Smith Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
The Smith School is honored to welcome
11 new faculty members this fall,
including two international superstars.
Accounting and
Information Assurance:
James McKinney, PhD 02, Smith School
Finance:
Georgios Skoulakis, PhD Northwestern University
Albert (Pete) Kyle, PhD University
of Chicago
Dalida Kadyrzhanova, PhD Columbia
University
Management and Organization:
Oliver Schlake, PhD, University of Paderborn, Germany
Subrahmaniam Tangirala, PhD Purdue
University
Gilad Chen, PhD George Mason
University
Marketing:
Michel Wedel, PhD University of Wageningen
Jie Zhang, PhD Northwestern
University
Rebecca Ratner, PhD Princeton
University
Sanal Mazvancheryl, PhD University
of Michigan
Albert Pete Kyle, Charles E. Smith
Chair in Finance, is widely known as one
of the premier financial theorists of
his generation. He is best known for
creating the Kyle Model, which provides
a foundation for the modern theory of
market microstructure, a subfield of
finance dealing with the process of
price formation in financial markets.
Our ability to attract a scholar of
Pete's stature says a great deal about
the high quality of the Smith School and
its finance department, said Howard
Frank, dean of the Robert H. Smith
School of Business. This is an
individual who has an extraordinary
career and impact on both the canon of
finance research, as well as upon a
generation of emerging scholars. Not
only does his appointment contribute
considerably to the teaching mission of
the school and the department, but also
to our stature and profile.
One of the top marketing scholars in
the world, Michel Wedel joins the Smith
School as the PepsiCo Chair in Consumer
Research. He is widely regarded as one
of the most prolific researchers in the
field and was the most-published scholar
in top marketing journals from 2000 to
2004. He also receives near-perfect
teaching scores from students: 4.9
points out of 5 possible in recent
classes at the University of Michigan.
Wedel is a rare combination: both a
superstar researcher and a superstar
teacher, said Frank. Marketing
department chair Roland Rust adds, We
analyzed the entire marketing field and
he was our top pick. The fact that we
could attract our top choice speaks to
the strength of Smiths marketing
department.
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