last updated August 19, 2009 O'Hara (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009

Supervision of Major Student Research Projects

IN  PROGRESS:

Member, UNO Department of Psychology Masters Thesis Supervisory Committee, Kathryn "Kitty" Dybdall,  TOPIC:  "Measuring Stress and Social Behaviors in Domestic Cats at a Local Humane Society", Fall 2007 - present.

COMPLETED:

Member, Supervisory Committee for Education Ph.D. Dissertation by Gary Odgen Harper, "An Interpretive Biography of Saint Nicholas:  Applying Contextual Analysis to the Historical and Mythological Evolution of Santa Claus to Create New Teaching and Learning Paradigms", August 2009.

Chair, MBA Thesis Supervisory Committee, Deepak Gupta, "A Lost Profits Estimate for Information Technology Start-ups", May 2009.

BSAD 8900 Independent Research, Benjamin Carpick, "Valuation of Intellectual Property", December 2008.

Member, MBA Thesis Supervisory Committee, Thomas J. Sandoz, OPPD.WAUE:  a benefit and cost analysis, August 2005.  I was a Member of the Sandoz thesis committee until April 2005 and made substantial contributions.

Member, UNO Master Information Science Supervisory Committee,  Andrew P. Martin, Key Determinants of Information Availability:  A Multiple Case Study, May 2003.

BSAD 8620, Valuation of Intellectual Property, Fall 2002. 

Chair, UNO Economics MA Thesis Supervisory Committee,  Greg Ashley, Modeling the Economic Costs of a Terrorist Threat to a Large-Venue Public Facility. December 2002.

Member, UNO MBA Thesis Supervisory Committee, Curt Becker, Behavioral Finance:  Psychographics.  August 2002.  (See also above a presented paper based on this work.)

Supervising Faculty, Independent Study Course, Greg C. Ashley, "Valuing of Naming Rights", Summer 2001. (See also "Papers Presented" above.)  (Note:  the final price reported in the Omaha World-Herald newspaper was $12.3M.)

Chair, UNO MBA Thesis Committee, Danielle A. P. Allen, The Technology Transfer Valuation of Intellectual Property: Valuing Patent-Granted Medical Devices Transferred Out of Universities, November 2000.

Member, Supervisory Committee for Capstone Project for UNO Master of Public Administration. Cindra Hanssen, Capstone Project: ALSB Membership Recruitment. Spring 1998.

Chair, UNO MBA Thesis Committee, Johannes Christian Koeppe, Competitive Issues in the Deregulated United States Railroad Industry, December 1997. Also served as Omaha Faculty Supervisor for Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität Braunschweig, December 1997.

Omaha Faculty Supervisor, Jens Blechschmidt, Concentration and Contestability in the Deregulated United States Airline Industry. Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität Braunschweig, November 1995. (NOTE:  This downloadable PDF copy is 3.5MB in size due to the many tables and graphs.  A paper copy also available from UNO Aviation Institute.)

Member, UNO MBA Thesis Committee, Roxanne Pierce, Recruiting and Retaining Rural Health Physicians. December 1994.