Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Doctoral Program: Suresh Govindaraj, Rutgers Business
School (RBS), 1 Washington Park, Room 934 (973-353-5371; email:
phdinfo@business.rutgers.edu)
Website: http://www.business.rutgers.edu/phd
The doctoral program is administered separately from the
Rutgers master of business administration (M.B.A.) degree program. For
information about programs leading to the M.B.A. degree, visit the Rutgers
Business School admissions office website at http://www.business.rutgers.edu/admissions
(973-353-1234; fax: 973-353-1592; email: admit@business.rutgers.edu).
Members of the Graduate Faculty
From the Accounting and Information Systems Department
Michael Alles, RBS; Ph.D., Stanford
Managerial accounting; strategic control systems
Divya Anantharaman, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Accounting and corporate finance; disclosure; pension funds; financial institutions
Helen Brown-Liburd, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Judgement and decision-making issues in auditing; negotiation; ethics
Foong Soon Cheong, RBS; Ph.D., Yale
Analysts forecast; information flow; equity valuation
Valentin Dimitrov, RBS; Ph.D., Tulane
Capital markets; financial accounting; voluntary disclosure
Feng Gao, Rochester
Corporate governance; securities regulations insider trading; corporate social responsibility
Peter R. Gillett, RBS; Ph.D., Kansas
Auditing; information systems; uncertain reasoning;
quantitative methodologies; philosophy
Leonard Goodman, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate taxation; history of taxation; international
accounting
Suresh Govindaraj, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Financial analysis; executive compensation; taxes
Won Gyun No, Ph.D., Waterloo (Canada)
Accounting information systems
Hussein Issa, RBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Exception identification and prioritization; expert systems; continuous auditing and continuous control monitoring; data analysis
Bikki Jaggi, RBS; Ph.D., Free University of Berlin
Financial accounting; cost accounting; environmental
accounting; social accounting
Alex Kogan, RBS; Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences
Internet technology and electronic commerce; knowledge-based
decision support systems; accounting information systems; reasoning under
uncertainty; productivity accounting and data analysis
Yaw M. Mensah, RBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Managerial accounting; efficiency evaluation; nonprofit
institutions; financial accounting; information in capital markets
Paul J. Miranti Jr., RBS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
American business history; government accounting;
not-for-profit accounting
Kevin Moffitt, RBS; Ph.D., Arizona
Automated credibility assessment; fraudulent financial reporting; knowledge discovery through text mining; motivation in online communities
Dan Palmon, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate finance; financial reporting; general accounting
theory
Bharat Sarath, RBS; Ph.D., Stanford
Financial accounting
Glenn R. Shafer, RBS; Ph.D., Princeton
Audit judgment; causal modeling and uncertain reasoning;
expert systems; information systems; statistical reasoning
Jay Soled, RBS; J.D., Michigan
Business taxation; charitable trusts; estate planning
Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, RBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Accounting systems; expert systems; ecommerce
Li Zhang, RBS; Ph.D., London Business School
Voluntary disclosures; market anomaly; credit market
From the Finance and Economics Department
Ivan E. Brick, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Corporate finance; the impact of default risk, taxes, and
asymmetric information upon the type of financial securities issued by firms;
capital budgeting
Serdar Dinc, RBS; Ph.D., Stanford
Political economy of finance; transmission of financial shocks; real estate lending; mergers and acquisitions
Mahmud Hassan, RBS; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Economics; health economics; labor management
Simi Kedia, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Finance; corporate finance; governance; compensation;
diversification
Jin-Mo Kim, RBS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Corporate governance; cross-border mergers and acquisitions;
international portfolio allocation
Farrokh K. Langdana, RBS; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic and
State
Fiscal and monetary policies; global macroeconomic policies;
macroeconomic experimentation
Cheng-Few Lee, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Corporate finance; security analysis; portfolio management;
options and futures; risk management
Rose Liao, RBS; Ph.D., Ohio State
Empirical corporate finance; international finance; fixed income securities
Frank McIntyre, RBS; Ph.D., Stanford
Applied econometrics; law and economics; labor; development
Daniela Osterrieder, RBS; Ph.D., Maastricht (Netherlands)
Financial economics; financial econometrics; long-memory models; empirical asset pricing
Darius Palia, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Corporate finance; banking; corporate governance
Oded Palmon, RBS; Ph.D., Chicago
Corporate finance; taxation
Robert H. Patrick, RBS; Ph.D., New Mexico
Applied microeconomics; applied econometrics; natural
resource and environmental economics; regulation of network industries
Harvey Poniachek, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY
Tavy Ronen, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Market microstructure; corporate finance
Ben J. Sopranzetti, RBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Banking; corporate finance; derivative securities
Menaham Spiegel, RBS; Ph.D., Chicago
Regulation and competition in network industries; economic theory of economics with consumption externalities
Dan Weaver, RBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Market microstructure; security design
Yangru Wu, RBS; Ph.D., Ohio State
International finance; asset pricing; applied time-series
analysis
Zhaodong Zhong, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Hedge funds; derivatives; credit risk; empirical asset pricing
Xing Zhou, RBS; Ph.D., Cornell
Credit markets; market microstructure; empirical asset pricing
From the Management Science and Information Systems
Department
Nabil R. Adam, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Database systems; digital libraries; electronic commerce;
scheduling; simulation
Farid Alizadeh, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Software for optimization with simultaneous linear, convex,
quadratic, and semidefinite constraints; application of semidefinite programming
to combinatorial optimization and statistics
Vijay Atluri, RBS; Ph.D., George Mason
Clinical information systems; database management systems;
distributed systems; information systems security; workflow management systems
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, RBS; D.Sc., Israel Institute of
Technology
Operations research; electric energy generation;
telecommunication networks; stochastic modeling
Adi Ben-Israel, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Convexity and inequalities; matrix theory; optimization
theory; numerical analysis; dynamic programming; optimal control; economics of
uncertainty; management of natural resources
Endre Boros, RBS; Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd (Budapest)
Discrete optimization
Jonathan Eckstein, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Optimization algorithms; parallel computing and applications
Mert Gurbuzbalabar, Ph.D., New York
Optimization, computation science
Douglas Jones, RBS; Ph.D., Florida State
Bayesian methods; computerized psychological and educational
testing; data analysis
Michael N. Katehakis, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Dynamic programming; reliability; queuing; sequential
statistics; operations management
Thomas Lidbetter, Ph.D., London School of Economics
Game theoretic models
Xiaodong Lin, RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Financial time series; statistical data mining; network
analysis in neurology and imaging; data privacy and confidentiality
Spiros Papadimitriou, RBS; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Data mining; streaming data; time series; graph mining; clustering; large-scale data processing; smart mobile applications
Periklis Papakonstantinou, Ph.D., Toronto
Big Data; machine learning crytography
Andrzej Ruszczynski, RBS; Ph.D., Warsaw University of
Technology
Stochastic programming; stochastic control; financial
engineering; risk management
Barit Shariq, CIMIC-RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Information security; access control; distributed multimedia
systems
John Tavantzis, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Analysis, optimization, and dynamical systems
Jaideep Vaidya, RBS; Ph.D., Purdue
Confluence of privacy/security; data mining and databases;
security and privacy issues raised by data mining; data mining techniques
applied to interoperation of heterogeneous information sources; applied
cryptography and secure multiparty computation techniques; use of data mining
for enhancing security
Hui Xiong, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Data mining; statistical computing; geographic information
systems; biomedical informatics; information security
Jian Yang, RBS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Combinatorial optimization; production planning; logistics; stochastic modeling; revenue management; game-theoretic applications
From the Management and Global Business Department
Ted Baker, RBS; Ph.D., North Carolina
Entrepreneurship
Michael L. Barnett, RBS; Ph.D., New York
Strategic management; corporate reputation; corporate social responsibility; industry self-regulation
John Cantwell, RBS; Ph.D., Reading
Analysis of corporate technological change and international
business
Chao C. Chen, RBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Cross-cultural management; China; reward allocation;
leadership; managing diversity
Petra Christmann, RBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Strategic management and international business with a focus
on environmental management; firm self-regulation in the global economy;
emergence of global standards and their effects on firm strategies;
international diffusion of management practicesFarok J. Contractor, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Foreign investment and markets; global enterprises; joint
ventures; licensing
Joanne Ciulla, Ph.D., Temple
Leadership ethics
Nancy DiTomaso, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Diversity in organizations; labor force; managing
knowledge-based organizations; organizational change and transformation;
organizational culture; women, minorities, and cross-cultural management
Ajai Gaur, RBS; Ph.D., National University of Singapore
Strategy: business groups, corporate governance, and top
management teams; international business: internationalization, entry mode and
ownership strategies, foreign subsidiary management, and emerging economies
Brett Anitra Gilbert, RBS; Ph.D., Indiana
Geographic clusters; disruptive technologies; clean technologies; new venture performance; entrepreneurship
Michelle Gittelman, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry
Terri Kurtzberg, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Email communication; negotiation strategies and tactics;
organizational creativity
Daniel Levin, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Knowledge transfer; organizational learning; organizational
change and innovation
Douglas Miller, Ph.D., Ohio State
Strategic management
Sinéad Monaghan, RBS; Ph.D., Limerick (Ireland)
Foreign direct investment; multinational corporations; subnational actors; social network analysis; internationalization; economic geography; strategic HRM; employment relations; comparative HRM; networks
Arturo E. Osorio, RBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Entrepreneurship; grassroots movements; emergence and organizing processes
Sara Parker Lue, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Strategic human resources; organizational economics of health care
Aviad Peer, RBS; Ph.D., British Columbia
Sources of competitive advantage; entry strategies and economic geography
Jeffrey A. Robinson, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Entrepreneurship; urban economic development;
entrepreneurial leadership; social entrepreneurship; urban sociology; strategic
management; business and society issues; institutional theory; social networks;
urban hiring strategies
Neha Shah, RBS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Workplace social networks; status hierarchies
Oliver Sheldon, RBS; Ph.D., Cornell
Groups and teams; conflict and
negotiation; managerial
judgment decision making
Phyllis Siegel, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
CEO self-handicapping; executive compensation; linkage
between strategy and organizational behavior/human resource management;
organizational justice and trust
Alex VanZant, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Strategic social interactions
Danni Wang, Ph.D., Arizona State
Leadership ethics
Danielle Warren, RBS; Ph.D., Wharton
Global business ethics and management
From the Marketing Department
S. Chan Choi, RBS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Price competition; competitive product positioning;
quantitative models in marketing
Kristina Durante, Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Social psychology; consumer decision-making
Harsharanjeet Jagpal, RBS; Ph.D., Columbia
Advertising; internet marketing; marketing-finance
interface; new products; pricing; strategy; sales force policy; marketing
channels
Kihyun Kim, Ph.D., Georgia State
Customer experiences; purchase behaviors
Alokparna (Sonia) Basu Monga, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Branding; culture
Ashwani Monga, RBS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Judgment; decision-making
Oscar Moreno, Ph.D., Utah
Consumer behavior
Christine Ringler, RBS; Ph.D., Arizona State
Consumer behavior; self-control; sensory marketing; haptics; drivestate motivations
Can (John) Uslay, RBS; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Marketing interfaces; market structure; market orientation; predatory pricing; nation and region branding; mindful marketing; product placement; covert marketing; rule of three theory
Jerome D. Williams, RBS; Ph.D., Colorado
Consumer
behavior of multicultural market segments; internet privacy; public
health communication; marketplace discrimination; retail redlining;
advertising
Sengun Yeniyurt, RBS; Ph.D., Michigan State
New product performance; brand management; market
positioning; international marketing strategy; supplier relationship management
From the Supply Chain Management and Marketing Science
Department
Arash Azadegan, RBS; Ph.D., Arizona State
Supply chain disruptions; disruption response and recovery; supply chain innovation; environmental uncertainty
Alok Baveja, Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Management of operations
Weiwei Chen, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Optimization; simulation; supply chain management and logistics; smart grid; health care
Wayne Eastman, RBS; J.D., Harvard
Employment and labor law; history and politics of managerial
and legal theory; law and economics; litigation strategy
Kevin Kolben, RBS; J.D., Michigan
Labor rights; international labor law; corporate social
responsibility; international trade law; Asian business; South and SoutheastLei Lei, RBS; Ph.D.,
Wisconsin
Project scheduling; scheduling of transport; vehicle
dispatching and routing
Rudolf Leuschner, Ph.D., Ohio State
Supply chain finance
Benjamin Melamed, RBS; Ph.D., Michigan
Modeling of telecommunications systems; stochastic
processes; analysis and simulation; software modeling environments
Lian Qi, RBS; Ph.D., Florida
Supply chain management; inventory management; design and
analysis of optimization algorithms
Lei Wang, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Database marketing; retailing
Xiaowei Xu, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Supply chain management; revenue management; retail
management
Yao Zhao, RBS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Forecasting; production-inventory systems; information
sharing; supply chain integration; distribution and logistics; integration of
financial and operational decisions; dynamic programming; optimal stochastic
control
From Rutgers University-Newark, Economics Department
Jason Barr, GS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Urban economics; computational economics
Douglas Coate, GS-N; Ph.D., CUNY
Applied economics
Peter Loeb, GS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Transportation economics; econometrics
Kusum Mundra, GS-N; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
Immigration; terrorism; econometrics
Alvaro Rodriguez, GS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Economic theory; growth models
Julia Schwenkenberg, GS-N; Ph.D., New York
Labor economics; development; applied microeconomics
Carlos Seiglie, GS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Public economics; applied microeconomics; Latin American
economies
Mariana Spatareanu, GS-N; Ph.D., Washington
Foreign direct investment; trade; macroeconomics
James VanderHoff, GS-N; Ph.D., North Carolina
Real estate and urban economics; applied econometrics
From Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Statistics Department
Javier Cabrera,
Rutgers-New Brunswick; Ph.D., Princeton
Biostatistics; data mining methodology for clinical trial data; statistical computing; graphics; machine vision
From Rutgers University-Newark, School of Public Affairs and
Administration
Marc Holzer, SPAA; Ph.D., Michigan
From Rutgers University-Camden, School of Business
Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Temple
Shoppers with disabilities; time perception and use; scale
development; subcultural consumer behavior
Julie E. Kendall, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Nebraska
Organizational implications of push-and-pull information
technologies; qualitative methods
Kenneth Kendall, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Emerging information systems technologies; expert systems;
artificial intelligence
Julie A. Ruth, Rutgers-Camden; Ph.D., Michigan
Emotions and consumer behavior; marketing relationships; brand marketing strategy including cobranding and sponsorships
From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Computer
Science Department
James Calvin, NJIT; Ph.D.,
Stanford
Probabilistic analysis of algorithms; global optimization;
information-based complexity; search theory; applied probability
James Geller, NJIT; Ph.D.,
SUNY (Buffalo)
Artificial intelligence; database systems; object-oriented
systems; parallel reasoning; knowledge-based systems; expert systems; natural
language processing; character recognition
James McHugh, NJIT; Ph.D.,
New York (Courant Institute)
Collaborative software development; open source development;
cognitive science; string processing algorithms; algorithmic graph theory;
internet technologies; security
Marvin Nakayama, NJIT; Ph.D.,
Stanford
Simulation modeling and analysis; fault-tolerant systems;
communication networks; statistics; applied probability
From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Information
Systems Department
Fadi Deek, NJIT; Ph.D.,
NJIT
Learning systems collaborative technologies; applications to
software engineering and computer science education
From New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), School of
ManagementAsokan Anandarajan, NJIT; Ph.D., Drexel
Auditing; management accounting; neural networks; expert
systems
Michael Ehrlich, NJIT; Ph.D., Princeton
Markets and market failures
Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, NJIT; Ph.D.,
Rutgers
Kenneth Lawrence, NJIT; Ph.D., Rutgers
Mathematical programming; multicriteria decision making;
urban and regional planning; consensus forecasting; new product demand
analysis; robust regression; nonlinear regression; statistical sampling
Hindy Schachter, NJIT; Ph.D., Columbia
Organizational behavior; history of scientific management;
public administration; managing diversity; legal and ethical issues
Marguerite Schneider, NJIT; Ph.D.,
Rutgers
Corporate governance; institutional investment;
organizational leadership; public sector organizations
Mark Somers, NJIT; Ph.D., CUNY
Attachment and commitment processes in organizations; task
and unit-level technologies; occupational and organizational socialization