Dr. Pamela J. Harper is an Associate Professor of Marketing in Marist’s School of Management. She holds a PhD in Business Strategy from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she spent 11 years with General Electric on the renowned Corporate Audit Staff in various consulting assignments in the US, Europe, and Asia and thereafter in management positions in Six Sigma Quality, Pricing Management, and eBusiness. She also has employment experience with Eli Lilly, Procter & Gamble, and NCR Corporation. Dr. Harper’s experience includes both the for-profit and not-for-profit business sectors. She has served on the Board of Directors for a number of non-profits, including Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Albany County Land Bank Corporation.

Dr. Harper’s research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, and she has presented at such international conferences as the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, the Annual American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing Educators’ Conference, The Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (ICICKM), and the International Conference on Sport & Society.

She and her husband, Dr. Timothy Harper, have two children, Brianna and Timothy.