Mack Bean is an associate professor in the College of Business at Franklin Pierce University, where he teaches course in grant writing, international business, investment analysis, managerial finance, managing nonprofit organisations, money and banking, problems in finance, real estate investment, and the principles of financial management, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. He hold a Ed. D. in higher education leadership from Nova Southeastern University, an M.B.A. from Franklin Pierce College, and a bachelor's degree in marketing from Greenville College.