), the Arthur D. Little School of Management (Boston), and at universities in Austria, France, Hong Kong, Mexico, and Thailand.  He has led executive education programs on global strategy, scenario planning, marketing strategy, customer service, market research, and program evaluation, including custom programs for companies such as BMW, Enodis, Hillenbrand, Metso, Milliken, Nissan,  Verizon, and Xerox.

Marty’s research has been published in the leading marketing and management journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of World Business, Marketing Management, the Journal of Health Care Marketing, Marketing Health Services, the American Journal of Managed Care, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and the Journal of Professional Pricing.  He currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Advertising, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.  He has spoken on a variety of marketing and global management topics at industry and academic conferences, and for specialized trade organizations throughout the Americas and Europe.  Dr. Roth has consulted for companies ranging from multinationals to new ventures, most recently including Bank of America, Colonial Life, Holopack International, and Verizon.  Prior to his academic career, he held a number of marketing research and retail management positions.  He received his doctorate and MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lawrence Feick is the Senior Director of International Programs and the Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where he is also Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh since1982. He served as Katz School’s Associate Dean from 1989-1996 and Interim Dean during the 2005 - 06 academic year. From 1999 through 2005 he served as the director of the University’s International Business Center (a federally funded CIBER).

Dr. Feick teaches in the areas of marketing management and international marketing; and does research in the areas of consumer information search, international marketing, word-of-mouth influence, and the analysis of categorical data. Previously, Dr. Feick served on the faculty at Pennsylvania State University where he earned his Ph.D.

Dr. Feick has published articles in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Dr. Feick has served as a consultant to a number of profit and non-profit firms. He has developed a train-the-trainers program on the use of simulations and games and case studies in teaching marketing concepts. He is the coauthor of Country Manager, an international marketing simulation game. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Augsburg (Germany), Czech Management Center (Czech Republic), International Management Center (Hungary), Comenius University (Slovak Republic), and Universidad Santa Maria (Ecuador). He served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Montevideo (Uruguay).

Stu James is the founder of Interpretive Simulations, one of the leading publishers and developers of business simulations worldwide. Interpretive’s simulations are an integral part of the curriculum at many of the world’s top business schools in the areas of marketing, strategy, management, and international business. To date, over 100,000 people have experienced one of Interpretive’s simulations, and many rave about how the simulation was one of the best learning tools they have ever used.

 On the academic front, Stu is currently Visiting Lecturer at the University of Michigan (EMBA and EP programs), and at the Colgate-Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia (MBA Core Marketing and Custom Executive Programs). In addition, Stu has served at the Allen Center for Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Business, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB).

 Along with his academic work at the above business schools, Stu has also worked with American Honda, CIGNA, The Davidson Institute, General Electric, Genworth Financial, Harvard Business School, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pearson Prentice Hall, and McKinsey & Company. He is co-author of a number of leading simulation products including StratSimManagement, StratSimMarketing, StratSimChina, CountryManager, PharmaSim, HRSimSelection, MarketShare, BizCafe, and ServiceSim, all used at leading universities worldwide. Stu has extensive experience in facilitating simulation events, having directly worked with thousands of executive and MBA participants over the past 20 years.

 Management by the Numbers, Inc. (MBTN), a new venture that Stu has co-founded with Paul Farris of the Darden School of Business, will launch in 2010. The focus of this project is providing a self-paced, on-line environment where students and executives can master the numbers side of marketing. The goal of MBTN is to improve marketing acumen of mid-level managers to ultimately enhance the financial performance of businesses worldwide.

 Stu and his family reside in Afton, Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In his spare time, Stu enjoys playing Irish and old-time traditional music and competing in triathlons.

Michael Deighan is a co-author on the new web-based editions of Airline, Entrepreneur, and HRManagement. His expertise, insight, and creativity proved invaluable and made it possible to convert these models to their current web-based versions. Michael joined Interpretive Simulations in 1989 as lead software developer, and is now Chief Technology Officer.  He is co-author on a number of Interpretive simulations: PharmaSim, AutoSim, BizCafe, StratSimMarketing, StratSimManagement, StratSimChina, ServiceSim, CountryManager, and MarketShare. In addition to developing software, he has been teaching computer programming classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College, in Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1990. Michael received his B.A. in German and Economics from Washington and Lee University, and an M.A. in German from the University of Virginia.