Faculty A-Z List
Anne-Marie Anderson
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Associate Professor of Finance; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair; Director, Financial Services Laboratory. B.S., United States Military Academy; M.B.A., University of Tulsa; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Research interests: corporate restructuring; mergers and acquisitions; valuation.
J. Richard Aronson
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Professor of Economics; William L. Clayton Professor; Director, Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise. B.A., Clark University; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Clark University. Teaching areas: public finance; money and banking. Research interests: tax and expenditure analysis; pension funds; municipal fund analysis.
Daniel A. Bayak
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Professor of Practice, Perella Department of Finance. B.S., Bloomsburg University; M.B.A., University of Scranton. Teaching areas: information analysis and financial decision making; managerial and financial accounting.
Liuba Belkin
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Assistant Professor of Management; Axelrod Family Endowed Fellow. M.S., B.S., Institute for Economics and Law, Moscow,Russia; M.B.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching areas: negotiations; organizational behavior. Research interests: emotions at work.
Paul Brockman
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Professor of Finance; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair. B.A., Ohio State University; M.B.A., Nova Southeastern University; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Research interests: corporate decision making and examining the context in which business decisions are made, implemented, and interpreted by capital markets.
Jay D. Brodish
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Professor of Practice, Department of Accounting. B.S., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: financial accounting; analysis of financial statements; forensic accounting and auditing.
Jill A. Brown
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Assistant Professor of Management; Axelrod Family Endowed Fellow. B.A., Lehigh University; M.B.A., Augusta State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Teaching areas: strategy; business ethics; human resource management; principles of management. Research interests: corporate governance.
Paul R. Brown
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Professor of Accounting; Dean, College of Business and Economics. B.A., Franklin and Marshall College; M.P.A., Ph.D., University of Texas/Austin. Research interests: financial statement analysis; FASB/SEC policy analysis; international reporting and analysis; earnings measurement and management; managing earnings expectations.
Stephen G. Buell
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Professor of Finance; Co-Director, Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program. B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: corporation finance; integration of business and engineering. Research interests: high-yield bonds; corporate bankruptcy.
Deepa Chandrasekaran
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Assistant Professor of Marketing; Thomas J. .Campbell '80 Professorship. B.A., M.A., Stella Maris College, India; M.B.A. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Teaching areas: product management; international marketing; marketing strategy; marketing management. Research interests: new product diffusion and growth; innovativeness of consumers and firms across nations; social network analysis.
Ravi Chitturi
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Associate Professor of Marketing. B.S., National Institute of Technology at Trichy, India; M.S., in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago; Executive M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research interests: Technology and innovation, design and consumer emotions, brand value and marketing strategy. Teaching interests: Creating breakthrough innovation, design, development and marketing of new products, strategic brand management.
Shin-Yi Chou
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Professor of Economics; Frank L. Magee Distinguished Professor. B.A., National Taiwan University; Ph.D., Duke University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; health economics. Research interests: health economics.
Karen M. Collins, CPA
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Associate Professor of Accounting. B.S., M.B.A., Salisbury State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Teaching areas: financial accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: behavioral dimensions of public accounting practice (including stress, turnover and upward mobility of women).
James A. Dearden
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Professor of Economics; Department Chair. A.B., Muhlenberg College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; game theory. Research interests: applied game theory; microeconomic theory.
Mary E. Deily
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Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; industrial organization; mathematics for economists. Research interests: industry decline; regulation of business, hospital inefficiency.
Beibei Dong
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Assistant Professor of Marketing. B.A., Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Research and teaching interests include services marketing, international marketing, and marketing management.
David Folsom
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Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting. B.S., M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Teaching areas: managerial and financial accounting. Research Interests: explanations and effects of conservative financial reporting, competitive influences on disclosure.
William Forster
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Assistant Professor, Department of Management. B.S., United States Air Force Academy; M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology; M.B.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research interests include founding partnerships, new venture teams, entrepreneurial decision making, and business ethics.
Beth S. Gallant
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Professor of Practice, Department of Marketing. B.S., Lehigh University; M.B.A. Columbia. Teaching areas: consumer behavior; business to business marketing; brand management; sales management.
Robert Giambatista
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Assistant Professor of Management. M.S., B.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison). Teaching interests: Organizational behavior, negotiation, management, individual and group decision-making, groups and teams, management history.
Frank R. Gunter
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Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Teaching areas: Principles of economics, economic development, political-economy of Iraq, and political-economy of China. Research interests: Iraq economy, corruption, and capital flight.
Parveen P. Gupta
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Professor of Accounting; Department Chair. B.Com. (Honors), LL.B., University of Delhi; M.B.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: Corporate governance and business risk management; financial reporting and valuation. Research interests: Market reaction to control weakness disclosures under Sarbanes-Oxley Act; management reporting on internal control; corporate governance and firm performance; audit committee effectiveness and quality of financial reporting; internal auditing.
Reetika Gupta
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Assistant Professor of Marketing; Alison and Norman H. Axelrod '74 Research Fellow. B.A., Delhi University, India; PGDPC, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, India; Ph.D., Baruch College (CUNY). Teaching interests: Consumer behavior, marketing research, internet marketing. Research interests: complexity in interactive consumption environments, consumer learning of new products.
James A. Hall
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Associate Professor of Accounting; Peter E. Bennett Chair. B.A., M.A., University of Tulsa; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. Teaching areas: accounting information systems; management information systems. Research interests: systems design; internal control of systems; computer systems auditing.
David Hinrichs, CPA
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Lecturer, Department of Accounting; John C. Swartley '24 Professor. B.S., University of North Dakota; M.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University. Expertise: Financial management of information technology; outsourcing; accounting information systems.
Thomas J. Hyclak
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Professor of Economics. B.A., M.A., Cleveland State University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Teaching areas: principles of economics; urban economics; macroeconomics. Research interests: regional labor-market analysis; industrial relations in the truck manufacturing industry; international differences in unemployment.
Arthur E. King
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Professor of Economics. A.B. Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D. The Ohio State University. Teaching areas: Statistics, health economics; comparative economic systems; applied econometrics.
Richard J. Kish
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Professor of Finance; Allen C. DuBois Distinguished Professor; Department Chair. B.S., Clarion University; M.B.A, Ph.D., University of Florida. Teaching area: investment. Research interests: fixed-income securities; efficient markets; international mergers.
Nevena T. Koukova
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Assistant Professor of Marketing; Alison and Norman H. Axelrod '74 Research Fellow. B.S., National and World Economy University Bulgaria; M.B.A., Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. Research interests: pricing, bundling, digital products and consumer decision making. Teaching interests: Marketing strategy, Consumer analysis, Marketing research, Principles of marketing.
Gopal Krishnan, CPA, CMA, CISA
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Professor of Accounting; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair. D. Com., Indian Merchants' Chamber; M.B.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D. University of North Texas. Research Interests: corporate governance, auditor independence, audit quality, and audit pricing, earnings management and accrual quality, financial statement fraud, ethics.
Robert Kuchta
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Professor of Practice, Department of Management. B.S., Engineering Technology; M.S. Management Science - New Jersey Institute of Technology. Teaching areas: developing, producing, and marketing products and services and managing products and services. Research interests: inevitable classroom evolution.
Ernest K. Lai
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Assistant Professor of Economics. B.B.A., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; M.Econ., University of Hong Kong; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Research interests: game theory; experimental and behavioral economics.
Hye Seung (Grace) Lee
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Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Seoul Women's University, Korea; M.B.A., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Research interests: the effects of financial reporting on capital markets, financial analysts' forecasts, and voluntary disclosure. Teaching areas: financial and managerial accounting.
Mei Li
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Assistant Professor of Management, Foreign Affairs College, B.A.; Arizona State University M.S., Ph.D. Research interests: service operations, service outsourcing, self-service technology, social network theory, buyer-supplier relationships, behavioral side of supply chain management
Xu Li
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Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., University of International Business Economics; M.S., Boston College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James T. Kane Faculty Fellowship. Research interests: the capital market's reaction on accounting information, insider trading and information asymmetry, disclosure's impact on cost of capital, and institutional investors' trading behavior.
Lin Lin
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Assistant Professor of Business Information Systems, Department of Management. B.S., University of Science and Technology of China; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona. Research interests: Knowledge discovery and management, electronic commerce.
Yvonne Lu
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Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting. B.B.A., M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Stanford University. Research interests: earnings management and earnings quality, securities litigation, corporate governance, pension accounting.
Yung-Yu Ma
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Assistant Professor of Finance. B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Utah. Research interests: financial distress and bankruptcy restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and investments.
Douglas Mahony
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Assistant Professor of Management. B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Research interests: organizational conflict, alternative dispute resolution, participatory work systems, and social networks.
Joseph M. Manzo
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Professor of Practice, Accounting Department. B.A., Rutgers University; M.B.A. Lehigh University. Teaching areas: Financial accounting, business consulting process and practice, business ethics.
James M. Maskulka
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Associate Professor of Marketing. B.S.B.A., M.B.A., Youngstown State University; DBA, Kent State University. Teaching interests: Marketing communications; global marketing; marketing principles. Research interests: Marketing communications; brand management; media planning.
Christopher D. McDemus
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Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship, Director of VentureSeries. B.A., Providence College; J.D., Widener University School of Law. Areas of interest: start-up and emerging growth companies.
Judith A. McDonald
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Professor of Economics. B.A. (Honours), University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching areas: macroeconomics; international trade; international finance. Research areas: Capital flows and external debt issues for developing countries; United States-Canada trade relations during the 1930s; pay equity and gender differences in salaries.
Matthew A. Melone
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Professor of Law and Business. B.S., M.S., Villanova University; J.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching area: commercial law. Research interests: taxation; law and accounting; real estate law.
Chad D. Meyerhoefer
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Associate Professor of Economics; Class of 1961 Professorship. B.S., Binghamton; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell. Research interests: health economics, public policy, applied econometrics, international economic development.
Vincent G. Munley
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Professor of Economics. B.A., B.S.E.E, Lehigh University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton. Teaching areas: applied microeconomics; environmental economics. Research interests: political economy of state and local government finances.
David H. Myers
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Professor of Practice, Perella Department of Finance. B.A., Wesleyan; M.B.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Washington. Teaching areas: investments. Research interests: socially responsible investing, pension and mutual funds; and conditional asset pricing.
George A. Nation III
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Professor of Law and Business. B.S., J.D., Villanova University. Teaching areas: contract law; sales of goods; debtor-creditor relations; negotiable instruments; agency law; business organizations. Research interests: commercial lending law topics; environmental liability for lenders; promissory notes; guaranty and suretyship law; products liability.
Chitra Nayar
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Lecturer, Department of Management; John C. Swartley '24 Professor. MBA, University of Iowa; BSc, Aston University, England. Teaching interests: Theory and applications of information systems in business.
Nandkumar (Nandu) Nayar
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Professor of Finance; Hans J. Baer Chair in International Finance. B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Iowa. Research interests: corporate finance; global finance issues; derivatives; investment banking; tax policy issues, risk measurement and management. Teaching areas: Corporate Finance, International Finance.
Anthony P. O'Brien
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Professor of Economics. A.B., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Teaching areas: money and banking; macroeconomics; business history. Research interests: business history; economic history; macroeconomics.
Marietta Peytcheva
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Assistant Professor of Accounting; Charlotte & Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellow. B.S., Ph.D., Rutgers. Research interests: audit judgment and decision making, financial restatements, and ethics in accounting.
Corinne Post
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Assistant Professor of Management. B.S., University of Geneva; M.S., University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Ph.D. Rutgers. Research interests: gender and racial differences in individual work experiences and career trajectories as well as on the effects of diversity on innovation and performance.
McKay Price
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Collins-Goodman Fellow in Real Estate Finance; Assistant Professor of Finance. B.S., University of Utah; S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Florida State University. Research interests: Real Estate, Information and Asset Valuation, Capital Markets and Corporate Finance.
Timothy J. Quigley
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Assistant Professor of Management. B.S. Pennsylvania State University; M.B.A. Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Pennslyvania State University. Research Interests: strategic management and sustainability in regards to succession of chief executive positions.
Catherine M. Ridings
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Associate Professor of Business Information Systems. Ph.D., Drexel University. Teaching areas:management of information in organizations; e-commerce; and virtual communities. Research interests: virtual communities; trust; knowledge management; software development and adoption.
Naomi B. Rothman
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Assistant Professor of Management. B.A., University of California at Davis; Ph.D., Stern School of Business, New York University. Research interests: social consequences of emotions in the work place; power; negotiations; justice.
Jesus M. Salas
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Assistant Professor of Finance; Francis J. Ingrassia '75 and Elizabeth McCaul Endowed Professorship. B.S., St. Mary’s University; M.A., Miami of Ohio; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Teaching and research interests: investments, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate risk management, and dividend policy.
Heibatollah Sami
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Professor of Accounting; Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Professor. B.S., Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, M.S., Central Michigan University, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Teaching areas: financial accounting and reporting. Research interests: impact of accounting information on capital markets; international accounting; auditing.
Nada R. Sanders
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Professor of Management; Iacocca Chair. M.B.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. Research interests: business forecasting, supply chain management, and the role of information technology in the supply chain environment.
Michael D. Santoro
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Associate Professor of Management. Ph.D. in Organization Management from Rutgers University. M.B.A., Strategic Management, Rutgers University; M.B.A. in General Management, Adelphi University; B.A., William Paterson University. Research interests include: organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, strategic alliances, and external sources of knowledge and technological innovation.
Steven L. Savino
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Professor of Practice, Department of Marketing. B.A., Villanova University: M.B.A., Wake Forest University. Teaching interests: Brand Management; Marketing Strategy; Principles of Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Sales Management; Global Marketing.
Susan A. Sherer
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Professor of Management; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor. B.S., State University of New York at Albany; M.S., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching areas: strategic information systems; e-business enterprise applications. Research interests: information systems risk and benefits, and health information systems.
Kenneth P. Sinclair
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Professor of Accounting. B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Teaching areas: cost accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: performance evaluation; corporate governance.
Ajai K. Singh
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Professor of Finance; Bolton-Perella Endowed Chair in Finance. MBA, University of Delhi; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Area interests: corporate finance, financial markets and the intersection of investment banking and corporate finance.
K. Sivakumar
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Professor of Marketing; Arthur C. Tauck, Jr. Chair in International Marketing and Logistics; Department Chair. B.E., University of Madras, India; PGDRM, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India; Ph.D., Syracuse University. Teaching interests: Marketing research; global marketing; marketing management. Research interests: global marketing, innovation management, and pricing.
Larry W. Taylor
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Professor of Economics. B.S., University of North Alabama; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Teaching areas: econometrics; time series; statistics. Research interests: specification testing for economic models; finite-sample issues in econometrics; econometric methodology; macroeconomic modeling; qualitative dependent variables.
Stephen F. Thode
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Associate Professor of Finance; Director, Goodman Center for Real Estate Studies. B.A., Coe College; M.B.A., D.B.A., Indiana University. Teaching areas: real estate finance; corporate finance. Research interests: new mortgage products; mortgage pricing; affordable housing financing; taxation of real estate investments.
Robert J. Thornton
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Professor of Economics; Charles William MacFarlane Professor. H.A.B., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois. Teaching areas: labor economics; statistics. Research interests: unionism and collective bargaining; public employment; forensic economics.
Robert J. Trent
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Professor of Management; George N. Beckwith '32 Professor. B.S., Michigan State University; M.B.A., Wayne State University; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Teaching areas: operations management; purchasing and materials management; quantitative methods. Research interests: cross-functional teams in purchasing.
Geraldo M. Vasconcellos
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Professor of Finance and Economics. B.S., Military Academy of Agulhas Negras, Brazil; B.S., State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; M.S., Fed. University of Rio de Janeiro; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teaching areas: international finance; financial markets and institutions. Research interests: portfolio approach to export-diversification strategies; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; privatizations; financial structure and economic development.
Andrew Ward
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Associate Professor of Management; Charlot and Dennis E. Singleton '66 Endowed Chair in Corporate Governance. B.Sc. University of Surrey, England; M.B.A., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: corporate governance including CEO successions, CEO compensation, the roles and concerns of the chief executive officer, CEO/board relations, reputation, and leadership.
Todd A. Watkins
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Professor of Economics; Arthur F. Searing Chair of Economics. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard University. Director of Lehigh's Dexter F. Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation and director of the Microfinance Program. Teaching areas: managerial economics; technology entrepreneurship; new product development; microfinance. Research interests: technology and industrial policies; economics and management of innovation; microfinance innovation.
Samuel C. Weaver
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Professor of Practice, Perella Department of Finance. B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: corporate finance; valuation. Research interests: value based management; performance metrics; capital evaluation; cost of capital; mergers and acquisitions.
Ke Yang
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Assistant Professor of Finance. B.S, Henan University of Science and Technology; M.A., University of Nebraska-Omaha; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Research and teaching interests: corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, corporate governance, agency issues, capital structure, and investments.
Muzhe Yang
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Assistant Professor of Economics. B.A. and M.A., Peking University; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Research interests: treatment effect analysis, peer effect analysis, counterfactuals and causal inference.
Yuliang (Oliver) Yao
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Associate Professor of Business Information Systems; Scott Hartz '68 Term Professor. B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Research interests: supply chain management, electronic commerce; technology issues in supply chains; logistics modeling/simulation.
Zach G. Zacharia
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Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management. B.S., University of Calgary; M.B.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Research interests: knowledge management and collaboration within the supply chain, logistics strategy and the financial implications of supply chain management.