School Leadership
Interim Dean
Emery A. Trahan
Trahan serves as Interim Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, returning to the role after previously serving as interim dean from 2021–2023. A nationally recognized finance scholar, award-winning educator, and longtime member of the D'Amore-McKim faculty, he has helped shape the school's academic excellence and strategic direction for more than 35 years.
Dean's Cabinet
Kate Ashley
Ashley is the associate dean of graduate programs and associate teaching professor of supply chain & information management, with expertise in pricing & revenue management, sustainable supply chains, retail operations management, marketing analytics, and optimization & prescriptive modeling.
Vikki Avras
Director of Strategic Initiatives & Event Management
Olubunmi Faleye
Faleye is the senior associate dean of faculty and the Donald F. Harding professor of finance with expertise in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, agency theory, and board composition.
Michael Gladstone
Interim Associate Dean of Finance and Administration
Heather Hill
Senior Director of Communications, Marketing and Digital Strategy
Laura Huang
Huang is the associate dean of executive education & corporate learning and a distinguished professor of management & organizational development with expertise in intuition and human judgment in decision-making under uncertainty, business transformation and organizational change, complexity and strategic decision-making, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Daniele Mathras
Mathras is the associate dean of undergraduate programs and an associate teaching professor of marketing with expertise in marketing, health, sustainability, corporate citizenship, transformative consumer research, consumer minimalism and simplicity, corporate social responsibility, healthcare and consumer wellbeing, and religion.
Julie Anne McNary
Assistant Dean, Corporate Partnerships, Outreach, and External Engagement
Academic Group Chairs
Nicole Boyson
Boyson is the group chair and a professor of finance with expertise in hedge fund activism, institutional investors, financial advisor conflicts of interest, regulatory arbitrage, financial crises, mutual funds, and fixed income.
Samina Karim
Professor and Group Chair, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Felicia Lassk
Lassk is the group chair and an associate professor of marketing with expertise in marketing, emotional intelligence, salesperson creativity, personal selling and sales management, marketing research.
Yang W. Lee
Associate Professor and Group Chair, Supply Chain and Information Management
Kimberly Moreno
Professor and Group Chair, Accounting
Jayanth Narayanan
Narayanan is an associate professor of management & organizational development with expertise in organizational behavior, mindfulness, social power and status, human biology in the workplace, and well-being.
Gary J. Young
Young is a professor of strategic management & healthcare systems with expertise in health, healthcare management, health policy, health law, general business strategy.