Administration
Claude Lilly, Ph.D.
Dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science
Ph.D., Georgia State University
M.I., Georgia State University
B.B.A., Georgia State University
Claude Lilly joined the College of Business and Behavioral Science in July 2007. Prior to joining Clemson University, Lilly served as dean of the Belk College of Business and the James J. Harris Chair of Risk Management and Insurance at UNC Charlotte. He was professor of risk management and insurance and director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research at Florida State University. He also was a faculty member and the director of the Center for Insurance Research at the University of Southern California.
He has edited several journals, including the Risk Management and Insurance Review, the CPCU Journal, the Journal of Insurance Regulation and the Journal of Reinsurance. Lilly earned his Ph.D. at Georgia State University, where he majored in risk management and insurance and minored in international finance. He holds the CPCU and CLU designations and is a member of numerous professional associations. He also serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Caron H. St. John, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Programs
Ph.D., Georgia State University
MBA, Georgia State University
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
Caron St. John is the associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Business & Behavioral Science. She directs the MBA programs, the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Renaissance Center and has oversight responsibility for the college centers and institutes including Professional Advancement and Continuing Education (PACE), and the Upstate regional office of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
Dr. St. John has participated in grants receiving over $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. SBA, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation. She has published articles in leading scholarly journals including Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Organizational Research Methods, as well as textbooks in strategic management. Her research has been profiled in an article in The Economist and recognized by the Decision Sciences Institute with a Best Interdisciplinary Paper award. She was also invited to present her work on geographical clustering of high technology firms at the 1997 Conference Board of Canada’s Technopolis Conference. She was the recipient of the 2007 Charles Townes Award for Individual Achievement in Innovation from InnoVision. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that address the business, operations and technology strategies of firms, and is a two-time recipient of the MBA Student Association teaching award.
Dr. St. John is a founding board member of the Upstate Coalition for Entrepreneurial Development (now NEXT) and a founding board member of InnoVenture. She serves on the Clemson University Research Foundation board, chairs Clemson University’s Intellectual Property Committee, and serves on the advisory boards of several start-ups in the region.
Before pursuing an academic career, she was a chemist with Celanese Corporation in Charlotte, N.C., where she was involved with new product development and new business development.
Raju Balakrishnan
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs and Administrative Services
Ph.D., Management, Purdue University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky
B.E. (Honors), Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras (India)
Dr. Balakrishnan’s teaching interests include Spreadsheet-Based Decision Modeling, Business Statistics, Project Management and Operations Management. His current research focuses on capacity allocation models, problems related to configurations of supply chains, and studying the impact of business process outsourcing.
Dr. Balakrishnan is lead author of the textbook Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets and has published extensively in leading academic journals. He serves as senior departmental editor of production and pperations management and served as secretary of the Production and Operations Management Society during 2007-09. He has won numerous awards for teaching excellence both at Clemson and at Tulane, and has also received several awards for his research publications.
Dr. Balakrishnan has taught in the Executive MBA programs at Tulane University and the University of Georgia. He was previously chair of the Department of Management at Clemson, and served on the faculty at Tulane University prior to joining Clemson in 1994.