Accounting and Law

Dr. Feng Gu’s current research interests include measurement and valuation of intellectual capital (intangible assets), corporate management and reporting of investments in intangibles, and firms’ voluntary disclosure of financial and non-financial information.

Dr Susan Hamlen’s current research interests are in agency concepts in performance measurement and compensation, information content of governmental financial statements, consolidation policy and reporting, and reporting for financial derivatives.

Dr. Ronald Huefner's research interests are in the areas of financial and managerial accounting and fraud examination.

Dr. Troy Jane’s research interests include the role of accounting information in predicting financial distress and the use of accounting information in financial contracting. 

Dr. Myungsun Kim’s research interests are in roles and consequences of accounting decisions in the capital market including market efficiency and valuation effects of accounting information.

Dr. William Kross’ research involves examining the usefulness of accounting numbers in setting stock prices, including the impact that accounting disclosures have on stock prices.  Other research includes assessing the characteristics of the financial forecasts of managers and analysts, and the usefulness of these forecasts to investors.

Dr. Parunchana Pacharn's main research interest is in corporate financial reporting, managerial compensation and performance evaluation, especially incentive aspects of managerial discretion and earnings management.

Dr. Weihong Xu’s research interests are in the areas of financial accounting/reporting, disclosure and corporate governance.

Finance & Economics

Dr. David Cho's research interests are in finance and economics. In particular, he is interested in portfolio management, investments and financial econometrics.

Dr. Kee Chung's interests are in the areas of market microstructure, corporate governance, and financial markets.

Dr. Isaac Ehrlich's research interests include general applications of economic theory to economic growth and development, human capital theory, health economics, crime and justice, advertising and information, uncertainty and insurance, and social security.

Dr. William Hamlen's work focuses on applied topics in economics and the economics of finance. His current research includes work on the economics of superstardom. This occurs when increases in ability lead to more than proportional increases in remuneration.

Dr. Kenneth Kim's primary research interests are in corporate finance, corporate governance, behavioral finance, and stock market structure.

Dr. Lewis Mandell's research on the financial literacy of American teenagers is the centerpiece of a national effort to improve the nature and quality of finance courses within U.S. high schools.

Dr. Joseph Ogden’s research interests are in the areas of corporate financial policies and strategies, valuation of financial assets, behavior of security returns, risk management with derivatives and international financial management.

Dr. Philip Perry's interests are in the areas of corporate financial management, financial markets and financial institutions.

Dr. Cristian Tiu's research is focused on investments, with an emphasis on the performance and risks associated with hedge funds. Dr. Cristian is also interested in theoretical and empirical asset allocation and in risk management.

Dr. Tao Wu's teaching and research interests are in asset pricing, continuous-time finance, derivatives and credit risk, corporate finance, and international finance. 

Management Science & Systems

Dr. Sanjukta Das Smith's research interests are in the areas of grid computing, capacity provision networks, market mechanism design, economics of digital information goods, piracy of information goods and decision support systems.

Dr. Rajiv Kishore’s research interest is in understanding how organizations can improve their IT services delivery capabilities. In this area he is particularly interested in studying IT outsourcing and globally distributed work, systems analysis and design and technology & innovation.

Dr. Ram Ramesh’s interests are in the areas of conceptual modeling, capacity provision networks and supply chains & decision analysis.

Dr. Raghavendra Rao's interests are in the areas of management information systems, decision support systems, and expert systems and information assurance.

Dr. Lawrence Sanders’ research interests are in the economic and ethical issues of digital piracy, internet-based systems success measurement, cross-cultural IS issues, data warehousing, data modeling, decision making processes, systems analysis and design and knowledge representation, and the application of structural equation modeling in MIS research.

Dr. Raj Sharman’s research interests lie in the areas of information assurance (specifically biologically inspired information assurance models), extreme events mitigation (specifically disaster mitigation from a first responder perspective) and internet technologies (specifically - internet performance and multimedia systems).

Marketing

Dr. Ram Bezawada’s research interests are primarily in the areas of pharmaceutical marketing/health care marketing (physician prescription behavior, medical technology adoption), retailing (private labels, cross category effects, category management) and application of spatial/bayesian models to marketing problems.

Dr. Alan Dick's research interests center on the application of consumer behavior phenomenon to marketing strategy. He conducts research on consumer inference making, customer loyalty, and the marketing of private label brands.

Dr Arun Jain’s research interest is in retailing/marketing, especially supermarket retailing. He has published studies on use of coupons, what shoppers want in private-label brands and how the retail environment affects the consumers' perceptions of products.

Dr. Charles Lindsey's research interest is in the area of consumer behavior. Specifically, Dr. Lindsey's research focuses on how brand information and messages are processed and remembered.

Dr. Sekar Raju’s research interests are in the fields of brand commitment, brand loyalty, attitude strength, customer relationship managing, advertising effects and satisfaction.

Dr Rajesh Shah’s research interests are in the fields of models of marketing competition and strategy, retail category management and pricing, pricing and promotion strategies and discrete choice models.

Dr. Debabrata Talukdar’s primary research interests lie with quantitative modeling and empirical analyses of issues related to economic development, and marketing of both "private" and "public" goods to consumers. The substantive areas of his research include consumer and firm behavioral dynamics under information uncertainty, impact of the Internet on such dynamics, new product diffusion process, social marketing, and interface of business and public policies affecting socio-economic development.

Dr. Minakshi Trivedi's interests are in the areas of quantitative stochastic choice models, the impact of promotions, retail and pricing models, and distribution channels.

Operations Management & Strategy

Dr. Yong Li's primary research interests focus on strategic investments under uncertainty and venture capital

Dr. Winston Lin's research interests are in the areas of information systems, multinational finance, and forecasting.

Dr. Natalie Simpson's interests include supply chain logistics, emergency services and the digital distribution of conventional instruction.

Dr. Nallan Suresh's work is primarily in the field of manufacturing and operations management.

Dr. John Thomas’ interests include international management, entrepreneurship, and the commercialization of technology.

Dr. Tony Tong’s research interests are in the application of option theory in strategy, strategic alliances, international strategy and entrepreneurial strategy.

Dr. Charles Wang’s major research interest is the design of contracts and other coordination mechanisms to improve supply chain performance.

Organization & Human Recources

Dr. Prasad Balkundi's research interests are in social networks and team processes.

Dr. Brian Becker's research interests focus on the effects of human resources and labor relations policies on firm performance.

Dr. Corinne Coen's research interests focus on the dynamics of teams within organizations and of firms within industries. She uses agent-based modeling and complex systems thinking to explore issues of cooperation, competition, and coordination.

Dr. Fred Dansereau works in the field of organizational behavior, specializing in understanding the simultaneous management of individuals, teams, and organizations with an emphasis on leadership, team processes, and motivation.

Dr. Frank Krzystofiak's research interests are in human resource management, with specialties in staffing, selection, employment discrimination, and affirmative action.

Dr. Alexandra Mislin’s research draws from social cognition research, social exchange theory, and research on emotions to examine how social factors in exchange motivate trust, effort, and positive voluntary behaviors in professional relationships.

Dr. Jerry Newman's interests are in the areas of human resource management, with particular emphasis on compensation.

Dr. Darren Treadway's research investigates the social dynamics of human resource processes. Specifically, his work evaluates the impact of political skill, social influence processes, and diversity on performance, turnover, and stress in organizations.