Excellence in
World-Class Faculty
2009, Issue 6
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New faculty members highlight growth at
New Jersey’s premier business school
22 new faculty members join Rutgers Business School in 2009
In the highly competitive world of faculty recruitment, Rutgers
Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) is proud
to announce the addition of 22 new faculty members with
impressive track records to the RBS faculty. A few of these new
faculty members are Rutgers alumni and the rest graduated from
other premier schools around the country.
With wide-ranging research backgrounds and strong industry
experience, these new faculty members support the RBS unique
multidisciplinary approach to business education: delivering the
business, science and technology credentials to drive local,
national, and global markets. By expanding the scope of business
education to include other disciplines, students receive an
unrivaled, well-rounded business education that breaks the mold.
The faculty list is not the only thing growing at RBS. Student
enrollment has increased and in fall 2009, the entire school
moved into a new, state-of-the-art headquarters at 1 Washington
Park in Newark. The new building has substantially improved the
quality of the school’s facilities and classroom technology, while
expanding its capacity to meet the rapidly increasing demand for
business education and the needs of growing undergraduate and
graduate student bodies.
Faculty use state-of-the-art classroom technology like this
trading room that simulates real-time trading.
New faculty come from major universities
Boston University (2)
Columbia University
Cornell University
National University of Singapore
NJIT
Pace University
Purdue University
Rutgers University (3)
S. Illinois University, Carbondale
The Ohio State University (2)
Tulane University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago (2)
University of Florida
University of Massachusetts
Yale University (2)
Students benefit from world-class industry experienced faculty.
Rutgers Business School – Business, Science, and Technology
Multidisciplinary programs
Strong corporate partnerships
Real world, international experiences
Leaders in research
•270 degree programs to partner
with at Rutgers University
•Partnerships with leading executives
at top corporations
•High employment placement for
graduates
•World-class industry experienced faculty
•Dual degrees that deliver business,
science, and technology credentials
demanded by local, national
& global markets
•Near a major center of global business,
20 minutes from New York City
•Student team case competition victories
•Addressing major societal trends
& issues globally
•Global network of over 30,000 RBS alumni, & over 380,000 university wide
•Research projects leveraged by
companies
•Distinct career advantages for students
Excellence in World-Class Faculty
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Finance & Economics Department
Management & Global Business Department
Ivan Brick, PhD, Chair and Professor
Nancy DiTomaso, PhD, Chair and Professor
Assistant Professors:
Assistant Professors:
Rose Liao
Ajai Gaur, PhD
Ohio State University (Jan. 10)
National University of Singapore
Rose Liao is working on her PhD from Ohio
State University (expected 2010) and has
joined the Rutgers Business School faculty
as Lecturer, Finance & Economics. Her
current research focuses on the motives and
consequences of minority block acquisitions
and cross-border mergers. Her prior research
on the pricing of corporate yield spread has been published in the
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and her paper on
Chinese B-shares has been accepted by the Journal of Financial
Economic Policy.
Ajai Guar earned his PhD from the National
University of Singapore and has joined the
Rutgers Business School faculty as Assistant
Professor, Management & Global Business.
His research has appeared in the Journal
of Management, Journal of Management
Studies and Management International
Review. His areas of expertise are business groups, corporate
governance and top management teams, internationalization, entry
mode and ownership strategies, foreign subsidiary management,
and emerging economies.
Michelle M. Miller, PhD
Oliver Sheldon, PhD
Boston University
Cornell University
Michelle M. Miller has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Finance & Economics. She earned her PhD
in Economics from Boston University. Her
current research focuses on the economics
of personal bankruptcy. She also has
conducted research on labor economics,
health economics, and economic history. Her areas of expertise
are the economics of personal bankruptcy, law and economics,
labor economics, health economics, and economic history.
Oliver Sheldon earned his PhD from the S.C.
Johnson Graduate School of Management at
Cornell University. He has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Management & Global Business. His areas of
expertise are groups and teams, conflict and
negotiating, managerial judgment decisionmaking. His research has been published in the European Journal
of Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Ankur Pareek
Arturo E. Osorio Fernandez
Yale University (Dec. 09)
University of Massachusetts (Dec. 09)
Ankur Pareek is working on his PhD from
Yale University (expected 2009) and has
joined the Rutgers Business School faculty
as Assistant Professor, Finance & Economics.
His research interests are empirical asset
pricing, behavioral finance, investments,
and mutual fund performance. Currently he
is working on a study of information networks and implications
for mutual fund trading behavior and stock returns, and underreaction to earnings news, and institutional investors’ investment
durations and stock return anomalies.
Arturo E. Osorio Fernandez is working on his
PhD from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst (expected 2009) and has joined
the Rutgers Business School faculty as
Assistant Professor, Management & Global
Business. He is a fellow at the Center for
Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development. Before joining Rutgers, he spent five years
researching the socioeconomic renaissance of a former mill town
in Western Massachusetts. His research interests include urban
entrepreneurship, the “creative class,” grassroots movements, and
the socioeconomic development of communities.
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Supply Chain Management & Marketing Sciences Department
Lei Lei, PhD, Chair and Professor
Assistant Professors:
James Sawhill , PhD
Sean Handley, PhD
University of California, Berkley
The Ohio State University
Sean Handley has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant
Professor, Supply Chain Management &
Marketing Sciences. He earned his PhD
in Business Administration from Ohio
State University. His areas of expertise
are outsourcing, strategic sourcing, global
supply management, and buyer/supplier relationships. Currently,
he is working on an in-depth study of how organizations manage
quality with outsourced manufacturing in the food, drug, medical
device, and regulated cosmetic industries.
James Sawhill has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant
Professor, Supply Chain Management &
Marketing Science. He earned his PhD from
the University of California, Berkeley. He
previously served as Senior Vice President at
Wells Fargo Bank and as a consultant with
Booz, Allen and Hamilton. His research focuses on developing
market-based empirical tests for consumer behavior theory,
industrial organization, consumer choice models, and marketing
and public policy.
Instructors:
Sungjoon Nam, PhD
John P. Finn, PhD
The University of Chicago
S. Ilinois University, Carbondale
Sungjoon Nam has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Supply Chain Management & Marketing
Sciences. He received his PhD in Marketing
from the University of Chicago. His research
has been published in Industrial Marketing
Management and the Sloan Management
Review. His areas of expertise are social interaction on product
adoption, service quality and customer equity, new product launch
strategies, and salesforce management.
John P. Finn has joined the faculty as
Instructor, Supply Chain Management &
Marketing Sciences. He earned his PhD from
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale),
and has worked as Marketing Research
Director, Marketing and R&D at Playtex
Products, Senior Fellow for R&D for Pepsi
Cola NA, and Senior Manager of Quality and R&D for Kraft Foods.
His areas of expertise are marketing research, consumer behavior,
experimental design, product testing, and claims substantiation.
Lian Qi, PhD
Erich Toncre
University of Florida
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Lian Qi has joined the Rutgers Business
School faculty as Assistant Professor, Supply
Chain Management & Marketing Sciences.
He holds a PhD from the University of Florida
Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering. He has been published in
Production and Operations Management,
the European Journal of Operational Research and Naval Research
Logistics. His areas of expertise are supply chain design and
management, production and inventory planning and control,
operations management, design and analysis of optimization
algorithms, stochastic optimization, and simulation.
Erich Toncre, Management Consultant and
Partner with Compass Strategies Group,
has joined the Rutgers Business School
faculty as Co-Director of the Supply Chain
Management undergraduate program and
Instructor, Supply Chain Management &
Marketing Sciences. His research interests
include total quality management, the strategic relationship
between supply chain management and marketing management,
and operations analysis. He also has mentored students in project
and marketing management for the Rutgers University Institute
for Management and Executive Development.
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Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems Department
Dan Palmon, PhD, Chair and Professor
Adjunct Professor:
Divya Anantharaman, PhD
Vasundhara Chakraborty
Columbia University
Rutgers University (2010)
Divya Anantharaman recently completed
her PhD at Columbia University’s Graduate
School of Business and has joined the
Rutgers Business School faculty as Assistant
Professor, Accounting, Business Ethics &
Information Systems. She is interested in
disclosure and corporate governance issues,
with a specific focus on financial institutions and pension funds.
Prior to enrolling at Columbia University, she worked as the Finance
Manager at NIIT Education and Training Centre in Botswana.
Vasundhara Chakraborty is working on her
PhD in Accounting Information Systems
at Rutgers Business School (expected
2010) and has joined the faculty as
Instructor, Accounting, Business Ethics &
Information Systems. Along with accounting
information systems, her research interests
include continuous auditing, continuous reporting, XBRL, ERP,
and continuous monitoring. Her current work is focused on
formalizing and automating the process of taxonomy creation,
pension footnote reporting trends, and automatic classification of
accounting texts.
Assistant Professors:
Vivian Fang, PhD
Tulane University
Vivian Fang earned her PhD in Accounting
from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School
of Business and has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Accounting, Business Ethics & Information
Systems. Her current work focuses on the
effect of stock market liquidity on firm value
and firms’ incentives for voluntary disclosure. She is a member of
the American Accounting Association, a Certified Public Accountant,
and a Certified General Accountant.
Foong Soon Cheong, PhD
Yale University (Dec. 09)
Foong Soon Cheong has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Accounting, Business Ethics & Information
Systems. He is working on his PhD in
Accounting from Yale University (expected
2009). His areas of expertise are analysts
forecast, equity valuation, information flow
in markets, and market efficiency. His current projects include
the absence of scale for forecast error and forecast dispersion
distributions, and information flow and stock returns.
Jing (Crystal) Xu
Boston University
Jing (Crystal) Xu has joined the Rutgers
Business School faculty as Assistant Professor,
Accounting, Business Ethics & Information
Systems. She earned her DBA in Accounting
from Boston University. Her areas of expertise
are earnings management, executive
compensation, corporate governance, and
firm investment. She has presented her work at the American
Accounting Association’s Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regional
meetings, and in 2008 served as referee for the association’s
Northeast Regional meeting.
Adjunct Instructor:
C. Daniel Stubbs
Pace University
C. Daniel Stubbs, former CFO of the
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, has
joined the Rutgers Business School faculty
as Director of the Master of Accountancy
in Financial Accounting program. A CPA, he
also has served as CFO and controller in the
public and private sectors. He earned his
MBA from Pace University. He currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the Center for the Public Trust, an arm of the National
Association of State Boards of Accountancy.
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Management Science & Information Systems Department
Ronald Armstrong, PhD, Chair and Professor
Associate Professor:
Adjunct Instructors:
Xiaodong Lin, PhD
Heechang Shin
Purdue University
University of Illinois at Chicago &
the University of Chicago
Xiaodong Lin earned his PhD in Statistics
from Purdue University and has joined
the Rutgers Business School faculty as
Associate Professor, Management Science &
Information Systems. His research interests
include statistical machine learning and
data mining, graphical models for financial
network and brain connectivity, and data confidentiality issues
on statistical disclosure limitation. He has published in leading
journals including IEEE Transaction on Information Theory,
Technometrics, Bioinformatics, and Developmental Cell.
Heechang Shin is working on his PhD in
Information Science at Rutgers Business
School and has joined the faculty as
Adjunct Instructor, Management Science &
Information Systems. His areas of expertise
are moving object database management,
data and information security and privacy, data analysis and
mining, electronic commerce, and e-government. He is a Beta
Gamma Sigma Academic Honoree.
Assistant Instructor:
Yihong Fan, PhD
Sungyong Choi, PhD
Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Yihong Fan has joined the Rutgers Business
School faculty as Adjunct Instructor,
Management Science & Information Systems.
She earned her PhD in Management Science
from Rutgers University. Her research interests
are production and inventory systems design
and control, stochastic processes, computer
simulation, management information system, and transportation
and logistics.
Sungyong Choi earned his PhD from
Rutgers University and has joined the
Rutgers Business School faculty as
Adjunct Instructor, Management Science &
Information Systems. His areas of expertise
are stochastic optimization modeling and
applications, inventory management under
risk methodology, risk theory, stochastic dynamic programming,
game theory, and nonlinear optimization. His research has been
published in Operations Research Letters, and also is currently
under review by Operations Research and the European Journal
of Operational Research.
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) is an integral part of one of the nation’s oldest, largest, and most distinguished institutions
of higher learning: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, founded in 1766. Rutgers Business School has been accredited since 1941 by AACSB
International–the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business—a distinction that represents the hallmark of excellence in management
education. Today, with a focus on Business, Science, and Technology, Rutgers Business School is educating more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate
students at two main campuses in New Jersey as well as six satellite locations in New Jersey, China, and Singapore. Steeped in academic excellence, with
a distinguished faculty and a corps of over 30,000 successful alumni, Rutgers Business School is highly ranked by the Financial Times, U.S. News & World
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