Job Market Candidates

David Anderson
PhD Candidate in Operations Management
Minor in Statistics
Curriculum Vitae
Email: danderson@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Dissertation Title: The Effect of Resource Management on Hospital Efficiency and Quality of Care

Publications:

  • Silberholz J, Anderson D, Golden B, Harrington, M, Hirshon JM. “The Impact of the Residency Teaching Model on the Efficiency of the Emergency Department at an Academic Center”. (Forthcoming). Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 2012.
  • Anderson D, Golden B, Jank W, Wasil E. “The Impact of Hospital Utilization on Patient Readmission Rate”. Health Care Management Science. 15 (1), 29-36; 2012.
  • Anderson D, Price C, Golden B, Jank W, Wasil E. “Examining the Discharge Practices of Surgeons at a Large Medical Center”. Health Care Management Science. 14 (4), 338-347; 2011.

Working Under Review:

  • Anderson D, Gao G, Golden B. “Life is All About Timing: An Examination of Differences in Treatment Quality for Trauma Patients Based on Hospital Arrival Time”. Second Round Review
  • Anderson D, Silberholz J, Golden B, Harrington, M, Hirshon JM. “An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Residents on Emergency Department Treatment Times”. First Round Review

 

Zachary Arens

PhD Candidate in Marketing
Minor in Psychology
Curriculum Vitae
Email: zarens@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: Consumption and the Dynamics of Consumer Choice.

Publications:

  • Arens, Zachary G. and Roland T. Rust (2012), The Duality of Decisions and the Case for Impulsiveness Metrics, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 40 (3), 468-479.
  • Kopetz, Catalina E., Arie W. Kruglanski, Zachary G. Arens, Jordan Etkin, and Heather M. Johnson (2011), The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior: A Goal Systemic Perspective, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22 (2), 208-223.
  • Tourangeau, Roger, Frederick G. Conrad, Zachary Arens, Scott Fricker, Sunghee Lee, and Elisha Smith (2006), Everyday Concepts and Classification Errors: Judgments of Disability and Residence," Journal of Official Statistics, 22 (3), 385-418.
  • Arens, Zachary G. and Darby Miller-Steiger (2006), Time in Sample: Searching for Conditioning Effects in a Consumer Panel, Public Opinion Pros, (August/September).

Work under Review:

  • Arens, Zachary G. and Rebecca Hamilton, The Rebound of the Forgone Alternative First Round Review.

 

Yu-Jen Chen
PhD Candidate in Marketing
Minor in Psychology
Curriculum Vitae
Email: ychen@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Dissertation Title: Investigation of Factors that Affect Online Consumers’ Word-of-Mouth Behavior.

Work under Review:

  • Chen, Yu-Jen and Amna Kirmani, “Persuasion Knowledge in Online Communication: The Consumer Media Planner” First Round Review.

 

Yuntao Dong
PhD Candidate in Organizational Behavior
Minor in Human Resource Management
Curriculum Vitae
Website
Email: yundong@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Dissertation Title: A Job Demands-Resources View of Leader Empowering Behaviors: A Multilevel Investigation.

Publications:

  • Dong, Y., Liao, H., Chuang, A., Zhou, J., & Campbell-Bush, E. M. (2012). “An invisible hand in employee service creativity: Customer empowering behaviors.” In Leslie A. Toombs (Ed.), Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643.
  • Bartol, K. M., & Dong, Y. (2012). “Virtual EOR: Linking in to the challenge of increasing virtual employee-organizational relationships.” In Shore, L. M., Coyle-Shapiro, J. A., & Tetrick, L. E. (Eds.), The Employee-Organization Relationship: Applications for the 21st Century. New York, NY: Applied Psychology Series, Psychology Press/Routledge.

Published Peer Reviewed Proceedings:

  • Dong, Y., Liao, H., Chuang, A., Zhou, J., & Campbell-Bush, E. M. (2012). “An invisible hand in employee service creativity: Customer empowering behaviors.” OB Division Most Innovative Student Paper Award, AOM, 2012.

Work under Review:

  • Dong, Y., Seo, M., & Bartol, K. M. “No pain, no gain: An affect-based model of developmental job experiences and the buffering effects of emotional intelligence.” Second Round Review.
  • Bartol, K. M., & Dong, Y. “Linked in: Virtual HR value as an influence on psychological empowerment, embeddedness, and turnover among newcomers.” Revise-and-Resubmit

 

Jordan Etkin

PhD Candidate in Marketing/Consumer Behavior
Minor in Psychology
Curriculum Vitae
Website
Email: jetkin@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: From One to Many: Toward an Understanding of Multiple Means and Multiple Goals.

Publications:

  • Etkin, Jordan and Rebecca K. Ratner (2013), "Goal Pursuit, Now and Later: Temporal Compatibility of Different versus Similar Means," Journal of Consumer Research, forthcoming.
  • Etkin, Jordan and Rebecca K. Ratner (2012), "The Dynamic Impact of Variety among Means on Motivation," Journal of Consumer Research, 38 (April), 1076-92.
  • Kopetz, Catalina, Arie W. Kruglanski, Zachary G. Arens, Jordan Etkin, and Heather M. Johnson (2012), "The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior: A Goal Systematic Perspective," Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22 (April), 208-23.

Work under Review:

  • Etkin, Jordan, Anastasiya Pocheptsova, and Francine Espinoza, "Effects of Mood on Perceived Differences between Goals and Preference for Products in Multiple-Goal Pursuit," Second Round Review.
  • Etkin, Jordan and Juliano Laran, "Freedom for All? Divergent Effects of Free Choice on Goal Pursuit," First Round Review.
  • Etkin, Jordan, Uzma Khan, and Anastasiya Pocheptsova, "Winning through Conflict: When Goal Conflict Increases Motivation," First Round Review

 

Brad N Greenwood

PhD Candidate in Information Systems
Minor in Entrepreneurship
Curriculum Vitae
Email: brad.n.greenwood@gmail.com

Dissertation Title: Pokes, Prods, and Pushes: Information Availability and Decision Making in Ambiguous Environments.

Publications:

Peer Reviewed Publications:

  • Corey M Angst, Sarv Devaraj, Carrie Queenan, Brad Greenwood; (2011) Performance effects related to the sequence of implementation of health information technologies." Productions and Operations Management; 20(3) 319-333

Published Peer Reviewed Proceedings:

  • Greenwood, Brad and Gopal, Anandasivam, "Tigerblood: Availability Cascades, Social Media, and the Environment of the Entrepreneurship" (2012).Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
  • Greenwood, Brad and Gopal, Anandasivam, "Tigerblood: Availability Cascades, New Firm Formation, and the Acquisition of Venture Capital" (2011).Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Research at the University of Maryland
  • Greenwood, Brad and Gopal, Anandasivam, "Ending the Mending Wall: Exploring Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Co-Location in IT Ventures" (2010).Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Research at the University of Maryland
  • Greenwood, Brad and Gopal, Anandasivam, "Ending the Mending Wall: Exploring Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Co-Location in IT Ventures" (2010).ICIS 2010 Proceedings.Paper 33

Work Under Review:

  • Gordon Gao, Brad Greenwood, Jeff McCullough, Ritu Agarwal; A Digital Soapbox? An Examination of Biases in Online Physician Ratings Second Round Review.

 

Heather M. Johnson

PhD Candidate in Marketing
Minor in Psychology
Curriculum Vitae
Website
Email:
hjohnson@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: The Moderating Role of Self-Brand Connection in Brand Co-Creation and Nonconscious Priming Contexts.

Publications:

  • Catalina E. Kopetz, Arie W. Kruglanski, Zachary G. Arens, Jordan Etkin, and Heather M. Johnson, The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior: A Goal Systemic Perspective, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22 (2), 20823.

Work Under Review:

  • Adam W. Craig, Heather M. Johnson, Stacy Wood, Yuliya Komarova, and Jennifer M.C. Vendemia, When Burberry Beckons: Automatic Goal Means Valuation for Luxury Brands Second Round Review.

 

Nitin Kumar

PhD Candidate in Finance
Minor in Econometrics
Email: nkumar@rhsmith.umd.edu 

Dissertation title: Essays in Mutual Funds.

Working Papers:

  • Portfolio Manager Ownership, Herding and Stock Returns [Job Market Paper]
  • Customized Mutual Fund Peers (with Gerard Hoberg and N. R. Prabhala)
  • Family Matters (with N. R. Prabhala)

 

Ali Pilehvar

PhD Candidate in Operations Management/Management Science
Minor in Economics
Curriculum Vitae
Website
Email: apilehva@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: Seller and Buyer Challenges in B2B Secondary Market.

Publications:

  • Right of First Refusal (ROFR) in sequential procurement auctions (with Wedad Elmaghraby and Manu Goyal), Second Round Review of Management Science

 

Onur Tosun

PhD Candidate in Finance
Minor in Economics
Website
Email: otosun@rhsmith.umd.edu

Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Corporate Governance and Capital Structure.

Job Market Paper: The Effect of the CEOs Option Compensation on the Firms Capital Structure: A Natural Experiment.

Working Papers:

  • “Does Internal Board Monitoring Affect the Debt Maturity? - A Natural Experiment”; (2012).
  • “Changes in Corporate Governance: Externally Dictated vs Organically Determined”; (with Michael Faulkender); (2012).