Kirsten Anderson
Professor of the Practice
Corporate financial reporting • Financial economics • Securities and Exchange Commission
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Professor of the Practice
Corporate financial reporting • Financial economics • Securities and Exchange Commission
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business Law
Corporate financial reporting • Financial economics • Securities and Exchange Commission • Federal Income Taxation • Tax Legislation and Tax Reform • Tax Ethics • Internal Revenue Service Rules and Procedures • Financial Crimes • Supreme Court Case Analysis
Houston Professor
Governance • Risk management • Financial analysis • Decision-making • Behavioral finance • Finance crime (anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, fraud) • Cyber-risk from a non-technology perspective
Saleh Romeih Associate Professor
Corporate taxes • Financial reporting • Financial misrepresentation • corporate economic incentives • non-GAAP metrics
Dottie and Tim Hobin Associate Professor
Financial reporting • Economic consequences of regulations • Accounting choices of governmental entities • Economics of auditing
Language skills: Mandarin (read & write), Italian (conversational)
William Charles Sonneborn Associate Professor
Boards of directors • CEO succession • Corporate governance • Performance measurement and evaluation • Incentive compensation • Artificial intelligence (AI) • Autonomous vehicles • Business implications of AI • How AI tools are impacting businesses • Automation • Machine learning • The future of work/human resources • Impact of AI on accounting/banks
Associate Professor
Earnings forecast • Social media • Cryptocurrency • Social factors in business decisions
Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor
Political power • Interest groups • Ethics in voting • Ethics in commercial society • Competence • Voters pathology • Voters processing information • Voter turnout • Compulsory voting • Democratic theory • Freedom and political bias • Commodification (what can and cannot be for sale) • Capitalism versus socialism • Social justice • Political resistance • Police violence • Dysfunction in the criminal justice system • Dysfunction in higher education
Assistant Research Professor and Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics
History of business in America • Philosophy of history • History of markets • Ethics
Language skill: Dutch
Assistant Professor
Ethics • Education • Public policy • Political economy • Political theory • Experimental social science • Behavioral genomics
Professor and Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics
Ethics • Criminal law • White-collar crime
Associate Teaching Professor
Applied ethics • Social and political philosophy • Normative ethics • Bioethics • Philosophy of law and art • Personal identity
Language skill: Polish
Associate Professor
Managerial ethics • Corporate social responsibility • Where morality intersects management • Corporate strategy • Regulatory policy
McDonough Professor of Business Administration and Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
International financial markets • Market regulation and valuation • Corporate governance • Initial public offerings (IPOs) • Private equity • Capital markets • Emerging markets • Wall Street and stock exchanges • Dodd Frank • Private equity • Proxy voting • Securities lending
Language skill: Hindi
Associate Professor
Bitcoin • Digital assets • Financial markets • Financial crises • Fintech • U.S. economy • Operation and regulation of the stock market • Capital markets • Wall Street • Dodd Frank • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) • Short selling and “naked” short selling • Stock splits • High-tech/frequency trading/Flash Crash • Equity risk models • Insider trading • Stock exchange mergers • Money markets and funds • Stock volatility • Stock and derivative exchanges (NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX, Deutsch Boerse, etc.) • Healthcare reform
Associate Professor
Asset pricing and its connection with corporate finance • Credit risks • Banking • Art market and Asian art
Robert S. Parker Chair of Finance
Asset pricing • Investing • Risk management • Fixed income securities • Financial derivatives • Hedge funds • Mathematical finance models (econometrics) • Stock returns
Language skill: Turkish
Associate Professor
International financial markets • Derivative- and international financial market-related issues • Assets pricing • Investing • Exchange rate
Adjunct Professor
Fintech • Blockchain and blockchain policy • Cryptocurrency • Initial coin offerings (ICOs) • Token Sales • Smart Contracts • Bitcoin
Associate Professor
Personal finance • Institutional money managers and funds • Hybrid mutual funds • Exchange-traded funds • Municipal bond funds • International mutual funds • Unit investment trusts
Atara Kaufman Professor of the Practice and Director, Steers Center for Global Real Estate
Institutional quality • Commercial real estate industry (valuation and underwriting)
A. James Clark Chair in Global Real Estate and Associate Professor
Inflation • Fintech • Real estate • ESG • Social implications of regulation in the financial sector • Wealth inequality • Private equity
Akkaway Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Corporate finance and bankruptcy • Banking and financial institutions • Global markets • Corporate governance and boards • Venture capital • Banking crisis • Lending relationships • Financial economics • Corporate restructuring • Venture capitalists • Entrepreneurial finance • IPOs • Executive compensation
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Technology-Intensive Education
Personal finance • Personal wealth management • Target based funds • Investments • Refinancing mortgage • Retirement and behavioral finance • Technology-intensive education
William G. Droms Professor
Capital markets • Capital market imperfections and the resulting effects on asset prices, corporate finance, and investment
Assistant professor
Corporate finance • Firm strategy and performance in venture capital and private equity, banking, and retail industries
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Robo-advising • Fintech • Empirical Asset Pricing • Household Finance • Machine learning and finance • Trust in automation • Cryptocurrency
Assistant Professor
What drives asset returns • Risk-return trade-off • Institutional investors • Frictions in the financial market/implications for market efficiency
Bolton Sullivan/Thomas A. Dean Chair in International Business
Corporate governance and boards of directors • Cash holdings • Executive compensation • Dodd-Frank • Financial crisis • Risk management and prevention • Investment analysis • Tesla
Associate Professor
Asset pricing • Quantitative portfolio management • Big Data analysis in finance • Textual analysis of news articles and SEC filings • Labor market frictions and capital markets • Initial coin offerings (ICOs)
Language skill: Chinese
Professor
Workplace revenge • Principled leadership • Organizational justice • Delivering bad news • Forgiveness in the workplace • CEO misconduct • Redemption, forgiveness, and mercy • Consumer trust
Executive Director, Business for Impact
Corporate social responsibility. • Philanthropy • Nonprofit leadership • Nonprofit management • Social entrepreneurship • Social innovation • Movements • Shared value and social enterprise
Professor in Management
Capabilities and entrepreneurship — resources, knowledge, internationalization • Inclusive innovation/organizational design • Business models for inclusive growth • Knowledge production and innovation — science commercialization • Networks and innovation
Assistant Professor
Decision-making • Expectations of human and algorithmic judgment • Overconfidence in performance assessments • How organizations can make more accurate predictions about the world • Using algorithms to detect bias
Professor of the Practice of Management
Management Consulting Industry • Corporate Communications Industry • Life and Career Design • Strategic Management • Business, Policy, and Society • Organizational Culture • Analytics and the Future of Work • Remote and Hybrid Working
Professor Emeritus of Management
Negotiations • Human Capital Management • Employee and Labor Relations • Ethical Issues in Management • Global Employment Trends • The Employment Relationship • Leadership • Organizational Behavior • Management Consulting Practices
Professor of the Practice
Leadership philosophy • CEO leadership • Changes in management/leadership • Principled leadership
Executive in Residence and Founder of the Rural Opportunity Initiative within Business for Impact
Rural investment • Rural propensity • Creating public-private partnerships • Economic development and growth in rural areas
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Custom Programs and Teaching Professor
High performing teams • Young leaders • Multitasking • Multiteaming • Leadership • Organizational change • Organizational behavior
Language skill: German (speak)
Project Director, AB InBev Foundation Partnership, Business for Impact
Behavioral Science• Social Marketing • Global Health•Individual Behavior Change and Social Norm Change•Private Sector Health•Geographical Expertise of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America/the Caribbean
Associate Professor
Effects of incivility • Bad behavior in the workplace • Bad managers • How organizations can create more positive environments • Conditions that make employees excel • Interpersonal interactions • Leadership • Employee relations
Founding Director, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and Professor of the Practice
Leadership • Entrepreneurship • Education • Business development • Venture capital • Nonprofit management • Economic development • Applying an entrepreneurial mindset to business
Executive-in-Residence, Business for Impact
•Restaurants •Hospitality •Food service • 21st Century Workforce • Health and wellness
Raffini Family Professor of Management and Director, Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute
Gender intelligent leadership • Gender dynamics in the workplace • Decision-making • Assessing risk • Negotiations • Conflict resolution • Effective teamwork • Workforce engagement
Professor, Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Conflict • Difficult conversations • Digital communication • Digital presence • Executive presence • Executive presentations • Leadership communication • Managing conflict • Persuasion • Storytelling • Technology in the Workplace • Transition stories
Professor of the Practice
Diversity and inclusion • Strengths-based leadership and team development • Bias in the workplace • Developing human capital
Teaching Professor and Academic Director, Master’s in Management Program
Design thinking • Leadership • Team dynamics • Change management • Innovation • Executive coaching • Organizational learning • Business communication • Management education
Assistant Professor
Psychology of negotiations • Trash-talking • Conflict • Unethical behavior • Emotional intelligence • Decision-making • Gratitude • Competitive communication
Adjunct Professor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Corporate innovation • Corporate startups • Innovation and creativity • Incubators and accelerators • Venture capital • New approaches to startup fundraising • Web3/NFT/Crypto innovation
Assistant Professor
Consumer behavior • How fundamental human motivations, such as the motives for control and self-presentation, influence consumer judgment and decision-making • Corporate responsibility
Beyer Family Associate Professor
Consumer psychology • Empirical and statistical models • Credit card repayment/consumer debt • Personal finance and budget • Consumers and branding
Language skill: French
Adjunct Professor
Advertising campaign development • Crisis communications • Airline industry • Marketing and operations • IT • International planning • Consumer marketing • Communications and leadership
Associate Teaching Professor
Consumer psychology • The influence of affect, emotion, and culture on consumer information processing • Decision-making • Consumption • Consumer bias • Marketing strategy • Retailing • Brand positioning/branding • Advertising and public policy • Sector knowledge: health, consumer packaged goods, financial behaviors (investments, budgets, etc.)
Language skill: Tamil
Associate Professor
Integrated marketing communications • Positioning • Ethnicity in marketing • Consumer behavior • Healthcare industry marketing
Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration
Consumer decision-making • Consumer choices • Consumer behavior • How consumer preferences change when consuming products and services • Social influences in consumer behavior
Professor and Senior Associate Dean of MBA programs
Consumer psychology • Advertising • New media effectiveness and branding • Marketing strategy • Social media • Consumer decision-making • Brand equity • Effect crisis communication has on a brand • Brand turn-around strategy • Consumer relations
Language skill: Hindi
Associate Teaching Professor
Advertising • Marketing • Retail and services marketing • Consumer segmentation, production, distribution, and logistics issues • Data privacy • Illusory Truth Effect
Distinguished Professor of the Practice and Founder, Business for Impact
Nonprofit management • Social marketing • Corporate social responsibility • Public relations • Communications • Aging well
Associate Professor
Consumer behavior • Signaling through brands, social media, political consumption, and moral psychology • Digital marketing • sustainability • brands taking political position
Professor of the Practice and Senior Associate Dean for Executive Custom Programs
International business • Global branding • Marketing strategies • Free trade agreements • U.S. international trade policy • Market development in India, China, and emerging markets • Foreign direct investment
Professor
Product development • Market segmentation • Business-to-business marketing • Marketing strategy • Innovation • New product development and forecasting • Organizational buying behavior
Professor
Consumer behavior • Decision-making • Information processing • Attitude change • Decision difficulty • Consumer preference • Feature creep and fatigue • Comparative advertising
Professor
Marketing research • Consumer behavior • Pricing • Internet (e.g., daily deal websites) • Consumer Electronics • Online Commerce • Consumer Advocacy • Issues related to research in business
Provost’s Distinguished Professor and Lapeyere Family Associate Professor
Sustainable operations • New product development • Supply chain management • Managerial challenges in business and the environment • Effect of consumer behavior on operations
Professor
Problems at the interface of operations and finance • Strategic procurement • Supply chain management • Supply chain risk management • Operations • Finance • Stochastic modeling
Associate Professor
Supply chains • Global production trends • Service Operations • Queuing games • Inventory management • Waiting in line • E-commerce • Product development
Language Skill: Chinese
Professor
Decision and risk analysis • Natural disaster impact on decision-making • Impact of near-misses on decisions • Rational choice models • How people think and behave
Baratta Chair in Global Business and Director, Georgetown Baratta Center for Global Business
Global logistics • Supply chain management • Supplier-manufacturing-distribution linkages • Inventory control • Globalization • Competitiveness and governability • Free trade and Latin American markets
Language skill: Spanish
Heisley Family Chair of Global Manufacturing
Global logistics • Global trends in manufacturing • International operations strategy • Outsourcing and off-shoring production • Strategic roles of domestic and international factories
Associate Professor
Benchmarking • Quality control • International standards • ISO 9000 certification procedures • Customer satisfaction • Quality in e-commerce
Language skills: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German
William and Karen Sonneborn Associate Professor
Decision • Risk analysis • Forecasts • Development of prescriptive models and tools that help managers make good decisions in uncertain environments • Probability elicitation, forecast verification, and expert combination of forecasts • Health • Supply chains • Homeland security
Teaching Professor
Global supply chains • Business statistics • Management science • Cellular manufacturing • Facilities layout • Risk management in supply chains
Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Degree Programs
Risk management • Decision-making problems in the face of uncertainty • Operational risk management issues • Related capital investment problems in operations • Inventory management • Pricing and forecasting • Risk management as a useful approach to economic development
Teaching Professor
Artificial intelligence • Decision support systems • Knowledge management • Information systems
Associate Professor
Statistical financial data • Bayesian statistics • State space models • MCMC particle filters • Finance Stochastic volatility • Spatio-temporal models • Data assimilation
Associate Professor
Operations strategy • Supply chain management • Outsourcing • New product development • Innovation private equity • Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor
Bayesian learning in sequential decision problems • Decision-making under multiple criteria
Language Skill: Turkish
Assistant Professor
The energy sector • Capacity investment in electricity and energy supply chains • Energy-related operations • Socially responsible supply chain management • Sustainability • The impact of governmental policies on investments in renewable and conventional energy sources
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair and Professor
Innovation • Artificial intelligence • Machine learning • Global business education • International collaborations • Technology and knowledge management
Assistant Professor
Firm performance in the United States and emerging markets • Strategic firm management
Teaching Professor
Competitive strategy • International economics and trade • China’s economic development and economy
Project Director, Center for Business and Public Policy
Innovation • Regulation and antitrust • Internet Policy • Technology and innovation policy • Telecommunication and broadband • Net neutrality
McCrane/Shaker Chair of International Business
International trade • Imports • Exports • The relationship between international trade and investment and firm performance • Offshoring • Outsourcing • Services trade • Trade and productivity growth • The relationship between increasing import competition on U.S. manufacturers • The impact of trade in services on the U.S. economy
Assistant Professor
E-commerce • Economic development (China) • Trade Regulation
Language skill: Chinese
Professor and Academic Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Microeconomics • Competitive strategy • The management of technology and innovation • Public policy • Vertical integration • Regulation • Semiconductors • Pharmaceuticals • Medical devices • Biotechnology
Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair in Business Administration and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Regulation • Antitrust • Application of microeconomics to public policy • Regulatory and antitrust policy • Competition policy • Econometrics • Industrial organization • Monopolization • Price fixing • Telecommunications and electricity
Associate Professor
Antitrust • Mergers • Industrial organization and finance • Price discrimination • Cartel enforcement • Contracts • Microeconomics • Pricing
Associate Professor
International economics • Economic geography • Firm organization • The impact of international trade on local labor markets and inequality • Models for the evaluation of local policies on local outcomes • Empirical analysis of firms’ reorganization and growth
Language skill: Italian
Vice Dean, John J. Powers Jr. Professor in International Business
Business and public policy • Democratization and economic liberalization in emerging markets • Origins and consequences of international financial liberalization • Globalization • International political economy • Financial and manufacturing structures
Professor of Strategy and International Business, Executive Director of the Pivot Program
Social issues in international business • Globalization and China • Trade policy • International business • U.S.-China Trade relations • Corporate responsibility
Fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy
Economics of growth and innovation • Globalization • Fiscal and monetary policy
Associate Professor and Dewey Awad Fellow
International business • Political, legal, and social environment of business around the world • Interest groups • Policy change and reform • Globalization and elections • Digital globalization • Privacy laws • International economy • Tariffs