New Faculty at Smith School Strengthen Leadership Position

The Smith School is proud to welcome 16 distinguished faculty for academic year 2005-2006 as the school continues to strengthen its position as an internationally recognized leader in management education and research for the digital economy. The new faculty will join the Smith Schools marketing, accounting, decision and information technology (D&IT), management and organization (M&O), and finance departments.

The Smith School has been extremely successful in recruiting and retaining faculty members who are both world-class researchers and teachers, as well as thoroughly committed to advancing business knowledge and practice in the digital age, said Howard Frank, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. I am pleased to welcome this highly distinguished group who hail from previous teaching positions with leading programs that include Duke University and Harvard Business School.

New faulty members for academic year 2005-2006 include:

Henry Clifford Boyd III, Tyser Teaching Fellow, Marketing
Ph.D., Duke University

Christopher Bingham, assistant professor, M&O
Ph. D., Stanford University

Gary Bulmash, Tyser Teaching Fellow, Accounting and Information Assurance
DBA Accounting, University of Maryland

Wedad Elmaghraby, assistant professor, D&IT
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

Antonio Falato, visiting assistant professor, Finance
Ph.D., Columbia University

Rosellina Ferraro, assistant professor, Marketing
Ph.D., Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

Guodong (Gordon) Gao, assistant professor, D&IT
Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Manu Goyal, assistant professor, D&IT
Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Amna Kirmani, professor, Marketing
Ph.D., Stanford University

Douglas Lamdin, visiting professor, Finance
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Sunil Mithas, assistant professor, D&IT
Ph.D., Ross School of Business at University of Michigan

Kislaya Prasad, visiting professor, D&IT
Ph.D., Syracuse University

Rebecca Ratner, visiting associate professor, Marketing
Ph.D., Princeton University

R. Sukumar, visiting professor, Marketing
DBA in Marketing, University of Pittsburgh

Gerald Suarez, Tyser Teaching Fellow, D&IT
Ph.D., International American University, Puerto Rico

David Waguespack, assistant professor, M&O
Ph.D., University of Oregon

The Smith Schools faculty is known for excellence in teaching with exceptional scholarship. As editors of some of the leading academic journals, prolific researchers, and consultants to global business organizations, Smith faculty members are frequently recognized for their contributions to best business practices. There are currently approximately 125 members of the Smith School faculty, with knowledge and expertise that span all areas of business for the digital economy.