2013 New Faculty Announcement

2013 New Faculty Announcement

Associate Professor of Finance PhD: MIT Sloan School of Management Recent Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania

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dam Kolasinski is passionate about finance, in particular the study of capital allocation. “Ensuring that capital is allocated to productive uses is key to the economic prosperity of any society,” explains the Associate Professor of Finance. He expresses the desire for his teaching and research to “contribute to a body of knowledge that can improve capital allocation decisions and thus, by extension, our economic prosperity.”

Kolasinski’s research focuses on the mechanisms and policies that can be implemented to improve firm performance and the smooth functioning of financial markets. His work has been featured in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Journal of Quantitative and Financial Analysis.

Prior to entering academia, Kolasinski worked as a financial analyst for a boutique investment bank on Wall Street. He also served as an economist in the Capital Markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Kolasinski won the Q Group Award in 2007, the Doctoral Award in Business through the State Farm Companies Foundation in 2005, and the Romine Prize for Best Columbia Undergraduate Thesis in Economics in 1998.

He has teaching experience at University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, and MIT. Kolasinski says he has no plans to slow down. “Whether I am teaching financial management to tomorrow’s business leaders or conducting research that will influence corporate financial decisions, I strive to make a real difference in my work.”

“Whether I am teaching financial management to tomorrow’s business leaders or conducting research that will influence corporate financial decisions, I strive to make a real difference in my work.”

Adam Kolasinski

Adam Kolasinski

Associate Professor of Finance PhD: University of Chicago Recent Affiliation: University of British Columbia

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uafeng Chen knows that Texas A&M is going places. “It is clear that A&M is on an upward trajectory, which for many schools you cannot say,” says the Associate Professor of Finance. “I am excited to be here and to see where we will be in the next five years.”

Chen’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing. His research has appeared in many top journals, including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Portfolio Management.

His research has earned him several awards and honors over the course of his academic career. Chen was the winner of the Best Paper on Business Valuation during the 2012 Northern Finance Association Conference. He received second place for the Best Paper in Review of Finance in 2012. Chen was also a finalist for the PanAgora Asset Management Crowell Prize in 2009.

“I am happy to be here and look forward to interacting with my new colleagues, teaching my first group of students, and continuing with my research,” Chen says.

“It is clear that A&M is on an upward trajectory, which for many schools you cannot say.”

Huafeng (Jason) Chen

Huafeng (Jason) Chen

Associate Professor of Management PhD: University of Texas at Austin Recent Affiliation: University of Arizona

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teve Boivie has a lot to say about his colleagues and the management department at Mays. He acknowledges the department as one of the best in the nation in terms of its research productivity and the visibility of its scholars.

This reputation is what drew Boivie to Texas A&M. “Mays is widely recognized as a great place to work,” says the Associate Professor of Management.

Boivie’s research focuses on corporate strategy and how human actors at the top of an organization affect the entire firm. “I’m interested in how and why senior executives make the billion-dollar decisions that they make,” explains Boivie.

“I’m also investigating the social factors that influence these decisions.”

He conducts research in the areas of corporate governance, top executives and directors, and technology and new industry formation.

His research has appeared in numerous publications, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Management, and has been mentioned in The Economist.

Boivie is currently serving on the editorial boards for Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

“During the next year, I look forward to getting to know my students, continuing my research, and being a part of the MBA faculty,” says Boivie.

“I’m interested in how and why senior executives make the billion-dollar decisions that they make.”

Steve Boivie

Steve Boivie

James Abbey

Adrienne Rhodes

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Assistant Professor of Information and Operations Management PhD: Penn State University Recent Affiliation: Penn State University

ames Abbey understands the need for academics to support practical business solutions. “My goal is to conduct research that has an important impact on academics while also providing real business solutions,” Abbey says.

Abbey comes to Mays with significant research and real-world experience. His research focuses on both practical and theoretical processes involved in supply chain management, with a particular emphasis on closed-loop supply chains and sustainable operations.

During the course of his research, Abbey has collaborated with companies such as Xerox Corporation, Bosch and HP. His research has been featured in Products and Operations Management. The Assistant Professor of Information and Operations Management trains students to use business analytics and statistical tools to make more grounded business decisions. His long-term goal is to develop sustainability-oriented courses, which will show that sustainable business practices are not mere philanthropy and can actually represent competitive advantages for firms.

The character of the faculty and the culture of Mays are what attracted Abbey to Texas A&M. Abbey explains that he chose Mays because of its “great atmosphere of collegiality and cooperation between faculty members.”

Assistant Professor of Accounting PhD: Penn State University Recent Affiliation: Penn State University

drienne Rhodes brings a passion for teaching to Mays.

According to Rhodes, her greatest job satisfaction is derived from “seeing students succeed, reach their goals and take pride in their accomplishments.”

She is committed to connecting with all of her students, and she understands that every student learns and processes information in a unique way. “I believe it is my job to disseminate information in a creative way that accommodates the many unique learning styles of my students,” she explains.

Rhodes’ research interests include executive compensation, debt contracting, and top management composition. Her dissertation studies the relationship between executive incentives provided by both the firm’s debt contracts and the executive’s compensation contract. Rhodes hopes to have her dissertation reviewed by a top journal in the next year.

She has previous experience teaching Managerial Accounting and joins Mays as an instructor of Intermediate Accounting. As she begins her career at Mays, Rhodes is excited to “learn the ropes” at Texas A&M and to continue developing relationships with her students and colleagues.

Caleb Warren

Sarah Rice

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Assistant Professor of Marketing PhD: University of Colorado at Boulder Recent Affiliation: Bocconi University

arketing Assistant Professor Caleb Warren strives to create a classroom environment that will excite and engage his students. “My favorite part about teaching is when students start making connections and get really excited about the course material,” Warren says. “It's rewarding to see students combine lessons from the class with their own passions.” He stresses to his students the need to come to class prepared to “co-create” class discussions, which “directs the course towards topics they find interesting, gets them more involved, helps them learn the material, and nurtures their communication skills.”

Warren’s research focuses on humor and coolness, how they drive consumer behavior, and their role in the marketing process.

He investigates how to create, understand, and implement humor across advertising channels and how humor influences consumer perceptions of brands. He also studies what makes brands or people cool in the eyes of consumers.

Warren has presented his research in conferences and in marketing departments in the United States and Europe. His work has also been published in Psychological Science and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Humor Studies.

During his first visit to Mays, Warren recalls, he was “impressed with the kindness, intelligence and productivity” of everyone he met.

Assistant Professor of Accounting PhD: Ohio State University Recent Affiliation: University of Connecticut

arah Rice is excited to be a part of Texas A&M. “Texas A&M is a world-class university,” says the Assistant Professor of Accounting. “I was also drawn to Mays because of its phenomenal accounting program and because I had heard great things about the students.”

Rice’s current research looks at firm disclosure and the associated consequences. Her work has focused on internal control weakness reporting, as per Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, as well as the impact of risk-related disclosures on IPO pricing. A parallel stream of research uses economic experiments within the Facebook social network to study the impact of varying social ties on trust and reciprocity. Rice’s dissertation looks at the economic effects of noise and uncertainty in online reputation systems.

Her work has been published in Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, and Information Systems Research. Additionally, Rice has been invited to present her research at many top business schools and at several national and international conferences.

Rice plans to share her research expertise with her students. “By bringing my research topics into the classroom, students will be able to gain a real-world perspective.”

Rice strives to incorporate in the classroom social media and a number of case studies, which she considers crucial learning instruments.

Endowed Chairs, Professorships and Faculty Fellowships chairs Anwer Ahmed Department of Accounting Ashley ’88 and David Coolidge ’87 Chair in Business

Mary Lea McAnally Department of Accounting Philip W. Ljungdahl/PwC Chair in Accounting

Murray R. Barrick Department of Management Paul M. and Rosalie Robertson Chair in Business Administration

Lynn L. Rees Department of Accounting J. Rogers Rainey, Jr. and Kathleen L. Rainey Class of 1944 Chair in Accounting

Leonard L. Berry Department of Marketing M. B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership

Venkatesh Shankar Department of Marketing Brandon C. Coleman, Jr. ’78 Endowed Chair in Marketing

Wendy R. Boswell Department of Management Jerry and Kay Cox Endowed Chair in Business

Bala Shetty Department of Information and Operations Management Paula and Steve Letbetter ’70 Chair in Business

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia Department of Management Benton Cocanougher Chair in Business Ricky W. Griffin Department of Management Jeanne and John R. Blocker Chair in Business Administration Michael A. Hitt Department of Management Joe B. Foster ’56 Chair in Business Leadership R. Duane Ireland Department of Management Carroll and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership Sanjay Jain Department of Marketing JCPenney Chair in Marketing and Retailing Studies Shane A. Johnson Department of Finance Thomas W. Leland Memorial Chair in Finance

Chelliah Sriskandarajah Department of Information and Operations Management Hugh Roy Cullen Chair in Business Administration Jerry R. Strawser Department of Accounting Development Council Dean’s Chair in Business KPMG Chair in Accounting Robert H. Strawser Department of Accounting Arthur Andersen Chair in Accounting Edward P. Swanson Department of Accounting Nelson D. Durst Chair in Accounting Education Senyo Tse Department of Accounting Thomas W. Leland/Oscar A. Weinke Chair in Accounting P. Rajan Varadarajan Department of Marketing Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce

Professorships James J. Benjamin Department of Accounting Arthur Andersen Professorship in Accounting Deloitte Leadership Professorship in Accounting Audra Boone Department of Finance Gina and William H. Flores ’76 Endowed Professorship in Finance

Dennis R. Lassila Department of Accounting Deborah D. Shelton Professorship in Taxation Martha L. Loudder Department of Accounting A.P. and Earline Wiley Professorship in Business Arvind Mahajan Department of Finance Lamar Savings Professorship in Finance

Haipeng “Allan” Chen Department of Marketing John E. Pearson Professorship in Business Administration

Annie L. McGowan Department of Accounting Deloitte Professional Program Director’s Professorship

Cydney C. Donnell Department of Finance Julio S. Laguarta Professorship in Real Estate

Richard Metters Department of Information and Operations Management Tenneco Professorship in Business Administration

Gary A. Giroux Department of Accounting Deborah D. Shelton Accounting Systems Professorship Shane A. Johnson Department of Finance Wells Fargo/Peters/Nelson/Heep Foundation Professor of Finance James W. Kolari Department of Finance Chase Professor in Finance Xenophon Koufteros Department of Information and Operations Management Jenna and Calvin R. Guest Professor in Business Administration Subodha Kumar Department of Information and Operations Management Carol and G. David Van Houten, Jr. ’71 Professorship

Clair J. Nixon Department of Accounting PwC Accounting Excellence Professorship Michael W. Pustay Department of Management Anderson Clayton & Co. and the Clayton Fund Professorship in Business Suresh Ramanathan Department of Marketing David R. Norcom ’73 Professorship Alina Sorescu Department of Marketing Rebecca U. ’74 and William S. Nichols III, ’74 Professorship Sorin Sorescu Department of Finance Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of Finance Laszlo Tihanyi Department of Management B. Marie Oth Professorship in Business Administration

Dechun Wang Department of Accounting Ernst & Young Professorship in Accounting

Charles E. Gilliland Department of Finance Helen and O.N. Mitchell, Jr. Faculty Fellowship in Real Estate

Connie D. Weaver Department of Accounting KPMG Professorship in Accounting

Richard L. Haney, Jr. Department of Finance Carlton D. Stolle Faculty Fellowship

Richard W. Woodman Department of Management Lawrence E. Fouraker Professorship in Business Administration

Gregory Heim Department of Information and Operations Management Mays Research Fellow

Manjit S. Yadav Department of Marketing Macy’s Foundation Professorship

Thomas O. Jackson Department of Finance G. Steven Dawson Fellowship

Asgar Zardkoohi Department of Management T.J. Barlow Professorship in Business Administration

Ram Janakiraman Department of Marketing Mays Teaching Fellow

faculty fellowships Leonard Bierman Department of Management Mays Research Fellow Steve Boivie Department of Management Mays Research Fellow Yong Chen Department of Finance Republic Bank Fellowship Lorraine Eden Department of Management Mays Research Fellow James C. Flagg Department of Accounting Carroll W. Phillips Faculty Fellowship Neil Geismar Department of Information and Operations Management Mays Research Fellow

Michael Ketzenberg Department of Information and Operations Management Mays Research Fellow Michael R. Kinney Department of Accounting KPMG Faculty Fellowship Rogelio Oliva Department of Information and Operations Management Ford Faculty Fellowship Nate Y. Sharp Department of Accounting Mays Research Fellow Dwayne Whitten Department of Information and Operations Management Mays Teaching Fellow Christopher J. Wolfe Department of Accounting KPMG Faculty Fellowship

“The foundation of any business school is its faculty…those who touch the hearts and minds of our students.

By recruiting and retaining top faculty, we are making a lasting investment in the lives of our students.”

Jerry R. Strawser Dean and KPMG Chair in Accounting Mays Business School Texas A&M University

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