L. W. (Bill) Murray

Professor of Finance and International Business
Coordinator International Programs

Tel: 415-422-6519
Fax: 415-422-2502
TDD: 415-422-6439
murray@usfca.edu

University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045 U.S.A.

• Ph.D., Clark University, 1973
• M.S., University of Missouri (Columbia), 1969
• B.A., University of Northern Iowa, 1961

• BA350: International Business
• BA359: Emerging Market Finance

• At the University of San Francisco since 1978.
• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (1988-1992).
• Adjunct faculty (finance and international business), University of California, Berkeley (1988-present).

• Sustainable Growth
• Developing New Products

• "Globalization & Labor: Needs, Means & Returns." The Global Business & Economics Research Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 8-11, 2007. With Alev M. Efendioglu.
• "Delivering Management Education via Tutored-Video Instruction." In Online Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Edited by Lawrence A. Tomei, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, June 2007. (ISBN: 978-1-59904-935-9) With Alev M. Efendioglu.
• "Qualitative Analysis of Insurance Products:  the "English Part." Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, March 2005. With Manuel Tarrazo. Published in the Proceedings.
• "Delivering Management Education via Tutored-Video Instruction: A Case Study." Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Edited by Caroline Howard, Judith Boettcher, Lorraine Justice, K. D. Schenk, Patricia L. Rogers, and Gary A. Berg. Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2005. (ISBN 1-59140-555-6) With Alev M. Efendioglu.
• "The impact of inflation on the growth of firms in South Africa." Management Dynamics, vol. 14, no. 1 (2005). With M. Beaumont-Smith, and C. N'Cho.
• "Inflation and Firm Growth in South Africa." South African Business Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (2004). With M. Beaumont-Smith, C. N'Cho, and D. Blakley.
• "Teaching what we know about asset allocation." Advances in Financial Education, Spring 2004, 77-103. With Manual Tarrazo.
• "The effects of macroeconomic instability and inflation on sustainable real growth in South African firms." South Africa Journal of Economics and Management Science, 6:4, 666-689, December 2003. With M. Beaumont-Smith, C. N'Cho, and D. Blakley.
• "Marketing PCs to China." Business Horizons, Vol. 45 (6), (November-December, 2002). With Zhan Li and Alev M. Efendioglu.
• "How Market Orientation and FDA Regulations Affect the Way that New Bio-Tech Products are Developed and their Success." Journal of the American Academy of Business, vol. 2 (1), (2002). With Zhan Li, Alev M. Efendioglu, and P. Chabot.

External Service & Assignments

• Member, Board of Directors, Semotus Solutions, Inc., Las Gatos, CA (AMEX:  DLK) Member Audit Committee; Chair Compensation Committee.  www.semotus.com

Honors & Awards

• Conference Best Paper Award, "Quantifying Asset Allocation." Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, April 2003. With M. Tarrazo.
• Member, Beta Gamma Sigma
• Honorary Doctorate, Xiamen University (China), 1995