The D'Amore-McKim School of Business is pleased to welcome 18 full-time faculty this fall, adding to its impressive body of researchers, teachers, and leaders in Boston and on Northeastern's new New York City campus. They bring expertise that spans artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, sustainability, fashion law, and financial reporting, along with years of experience in industry and the classroom. Their work will shape students' journeys and prepare them for future-focused global business endeavors in two of the world's most dynamic business hubs.
“Whether they're based in Boston or New York City, our new faculty share a commitment to use-inspired research and teaching that connects theory to practice. Their collective accomplishments and experiences will give students across both campuses new perspectives on the challenges shaping global business,” says Senior Associate Dean of Faculty & Research Olubunmi Faleye.
Meet our new tenure and tenure-track faculty
Jaeho Kim
Assistant Professor, International Business & Strategy, Boston
PhD, Management, University of Pennsylvania
Kim's research explores strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on AI and emerging technologies, knowledge transfer, and collaboration within and between firms. The work has appeared in the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Organization Design, with coverage in Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
Meet our new non-tenure-track faculty
Adam Castor
Assistant Teaching Professor, Management & Organizational Development, Boston
PhD, Managerial Science and Applied Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Castor's research examines how categories shape the way markets value innovation, how nationality influences categorization, and how stakeholders perceive relatedness across a company's businesses. Castor previously taught negotiations, cross-cultural management, and deep learning at SKK Graduate School of Business in Seoul and earned a teaching award there in 2022.
Ankur Chavda
Associate Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy, New York City
PhD, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chavda's research explores entrepreneurial strategy and innovation, including how firms structure staged investments, milestone-based collaborations, and team knowledge. The work has appeared in Strategy Science. Before academia, Chavda spent nearly a decade at Microsoft and holds seven U.S. patents.
Morgan Cline
Associate Teaching Professor, Marketing, New York City
LLM, Fashion Law, Fordham University School of Law
Cline's work focuses on fashion law, retail management, and fashion marketing and branding. Cline brings more than 15 years of experience co-founding and designing for apparel and lifestyle brands, along with experience as a practicing attorney.
Martin Farrell
Assistant Teaching Professor, Accounting, New York City
DBA, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Farrell's research interests include energy economics, financial analysis, financial distress prediction, and emerging uses of artificial intelligence in accounting and finance. A CPA, Farrell has run a full-service accounting and tax practice since 1989.
Juwon Jang
Assistant Teaching Professor, Accounting, Boston
PhD, Accounting, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Jang's research focuses on financial reporting, tax avoidance, non-GAAP disclosure, climate risk, and stock price crash risk, with work published in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and Accounting and Finance. Jang previously spent nearly a decade as a bank examiner at South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service.
Kihyung Kim
Associate Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management, Boston
PhD, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Kim's work focuses on business analytics, operations management, and artificial intelligence in business education, including AI-enabled analytics tools and personalized feedback systems. Kim's research also spans supply chain risk, investment timing, and machine learning for financial market prediction.
Pielah Kim
Associate Teaching Professor, Marketing, New York City
PhD, Fashion and Retail Studies, The Ohio State University
Kim's research explores how AI and human creativity shape consumer perception, how visual arts and design drive marketing, and how innovation and technology are changing fashion retail.
Vandana Rao-Dev
Associate Teaching Professor, Management & Organizational Development, New York City
PhD, Economics, Stony Brook University
Rao-Dev's research spans econometrics, economic demography, and financial risk management, including work on economic capital, operational risk, and banking regulation.
Omar Robles
Assistant Teaching Professor, Finance, New York City
PhD, Economics, Harvard University
Robles' research explores corporate strategy in regulated industries, the financial effects of intellectual property strategy, and competition in pharmaceutical and medical device markets. His work has appeared in JAMA and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Elaheh Saffari
Assistant Teaching Professor, Marketing, New York City
PhD, Marketing, Old Dominion University
Saffari's research examines how AI-enabled technologies shape customer experiences, brand relationships, and consumer decisions. It pays particular attention to how AI design and brand characteristics influence the way customers respond.
Daniel Sandler
Assistant Teaching Professor, Accounting, New York City
MBA, Public Accounting, St. John's University
Sandler's work focuses on financial accounting instruction and multimedia learning design, with developing research on how visual and AI-supported tools can boost student engagement in business courses. A CPA, Sandler brings industry experience in corporate accounting and business tax.
Peter Schwarzer
Assistant Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy, New York City
PhD, History, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Schwarzer's work focuses on international franchising, market entry strategy, and entrepreneurship. Schwarzer spent nearly a decade leading research at franchise data firm FRANdata and later advised companies on expanding into the U.S. and German markets.
Nina Teng
Assistant Teaching Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Boston
PhD, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School
Teng's research uses field experiments in real startup hiring, investment, and scaling processes to study how early-stage ventures attract talent and capital. The work has appeared in Management Science. Teng joined Southeast Asian superapp Grab as an early executive, launching its operations in Thailand and Vietnam and building teams of more than 200 people.
Andrea Karayianni Tsentides
Associate Teaching Professor, Accounting, New York City
PhD, Accounting, Rutgers University
Tsentides' research examines ESG assurance and how it shapes company performance and stakeholder perceptions, along with audit quality, professional skepticism, and decision-making in audit teams.
David Via
Assistant Teaching Professor, Marketing, New York City
MBA, Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Via's work focuses on entertainment marketing, global business strategy, and entrepreneurship. Via brings nearly four decades of sales and marketing leadership in the music products industry, including vice president roles at Loud Audio, Zoom North America, and D'Addario.
Richard Viflanzoff
Assistant Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy, Boston
PhD, International Business, International School of Management
Viflanzoff's research explores how organizations and leaders navigate sustainability, responsible business, and cross-cultural challenges in a complex global environment. Before entering academia, Viflanzoff held management and senior leadership roles in industry.
Chia-Chun Yang
Assistant Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management, Boston
PhD, Operations Management, University of Cincinnati
Yang's research focuses on service and behavioral operations management. That includes how customers choose between AI service agents and self-service technologies, and how shift structure affects fatigue among emergency department caregivers.
