Business Administration (BUS)

Business Administration

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

Department Head: Amanda B. Bower
Associate Department Head: Andrew M. Hess

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.

Joel Adams, Ph.D.—(2024)-2024
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Indiana University

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

Andi Coulter, Ph.D. —(2021)-2023
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University at Buffalo

Michelle Cowan, Ph.D.—(2023)-2023
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Anushka Daunt, Ph.D.—(2023)-2023
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Justin Davis, Ph.D. —(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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

Bright Frimpong, Ph.D.—(2023)-2023
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Elisabeth K. Gilbert, Ph.D.—(2019)-2019
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. University of Florida

Andrew M. Hess, Ph.D.—(2013)-2022
Ehrik Kilner Haight, Sr. Term Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Charlotte L. Hoopes, Ph.D.—(2024)-2024
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lingshu Hu, Ph.D. —(2021)-2021
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Missouri

Emily Landry, Ph.D. —(2022)-2024
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Keri Larson, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Jayson Margalus, M.S.—(2023)-2023
Johnson Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership
M.S., DePaul University

Jeff Schatten, Ph.D.—(2016)-2022
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia State University

Robert D. Straughan, Ph.D.—(2000)-2010
Professor of Business Administration and Crawford Family Dean of the Williams School
Ph.D., University of Houston

Pooja Thakur-Wernz, Ph.D.—(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Business Administration majors may not minor in Data Science- Business Analytics but may minor in Data Science.

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  Business Administration major leading to a BS degree

Minor

• •  Entrepreneurship minor

Courses

• •  BUS 125 - The Business of Contemporary Art
• •  BUS 160 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Business
• •  BUS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
• •  BUS 191 - International Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
• •  BUS 195 - Selected Topics in Business Administration
• •  BUS 197 - Washington and Lee Student Consulting
• •  BUS 198 - Entrepreneurship Field Consulting Experience
• •  BUS 202 - Fundamentals of Business Analytics
• •  BUS 211 - Marketing Management
• •  BUS 217 - Management and Organizational Behavior
• •  BUS 220 - Foundations of Business Communication
• •  BUS 240 - Ethics, Business, and Society
• •  BUS 301 - Seminar in Organizational Behavior
• •  BUS 303 - Seminar in Marketing
• •  BUS 304 - Seminar in Management
• •  BUS 305 - Seminar in International Business
• •  BUS 306 - Seminar in Management Information Systems
• •  BUS 308 - Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
• •  BUS 314 - Introduction to Data Science for Business
• •  BUS 315 - Database Management for Business
• •  BUS 316 - Business Analytics
• •  BUS 317 - Data Mining for Business Analytics
• •  BUS 321 - Multimedia Design and Development
• •  BUS 332 - Cross-Cultural Leadership
• •  BUS 333 - Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Future of Work
• •  BUS 335 - Managing Uncertainty
• •  BUS 345 - Business Ethics
• •  BUS 348 - Foundations in Business Law
• •  BUS 349 - Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in a Business Environment
• •  BUS 362 - Understanding Emerging Economies
• •  BUS 365 - Modern Professional Presentations: Design and Delivery
• •  BUS 367 - Social Innovation in Scandinavia
• •  BUS 369 - Green IS in Iceland: Sustainable Information Systems
• •  BUS 370 - Integrated Marketing Communications
• •  BUS 371 - Creative Strategic Planning
• •  BUS 372 - Leadership in Creative Industries
• •  BUS 374 - Rogue Marketing
• •  BUS 376 - Design Thinking
• •  BUS 377 - Marketing Research
• •  BUS 381 - Social Entrepreneurship
• •  BUS 383 - The Business of Tech
• •  BUS 387 - Alchemy of Innovation: From Concept to Incubator Gold
• •  BUS 388 - Building a Business from Scratch
• •  BUS 390 - Supervised Study Abroad
• •  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 421 - Directed Research in Business Administration
• •  BUS 422 - Directed Research in Business Administration
• •  BUS 423 - Directed Research in Business Administration
• •  BUS 493 - Honors Thesis
• •  POL 202 - Applied Statistics