Matthew W Ford

Associate Professor of Management
Department of Management
Haile/US Bank College of Business	(859) 572-1319
Northern Kentucky University	(859) 572-5150 fax
Highland Heights, KY 41099-0506	fordmw@nku.edu

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Associate professor of management in the Department of Management in the Haile/US Bank College of Business at Northern Kentucky University. PhD, operations management, University of Cincinnati. Twelve years of operations and corporate management experience at Consolidated Papers, Inc, now part of NewPage Corporation. (cv here)

Teaching

Teaching experience includes graduate and undergraduate operations management, quality management, supply chain management, graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship, global business environment, and business policy.

Haile Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching, Northern Kentucky University, Haile/US Bank College of Business, 2009-2011.

University nominee for Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education teaching award, 2007.

The Sandy Easton Outstanding Teacher Award (selected by College of Business students), Northern Kentucky University, College of Business, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Graduate Assistant Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Cincinnati, College of Business Administration, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Research

Research Interests: Quality management, strategic operations, financial market awareness and decision-making, management and control of change. Click here for publications and working papers.

Dean's Citation for Outstanding Scholarship, Northern Kentucky University, College of Business, 2007.

Best Paper (with D.W. Kent & S. Devoto), Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2007.

Best Visual Paper Award by Organizational Development and Change division (with B.M. Greer), 65^th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2005.

Show Program Session paper (with C.H. Matthews & M.S. Baucus), Entrepreneurship division. 64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, August, 2004.

Best Paper Winner (with B.M. Greer), Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2004.

University faculty summer research fellowship, Northern Kentucky University, 2005.

College of Business summer research fellowship, Northern Kentucky University, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006.

Dean's Citation for Outstanding Scholarship, Northern Kentucky University, College of Business, 2002.

Affiliations

Academy of Management

Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

American Finance Association (AFA)

OMEGA RHO International Honor Society

American Society for Quality (ASQ), Senior Member, CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE

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