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School of Business Administration
Elliott Hall, Room 427
275 Varner Drive
Rochester,
MI
48309-4485
(location map)

Management & Marketing
From organizational and consumer behavior and strategic management, policies and strategies, to international business, and legal and ethical studies, Oakland University students benefit from the vast range of expertise the management and marketing faculty offer.
The management and marketing department covers three clusters: marketing; organization behavior/human resource management; and management. Within the management cluster, there are three areas: strategic management/policies and strategies; international business; and legal and ethical studies.
Oakland University’s Human Resource Management program is certified by the National Society of Human Resource Management.
- Business (minor for non-majors)
- Entrepreneurship (minor)
- General Management (major)
- Human Resource Management (major and minor)
- International Management (minor)
- Marketing (major and minor)
- Graduate Certificate in Business Essentials
- Graduate Certificate in Leadership in Business
- Graduate Certificate in Marketing
- Master of Business Administration Concentrations
- Human Resource Management
- International Business
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Post-Master's Certificates in:
- Human Resource Management
- International Business
- Entrepreneurship
Contact Us
Janell Townsend
Department Chair
Alice Hine
Office Assistant
440 Elliott Hall
(248) 370-3279
akhine@oakland.edu
For business program academic advising, please contact
SBA Undergraduate Advising
SBA Graduate Advising
Faculty
Name | Phone | |
---|---|---|
Janell Townsend, Chair | townsend@oakland.edu | (248) 370-2544 |
Lizabeth Barclay | barclay@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3293 |
Caitlin Demsky | cademsky@oakland.edu | (248) 370-2122 |
Brandon Gustafson | bgustafson@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3290 |
Michelle Hammond | michellehammond@oakland.edu | (248) 370-4043 |
Joy (Ruihua) Jiang | jiang@oakland.edu | (248) 370-2832 |
Jae Kang | kang@oakland.edu | (248) 370-4093 |
John Kim | kim@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3297 |
Daniel Lake | dalake@oakland.edu | (248) 370-2717 |
Cynthia Miree-Coppin | miree@oakland.edu | (248) 370-2833 |
Mohan Pisharodi | pisharod@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3540 |
Steven Stanton | stantonii@oakland.edu | (248) 370-4979 |
Jennifer Thor | thor@oakland.edu | (248) 370-4091 |
Greg Thrasher | thrasher@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3295 |
Kenneth York | york@oakland.edu | (248) 370-3272 |
Special Lecturers
Arnold BraverFrank Cardimen
Zeynep Emden
Laura Fry
Francine Guice
Mary Harden
Daniel Lake
Denise Lanfear
Roberta (Robin) Michel
Linda Watza
Professors Emeriti
Daniel BraunsteinJohn W. Henke