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James A. Lynch, Jr. is the chair of the Business Management Department, where he teaches courses including, but not limited to, Workplace Values and Happiness, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Business Law. He has published in such journals as the Journal of Business Systems Governance and Ethics, Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business. He has been a member of the Brooklyn College faculty for over a decade.
His research interests include business ethics, corporate and social responsibility, management training, spirituality in the workplace, and moral leadership.
He is admitted to practice law in New York and has been practicing law for over a quarter of a century, having represented some of America’s largest international corporations in his capacity as an attorney with White & Case LLP, Winston & Strawn, and Foster Lynch & Thomas LLP, respectively.
J.D., State University of New York- Buffalo; A.B., Religious Studies, Brown University
219 Whitehead Hall jlynch@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Carol M. Connell is professor of business management in the Koppelman School of Business. She is an Earhart Foundation Research Scholar and the author of Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group, published in November 2012 by Routledge, London. She earned an Institute for New Thinking in Economics (INET) grant in 2012 for her research into Monetary Reform and the Bellagio Group, published as a five-volume set of essays and annotated letters in April 2014 by Routledge, London. Dr. Connell earned a Tow Professorship in 2014-2015 for her research into Planning for Crisis: Strategy and Management Theory and the Impact of Economic Uncertainty.
Ph.D. Strategic Management, Adam Smith School of Business, University of Glasgow; M.B.A. Columbia University School of Business
CConnell@brooklyn.cuny.edu 718.951.5000 x3166
Dov Fischer is the chair of the Accounting Department in the Koppelman School of Business. He recently published an article on the decline of substance over form in accounting in the journal Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium.
He has previously published in professional and academic periodicals such as CPA Journal; Journal of Business Ethics; and Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. He has received Brooklyn College awards for teaching, research, and service; and has received a Best Paper award by the American Accounting Association Northeast Region. He is interested in the intersection of accounting, ethics, religion, society, and history. A current area of research is the role of internal taxation in the development of Jewish communities in Europe in the late middle-ages and in early modernity.
Ph.D. Accounting, University of Colorado at Boulder; B.S. Accounting, Yeshiva University
202 Whitehead Hall DFischer@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Yehuda Klein is professor and chair of the Economics Department, where he teaches courses in statistics, ecological economics, and urban sustainability. His research interests include environmental economics and policy, regulatory economics, and applied econometrics. His current research projects address issues related to sustainability and resilience at urban and regional scales. He is currently investigating the impact of green infrastructure on neighborhood and urban electric grids, on the wastewater system, and on urban micro climates.
Ph.D. and M.A., economics, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., political science, Cornell University
217 Whitehead Hall yklein@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Sunil Mohanty is the chair of the Finance Department in the Koppelman School of Business. He joined the college in fall 2014 as professor and chair of the Finance and Business Management Department. Prior to his move to Brooklyn College, he was a professor of finance at the Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).
Previously, Mohanty held full-time faculty positions with Hofstra University and Minnesota State University. He taught in the CFA review program (Level I & II) at the University of St. Thomas. He was nominated twice for the Julie Hays’ Teaching Award in the Opus College of Business.
Mohanty has been a Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Research Scholar, and University Scholar. He has published more than 30 articles in scholarly journals. Several of his articles have been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Business, International Journal of Money and Finance, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Energy Economics, Journal of Financial Research and the Financial Review. He has over 700 citations of his research papers.
Mohanty serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals: the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Journal of Commodity Markets, Managerial Finance and the European Research Studies Journal. Previously, he served as a track chair twice at annual meetings of the Eastern Finance Association. In addition, he worked as a consultant to Minnesota Bankers Association in Minnesota.
D.B.A., finance, Cleveland State University; M.B.A., finance, Minnesota State University; B.S., civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
201 Whitehead Hall smohanty@brooklyn.cuny.edu
