Strategic Leadership Team
Willie Hopkins, Dean — Koppelman School of Business
Willie Hopkins, Dean
Willie Hopkins is founding dean of the Koppelman School of Business at Brooklyn College. Prior experiences include dean of the School of Business and Technology at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, and dean of the College of Business at California State University, Chico. Under his leadership there, the college was recognized by the Princeton Review for four consecutive years as one of the top business schools in the nation. The college also earned a ranking of #6 (out of 400 business schools) in Eduniversal's "Excellent Business Schools" category and was ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2010 as one of the top business schools in the nation.
During his academic career, Hopkins has authored two books and has a combined total of more than 100 presentations and articles that have been published in some of the top journals in the field of management. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of five academic journals.
Hopkins has held positions with IBM Corporation, General Dynamics Corporation and National Cash Register Corporation, and has consulted and conducted training seminars for organizations such as the Arapahoe National Forest Service, Campus Crusade for Christ, Colorado Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy, Destination Hotels and Resorts, Environmental Protection Agency, City and County of Denver, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Larimer County Humane Society, Plastic Technology Corporation and the Washington State Department of Transportation.
He has received honors for outstanding service and leadership, was designated a strategic partner with the United States Air Force at the Pentagon in 2004, and is an Aspen Scholar (2006 Aspen Institute's Executive Seminar).
Education
B.S., marketing, San Diego State University; M.B.A., general management, San Diego State University; Ph.D., strategic management, University of Colorado
Contact
522 Whitehead Hall
E: whopkins@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Susanne Scott, Associate Dean
Susanne Scott is the associate dean of the Koppelman School of Business at Brooklyn College. She joined the Koppelman School in 2013 to initiate and lead the Assurance of Learning Program for the AACSB accreditation effort. In her prior role as associate dean of business at the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Scott played an instrumental role in preparing the school for its AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation Review. She was also a strong contributor to the initial accreditation effort at UMass Dartmouth in 1999 as chair of the Faculty Qualifications Committee in 2009, and she also served on the Strategic Planning Committee, the Teaching and Learning Committee and numerous other committees for NEASC Accreditation.
Scott previously taught organizational behavior at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the University of Dayton and the Helsinki School of Economics. During her academic career, she has published numerous articles in the top journals in her field, including "A Stakeholder Approach to Organizational Identity" in the highly regarded Academy of Management Review. In total, she has more than 50 published presentations and journal articles, most in the domain of organizational identity and member identification. Her current research focuses on leadership, pedagogy and identity.
Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., Scott spent approximately 10 years in industry, holding positions as director of quality assurance at RayChem Corporation and director of materials control management at two automotive manufacturers. She also spent approximately 10 years in independent consulting and organizational development for firms such as Proctor & Gamble, General Motors and Monsanto. In 1986, Scott founded a highly successful recruitment and staffing firm to serve technology firms in the Midwest and sold it in 1988 to pursue her Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Contact
522 Whitehead Hall
E: sscott@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Moishe Zelcer, Chair — Accounting
Moishe Zelcer is chair of the Accounting Department of the Koppelman School of Business. He joined Brooklyn College in February 1972 as an adjunct instructor and has held various positions since then, including two terms as acting chair of the Economics Department. His primary teaching interest is cost and managerial accounting, and he has taught other accounting and finance (investments) courses. His industry expertise is accounting for stock brokers and dealers, and he has spent over a decade on Wall Street in high-level positions with large self-clearing stock brokerage firms. In addition to a number of articles in accounting journals, Zelcer contributed two chapters ("Investment Clubs" and "Securities Brokers and Dealers") to the Encyclopedia of Accounting Systems and co-authored Accountant's Law, Tax and Business Management Manual. Zelcer also serves as a reviewer and evaluator for AARTS, a federally accredited organization that, in turn, accredits advanced schools (colleges) of Talmudic and Rabbinical studies.
Education
B.B.A., accounting, City College (CUNY); M.B.A., Baruch College (CUNY); M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., accounting, CUNY Graduate Center
Contact
202 Whitehead Hall
E: mzelcer@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Hervé Queneau, Chair — Business Management
Hervé Queneau is an expert in gender and diversity issues in the labor market, international employment, economics for business decisions and research methods for business. His teaching interests include human resource management, managerial economics, business research methods and international business. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, a college-wide award that recognizes a senior member of the Brooklyn College faculty for outstanding qualities as a teacher and a role model to students and other faculty. He has extensively published on gender and diversity issues in the workplace and labor market in the United States and across countries in leading and notable journals in economics and business, and has presented at national and international academic conferences. He is the recipient of the 2006 Amanda Dooley Research Award, a college-wide award that recognized a full-time faculty member at Brooklyn College for research on the economic life and life histories of women, sexual prejudice and discrimination. Queneau is also a research associate at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Education
Ph.D., economics, University of Paris Dauphine, France; M.A., economics, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Contact
218 Whitehead Hall
E: hqueneau@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Yehuda Klein, Chair — Economics
Yehuda Klein is professor and chair of Economics at Brooklyn College, 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.
Education
A.B., political science, Cornell University; M.A. and Ph.D., economics, University of California, Berkeley
Contact
217 Whitehead Hall
E: yklein@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Sunil Mohanty, Chair — Finance
Sunil Mohanty is the chair of the Finance Department in the Koppelman School of Business at Brooklyn College. 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 had been 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.
Education
B.S., civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology; M.B.A., finance, Minnesota State University; D.B.A., finance, Cleveland State University
Contact
201 Whitehead Hall
E: smohanty@brooklyn.cuny.edu
