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Featured Researchers
Ritu Agarwal, Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of
Information Systems, received her PhD from Syracuse
University. She is founder and director of the school’s
Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
and is widely published. Her current research is focused on
the use of IT in healthcare settings, technology-enabled
transformations in the auto-retailing and printing sectors;
and sponsored search markets.
Corey Angst, research assistant professor and
associate director of CHIDS, received his PhD from Smith
School of Business in 2007. His interests are in the
transformational effects of IT, technology usage, and IT
value—particularly in the health care industry. His research
has been published in leading journals such as MIS
Quarterly.
Gabriel Biehal, associate professor of marketing,
received his PhD from Stanford University. His research
interests include interests include corporate and brand
communications, consumer purchase behavior, and retail
shopping behavior. He currently serves on the editorial
review board of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing
Science.
Mark Loewenstein, assistant professor of finance,
received his PhD from Columbia University. His research
interests include asset pricing, portfolio selection, and
employee compensation valuation and design. His recent work
focuses on asset pricing when there are limits to arbitrage,
portfolio selection when investors face transactions costs,
and valuation of employee stock options.
David Waguespack, assistant professor of management
and organization, received his PhD from the University
of Oregon. His research focuses on non-market influences,
such as social networks and political institutions, on
innovation and venture performance. His ongoing work pursues
these questions in the domains of film production and
distribution, internet technology development, international
patenting, and environmental management.
Michel Wedel, PepsiCo Professor of Consumer Science,
received his PhD from University of Wageningen, the
Netherlands. He is interested in the application of
statistical and econometric methods to further the
understanding of consumer behavior and to improve marketing
decision making. He has been honored with the Hendrik Muller
Lifetime Award for the social and behavioral sciences,
awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Gregory Willard, assistant professor of finance,
received his PhD from Washington University. He studies the
equilibrium properties of asset prices. He has shown that
several of the phenomena that we see in actual financial
markets may be natural consequences of optimal and rational
economic behavior.
Jie Zhang, assistant professor of marketing,
received her PhD from Northwestern University. Her research
applies econometric and statistical models to study
consumers’ purchase behavior and response to various
promotion programs, and designs innovative decision support
tools for marketers based on these models. She is
particularly interested in their applications in the
Internet shopping environment. Her research has won the
Procter & Gamble Marketing Innovation Research Award and has
been sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute. |
