Institute for China Studies

Faculty – Gary Keller

Faculty & Experts

Dr. Gary Keller, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor in Management

Global educator with extensive experience in strategy, project management, process improvement, and leadership development.

Faculty & Experts

Areas of Expertise

Where Expertise Meets Insight.

About Dr. Gary Keller

From strategy consulting to leadership and innovation education.

Dr. Gary Keller is an active university practitioner, offering traditional and adult learners more than 25 years of global teaching experience in both face-to-face and online formats. He also has more than 45 published articles, including 5 Best Research Paper awards from international conferences.

Keller joined the Carthage College School of Business in 2022. Prior to teaching at Carthage College, he taught at Eastern Oregon University, where he was promoted to Full Professor, specializing in Management, Strategy, creativity, innovation, and Leadership.

About Richard

From China strategy to investment and business development.

He has also taught in the international programs of several universities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Switzerland, France, and Latvia. He is a recipient of a national teaching excellence honor from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and several other distinctions, including membership in Phi Kappa Phi.

Dr. Gary Keller is the founder of Keller Management Services, a boutique international consulting practice that assists clients ranging from governmental units to for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises in the areas of strategy, project management, and process improvement. Dr. Keller has had consulting and teaching assignments on 6 continents.

Credentials

Advanced qualifications in business administration, management research, and higher education teaching.

Experience

A Career Across Consulting, Education, and Organizational Leadership.

“Effective leadership is not simply about developing a strategy; it is about turning strategy into meaningful action. Sustainable organizational performance comes from aligning people, processes, and resources around a clear purpose, while continuously adapting to change and pursuing opportunities for improvement.”
Dr. Gary Keller, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor in Management

Selected Publications

Gary's Publications on Management, Education, and Organizational Performance.

  • Examining If Grading Bias Exists in a Professor of Business Courses: An Individual Study.
  • Determining if there is a relationship between how much time a faculty member spends assessing student assignments and final grades at a rural university: A one-year analysis.
  • Comparing the total activity rates and grade outcomes of students at a rural university: A one-year analysis.
  • The importance of ISO certification for academic institutions.
  • Proposing alternative masters degrees models for small colleges/schools of business.
  • Linkages between ceo compensation, net income and stock prices.
  • Comparing differences between the learning outcomes of adult learners, traditional learners, and online learners: A quantitative methodology.
  • Assessing a faculty member’s role in changing writing outcomes of undergraduate capstone papers: A quantitative study.
  • Examining if there is a relationship between CEO compensation and the stock price and net income of publicly traded corporations in the state of Wisconsin, USA.
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  • Amenity conflicts between urban port facilities and communities in Australia.
  • Defining and describing optimal management practices and their effects on agency performance of not-for-profit organizations in southeast Wisconsin.
  • Comparing the affects of management practices on organizational performance between for-profit and not-for-profit corporations in southeast Wisconsin.
  • The impact of management practices on the economic performance of family and privately owned firms entering the recession.
  • Comparing the five factors of production of for-profit firms and not for profit organizations in southeast Wisconsin.
  • Assessing the management practices of not-for-profit corporations in southeast Wisconsin and their effects on organizational performance.
  • Do management practices affect the economic performance of firms located in southeast Wisconsin, USA
  • Assessing the impact of management on the performance of metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin firms: A preliminary investigation.
  • The influence of military strategies on business planning.

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