Management (Ph.D.)
Faculty
Dennis Heaton
Professor of Management
Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program
Dean of Distance Education and International Programs
B.A., University of Notre Dame
M.A., West Georgia College
Ed.D., Boston University
Dennis Heaton earned his Ed.D. in educational leadership. His areas of research interest include consciousness, holistic health, peak performance, and higher stages of human development and their implications for leadership.
Jane Schmidt-Wilk
Associate Professor of Management
Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program
B.A., Oberlin College
M.B.A., Maharishi International University
Ph.D., Maharishi University of Management
Jane Schmidt-Wilk is director of the University’s Center for Management Research and editor of the Journal of Management Education. Her publications explore the role of development of consciousness in business and management education.
Scott Herriott
Co-Chair of the Department of Business Administration
Professor of Management
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Expansion Council Chair
B.A. summa cum laude, Dartmouth College
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor Herriott’s research interests include issues of cooperative strategy in business policy. Specific projects include studies of electric utility power pools, cooperative advertising, risk pooling, partial acquisitions, information channels in markets, and the implications of Maharishi Vedic Science for theories of motivation, job design, and management decisions.
Vicki Alexander Herriott
Co-Chair of the Department of Business Administration
Associate Professor of Law and Government
B.A., Wellesley College
J.D., Boston University School of Law
Vicki Herriott’s work includes research on crime reduction, health and conflict resolution, including a groundbreaking study on reducing collective tensions at the basis of the Middle East conflict. She is now director of the University’s Institute for Research on Higher States of Consciousness and acts as advisor to the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy.
Kenneth Cavanaugh
Professor of Applied Statistics
A.B. cum laude, Yale University
M.P.A., Princeton University
M.A., Stanford University
Ph.D., University of Washington
Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Ph.D. is Professor of Applied Statistics and Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers, in publications such as Social Indicators Research; Proceedings of the American Statistical Association; Psychology, Crime, and Law; The Journal of Mind and Behavior; Journal of International Money and Finance.
Andrew Bargerstock
CPA, Associate Professor of Management,
Director of the MBA with Accounting Specialization
B.A. Economics, Muhlenberg College
M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh
C.P.A., Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Maharishi University of Management
Andrew Bargerstock worked as an executive with a Fortune 500 company, established two successful businesses, and consulted with many companies including Allstate Insurance, BJC Health System, W.L. Gore & Associates, US Patent and Trademark Office, and Virginia Department of Social Services. He was one of two professors in the USA to be awarded the Lean Enterprise Institute's (LEI) 2009 Excellence in Lean Accounting Professor Award.
Rachel Goodman
Associate Professor of Management
Director of Career Strategies
M.A., M.S., Maharishi International University
Ph.D., Maharishi University of Management
Rachel Goodman teaches courses in world peace, including “Collective Consciousness”, and “The Individual is the Unit of World Peace” as well as many workshops in Career Strategies. She is co-editor of Transcendental Meditation in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention and has a chapter in the book Human Security published by the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association.
David Goodman
Associate Professor of Management
B.A., McGill University (Canada)
M.B.A., Ph.D., Maharishi International University
David Goodman is a board member of the Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association and is a consultant to firms helping them write business plans and raise capital. He is currently involved in several green entrepreneurship projects, including a company that manufactures and promotes ceramic tiles with a photovoltaic overlay that allows buildings to utilize solar energy. His research is involved with how sustainable wealth can be created in tune with Natural Law.
Bruce McCollum
Assistant Professor of Management
B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., Maharishi University of Management
Bruce McCollum has taught courses in management information systems, communications skills, operations management, statistics, and introduction to business courses. He served as director of administration for a branch campus of a university. His dissertation topic was leadership development through self-development.
Richard Thompson
Assistant Professor of Management, Associate Dean of Distance Education and International Programs
B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., Maharishi University of Management
Richard Thompson’s primary areas for research and teaching/consulting activities include international business and distance education. He has developed collaborative programs between MUM and institutional partners in Asia and the Caribbean.