Seventeen New Doctoral Students Start at Smith

There are 17 new students hailing from 10 countries entering Smith's PhD program this fall. The doctoral program is competitive with the worlds top business school attracting excellent students in every discipline and averaging approximately 35 applications for every student admitted. Currently, there are 106 students in the program. Seven students graduated in May and eight in August.

Graduates of the doctoral program are first-class researchers, but they also have a keen understanding for and appreciation of the importance of teaching," says Larry Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and director of the PhD program. "They understand that their role is to both expand the knowledge base and communicate that knowledge to future business leaders."

DECISION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Information Systems
◊ Jie Mein Goh (Singapore)
◊ Mingfeng Lin (China)

Management Science & Statistics
◊ Stacy Cuffe (USA)
◊ Eylem Koca (Turkey)

FINANCE
◊ Shuvendu Dang (India)
◊ Tanakorn Makaew (Thailand)
◊ Nitish Sinha (India)
◊ Tugkan Tuzun (Turkey)

LOGISTICS, BUSINESS & PUBLIC POLICY
◊ Chaodong Han (China)
◊ Dina Ribbink (Germany)

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION
Organizational Behavior
◊ Sheetal Singh (India)

Human Resource Management
◊ Natalia Lorinkova (Bulgaria)

Strategic Management
◊ Scott Livengood (USA)
◊ Lei Zhang (China)

MARKETING
◊ Kevin Dayaratna (USA)
◊ Olga Dorokhina (Canada)
◊ Jing Gao (China)

Watch video of Professor Hank Lucas as he gives an overview of the PhD program in Decision & Information Technologies.