Fabio Caldieraro
Hamed Mamani
Assistant Professor, Marketing PhD, Northwestern University, 2003 MS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 1996 BS, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, 1990
Assistant Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2008 BS, Sharif University of Technology, 2003
Caldieraro joins the Foster School from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Before earning his PhD at Northwestern, Caldieraro spent nine years working for Unisys Corporation in South America. His research interests include management of distribution channels and sales force, and the interplay of buyer learning and brand reputation. Recent research was published in Marketing Science.
Mamani recently received his doctorate in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include operations and supply chain management, health care delivery, public health policy, applications of mathematical programming and game theory. Mamani has been published recently in Operations Research.
Thomas Gilbert Assistant Professor, Finance PhD, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2008 MSBA, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2005 MS, Imperial College London, 2002
While earning his PhD at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Gilbert received five awards for outstanding instruction from students in the undergraduate and MBA programs. Prior to his arrival in the US, he served as CFO of Lidar Technologies, an aerospace start-up that won the 2002 Imperial College New Business Challenge. Gilbert’s research interests include empirical asset pricing, asset pricing under asymmetric information and market microstructure.
Shailendra Pratap Jain
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Associate Professor, Marketing PhD, New York University, Stern School of Business, 1995 MPhil, New York University, Stern School of Business, 1992 MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1984 BE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, 1982
Jain joins the Foster School after earning multiple teaching awards during his time on faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, Cornell University and the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester. He also brings several years of experience in corporate marketing and communications. His research interests range from branding and categorization to comparative advertising and consumer cultures across the globe. Recent research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research.
Alan Muller Senior Lecturer, Marketing & International Business PhD, Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, 2004 MA, University of Amsterdam, 1998 BA, University of Washington, 1989
Most recently at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Business Studies and the Netherlands-based Expert Center for Sustainable Business and Development Cooperation, Muller has taught and studied in Europe for the past 15 years, earning international acclaim—and several prestigious awards—for his research. Interests include international strategy, corporate social action, business-government relations and bargaining, institutional theory and supranational governance. Recent research has appeared in European Management Journal and the Journal of Business Ethics
Lloyd John D. Tanlu Assistant Professor, Accounting PhD, Harvard Business School, 2008 MA, Brandeis University, 1999 BA, Ateneo de Manila University, 1995 BS, Ateneo de Manila University, 1994
Tanlu joins the Foster School after seven years as an adjunct professor in the International Business School at Brandeis University and three years as the University’s assistant director for budget and planning. His research interests include budgeting, performance measurement, control systems and conflicts of interest in accounting. Recent research has appeared in Financial Management and the Academy of Management Review.
Intellectual Capital A sampling of recent achievements and honors earned by Foster faculty Terry Mitchell, the Edward E. Carlson Distinguished Professor in Business Administration, Charles Hill, the Hughes M. and Katherine G. Blake Endowed Professor in Business Administration, and Bruce Avolio, the Marion B. Ingersoll Professor of Management, were named among the world’s 150 most influential management scholars in the Journal of Management. Among the most-cited researchers in the area of management, Mitchell ranked 35th, Hill 40th and Avolio 133rd. Overall, the Foster School management faculty was found to be the 23rd most cited in the world. Sonali Shah, assistant professor of management, received the Academy of Management’s Thought Leader Award for her paper, “The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship,” with Mary Tripsas of the Harvard Business School. Richard Nolan, the Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration at the Foster School, was awarded the 2008 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize from the MIT Sloan Management Review for his paper, “Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators,” co-authored by Rob Austin of the Harvard Business School. Vandra Huber, a professor of human resources management, is spending this fall teaching and researching in Bangkok, Thailand, as a Fulbright Fellow at Chulalongkorn University. Debabrata Dey, professor of information systems, Evert McCabe Faculty Fellow and chair of the department of Information Systems and Operations Management, has been named senior editor of Information Systems Research, a leading international journal focused on information systems in organizations, institutions and society. Tom Lee, the Hughes M. Blake Endowed Professor of Management and associate dean for academic and faculty affairs, recently completed presidency of the Academy of Management.
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