Bockstedt is an assistant professor of management information systems in the School of Management at George Mason University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on electronic commerce, Internet business and systems analysis and design. His research interests include the dynamics of information technology evolution, consumer adoption and use of internet technologies, data mining, electronic commerce and information visualization.

Bockstedt has worked as an information technology and management consultant at Accenture and in the business services group at IBM Research. He has experience in systems design and implementation, project management, business process management and redesign and business analytics.

Bockstedt has published research in Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Technology and Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce and MIS Quarterly.

Cramton teaches in the areas of organizational behavior, team dynamics, teamwork and technology, and interpersonal relations. She has received national recognition for her educational innovation, which has opened the frontiers of international, technology-enabled teamwork to her students. She is the creator of the Virtual Organization Workshop, which brings graduate business classes at George Mason University together with graduate business classes at other universities around the world for a six-week international technology-enabled project collaboration.

Her current research focuses on contemporary issues of leadership and collaboration, particularly as experienced in the information technology and professional services industries. She studies distributed work, cross-cultural collaboration, project team leadership, and the impact of technology on collaboration.

 Hanweck is professor of finance and chair of the finance area in the School of Management at George Mason University. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Insurance and Research of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2000-07. He joined the faculty at George Mason in 1986, and teaches courses in corporate finance, applied global macroeconomics, financial institutions, and financial markets at the undergraduate and MBA levels.

At the FDIC he concentrated on the use of financial market information in bank risk management strategies, for use in establishing federal deposit insurance pricing, improvements in identification of banks in financial distress, and the subprime mortgage crisis implications for bank financial soundness. In this latter regard, scenario analyses have been developed relating macroeconomic and financial market factors to banking performance measures to better predict the effects of regional and macroeconomic cycles on banking company risk taking and vulnerability and mortgage portfolio stability. He has served as consultant to government agencies, banks and business and as an expert witness in litigation involving financial institutions and government agencies and is often cited in financial media articles.

Hanweck’s research interests include financial institutions and markets performance, public policy regarding these institutions and the structure of their markets, economic stabilization and monetary policy as they influence financial institutions and markets performance, and economies of scale and scope and mergers in the financial service industries.

A recognized scholar on leadership, team and organizational effectiveness and generational differences, Marks has spent her career studying leadership development and teamwork in organizations.

She has published theoretical models and empirical studies that illustrate the dynamic nature of the collaborative processes used by organizational teams and the critical roles of team leaders. Her work on leadership explains how cognitive, social and motivational skills develop and change as leaders advance to more senior roles. Her current research examines the collaborative challenges present in strategic alliances, and she is editing a book on multiteam systems in organizations.

She teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, global business and human resource management in executive, MBA and undergraduate programs.

Meamber is an associate professor of marketing in the School of Management. She joined George Mason University in 1998 and currently teaches advertising management and consumer behavior.

Meambers research focuses primarily on art and aesthetics, including how the arts and aesthetic-related marketing activities (e.g. product design, advertising, body art) operate as a means of cultural production for consumers, artists, and cultural intermediaries. Her secondary interests encompass topics related to sociological, technological and cultural aspects of daily life that impact marketing and consumption practices (such as Web advertising, Customer Relationship Management); the history and critique of marketing thought; and qualitative/interpretive research.