Curricula Vitae in Moore Sch - Div. of Research

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Joao Eduardo Albino Pimentel Associate Professor	Non-market and international strategy	João Albino-Pimentel is an assistant professor in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business. Albino-Pimentel’s research revolves around non-market and international strategy. Albino-Pimentel’s research has been recognized with the best COST-DTT Doctoral Proposal award at the 2013 European International Business Academy Conference in Bremen and with the Strategic Management Society 2014 SRF dissertation grant.
Dr. Elisa Alvarez-Garrido Assistant Professor	International business, Entrepreneurship, Technology	Alvarez-Garrido teaches international entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate level. Before joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, she was faculty at Georgia State University, where she taught global competitive strategy in the MBA program.
Dr. Rafael Becerril Arreola Associate Professor	Marketing, Operations Management, Computer Engineering / Computer Science	I study the role of socioeconomics, social processes, and technology in consumer markets. To this end, I develop and apply tools from econometrics, game theory, optimization, computer engineering and science, supported by theories from economics, psychology, and sociology.
Mr. Justin Scott Byars Lecturer	Taxation, Business Law	Justin Byars joined the Darla Moore School of Business as a lecturer in the spring of 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Accountancy degree from the University of South Carolina. He attended law school at the University of Florida, earning his Juris Doctorate in 2006. He is a certified public accountant in the state of South Carolina as well as a licensed attorney in both Florida and South Carolina. He teaches in the areas of taxation and business law.
Professor Laura B. Cardinal Professor	New product development teams, Product commercialization	Laura B. Cardinal, Ph.D., is the SmartState Endowed Chair and Director for the Center for Innovation and Commercialization at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Previously, Cardinal was a faculty member at Tulane University, where she served as director of the Burkenroad Institute for the Study of Ethics and Leadership. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a National Science Foundation grant recipient.
Mark E Ferguson Associate Dean	Business, supply chain management	Mark Ferguson is a Distinguished Business Foundation Fellow and professor of Management Science in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Operations Management from Duke University in 2001. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Dr. Kirk Fiedler, PhD Associate Professor	End User Computing Management, Computer Mediated Technologies, Group Decision Making	Kirk Dean Fiedler is an Associate Professor of MIS at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Currently, his research interests include technology assimilation, knowledge management, international business, and electronic commerce.
Christine Ann Glenski Senior Lecturer		Christine Glenski is a Senior Lecturer in the Departmen of School of Accounting, Darla Moore School of Business.
Omrane Guedhami Professor	International Corporate Governance, Political Economy of Privatization, Emerging Market Development	Dr. Guedhami's research interests primarily cover privatization, liberalization, and corporate governance, with a particular focus on emerging markets. Specifically, his research examines the determinants of postprivatization performance changes, the impact of privatization on corporate governance and ownership structure, and the determinants of ownership structure of newly privatized and public firms.
Clark J Hampton Clinical Associate Professor		Clark Hampton holds a Ph.D in Accounting from the University of Central Florida, a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Texas Tech University, and a B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of North Texas. He joined the faculty of the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2017. His primary teaching area is accounting information systems. He has worked in hospitality management and also as an internal auditor for the state of Texas.
Ling L. Harris Assistant Professor	Financial Reporting, Judgement and Decision Making of Investors and Managers	Ling Harris' teaching interests include financial reporting and financial statement analysis. Her primary research interests are judgments and decision-making related to accounting information. She is particularly interested in how financial disclosures influence the judgments and investment decisions of reasonably informed investors.
Robert Paul Hartwig Clinical Associate Professor		Robert Hartwig (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1993) is clinical associate professor of finance and co-director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center. His research focuses on insurance markets and structures, risk management, risk-bearing capital market instruments, the financing of technology risks and venture capital in insurance markets. He makes frequent presentations to insurance industry management, boards of directors, regulators and legislators.
Deborah Hazzard Associate Dean	strategic business collaborations, proliferation of emerging technologies (such as wireless mobile devices and mobile payments)	Deborah Hazzard serves as associate dean of diversity and inclusion at the Darla Moore School of Business. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Hazzard holds a professional doctorate from Georgia State University, an Executive MBA from Winthrop University and a bachelor’s degree in business management from North Carolina State University. She also earned a Diversity and Inclusion Professional certificate from Cornell University and holds a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE) credential.
Ai He Assistant Professor	empirical asset pricing, banking and financial institutions	Ai He is an assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. She completed her Ph.D. in finance at Emory University. She has previously studied at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Leslie A. Hendrix Clinical Professor	Statistics	Leslie Hendrix is a statistics instructor at University of South Carolina and her research interests are psychometrics - item response theory, posterior predictive model checking, multidimensional testing data analysis, Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
Dr. Mohammad (Vahid) Irani Clinical Assistant Professor	Mergers and acquisitions, Cross-sectional asset pricing, Event studies and financial econometrics	Mohammad Irani is an assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He teaches Corporate Financial Analysis at the undergraduate level.
Dr. Scott B Jackson Professor	Earnings Management, Accounting Choice, Compensation and Taxation	Dr. Scott B. Jackson joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2002 after spending five years at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Dr. Jackson teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial and managerial accounting. He conducts research in the areas of earnings management, accounting choice, compensation, and taxation.
Satish Jayachandran Associate Dean	Market Responsiveness, Customer Relationship Management, Institutional Impact in Marketing	Satish Jayachandran is Francis C. Hipp Moore Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Marketing. His research interests are in the area of marketing strategy. More specifically, Satish is interested in how marketing assets and actions influence firm performance.
Chao Jiang Associate Professor	Behavioral finance, Asset pricing, Insider trading	Chao Jiang is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research has been published in The Accounting Review and Management Science.
Kartik Kalaignanam Professor	Product quality, product recalls, consumer safety, regulations, public policy, CRM, Marketing Agility	Kartik Kalaignanam is Professor of marketing and Moore Fellow at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research program focuses on the impact of product development/management issues on firm performance. His research has examined the impact of new product alliances, NPD outsourcing, product recalls and product modularity on metrics such as product quality and stock market performance. He also investigates the influence of emerging CRM practices on performance.
Da Ke Associate Professor	investements, household finance, behavioral finance	Da Ke is an assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Miami and an M.A. in statistics from Columbia University. He was born and grew up in Shanghai, China.
Hoikwang Kim Associate Professor	Investment, Asset pricing, Investor behavior	Hugh Hoikwang Kim is an assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. His research has been published in leading finance and economics journals such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Audrey (Mary) Korsgaard Associate Dean	Self-evaluation, Feedback, Procedural Justice	M. Audrey Korsgaard is Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Korsgaard's research centers on trust, prosocial values and organizational justice as explanatory frameworks for understanding interpersonal and intragroup cooperation. She has studied these issues in a variety of work settings, including supervisor-subordinate relationships, investor-entrepreneur relations, work teams, and joint ventures.
Jessica Sara Lewis Lecturer		Jessica Lewis is a Lecturer in the Departmen of School of Accounting, Darla Moore School of Business.
Sali Li Professor	Multinational strategy, Revisiting the resource based view, International entrepreneurship	Sali Li is an Associate Professor at the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to joining the Moore School, he was an Assistant Professor at the Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Li’s primary research interests cover multinational strategy, revisiting the resource based view, and international entrepreneurship, with particular focus on emerging economies.
Stanislav Markus Associate Professor	Political risk, Non-market strategy, Political economy	Stanislav Markus is an associate professor of international business and a Business Partnership Foundation Fellow at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Professor Markus received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Moore School, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Gerald McDermott Department Chair/Professor	International politics and business, international strategy, Comparative analysis, Emerging markets, innovation and development	Dr. Gerald A. McDermott is Associate Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He specializes in international business and political economy. His current research in South America uses both comparative and statistical survey methods to examine the socio-political conditions under which societies build new innovative capacities to achieve sustained upgrading in their industries.
Taia McGinnis Lecturer		Taia McGinnis is a Lecturer and Associate Director, Center for Marketing Solutions in the Department of Marketing, Darla Moore School of Business.
Dr. Wolfgang Messner Clinical Professor	challenges of managing international teams and the needs of practitioners in international marketing	Wolfgang Messner is a clinical associate professor at the Darla Moore School of Business and director of GloBus Research. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina in August 2016, he was a professor of international management at the MYRA School of Business in Mysore (India).
Dr. Andrew H Newman Professor	Managerial accounting	Drew Newman is an Associate Professor in the School of Accounting at the Darla Moore School of Business. He joined the Moore School in 2013 after four years as an Assistant Professor in Accounting at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Newman holds a Ph.D. from Georgia State University and a B.S. and a M.S. in Accounting from the University of Alabama.
Dr. Anthony Justin Nyberg Professor	Strategic human resources, Human asset policies, Turnover	Anthony Nyberg is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.B.A. from Tulane University. His research is in the area of strategic human resources focusing on compensation, performance, and turnover.
Dr. Daniel Ostergaard Clinical Professor	International security, Transnational terrorism, Trade	Daniel Ostergaard is a clinical faculty member of the Sonoco International Business Department in the Darla Moore School of Business with expertise in public-private partnerships, business-government relations, critical infrastructure, security, and extensive diplomatic and multi-national corporate dealings around the world.
Dr. Sung Hee Park Clinical Professor	Distributed Learning, Experiential Education, Internationalization	Sung-Hee "Sunny" Park, Ph.D., has considerable prior consulting experience in both IT and IB which he brings to bear in both his teaching and pragmatic research. His current teaching interests include distributed learning, experiential education, and internationalization. His current scholarly interests include IS Adoption, IT Management, Big Data Analytics, and Innovation Education.
Dr. Robert Edwin Ployhart Professor	human resources, organizational behavior, staffing, recruitment, personnel selection, statistics and measurement	My primary program of research focuses on understanding staffing within the context of forces shaping contemporary Human Resources. For example, I have sought to understand the inherent multilevel nature of staffing, delineating how staffing practices relate to criteria across multiple levels of analysis, and how micro staffing practices (such as performance appraisal) are affected by national culture.
Eric A. Powers Dept Chair/Associate Professor		Eric A. Powers (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) is an Associate Professor of Finance. His research focuses on fixed-income policies of corporations as well as corporate capital investment policy and corporate restructuring.
Jeffrey Paul Savage Clinical Assistant Professor	Management	Jeff Savage is and Assistant Professor for the Department of Management Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.
Dr. Donald Schepker Associate Professor	Antecedents and consequences of executive dismissal, Decision-making of top managers and boards across multiple organizations, Managerial characteristics and firm decision making	Donald J. Schepker is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and B.S. from Babson College. His research is in strategic management and focuses on corporate governance, executive dismissal, decision making at the board of directors and firm level. Dr. Schepker's research has appeared in the Journal of Management.
Donna Bobek Schmitt Professor	Taxation, Tax policy, Ethical decision-making	Donna Bobek Schmitt teaches undergraduate and graduate tax courses and has received several teaching awards, most recently the 2013 UCF University Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. She conducts research on the judgment and decision making, including ethical decision making, of taxpayers and accounting professionals; and has published in a number of academic journals.
Professor Andrew Spicer Associate Professor		Dr. Spicer's research and teaching focuses on the intersection of business and society in a global economy. His research has examined privatization policies and outcomes in Eastern Europe, as well as the role of Western ideas and international organizations in shaping market reform policies in transition economies. He has also studied the effects of national context and national identity on managers' ethical evaluations and behaviors in international business settings.
Todd Stephen Stonitsch Clinical Assistant Professor	empirical corporate finance, and in particular, mergers and acquisitions	Todd Stonitsch is a clinical assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. His professional experience includes working with multiple multi-national banks across the United States and Asia developing software solutions in the areas of interest rate product pricing and risk management. Prior to joining the Darla Moore School of Business, he was an assistant professor at Elon University and a graduate teaching instructor at Georgia State University.
Scott Turner Professor	routines, innovation	Scott Turner is a professor of management in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Turner conducts research in the areas of innovation, change and organizational routines.
Dr. Douglas Woodward Professor	Urban and regional economics, international economics	Dr. Douglas P. Woodward is the Director of Division of Research and Professor of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Woodward's primary research interests are industry location, economic development, and foreign direct investment. Sponsored research includes economic impact analyses of BMW and Coca-Cola in the United States, China, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, and elsewhere.
Linyun Wu Yang Associate Professor	how communication technologies influence consumers’ responses to strategic communication	Dr. Linwan Wu's research adopts the empirical and social scientific approach investigating how communication technologies influence consumers’ responses to strategic communication. He is interested in seeing how different features of digital media work together with other factors (e.g. message, individual, and contextual factors) to influence consumers’ cognitive, affective, and conative responses. Wu is in the advertising sequence. He believes true knowledge comes from practice.
Wenhao Yang Assistant Professor	Empirical asset pricing, Mutual funds, Corporate innovation and experiments on asset pricing theory	Wenhao Yang is an assistant professor of finance in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Yang teaches investments at the undergraduate level.
Professor Chris Berline Yenkey Associate Professor	Social diversity, Segregation, Inter-group trust	Christopher B. Yenkey is an assistant professor in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of International Business.
Dr. Feng Yeo Associate Professor	Accounting regulations and regimes, Effects of risk and uncertainty, Effects of qualitative disclosures	Yeo’s research examines the roles of risk and uncertainty disclosures in accounting, and explores ways to improve the flow of risk-related information in the capital markets. His work shows how risk or uncertainty disclosures, and their related regulations, can have tangible effects on managers' disclosure behaviors (Yeo 2021 CAR), managers' accounting choices (Tan and Yeo 2021 TAR), investors' risk perceptions, and investment decisions (He, Tan, Yeo, and Zhang 2019 CAR; Tan and Yeo 2023 AOS).
Dr. Marc van Essen Associate Dean	International business, Management, Economics	Marc Van Essen is a Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina.