Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate & Executive Education Programs
(205) 726-2931
lcharper@samford.edu
Room 413 Dwight M. Beeson Hall
Larry Harper manages the graduate and executive education programs of the Brock School of Business and teaches courses in managerial values and international business.
He joined Samford University in June 1991 when the Brock School of Business founded the Global Utilities Institute and appointed him as its Director. Under his direction the Institute has undertaken numerous training and management development projects worldwide. He has trained managers and provided consulting services to companies in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
Before joining Samford Larry was a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s Washington Utility Group. He also served as a Management Board Member and Chief Financial Officer at Eskom, South Africa which is among the world’s largest electric utilities. There Larry was a key member of the senior management team that successfully repositioned a struggling company as a business oriented and customer focused utility. They achieved this through a change that included a strong financial focus, improved marketing, new information systems, an aggressive corporate communication program (internal and external) and a stakeholder management strategy. Larry has successful hands-on experience in each of these areas.
On graduation in 1980 from the MBA program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Larry earned Dean’s Student honors and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. He also has a graduate degree in Finance from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Commerce (Major: Accounting) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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 - 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 - 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