Management, Marketing, International Business, and Supply Chain Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Dr. Peg Padgett is an Associate Professor of Management. At the undergraduate level, she teaches Organizational Behavior and Honors Thesis Research Methods. At the graduate level, she teaches Multi-directional Leadership and Talent Management as part of the Masters in Management program. She has been actively involved in the Butler University Honors Program and has served as the Faculty Thesis Advisor for more than 20 undergraduate honors students. Several of these students have presented their thesis at a professional academic conference and/or have had their thesis published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Dr. Padgett received her Bachelors degree in Psychology from Hanover College and her MBA and Ph. D. (with a major in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and minors in Statistics and Organizational Psychology) from Michigan State University. Her research interests focus on how gender influences the work experiences of women and has addressed issues such as gender-role stereotypes for leaders, how adopting a flexible work arrangement influences the career advancement of women, discrimination against mothers, and factors influencing the career aspirations of women. Additional research interests include how practicing nepotism in the hiring process influences perceptions of those who benefit from their family connection and how feedback influences student learning and academic performance. Her research has been published in the Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Organizational Psychology, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Journal of Higher EducationTheory and Practice.
Faculty
Matthew is an experienced C-Suite Executive and Entrepreneur with over thirty years of service in management and leadership positions. He has managed Food Safety initiatives, Branded Foods and Consumer Packaged Goods, Third-Party Logistics, and Vendor-Managed Replenishment programs with several Fortune Global 500™ companies. He earned his undergraduate degree in History and Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame and his graduate degree in Marketing from Butler University’s MBA program. Matthew also studied at the Universität Innsbruck in Austria and has taught courses at the University of Indianapolis. Areas of study and focus include food production systems, retail sales, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), manufacturing, commercial real estate (industrial and residential tennant), management succession planning, and aviation.
Passions include biking, history, reading, current events, flying, and advocating for mental health and fitness. Matthew is an instrument-rated private pilot and has flown to 48 states. Matthew and his wife, Kerry, live near the Butler Campus and have seven children, two sons-in-law, a cat and a dog.
Selected Awards and Recognitions:
- 2024 – Lacy School of Business Experiential Education Award
- 2009 – United Fresh Produce Association Distinguished Service Award
- 2007 – Indianapolis Business Journal Forty under 40 Recognition
- 2006 – Disney Consumer Products – Marketer of the Year
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses taught:
- MS-100 Business Applications with Excel (fall/spring semesters)
- MS-350 Operations Management (fall/spring semesters)
- MS-378 Advanced Business Analytics (occasionally)
- MS-495 Global Procurement and Sourcing (fall semester)
- IB-495 Global Procurement and Sourcing (fall semester)
- MBA-545 Integrated Capstone (occasionally)
- SC-301 Experiential Laerning SCM (fall/spring semesters)
- SC-352 Logistics and Distribution (spring semester)
- SC-353 – Quality and Manufacuring (fall semester)
- SC-451 – Global Procurement (fall semester)
- BADM231 – Business Communication (University of Indianapolis)
- HRM481 – Organizational Development (University of Indianapolis)
Cathy is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Management at the Lacy School of Business at Butler University, where she teaches organizational behavior and introductory marketing classes. Prior to her transition to teaching, she had a twenty-five year business career in sales and marketing, including sales and marketing research positions at Eli Lilly, account management roles at advertising agency Handley-Miller, and business-to-business sales experience with St. Vincent Health Care Systems. Her recent board activities have focused on male-mentoring organization 4WARD, based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In addition, she has been instrumental in expanding online and hybrid education at the Lacy School of Business, has served as the Faculty Advisor for the campus Libertarian Party, and facilitates Butler University Executive Education sessions at area companies, such as Roche, IndyGo and Etica Group.
Cathy has a BS in medical technology from the University of Vermont, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Courtney Droms Hatch is the Associate Dean of Faculty and a Professor of Marketing at Butler University. She has taught classes in advertising and promotions as well as marketing research at the graduate level. At the undergraduate level, Dr. Droms Hatch has taught courses in health care marketing, marketing research, international marketing, marketing of services, and principles of marketing.
Her research interests include examining the intersections of marketing and public policy, including topics such as the effect of health information on food choices, examining health care decisions in international markets, and consumer choices of functional food products. Her research has been published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Journal of Food Products Marketing, and Health Marketing Quarterly.
Courtney’s academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University of South Carolina, and a B.S. in Marketing and International Business from Georgetown University.
Dr. Chuandi (Charlie) Jiang is an Assistant Professorof Marketing in the Lacy School of Business at Butler University.
Dr. Jiang specializes in the study of imagination, mental simulation, and curiosity in consumer science. Drawing on the statistical methodology and interdisciplinary theoretical lens of psychology and marketing, Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on five primary topics: first, the elicitation of consumer imagination using imagery, auditory, and textual cues in marketing stimuli and sales dialogue; second, the cognitive, affective, and behavioral consequences of activated imagination, such as psychological ownership, curiosity, excitement, and emotional brand attachment; third, the impact of curiosity in hedonistic and pleasure-seeking consumptions; fourth, cultural schema and the decoding or interpretation of brand messages; fifth, the myth of brand persona.
Dr. Jiang has taught a wide range of marketing courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Jiang’s teaching specialties are Consultative Selling, E-sports and Gaming Marketing, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Analytics.
Prior to joining Lacy School of Business, Dr. Jiang received his PhD in Marketing and International Business from the Richard A.Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University, a Master of Science in Marketing Analytics from Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Henan Normal University in China.
Dr. Jiang has industrial experience in marketing consulting and marketing research. He is also a co-founder and owner of a marketing firm, which specializes in advertising, pricing strategies, predictive modeling, and sales training.
Outside of research and teaching, Dr. Jiang writes expressionistic fictions and paints. He has written five fictions and planned to publish them. Heplays soccer as a winger at least once a week and plays basketball everyFriday.
Dr. Marleen McCormick Pritchard is an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy in the Lacy School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (International Business) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. McCormick Pritchard’s primary teaching areas are International Business, Strategy Capstone, and International Strategy. Her main areas of research are on international entrepreneurship, international strategy in emerging markets, and international business education. Her research has been published in Global Strategy Journal, Small Business Economics, European Business Review, Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, and Journal of International Business Education.
Dr. McCormick Pritchard is the Outreach Editor of the ie-scholars.net online academic community.
Dr. Janaina Siegler, or simply Jane, is an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Analytics at the Lacy School of Business, Butler University. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations and Supply Chain Management from FGV in Brazil and Indiana University, Indiana. As a college professor for more than fifteen years, Jane has taught thousands of undergraduates and graduates in Brazil, the U.S., India, and Europe. As a consultant and an entrepreneur herself, Jane has had the opportunity to live and breathe the challenges of the concepts she teaches. Because of her background, Jane is a firm believer that “to teach business to future business leaders, one must engage with the business, both in our backyard and around the world”. She has actively engaged the business community in her academic and professional research aiming to leverage and share the knowledge created together between academia and the businesses, for the business community, and for business students. Her research interests include supply chain resiliency, buyer and supplier relationships, business clusters, and technologies related to supply chain management. Dr. Siegler has a special collaboration with the automotive and logistics industry in the US Midwest. She has presented her research at over 80 conferences in different parts of the world and her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the IJPE, RAC, and IJLSM, IJPDLM among others. Over the last five years, she has been honored with 8 best paper awards, 1 runner-up, 1 best conference discussant award, and 2 industry awards for the impact of her research on the broader community. Not included on that count are also seven media appearances.
Jane is a proud mother of two Butler graduates – Go Dawgs! She loves to travel, and in her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her dogs, her loved ones, going out for runs, bike rides, and being in contact with nature.
Dr. Chi (Cathy) Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Lacy School of Business at Butler University. She received the Ph.D. in Marketing at the University of Mississippi. Prior to her Ph.D., she received a Master of Information System and Operations Management from the University of Florida and a Master of Marketing Management from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. In addition, she has two Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and English.
Her research interests include marketing strategy, retailing, online marketing and nonprofit organization (NPO) marketing. Her professional goal is to continue research into trends in online marketing and to develop strategies to address changing trends. Her work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics, Frontiers in Psychology, and VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.