2019

Elia Ferracuti
Placement: Duke University
Dissertation: How Do Managers Mitigate Uncertainty about Demand and Supply Conditions?

Won Jung Kim
Placement: California State University, Sacramento
Dissertation: Government Accountability and Financial Reporting Systems: Are Two Reporting Models Better than One?

2018

Arthur Morris
Placement: NYU – Shanghai
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Risky Projects, Convex Compensation, and Project Selection: Evidence from the War on Terror

Jing Pan
Placement: Southern Methodist University
Dissertation: Does Dark Trading Affect the Link between Stock Prices and Fundamentals?

2016

Jing He
Placement: University of Delaware
Dissertation: Whom Do I Know? Executive Network Centrality and Corporate Reporting

2015

Erik Boyle
Placement: University of Cincinnatti
Dissertation: Management Perceptions of Audit Quality: A Qualitative and Quantitative Investigation

2014

Adrienna Huffman
Placement: Tulane University
Dissertation: Value Relevant Asset Measurement and Asset Use: Evidence from International Accounting Standard 41

Dongyoung Lee
Placement: McGill University (Montreal)
Dissertation: Why Do Firms Decrease the Precision of Earnings Forecasts?

2013

Benjamin Whipple
Placement: University of Georgia at Athens
Dissertation: Non-GAAP Earnings and the Exclusion of Recurring Items

Brett Rixom
Placement: Florida International University
Dissertation: Accountability and Performance-Based Benefits: The Differentiating of Extrinsic Motivators on Effort and Performance

He Wen
Placement: University of Missouri – St. Louis
Dissertation: Intangible Assests and Debt Contracting: An Investigation of the Determinants of Net-Worth Covenants

Xiaoli Ortega
Placement: Utah Valley University
Dissertation: The Trade-Off Between Accounting Comparability and Representational Faithfulness with Mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards Adoption

2012

Marcus Burger
Placement: SUNY Binghamton
Dissertation: Accounting Measurement and Beta Risk Measures

2021

Austin Hill-Kleespie
Placement: University of North Texas
Dissertation: Investigating the Sources of Day and Night Returns

Hieu Nguyen
Placement: Foreign Trade University (Vietnam)
Dissertation: Corruption, Political Connection, and Firm Investments

Bharat Parajuli
Placement: Monash University (Australia)
Dissertation: Asset Pricing Implications of Firms’ Government Sales Dependency

Shaoting Pi
Placement: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Dissertation: Essays in Corporate Governance

2020

Christopher Mace
Placement: University of Texas, Dallas
Dissertation: Essays on Intellectual Property and Innovation

2019

Jason Sandvik
Placement: Tulane University
Dissertation: Board Monitoring, Director Connections, and Credit Quality

2018

Lei (Matthew) Ma
Placement: Southern Methodist University (Visiting Prof)
Dissertation: Short Selling Risk and Hedge Fund Performance

2017

Julian (Yan) Zhang
Placement: Loyola Marymount University
Dissertation: Two Essays on Business Description Content Trend and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

2016

James Bulsiewicz
Placement: Texas Tech (Visiting Professor)
Dissertation: Essays on Investor Sentiment and Institutional Trading Momentum

Krisztina Buti
Placement: UCSD (Visiting Professor)
Dissertation: Firm Size, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Shareholder Gains in Corporate Acquisitions

Barbara Chambers
Placement: Monash University, Melbourn, Australia
Dissertation: Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plans’ Liability Spillovers: Important Connections in U.S. Unionized Industries

Wenhao Yang
Placement: Univeristy of South Carolina
Dissertation: Mutual Fund Management: Does Active Management Pay?

2015

Xiaodi Zhang
Placement: Central Florida University
Dissertation: Essays in Financial Markets

2014

Tyler Jensen
Placement: Iowa State University
Dissertation: When Cash Is King: Funding Conditions and the Value of Cash Holdings

2013

Huan Cai
Placement: University of Iowa
Dissertation: Collateral, Two-Dimensional Moral Hazard, and Competition

Joseph Halford
Placement: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Dissertation: Essays on Vulture Investors and the Resolution of Distress

Mingming Qiu
Placement: Baruch College (New York)
Dissertation: Essays on Corporate Finance

2012

Allen Carrion
Placement: Lehigh University
Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure

Madhuparna Kolay
Placement: University of Portland
Dissertation: Essays on the Flow of Distress Along the Supply Chain

2011

Thanh Nguyen
Placement: California State University, Fullerton
Dissertation: Essays on Management Compensation and Dividend Policy

2021

Qiuhua Sheng
Placement: California State University, Northridge
Dissertation: Graph-Based Representation Learning for Predictive Analytics: Applications on Social Network Analysis and Healthcare Informatics

Anqi Xu
Placement: Bentley University
Dissertation: Analytics for Supporting Online Communities

2020

Da Xu
Placement: California State University, Long Beach
Dissertation: Deep Learning-Based Data Enhancement for Improved Predictive Analytics

2019

Nicholas Sullivan
Placement: University of Dayton, Ohio
Dissertation: Essays on Trust in Online Professional Recommendations

Yang Wang
Placement: University of Wisconsin, Millwakee
Dissertation: Online Product Fit Uncertainty, Product Returns, and the Informational Role of Product Fit Opinions

2018

Yuanyuan Gao
Placement: SUNY New Paltz
Dissertation: What makes chain restaurants’ rating diverse: An aspect based sentiment analysis

Michael Lee
Placement: UNLV
Dissertation: Essays on Online Influence and Motivation: The Cases of Crowdfunding and Employment

Mohammad Amin Morid
Placement: Santa Clara University
Dissertation: Leveraging Temporal Patient Data for Enhanced Healthcare Predictive Analytics

Jongtae Yu
Placement: King Fahd University of Petroleum/Minerals
Dissertation: Online Privacy in E-commerce: Privacy Paradox and Sources of Privacy Concerns

2014

Zhepeng (Lionel) Li
Placement: York University Toronto
Dissertation: Utility-based Link Recommendation in Social Networks

2013

Chong Oh
Placement: Eastern Michigan University
Dissertation: Peer Influence, Information Quality and Predictive Power of Stock Microblogs

2012

Han-fen Hu
Placement: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Dissertation: Information Technology Choices by Consumers and Firms

Iljoo Kim
Placement: St. Joseph’s University
Dissertation: Predicting Audience Demographics of Web Sites Using Local Cues

2011

Zhuo Yang
Placement: Overstock.com
Dissertation: Knowledge Discovery from Databases: Cost-Sensitive and Imbalance Learning

2021

Fang Xu
Placement: University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
Dissertation: How Using a Foreign Language Influences Perceived Fairness

2020

Linyi Li
Placement: Singapore Mangement University
Dissertation: Digital Marketing and Product Sales: The Effects of Online Word of Mouth and Video Adverstising

Ramakrishnan
Placement: Georgia State University
Dissertation: Regulatory Fit and Review Helpfulness – A Word-Embedding Analysis

Shelly Rathee
Placement: Villonva University
Dissertation: Altruism is Sacrifice: Influence of Virtue Versus Vice Framing on Donations and Subsequent Indulgent Choices

2019

Anuj Kapoor
Dissertation: Human Distortions in the Digital Economy: Three Pieces of Evidence

2018

Salil Khetani
Placement: Heidelberg University, Ohio
Dissertation: The Interplay of Biological and Sociological Roots of Human Development

Elham Yazdani
Placement: University of Georgia
Dissertation: The Impact of Online Reviews From Two Different Sources on Product Sales, and Other Reviewers

2015

Bo Liang
Placement: St. Vincent College
Dissertation: A Relational View of Consumer Social Learning in Virtual Communities

Keith Botner
Placement: Lehigh University
Dissertation: Marketing Decision Making and Its Downstream Effects on Consumer Behavior

Jake Hoskins
Placement: Millsaps College
Dissertation: Two Empirical Essays on the Drivers of New Product Performance for Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Oscar Moreno
Placement: Rutgers University
Dissertation: Acceleration Blindness and Assortment Shape

2013

Jessica Rixom
Placement: Florida International University
Dissertation: To Thine Own Self Be True: Components and Consequences of Brand Image Authenticity

2012

Ataollah Tafaghodi
Placement: University of Central Florida
Dissertation: Vertical Position and Consumer Risk-Taking

Nguyen Ho Dac
Placement: Dalton State College
Dissertation: The Roles of Online User Generated Content and the Interrelationship Between Product Development and Product Adoption

Tamara Masters
Placement: BYU
Dissertation: Hercules or Medusa: Heroes and Villains and Their Impact on Consumers’ Preference for Vice and Virtue Products

2011

Hyun Jeong Min
Placement: Lewis University
Dissertation: How to Have Style: Style Discourse in Makeover Show and Fashion Consumption

2019

Sina Moghadas Khorasani
Placement: University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: Essays on Innovations: Contests and Clockspeed

2016

Ming Jin
Placement: University of Oregon
Dissertation: Essays in Supply Chain Management

Chunlin Wang
Placement: Post Doc at Vanderbilt University
Dissertation: Stage-Gate Contracts for New Product Development

2014

Francois Giraud-Carrier
Placement: University of Illinois at Springfield
Dissertation: Pollution Regulation and Production in Imperfect Markets

2012

Scott Lindsey
Placement: Dixie State College
Dissertation: Essays in Healthcare Quality and Efficiency: An Operations Management Examination

2021

Michelle Chambers
Dissertation: But Do You Really Understand Me? The Effects of Validating Aspects of the Victim’s Perspective on Relationship Repair

Jared Poole
Placement: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dissertation: “All My Faith in White Jesus?”: Race, Religion, and Moral Identity Work in Organizations

2020

Kristin Bain
Placement: Rochester Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Knowledge is Power: Motivated Strategic Information Sharing

Daniel Shannahan
Placement: Northern State University – South Dakota
Dissertation: Employee Pereptions of Assigned Task Solvability: An Exploration of the Antecedents and Consequences of Low Perceived Task Demonstrability

2018

David Hunsaker
Placement: NYU – Shanghai
Dissertation: Reciprocal Anger, Threat, or Tracking: Using Intensity of Anger to Disentangle Three Common Responses to Angry Negotiators

Nathan Meikle
Placement: University of Notre Dame (Post Doc)
Dissertation: Unaware or Unaccepting: Human Biases and the AI Avalanche

2017

David Howe
Placement: West Texas A&M
Dissertation: Following the Leader or Following the Fo