Media Experts

Reena Aggarwal
McDonough Professor of Business Administration and Director, Georgetown 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

• Financial markets
• Financial crises
• 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.)
• Health care reform

Jennie Bai
Assistant 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

Perianne Boring
Adjunct Professor

• Fintech
• Blockchain and blockchain policy
• Cryptocurrency
• Initial coin offerings (ICOs)
• Token Sales
• Smart Contracts
• Bitcoin

George Comer
Associate Professor

• Institutional money managers and funds
• Hybrid mutual funds
• Exchange traded funds
• Municipal bond funds
• International mutual funds
• Unit investment trusts

Matthew Cypher
Atara Kaufman Term Professor of the Practice and Director, Steers Center for Global Real Estate

• Institutional quality
• Commercial real estate industry (valuation and underwriting)

Sandeep Dahiya
Associate Professor

• 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
• IPOs
• Executive compensation

Allan Eberhart
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

John Jacobs
Executive Director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy

• Wall Street
• Financial markets
• Market structure
• IPOs
• ETFs
• Corporate governance
• Capital formation
• Marketing and branding
• Crisis communications

Sunil Madan
Associate Director, Steers Center for Global Real Estate

• Real estate
• CRE
• Private equity
• Asset management
• CMBs
• CER CLOs
• Real estate debt capital markets

David McLean
Associate Professor

• Capital markets
• Capital market imperfections and the resulting effects on asset prices, corporate finance, and investment

Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Assistant professor

• Corporate finance
• Firm strategy and performance in venture capital and private equity, banking, and retail industries

Lee Pinkowitz
Associate Professor

• Corporate cash holdings
• Corporate governance

Pietra Rivoli
Vice Dean and Professor of Finance and International Business

• Social issues in international business, globalization and China
• Trade policy
• International business
• U.S.-China Trade relations
• Corporate responsibility

Katherine Waldock
Assistant professor

• Law
• Corporate finance
• Bankruptcy and financial distress
• Economic forecasting
• Small businesses
• Law and economics
• The role of special interest groups in capitalism
• Co-hosts Capitalisn't podcast

David Walker
John A. Largay Professor of Finance

• Global financial markets
• Applied macro-economics
• Managerial economics.
• Global and domestic financial service firms
• Financing small business
• Mutual fund performance
• Monetary and fiscal policies
• Business government relations
• Long term consumer and mortgage credit
• Predicting presidential election returns
• Short-term costs of credit for small firms

Quan Wen
Assistant Professor

• Emperical asset pricing
• What drives asset returns
• Risk-return trade Off
• Institudtional Investors
• Frictions in the financial market and their implications for market efficiency
• Risk management
• Prevention
• Investment analysis

Rohan Williamson
Professor

• Corporate governance and board of directors
• Cash holdings
• Executive compensation
• Dodd-Frank
• Financial crisis
• Risk management
• Prevention
• Investment analysis

Robert Bies
Professor

• Workplace revenge
• Principled leadership
• Organizational justice
• Delivering bad news
• Forgiveness in the workplace

Leslie Crutchfield
Executive Director, Global Social Enterprise Initiative

• Corporate social responsibility.
• Philanthropy
• Nonprofit leadership
• Nonprofit management
• Social entrepreneurship
• Social innovation
• Movements
• Shared value and social enterprise

Brooks Holtom
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Strategy, Finance, and Organization

• Change management
• How organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital
• Stakeholder engagement
• Unions and negotiations
• Organizational behavior
• Work force management
• Leadership
• Human resource issues of mergers

Nataly Lorinkova
Assistant Professor

• Leadership
• Social capital
• Change, developmental and empowering processes
• Non-traditional work arrangements such as virtual teams, teleworking and working from home

Douglas McCabe
Professor

• Negotiations
• Human capital management
• Employee/labor relations
• Ethical issues in management

Michael T. McDermott
Professor of the Practice

• Leadership philosophy
• CEO leadership
• Changes in management/leadership
• Principled leadership

Matt McKenna
Executive in Residence and Founder of the Rural Opportunity Initiative at the Global Social Enterprise Initiative

• Rural investment
• Rural propenity
• Creating public-private partnerships
• Economic development and growth in rural areas

Marcia Miceli
Professor

• Human resources
• Organizational behavior
• Compensation systems
• Whistle blowing
• Gender differences and power relationships
• Organizational wrong doing

Michael O’Leary
Teaching Professor and Faculty Chair, Undergraduate Program

• High performing teams
• Young leaders
• Multitasking
• Multiteaming
• Leadership
• Organizational change
• Organizational behavior
• Language skill: German (speak)

Gael O'Sullivan
Project Director, AB InBev Foundation Partnership, Global Social Enterprise Initiative

• Public Health
• Advancing behavior change science and practice
• Applying health communication, advocacy, and social commercial marketing to project promoting health

Christine Porath
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

Catherine Tinsley
Raffini Family Term Professor of Management and Director, Georgetown University Women's Leadership Institute

• Gender intelligent leadership
• Gender dynamics in the workplace
• Decision making
• Assessing risk

Evelyn Jean Williams
Teaching Professor

• 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

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
Associate Professor and Barket Family Faculty Fellow

• 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

Michael Czinkota
Associate Professor

• Exporting
• Export promotion
• International business and trade
• Export development strategies
• The linkage between terrorism and international business

Tatiana L. Dyachenko
Assistant Professor

• Consumer behavior
• Consumer psychology
• Marketing decision-making

Karthik Easwar
Assistant 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

Ronald C. Goodstein
Associate Professor

• Integrated marketing communications
• Positioning
• Ethnicity in marketing
• Consumer behavior
• Healthcare industry marketing

Rebecca Hamilton
Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration

• Consumer decision-making
• Consumer choices
• Consumer behavior
• How consumer preferences change when they consume products and services
• Social influences in consumer behavior

Chris Hydock
Assistant Research Professor and Research Director of the Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research

• Consumer behavior
• Political/social consumption
• Consumer problems
• Technology adoption
• Nutrition facts panels
• Pricing models
• Survey response bias

Prashant Malaviya
Associate 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

Marlene Morris Towns
Adjunct Professor

• Consumer behavior
• Retail marketing
• Social media
• Urban consumers
• Celebrity endorsements
• Black entertainment

William Novelli
Distinguished Professor of the Practice

• Nonprofit management
• Social marketing
• Corporate social responsibility
• Public relations
• Communications
• Aging well

Neeru Paharia
Assistant Professor

• Consumer behavior
• Signaling through brands, social media, political consumption, moral psychology and digital marketing

Charles Skuba
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

Robert Thomas
Professor

• Product development
• Market segmentation
• Business-to-business marketing
• Marketing strategy
• Innovation
• New product development and forecasting
• Organizational buying behavior

Debora Thompson
Beyer Family Term Associate 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 electronics
• Business schools issues
• Issues related to research in business

Paul Almeida
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair and Professor

• Innovation
• Artificial intelligence
• Machine learning
• Global business education
• International collaborations
• Technology and knowledge management

Arthur Dong
Teaching Professor

• Competitive strategy
• International economics and trade
• China's economic development and economy

Larry Downes
Project Director, Center for Business and Public Policy

• Innovation
• Regulation and antitrust
• Internet Policy
• Technology and innovation policy
• Telecommunication and broadband
• Net neutrality

J. Bradford Jensen
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        

Alyssa Lovegrove
Associate Director, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative

• Entrepreneurship
• Management challenges of running a business
• Experiential learning as a part of higher education
• Transition from startup to company the management perspective

Jeffrey T. Macher
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

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
Associate Professor

• Antitrust
• Mergers
• Industrial organization and finance
• Price discrimination
• Cartel enforcement
• Contracts
• Microeconomics
• Pricing

Ferdinando Monte
Assistant 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

Stanley Nollen
Professor

• Fims and industries in emerging market economies and economics
• Macro and microeconomics
• International trade
• Foreign direct investment
• Exchange rates
• Balance payments
• Software and hardware industries in India and China

Dennis Quinn
John J. Powers Jr. Term Professor in International Business

• Business and public policy
• Democratization and economic liberalization in emerging markets
• The origins and consequences of international financial liberalization
• Globalization
• International political economy
• Financial and manufacturing structures

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

Chris Rider
Associate Professor and Graham Family Faculty Fellow

• Intersection of sociology and strategy
• Organizational reliance on social structures/human networks relation to inequality in labor and capital markets
• Legal services and venture capital
• Social networks
• Leadership
• Management

Rachelle Sampson
Assistant Professor

• Consumer behavior
• Signaling through brands, social media, political consumption, moral psychology, and digital marketing

Robert J. Shapiro
Fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy

• Economics of growth and innovation
• Globalization
• Fiscal and monetary policy

Stephen Weymouth
Assistant Professor and Marano Faculty Fellow

• International business
• Political, legal, and social environment of business around the world
• Interest groups
• Policy change and reform

Jason Brennan
Associate Professor

• Voting
• Political power
• Interest groups
• Ethics in voting
• Ethics in commercial society
• Competence
• Voters pathology
• Voters processing information
• Democratic theory
• Freedom and political bias
• Commodification (what can and cannot be for sale)
• Capitalism versus socialism
• Social justice
• Political resistance
• Cop violence
• Compulsory voting

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 Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics

• Ethics
• Criminal law
• White-collar crime

Peter Jaworski
Assistant 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

Justin Tosi
Postdoctoral Fellow

• Moral grandstanding
• Virtue signaling
• Public moral discourse
• Moral and political philosophy

Vishal Agrawal
Associate Professor and Biet Family Faculty Fellow

• Sustainable operations
• New product development
• Supply chain management.
• Managerial challenges in business and the environment
• Effect of consumer behavior on operations
• E-learning in India

Volodymr Babich
Lapeyre Family Term Associate Professor of Business Administration

• Problems at the interface of operations and finance
• Strategic procurement
• Supply chain management
• Supply chain risk management
• Operations
• Finance
• Stochastic modeling

So Yeon Chun
Assistant Professor

• Interface of marketing and operations
• Revenue management (demand forecasting and dynamic pricing)
• Risk management with applications to the transportation, retail, and hospitality industries

Shiliang [John] Cui
Assistant Professor

• Supply chain
• Global production trends
• Decisions in service settings
• Queueing games
• Inventory management
• Consumer wait times
• Waiting in line
• Launguage Skill: Chinese

Robin L. Dillon-Merrill
Professor

• Decision and risk analysis
• Natural disasters 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 Director, Georgetown Global Business Initiative

• 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 ecommerce
• Language skills: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German

Victor Richmond Jose
William and Karen Sonneborn Term Associate Professor

• Decision
• Risk analysis
• Forecasts
• Development of prescriptive models and tools that help managers make good decision in uncertain environments, probability elicitation, forecast verification and expert combination of forecasts
• Health
• Supply chains
• Homeland security

Bharat Kaku
Teaching Professor

• Global supply chains
• Business statistics
• Management science
• Cellular manufacturing
• Facilities layout
• Risk management in supply chains

Bardia Kamrad
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

Mustafa Koksalan
Associate Professor

• Profitability analysis and earnings management
• Financial statement analysis
• Profit margins

Bonnie Montano
Teaching Professor

• Artificial intelligence
• Decision support systems
• Knowledge management
• Information systems

Betsy Sigman
Distinguished Teaching Professor

• Technology
• Big Data
• Social media
• Information systems
• Analysis and management of information systems
• Business statistics
• Electronic commerce
• Public policy statistics
• Surveys and form completion on the web
• Issues management and data systems

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
Associate Professor and Greek Family Faculty Fellow

• Operations strategy
• Supply chain management
• Outsourcing
• New product development
• Innovation private equity
• Entrepreneurship

Canan Ulu
Associate Professor and Awad Family Faculty Fellow

• 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