PROFILE:

Simona Stan was hired in August 2006, as an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Management and Marketing Department, School of Business Administration, at the University of Montana.  She moved from the University of Oregon, where she served as an Assistant Professor of Marketing for five years.  Simona has a PhD in Marketing, with minors in Psychology and Statistics, from the University of Missouri – Columbia, in 2001.  She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sibiu, Romania, in 1988.

 At SOBA, Simona is currently teaching Marketing Management at the Undergraduate and MBA levels.  Her teaching experience and interests also include Marketing Research, Principles of Marketing, Services Marketing, Industrial Marketing, and Personal Selling.  She has received the James E. Reinmuth MBA Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Oregon, in 2004, and the Donald K. Anderson Excellence in Teaching Award, from the University of Missouri – Columbia, in 1999.

 Simona’s current research interests are in the areas of inter- and intra-organizational marketing (e.g., boundary spanner support and inter-organizational/cross-functional relations), services marketing (e.g., service quality, customer participation, customer relationships), and international/cross-cultural issues, especially pertaining to marketing in transitioning economies.  Her dissertation research investigated the phenomena surrounding the organizational provision of support services to salespeople.  She has published eight articles in refereed journals. One of those articles won the Outstanding Article Award for the best paper published in the International Marketing Review in 1998.  She has also presented numerous papers at national and international conferences.   

 Prior to entering the Academia, Simona has gained industry experience, working as a production management engineer and then as manager of the New Product Development Plan for a machine tool manufacturing company in her hometown, Sibiu, Romania.  She has consulted on issues related to service quality improvement for Edward Jones and Colliers Turley Martin Tucker in St. Louis and for the Premier Marketing Group in Columbia, MO.

 Simona is married to Eduard Stan, a mechanical engineer, and has a seventeen year old son and a fifteen year old daughter who go to Sentinel High School in Missoula.  They enjoy participating in many outdoor activities along with their two Saint Bernard dogs.   

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