Kellogg welcomes seven tenure-line faculty members for the 2017-18 academic year

​by Sarah Aylward

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

• More than good intentions (Co-author Jacob Appel) Dutton Penguin, March 2012
• Unshrouding: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming in 2017
• What data can do to fight poverty (Co-author Annie Duflo) The New York Times, January 2016
• The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: Evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico (Co-authors Miriam Bruhn, Antoinette Schoar) Journal of Political Economy, June 2013

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

• The institutional causes of China’s great famine, 1959-1961 (Co-authors Xin Meng, Pierre Yared) The Review of Economic Studies, October 2015
• Government distortion in independently owned media: Evidence from U.S. news coverage of human rights (Co-author David Yanagizawa-Drott) Journal of European Economic Association, April 2017

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

• Court enforcement, bank loans and firm investment: Evidence from a bankruptcy reform in brazil (Co-author Leonardo S. Alencar) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford Academics, March 2016

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

• Exchange rates and monetary policy uncertainty (Co-authors Philippe Mueller, Andrea Vedolin) Journal of Finance, June 2017
• Microeconomic origins of macroeconomic tail risks (Co-authors Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar) American Economic Review, January 2017
• Networks, shocks and systemic risk (Co-authors Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar) The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks, January 2015

Social media

• LinkedIn

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

• Witnessing moral violations increases conformity in consumption (Co-author Chen-Bo Zhong) Journal of Consumer Research, April 2017
• Competing for attention: the effects of jealousy on preference for attention-grabbing products (Co-authors Xun Huang, Robert S. Wyer, Jr.) Journal of Consumer Psychology, December 2016
• Embodiment as procedures: Physical cleansing changes goal priming effects (Co-author Spike W. S. Lee) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2017
• Actors conform, observers react: the effects of behavioral synchrony on conformity (Co-authors Xianchi Dai, Robert S. Wyer, Jr.) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2014

Social Media: LinkedIn

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.

Recent publications

• Stein’s method for steady-state diffusion approximations of M/Ph/n + M systems (Co-author J. G. Dai) Annals of Applied Probability, November 2015
• Poisson statistics of eigenvalues in the hierarchical Dyson model (Co-authors Alexander Bendikov, John Pike) Theory of Probability and its Applications, October 2015
• Empty-car routing in ridesharing systems (Co-authors J.G. Dai, Xin Liu, Lei Ying) Working Paper

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