The D'Amore-McKim School of Business is pleased to announce the arrival of 16 full-time faculty to its impressive body of researchers, teachers, and leaders this fall. Their collective accomplishments and experiences will shape students' journeys and prepare them for future-focused global business endeavors.
“We are enthusiastically welcoming an outstanding group of scholars to D'Amore-McKim. Their expertise across areas of decision-making, finance and marketing, strategy and sustainability, leadership, and workplace mental health promises to enhance our ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines to provide effective solutions to today's business and societal problems,” says Associate Dean of Research Koen Pauwels.
Meet our new tenure and tenure-track faculty
Kate Karniouchina
Associate Professor, Marketing
PhD, Marketing, University of Utah
Karniouchina's research focuses on marketing, finance, and strategy interface issues, new product development, motion pictures, Bayesian estimation, and hierarchical data structures.
Nirajana Mishra
Assistant Professor, Marketing
PhD, Marketing, Boston University
Mishra's research interests include technological innovations, platforms, financial decision-making, and gender.
Guohou Shan
Assistant Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
PhD, Management Information Systems, Temple University
Shan's current research focuses on understanding the impact of platform and firm policies, including the adoption of fact-checking, AI, and digital nudges, on user behavior.
Liwei Weng
Assistant Professor, Accounting
PhD, Accounting, Arizona State University
Weng's research interests focus on financial accounting and auditing, with a particular emphasis on exploring topics such as disclosure, institutional investors, ESG (e.g., labor), debt market (e.g., municipal bonds), analysts, and audit quality.
Victoria Zhang
Assistant Professor, Marketing & Organizational Development (joint appointment in Health Sciences)
PhD, Organizations and Management, Yale University
Zhang's research focuses on social networks, norm-violations, behavioral change, and healthcare.
Meet our new non-tenure-track faculty
Serdar Aldatmaz
Visiting Associate Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, Univerisity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aldatmaz researches private equity, venture capital, IPOs, international finance, law and finance, and financial development.
Adenekan Dedeke
Associate Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
Dr Rer Pol Wirtschaftsingeniurwesen, Technishe Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dedeke's research and teaching interests include management information systems, digital transformation, business analysis, and the impact of technology on ethics. His research interests include digital and organizational transformation, intersection of ethics and information technologies, IT as a driver of sustainability, and the impacts of new technologies on society.
Kai Gu
Assistant Teaching Professor, Accounting
PhD, Business Administration (Specialization: Accounting), University of Houston
Gu's research intersts include information reporting and processing behaviors, individual differences, standard setting, and psychological and sociological explanations of accounting phenomenon.
Ahmed Huq
Associate Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
DBA, University of Kentucky
Huq's research interests are in the areas of logistics and supply chain management, location theory, and job shop scheduling.
Yeonju Jang
Associate Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, University of Kansas
Jang's teaching and research interests include fintech, small business finance, and political economy.
Seung Hyun Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing
PhD, Quantitative Marketing, University of California, San Diego
Kim's research focuses on online platforms, platform design, generative AI, and consumer behavior.
Daniel Katz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing
PhD, Marketing, University of Chicago
Katz's research interests involve applying tools from cognitive psychology, economics, and statistics to study consumer behavior, financial decision-making, and product reviews. He uses a variety of experimental and statistical methods, including online and lab experiments, econometric analyses of secondary data, and text analysis. He enjoys working with data and learning new methods.
Lingfei Kong
Assistant Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Business Administration (Finance), University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lingfei's teaching and research interests focus on investments, data analytics, derivatives, and corporate finance. She also is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Deborah Soule
Assistant Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
DBA, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School
A veteran of the business world, Soule is an expert in analytical thinking, change management, customer relationship and stakeholder management, data analysis, organizational culture, and research design and analysis.
Xiupeng Wang
Assistant Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
PhD, Economics, University of Connecticut
Wang's research primarily focuses on the impact of emerging technologies, particularly recent advances in information technologies, on firms and the labor market. His current research studies how information technology affects organizational structures, firm sizes, and market concentration. His research also extends to cybersecurity to analyze firms' human capital acquisition in response to data breaches. Through massive online experiments, Wang is developing a new measure of household production and finds the currently omitted non-market contribution to the GDP can potentially be greater than we believed before.
Dena Yadin
Assistant Teaching Professor, Marketing
PhD, Marketing, Bar-Ilan University
Yadin's research examines how and why consumer-generated content influences consumers beyond their purchasing decisions. Consumer-generated content has assumed a prominent role in contemporary marketing, as consumers are invited to express their views and thoughts in the form of comments or reviews. In particular, she focuses on changes in consumer behavior and experiences caused by exposure to consumer-generated content. She is also interested in how consumer behavior transfers via social media. Her goal is to broaden our understanding of the social context in which we understand consumers' online behavior and shed light on their effects on other consumers' online and offline experiences. She aims to leverage these insights to address real-world problems in the field of marketing.
