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Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Business


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: John B. Donaldson, Ph.D.
818 Uris Hall
Tel: 212.854.4436


Faculty

Eric Abrahamson:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1990
Interests: Teaching and research interest. Professor Abrahamson studies the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for organizations and their employees.
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Michael Adler:
Professor, DBA, Harvard, 1968
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Daniel R. Ames:
Sanford C. Bernstein Asscoiate Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Interests: Social judgment and behavior
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Andrew Ang:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1999
Interests: Empirical asset pricing and applications of econometric methods to financial problems
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Asim Ansari:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1993
Interests: Competitive positioning and targeting, pricing, mass customization and Bayesian modeling of marketing decisions
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Sudhakar V. Balachandran:
Assistant Professor, MBA, Northwestern, 1990
Interests: Performance measurement, incentive compensation and valuation.
Tim Baldenius:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1998
Interests: Decentralization and performance evaluation within companies
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Ann Bartel:
Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Labor economics and human resource management
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Geert Bekaert:
Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1992
Interests: Foreign Exchange market efficiency, exchange rate determination and international and emerging equity markets
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Daniel Beunza:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2003
Interests: The role of technological artifacts and mental models into our understanding of the capital markets ;known as the social studies of finance.
Patrick Bolton:
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1986
Interests: Contract theory, corporate finance, industrial organization, law and economics
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Mark Broadie:
Carson Family Professor of Business, Ph.D., Stanford, 1983
Interests: Pricing of derivative securities, risk management and portfolio optimization
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Joel Brockner:
Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business, Ph.D., Tufts, 1977
Interests: Effects of organizational downsizing on the productivity and morale of the "survivors," management of organizational change, self processes in organizations and managerial judgment and decision making
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Charles W. Calomiris:
Professor, Columbia Business School, Ph.D., Stanford, 1985
Interests: Emerging market financial markets, Latin American capital markets
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Noel Capon:
R.C. Kopf Professorship of International Marketing, Ph.D., Columbia, 1975
Interests: Key/strategic account management, marketing planning and strategy and the determinants of corporate financial performance
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Bogachan Celen:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2004
Interests: Game theory, microeconomic theory, and experimental economics
Fangruo Chen:
Ira Rennert Professor of Business, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Interests: Design of cost-effective and easily implementable replenishment strategies, supply chain information sharing and coordination and the marketing-operations interface
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John B. Donaldson:
Mario J. Gabelli, Professor of Finance, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1976
Interests: Business cycles and asset pricing, with a particular emphasis on the real side of the economy’s impact on equilibrium pricing of financial assets
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Franklin Edwards:
Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Ph.D., Harvard, 1964
Interests: Financial markets and institutions, financial regulation and derivatives markets
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Awi Federgruen:
Charles E. Exley Professor of Management, D. Sc., Amsterdam, 1978
Interests: Planning models for logistical systems, supply chain management and operations strategies for service systems
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Raymond Fisman:
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
Interests: The behavior of firms in developing economies
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Francis J. Flynn:
Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000
Interests: Organizational behavior, specifically the antecedents and consequences of social influence in organizations
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Nelson Fraiman:
Professor, Columbia Business School, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Operations management, Argentina and Uruguay
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Marc Giannoni:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2001
Interests: The characterization of optimal monetary policy in the face of uncertainty, the effect of monetary policy on the aggregate economy
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Paul Glasserman:
Senior Vice Dean, Columbia Business School, Ph.D., Harvard, 1988
Interests: Business and the economy in Latin America, Argentina
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Lawrence R. Glosten:
S. Sloan Colt Professor of Banking and International Finance: Chair of Finance Economics Division, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1980
Interests: Analyses of the operation, design and regulation of securities markets
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Linda Green:
Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation, Ph.D., Yale, 1978
Interests: Quantitative models for the design and management of service operations
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Bruce Greenwald:
Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Ph.D., MIT, 1978
Interests: Value investing, productivity and the economics of information
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Maria Guadalupe:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., London School of Economics, 2003
Interests: Labor economics of personnel and organizations
Kathryn Harrigan:
Henry R. Kravis Professor of Business Leadership, DBA, Harvard, 1979
Interests: Strategic management and international business strategy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Geoffrey Heal:
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1968
Interests: Modeling the impact of markets for derivative securities on the allocation of risks in the economy; modeling the pricing of derivatives in a general equilibrium framework; and studying ways of controlling the impact of economic activity on the environment and ways of valuing the economic services provided by environmental assets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
E. Tory Higgins:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1973
Interests: Motivational models of performance, judgement and decision making.
E. Tory Higgins:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Motivational models of performance, judgement, and decision making
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Laurie Simon Hodrick:
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, Ph.D., Stanford, 1988
Interests: Corporate Finance, share repurchases and dividends, takeovers and optimal capital structure
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Robert J. Hodrick:
Nomura Professor of International Finance, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976
Interests: Empirical implications of theoretical pricing models that generate time-varying risk premiums in the markets for bonds, equities and foreign currencies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Morris Holbrook:
William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing, Ph.D., Columbia, 1975
Interests: Validity of perceptual and preference mapping, consumption experiences, nostalgia, communication effects, semiotics, and hermeneutics in marketing
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Raymond D. Horton:
Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance, Ph.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Municipal finance and urban affairs
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R. Glenn Hubbard:
Dean & Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Ph.D., Harvard, 1983
Interests: Public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions
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Gur Huberman:
Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance, Ph.D., Yale, 1980
Interests: Portfolio theory, return-risk trade-offs and risk management
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Paul Ingram:
Kravis Professor of Business, Ph.D., Cornell, 1994
Interests: Effects of the competitive environment on the structure and performance of organizations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sheena S. Iyengar:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1997
Interests: Specializes in cross-cultural differences in worker motivation, decision making, and barriers to conflict resolution.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kamel Jedidi:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988
Interests: Marketing research, new product development and applied multivariate statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wei Jiang:
Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
Interests: Incentive-related corporate finance issues
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Mikhail Johannes:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000
Interests: Analyzing the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is also interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility
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Gita Venkataramani Johar:
Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business, Ph.D., NYU, 1993
Interests: Consumer information processing and decision making
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Eric Johnson:
Norman Eig Professor of Business, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1980
Interests: E commerce, consumer and managerial decision making and brand equity.
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Charles Jones:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Interests: Municipal bond markets, indexed government debt and the relationship between the stock market and macroeconomic forecasts
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Bjorn Jorgensen:
Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1999
Interests: Risk and its effect on compensation, disclosures and market valuation.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ran Kivetz:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2000
Interests: Consumer and managerial decision making, the psychology of rewards (and its application to loyalty programs), the self-control of hedonic motivations, and marketing high technology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Oded Koenigsberg:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Duke, 2002
Interests: Distribution channels and supply chain management, marketing of durable goods, pricing and promotion strategy and marketing/manufacturing interface.
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Bruce Kogut:
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ehtics, Ph.D., MIT, 1983
Interests: International direct investment, technology policy, privatization, economic sociology, and political economy
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Rajeev Kohli:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Interests: Information technology and how it is used for marketing and manufacturing and the use of technology for new product design
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter J. Kolesar:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1964
Interests: Quality management and statistical quality control; applications of operations research and statistics, particularly in relation to the management of production and service systems; operations strategy, implementation of quality management, queuing theory and its applications to service system management and other applications of OR/MS and statistics.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Leonard Lee:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 2006
Interests: Understanding how both emotional and cognitive factors influence consumers' judgment and decision making such as the consistency of their consumption choice and preferences over time.
Donald R. Lehmann:
George E. Warren Professor of Business, Ph.D., Purdue, 1969
Interests: Individual and group choice and decision making, research methodology, the adoption of innovation and new product development
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Jonathan Levav:
Classof 1967 Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., Duke, 2003
Interests: Judgment and decision making, including preference prediction, probability judgment, affect, subjective well-being and context dependent preferences
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Frank Lichtenberg:
Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1982
Interests: His research examines how the introduction of new technology arising from research and development affects the productivity of companies, industries and nations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Murray B. Low:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1991
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Costas Maglaras:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1998
Interests: Problems in operations management, logistics and control, with an emphasis on dynamic flow management and performance analysis for stochastic processing networks
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Malia Mason:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Dartmouth, 2005
Interests: Social perception of how people form impressions and make inferences about other people.
Christopher J. Mayer:
Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Ph.D., MIT, 1993
Interests: Residential and commercial real estate markets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nahum D. Melumad:
James L. Dohr Professor of Accounting, Ph.D.; CPA, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
Interests: Management control systems and financial performance evaluation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Frederick S. Mishkin:
Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions, Ph.D., MIT, 1976
Interests: Monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and aggregate economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Natalie Mizik:
Gantcher Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., Washington, 2002
Interests: The valuation of the firm marketing strategy and other intangible marketing assets
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ciamac Moallemi:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2007
Interests: His research is in the area of optimization and control of large-scale stochastic systems.
Partha Mohanram:
Philip H. Grier Jr. Associate Professor of Business, Ph.D., Harvard, 1999
Interests: The valuation of stocks, corporate disclosure and earnings management
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael W. Morris:
Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993
Interests: One of his main emphases is on the effects of cross-cultural differences on social judgment.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alp Muharremoglu:
Assistant Professor, PhD, MIT, 2002
Interests: His research focuses on supply chain management
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Emi Nakamura:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2007
Interests: Issues in empirical macroeconomics, international economics, and industrial organization.
Oded Netzer:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Washington, 2002
Interests: Investigates the stock market response to strategic actions of a firm along with the industry and firm-specific factors moderating the market response
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Doron Nissim:
Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Interests: Financial accounting, financial statement analysis and security valuation
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Marcelo Olivares:
Assisant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Interests: His research and teaching focuses on supply chain management, including empirical work in this area and its intersections with marketing and applied economics.
Daniel Paravisini:
Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, Ph.D., MIT, 2005
Interests: Corporate finance; financial institutions
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Hugh T. Patrick:
R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center
Interests: U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen H. Penman:
George O. May Professor of Accounting, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978
Interests: Research focuses on financial statement analysis and the use of accounting information in equity valuation
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Michel Tuan Pham:
Kravis Professor of Business, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1994
Interests: Areas of expertise are marketing communications and the psychology of decision making
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Veronica E. Rappoport:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 2005
Interests: Monetary and fiscal policies in emerging economies as insurance mechanisms with respect to country risk
David Ross:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 2007
Interests: His research interests include the interaction between strategic and financial decisions and the strategy of financial intermediaries.
Gil Sadka:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Univeristy of Chicago, 2005
Interests: Equity valuation and the relation betwen financial reportinig and product market competition
Tano Santos:
Professor of Finance, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
Interests: Interests include the field of asset pricing with an emphasis on theoretical and empirical models and the economics of financial innovations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sergei Savin:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Wharton, 2001
Interests: Service operations management and coordination between operational and marketing decisions
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Andrew Schmidt:
Assistant Professor, PhD, Arizona State, 2004
Interests: Financial statement analysis, the role of taxes in equity valuation, and tax policy.
Bernd H. Schmitt:
Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Ph.D., Cornell, 1988
Interests: Research focuses on experimental marketing, brand management, and international business
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nachum Sicherman:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1987
Interests: Analyzes the roles of education, job-training, occupational and job mobility, moonlighting and retirement in the formation of careers and studies the various effects of technological change on US labor markets
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Paolo Siconolfi:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987
Interests: General equilibrium theory, information theory, and dynamic models in monetary theory.
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Nicolas Stier-Moses:
Associate Professor, PhD, MIT, 2004
Interests: Quantitative models of decision-making, Argentina
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph E. Stiglitz:
Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
Interests: Information and financial economics, macro and monetary theory, development and international economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, contract and organizational economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Harborne Stuart:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1980
Interests: Development of business theory using game theory approaches
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Toby E. Stuart:
Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business, Ph.D., Stanford, 1995
Interests: The formation and governance of strategic alliances, organizational design and new venture formation in established firms, venture capital networks and the influence of social networks in the generation of new business opportunities.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Suresh M. Sundaresan:
Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1980
Interests: Corporate finance, capital markets, term structure theory, commodity spot and futures markets, continuous time equilibrium models, options pricing and capital asset pricing
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Terry Taylor:
Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business, Stanford, 2000
Interests: Research focuses on supply chain management and incentives in operations management
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Catherine M.A. Thomas:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard Univeristy, 2006
Interests: The areas of industrial organization and international trade
Olivier Toubia:
David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business, PhD, MIT, 2004
Interests: Various aspects of New Product Development, including adaptive experimental design, preference measurement, conjoint analysis, the influence of incentives on idea generation, and the understanding of the idea generation process.
Garrett J. van Ryzin:
Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
Interests: Stochastic modeling and operations management in the service sector
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Neng Wang:
Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate, PhD, Stanford, 2002
Interests: Real estate capital markets, investment under uncertainty, real options, asset pricing with imperfect corporate control, consumption, saving, and asset allocations, and equilibrium wealth distributions.
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Elke Weber:
Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Ph.D., Harvard, 1984
Interests: The intersection of psychology and economics, including behavioral models of judgment and decision making under risk and uncertainty, specifically environmental decision making and policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gabriel Y. Weintraub:
Assistant Professor, Columbia School of Business, Ph.D., Stanford, 2006
Interests: Operations and management science; applied economics; Chile
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre Yared:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 2007
Interests: Examines a range of issues in the areas of macroeconomics and political economy, including the effect of corruption on fiscal policy and government debt management, the macroeconomic determinatnts of deomocracy, and the use of economic incentives in preventing war.
Julian Yeo:
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Melbourne, 2003
Interests: Focus on accounting-based equity valuation and currently seeks to develop procedures that simultaneously estimate parameters that are pivotal to valuing securities.
Jialin Yu:
Assistant Professor, PhD, Princeton, 2004
Interests: Analyzes financial markets on issues such as liquidity, information, risk premium, and rationality.
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Assaf Zeevi:
Professor of Business, Ph.D., Stanford, 2001
Interests: Stochastic modeling in the areas of operations, economics, statistics, and engineering
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Stephen P. Zeldes:
Benjamin Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics, Ph.D., MIT, 1984
Interests: Applied macroeconomic issues, including Social Security reform, the determinants of household saving and portfolio choice, the effects of government budget deficits and the relationship between consumer spending and the stock market.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yuan Zhang:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003
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Amir Ziv:
Professor and Vice Dean, Ph.D., Stanford, 1990
Interests: The role of accounting information in organizational design, auditing, financial disclosure, product quality and information transmission among strategic players
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