Carland Entrepreneurship Institute Director Emeritus
Dr. Jim Carland holds a Ph.D. in Management Policy and Systems from the University of Georgia as well as an MBA from Western Carolina University. He has held Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) qualifications. He has published more than 70 articles in scholarly journals, 200 articles in conference proceedings, and a dozen books. He is among the best known scholars in the entrepreneurship discipline in the world, and in the surest form of scholarly recognition, a current Google Scholar search will reveal more than 3,500 citations of his work. Dr. Carland has taught for more than 30 years and has been the recipient of many teaching awards and recognitions. He was involved in the development and implementation of the first Master of Entrepreneurship degree program in the U.S. His work was recognized for being the best example of graduate entrepreneurship training by the USASBE in 2005. He is particularly interested in innovation as it relates to entrepreneurship. He first proposed an inherent link in 1984 in a seminal journal article in the Academy of Management Review. That article became a major factor in the subsequent differentiation of entrepreneurs from small business owners in the literature. Subsequently, he has interviewed, surveyed, and worked with more than 2,000 entrepreneurs.
Credentials
- Ph.D. in Management Policy and Systems from the University of Georgia & MBA from Western Carolina University
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) qualifications
- Published more than 70 articles in scholarly journals, 200 articles in conference proceedings, and a dozen books
- He is among the best known scholars in the entrepreneurship discipline in the world
- Google Scholar search will reveal more than 3,500 citations of his work
- Involved in the development and implementation of the first Master of Entrepreneurship degree program in the U.S
- His work was recognized for being the best example of graduate entrepreneurship training by the USASBE in 2005
- He has interviewed, surveyed, and worked with more than 2,000 entrepreneurs
Professor
Holding a Ph.D. in Urban Business Economics from Portland State University, and a Masters in Urban Affairs with a concentration in Technology, Business, Economics, and Public Administration from Boston University, Dr. Barbara Son is well-experienced in the field of online education and has taught global management at Boeing in Long Beach, DBA at University of Sarasota/Argosy University, MBA at Pepperdine University, operations management at California State University, Northridge, and entrepreneurship and economics at California State University, Los Angeles, as well as served as a site reviewer for the California Bureau for Private Post-Secondary and Vocational Education. Professor Barbara Son has taught online courses in Data Analysis, IT Management, Global Economics, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Anaheim University. Her corporate experience includes positions at Pressure Profile Systems, Inc, Medical Tactile Imaging, Inc., and Go Smart, Inc. providing services to the U.S. Army, National Institute of Health (NIH), Johnson and Johnson Corporation, and university research labs., as well as serving as Vice-President/Co-Founder of the International Association Management Group. She has also been active in scholarly research and has published papers through highly regarded publishers including SAGE and SPRINGER. She is the recipient of the Professor of the Year Award in 2005. She likes to remind herself of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
Professor
Holding a George Washington University MS in Structural Engineering and a University of Sao Paolo Ph.D. in Sciences and Technology, Dr. Carlos Tasso Eira De Aquino is an accomplished senior executive and educator combining over 25 years of experience in leadership and scholarship in Business, Education, IT, and Engineering. In his executive career, he has been strategically building, managing and guiding diverse teams to solve complex, systemic problems. As an educator, he has taught, developed and supervised, and published relevant research and scholarship. In that area, he is adept at developing and implementing academic programs, accreditation processes, operational, regulatory and quality procedures and policies, and corporate training programs that foster measurable performance improvements. Dr. Aquino has accumulated achievements and recognition as Executive-Director, Senior Director, Project Manager, Provost, Dean of Business, Dean of Accreditation, among other capacities in organizations in the USA and abroad, with followers that encompassed a clear diversity of cultures. Before moving to the United States in 2008, Dr. Aquino was responsible for directing a country-wide program, sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, focused on improving energy usage. Dr. Aquino prepared the Brazilian version of many business books, published by Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw-Hill, authored a book on Adult Higher Education (How to Learn: Andragogy and Learning Skills) for Pearson Education in Brazil in 2008, and is currently working on two books (Palgrave McMillan and Emerald Publishing), covering different aspects of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Along his career, he has presented more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and published more than 40 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Since 2014, he had 15 papers presented in venues such as Western Academy of Management, ACBSP, and GUIDE (Global Universities in Distance Education) Conferences and had 6 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Credentials
- Post Doc., Entrepreneurship & Post Doc., Mechanical Engineering - State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Campinas, Brazil
- Ph.D., Sciences and Technology - University of Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Master of Science (MS) in Structural Engineering - The George Washington University – Washington, DC
- Bachelor of Science (BS) in Civil Engineering - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Diversity Spirit Achievement Award recipient from The Diversity Recruiters Network
- Administered the School of Business of three institutions (US and abroad) involving more than 4,000 students and 600 faculty members and staff
- Created, implemented, and led research centers that have been responsible for scholarly outcomes for more than 300 affiliates and fellows
Professor
Dr. Mariah Jeffery holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and is an APICS Certified Supply Chain Practitioner. She has extensive industry experience, consulting on supply chain management and data analytics for Fortune 500 clients, including IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and the United States Postal Service. Dr. Jeffery has expertise in decision analysis, inventory management, predictive analytics, supply chain management and design, logistics, data analytics, operational research and forecasting, statistical process control and research methods & design.
Credentials
- Ph.D. in Operations Research – University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
- Master of Science (MS) in Industrial Engineering – University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
- Bachelor of Science (BS) in Industrial Engineering – University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
- APICS Certified Supply Chain Practitioner
- Consulting on supply chain management and data analytics for Fortune 500 clients, including IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and the United States Postal Service.
JoAnn Carland, Ph.D. (1946-2013)
Carland Entrepreneurship Institute Director Emeritus
Dr. JoAnn Carland was a writer, entrepreneur, scholar and educator. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Computer Systems from the University of Georgia, and an M.Ed. from Western Carolina University. Her writing career produced more than a dozen books and 200 articles, as well as five novels. In a 1997 article by Ratnatunga and Romano, she was noted as one of the most frequently cited authors in the world in leading entrepreneurship journals during the period 1975 through 1992. Using what she learned in the field, she had a great deal of success in entrepreneurship curriculum design. She designed and implemented the first Master of Entrepreneurship (ME) degree program in the U.S. and one of the first undergraduate majors in entrepreneurship. She was recognized by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2005 when it selected the ME program as the best in the Nation in that year.