Deborah Spake, Associate Dean & Professor of Marketing. Professor Spake served on the faculty at Western Michigan University prior to joining the Mitchell College of Business in 2001. She holds a BA from the University of South Alabama, a MA and a PhD in Marketing from the University of Alabama. Prior to teaching, she worked in the marketing research industry in Atlanta working with clients such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Virginia, Amoco, Georgia Pacific, Select Labs, YMCA, and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.

Her research interests include Services Marketing, Health Care Marketing, Advertising Management, and Business Ethics.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Marketing Education Review, and other academic and professional publications. She is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Business Research; as well as serving as an ad hoc reviewer for other marketing journals and conferences.

Dr. Spake has been an American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and has won several teaching and research awards including Professor of the Year in 2000 from the National Panhellenic Conference and Inter-Fraternity Council at Western Michigan University and a Highly Commended Award for research published in the Journal of Consumer Marketing from Emerald Publishing’s Literati Network in 2008.

John E. Gamble, Ph.D.
MCOB 104
251-460-6418
jgamble@usouthal.edu

Dr. Gamble received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Human Resources Management from the University of Alabama in 1995. Dr. Gamble also received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama.

Dr. Gamble teaches MGT 485, MGT 492 and MGT 515. His research focuses on strategic and human resources issues in various industries.