David Goodman

Assistant Professor of Management
Director of the MBA in Sustainable Business
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. More >

Scott Herriott

Co-Chair of the Department of Business Administration
Professor of Management
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. More >

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. More >

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. More >

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. More >

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. More >

Zhu Yunxiang

Assistant Professor of Management
B.A., Fuyang Teachers College, China
B.S., Maharishi International University
M.B.A., Maharishi University of Management
DWP Honoris Causa, Maharishi University of Management

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. More >

Sun Liang

Assistant Professor of Finance
Associate Director of international program in China
B.A., magna cum laude, Maharishi University of Management
M.B.A., Maharishi University of Management

Sun Liang has taught courses in business economics, corporate finance, and data analysis and has extensive training experience in global financial exams. His research interests include capital markets and financial economics. He earned his Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification in 2008. He has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams and is now CFA Charter-pending.

Kenneth West

Assistant Professor of Management
M.B.A., Maharishi International University
B.A., Maharishi International University

Professor West has previously been director of the University Press and also served as treasurer. He provided on-site administrative planning and faculty development to the Rajapark College in Bangkok, Thailand. He has also introduced the University’s Consciousness-Based educational system to high schools in the Philippines and to college and governmental representatives in Nicaragua. More >

Sabita Sawhney

Instructor of Management
B.A., Delhi University, (India)
B. B., M. B. A., Western Illinois University

Ken Sewall

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Union College
M.Ed., Springfield College
M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts

Professor Sewall is author of the book, The Trade-off between Cost and Risk in Hazardous Waste Management. He is President of Kenneth Sewall and Co., an economic and investment consulting firm specializing in the analysis of government regulations on business. More >

Michael Blitz

Adjunct Instructor of Management and
Professional Development
B.A., Webster College