New Faculty Fall 2007 - McCombs School of Business - The University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor Francisco Perez-Gonzalez joins McCombs from Columbia University where he was a faculty member since 2001. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Perez-Gonzalez’s research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, family firms, entrepreneurship, organization economics, product market competition and corporate governance, and international corporate finance. He is also a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His work has recently been published in the the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Clemens Sialm, assistant professor, comes to McCombs from the University of Michigan, where he was a faculty member since 2001. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Sialm is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research areas are investments, mutual funds and taxation, and his work has recently been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Public Economics.

Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM)

Rohit Deo, visiting associate professor, comes to McCombs from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he has been a faculty member since 1995. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. His recently published works include “Long Memory in Nonlinear Process” in the book “Dependence in Probability and Statistics”; “The Variance Ratio Statistic at Large Horizons” in Econometric Theory; and “Estimation of Mis-specified Long Memory Models” in the Journal of Econometrics. Deo is an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Dain Donelson, assistant professor, recently completed his Ph.D. in accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a master’s degree in finance from Boston College and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He has worked at IBM Corp. as a financial analyst. His research interests include behavioral finance, earnings management, financial distress, insider trading and valuation..

Kumar Muthuraman, assistant professor, has been a faculty member at the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University since 2003. He received his Ph.D. in scientific computing and computation mathematics from Stanford University. His research has appeared in Operational Research, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Mathematical Finance and IIE Transactions. Muthuraman is co-founder and board member of TTK Services in Bangalore, India as well as the co-founder of Bharatplanet Consulting in Chennai, India.

Canan Ulu, assistant professor, obtained her Ph.D. in business administration at Duke University and her master’s of science degree in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University. Her research interests are sequential decision problems in technology adoption and use and improving decision analysis methods using behavioral decision theory.

Management Department

Emily Amanatullah, assistant professor, joins McCombs after earning her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She also received her master of philosophy degree in management from Columbia. Amanatullah's research focuses on the implications of gender role stereotypes for women in managerial contexts, especially negotiations. She is interested in why gender differences in behavior are present in some situations but not others, and how perceivers implicitly enforce gender role stereotypes on targets. Other research interests include individual differences and dispositions, impression management, and the formation and perpetuation of stereotypes.

Jennifer Whitson, assistant professor, comes from Kellogg School of Management, where she recently obtained her Ph.D. At Kellogg she instructed an MBA negotiations class from 2004 to 2007 and received the Doctoral Student Teaching Award for 2004-2005. Her research focuses on how people make sense of their environment—specifically how different psychological states (i.e., feeling a lack of control) and structural arrangements (i.e., power) modify the sense-making process. An additional line of research explores how the evolution of terminology in the field of management can influence what the field sees as appropriate and inappropriate topics for research.

Marketing Department

Assistant Professor Jade DeKinder received her Ph.D. from Emory University.
She was an American Marketing Association Sheth Foundation Doctorial Consortium Fellow in 2006 and an INFORMS Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow in 2005 and 2006. Her research interests are market signaling, information asymmetry and uncertainty in buyer-seller relationships, salesforce compensation, and econometric modeling.

Ty Henderson, assistant professor, joins McCombs from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he obtained his Ph.D. and MBA in marketing. His article, “Embedded Premium Promotion: Why it Works and How to Make it More Effective,” will be published in Marketing Science. He served as the vice president and CIO of telemanager.net and as director of software development at Murdock Communications. His research interests include embedded premiums, ROI of promotion strategies, non-compensatory consumer choice, hierarchical Bayes Models and estimation algorithms, and social interdependence of choice behavior.

Assistant Professor Raghunath Rao received his Ph.D. in business administration and master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Minnesota. At Minnesota, he was an instructor for “Selling and Sales Management” and “Principles of Marketing” since 2005. He obtained his MBA in international business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi, India. Rao’s research interests include analytical and empirical models of durable goods markets, boundedly rational consumers, salesforce issues and product strategies.

Ying Zhang, assistant professor, obtained his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and received his master of philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge. This year, he is a doctoral fellow for the Kilts Center for Marketing and was an American Marketing Association Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow in 2006. His research interests are self-regulation, mental framing of goal-related actions, cognitive properties of consumer goals, and affect in decision making. His work has recently been published in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and he has a forthcoming paper in the European Review of Social Psychology.

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