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This fall, seven tenure-line faculty members join the Kellogg School of Management, further enriching the departments of marketing, finance, management and organizations, operations management and managerial economics.
The new professors complement the Kellogg School faculty by adding a diverse range of research expertise, including growth and behavioral economics, financial development, entrepreneurial finance, structural transformation, technological innovation, social influence on consumer decision making, and more.
Learn more about this esteemed group of scholars
Dean Karlan, Frederic Esser Nemmers Chair of Finance; Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University
Previous professorship: Samuel C Park, Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University
Degrees
- PhD, M.I.T., Economics
- MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- MPP, University of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
Research: Professor Karlan’s research primarily employs randomized trials to study household and entrepreneurial finance and behavioral economics, with a focus on financial inclusion for the poor.
Recent publications
Social media: Twitter; LinkedIn
Nancy Qian, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Previous professorship: Professor of Economics, Yale University
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BA, Economics, Government, Japanese and Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
Research: Professor Qian’s research is motivated by theory, observations and pairing empirical evidence on the complex process of long-run economic, institutional and social change of development and growth economics.
Recent publications
Jacopo Ponticelli, Associate Professor of Finance
Previous professorship: Assistant Professor of Finance, Cohen and Keenoy Faculty Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Degrees
- PhD, Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- MSc, Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- BA, International Relations, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Research: Professor Ponticelli’s research interests include bankruptcy, contract enforcement, financial development, firm dynamics and structural transformation.
Recent publications
Social media: LinkedIn
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Associate Professor of Managerial Economics
Previous professorship: Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Degrees
- PhD, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- MA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- MSE, Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Bsc, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Research: Professor Tahbaz-Salehi’s research interests include economic theory and macroeconomics. His most recent works focus on how social, economic and financial networks shape economic outcomes.
Recent publications
Social media
Ping Dong, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Previously: PhD of Marketing Candidate, University of Toronto
Degrees
- PhD, Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- MPhil, Marketing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School
Research: Professor Dong’s research focuses on understanding the social influence on consumer decision making.
Recent publications
Social Media: LinkedIn
Hyejin Youn, Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations
Previously
- Visiting Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Senior Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Degrees
- PhD, Physics, KAIST
- MS, Physics, KAIST
- BS, Physics, KAIST
Research Focus
Professor Youn’s research focuses on building a theoretical framework for interplay between technological innovation and human society, a mechanism to scale from individual behaviors to human society. The underlying question focuses on how technological innovation shapes, and is shaped by, the structure of our society. Her mathematical and computational approach involves network science, scaling theory, information theory, data mining and machine learning algorithms, analyzing large-scale empirical data (patent, academic biography, digital text, occupation and industry).
Recent Publications
- Invention as a combinatorial process: Evidence from U.S. patents (Co-authors Deborah Strumsky, Luis M.A. Bettencourt, José Lobo) The Royal Society, April 2015
- On the universal structure of human lexical semantics (Co-authors Logan Sutton, Eric Smith, Christopher Moore, Jon F. Silkins, Ian Maddieson, William Croft, Tanmoy Bhattacharya) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2015
- The process of invention: Now and then The Economist, 2015
- Languages have a common structure Nature, 2016
- Innovation slowdown Nature Physics, 2014
- The hidden, universal rule that helps govern the way businesses grow in a city Forbes, 2016
Social Media: LinkedIn
Anton Braverman, Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Previously: PhD Candidate, Operations Research, Cornell University
Degrees
- PhD, Operations Research, Cornell University
- MS, Operations Research, Cornell University
- BS, Math and Statistics, University of Toronto
Research: Professor Braverman’s research focuses on stochastic modeling and applied probability.
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