Selected Scholars
Anant Balakrishnan
Professor, Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Kenneth M. and Susan T. Jastrow II Chair in Business
Associate Dean for Research, McCombs School of Business
Research Themes: Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Large Scale Optimization, Network Design, Telecommunications, Information Systems
Professor Balakrishnan’s research focuses on developing effective optimization models and methods to support design, planning and managerial decision-making for manufacturing and service operations, supply chain management and telecommunications. He serves as area editor or associate editor of Operations Research, Management Science and Networks, has held senior editorial positions for several top journals in operations management and telecommunications and has served in a leadership role in INFORMS. He received a Best Paper Award from INFORMS (2002), the Transportation Science Best Dissertation Prize from the Operations Research Society of America (1985) and MIT’s Zannetos Thesis Prize (1985). While teaching at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Balakrishnan received the Salgo Noren Outstanding MBA Teaching Award (1988).
Pamela Haunschild
Professor and Department Chair, Management
Herbert D. Kelleher / MCorp Regents Professor of Business
Cynthia Hendrick Kozmetsky Fellow, IC2 Institute
Research Themes: Organizational Change and Redesign, Organizational Learning, Organizational Networks
Professor Haunschild serves on the editorial boards of Organizational Science and Administrative Science Quarterly, and has held various leadership roles in the Academy of Management. She has received a Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management OMT Division, the Fulbright Viterbo Distinguished Chair in Corporate Governance, and the Pondy Award for Best Paper based on a Dissertation from the Academy of Management. Most recently, she received the McCombs School’s 2004–2005 Award for Research Excellence and a 2006 Rockefeller Foundation Grant.
Research Themes: Consumer Behavior, Customer Insight, Marketing Communication
Professor Hoyer joined the UT faculty in 1981 and has taught at McCombs School partner institutions in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Thailand. He has published over 60 articles in leading marketing forums and several books, including a leading text in Consumer Behavior (with Deborah MacInnis). He has received several awards for both teaching and research excellence, including the McCombs School’s Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions (2005) and Award for Research Excellence (2004), American Marketing Association’s Outstanding Marketing Professor award (1997) and the Alpha Kappa Psi Outstanding Professor Award (1990). Professor Hoyer serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.
George Huber
Professor, Management
The Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Business Administration
Research Themes: Organizational Change and Redesign; Learning and Decision Making by Managers, Groups, and Organizations
From his 1983 pioneering article, “The Nature and Design of Post-Industrial Organizations,” which earned First Prize in the Second International Prize Competition sponsored by The Institute of Management Science, to his co-authored study of organization design and effectiveness, which earned the Best Article of the Year from the Academy of Management Journal (1993), and on to his highly regarded book, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms (2004), Huber has demonstrated his mastery of organization theory research and its relevance for managers. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Decision Sciences Institute, a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame and an MOC Scholar (career award from the Managerial and Organization Cognition Division of the Academy of Management, 2005). Huber has served as Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate Schools of Business at the University of Wisconsin and The University of Texas at Austin.
William Kinney
Professor, Accounting
Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Business and Price Waterhouse Fellow in Auditing
Director, Center for Business Measurement and Assurance Services
Research Themes: Managerial Accounting, Auditing
A frequent contributor to the scholarly literature on matters related to auditing, Professor Kinney joined the McCombs faculty in 1988. He’s held leadership positions in the American Accounting Association and was editor of The Accounting Review. In addition to publishing more than 50 articles in top-tier accounting journals, he has served on the editorial boards of several, including the Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review. Kinney has received multiple awards from the American Accounting Association, including Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award, the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award and the Deloitte and Touch Wildman Award (three times). He currently serves on the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Research Themes: Financial Accounting, Judgment and Decision Making
Professor Koonce joined the McCombs faculty in 1990. She serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and has held various leadership positions in the American Accounting Association. Koonce is the recipient of the American Accounting Association Auditing Section’s Outstanding Manuscript Award (2001), the McCombs School’s Research Award for Assistant Professors (1996), and a KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty Fellowship (1992–1996). She has earned the MPA Council’s Outstanding Professor Award multiple times, the Joe Beasley Teaching Award for MBA Teaching (2002), and the Trammel/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors (1996).
Research Themes: Marketing Strategy, Product Diffusion, Research Methodology
A prolific scholar and consultant, Professor Mahajan joined the faculty at the McCombs School in 1991. He is a recipient of the Maynard Award (1990) from the Journal of Marketing and the Prentice Hall Award (1995) from the International Journal of Research in Marketing. In 1997 Mahajan received the AMA’s Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award, and in 1999 he received the AMA Marketing Research Special Interest Group Gilbert Churchill Award, recognizing a lifetime of achievement in marketing research. To honor his significance to the field, in 2000 the AMA instituted the Vijay Mahajan Award for Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy, which is presented annually to an educator for sustained contributions to marketing strategy literature. Mahajan has served as editor of the Journal of Marketing, as Associate Dean for Research at the McCombs School, and as Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
Laura Starks
Director, AIM Investment CenterDepartment Chair, Finance and the Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay Regents Chair in Finance
Research Themes: Corporate Governance, Institutional Investors, Mutual Funds
Professor Starks joined the UT faculty in 1986 and has served as Finance Department Chair since 2002. She has held leadership positions in the American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, and the Western Finance Association and has served as associate editor on the following journals: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Contemporary Finance Digest, and Journal of Financial Research. Starks’ contributions to the field have been recognized by the Financial Management Association (Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 1998), the Western Finance Association (Award for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 1997), the Journal of Finance (Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Award, 1996), and the McCombs School (awards for Research Excellence and Outstanding Research Contributions).
Sheridan Titman
Professor, Finance
Walter M. McAllister Chair in Financial Services
Director, Real Estate Finance and Investment Center
Research Themes: Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Real Estate
A member of the McCombs faculty since 1997, Professor Titman has developed a national reputation for his research on finance and real estate topics. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, former editor of the International Review of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies, and an associate editor of a number of finance and real estate journals. Titman’s work has been recognized by best paper awards in both the leading finance and real estate journals.
Andrew Whinston
Professor, Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Economics and Computer Science
Director, Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
Research Themes: E-commerce, Information Systems, The New Economy
At the forefront of the electronic commerce field, Professor Whinston is co-author or co-editor of 28 books and more than 350 research articles. His research interests are at the intersection of economics, computer science and management. These interests are reflected in Prof. Whinston’s research on prediction markets and allied information elicitation design mechanisms, shared structure design in keyword auctions, grid computing, electronic financial markets, and the organization of and value created by modern outsourcing forms. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Decision Support Systems and on the editorial board of most major Information Systems research journals. In 2005, Prof. Whinston received the Leo award for a lifetime of exceptional achievement in information systems.