Choosy Faculty Choose Smith

They come from all corners of the world, bringing volumes of academic and corporate expertise each and every year. Who are they? The new faculty at Smith.

(left to right) New Logistics, Business and Public Policy faculty members: Visiting Assistant Professor Chrisoula Papadopoulou, Assistant Professor Walter Hutchens, and Assistant Professor Angelisa Gillyard

Two new faculty members told us why they chose Smith. Logistics, Business and Public Policy Assistant Professor Angelisa Gillyard: "I selected Smith because of its strong research focus, its nationally ranked logistics and supply-chain department, and an enjoyable team of colleagues with whom Id work closely." Decision and Information Technologies Assistant Professor Abhay Mishra: "I chose Smith because of its growing research reputation as an emerging powerhouse in information systems and the expertise of the D&IT faculty with whom Id collaborate on research projects regularly."

Since fall 1999, 65 new faculty members have joined the Smith School of Business -- almost doubling the total faculty size in just four years. This unprecedented growth reinforces the Smith School as a research powerhouse. This year alone, 16 new faculty members have set up shop in higher-ed research offices and high-tech classrooms in Van Munching Hall, doing what they do best: creating cross-functional research and teaching linkages in the netcentric business environment.

For example, consider the following:

  • Decision and Information Technologies Assistant Professor Cheryl Druehls research focuses on competition between firms and how that competition affects operational decisions. She presented her paper, "Price Competition between Internet and Bricks-and-Mortar Firms," at the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) Conference last year.
  • Entrepreneurship Assistant Professor Saras Sarasvathy has taught cross-functional courses including Research Methods, Economic Theories in Strategic Management, Technology-based Entrepreneurship, and Consulting Entrepreneurship.
  • Finance Assistant Professor Steven Heston developed one of Wall Street's most popular option models with stochastic volatility (published in the Review of Financial Studies) and influential models of international industry and country risk (with G. Rouwenhorst in the Journal of Financial Economics). Heston received the Financial Management Association's Best Paper Award for his work on options and futures.
  • Management and Organization Teaching Professor Jeffrey Kudisch presented two research papers, "Alternate Approaches to Examining Assessment Center Construct Validity" and "Sex Differences in Self-efficacy: Effects of Training Delivery Context," at the 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology this year.

The Robert H. Smith School of Business is pleased to welcome the following 16 new professors and two visiting professors for 2002-2003:

Decision and Information Technologies

  • Cheryl Druehl, Assistant Professor
  • Anandasivam Gopal, Assistant Professor
  • Itir Karaesmen, Assistant Professor
  • Abhay Mishra, Assistant Professor
  • Galit Shmueli, Assistant Professor

Entrepreneurship

  • Brent Goldfarb, Assistant Professor
  • Saras Sarasvathy, Assistant Professor

Finance

  • Jeffrey Bevelander, Assistant Professor
  • Louis Gattis Jr., Teaching Professor
  • Steven Heston, Assistant Professor

Logistics, Business and Public Policy

  • Angelisa Gillyard, Assistant Professor
  • Walter Hutchens, Assistant Professor

Management and Organization

  • Jeffrey Kudisch, Teaching Professor
  • Timothy Pollock, Assistant Professor

Marketing

  • Sanjay Jain, Assistant Professor
  • Joydeep Srivastava, Assistant Professor

Visiting Faculty Members

  • Chrisoula Papadopoulou, Visiting Assistant Professor, Logistics, Business and Public Policy
  • Dilip Patro, Visiting Assistant Professor, Finance