Smith Welcomes
12 New Faculty Superstars
The Smith School is on course to
becoming one of the nation's top
management education and research
institutions and, with the fulfillment
of our faculty appointment goals, a
research powerhouse. Smith faculty
create and share knowledge that advances
business practice and prepares our
students and business and government
partners to succeed in a dynamic,
technology-powered marketplace.
The Smith School
welcomes the following 12 faculty
members to these departments in the
2004-2005 academic year:
Decision &
Information Technologies
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Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Associate Professor of
Information Systems
Ph.D., M.I.T
Research Interests: Information
Systems Economics |
Finance:
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Gerard Hoberg
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests: Corporate
finance and empirical asset
pricing. |
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Mark Loewenstein
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Interests: Asset
pricing, portfolio selection,
and employee compensation
valuation and design. |
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Mark Taranto
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Finance
Ph.D., University of
California Berkeley
Research Interests: Empirical
corporate finance, underpricing
of Initial Public Offerings, the
effect of capital structure on
the announcement effects of
dividend initiation, and
secondary equity offerings. |
Logistics, Business &
Public Policy:
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Wilbur Chung
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of
Michigan
Research Interests: Technology,
agglomeration, and foreign
direct investment. |
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Rachelle Sampson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of
Michigan
Research Interests: Strategic
alliances and the organization
of corporate R&D. |
Management &
Organization:
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Scott F. Turner
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests:
Technological and organizational
change, organizational routines
and capabilities, knowledge and
learning in organizations,
computer software, and waste
management industries. |
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Anne Marie Knott
Visiting Assistant
Professor
Ph.D., UCLA
Research Interests:
Characterizing R&D stock, flows
and firm behaviors, optimal
environment for innovation
(market and firm), relative
roles of incumbents and entrants
in innovation/economic growth.
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Marketing:
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Tor W. Andreassen
Visiting Professor
Doctor of Economics from
Stockholm University, School of
Business.
Research Interests: Service
orientation, customer
(dis)satisfaction, branding
service organizations, and
customer equity management.
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Wendy W. Moe
Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Wharton School of
Business, University of
Pennsylvania, 2000
Research Interests: Modeling
online consumer shopping
behavior and early sales
forecasting and developing
statistical methods and models
for online internet data. |
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Stephen L. Vargo
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. Michael F. Price
College of Business
Administration, University of
Oklahoma
Research Interests: Assessment
of consumer evaluations of
service-encounter experiences
and marketing theory and
thought. |
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Natasha Zhang Foutz
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., S.C. Johnson Graduate
School of Management, Cornell
University
Research Interests: The role of
behavioral dynamics, such as
referencing effects, in consumer
choices; and empirical analysis
of firm dynamic competition,
particularly in the
entertainment and technology
industries. |
