What's Current November 2021

Pitching What’s Next

On October 27, the Venture Accelerator hosted its annual Fall Showcase and celebrated its success since launching in 2016. Want to see some impressive numbers? Check out this highlight video:

The first Kwame Firempong Memorial Fellowship presented this fall to Vanessa Nunez (M.D./MBA ’23)

While UCLA continues to mourn the tragic loss last spring of Kwame Firempong, we are proud to honor his memory. The first Kwame Firempong Memorial Fellowship was presented this fall to Vanessa Nunez (M.D./MBA ’23)

UCLA Anderson Welcomes New Faculty

Kareem Haggag Assistant Professor of Behavioral Decision Making Kareem Haggag joins our Global Economics and Management area as an assistant professor after serving in that same role at Carnegie Mellon. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies topics at the intersection of economics and psychology, and his research has explored attribution bias in consumer choice and education, the role of defaults in customer tipping behavior and the effects of early-life experiences on voter participation and partisan identity, among other topics.

Joyce C. He Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Joyce C. He joins our Management and Organizations area as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Her research adopts a social perception lens to investigate mechanisms that perpetuate gender inequality and studies how to harness those behavioral insights to correct those biases.

Shohini Kundu Assistant Professor of Finance Shohini Kundu joins our Finance area as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her primary research interests are financial intermediation, regulation, corporate finance and macroeconomics. She has secondary interests in entrepreneurship and emerging market finance.

Alicea (Allie) Lieberman Assistant Professor of Marketing Alicea (Allie) Lieberman joins our Marketing area as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, where she was most recently a postdoctoral scholar. Her research focuses on judgment and decision making, with an emphasis on motivation, health and behavior change.

M. Kathleen Ngangoué Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management M. Kathleen Ngangoué joins our Global Economics and Management area as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and DIW Berlin. She has been an assistant visiting professor at New York University since 2017. Her research interests include experimental economics, behavioral economics, applied micro and behavioral finance.

Gregor Schubert Assistant Professor of Finance Gregor Schubert joins our Finance area as an assistant professor He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His primary teaching and research fields are urban economics, labor economics and corporate finance. His recent papers include a look at why national trends in house prices spread more to some cities than to others.

Siew Hong Teoh Professor of Accounting Siew Hong Teoh joins our Accounting area as the Lee and Seymour Graff Endowed Professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and comes to us from UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, where she served as the dean’s professor of accounting. Her research is primarily in the area of information and capital markets, a topic at the intersection of accounting, finance and economics. She was previously a member of our faculty as an assistant professor and acting assistant professor of accounting.

Jinyuan Zhang Assistant Professor of Finance Jinyuan Zhang joins our Finance area as an assistant professor. She earned a Ph.D. In finance at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Her research interests include pension, banking, household finance, mutual funds and FinTech. A recent paper looked at the impact of public pension deficits on households’ investment and economic activity.

Dean Al Osborne Receives Kenneth D. West Lifetime Achievement Award

This prestigious award recognizes Senior Associate Dean Osborne’s 25 years of service on public, private and nonprofit boards, as well as his academic and personal efforts to empower others for board service

Is There a Human Side to Statistics?

UCLA Anderson’s Elisa Long helps students through real-life applications such as her own Price is Right victory

PODCAST: Short Selling Is, in a Way, Democratic

As Stavros Panageas tells us, short-selling gives the pessimists in the market a voice

UCLA Anderson Forecast: Solid but Unspectacular Growth for U.S. Economy as Delta Variant Spreads

Data show recession and recovery had a disproportionately negative impact on lower-income Californians

Worth a Read

Great business journalism is fundamental to a democratic society. It is also a key part — perhaps a surprising one — of our school’s legacy. For almost 50 years, UCLA Anderson has overseen the Gerald Loeb Awards, the highest honor in business journalism.

The 2021 Loeb Awards were presented on September 30. Here, I’m sharing just three of the winners here that delve into issues of racial inequity, the opioid crisis and the pandemic economy.