SAUDER FACULTY INSIDER INFORMATION
New faculty members Sauder is pleased to welcome five new members to the faculty.
Vanessa Alviarez
Vanessa Alviarez, Assistant Professor in the Strategy & Business Economics Division. Alviarez recently received her PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her job market paper is entitled “Multinational Production and Comparative Advantage.” Alviarez’ research fields include international trade and international finance. ■
Jennifer Berdahl, Montalbano Professor in Leadership Studies: Women and Diversity. Berdahl received her PhD in Social, Organizational and Industrial Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her doctorial dissertation is entitled “Perception, Power, and Performance in Small Groups: Jennifer Berdahl Insights from a Computational Model.” Berdahl’s research interests have focused on workplace mistreatment as a means of establishing, maintaining and reinforcing social inequalities at work. ■
So-Eun Park, Assistant Professor in the Marketing and Behavioural Science Division. Park recently received her PhD in Marketing in Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley. Her job market paper is entitled “Consumer Surplus Moderated Price Competition.” Park’s research interests include So-Eun Park empirical modeling of markets, behavioural economics, social influence, and competitive marketing strategy. ■
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Jack Favilukis
Georgios Skoulakis
Jack Favilukis, Assistant Professor in the Finance Division. Favilukis received his PhD in Finance in 2007 from the NYU Stern School of Business. Favilukis’ research interests include consumption and production based asset pricing , incomplete markets, heterogeneity and inequality, and limited participation and participation costs. ■
Georgios Skoulakis, Assistant Professor in the Finance Division. Skoulakis received a PhD in Finance from Northwestern University and a PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Skoulakis’ research interests include portfolio choice, asset pricing, computational economics, and econometrics. ■
Sauder signs agreement with leading Kenyan business school Sauder and Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding on February 5 aimed at increasing collaboration between the schools and upping Sauder’s activities in Africa. Thomas Ross, Senior Associate Dean, Special Projects at Sauder and George Njenga, Dean of the Strathmore Business School signed the five-year cooperation agreement, which will cover several areas of collaboration, including an MBA student exchange set to start in 2015, visiting professorships and interchange of faculty. ■