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. 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. Claudia Qi's research interests include the use and role of accounting information in debt contracting and bond markets, earnings quality,accounting conservatism, and economic consequences of risk disclosure.
Dr. Inho Suk’s research interests are in voluntary disclosure, earnings management around earnings thresholds, insider trades, accounting information and market microstructure, and corporate governance and corporate legal risk management
Dr. Weihong Xu’s research interests are in the areas of financial accounting/reporting, disclosure and corporate governance
Dr. Kenny Zheng's current research interests include the effects of corporate governance on accounting quality and executive compensation, accounting-based valuation models, and aggregate earnings.
Finance and Economics
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. Veljko Fotak's research focuses on both the role of governments in financial markets from a corporate finance perspective and on the broader topic of state capitalism. Recent research examines the impact of sovereign wealth fund ownership on the performance of publicly traded firms and the impact of implicit government guarantees on the cost of corporate debt
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. Sahn-Wook Huh’s research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, market microstructure (of equity, bond, and options markets), empirical corporate finance, foreign exchange economics, and behavioral finance
Dr. Zhan Jiang’s research interests are in the area of empirical corporate finance, specifically on mergers and acquisitions, leverage buyouts and corporate governance
Dr. Kenneth Kim's primary research interests are in corporate finance, corporate governance, behavioral finance, and stock market structure
Igor Kozhanov's research interests are in consumption-based asset pricing, aggregate wealth and income distribution between financial and human capital, and the link between the wealth composition and equity returns
Dr. Jerchern Lin studies asset pricing, tail risks, and investment funds. His recent work analyzes the effects of incentive contracts on fund managers' tail risk-taking behavior, and examines the impact of the co-movement of volatilites and tails on investor behavior, portfolio risk, and investment performance evaluation
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. Hongping Tan’s research involves corporate finance, international finance, and information disclosure. In particular, he is interested in the impact of information asymmetry due to various factors such as geographic distance, market segmentation, accounting standard difference and media / financial disclosure on various market participants such as financial analysts and institutional investors
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. Chunchi Wu’s primary research interests are in asset pricing, market microstructure, credit risk, and financial
markets.
Management Science and 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 and innovation
Dr. Ram Ramesh’s interests are in the areas of conceptual modeling, capacity provision networks and supply chains and 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. Sri Devi Duvvuri’s research interests are in building quantitative models to investigate consumer purchase behavior across categories
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. 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 and Strategy
Dr. Akie Iriyama's research interests include strategic dynamics in corporate acquisitions, alliances, globalization and venture capital investments
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. Jun Ru's current research focuses mainly on investigating the impacts of operations and marketing decisions on supply chain performance. He is also interested in examining the role of financial decisions on supply chain management
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. Charles Wang’s major research interest is the design of contracts and other coordination mechanisms to improve supply chain performance
Organization and 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. Robyn Brouer's current research interests include social effectiveness, leader-follower relationships, social influence processes, and person-environment fit
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. Jerry Newman's interests are in the areas of human resource management, with particular emphasis on compensation
Dr. Brad Owens' research interests focus on leadership, race and gender issues, team processes, and work family interface. He also studies topics related to positive organizational scholarship such as humility, relational energy, and positive identity within organizations.
Dr. Paul Tesluk's research focuses on strategies to enhance team effectiveness and innovation, the assessment and development of management and leadership talent, and organizational culture and climate in organizations transitioning to high-involvement workplace systems.
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
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