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September 1, 2009
Wharton Welcomes Faculty
Accounting
Karthik Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor
PhD in Accounting from New York University (expected 2010)
Research interests include financial accounting and capital markets.
Holly Yang
Assistant Professor
PhD in Accounting from Cornell University (expected 2010)
Research interests include voluntary disclosures and capital markets.
Business & Public Policy
Santosh Anagol
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Yale University (expected 2009)
Research interests include development economics.
Alon Eizenberg
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Yale University (expected 2009)
Research interests include industrial organization.
Alex Gelber
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Harvard University
Research interests include industrial organization.
Finance
Lukasz DrozdAssistant Professor
PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota
Research interests include international economics and macro-finance.
Vincent Glode
Assistant Professor
PhD in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests include asset pricing.
Todd Gormley
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests include empirical corporate finance and banking.
Mark Jenkins
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Stanford University (expected 2009)
Research interests include consumer credit and industrial organization.
Pricila Maziero
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota
Research interests include contract theory and public economics.
Krista Schwarz
Assistant Professor
PhD in Finance and Economics from Columbia University (expected 2010)
Research interests include empirical asset pricing, capital markets and institutions.
Ivan Shaliastovich
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Duke University
Research interests include theoretical asset pricing.
Bilge Yilmaz
Associate Professor
PhD in Economics from Princeton University
Research interests include political economy, shareholder information, consumer credit, trade-based manipulation in financial markets.
Health Care Management
Jonathan Kolstad
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from Harvard University
Research interests include health economics.
Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Galit Sarfaty
Assistant Professor
PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (expected 2010)
JD from Yale Law School
Research interests include international law and ethical norms in global institutions.
Amy Sepinwall
Assistant Professor
PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University (expected 2009)
JD from Yale Law School
Research interests include responsibility in organizational contexts.
Management
Adam Grant
Associate Professor
PhD in Organizational Psychology from University of Michigan
Research interests include job motivation, job design, and employee proactivity.
Ethan Mollick
Assistant Professor
PhD in Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Economic Sociology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (expected 2009)
Research interests include role of individuals at the levels of organization and industries, effect of individuals in entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation.
Marketing
Cassie Mogilner
Assistant Professor
PhD in Marketing from Stanford University
Research interests include time, money and happiness, consumer judgment and decision making.
Operations and Information Management
Katherine Milkman
Assistant Professor
PhD in Information, Technology, & Management from Harvard University
Research interests include behavioral economics, behavioral decision making, and e-commerce.
Sergei Savin
Associate Professor
PhD in Operations and Information Management from University of Pennsylvania
PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania
Research interests include product diffusion, revenue management, and health care operations.
Uri Simonsohn
Assistant Professor
PhD in Social and Decision Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests include behavioral economics, psychology of preference, and managerial decision making.
Statistics
Alexander RakhlinAssistant Professor
PhD in Computational Learning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests include machine learning, clustering, and sequential decision making
