Department of Accounting
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Peter Chalos Head, Professor of Accounting Cost-related Issues
Winnie Wen Assistant Professor of Accounting Financial Accounting; Voluntary Disclosure;
Earnings Management
Special interests include Accounting Measurement
Basis; Market Mispricing; and Firm Investment
Efficiency
Department of Economics
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Nathan Anderson Assistant Professor of Economics Property Taxes
Ali Akarca Clinical Associate Professor of Turkish Economy and Politics
Economics
Carmel Chiswick Professor of Economics Economics of Religion; Ethnicity; Development;
Labor; Migration; American History
Robert Kaestner Professor of Economics Health Economics and Health Policy; Social
Welfare Policy; Economics of Obesity
Demographic Trends
Georgios Karras Professor of Economics Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Monetary
Integration; International Economics
Evelyn Lehrer Professor of Economics Economic Analyses of Cohabitation, Marriage and
Divorce; Fertility and Women’s Employment; Child
Care Arrangements; Economics of Religion
Deirdre McCloskey Professor of Economics Ethics in business; Business history; Economic
history; Economics; Britain, the Netherlands, South
Africa, Australia, Ireland, Sweden
John McDonald Professor Emeritus of Economics Real Estate Markets; Commercial, Residential;
Traffic Congestion; Urban Economics
Department of Finance
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Gib Bassett Head, Professor of Finance Empirical Finance; Quantile Models and Estimation
Statistics; Energy and Environment; Decision, Risk
and Voting; Statistic and Sports
Thomas Bothen Lecturer, Finance Real Estate Market Analysis; Demographic Trends
Associate Director, Center for Urban and Implications; Real Estate Investment Analysis
and Property Valuation; Real Estate Development
Real Estate
Hsui-Lang Chen Associate Professor of Finance Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and Information
Diffusion
Robert Chirinko Professor of Finance Finance-Stock Market "bubbles"; Misvaluation and
Noise Taxation- Corporate Taxes; State Taxes
Aimed at Stimulating Local Growth and
Employment; Macro/Monetary Economics
Xiaoqing Hu Assistant Professor of Finance Mutual Fund Research; Portfolio Management;
Asset Pricing Theory; Real Estate Finance
Department of Finance
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Assistant Professor of Finance Market Microstructure, Econometrics of High
Lan Zhang Frequency Financial Data, Statistical Arbitrage and
Trading; Volatility Modeling and Forecasting Using
Intra-Day Returns, Inference for Leverage Effect;
Residual Risk, Empirical Hedging; Correlation for
Nonsynchronized Security Returns
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Siddhartha Associate Professor of Information Data Mining and Predictive Modeling-Marketing,
and Decision Sciences Insurance Fraud; Complexity and Agent-based
Bhattacharyya Models; Business Intelligence; Business Process
Management
James Ho Professor of Information and Decision e-Business/e-Commerce
Sciences
Specialty topics include Electronic Markets; Online
Auctions; Multilingual Online Communication;
Data Mining for Customer Relations Management
and Market Research; Business Models Simulation;
Project Management
Aris Ouksel Associate Professor of Information Supply-chain Management; Knowledge
and Decision Sciences Management; IT Innovation; Digital Forensics
Social Networks and Mobility; Data and Text
Mining; IT Strategy; Distributed Gaming; Web
Services Technology; Information Economics;
Emergency and Disaster Management
Stanley L. Sclove Professor of Statistics Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Christopher Westland Head, Professor of Information Innovation Strategy; Valuation of Technology
Sciences Assets and Intangibles; IT Architecture and
Governance; Computer Forensics and Auditing;
Electronic Commerce; Social Networks and their
Economics; Information Systems Economics
Department of Managerial Studies
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Jenny Hoobler Assistant Professor of Management Organizational Behavior; Human Resource
Management; Labor-Management Relations
Specialty Topics include Bad Bosses; Work and
Family Conflict and Balance; Women’s Careers and
the Glass Ceiling; Diversity in Organizations;
Diversity Training Programs
Stefanie Lenway Dean U.S. International Trade Policy; Globalization;
Professor of Managerial Studies Strategic Alliances; Multinational Corporations
Robert C. Liden Professor of Managerial Studies Interpersonal Processes as related to Leadership,
Groups, Career Progression and Employment
Interviews; Development of Leader-Subordinate
Relationships; Relationships of Leader-Subordinate
to Outcomes such as Job Performance,
Organizational Commitment, Career Success, Job
Satisfaction and Turnover; Group Processes; Social
Loafing
Department of Managerial Studies
NAME TITLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Alan Malter Associate Professor of Marketing Marketing; Consumer behavior, including Online
Shopping/electronic Commerce; International
Business, including Israel, Middle East, European
Union, East Asia, and Africa; Economic
Development; Export Development and Trade;
Industry Clusters; Tacit Knowledge
Cheryl Nakata Associate Professor of Marketing and Global Marketing and Business, National Culture,
International Business Cross-Cultural Comparisons, IT Applications for
Strategic Marketing; Global Innovation/new Product
Development
Anthony Pagano Associate Professor of Management Urban Transportation
Director, Center for Supply Chain
Specialty topics include Public/Private Partnerships;
Management and Logistics Paratransit Ethics; Business Ethics
Robert Ragozzino Assistant Professor of Strategy Mergers and Acquisitions; Acquisition Deal
Structure and Contracts; Strategic Alliances; Joint
Ventures; Initial Public Offerings; Competitive
Strategy; International Business; Entrepreneurship;
New Ventures; Small Business
Maija Renko Assistant Professor of Managerial Entrepreneurship; Small Business Management,
Studies Entrepreneurial Marketing; High Technology
Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition;
International Entrepreneurship; Strategy and
Performance in Technology Ventures
Jelena Spanjol Assistant Professor of Marketing Product Innovation/New Product Development and
Planning; Product Market Dynamics; Marketing
Management; Marketing Strategy and Innovation
Management; Principles of Marketing
Specialty topics include Effectiveness of New
Product Decisions; Individual and Leadership
Influences on New Product Decisions and
Investments; Long-term Abnormal Stock Returns to
Product Innovation; New Products and How They
Affect Firm Value and Risk; Market Development/
Product Category Development; Emergence of
Prototypes; Components of Shared Product Market
Knowledge, How They Evolve and What
Determines Shared Understanding of New Product
Markets; Influences of Shared Product Market
Knowledge Development on Product Sales and
Market Acceptance
Peter Thompson Lecturer, Managerial Studies Employee Ownership
Jie Wang Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Communication; Cross-cultural
Business Communication Communication; Linguistics; Chinese Translation
Doing Business in China
Sandy J. Wayne Professor of Management Effectively managing human resources in today's
Director, Center for Human Resource organizations
Management Specialty topics include Developing Effective
Manager-Employee Working Relationships;
Reducing Employee Turnover and Increasing
Employee Commitment to their Company;
Understanding the new Employment Relationship
Between Employees and their organizations