The Campaign for Sustained Leadership

Sixteen new faculty have joined Wharton. Arriving from such places as Melbourne, Australia; Silicon Valley; Frankfurt, Germany; Chicago and New York, they will further augment Wharton"s existing expertise in accounting, finance, law and technology, human resource management, electronic commerce, marketing, multinational management, and operations and information management.

The new professors are:

Krishnan S. Anand, PhD, Stanford University, joined the Operations and Information Management Department. Anand's research focuses on strategic e-commerce issues and the challenges of developing incentive systems for supply chain management.

Heather Berry, PhD, UCLA, joined the Management Department. Berry studies multinational management and strategy, foreign direct investment, trade policy and competitiveness. Lisa Bolton, PhD, University of Florida at Gainesville, joined the Marketing Department. Bolton's research focuses on behavior forecasting and new product development.

Brian J. Bushee, PhD, University of Michigan, joined the Accounting Department. Bushee studies institutional investors, corporate disclosure and stock market anomalies.

Gerard P. Cachon, PhD, Wharton, joined the Operations and Information Management Department. Cachon studies supply chain inventory control and capacity allocation strategies in supply chains.

Martin James Conyon, PhD, University of Warwick, joined Wharton"s Management Department. Conyon's research focuses on corporate governance, boards of directors and executive compensation.

Hulya K.K. Eraslan, PhD, University of Minnesota, joined the Finance Department. Eraslan studies bankruptcy, corporate reorganizations and delegation in bargaining.

Dan Hunter, PhD, University of Cambridge, joined the Legal Studies Department. Hunter's fields of interest include artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law and international electronic commerce regulation.

Thomas Y. Lee, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the Operations and Information Management Department. Lee's work focuses on data management and information technology.

Christian Leuz, PhD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat (Frankfurt), joined the Accounting Department. Leuz studies international earnings management and the economic consequences of increased disclosure, among other issues.

Americus Reed II, PhD, University of Florida at Gainesville, joined the Marketing Department. Reed's research interests include the effects of attitudes on consumer decisions and the impact of social influence mechanisms on brand preference.

Nancy P. Rothbard, PhD, University of Michigan, joined the Management Department. Rothbard's research focuses on organizational behavior, including emotion and identity and groups and teams.

Maurice E. Schweitzer, PhD, Wharton, joined the Operations and Information Management Department. Schweitzer's research addresses deception and trust in negotiations, goal setting and behavioral decision research.

Skander J. Van den Heuvel, PhD, Yale University, joined the Finance Department. Van den Heuvel examines how monetary policy affects macroeconomics.

Patricia Williams, PhD, UCLA, joined the Marketing Department. Williams studies emotions, consumer memory, persuasion and cross-cultural comparisons.

Yihong Xia, PhD, UCLA, joined the Finance Department. Xia's research interests include asset allocation and portfolio choice theory and international finance.