The Wharton Alumni Magazine
Fall 1998
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A Gift from the Heart

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New Faces on Faculty

The 14 new faculty at Wharton this year bring with them a variety of research interests ranging from financial accounting, game theory and international non-market strategy to consumer shopping behavior and privatization.

Joining Wharton as an associate professor in the marketing department is David R. Bell (PhD‘95: Stanford), formerly an assistant professor at UCLA. Other new faculty, all assistant professors, include:

  • Accounting: James J. Chang (ABD, Harvard)
  • Finance: Bilge Yilmaz (ABD, Princeton)
  • Insurance and Risk Management: Kent Smutters (PhD ’95: Harvard), formerly principal analyst, Congressional Budget Office n Management: Beth A. Bechky (ABD, Stanford); Witold J. Henisz (PhD’98: Berkeley); Nicolaj Siggelkow (PhD’98: Harvard); Julie Wulf (ABD, Columbia)
  • Marketing: Gavan Fitzsimmons (PhD’95: Columbia), formerly assistant professor at UCLA
  • Operations & Information Management: Balaji Padmanabhan (ABD, New York University); Christian Terwiesch (PhD’97: INSEAD), formerly project scientist at the University of San Diego
  • Public Policy & Management: Felix Oberholzer-Gee (PhD’96: University of Zurich)
  • Statistics: Abraham J. Wyner (PhD’93: Stanford), formerly visiting professor at Berkeley, Elaine L. Zanutto (PhD’98: Harvard)
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