Business Administration (BUS)

Honors: An Honors Program in business administration is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.

Department Head: Robert M. Ballenger

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Robert M. Ballenger, Ph.D.—(2001)-2012
Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Lehigh University

Amanda B. Bower, Ph.D.—(2002)-2012
Charles C. Holbrook Jr. ‘72 Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Roger A. Dean, Ph.D.—(1984)-1991
Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Michigan State University

Gavin L. Fox, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Florida State University

Dennis M. Garvis, J.D., Ph.D.—(1998)-2011
Professor of Business Administration
J.D., University of Iowa
Ph.D., Georgia State

Andrew M. Hess, Ph.D.—(2013)-2014
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Scott A. Hoover, Ph.D.—(2000)-2015
A. Stevens Miles Professor of Banking and Finance
Ph.D., Indiana University

George W. Kester, D.B.A.—(2000)-2000
Mamie Fox Twyman Martel Professor of Business Administration
D.B.A., University of Virginia

Stephen J. Lind, Ph.D.—(2013)-2015
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Clemson University

Kipling M. Pirkle, Ph.D.—(2015)-2015
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Clemson University

Sandra L. Reiter, Ph.D.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Washington

Jeff Schatten, Ph.D.—(2016)-2016
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia State University

Adam L. Schwartz, Ph.D.—(2006)-2012
Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Jeffrey P. Shay, Ph.D.—(2009)-2009
Rupert A. Johnson Jr. Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Ph.D., Cornell University

Robert D. Straughan, Ph.D.—(2000)-2010
Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Houston

Julie F. Youngman, J.D.—(2015)-2015
Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Law
J.D., Duke University 

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  Business Administration major leading to a BS with Special Attainments in Commerce degree

Courses

• •  BUS 105 - Life Finance
• •  BUS 125 - The Business of Contemporary Art
• •  BUS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
• •  BUS 195 - Selected Topics in Business Administration
• •  BUS 196 - Williams Investment Society
• •  BUS 197 - Washington and Lee Student Consulting
• •  BUS 198 - Entrepreneurship Field Consulting Experience
• •  BUS 199 - Real Estate Society
• •  BUS 211 - Marketing Management
• •  BUS 217 - Management and Organizational Behavior
• •  BUS 221 - Managerial Finance
• •  BUS 301 - Seminar in Organizational Behavior
• •  BUS 302 - Seminar in Finance
• •  BUS 303 - Seminar in Marketing
• •  BUS 304 - Seminar in Management
• •  BUS 305 - Seminar in International Business
• •  BUS 306 - Seminar in Management Information Systems
• •  BUS 310 - Management Information Systems
• •  BUS 311 - Healthcare Information Systems: Technologies and New Ventures
• •  BUS 312 - Computer Forensics
• •  BUS 315 - Database Management for Business
• •  BUS 317 - Data Mining for Sales, Marketing and Customer Relationship Management
• •  BUS 321 - Multimedia Design and Development
• •  BUS 325 - E-Commerce Development
• •  BUS 330 - Global Human-Resource Management
• •  BUS 333 - International Production and Operations Management
• •  BUS 335 - Ethics of Globalization
• •  BUS 337 - Economic Globalization and Multinational Corporations
• •  BUS 343 - Markets and Morals
• •  BUS 345 - Business Ethics
• •  BUS 346 - Foundations of Business Law
• •  BUS 349 - Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in a Business Environment
• •  BUS 350 - Building Financial Models
• •  BUS 353 - Real Estate Development
• •  BUS 355 - Cases in Corporate Finance
• •  BUS 356 - Financial Risk Management
• •  BUS 357 - Multinational Business Finance
• •  BUS 358 - Corporate Mergers, Leveraged Buyouts, and Divestitures
• •  BUS 359 - Investments
• •  BUS 360 - Framing a Franchise: The Business of Entertainment
• •  BUS 365 - Modern Professional Presentations: Design and Delivery
• •  BUS 370 - Integrated Marketing Communications
• •  BUS 371 - Creative Strategic Planning
• •  BUS 372 - Cross-Cultural Issues in Marketing
• •  BUS 381 - Social Entrepreneurship
• •  BUS 383 - Technology and Entrepreneurship
• •  BUS 390 - Supervised Study Abroad
• •  BUS 391 - Corporate Social Responsibility Practicum
• •  BUS 392 - Layered Berlin: German Culture and the Social Market Economy
• •  BUS 398 - Strategic Management
• •  BUS 399 - Entrepreneurship
• •  BUS 401 - Directed Individual Study
• •  BUS 402 - Directed Individual Study
• •  BUS 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  BUS 406 - Directed Individual Study
• •  BUS 493 - Honors Thesis