Students on the Job Market

Wharton doctoral students have access to an unmatched breadth and depth of business knowledge. By pushing the boundaries of understanding, they become world-class experts in their fields.

Note: If you are interested in students from a particular program, please contact the departments directly for more information. See a list of links to department websites.

Student Research Interests Job Market Paper *Faculty Advisors
Department: APPLIED ECONOMICS

Brett Danaher

E-mail

  • Economics of Information Systems
  • Media Economics
  • Industrial Organization

"Converting Cannibals Without Cannibalizing Purchasers:  The Effect of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy"

Clemons, Eric

Kunreuther, Howard

*Waldfogel, Joel

Michael Gottfried

E-mail

  • Research Interests: Economics of education
  • Urban education
  • Education policy

“Peer Effects in Philadelphia's Classrooms Faculty”

Inman, Robert

Maynard, Rebecca

Sinai, Todd

Erica Johnson

E-mail

  • Public Finance
  • Economics of Education

“Racial Politics and School Fairness: The Effect of Black Legislators on School Funding”

*Inman, Robert

Chieh Ou-Yang

E-mail

  • Insurance Economics
  • Catastrophic Risk Management
  • Financial Derivatives and Insurance-Linked Securities
  • Pricing in Parimutuel Markets
  • Fat-Tailed Distributions.

“Managing Catastrophic Risks in the Presence of Climate Change”

Doherty, Neil A.

Kunreuther, Howard

Nini, Gregory

Jeremy Skog

E-mail

Website

  • Executive Compensation
  • Risk Management

“Executive Incentives, Firm Decisions, and Performance: The Risk Management Channel Faculty”

Core, John

Harrington, Scott

*Nini, Gregory

Ning Tang

E-mail

  • Household Portfolio Choice
  • Pension And Benefit Plan Design
  • Insurance And Risk Management
  • Actuarial Science
  • Asset Pricing

“Essays in Portfolio Choice and Trading Behavior”

Nini, Gregory

Mitchell, Olivia S.
Department: ETHICS & LEGAL STUDIES

Ryan Burg

E-mail

Website

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Human Resource Management
  • Organizational Failure
  • Business Ethics

“Inter-Organizational Continuity: The Finality of Failure and the Novelty of Newness”

Bosk, Charles

Laufer, William S.

Meyer, Marshall

*Robertson, Diana
Department: FINANCE
PhD students on the job market in Finance are listed on the Wharton Finance PhD Job Market page.
Department: HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT & ECONOMICS

Michael G. Housman

E-mail

Website

  • Health Care Management
  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Organizational Theory

“Organizational Form and Niche Overlap: The Dynamics of Surgery Center Entry and Exit”

*Burns, Lawton

David, Guy

Fleisher, Lee

Pauly, Mark V.

Singh, Jitendra

Eric Keuffel

Email

  • International Health Systems
  • Pharmaceutical Economics
  • Policy, Economics of Prevention/Wellness

“The Effects of Unemployment on Prevention Behaviors: A Longitudinal Analysis”

 

*Danzon, Patricia

David, Guy

Harrington, Scott

Pauly, Mark

J. Andrew Lee

E-mail

  • Strategic Management, particularly for provider and pharmaceutical/biotech/medical device industries
  • Health Economics and Decision Sciences
  • Health Policy Research, particularly for women and young adult populations

“Perception, Selection and Performance: Hospitals’ Adaptation Strategies”

Burns, Lawton R.

David, Guy

Kimberly, John R.

*Pauly, Mark

Useem, Michael

Robert D. Lieberthal

E-mail

Website

  • Financing long term health care plans
  • Forecasting health care costs
  • Quality measurement in health care

“The Impact of Medical Inflation on Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance”

Harrington, Scott

Nini, Gregory

*Pauly, Mark

Wachter, Jessica

Andrea Puig

E-mail

Website

  • Preventive Behavior, Insurance
  • Trends In Use Of Pharmaceuticals
  • Cost-Effectiveness Of Preventive Services
  • Financial Incentives In Healthcare Behaviors
  • Health Policy

“Preventive Behavior and Medicare Expenditures”

Doshi, Jalpa

Harrington, Scott

*Pauly, Mark

Plosky, Daniel

Volpp, Kevin
Department: MARKETING

Jeonghye Choi

E-mail

Website

  • Online Retailing
  • Social Contagion
  • Word-of-Mouth
  • Online Keyword Search
  • New Product Adoption
  • Spatio-Temporal Models

“Social Influence from Existing to New Customers”

*Bell, David R.

George, Edward I.

Iyengar, Raghuram

Lodish, Leonard M.

Van den Bulte, Christophe

B. Kyu Kim

E-mail

  • Consumers’ Judgment and Decision Making
  • Consumers’ Subjective Time Perception and Time-Related Decisions
  • Emotion and Memory

“Understanding Anticipatory Time Perception in Consumers’ Time-related Decisions”

Hutchinson, Wes

Kable, Joseph

Small, Deborah

Tobacman, Jeremy

*Zauberman, Gal

Neela Saldanha

E-mail

Website

  • Hedonic and Utilitarian Consumption
  • Ambivalence
  • Arousal
  • Fairness
  • Brand Evaluations

“Mixed Indulgences – Consumer Perceptions, Evaluation and Choice”

Block, Lauren

Reed II, Americus

Rozin, Paul

*Williams, Patti

Zauberman, Gal

Nicole M. Verrochi

E-mail

Website

  • Emotion Regulation
  • Social Identity
  • Self-Regulation of Consumer-Brand Relationships

“Who Am I and How Should I Feel? Social Identity, Feeling Rules and Emotion Regulation”

Berger, Jonah

Bradlow, Eric T.

Reed II, Americus

Small, Deborah A.

Williams, Patti
Department: MANAGEMENT

Elisa Alvarez-Garrido

E-mail

Website

  • Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Multinational Business

“Investor’s Experience and the Innovative Outcomes of Startups”

*Guillen, Mauro F.

Hsu, David

Rosenkopf, Lori
(Chair)

Singh, Harbir

Joydeep Chatterjee

E-mail

  • Firm Capability Evolution
  • Corporate Scope, Competition
  • Technology Strategy
  • Service Offshoring

“Role of Knowledge Type in Capability Development: Evidence from the Global Software Services Industry”

*Singh, Harbir

N. Andrew Cohen

E-mail

Website

  • Leadership
  • Teams
  • Social Networks within organizations

“Managers' Social Networks and Their Effects on Subordinate Employees”

Grant, Adam

Harrison, David

*Klein, Katherine (Chair)

Rosenkopf, Lori

Useen, Michael

Noah Eisenkraft

E-mail

Website

  • Dyad-level phenomena and the higher-level constructs that influence them.
  • employment interviews
  • negotiations
  • perceptions/meta-perceptions
  • social network ties and the methodological and statistical challenges associated with dyadic/multilevel research.

“Should We Trust Our First Impressions? Reconciling the Thin Slices and Interview Validity Literatures”

*Klein, Katherine

Anuja Gupta

E-mail

 

  • Strategy
  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship & International Management

“The Value Creation and Destruction Effects of Technological Search Strategies”

Guillen, Mauro

Siggelkow, Nicolaj

*Singh, Harbir

Winter, Sidney (Chair)

Jingoo Kang

E-mail

  • CEO Decision Making
  • Corporate R&D
  • Corporate Social Performance
  • Strategic Alliance

“Corporate Social Responsibility? Not My Business Anymore: The Horizon Problem in Corporate Social Performance”

Amit, Raffi

Chang, Sea-jin

MacMillan, Ian

Singh, Harbir

Andrew Knight

E-mail

Website

  • Learning, development, and change across levels of analysis
  • teams and leadership in high-risk work settings
  • interpersonal relationships

“Positive Affect and Project Team Development and Effectiveness.”

Barsade, Sigal

*Klein, Katherine

Yakubovich, Valery

Monica M. Stallings

E-mail

  • Gender differences in networks

“Whom Would you Approach for Advice? Gender Differences in Network Preferences”

Rosenkopf, Lori

*Rothbard, Nancy

Singh, Harbir

Department: OPERATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Nicole Ruedy

E-mail

Website

  • Ethical decision-making
  • Affect
  • Trust

“Cheaters Never Win? Affective Consequences of Unethical Behavior”

Milkman, Katherine

Pope, Devin

*Schweitzer, Maurice
Department: STATISTICS

Blakeley B. McShane

E-mail

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Statistical Models for Marketing
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Machine Learning

“Multivariate Visual Diffusion for Social Groups: How Social Identity Influences When and What People Buy”

Bradlow, Eric

Jensen, Shane

Krieger, Abba

Wyner, Abraham

Mingyuan Zhang

E-mail

Website

  • Causal Inference
  • Statistical Applications in Economics and Finance

“Causal Inference for Continuous Time Process with Covariates Observed at Discrete Times”

*Joffe, Marshall

Rosenbaum, Paul

*Small, Dylan

*Principal advisor