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Hwa Young Kim (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: Cambridge University
Dissertation Title: Mandatory Reporting Frequency, Informed Trading and Corporate Myopia
Dissertation Chair: Professor Friedman
Kanyuan Huang (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: CUHK-Shenzhen
Dissertation Title: The Value of Analyst Forecast Revisions: Evidence from Earnings Announcements
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman & Professor Caskey
Jonathan Berkovitch (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: LUISS Guido Carli
Dissertation Title: Does Equity Underpricing Affect Voluntary Disclosure?
Dissertation Chair: Professor Friedman
Elyashiv Wiedman (Ph.D. '20)
First academic placement: Hebrew University
Dissertation Title: Multiple Information Sources and Equilibrium in Financial Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman
Omri Even-Tov (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: U.C. Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman
Ben Lourie (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: U.C. Irvine
Dissertation Title: The Revolving-Door of Sell-side Analysts: A Threat to Analysts' Independence?
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hayn
Chi Cheng (Ph.D. '14)
First placement: Brattle Group
Dissertation Title: Chief Financial Officer Turnovers and Firm Performance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman
Daniel Aobdia (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Sharing Suppliers and Information Spillovers: The Case of the Auditor
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hughes
Elizabeth Gutierrez (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Florida International University
Dissertation Title: Evidence on the Role of Accounting Conservatism in Debt Contracting
Dissertation Chair: Professor Aboody
Ruihao Ke (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Southern Methodist University
Dissertation Title:Predicting Financial Distress: The Role of Earnings Quality
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman
Tsahi Versano (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: Yale University
Dissertation Title: Discretionary Disclosure in Agencies
Dissertation Chair: Professor Trueman
Mingshan Zhang (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Accounting
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hughes
Joseph Reiff (Ph.D. '23 - expected)
First academic placement: University of Maryland
Dissertation Title: Implicit Communication Through Behavioral Policy Design
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hershfield
Jon Bogard (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Norms
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Fox and Professor Goldsein
David Zimmerman (Ph.D. '22)
Placement: Securities and Exchange Commission
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Uncertainty of Continuous Outcomes
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Shu and Professor Spiller
Yi-Chun Chen (Ph.D '22)
First academic placement: University College LBS
Dissertation Title: Prescribing for the Irrational: A Data-Driven Approach to Modeling Irrational Choice
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Misic
Saeed Ghodsi (Ph.D '22)
First placement: Uber Technologies Inc.
Dissertation Title: Data-Driven Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Applications in Health Care and Energy Management
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Ahmadi
Sema Nur Kaynar Keles (Ph.D '22)
First academic placement: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Drug Deals: Policies to Increase the Availability of Effective Medications
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Siddiq
Bobby Nyotta (Ph.D '21)
First placement: Gopuff
Dissertation Title: Data-Driven Optimization to Learn Structural Models
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bravo & Professor Chen
Taylor Corcoran (Ph.D '19)
First academic placement: Sable College Consulting
Dissertation Title: Drug Deals: Policies to Increase the Availability of Effective Medications
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Long and Professor Bravo
Ali Fattahi (Ph.D. '19)
Placement: Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School
Dissertation Title: Mass Customization: Theories and Application
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ahmadi
Araz Khodabakhshian (Ph.D. '19)
First placement: Bain and Company Consulting
Dissertation Title: Bundling Under Competition: Duopoly and Oligopoly
Dissertation Chair: Professor Karmarkar
Anna Saez de Tejada Cuenca (Ph.D '19)
First academic placement: IESE Business School, Spain
Dissertation Title: Essays on Social and Behavioral Aspects of Apparel Supply Chains
Dissertation Chair: Professor Caro
Prashant Chintapalli (Ph.D '18)
First academic placement: Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Dissertation Title: Social Responsibility in Supply Chains in the Context of Emerging Economies
Dissertation Chair: Professor Tang
Hossein Jahandideh (Ph.D. '18)
Placement: Google
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Allocation of Temporal Resources Under Certainty
Dissertation Chair: Professor McCardle
Christian Blanco (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Sustainable Operations Management: Climate Change Strategies, Safety, and the Role of Information on Conservation
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Caro and Professor Corbett
Sandeep Rath (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Dissertation Title: Resource Planning Models for Healthcare Organizations
Dissertation Chair: Professor Rajaram
Paul Rebeiz (Ph.D. '16)
Placement: Amazon
Dissertation Title: Management of Demand Response Programs in the Electricity Industry
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ahmadi
Boyoun Choi (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: Goldman Sachs
Dissertation Title:Information Chains and Content Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Karmarkar
Wei Zhang (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: University of Hong Kong
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Process and Impacts of Price Bargaining and Contracting in High-Tech Supply Chains: A Combination of Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ahmadi
Aparupa Das Gupta (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: No placement
Dissertation Title: The Design of Experimental Service Processes
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Karmarkar and Professor Roels
George Georgiadis (PhD '13)
First academic placement: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Interdisciplinary Essays in Economics and Operations Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Tang
Morvarid Rahmani (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Dynamics of Collaboration in Knowledge-Based Work Processes
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Karmarkar and Professor Roels
Foad Iravani (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: University of Washington
Dissertation Title:Essays on Supply Chains Facing Competition from Gray Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ahmadi
Dimitrios Andritsos (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: HEC, Paris
Dissertation Title: Interdisciplinary Studies in Operations Management: Applications in Healthcare and Marketing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Tang
Onesun Steve Yoo (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: University College London, UCL School of Management
Dissertation Title: Time Allocation Strategies for Entrepreneurial Operations Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Corbett
Suresh Muthulingam (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Environmental Issues in Operations Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Corbett
Soo-Haeng Cho (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Asymmetric Optimal Policies in Multi-Dimensional Operational Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor McCardle
Sarang Deo (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Kellogg, Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Healthcare Operations Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Corbett
Rui Yin (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Arizona State University
Dissertation Title: Pricing and Production for the Supply Chain Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Tang
Barbara Somlo (Ph.D. '05)
First placement: Amgen Pharmaceuticals
Dissertation Title: Distribution Planning for the Motion Picture Industry: Models, Applications and Analysis
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Ahmadi and Professor Rajaram
Murat Bayiz (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Coordination and Incentive Contracts in Stochastic Project Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Corbett
Deming Zhou (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: Chinese Hong Kong University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Supply Chain Competition with Different Network Structures
Dissertation Chair: Professor Karmarkar
Thanos Papadimitriou (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Bocconi University, Italy
Dissertation Title: Efficient Data Inventory Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Mamer
Aydin Alptekinoglu (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: University of Florida
Dissertation Title: Essays on Operations-Marketing Strategy
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Corbett and Professor Tang
Thomas Roemer (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Managing Product Development Processes
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ahmadi
Laura Melody Williams (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: U.S. Naval Post Graduate School
Dissertation Title: Strategic Decision Support for Project Portfolio Management in the Public Sector
Dissertation Chair: Professor Karmarkar
Salil Gadgil (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Department of the Treasury
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Ljubica Georgievska (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: BI Norwegian Business School (BI)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Cross-Currency Arbitrage and Premia
Dissertation Chair: Professor Longstaff, Professor Muir
Wenyu Meng (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Morgan Stanley
Dissertation Title: Timing Manipulation in Firm Disclosures
Dissertation Chair: Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
James O'Neill (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dissertation Title: The Market View of Mortgage Credit Risk
Dissertation Chair: Professor Andrea Eisfeldt
Clinton Tepper (Ph.D. '21)
First placement: iCapital Network
Dissertation Title: A Study of Investment Capacity and an Essay About Interest Rates
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch, Professor Lochstoer
Yu Shi (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: Nankai University
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Andrea Eisfeldt
Brett Dunn (Ph.D. '20)
First placement: CFO and CIO for GoodLife Home Loans
Dissertation Title: The Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities
Dissertation Chair: Professor Chernov, Professor Longstaff
Geoffery Zheng (Ph.D. '20)
First placement: NYU Shanghai
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Panageas
Alex Fabisiak (Ph.D. '19)
First placement: Zillow
Dissertation Title: Applications of Machine Learning to PDEs in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bernardo
Chady Gemayel (Ph.D. '19)
First Placement: Cornerstone Research
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Mahyar Kargar (Ph.D. '19)
First academic placement: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Eisfeldt and Professor Chernov
Darren Aiello (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Brigham Young University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays Concerning Financial Economics of Mortgage Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Patrick Kiefer (Ph.D. '18)
First Placement: Raylient
Dissertation Title: Essays on Asset Pricing and Financial Institutions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Zhipeng Li (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Shanghai University
Dissertation Title: Labor Risk and Credit Spreads
Dissertation Chair: Professor Eisfeldt
Rafael Porsani (PhD. '18)
First academic placement: UCLA Statistics (Lecturer)
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning and Asset Pricing Models
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Subrahmanyam and Professor Roll
Eric Cho (Ph.D. '17)
Placement: KIS Pricing
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Local Media on Household Investment Decisions
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Subrahmanyam and Professor Gabriel
Shenje Hshieh (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation Title: Essays in Corporate Goverance and Innovation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Nimesh Patel (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: University of Hawaii, Shidler College of Business
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch
Jiasun Li (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: George Mason University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Information in Financial Markets, Security Design, and Theory of the Firm
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Robert Richmond (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: New York University Stern School of Business
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Fundamental Determinants of International Asset Prices
Dissertation Chair: Professor Chernov
Yuji Sakurai (Ph.D. '16)
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Dissertation Title: How Does the Bond Market Perceive Macroeconomic Risks under Zero Lower Bound?
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Longstaff and Professor Chernov
Yaron Levi (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: USC
Dissertation Title: Information Architecture and Intertemporal Choice: A Randomized Field Experiment in the United States
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch
Aurelien Philippot (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: Universite Laval, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Brian Waters (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation TItle: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Carlin
Florian Schulz (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance and Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Xiaolan Zhang (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: University of Texas
Dissertation Title: Human Capital Investment, Cash Flow Risk and Capital Structure Dynamics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lustig
Shaun Davies (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Carlin
Phillip Wool (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: State University of New York, Buffalo
Dissertation Title: Essays Concerning the Network Structure of Mutual Fund Holdings and the Behavior of Institutional Investors
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Saurabh Ahluwalia (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: University of New Mexico
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bernardo and Professor Subrahmanyam
Priyank Gandhi (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Notre Dame University
Dissertation Title: Systemic Risks, Financial Intermediaries and Asset Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Longstaff
Michael Nowotny (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents and Disaster Risk
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Konark Saxena (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: University of New South Wales
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Chowdhry and Professor Roll
Alberto Plazzi (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: Swiss Institute of Finance, Switzerland
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Estate and International Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Torous
Cesare Fracassi (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Grinblatt and Professor Tate
Albert Sheen (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: Harvard Business School
Dissertation Title: Essays on Corporate Investment
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bernardo
Ehud Peleg (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: USC Marshall School
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice and Behavioral Finance
Dissertation Co-Chair: Professor Benartzi and Professor Subrahmanyam
Yuzhao Zhang (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Return Predictability and Volatility Estimation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Yi Zhou (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: University of Oklahoma
Dissertation Title: Leverage, Asset Pricing and Its Implications
Dissertation Chair: Professor Geske
Brett Myers (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Effects of the Political Process on Financial Topics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Juhani Linnainmaa (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Essays on Learning and Investment Behavior
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Alessio Saretto (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Selale Tuzel (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Laura Frieder (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of the Trading Patterns and Heuristics of Stockholders
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Roll and Professor Subrahmanyam
Justin Sai Pang Chan (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Liquidity and Stock Returns
Dissertation Chair: Professor Subrahmanyam
Martin Dierker (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: University of Houston, Bauer College of Business
Dissertation Title: The Link between Informational Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Essays on Corporate Disclosure Policy and Private Information Acquisition
Dissertation Chair: Professor Subrahmanyam
Ashley Wenqing Wang (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: University of California, Irvine, Graduate School of Management
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Longstaff and Professor Brennan
Shingo Goto (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: University of South Carolina
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Dissertation Chair: Professor Torous
Amit Goyal (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: Emory University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Predictability of Stock Returns
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Bing Han (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Stocks Interest Rate Derivatives and Real Estate Investment Trusts: Three Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Jiang Luo (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Finance: Demographics and the Equity Premium, Capital Budgeting and Compensation with Asymmetric Information and Moral Hazard; Risk Sharing, Welfare and a New Security
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan
Shu Yan (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Stock Market Volatility and Stock Return Predictability
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Felipe Aguerrevere (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Alberta, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options
Dissertation Chair: Professor Schwartz
Augusto Castillo (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Catolica University, Chile
Dissertation Title: Essays on Event Studies and on Numerical Methods
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan
Pansy Lin (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Emory University
Dissertation Title: Equity Pricing in International Markets: Three Empirical Essays
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Yihong Xia (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Effect of Learning and Predictability on Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Strategies and Asset Prices
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan
Thomas Groesbeck (Ph.D. '21)
Placement: The MITRE Corporation (Lead Economist)
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Market for Prototypes
Dissertation Chair: Professor Voigtlaender
Juan Matamala (Ph.D. '21)
Placement: Mercado Libre
Dissertation Title: Essays on People's Operations
Dissertation Chair: Professor Voigtlaender
Sebastian Ottinger (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: CERGE-EI (Prague)
Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy and Economic Geography
Dissertation Chair: Professor Voigtlaender
Vasily Korovkin (Ph.D. '18)
Placement: CERGE-EI (Prague)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Firms and Institutions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Wacziarg
Shekhar Mittal (Ph.D. '18)
Placement: Amazon
Dissertation Title: Essays on Taxation in Emerging Economies
Dissertation C0-Chairs: Professor Wacziarg and Professor Mahajan (UC Berkely)
Mikhail Poyker (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: University of Nottingham
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economic Effects of Convict Labor in Modern U.S. History
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Giuliano and Professor Wacziarg
Youngjin Song (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade
Dissertation Title: Essays on Regional Economic Developement in the United States
Dissertation Chair: Professor Giuliano
Stefano Fiorin (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Bocconi University
Dissertation Title: Essays in Behavioral Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bursztyn
Andrea Di Miceli (Ph.D. '17)
Placement: Analysis Group
Dissertation Title: Essays on Development and Political Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Wacziarg
Yang Yang (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: IMF
Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic Growth and International Trade
Dissertation Chair: Professor Wacziarg
Alvaro Garcia (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: Post Doc - UCLA Economics Department
Dissertation Title: Essays on Firms and International Trade
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Leamer and Professor Voigtlaender
Juan Marcos Wlasiuk (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile
Dissertation Title: Essays on International Development
Dissertation Chair: Professor Edwards
Mitsuru Igami (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Yale University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Creative Destruction
Dissertation Chair: Professor Leamer
Bernardo Morais (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: Federal Reserve Board
Dissertation Title: Uncertainty and the Relative Price of Investment Goods
Dissertation Chair: Professor Wacziarg
Daniel A. Dias (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Essays in International Trade and Globalization
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Leamer and Professor Wacziarg
Christine Richmond (Ph.D. '10)
Placement: IMF
Dissertation Title: Essays on Firm Performance and Dynamics in Developing Countries
Dissertation Chair: Professor Edwards
Brian Kelleher Richter (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays in Political Economy and Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Leamer and Professor Wacziarg
Roberto Jaime Alvaraez Espinoza (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: Universidad de Chile
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Export Transitions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Edwards
Marc Junkunc (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: The University of Miami
Dissertation Title: Toward a Greater Economic Understanding of Entrepreneurial Activity: Examining
the Nature and Importance of Specialized Knowledge
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Osborne and Professor Leamer
Wenjin Kang (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: National University of Singapore
Dissertation Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Liquidity, Trading Behavior, and Stock Returns:
Three Essays in Market Microstructure
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Subrahmanyam
Anusha Chari (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Darby
Rajesh Chakrabarti (Ph.D. '99)
First academic placement: University of Alberta, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information and Linkages in Financial Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
William Tracy (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Firm Learning
Dissertation Chair: Professor McKelvey
Sahn-Wook Huh (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Brock University, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays on Financial Markets and Trading Behavior
Dissertation Chair: Professor Subrahmanyam
Tatsuo Ushijima (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, Graduate School of International Management
Dissertation TItle: Evolution of Multinationality and the Value of the Firm
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
Heather Berry (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: The Exploitation and Development of Intangible Assets by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs): An Empirical Analysis of the Foreign Direct Investment of US and Japanese MNEs, 1974-1997
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor de la Torre and Professor Sakakibara
Javier Gomez Biscarri (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Navarra, Spain
Dissertation Title: Interest Rates and the Transition to a Monetary Union
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Edwards and Professor Leamer
Ping Wang (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation Title: Fashion in Information Technology
Dissertation Chair: Professor Swanson and Zucker
David R. Firth (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: University of Montana, School of Business Administration
Dissertation Title: Supply of Information into, Search of Information within, and use of Information from Information Technology-Based Organizational Memory Systems
Dissertation Chair: Professor Swanson
Enrique Dans (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Instituto de Empressa, Spain
Dissertation TItle: Three Essays on IT Innovation and Productivity
Dissertation Chair: Professor Swanson
Lyangela Gutierrez (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: Minorities’ Perceptions of Majority Members’ Involvement in Affinity Groups: A Critical Examination of Ally Behavior
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Unzueta
Linda Nguyen (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Ignored: How Diversity Blind Spots Undermine Support for Organizational Diversity Initiatives
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Unzueta
Colin West (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: University of Toronto
Dissertation Title: Windfalls of Time and Money: Effects on Well-Being and Decision Making
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor DeVoe
Safiya Castel (Ph.D. '18)
Placement: Paradigm Strategy, Inc
Dissertation Title: Do-Gooders or Rabble-Rousers: The Politicization of Black Volunteer Work and its Effects on the Hireability of Black Job Candidates
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Unzueta and Professor Shapiro
Ashley Angulo (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: postdoc at Disney Research
Dissertation Title: The Role of Feelings of Endowment in Charitable Giving Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Goldstein
Daniel Walters (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: INSEAD
Dissertation Title: Known Unknowns in Judgment and Choice
Dissertation Chair: Professor Fox
Thomas Altura (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: Rensselaer San Jose State University
Dissertation Title: The Social Facticity of Partner-Status: The Case of Local Governments and Investment Banks
Dissertation Chair: Professor Jacoby
Peter Norlander (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: Loyola- Chicago
Dissertation Title: Organizing Migrations: People and Knowledge Flows in the Global Economy
Dissertation Chair: Professor Erickson
Benjamin Everly (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: University of Sussex
Dissertation TItle: The Fear of Femininity: How Men's Motivation to Maintain Manhood Status Influences Performance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shih
Angélica Gutiérrez (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Post Doc-University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Social Dominance Orientation on Reactions to University and Employment Recruitment and Selection Policies
Dissertation Chair: Professor Unzueta
Nicholas Hays (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Post Doc-New York University
Dissertation Title: Social Climbing: A Contextual Approach to Understanding the Effects of Social Hierarchy on Individual Cognition and Behavior
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bendersky and Professor Goldstein
Ming-Hong Tsai (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Information Sharing Within Groups
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shih
Alice Wieland (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: University of Nevada, Reno
Dissertation Title: Gender and Decision-Making: Competitive, Risky and Entrepreneurial Decisions: Three Essays Related to How Sex and Gender Influence Decisions in Different Contexts
Dissertation Chair: Professor McKelvey
Rangapriya Narasimhan (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: University of San Diego
Dissertation Title: Understanding Intrapreneurs and the Mechanics of Opportunity Exploitation
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Lawrence and Professor Flamholtz
Neha Parikh Shah (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: Rutgers University
Dissertation Title: The Individual Performance Effects of Multiplex Relationships in Workplace Social Networks
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lawrence
Vicki Scherwin (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: Long Beach State University
Dissertation Title: The Overlooked Dimension of Leadership: Follower Self-Interest
Dissertation Chair: Professor Culbert
Emily Mung-Lam Nason (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dissertation Title: Uncertainty and Fairness Judgments: The Role of Information Ambiguity
Dissertation Chair: Professor Jacoby
David Bardolet Urgelles (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: SDA Bocconi School of Management
Dissertation Title: New Perspectives on Capital Allocation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Fox
Hilla Dotan (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dissertation Title: Friendship Ties at Work: Origins, Evolution and Consequences for Managerial Effectiveness
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lewin
Roberto Alvarez Espinoza (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: University of Chile
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Export Transitions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Edwards
Elissa Grossman (Ph.D. '05)
Academic placement: USC Marshall School
Dissertation TItle: New Venture Creation and Network Tie Formation: A Longitudinal Study of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Efforts in Business-Building
Dissertation Chair: David Lewin
Wei Hua (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Social Context: Putting Similarity Effects on Organizational Attachment in Perspective
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Lawrence and Professor Lewin
Jean-Francois Axel Hugues Coget (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: HEC School of Management, Paris
Dissertation Title: Leadership in Motion: An Investigation into the Psychological Processes that Drive Behavior when Leaders Respond to Real-Time Operational Challenges
Dissertation Chair: Professor Culbert
Zeynep Aksehirli (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Dissertation Title: Transfer of Organizational Norms through Electronic Communication
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lawrence
Sherry He (Ph.D. ’23 – expected)
First academic placement: Michigan State University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Platform Policies, Ratings and Innovation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hollenbeck
Julia Levine (Ph.D. ’23 – expected)
First academic placement: Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation Title: State Dependence in Brand, Category, and Store Choice
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bucklin and Professor Seiler
Daniel J. Mirny (Ph.D. ’23 – expected)
First academic placement: IESE Business School, Spain
Dissertation Title: Antecedents to and Consequences of Claim Objectivity
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Spiller
Kalyan Rallabandi (Ph.D. ’22)
First academic placement: Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Consumer Perceptions of Sponsored Listing and their Impact on Online Marketplaces
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hollenbeck
Bilge Ipek Demirdag (Ph.D. ’22)
First placement: Meta (Quantitative User Experience Researcher)
Dissertation Title: Consumer Responses to Algorithmic Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shu
Kate Christensen (Ph.D. ’21)
First academic placement: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Moving Through Time: How Past and Future Connections Impact Consumer Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hershfield
Elicia John (Ph.D. '20)
First academic placement: The RAND Corporation
Dissertation Title: A Theory of Goal Maintenance: A Distinct and Vivid Pre-Goal Self Predicts Post-Goal Maintenance Behavior
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Hershfield and Professor Shu
Daniel Yavorsky (Ph.D. '20)
First academic placement: Bain's Advanced Analytics Group
Dissertation Title: Consumer Search in the U.S. Auto Industry
Dissertation Chair: Professor Honka
Keunwoo Kim (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Solbridge International School of Business
Dissertation Title: Two Essays on Large-Scale Data Applications in Marketing
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Misra and Professor Rossi
Jonathan Lim (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: UC Riverside
Dissertation Title: Easy Explanations or Elaborate Elucidations?: Explanatory Preferences for Complexity Matching
Dissertation Chair: Professor Oppenheimer
Charlene Chu (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Chapman University
Dissertation Title: Of Photographs, Souvenirs, and Ticket Stubs: Understanding Mementos
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shu
Marissa Sharif (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Wharton School of Business
Dissertation Title: The Benefits of Emergency Reserves in Goal Preference and Persistence
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shu
Wayne Taylor (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: SMU Cox
Dissertation Title: Modeling Customer Behavior in Loyalty Programs
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bodapati
Lisa Jiang (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: Post Doc- Carnegie Mellon
Dissertation Title: How Consumers React to the Negative Emotions of Loss, Embarrassment, and Stress
Dissertation Chair: Professor Drolet Rossi
Mirei Takashima (Ph.D. '16)
Placement: Mirei TC Consulting
Dissertation Title: Self-Expression Through Brand and Consumption Choices: Examining Cross-Cultural Differences
Dissertation Chair: Professor Sood
Paul Hoban (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: University of Wisconsin
Dissertation Title: Advertising, Promotion, and Reviews: Three Models to Better Understand Internet Marketing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bucklin
Elizabeth Webb (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: Columbia Business School
Dissertation Title: Understanding Risk Preference and Perception in Sequential Choice
Dissertation Chair: Professor Shu
Rafael Becerril Arreola (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: University of South Carolina
Dissertation TItle: Modeling Consumer Preferences for Status-signaling Brands: Branding, Pricing and Product-line Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hanssens
Inigo Gallo (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: IESE Business School, Spain
Dissertation Title: The Processing and Evaluation of Experiences
Dissertation Chair: Professor Sood
Ho Kim (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: Azusa Pacific University
Dissertation Title: Consumer Online Search and New-Product Marketing
Dissertation Chair: Professors Hanssens
Hyewook Jeong (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Dissertation Title: The Indecisive Consumer: Coping with Negative Emotion by Seeking Variety
Dissertation Chair: Professor Drolet Rossi
Min Ha Hwang (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: McGill University, Canada
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Food and Grocery Retailing
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bronnenberg and Professor Thomadsen
Claudia Townsend (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: University of Miami
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Product Aesthetics in Consumer Choice
Dissertation Chair: Professor Sood
Hyun Sang Shin (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Long Island University
Dissertation Title: Strategic and Financial Implications of New Product Quality in High-Tech Industries
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hanssens
Oliver Rutz (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Yale University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Paid Search Advertising
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bucklin
Michael Trusov (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: University of Maryland
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Internet Marketing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bucklin
Paulo Albuquerque (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: University of Rochester
Dissertation Title: Using Multi-Market Information to Improve Understanding of Firm and Consumer Behavior
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bronnenberg
Garrett Sonnier (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: University of Texas, Austin
Dissertation Title: Bayesian Analysis of Consumer Willingness-to-Pay
Dissertation Chair: Professor Ainslie
Amit Joshi (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: University of Central Florida
Dissertation Title: The Direct, Indirect and Feedback Effects of Marketing Actions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hanssens
Yi Cathy Chen (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Impact of Certain and Uncertain Store Promotions on the Decision-Making Process in Product Choices
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Scott and Professor Zhang
Andres Terech (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: IAE/Universidad Austral, Argentina
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Consideration Sets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bucklin
Shijin Yoo (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Customer Equity and Product Marketing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hanssens
Julian Villanueva (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: IESE Business School, Spain
Dissertation Title: Acquisition Channels and Price Discrimination in a Customer Equity Framework
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hannsens
Caterina Sismeiro Ribeiro (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Modeling and Browsing and Purchase on the Internet Using Clicstream Data
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bucklin
Loraine Lau (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: University of Minnesota
Dissertation Title: Understanding Consumers' Evaluations of Mixed Affective Experiences
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Aaker and Professor Scott
Koen Pauwels (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Dissertation Title: Long-Term Marketing Effectiveness in Mature, Emerging and Changing Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hanssens
Pedro Makhoul (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: Insper
Dissertation Title: Cross-Border Acquisitions and Ownership
Dissertation Chair: Professor Sorenson and Professor Poliquin
Kira Stearns (Ph.D. '20)
First academic placement: Intensity, LLC
Dissertation Title: Investing in Innovation: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman and Professor Chen
Marco Testoni (Ph.D. '19)
First academic placement: Tilburg University
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Geographical, Product, and Technological Dimensions of the Market for Corporate Control
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
Bennett Chiles (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Shrouded Information and Strategic Transparency: Three Essays
on Price Obfuscation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
Cristian Ramirez (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Non-Monetary Incentives and Employee Compensation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Larkin
Vanessa Burbano (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Lieberman and Profesor Snyder
Bo Kyung Kim (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: SMU
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Effect of Financial Crises on Corporate Management
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
James Owen Ostler (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: University of Michigan
Dissertation TItle: Strategic Risk Taking Under Competition
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
Sara Elizabeth Parker (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: Rutgers University
Dissertation Title: Conflict of Interest and Incentives in Health Care
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Lieberman and Professor Ramanarayanan
Marco Huesch (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Duke University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Healthcare Economics
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor McKelvey and Professor Zame
Hyok-Jon Dharma Kwon (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Uncertainty on Operational Decisions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lippman
Gabriel Natividad (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: NYU, Stern School
Dissertation Title: Essays in Corporate Finance and Strategy
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bernardo and Professor Lieberman
Natarajan Balasubramanian (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Florida International University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Learning and Innovation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lieberman
Jeongsik Lee (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Exchange Networks
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor de Figueiredo and Professor Sorenson
Rongrong Ren (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Learning by Firms and Technological Innovation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Sorenson
Jina Kang (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: California State University, Fullerton
Dissertation Title: The Knowledge Advantage: Tracing and Testing the Impact of Knowledge Characteristics and Relationship Ties on Project Performance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Goodman
Belen Villalonga (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: Harvard Business School
Dissertation Title: 'Chop Shop' Valuation Models and the Diversification Discount: Issues of Causality, Selectivity and Aggregation
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professors Roll and Rumelt
Panayiota Konstantina Kiousis (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Knowledge, Incentives, and Growth
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor McKelvey and Professor Zame