Curricula Vitae in Moore Sch - Div. of Research

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Joao Eduardo Albino Pimentel Assistant 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.
Janice Breuer Bass Associate Dean	International Economics, Econometrics, Price and Wage Determination	I am a Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. My primary research interests are exchange rates, financial crises, institutions, economic growth, and applied time series econometrics. I have recently become interested in behavioral economics and its foundations for macroeconomic growth.
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.
McKinley Blackburn Professor	Wage structure, Income inequality, Economics demography	McKinley L. Blackburn is the James A. Morris Professor of Economics. Dr. Blackburn's current research interests lie in three areas: (1) the effects of minimum wages on employment and related outcomes; (2) the appropriate method for estimating the effects of individual characteristics on their wages; and (3) bank behavior in home mortgage markets.
Philip Scott Brookins Associate Professor	examines how individuals and groups behave in contests when they are information-constrained, how individuals behave when competing as part of a team composed of heterogeneously talented members	Philip Brookins is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research involves the use of game-theoretic techniques to model and characterize behavior in competitive settings, such as contests and tournaments, and the use of experimental methods to test the validity of such models. In particular, he examines how individuals and groups behave in contests when they are information-constrained.
Dr. Dirk Brown Clinical Assistant Professor	Entrepreneurship	Dr. Brown is a seasoned executive with a strong track record of developing, marketing, and licensing disruptive, proprietary technologies. He is the founding CEO of Pandoodle Corporation, a digital media technology company with offices in California, New York, and South Carolina. Previously, he was CEO of Neoconix, a venture capital-funded electronics technology company serving Fortune 100 customers with worldwide sales and manufacturing.
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.
Dr. Sarah Isa Carroll Clinical Assistant Professor	Microeconomics, Economics of Personal Finance, International Finance and Trade	Sarah I. Carroll holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, a M.Sc. in Economics from Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen and a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2017
Jason DeBacker Associate Professor		Jason M. DeBacker is an assistant professor in the Dept of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research interests lie in the areas of public finance and macroeconomics. He published papers on these topics in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and other outlets. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as a financial economist in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Dept of Treasury.
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.
Dr. Robert Grasser Assistant Professor	Business Administration, Economics	Robert Grasser joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2016 after spending one year at Tulane University. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and B.Sc. and M.Sc double degrees in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Kiel, Germany.
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.
John/Patrick Hackney Assistant Professor	Finance	John Hackney is an assistant professor of finance. He teaches Case Studies in Corporate Finance at the undergraduate level. His research focuses on the intersection of law and finance, especially how bankruptcy law affects small firms credit and growth.
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.
Dr. William R Hauk, Jr. Associate Professor	International trade, political economics, economic growth	William R. Hauk is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. His research interests lie in the areas of international trade, political economics, economic growth, and applied econometrics.
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.
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 Irani 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.
Christian Jensen Associate Professor	Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Dynamic Policy Issues	Dr. Jensen teaches macroeconomics and money & banking at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in Macro and Monetary Economics, as well as in dynamic policy issues in general. His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics and Economics Letters.
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 and product recalls, Marketing Officers in the C-suite	Kartik Kalaignanam is an associate professor of marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research program focuses on two substantive themes. The first theme examines the impact of new product alliances, CRM outsourcing, NPD outsourcing and product recalls on metrics such as product quality and stock market performance. The second stream of research investigates the influence of the impact of CMO tenure and CMO compensation mix on performance metrics.
Da Ke Assistant 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.
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.
Alexander Matros Professor	Game Theory (Evolutionary, Experimental), Contests, Industrial Organization	Dr. Matros joined the Department of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in 2010. His research interests include (evolutionary, experimental) game theory, contests, and industrial Organization.
Dr. Gerald McDermott 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. Orgul Demet Ozturk Department Chair/Professor	Health Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education	My research interests are in applied microeconomics fields, specifically labor economics and health economics. I have recently published on effects of SNAP program on health and education outcomes, effect of food related interventions on cognitive performance and lunch line design on healthy food choice. I have several ongoing projects that analysis education program and policy effects on short and long run student academic and crime and social program dependency other outcomes.
Dr. Sung Hee Park Clinical Associate 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.
Mr. Jeffrey M Rehling Senior Lecturer	Sales, Marketing Strategy	Jeffrey Rehling is an instructor for the Department of Marketing at University of South Carolina.
Luis Felipe Saenz Munoz Assistant Professor		Luis Felipe Sáenz is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in May of 2018, and a M.A and B.S. in economics from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia). From 2010 to 2012, he was a research fellow at the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.
Jeffrey Paul Savage Lecturer	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 Tamara Sheldon Associate Professor	Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Climate Change	Tamara Sheldon is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego in June of 2015. Her research interests include environmental and energy economics and how these fields interact with public policy. Her current research projects relate to climate change and adoption of plug-in electric vehicles.
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.
Scott Turner Professor	routines, innovation	Scott Turner is an assistant 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. He is also interested in the emerging area of social entrepreneurship. Industries of particular interest include solid waste management and computer software. His teaching has focused on strategic management at the undergraduate and masters levels.
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.
Lindsey Johanna Woodworth Associate Professor	Health economics	Lindsey Woodworth is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to arriving at the University of South Carolina, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida in 2014. Her research is in health economics with a focus on issues related to U.S. emergency departments.
Linyun Wu Yang Assistant 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. Yi Crystal Zhan Associate Professor	Labor economics, Economics of education, Applied econometrics	Yi Crystal Zhan is an assistant professor of Economics in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. Dr. Zhan’s research interests lie in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and applied econometrics. Her work particularly addresses topics related to immigration and ethnic disparities.
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.