George Ford
Dr. George S. Ford is a co-founder and the Chief Economist of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies. The Phoenix Center is an international, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economics of regulated industries.
Dr. Ford also has extensive experience in both government and in private industry, serving as an economist for the Federal Communications Commission's Competition Division, MCI Communications, and Z-Tel Communications.
His research on the communications and other industries has been published in in such internationally respected journals such as the JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, the JOURNAL OF BUSINESS, the ANTITRUST BULLETIN, EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS, among others. Dr. Ford has also published chapters in books NTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ECONOMICS, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY, and ANTITRUST POLICY ISSUES.such as the I
In addition, Dr. Ford is often called upon to testify before state legislatures and regulatory commissions.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Major Gifts Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University & Assistant Professor of Finance - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Gretchen Dorsey
Academic Advisor - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Marketing, Management, and Economics
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Stefan Norrbin
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Onsurang (Onnie) Norrbin
Assistant Professor - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Thomas W. Woolley
Professor of Statistics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
Professor of Management
Adjunct Faculty
- Edward J. Coyne, Sr.
Assistant Professor - George Ford
- John Kottmeyer
- Douglas L. McWhorter
- Mike Teel
- Michelle Wales