Jeffrey Hu Professor of Information Technology Management
Jeffrey Hales
Deven Desai
Catherine W. and Edwin A. Wahlen, Jr. Professor of Accounting
Professor of Law and Ethics
Education: Ph.D., Management Science and Information Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management; M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.S., Finance, Tsinghua University
Education: Ph.D. in Management, Cornell University; M.S. in Management, Cornell University; MAcc in Accountancy, Brigham Young University; B.S. in Accounting, Brigham Young University
Professor Yu “Jeffrey” Hu was promoted to full professor at Scheller College in 2016. He is director of the China Program, co-director of the Business Analytics Center, and associate director of the Master of Science in Analytics interdisciplinary degree program. Hu is an expert on big data, business analytics, electronic commerce, mobile commerce, social media, consumer behavior, and online advertising.
Professor Jeffrey Hales, chair of the Scheller College Ph. D. committee, earned full professorship in 2016. He serves as Ph.D. Coordinator in accounting and also has interests in sustainability and prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2008, Hales was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin. Hales’ research focuses on accounting standard setting and regulation, individual decision making, and behavioral finance, using techniques from applied game theory, experimental economics, and psychology.
“I may not even have told my Ph.D. advisor this-but when I joined MIT Sloan’s Ph.D. program in 1999, I didn’t plan to be a professor,” said Hu. “My dream job was being a management consultant that helps many companies solve their tough problems. As I observed how my Ph.D. advisor could make a huge impact through his research and teaching, I decided to follow in his footsteps and became a professor.”
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“I believe most people want to have an impact on the world around them and to be a force for the better,” Hales said. “What I enjoy the most about my job is when you can see the things we study and the things we teach really resonate with students, practitioners, or policymakers. Those connecting moments are immensely rewarding.”
Education: Juris Doctor, Yale Law School; B.A., Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley This year Professor Deven Desai earned tenure at Scheller College. Desai joined the Scheller faculty in fall 2014 in the Law and Ethics Program; prior to joining Scheller, he was an associate professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Desai’s scholarship examines how business interests, new technology, and economic theories shape privacy and intellectual property law and where those arguments explain productivity or where they fail to capture society’s interest in the free flow of information and development. “Georgia Tech continually shows me new ways technology and business practices disrupt assumptions in the law. Being able to draw on those resources and get truly nerdy as I try to figure out new frontiers in law and ethics rounds out why I am honored and always excited to be a professor at Georgia Tech and Scheller College,” said Professor Desai.
Tiffany Johnson, assistant professor, organizational behavior
Jacqueline Garner, lecturer, finance
Chris Gu, assistant professor, marketing
Manpreet Singh, assistant professor, finance
Joycelyn Streator, lecturer, information technology management
Venkat Venkateswaran, lecturer, operations management
Ryan Blunck, lecturer, accounting
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