Faculty
Metropolitan College's Administrative Sciences faculty is internationally respected in their fields and provide powerful connections to the global business world.
Our highly qualified full and part-time faculty have been selected for their academic credentials, real-world experience, and their ability to provide the demanding but supportive educational environment essential for students' personal growth. Each of our faculty members brings to the classroom many years of high-level corporate, academic, and research experience in their respective fields.
Kip Becker
Associate Professor and Chair of Administrative Sciences
BA, MA, University of Delaware; MBA, Wilmington College; PhD, Florida State University.
Dr. Becker serves on the editorial board of Transnational Management, The Journal of Marketing Channels, The Journal of Teaching in International Business, and The Journal of Transition Management. He is chairman of the board of the International Management Development Association and principal of his own international management consulting firm. He is a prolific researcher and oversees graduate, undergraduate, online, and international program development and implementation. Becker teaches courses in electronic commerce, international business, marketing, and strategy.
William J. Chambers
Associate Professor of the Practice of Administrative Sciences
BA, College of Wooster; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University.
Dr. Chambers has over twenty years of experience developing and overseeing credit models, internal credit scoring systems, and default risk assessment processes for Standard & Poor's. He is an expert in international finance, portfolio management, and the economics of real estate development. Chambers teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in finance, credit analysis, and portfolio management.
James Cormier
Senior Lecturer in Administrative Sciences
BS, Boston University; MBA, Northeastern University.
Mr. Cormier has been recognized as an outstanding faculty member at Metropolitan College. He has developed and taught a range of courses in marketing management, operations management and data analysis, advertising, electronic commerce, and management. Cormier has over 25 years of domestic and international senior-level management experience as a marketing and management consultant to corporations such as IBM, The Disney Stores, Lucent Technologies, Solectron, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Virginia A. Greiman
Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences
BS, Pennsylvania State University; JD, Suffolk University Law School; MEd, Boston University School of Education; LLM, Boston University School of Law.
Assistant Professor Greiman has published and lectured extensively on international law, economic development, project management and finance, and international business transactions. She is a nationally recognized expert on corporate reorganizations, privatization, project finance, and international commercial contracting. Greiman has served in several high-level appointments for the United States government, including as United States Trustee for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and international legal counsel to the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development on privatization projects in Eastern and Central Europe. She has part-time teaching and academic appointments at both Boston University and Harvard University Law Schools. Video Spotlight available 
Jay A. Halfond
Dean of Metropolitan College & Extended Education, Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences
BA, Temple University; MA, Brandeis University; PhD, Boston College.
Dean Halfond has worked at Boston University since 1997. Previously, he served as Associate Dean of Northeastern University's College of Business Administration and held various administrative positions at Harvard University. Halfond has published over ninety articles, and contributed a monthly column, “On Ethics,” for the Boston Business Journal over a five-year period. He served as trustee of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and as the Board chairman from 2003 to 2005. In addition to over forty presentations at professional conferences, Halfond has taught frequently at the undergraduate and graduate level on social and ethical aspects of management and conflict resolution and negotiations. He currently chairs the President's Council for a Global University.
Vijay Kanabar
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Administrative Sciences, Director of Project Management Programs
BS, University of Madras (India); MBA, Webber College; MS, Florida Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Manitoba.
Dr. Kanabar has unique expertise spanning both business practices and computer science. A certified Project Management Professional, he has advised numerous organizations on training and technology needs, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Staples, United Way, and Fidelity Investments. Kanabar is an internationally published scholar and is recognized by local and national media as an authority on electronic commerce, identity theft, and data systems.
Jung Wan Lee
Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences
BA, Korea Maritime University; MBA, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; MA, Myongji University; MS, Boston University; PhD, Soongsil University.
Dr. Lee has extensive international teaching experience in international business, international marketing, and electronic commerce at Kazakh British Technical University in Kazakhstan as well as Soongsil University in Korea. He has published over 50 research papers and four books on entrepreneurship as well as served as an associate editor for the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD). He was awarded the Distinguished Research Award by Allied Academies in the spring of 2008.
Stephen A. Leybourne
Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences
BS, PhD, Cardiff Business School.
Dr. Leybourne is a well-known lecturer in human resource studies, innovation, and project and change management. He has presented at conferences such as the PMI® Research Conference and the Academy of Management, winning a "best paper" award at AoM 2006 in Atlanta. He has been a leading manager for several international banking institutions and is secretary of the Organizational Transformation, Change, and Development Special Interest Group at the British Academy of Management. Leybourne has published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Change Management, the International Journal of Management Concepts & Philosophy, and the two leading project management journals in the field, the International Journal of Project Management and the Project Management Journal.
Samuel Mendlinger
Professor of Administrative Sciences
BA, Queens College; MSc, Tel-Aviv University; PhD, Hebrew University.
Dr. Mendlinger is a dual American-Israeli citizen whose agricultural research has resulted in economic development in rural communities in Asia, Africa, and South America. He holds two patents for seed cultivation and has numerous international publications and grants. His current research and teaching interests include responsible and sustainable economic growth in under-developed countries. Mendlinger oversees the Economic Development and Tourism Management concentration for the Master of Science in Administrative Studies, and teaches courses in statistics, culture and development, and economic sustainability in tourist destinations.
John D. Sullivan
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Administrative Sciences
BA, Regis University; MBA, Northeastern University; AM, Harvard University; PhD, Northeastern University.
Dr. Sullivan is an expert in health-care policy and finance and frequently appears as a commentator in local and national media. He teaches mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets, investments, and new business ventures. He served as senior analyst for corporate development at Fresenius Medical Care and has provided strategic consulting for various health-care organizations. He has also been a guest instructor at Northeastern University.
Mehmet Berk Talay
Associate Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences
BS, Istanbul Technical University; MBA, Sabanci University; PhD, Michigan State University.
Dr. Talay’s research interests include new product development and product modifications, non-linear dynamics of competition, co-evolution of firms and products, complex systems, diffusion, internationalization, inter-organizational relationships, and networks. He has published articles in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Product and Innovation Management, Industrial Marketing Management, and the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, and has contributed to numerous publications for conferences at which he has presented. Talay has taught at HEC Montréal and Michigan State University, and is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Academy of International Business, the Consortium for International Marketing Research, INFORMS, and the American Economic Association.
Barry Unger
Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences
SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management); EdD, Harvard University.
An accomplished expert on high technology and venture capital businesses, Dr. Unger has founded and participated in numerous companies, including Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc., which became Xerox Imaging Systems. He is a member of Boston University's Faculty of Photonics and co-founder and chair emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum. Unger served in President Carter's administration as senior advisor on science and technology and is the recipient of the Vincent A. Fulmer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Roger D. H. Warburton
Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences
BSc, Sussex University; MS, PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Warburton's research focuses on the practical challenge of inventory control. He publishes and lectures internationally about domestic manufacturing, challenging the obsession with manufacturing everything offshore. He teaches courses in supply chain management and project management, both in the classroom and online. Previously, Warburton was the MIS director for Griffin Manufacturing, helping turn an apparel manufacturer from a simple cut-and-sew facility into a twenty-first-century operation with a global supply chain and domestic manufacturing supported by international outsourcing. Before that he was vice president of the Software Technology Division of Jaycor, directing the technical analysis of very large information. Video Spotlight available
Irena Vodenska
Assistant Professor of Finance
BS, MS, University of Belgrade;
MBA, Vanderbilt University;
PhD, Boston University
Dr. Vodenska is an expert in international finance and investments, with more than fifteen years of hands-on experience in financial analysis and securities trading on Wall Street and European markets. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst with experience in creating and actively managingDr. Vodenska is an expert in international finance and investments, with more than fifteen years of hands-on experience in financial analysis and securities trading on Wall Street and European markets. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst with experience in creating and actively managing
