College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Teaching
Dr. David M. Ambrose, Professor of Marketing, previously served as the Director of the Executive MBA Program, Director of the Nebraska Business Development Center, Co-Director of the Romanian-American Universities Program, and as the Enron Professor of Business Administration. He has also been a member of the faculties of Creighton University, California Polytechnic State University, University of Vienna (Austria) and, Acadia University of Nova Scotia (Canada). Dr. Ambrose was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Liberia in West Africa (1975-1976) and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University College Dublin, Ireland (1984-1985).

Dr. Ambrose was awarded the Doctor of Business Administration degree from The George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1971. His Master of Business Administration is from the University of Maryland in 1964, where he was a Graduate Fellow. He graduated from Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in Economics in 1962.

For seven years, Dr. Ambrose was employed by the Bell System (Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company) in Washington, DC, and economist and statistician for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, and as a labor contract analyst for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, both in Washington, DC.

Research
The research of Dr. Ambrose has appeared in Hospitals, Agrichemical Age, The Liberian Economics and Management Review, the Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of Business and the Journal of Mental Health Administration, among others.

His accomplishments have been recognized by the presentation of the Leavey Award of the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, award recognition by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the American Institute for Decision Sciences, the Society for Manufacturing Engineering, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. He was also awarded "The Chancellor's Medal" by the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Exxon Award for instructional innovation was awarded to Dr. Ambrose in 1982 and 1987 by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. He is the only individual to ever have received the Exxon award twice.

The U.S. Small Business Administration presented him its national award for research and consultation of business three times: 1978, 1986, and 1987.

In 1988, Dr. Ambrose conducted seminars in Monterrey and Mexico City for Entrepreneurship faculty from 26 campuses in Mexico as an AMPRT Lecturer, U.S. Department of State.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania confirmed Dr. Ambrose as a "Membre do Onoare al Senatului Universitatii" in 1993. This honor and recognition had previously been extended only once in the nearly 200-year history of the University.

Dr. Ambrose was recognized in 1995 as a National Entrepreneurship Educator by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City as publicized by INC Magazine, December 1995.

Service
Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Omaha Safety and Health Council. Previously he was Chairman of the Governing Board of Saint Joseph Center for Mental Health, Chairman of the Safety and Health Council of Omaha, a member of the Professional and Technical Advisory Committee of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization, Vice chairman of the Joint Operating Committee of the Heartland Division of the American Cancer Society (Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma), Chairman of the Nebraska Division of the American Cancer Society, and a member of the Governing Board of Saint Joseph Hospital. He is also currently the Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of Easter Seals Nebraska.

Dr. Ambrose is Director of North American Operations of G.US. Enterprises, the president of PricePoint of Nebraska, a software development firm with proprietary methods in economic analysis, and Ambrose and Associates, a consulting firm with an emphasis in 'forensic economics,' and Board of Quantum Dynamics, Inc.

Department: Marketing & Management

Office: 304E

Address:
Roskens Hall 304E
College of Business Administration University of Nebraska at Omaha
60th & Dodge Streets
Omaha, NE 68182

Phone: (402) 554-2547

Fax: (402) 554-3747

Email: dambrose@mail.unomaha.edu