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The faculty and staff model a disciplined, Christ-like approach to business. I've found their counsel and tools insightful and helpful in my career. Their advice, when utilized, insures that my company and I will reap rich rewards - both in the here and now and in eternity.

Andrew Callan, MBA '02 Training Manager, Geeks on Call

> Why Regent: Faculty and Staff: Randy Case

Associate Professor of Management

E-Mail: randcas@regent.edu
Phone: (757) 226-4841

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Ph.D.
Columbia University, MBA
University of Virginia, BS

Background

Dr. Case came to Regent University from Boston College, where he was an assistant professor of Strategic Management. Prior to that he taught at the Wharton School while completing his doctoral work in Management and Organization. Before entering academia, Dr. Case worked in investment banking and finance, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational information services company.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Project Management

Research

• "Organizational Risk Taking in High Technology R&D"
• "Innovation: The Myth of Success and Failure"
• "Exit Strategies for Ownership Transition in Family Business."
• "The Affect of Portfolio Size on Optimism and Risk Aversion in New Product Development."
• "Strategic Focus in R&D Portfolio Management."

Publications

• "Conditional Stochastic Dominance in R&D Portfolio Selection," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 47, No. 4, November, 2000. (with S. Graves and J. Ringuest).
• "Formulating Optimal R&D Portfolios," Research-Technology Management, Vol. 43, No. 3, May-June, 2000. (with S. Graves and J. Ringuest).
• "Whose Business Is It Anyway: Smart Strategies for Ownership Succession," published as a monograph by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, based on my nationwide study of ownership succession in private business, summer 1999. (with PWC staff).
• "Risk Taking in High Risk Projects: Managing for Failure," Decision Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall, 1998. (with S. Shane)
• "The Structure of High Performing Development Organizations." Drug Information Journal, Vol. 32, No.3, Summer, 1998. Awarded $1000 for Best Paper of 1998.
• "Project Team Empowerment Aboard the Starship Enterprise," Research Technology Management, Vol. 40, No. 3, May-June, 1997. (with J. Singer).
• "Descriptive Study of Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry," published as a monograph by the Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute, October, 1996.
• "Resource Allocation Strategy in R&D: A Two Firm Study." USASBE Proceedings for the Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 1995.
• "Drug Project Management in the Virtual Organization: The Importance of Managing Attention," Annual Proceedings of the Project Management Institute, 1995.
• "Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers." Book review in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Winter, 1995, Vol. 23, pp.70-73.

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