Dr. Kenneth R. Lord stepped into the role of dean of EMU’s College of Business on July 2, 2018. Over a career in business higher education that has spanned three decades, Dr. Lord has served as Director of Graduate Programs for Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics in Atlanta, Associate Dean of the Arthur J. Kania School of Management at The University of Scranton, and more recently Dean of the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). His research has led to more than 80 journal articles and conference presentations, thousands of citations of his work, his ranking among the world’s top advertising scholars, and a book published in 2012 on the topic of social justice. His consulting activities have benefited dozens of organizations; he has also been recognized in multiple Who’s Who and leadership publications and as an award-winning business communicator.
Dr. Lord’s research deals primarily with consumer motivation, information processing, and decision making in such contexts as exposure to diverse marketing-communication forms and strategies, scenarios characterized by ethical or social-justice considerations and cross-border markets.