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- Accounting Faculty
- Ethics Faculty
- Finance Faculty
- marketing Faculty
- management Faculty
- operations Faculty
- strategy Faculty

Kirsten Anderson
Professor of the Practice
- Corporate financial reporting
- Financial economics
- Securities and Exchange Commission

William Baber
Robert E. McDonough Professor of Business Administration
- Financial and managerial accounting
- Public policy consequences of accounting decisions
- Governmental and nonprofit accounting
- Financial reporting

Thomas B. Cooke
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business Law
- Legal environment of business and federal income taxation
- Federal tax law changes
- Ethics and professional responsibility
- Tax practice and procedure
- Apple, Samsung, technology companies

David Erkens
Assistant Professor
- Corporate governance
- Performance evaluation
- Management control systems
- Language skill: Dutch

Patricia Fairfield
Associate Professor
- Profitability analysis and earnings management
- Financial statement analysis
- Profit margins

Gilles Hilary
Houston Term Professor
- Governance
- Risk management
- Financial analysis
- Decision-making
- Behavioral finance
- Finance crime (anti-corruption, anti-money laundry, fraud)
- Cyber-risk from a non-technology perspective

Allison Koester
Associate Professor
- Corporate taxes
- Financial reporting
- Financial misrepresentation

Edward Machir
Professor of the Practice
- Auditing

Alan Mayer-Sommer
Associate Professor
- Taxation
- Accounting
- Acquisitions
- Shareholder returns
- Defense industry

Reining Petacchi
Associate Professor
- Financial reporting
- Economic consequences of regulations
- Accounting choices of governmental entities
- Economics of auditing
- Language skills: Mandarin (read & write), Italian (conversational)

Jason Schloetzer
William Charles Sonneborn Term Associate Professor
- CEO succession
- Corporate governance
- Board of directors
- Performance measurement and evaluation
- Incentive compensation
- Global supply chains

Wei (Vicky) Tang
Associate Professor
- Predicting future earnings using current financial information
- Earnings quality and fair value accounting
- Investing in Chinese stock markets

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

Rohan Williamson
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

Quan Wen
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
Associate 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
- 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
Associate 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
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
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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