Don Lux, DBA, CMA

Assistant Professor of Practice

Accounting and Business Intelligence and Analytics

D Lux

Contact

donlux@creighton.edu
Heider College of Business
Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics - Business
Graduate School
Business Administration MBA (Master's)
Accounting (Master of Accounting)
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn - 3006C

Don Lux, DBA, CMA

Assistant Professor of Practice

Accounting and Business Intelligence and Analytics

Don Lux joined the Heider College of Business faculty at Creighton University in 2018 and serves as Assistant Professor of Practice.  He earned his doctorate at Creighton University in 2018.  Before entering academia, he began his career in practice on the corporate accounting side and transitioned over to IT with Y2K.  His IT work experience covers nearly every area of IT over more than two decades.  The companies he worked for in accounting and/or IT were Baker's Supermarkets, First Data, Valmont, LeaseTeam, Modis, eBay, and PayPal.

Don grew up in south Omaha and graduated from Omaha Central High School. He earned a BSBA with a double major in Accounting and Management Information Systems.  Following that he earned a Master of Science in Information Technology Management as well as a Master of Business Administration. All from Creighton University.  Don lives with his wife, Alison, and their sons, Tyler and Ryne, in northwest Omaha.

Department

Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics

Position

Assistant Professor of Practice

Publications

  • Journal of financial crime
    Lux Don, Compensation structure impact on executive value judgment shift resulting in occurrence of fraud 2022
  • Issues in Accounting Education
    Lux Don, Fighting Fire with Fire: Using Excel Macros to Combat Academic Dishonesty in Excel Projects, p. 23 - 34 2020

Presentations

  • Co-author (with Maggie Knight), "Fighting Fire with Fire: Using Excel Macros to Combat Academic Dishonesty in Excel Projects." American Accounting Association 2020 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA August 2020
  • Co-author (with Maggie Knight), "Leveraging Excel Macros to Prevent and Detect Excel Project Cheating" American Accounting Association 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2019
  • Co-author (with Andy Gustafson, Maggie Knight, Mike Shick, Desarae Mueller-Fichepain, and Matt McCarville), "Catholic Social Thought at Jesuit and Other Catholic Business Schools: Current State of Training for Students and Faculty Initial Report Findings" Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Conference, Seattle, WA 2018

Other

  • Small Research Grant Program through ACCU

Awards

  • Creighton University IGGY Award
  • Cahill Award for Excellence, 2021