Smith Welcomes
21 New PhD Candidates
The Robert H. Smith School of
Business is pleased to announce the
addition of 21 new PhD candidates in
fall 2004, bringing the total number of
students in the doctoral program to 115.
This years students come to Smith from
the United States as well as India,
Turkey, China, Canada, Israel, Brazil,
Singapore, and Taiwan.
The
Smith School attracts the best and
brightest PhD students from around the
world, says Lawrence A. Gordon, director
of the PhD program and Ernst & Young
Alumni Professor of Managerial
Accounting and Information Assurance.
These students have access to some of
the best faculty in their fields, and a
key aspect of the PhD program is the
emphasis on close working relationships
among faculty and students.
Smiths reputation for producing
cutting-edge researchand cutting edge
researchers means that Smith School PhDs
are in demand at business schools around
the world. Over the past five years, 99%
of Smiths Ph.D. students have been
successfully placed directly after they
graduateabout 80% as tenure track
assistant professors at an accredited
university, and about 19% as researchers
in either private or governmental
organizations. PhD graduates of the
Smith School are in high demand, says
Gordon. Many receive offers to join the
faculty of top-ranked universities.
Best wishes to the PhD
programs new graduate students:
Decision and Information
Technologies:
Information Systems
- Catherine Anderson
- Srinivas Kudaravalli
- Ritu Narayan
- Young Kwang (Adrian) Yeow
Management Science/Statistics
- William Mennell
- Scott Nestler
- Kiran Panchamgam
- Matthew Reindorp
Finance:
- Aysun Alp
- Matthew Kozora
- Minwen Li
Logistics, Business and Public
Policy:
- Tong (Tony) Bao
- John Macdonald
Management and Organization:
Organizational Behavior
- Alan Boss
- Catherine LaCross
Strategic Management
- Azi Gera
- Lori Kiyatkin
- David Major
Marketing:
- Francine Espinoza
- Carol Miu
- Hui-Hsing (Peggy) Tseng
