The D'Amore-McKim School of Business is pleased to announce the arrival of 29 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're excited to welcome an outstanding group of scholars to the D'Amore-McKim family. Their boundary-spanning expertise in areas including consumer decision-making, digital finance, global supply chains, strategy and sustainability, and workplace mental health is poised to enhance our ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines to provide effective solutions to highly important business and societal problems,” says Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research and Professor of Finance Olubunmi (Bunmi) Faleye.
Meet our new tenure and tenure-track faculty
Santiago Caicedo
Associate Professor, Economics (joint appointment in Finance)
PhD, Economics, University of Chicago
Caicedo's research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions, human capital formation, economic growth and development, innovation, and organizational economics. He is currently working on projects studying the effects of demographic and labor market changes on firm productivity, innovation, and economic growth.
Da Huang
Assistant Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, University of Utah
Huang's research examines the role of institutional investors in the economy, with a particular focus on passive funds, exchange-traded funds, and high-frequency traders.
Alina Ionica Lungeanu
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies (joint appointment in Management & Organizational Development)
PhD, Technology and Social Behavior, Northwestern University, School of Communication & McCormick School of Engineering
Lungeanu's research combines insights from social science and network science to examine how team networks configure to advance the frontier of science.
Anand Nair
Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management, Jeffrey Bronstein Faculty Fellow
PhD, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Michigan State Eli Broad College of Business
Nair has worked with organizations in manufacturing, healthcare, and retail on a number of issues. His research examines how firms, teams, and individuals learn, adapt, and organize to manage processes, supplies, technology, and innovation, and the associated performance implications.
Hristina Nikolova
Associate Professor, Marketing (joint appointment in Communication Studies)
PhD, Marketing, University of Pittsburgh
Nikolova's research focuses on dyadic decision-making, interpersonal relationships, and data-driven consumer welfare interventions. Specifically, Nikolova has two research streams: (1) the influence of dyadic decision-making contexts (e.g., decisions made jointly by two partners, such as choosing a restaurant/movie, buying a home, or making long-term retirement choices together) on consumer behavior (her primary area of research expertise and interest); and (2) data-driven consumer welfare interventions.
Kunyuan Qiao
Assistant Professor, International Business & Strategy (joint appointment in Sociology & Anthropology)
PhD, Management, Cornell University
Qiao is interested in understanding how history, geography, and institutions may affect present-day international business and strategy.
Shane Schweitzer
Assistant Professor, Management & Organizational Development
PhD, Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
Schweitzer studies the psychology of technology, specifically, how people perceive advanced technologies and how technology changes the way people perceive other humans. He investigates the consequences of these processes for organizational ethics, social connection, and emotion.
Meet our new non-tenure-track faculty
Adonis Antoniades
Associate Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Economics, Columbia University
Antoniades' research portfolio includes work in banking, law and finance, and machine learning. Recent work examines the U.S. commercial banking sector's experience during the Great Recession, providing empirical evidence on the influence of liquidity and real estate risks on bank lending and solvency. His professional background spans finance academia, central banking, and, earlier, machine learning research.
Gastón de los Reyes
Associate Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy
PhD, Ethics & Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
de los Reyes studies and teaches international business and strategy with a particular interest in questions of governance, ethics, and sustainability. Before his Ph.D., he practiced corporate law, representing Latin American companies in Wall Street deals.
Netanel Drori
Associate Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy
PhD, Business Administration, Business, Bar-Ilan University
Drori's research examines how industry-level factors influence firms' growth strategies in terms of degree and scope.
Jared Flake
Visiting Assistant Professor, Accounting
PhD, Accounting, Boston College
Flake's research interests lie in the intersection of voluntary disclosure and information intermediaries, particularly in the incentives and consequences around managers' disclosure choices and their interactions with sell-side analysts and investors.
Debashish Ghose
Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing
PhD, Business Administration (Marketing), Fox School of Business, Temple University
Ghose's research focuses on business analytics, digital marketing, marketing management, database marketing, consumer behavior, fake news, interface design, social media, advertising, and choice architecture.
Aleks Gollu
Associate Teaching Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
Gollu's teaching and research interests fall in the areas of entrepreneurship, product management, corporate strategy, supply chain, transportation, and large-scale system management.
Joseph Henry
Associate Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, The Pennsylvania State University
Henry's research interests include initial public offerings (IPOs) and shareholder payouts. He also maintains an interest in the use of financial technology (FinTech) to deliver financial services and alter business models.
Sonja Hightower
Associate Teaching Professor, Accounting
PhD Candidate in Accounting, G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas
Hightower's research interests include audit regulations and their impact on capital markets and the audit profession. She has over 20 years of work experience in accounting, finance, and banking.
Norman Jacknis
Professor of the Practice, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
PhD, Princeton University
Jacknis has extensive experience implementing technologies for local and state governments.
Evodio Kaltenecker
Associate Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy
PhD, University of São Paulo
Kaltenecker's research focuses on global strategy, Latin American issues, geopolitics, and international business.
Manasvi Kumar
Visiting Assistant Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
PhD, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
Kumar's research interests include behavioral and business analytics and human-computer interaction.
Mengchao Ai
Assistant Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ai's research interests include empirical corporate finance and sustainability-related topics.
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn
Visiting Teaching Professor, Supply Chain & Information Management
PhD, Computer Science, The Hebrew University
Mokryn's research focuses on the use of Information Theory for compact data representation and its applications, cognition in interaction systems and behavioral research, and network science.
Larissa Pacheco
Assistant Teaching Professor, International Business & Strategy
PhD, Strategy and International Business, Fundação Getulio Vargas
Pacheco's research interests lie on the intersection of firms' nonmarket strategies and interdependencies with formal and informal institutions in Latin America.
Xiaochuan Tong
Assistant Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, University of Massachusetts Boston
Tong's research interests relate to topics of behavioral research in finance; particularly, the psychological and sociological perspectives of finance.
Alexey Vasilenko
Assistant Teaching Professor, Finance
PhD, Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Vasilenko's research interests are in household finance, education finance, and empirical asset pricing.
Xiupeng Wang
Visiting 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.
Kelly Wellman
Lecturer, Accounting
PhD Candidate, Accounting, University of Central Florida
Wellman's research interests focus on data visualization and its use in management decision-making.
Yi Yin
Assistant Teaching Professor, Marketing
PhD, Marketing, University of Texas at San Antonio
Yin's research focuses on market strategy. She uses empirical modeling and machine learning to study topics in digital marketing, advertising, and marketing-finance interface.
