New Faculty 2001-2002
The McCombs School welcomes seven new tenure-track faculty members for the 2001-2002 academic year.
Accounting
Linda Krull is a doctoral graduate of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of international tax and financial accounting, the effects of taxes on stock prices, and dividend tax capitalization.
Finance
Lorenzo Garlappi joins UT from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he received his PhD this year. Investments, futures and options, asset pricing, corporate finance, and derivatives are among his research interests.
Jay Hartzell comes to the McCombs School from New York University, where he was an assistant professor in the Stern School of Business. He studies corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate finance. He received his PhD from UT-Austin in 1998.
A 2001 PhD graduate of MIT, Jennifer Huang researches corporate finance and investments. Her working papers and publications include studies of portfolio decisions with multiple investment goals, valuation of liquid assets, market structure, security prices, and informational efficiency.
Management
Prior to joining UT, Mathew Hayward was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and International Management at the London Business School. He earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1998. The factors that explain the success of recently formed wireless, application service provider and Internet are the focus of his research.
MSIS
Alina Chircu completed her PhD at The University of Minnesota this spring. A specialist in electronic business, her research has explored internet-based corporate travel reservation systems, commerce-related technology investments, and strategies in business-to-business e-commerce.
Huseyin Tanriverdi's scholarly interests lie at the intersection of the fields of information technology and business strategy. His current research focuses on the roles of knowledge resources, knowledge management capabilities, and IT in the performance of diversified firms. He received a M.Sc. degree in Information Systems from London School of Economics and Political Science in 1995.
