Research and consulting services are designed to assist organizations with market research, internal climate and management audits, surveys of external stakeholders, data gathering, and empirical analyses. Interdisciplinary teams of researchers are also available to perform economic evaluations for associations and small businesses.
The Center offers unique business counseling from experienced consultants that focus directly upon specific problems and opportunities. Please see the extensive list of areas of consulting expertise below.
Contact
G. Jim Francis, Ph.D., Director
College of Business
Colorado State University
jim.francis@business.colostate.edu
(970) 491-6265
Areas of Expertise
Accounting[more]
- Accounting information systems
- Auditing, the auditing profession, audit pricing, audit quality, IT auditing
- Financial reporting, financial statement analysis
- Income tax, tax policy
- Management incentives
- Managerial accounting, governmental accounting, not-for-profit accounting, environmental accounting
- Regulation of the accounting profession
- Service learning
- Stock compensation
Computer Information Systems[more]
- Database including SQL, UML, OO in general
- Man-Machine research including cognition and decision-making in groups and under time constraints
- OO technology and modeling
- Programming including COBOL, JCL, C, Java, VB
- Project management and certification, software quality assurance
- Software engineering
- Supply chain management
- Systems development methodologies, systems engineering, systems metrics, systems modeling, systems testing, and performance evaluation
Finance[more]
- Banking
- Business law, entrepreneurship
- Capital budgeting
- Corporate finance and investments, derivatives, and portfolio theory
- Corporate social responsibility
- Cooperative director development
- Credit markets
- Equity markets
- Financial economics
- Initial public offerings
- Interest rates
- International finance, financial markets in developing economies
- Investment management
- Macroeconomics
- Micro-insurance
- Monetary policy
- Personal finance, gender differences in investing, retirement planning
- Public finance, experimental economics, public goods
- Real estate, real estate investment strategies and trends, corporate real estate and sustainability, foreclosure real estate, global real estate markets, home price indices, housing demand, mortgage portfolio performance
- Quantitative finance, risk management, derivative pricing
- Valuation
Management[more]
- Change management
- Conflict management and perceptions of competence, conflict and managing customer experience and verbal aggression in the workplace
- Communication Styles ,strategic Communication, leadership Communication
- Competitive dynamics
- Corporate governance, vision and values, M&A processes
- Corporate Protocol
- Course design, pedagogy and adult student learning
- Diversity in organizations, diversity in work groups
- Emotional Intelligence
- Employment relations, labor law, human resource management and comparative industrial systems
- Entrepreneurship, transitions in entrepreneurship including identifying opportunities, entrepreneurial exit, corporate entrepreneurship, theory development
- Environmental and social supply chain management
- Ethics, ethical behavior, organizational values
- Human resource management, compensation
- Innovation management, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational change issues
- Inter-firm relationships
- International business and strategy execution, economic development,global sourcing, global social entrepreneurship
- Knowledge management
- Leadership, leadership skill requirements, leadership fads & fashions
- Organizational culture
- Organizational and interpersonal behavior, trust, emotions in the work-place, work-family relationship
- Supply chain and logistics strategy, integrating demand and supply, buyer-supplier relationships, negotiation and new product development
- Sustainable development, environmental entrepreneurship, renewable energy, clean technology, sustainable enterprise sustainability in the supply chain
- Strategic Management, strategy implementation and strategy processes
- Strategic talent management
- Team development and team building, the role of composition and context on the development and effectiveness of organizational teams, teamwork and generational issues
Marketing[more]
- Advertising strategy
- Advocacy marketing
- Business marketing
- Channels relationship management
- Consumption behavior
- Customer service
- Ethics in marketing
- International distribution strategy
- Marketing strategy and innovation
- Pricing strategy
- Sales force compensation
- Sales management
- Services marketing
- Social issues in marketing
- Sport marketing