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Academic Placements

Graduates of our PhD program have gone on to become leading scholars at top universities.

Our recent academic placements are listed by year of graduation, with their dissertation title.

Academic Areas
Accounting
Economics
Finance
Marketing
Operations, Information & Technology
Organizational Behavior
Political Economy

Accounting

Steven Mitsuda, 20
University of Montana
“The Effect of Chief Accounting Officers on Financial Reporting Quality”
Edward M. Watts, 20
Yale School of Management
“Lemons or Unicorns: The Market for Pre-IPO Employee Equity”
Chloe L. Xie, 20
MIT Sloan School of Management
“The Signal Quality of Earnings Announcements: Evidence From an Informed Trading Cartel”
Ken Li, 19
McMaster University
“Linguistics Fundamentals in Earnings Press Releases”
Christina Zhu, 19
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL
“Big Data as a Governance Mechanism”
Kurt H. Gee, 18
Penn State University, Smeal College of Business
“Readability, Profitability, and Discretionary MD&A Text”
Charles McClure, 18
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Determinants of Tax Avoidance”
Trung Nguyen, 18
Harvard Business School
“The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror”
Aneesh Raghunandan, 17
London School of Economics
“Government Subsidies and Corporate Fraud”
Rimmy E. Tomy, 16
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Competition and the Use of Discretion in Financial Reporting: Evidence from Community Banks ”
Youfei Xiao, 16
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
“Uncertainty, Disagreement and Forecast Dispersion: Empirical Measures from a Model of Analysts' Strategic Conduct”
Zach Zhiguang Wang, 15
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business
“Leases: Service Contracts or Investment and Financing?”

Economics

Enrique Ide, 20
IESE Business School
“Reorganizations”
Yucheng Liang, 20
briq Institute (Postdoc); Carnegie Mellon University (2021)
“Learning from unknown information sources”
Anthony Lee Zhang, 19
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Competition and Manipulation in Derivative Contract Markets”
Dmitry Arkhangelsky, 18
Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)
“Essays in Econometrics”
Shannon Liu, 18
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
“Theory and Applications of Collective Investment”
Piotr Dworczak, 17
Northwestern University, Department of Economics
“Mechanism Design with Aftermarkets”
Erik Madsen, 16
New York University, Department of Economics
“Optimal project termination with an informed agent”
Mikhail Panov, 15
New York University, Department of Economics
“A theory of "interspection" in games”

Finance

Samuel Antill, 20
Harvard Business School
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Jonathan Wallen, 20
Harvard Business School
“Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets”
Yu An, 19
Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School
“Competing with Inventory in Dealership Markets”
Wenhao Li, 19
University of Southern California
“Public Liquidity and Financial Crises”
Jiacui Li, 19
University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business
“Sophisticated Inattention and Investor Underreaction”
Yiming Ma, 18
Columbia Business School
“Intermediation in the Interbank Lending Market”
Yang Song, 18
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Marco Giacoletti, 17
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Zhe Wang, 17
Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Michael Schwert, 16
Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
“Bank Capital and Lending Relationships”
Yizhou Xiao, 16
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Business School
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Will Gornall, 15
University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
“Essays in Financial Economics”
Pavel Zryumov, 15
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
“Essays in Corporate Finance”
Felipe Aldunate, 14
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Escuela de Administración
“Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance”
Lin William Cong, 14
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Essays in Dynamic Corporate Finance and Investment”
Dmitry Orlov, 14
University of Rochester, Simon Business School
“Essays in Corporate Finance”

Marketing

Megan Hunter, 20
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
“Strategic Utilization and Communication of Information”
Ilya Morozov, 20
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
“Consumer Behavior, Pricing, and Product Entry in Markets with Information Frictions”
Melanie Brucks, 19
Columbia University
“The Creativity Paradox: Encouraging Creative Ideas Blocks Idea Generation”
Jessica Yu, 19
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
“Search, Selectivity, and Market Thickness in Two Sided Markets ”
Justin T. Huang, 18
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
“Visibility Policy, Seller Incentives, and Pricing Dynamics in a Digital Goods Marketplace”
Tomomichi Amano, 17
Columbia Business School
“Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions under an Energy Efficiency Program”
Kristina Brecko, 17
University of Rochester, Simon Business School
“New Features Free of Charge? Using Price to Sort Consumers Among Legacy Software Versions”
Lauren B. Cheatham, 17
University of Hawaii, Shidler College of Business
“The Effects of Attitude Certainty on Attitudinal Advocacy: Understanding the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Advocacy”
Daniella Kupor, 16
Boston University, Questrom School of Business
“Consumers, Interrupted: The Effect of Interruptions on Persuasion and Decision Making”
Anna Tuchman, 16
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Business
“Essays on the Role of Advertising in Product Markets”
Øystein Sigvald Daljord, 15
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Commitment, Vertical Restraints and Dynamic Pricing of Durable Goods”
Emily Nicole Garbinsky, 15
University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
“Money and Power: How Feelings of Power Drive Financial Decisions”
Taly Reich, 14
Yale University, School of Management
“The Upside of Evaluative Inconsistency: When Contradictions Foster Persuasion and Protect the Self.”

Operations, Information & Technology

Ignacio Andres Rios, 20
The University of Texas at Dallas
“Essays on Behavioral Market Design”
Ken Moon, 16
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
“Structural Estimation Models for Data-Driven Operations & Pricing”
Joel Goh, 14
Harvard Business School
“Application of Optimization and Stochastic Models in Healthcare Research”

Organizational Behavior

Anjali M. Bhatt, 20
Santa Fe Institute (Postdoc); Harvard Business School (2021)
“Neither blank slate nor set in stone: Cultural behaviors of organizational newcomers”
Solène Delecourt, 20
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
“Field Experiments in Performance Inequality Among Small Businesses: Evidence from India and Uganda”
Naomi M. Fa-Kaji, 20
Rice University (Postdoc)
“Seeing Harm, Thinking, "Humans": Perceptions of Harm Prompt Human-Driven Explanations”
Poruz Khambatta, 20
University of California, Los Angeles (Postdoc)
“Using Artificial Intelligence to Examine First Impressions”
Amelia M Stillwell, 20
University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business
“Gendered Racial Boundary Maintenance: Social Penalties for White Women in Interracial Relationships”
Matthew Corritore, 18
McGill University
“Essays on the Consequences and Determinants of Cultural Heterogeneity in Firms”
Jennifer E. Dannals, 18
Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
“Essays in Social Norm Perception”
Arthur Jago, 18
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business (Postdoc)
“Locating Conviction Within Organizations”
Julian J. Zlatev, 18
Harvard Business School
“Self-Interest and Other-Interest Motives in Prosocial Behavior”
David Peter Daniels, 17
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Business School
“Nudge Strategies”
Sora Jun, 17
University of Texas-Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management
“Understanding Complex Hierarchy Dynamics: Dominant Group Members' Responses to Inter-Subordinate Group Coalition”
Anthony Vashevko, 17
National University of Singapore (Postdoc); Essec Business School (Postdoc); INSEAD (2019)
“Strategic Responses to Categorization”
Scott Ganz, 16
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy
“Three Essays on Organizational Politics, Search, and Learning”
Rem Koning, 16
Harvard Business School
“Field Experiments in Networks, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship”
Demetrius P. Lewis, 16
Emory University, Goizueta Business School
“Co-investment and Competition: The Strategic Networks of Venture Capital Firms”
L. Taylor Phillips, 16
New York University, Stern School of Business
“On the Psychology of Privilege”
Peter Ronald Belmi, 15
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
“Who Wants to Get to the Top? Class and Lay Theories of Power.”
Etan Green, 15
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL
“Empirical Studies of Expert Behavior”
Tamar Admati Kreps, 15
University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business
“When an issue becomes a lens: People who moralize an issue view their social world in terms of that issue”
Sunasir Indra Dutta, 14
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
“Natural Disasters and Social Entrepreneurship: Three Essays”

Political Economy

Hugh Xiaolong Wu, 20
Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School (Postdoc)
“Field Experiments in Firms”
Nathan Atkinson, 19
ETH Zurich, Center for Law and Economics (Postdoc)
“Essays in Law and Business”
Thomas Choate, 19
Duke University, Department of Political Science (PostDoc)
“Essays in Political Economy”
Christian Fong, 19
University of Michigan, Political Science
“The Allocation of Rights to Congressional Leaders”
Zhao Li, 19
Princeton University, Department of Politics
“Three Essays on Money in Politics in the United States”
Peter Schram, 17
Vanderbilt University, Department of Political Science
“Essays on Counterinsurgency”
Nicholas Eubank, 16
Stanford University (Postdoc); Duke University (2019)
“Social Networks and the Political Salience of Ethnicity”