Faculty teaching in the Bluffton MBA program bring a wide array of expertise. They have years of experience instructing adult learners and are continually working to ensure the coursework is relevant for today’s business world.
MBA FACULTY
Brienne Sprunger, MBA
Assistant professor of marketing, Director of MBA
John Burkhart, CMA
Associate professor of accounting
burkhartj@bluffton.edu
419-358-3578
Faculty vita
Jonathan Andreas, Ph.D.
B.A., Grinnell College, 1990
M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009
Courses taught: Organizations and the Global Economy, Managerial Economics, Health Care Economics
and Policy
Dr. Andreas has traveled extensively in the Asian Pacific including an extended bicycle
trip in China. As an academic he has particular interest in the economics of health
care delivery.
Darryl K. Nester, Ph.D.
B.A., Bluffton College, 1988
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1993
Courses taught: Data Analysis and Decision Making
Dr. Nester has worked as part of a publishing team for a number of math and statistics textbooks. He is co-author of the text for MGT515, and developed the simulation software for that course.
Jason Swartzlander, DBA
B.S., Bowling Green State University, 1993
Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 1996
Certified Financial Manager (CFM), 2001
M.B.A., Tiffin University, 2005
D.B.A., Anderson University, 2012
Courses taught: Financial Decision Making, Financial Reporting, Auditing
Strengths in organizational communications and leadership, performance studies, spiritual development