Kirsten Anderson
Teaching Professor
Corporate financial reporting • Financial economics • Securities and Exchange Commission
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Accounting Faculty
Ross D. Cooper
Professor of the Practice
Business law • Antitrust • Mergers and acquisitions • Corporate governance • Major case litigation • Employment law
Gilles Hilary
George R. Houston Endowed 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
Karen Kitching
Teaching Professor
Automation • Nonprofit governance • Nonprofit performance management • Nonprofit accounting • Enterprise systems
Allison Koester
Associate Professor
Corporate taxes • Financial reporting • Financial misrepresentation • Corporate economic incentives • Non-GAAP metrics
Reining Petacchi
Associate Professor
Financial reporting • Economic consequences of regulations • Accounting choices of governmental entities • Economics of auditing
Language skills: Mandarin (read and write), Italian (conversational)
Jason Schloetzer
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
Wei (Vicki) Tang
Associate Professor
Earnings forecast • Social media • Cryptocurrency • Social factors in business decisions
Xiaoli Tian
Associate Professor
Corporate disclosure • Earnings quality • Governance • Corporate taxation • Regulator incentives and transparency • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) FOIA processes and its effects • Contract redactions • Financial reporting • Corporate governance
Ethics Faculty
Jason Brennan
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
Michael Douma
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
William English
Assistant Professor
Ethics • Education • Public policy • Political economy • Political theory • Experimental social science • Behavioral genomics
John Hasnas
Professor and Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics
Ethics • Criminal law • White-collar crime
Peter Jaworski
Associate Teaching Professor
Applied ethics • Social and political philosophy • Normative ethics • Bioethics • Philosophy of law and art • Personal identity
Language skill: Polish
Edward Soule
Associate Professor
Managerial ethics • Corporate social responsibility • Where morality intersects management • Corporate strategy • Regulatory policy
Finance Faculty
Reena Aggarwal
Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance 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
James J. Angel
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
Jennie Bai
Professor
Asset pricing and its connection with corporate finance • Credit risks • Banking • Art market and Asian art
Turan Bali
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
James Bodurtha
Associate Professor
International financial markets • Derivative- and international financial market-related issues • Assets pricing • Investing • Exchange rate
George Comer
Associate Professor, Co-academic Director, Reach Program, and Director of Underrepresented Minority (URM)
Personal finance • Institutional money managers and funds • Hybrid mutual funds • Exchange-traded funds • Municipal bond funds • International mutual funds • Unit investment trusts • College readiness for low-income/minority students
Matthew Cypher
Atara Kaufman Professor of the Practice, Director, Steers Center for Global Real Estate, Academic Director, M.S. in Global Real Assets
Institutional quality • Commercial real estate industry (valuation and underwriting)
Francesco D’Acunto
A. James Clark Chair in Global Real Estate and Associate Professor
Inflation and its effects on firms and households • Fintech • Real estate • ESG • Social implications of regulation in the financial sector • Wealth inequality • Private equity
Sandeep Dahiya
Akkaway Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director, MBA Certificate in the Business of Healthcare
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
Allan Eberhart
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for the Master of Science in Finance Program
EdTech • Technology-intensive education
Janet Gao
Associate Professor
Banking • Financial institutions • Labor and finance • Human discretion and decision making • Interest rates • Mortgage rates (consumer and lending) • Racial wage gaps • Health insurance costs • Effects of shock on organizations
Claire Liang
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Corporate finance • Entrepreneurial finance • Workplace safety and its impact on stock market listings for private and public firms • Investment banking • International finance integration • Financial implications of exports/trade • Insider trading
David McLean
William G. Droms Professor
Capital markets • Capital market imperfections and the resulting effects on asset prices, corporate finance, and investment • Shareholder capitalism
Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Assistant Professor
Corporate finance • Firm strategy and performance in venture capital and private equity, banking, and retail industries
Lee Pinkowitz
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Corporate cash holdings • Corporate governance
Alberto Rossi
Professor and Director, AI, Analytics, and Future of Work Initiative
Robo-advising • Fintech • Empirical asset pricing • Household finance • Machine learning and finance • Trust in automation • Cryptocurrency
David Vandivier
Executive Director, Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Financial policy • Financial debt crises • Government affairs • U.S. Treasury
Rohan Williamson
Bolton Sullivan/Thomas A. Dean Chair in International Business and Professor of Finance
Corporate governance and boards of directors • Cash holdings • Executive compensation • Dodd-Frank • Financial crisis • Risk management and prevention • Investment analysis • Tesla
Xiaofei Zhao
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
Management Faculty
Robert Bies
Professor
Workplace revenge • Principled leadership • Organizational justice • Delivering bad news • Forgiveness in the workplace • CEO misconduct • Redemption, forgiveness, and mercy • Consumer trust
Hank Cardello
Senior Director, Leadership Solutions for Health and Prosperity Program at Business for Impact; Chair, Portion Balance Coalition
Food industry • Packaged food and beverage • Consumer health, diets, and obesity • Social impact leadership • Medical debt crisis • U.S. healthcare issues • Social impact leadership
Martin Conway
Adjunct Professor
Sports leadership • Sports management • Global games and international sport • The business of sports media • Sports marketing strategy • Sports event and facility management • MLB
Leslie Crutchfield
Executive Director, Business for Impact
Corporate social responsibility • Philanthropy • Nonprofit leadership • Nonprofit management • Social entrepreneurship • Social innovation • Movements • Shared value and social enterprise
Shye Gilad
Professor of the Practice
Entrepreneurial leadership • Executive leadership development and coaching • Crisis communications • Small business entrepreneurship • Business model strategy • Leading remote teams • Customer behavior • Airline industry • Aviation
Jennifer Logg
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
Eric Koester
Adjunct Professor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Corporate innovation • Corporate startups • Innovation and creativity • Incubators and accelerators • Venture capital • Startup fundraising and new approaches such as crowdfunding, ICO, NFT, etc.
Alyssa Lovegrove
Teaching Professor and Executive Director, Georgetown Pivot Program
Educating returning citizens/formerly incarcerated individuals • Second chance hiring • Management challenges of running a business • Transition from startup to company • Growing and scaling a company
Nicholas Lovegrove
Professor of the Practice and Academic Director, Executive MBA Program
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
Jimmy Lynn
Adjunct Instructor
Sports and entertainment • Digital sports • Global sporting events • Sports industry • Mobile video • Electronic conference • Social media
Michael T. McDermott
Professor of the Practice and Academic Director, Executive Master’s in Leadership — Qatar Program
Leadership philosophy • CEO leadership • Changes in management/leadership • Principled leadership
Matt McKenna
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
Jeanne Murphy
Executive in Residence, Business for Impact
Marketing • Toy with food regulations • Confectionery • World Health Organization • General food marketing
Michael O’Leary
Senior Associate Dean for Executive and Graduate Degree Programs and Teaching Professor
High performing teams • Young leaders • Multitasking • Multiteaming • Leadership • Organizational change • Organizational behavior • Diversity and inclusion • How to make the future of work equitable • Gender equity • The business of wine • The future of the wine industry
Language skill: German (speak)
Gael O’Sullivan
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
Jeff Reid
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 • Entrepreneurship for the common good
Steven Schiffman
Adjunct Professor
Media industry • General management • Digital transformation • Digital media • Broadcast and cable media • Publishing • Consumer effacing businesses • Strategic planning
Dawn Sweeney
Executive-in-Residence, Business for Impact
•Restaurants •Hospitality •Food service • 21st Century Workforce • Health and wellness
Catherine Tinsley
Raffini Family Professor of Management
Gender intelligent leadership • Gender dynamics in the workplace • Decision-making • Assessing risk • Negotiations • Conflict resolution • Effective teamwork • Workforce engagement
Jeanine Turner
Annette N. Shelby Chair in Business & Leadership Communication and Director, 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
Ella Washington
Professor of the Practice and Senior Advisor, DEI Initiatives
Diversity and inclusion • Strengths-based leadership and team development • Bias in the workplace • Developing human capital
Evelyn Jean Williams
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
Jeremy Yip
Assistant Professor
Psychology of negotiations • Trash-talking • Conflict • Unethical behavior • Emotional intelligence • Decision-making • Gratitude • Competitive communication
Marketing Faculty
Sean Blair
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
Simon Blanchard
Beyer Family Associate Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Consumer psychology • Empirical and statistical models • Credit card repayment/consumer debt • Personal finance and budget • Consumers and branding
Language skill: French
Rob Britton
Adjunct Professor
Advertising campaign development • Crisis communications • Airline industry • Marketing and operations • IT • International planning • Consumer marketing • Communications and leadership
Ziwei Cong
Assistant Professor
Digital platforms • Content economy • User-generated content • Social media • Influencer marketing • Pricing • Recommendation algorithms • E-commerce platforms • Improving content engagement
Karthik Easwar
Associate Teaching Professor and Faculty Director, Business Scholars Program
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
Ronald C. Goodstein
Associate Professor
Integrated marketing communications • Positioning • Ethnicity in marketing • Consumer behavior • Healthcare industry marketing • Trademarks and branding
Rebecca Hamilton
Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration and Vice Dean for Faculty
Consumer decision-making • Consumer choices • Consumer behavior • How consumer preferences change when consuming products and services • Social influences in consumer behavior
Prashant Malaviya
Professor and Vice Dean for Academic 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
Anita Rao
Associate Professor
Digital marketing • Advertising • Deceptive practices • False claims • Communications • Fake news ads • Labeling • Misinformation • Purchase behavior
William Novelli
Professor of the Practice Emeritus and Founder, Business for Impact
Nonprofit management • Social marketing • Corporate social responsibility • Public relations • Communications • Aging well
Charles Skuba
Professor Emeritus
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
Debora Thompson
Professor
Consumer behavior • Decision-making • Information processing • Attitude change • Decision difficulty • Consumer preference • Feature creep and fatigue • Comparative advertising
Luc Wathieu
Professor
Marketing research • Consumer behavior • Pricing • Internet (e.g., daily deal websites) • Consumer analytics • Consumer electronics • Digital technology • Online commerce • Consumer advocacy • Issues related to research in business
Operations Faculty
Vishal Agrawal
Henry J. Blommer Family Chair in Sustainable Business and Academic Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Sustainable operations • New product development • Supply chain management • Managerial challenges in business and the environment • Effect of consumer behavior on operations • Energy and sustainability
Volodymr Babich
Professor
Problems at the interface of operations and finance • Strategic procurement • Supply chain management • Supply chain risk management • Operations • Finance • Stochastic modeling
Shiliang [John] Cui
Professor
Supply chains • Global production trends • Service Operations • Queuing games • Inventory management • Waiting in line • E-commerce • Product development
Language Skill: Chinese
Sudipta Dasmohapatra
Professor of the Practice and Senior Associate Dean, MBA Programs
Data science • Consumer analytics • Collaboration between industry and academia in data science • Diversity and inclusion in data science
Robin L. Dillon-Merrill
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
Ricardo Ernst
Baratta Chair in Global Business and Executive Director, Latin American Leadership Program
Global logistics • Supply chain management • Supplier-manufacturing-distribution linkages • Inventory control • Globalization • Competitiveness and governability • Free trade and Latin American markets
Language skill: Spanish
Kasra Ferdows
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
Jose-Luis Guerrero-Cusumano
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
Victor Richmond Jose
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
Bardia Kamrad
Professor
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
Anil Khurana
Research Professor and Executive Director, Baratta Center for Global Business
Globalization • Global innovation and technology • Global value chains • Shared value and stakeholder capitalism • Private equity • Climate-tech and sustainability
Bonnie Montano
Teaching Professor and Co-Academic Director, Georgetown Reach Program
Artificial intelligence • Decision support systems • Knowledge management • Information systems • College preparedness
Emisa Nategh
Assistant Teaching Professor
Crowdsourcing and on-demand platforms • E-commerce • Dynamic pricing • Online auctions • Data analytics • Machine learning • Natural language processing • Recommendation systems • Bayesian optimization • Deep learning • Healthcare analytics • Operations research
Michael Rossetti
Adjunct Faculty
Artificial intelligence • Machine learning • Information retrieval • Cognitive neuroscience • Data science • Database management • Natural language processing (ChatGPT) • Disinformation and the influence on politics • Music recommendation algorithms
Jonathan Stroud
Associate Professor
Statistical financial data • Bayesian statistics • State space models • MCMC particle filters • Finance Stochastic volatility • Spatio-temporal models • Data assimilation
Sezer Ulku
Professor and Academic Director, Global Business Experience
Operations strategy • Supply chain management • Outsourcing • New product development • Innovation private equity • Entrepreneurship
Canan Ulu
Associate Professor
Bayesian learning in sequential decision problems • Decision-making under multiple criteria
Language Skill: Turkish
Safak Yucel
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
Strategy Faculty
Sahar Akhtar
Associate Teaching Professor
Business ethics • Immigration • Animal ethics • Product testing • Discrimination • Disability
Paul Almeida
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair and Professor
Innovation • Artificial intelligence • Machine learning • Global business education • International collaborations • Technology and knowledge management
Jasmina Chauvin
Assistant Professor
Firm performance in the United States and emerging markets • Strategic firm management
Arthur Dong
Teaching Professor
U.S.-China trade relations • China economy • Business in China • Geopolitics • Global food and beverage industry • Infrastructure and transportation
Scott Ganz
Associate Teaching Professor
Organizational politics • Organizational hierarchy • Organizational adaptation • Organizational performance
J. Bradford Jensen
McCrane/Shaker Chair of International Business, Director, Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs, and Co-Academic Director, Master of Arts in International Business and Policy Program
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
Lizhi Liu
Assistant Professor
E-commerce • Economic development (China) • Trade Regulation
Language skill: Chinese
Yunan Ji
Assistant Professor
Economics of regulation, competition, and government regulation • Healthcare policy • Medicare • Healthcare spending • Payment reform • Healthcare payment models • Patient health • Medical innovation • Price transparency
Jeffrey T. Macher
Professor
Microeconomics • Competitive strategy • The management of technology and innovation • Public policy • Vertical integration • Regulation • Semiconductors • Pharmaceuticals • Medical devices • Biotechnology
John Mayo
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
Nathan Miller
Professor
Antitrust • Mergers • Industrial organization and finance • Price discrimination • Cartel enforcement • Contracts • Microeconomics • Pricing
Ferdinando Monte
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
Dennis Quinn
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
Pietra Rivoli
Professor
Social issues in international business • Globalization and China • Trade policy • International business • U.S.-China Trade relations • Corporate responsibility • Re-entry programs • Background checks
Robert J. Shapiro
Fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy
Economics of growth and innovation • Globalization • Fiscal and monetary policy
Stephen Weymouth
Provost’s Distinguished 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
Mark Whitener
Adjunct Faculty and Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy
Antitrust • Mergers and acquisitions • Competition policy • Intellectual property