The Tepper School of Business at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University earlier this month announced the addition of nine new faculty members for the 2009-10 academic year. The new hires include seven tenure-track faculty and two visiting professors in the fields of economics, finance, marketing, accounting and information systems.
“We are certainly proud of our faculty at the Tepper School and the contributions that their academic research continues to make for the global business and finance communities,” Kenneth Dunn, dean of the Tepper School, said in a statement announcing the new hires. “We welcome our new faculty members who bring international experience from other academic programs and who will continue the tradition of world-class academic research here,” he continued.
The new faculty hires are as follow:
• Timothy Derdenger, assistant professor of economics. Derdenger received his doctorate this summer from the University of Southern California. His research interests include industrial organization, strategy, empirical industrial organization, competition policy, high technology and media/entertainment strategy.
• Jeffrey Galak, assistant professor of marketing. Galak holds a PhD from New York Stern’s School of Business, and his research focuses on consumer behavior and understanding the types of experiences that lead to consumer enjoyment.
• Anisha Ghosh, assistant professor of finance. Ghosh, who will complete her doctorate this summer at the London School of Economics, has completed research in the areas of asset pricing, financial econometrics and macroeconomics.
• Jing Li, assistant professor of accounting. Li will complete her PhD from Columbia University this summer. Her research interests include analytical and empirical research in financial accounting, including accounting conservatism, fair value accounting and regulation.
• Emilio Osambela, assistant professor of finance. Osambela holds a doctorate in finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and his research interests include asset pricing, international finance and risk management.
• Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, assistant professor of economics. Petrosky-Nadeau will complete his doctorate in economics at the University of Quebec at Montreal this summer. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labor market dynamics, capital market imperfections and international macroeconomics.
• Stefano Sacchetto, assistant professor of finance. Sacchetto will complete his PhD at the London School of Business this summer, and his research focuses on industrial organization and corporate finance.
• Jung Pil Hahn, visiting assistant professor of information systems. Hahn will serve a one-year term at Tepper as a visiting professor from Purdue University, where he serves as assistant professor of management. His research interests include knowledge management, human-computer interaction, business value of information technology and systems development.
• Nachiketa Sahoo, visiting assistant professor in information systems. Sahoo will serve a two-year term at Tepper as a visiting professor from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College, where he is earning a PhD in information systems. His research interests include social networks, information retrieval, recommender systems and collaborative filtering.
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