SPEARS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS New Tenure Track & Clinical Faculty Members
“I’m pleased to announce the following appointments to the faculty of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.” Lawrence Crosby, Ph.D. Dean, Spears School of Business Oklahoma State University
The Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University was established in 1908, and its academic programs are accredited by the AACSB International, the premier accrediting body for collegiate schools of business. The Spears School is composed of seven academic departments with more than 100 tenure and tenure-track educational professionals.
School of Accounting
John Abernathy is an Assistant Professor and received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Alabama. His research examines corporate governance, audit committees, boards of directors, and financial reporting quality. His teaching interest is financial accounting.
Bradley Blaylock is an Assistant Professor and received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Washington. His research focuses primarily on the financial reporting of corporate taxes and the capital market implications of the tax information in companies’ financial reports. He has published his work in The Accounting Review and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal. Bradley Lawson is an Assistant Professor and received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Texas A&M University. Using archival data, his research investigates corporate governance-related topics, with an emphasis on the effectiveness and pricing of the monitoring function provided by external auditors and the influence of individuals’ behavior on the audit engagement and corporate policies and decisions. Paula Sanders is an Assistant Professor and received
her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation examined how accountability interacts with managers’ situational preferences to influence memory accuracy and confidence. Her research interests include experimental examination of judgments and decisions in financial accounting and auditing.
Alyssa Vowell is the M.S. Coordinator and Clinical
Assistant Professor. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration with a Spanish minor and Master of Business Administration with an Accounting Emphasis from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She has over eight years experience in public accounting, primarily in tax, and almost three years with Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s income tax department.
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Alex Boquist is an Assistant Professor and received
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on how stock returns are impacted by idiosyncratic volatility, liquidity and short sales.
Tom Johansen is a Clinical Associate Professor of
Finance and received his Ph.D. in Finance from Oklahoma State University. Previously, Johansen was Professor of Finance and the Financial Planning Program Director at Fort Hays State University. He has considerable teaching experience in all areas of finance as well as curriculum and program development. His consulting and research interests have focused on valuation, economic impact, and value investing strategies.
Yuzhao Zhang is an Assistant Professor and
received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on asset pricing, financial derivatives, and informed trading.
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Aaron Hill is an Assistant Professor who is returning to
Oklahoma State, where he received his Ph.D. He received his undergraduate and MBA degrees at Gonzaga University, and was a small business owner before pursuing his doctorate. Hill’s research examines executives, corporate governance, and strategic human resource issues and has recently appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, and Strategic Organization.
Alexis Smith is an Assistant Professor and received
her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the A. B. Freeman School of Business of Tulane University and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rice University. Her focal area of research involves status and power in organizations. She has published research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology.
Cynthia Wang is an Assistant Professor and received
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her doctoral and master’s degrees in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and her bachelor’s in Social Psychology from Yale University. She has published research in Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science. Her main areas of research include social diversity and ethical decision-making.
Jim Burkman is a Clinical Assistant Professor and
received his Ph.D. in Management Information Science from Indiana University with a focus in Organizational Behavior. His research interests include user acceptance, trustworthiness, data visualization and information assurance. Areas of technical expertise include relational database design and information security training.
Jason Nichols is an Assistant Professor and received
his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Arizona State University. His research interests include decision support for process design, software development, and complex adaptive systems.
mArkEting Ted Matherly is an Assistant Professor and received his
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His academic research focuses on consumer identity signaling and social influence processes, examining how individuals evaluate signaling behavior through brands and how these evaluations impact their own decisions. His work has been presented at the ACR and SCP conferences. His teaching interests include marketing research and consumer behavior.
Published Spring 2013
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