Management 620 (GS-N)
Management 620
Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Doctoral Program: Suresh Govindaraj, Rutgers Business School (RBS), 1 Washington Park, Room 934 (973-353-5371; email: phdinfo@business.rutgers.edu)
The doctoral program is administered separately from the Rutgers master of business administration (M.B.A.) degree program. For information about programs leading to the M.B.A. degree, visit the Rutgers Business School admissions office website; (973-353-1234; fax: 973-353-1592; email: admit@business.rutgers.edu).
Members of the Graduate Faculty
From the Accounting and Information Systems Department
Michael Alles, Ph.D., Stanford
Managerial accounting; strategic control systems
Divya Anantharaman, Ph.D., Columbia
Accounting and corporate finance; disclosure; pension funds; financial institutions
Helen Brown-Liburd, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Judgement and decision-making issues in auditing; negotiation; ethics
Foong Soon Cheong, Ph.D., Yale
Analysists forecast; information flow; equity valuation
Valentin Dimitrov, Ph.D., Tulane
Capital markets; financial accounting; voluntary disclosure
Feng Gao, Rochester
Corporate governance; securities regulations insider trading; corporate social responsibility
Suresh Govindaraj, Ph.D., Columbia
Financial analysis; executive compensation; taxes
Won Gyun No, Ph.D., Waterloo (Canada)
Accounting information systems
Hussein Issa, Ph.D., Rutgers
Exception identification and prioritization; expert systems; continuous auditing and continuous control monitoring; data analysis
Bikki Jaggi, Ph.D., Free (Berlin)
Financial accounting; cost accounting; environmental accounting; social accounting.
Alex Kogan, Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences
Internet technology and electronic commerce; knowledge-based decision support systems; accounting information systems; reasoning under uncertainty; productivity accounting and data analysis
Yaw M. Mensah, Ph.D., Illinois
Managerial accounting; efficiency evaluation; nonprofit institutions; financial accounting; information in capital markets
Kevin Moffitt, Ph.D., Arizona
Automated credibility assessment; fraudulent financial reporting; knowledge discovery through text mining; motivation in online communities
Dan Palmon, Ph.D., New York University
Corporate finance; financial reporting; general accounting theory
Bharat Sarath, Ph.D., Stanford
Financial accounting
Glenn R. Shafer, Ph.D., Princeton
Audit judgment; causal modeling and uncertain reasoning; expert systems; information systems; statistical reasoning
Jay Soled, J.D., Michigan
Business taxation; charitable trusts; estate planning
Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Accounting systems; expert systems; e-commerce
Li Zhang, Ph.D., London Business School
Voluntary disclosures; market anomaly; credit market
From the Finance and Economics Department
Ivan E. Brick, Ph.D., Columbia
Corporate finance; the impact of default risk, taxes, and asymmetric information upon the type of financial securities issued by firms; capital budgeting
Serdar Dinc, Ph.D., Stanford
Political economy of finance; transmission of financial shocks; real estate lending; mergers and acquisitions
Mahmud Hassan, Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Economics; health economics; labor management
Simi Kedia, Ph.D., New York University
Finance; corporate finance; governance; compensation; diversification
Jin-Mo Kim, Ph.D., Michigan State
Corporate governance; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; international portfolio allocation
Farrokh K. Langdana, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic and State
Fiscal and monetary policies; global macroeconomic policies; macroeconomic experimentation
Cheng-Few Lee, Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Corporate finance; security analysis; portfolio management; options and futures; risk management
Rose Liao, Ph.D., Ohio State
Empirical corporate finance; international finance; fixed income securities
Frank McIntyre, Ph.D., Stanford
Applied econometrics; law and economics; labor; development
Darius Palia, Ph.D., New York University
Corporate finance; banking; corporate governance
Harvey Poniachek, Ph.D., SUNY
Tavy Ronen, Ph.D., New York University
Market microstructure; corporate finance
Ben J. Sopranzetti, Ph.D., Illinois
Banking; corporate finance; derivative securities
Menaham Spiegel, Ph.D., Chicago
Regulation and competition in network industries; economic theory of economics with consumption externalities
Dan Weaver, Ph.D., Rutgers
Market microstructure; security design
Yangru Wu, Ph.D., Ohio State
International finance; asset pricing; applied time-series analysis
Zhaodong Zhong, Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Hedge funds; derivatives; credit risk; empirical asset pricing
Xing Zhou, Ph.D., Cornell
Credit markets; market microstructure; empirical asset pricing
From the Management Science and Information Systems Department
Farid Alizadeh, Ph.D., Minnesota
Software for optimization with simultaneous linear, convex, quadratic, and semidefinite constraints; application of semidefinite programming to combinatorial optimization and statistics
Vijay Atluri, Ph.D., George Mason
Clinical information systems; database management systems; distributed systems; information systems security; workflow management systems
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, D.Sc., Israel Institute of Technology
Operations research; electric energy generation; telecommunication networks; stochastic modeling
Adi Ben-Israel, Ph.D., Northwestern
Convexity and inequalities; matrix theory; optimization theory; numerical analysis; dynamic programming; optimal control; economics of uncertainty; management of natural resources
Endre Boros, Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd (Budapest)
Discrete optimization
Jonathan Eckstein, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimization algorithms; parallel computing and applications
Mert Gurbuzbalabar, Ph.D., New York University
Optimization, computation science
Michael N. Katehakis, Ph.D., Columbia
Dynamic programming; reliability; queuing; sequential statistics; operations management
Thomas Lidbetter, Ph.D., London School of Economics
Game theoretic models
Xiaodong Lin, Ph.D., Purdue
Financial time series; statistical data mining; network analysis in neurology and imaging; data privacy and confidentiality
Spiros Papadimitriou, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Data mining; streaming data; time series; graph mining; clustering; large-scale data processing; smart mobile applications
Periklis Papakonstantinou, Ph.D., Toronto
Big Data; machine learning crytography
Andrzej Ruszczynski, Ph.D., Warsaw (Technology)
Stochastic programming; stochastic control; financial engineering; risk management
Barit Shariq, CIMIC-RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Information security; access control; distributed multimedia systems
John Tavantzis, Ph.D., New York University
Analysis, optimization, and dynamical systems
Jaideep Vaidya, Ph.D., Purdue
Confluence of privacy/security; data mining and databases; security and privacy issues raised by data mining; data mining techniques applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources; applied cryptography and secure multiparty computation techniques; use of data mining for enhancing security
Hui Xiong, Ph.D., Minnesota
Data mining; statistical computing; geographic information systems; biomedical informatics; information security
Jian Yang, Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Combinatorial optimization; production planning; logistics; stochastic modeling; revenue management; game-theoretic applications
From the Management and Global Business Department
Ted Baker, Ph.D., North Carolina
Entrepreneurship
Michael L. Barnett, Ph.D., New York University
Strategic management; corporate reputation; corporate social responsibility; industry self-regulation
John Cantwell, Ph.D., Reading
Analysis of corporate technological change and international business
Chao C. Chen, Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Cross-cultural management; China; reward allocation; leadership; managing diversity
Petra Christmann, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Strategic management and international business with a focus on environmental management; firm self-regulation in the global economy; emergence of global standards and their effects on firm strategies; international diffusion of management practices
Farok J. Contractor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Foreign investment and markets; global enterprises; joint ventures; licensing
Joanne Ciulla, Ph.D., Temple
Leadership ethics
Ajai Gaur, Ph.D., National (Singapore)
Strategy: business groups, corporate governance, and top management teams; international business: internationalization, entry mode and ownership strategies, foreign subsidiary management, and emerging economies
Michelle Gittelman, Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Innovation in the biopharmaceutical industryJerry Kim
Terri Kurtzberg, Ph.D., Northwestern
Email communication; negotiation strategies and tactics; organizational creativity
Daniel Levin, Ph.D., Northwestern
Knowledge transfer; organizational learning; organizational change and innovation
Douglas Miller, Ph.D., Ohio State
Strategic management
Arturo E. Osorio, Ph.D., Massachusetts
Entrepreneurship; grassroots movements; emergence and organizing processes
Sara Parker Lue, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Strategic human resources; organizational economics of health care
Aviad Peer, Ph.D., British Columbia
Sources of competitive advantage; entry strategies and economic geography
Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D., Columbia
Entrepreneurship; urban economic development; entrepreneurial leadership; social entrepreneurship; urban sociology; strategic management; business and society issues; institutional theory; social networks; urban hiring strategies
Oliver Sheldon, Ph.D., Cornell
Groups and teams; conflict and negotiation; managerial judgment decision making
Phyllis Siegel, Ph.D., Columbia
CEO self-handicapping; executive compensation; linkage between strategy and organizational behavior/human resource management; organizational justice and trust
Alex VanZant, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Strategic social interactions
Danni Wang, Ph.D., Arizona State
Leadership ethics
Danielle Warren, Ph.D., Wharton
Global business ethics and management
From the Marketing Department
S. Chan Choi, Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Price competition; competitive product positioning; quantitative models in marketing
Kristina Durante, Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Social psychology; consumer decision-making
Kihyun Kim, Ph.D., Georgia State
Customer experiences; purchase behaviors
Can (John) Uslay, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Marketing interfaces; market structure; market orientation; predatory pricing; nation and region branding; mindful marketing; product placement; covert marketing; rule of three theory
Sengun Yeniyurt, Ph.D., Michigan State
New product performance; brand management; market positioning; international marketing strategy; supplier relationship management
From the Supply Chain Management and Marketing Science Department
Arash Azadegan, Ph.D., Arizona State
Supply chain disruptions; disruption response and recovery; supply chain innovation; environmental uncertainty
Alok Baveja, Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Management of operations
Weiwei Chen, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Optimization; simulation; supply chain management and logistics; smart grid; health care
Wayne Eastman, J.D., Harvard
Employment and labor law; history and politics of managerial and legal theory; law and economics; litigation strategy
Kevin Kolben, J.D., Michigan
Labor rights; international labor law; corporate social responsibility; international trade law; Asian business; South and Southeast
Lei Lei, Ph.D., Wisconsin
Project scheduling; scheduling of transport; vehicle dispatching and routing
Rudolf Leuschner, Ph.D., Ohio State
Supply chain finance
Benjamin Melamed, Ph.D., Michigan
Modeling of telecommunications systems; stochastic processes; analysis and simulation; software modeling environments
Lian Qi, Ph.D., Florida
Supply chain management; inventory management; design and analysis of optimization algorithms
Lei Wang, Ph.D., Northwestern
Database marketing; retailing
Xiaowei Xu, Ph.D., Northwestern
Supply chain management; revenue management; retail management
Yao Zhao, Ph.D., Northwestern
Forecasting; production-inventory systems; information sharing; supply chain integration; distribution and logistics; integration of financial and operational decisions; dynamic programming; optimal stochastic control
From Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Statistics Department
Javier Cabrera, Rutgers-New Brunswick; Ph.D., Princeton
Biostatistics; data mining methodology for clinical trial data; statistical computing; graphics; machine vision
From Rutgers University-Camden, School of Business
Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Temple
Shoppers with disabilities; time perception and use; scale development; subcultural consumer behavior
Julie A. Ruth, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Michigan
Emotions and consumer behavior; marketing relationships; brand marketing strategy including cobranding and sponsorships