Tepper School Faculty Available for Media
Below are a sampling of administrators, professors and researchers who are available to speak with journalists.
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Faculty (by Area)
Analytics
Gérard Cornuéjols, IBM University Professor of Operations Research
- Operations research
- Optimization
- Optimization methods in finance
- Integer programming
Sunder Kekre, Vasantrao Dempo Professor, Professor of Operations Management
- Operations management
- Business analytics
- Supply chain management
- Enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction
- Engineering of global products and services
- Management of health care
Business Ethics
John Hooker, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Operations research
- Optimization
- Mathematical programming
- Constraint programming
- Scheduling
- Vehicle routing
- Transportation scheduling
- Health care logistics
- Business ethics
- Ethical decisions blog
- Supply chain ethics
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
- Cross-cultural management
- Cross-cultural communication
- Cross-cultural ethics and corruption
- Music theory
- Musical composition
Economics
Dennis Epple, Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics
- Admission
- Tuition
- Financial aid policies
- School competition
- School choice
- Mobility and redistribution
- Educational vouchers
- Charter schools
Energy
Nicola Secomandi, Professor of Operations Management, Head of the Ph.D. Program
- Energy and commodity merchant trading operations
- Energy markets and operations
- Operations management
- Real options
- Energy and supply chain risk management
Entrepreneurship
David Mawhinney, Associate Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship, Executive Director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
- Innovation ecosystems
- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing for entrepreneurs
- Venture capital
- Angel investing
- Private equity
- Product management
- Product innovation
- Commercialization
Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair, Professor of Operations Management
- Health care operations
- Organ transplantation
- Insurance effect on consumer and physician behavior
- Consistent care in nursing homes
- Personalized medicine
- Global manufacturing
- Private equity and lean operations
- Manufacturing automation
- Combating child labor in the supply base
- Entrepreneurship
- Software startups
- New business models
- Social enterprises
- Platforms and matching markets
- Sharing economy
- Venture capital
- Global supply chain
- Operations
- Supply chain management
- Enterprise analytics and software
- Omni-channel retailing
- Outsourcing
- Combating counterfeiting
Finance
Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Associate Professor of Finance
- Equity and bond market investments
- Financial markets
- Asset allocation
- Credit risk
- Bankruptcies
- Capital structure
Bryan Routledge, Assistant Professor of Finance
- Finance
- Asset pricing
- Natural language processing
- Preference theory
- Social media
- Commodities and commodity pricing
- Macroeconomics
- Corporate finance
Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance
- Financial markets and regulation
- SEC
- Pension underfunding
- Taxes and investing
- High-frequency trading
- Trading and short-selling
- Equity trading and market structure
- Liquidity
- Credit rating agencies
- Federal Reserve stress test
- Mortgages
- Municipal borrowing
- Derivative securities
Leadership and Management
Linda Argote, David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
- Organizational learning
- Learning curves
- Transactive memory systems
- Organizational theories
- Behavioral theories
- Knowledge sharing
- Knowledge transfer
- Social identity
- Competitive advantage
- Communication networks
- Group performance
Brandy Aven, Associate Professor of Organizational Theory, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship
- Corporate fraud
- Email analysis
- Communication behavior
- Trust
- Networked teams
- Knowledge transfer
- Social network analysis
- Entrepreneurship
Rosalind Chow, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
- Racial inequality
- Policy attitudes
- Affirmative action support
- Colorblindness
- Inter-racial dynamics
- Gender inequality
- Sponsorship vs. mentorship
- Gender gap in leadership positions
Taya Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
- Organizational psychology
- Negotiation
- Conflict management
- Workplace deviance
- Morality and ethics
- Character
- Personality
- Intergroup relations
- Personnel selection
- Transgressions
- Moral character
- Organizational citizenship behavior
- Counterproductive work behavior
Oliver Hahl, Assistant Professor of Organizational Theory and Strategy
- Corporate strategy
- Organizational behavior
- Architecture of competitive advantage
- Organizations and networks
- The business of sports
- Perceptions of authenticity
Robert Kelley, Distinguished Service Professor of Management
- Minorities and women in business
- Developing star performers
- Employee performance and productivity
- Leveraging intellectual capital
- Gold-collar workers
- Managing tech and creative workers
- Customer-centric businesses
- Followership
- Leadership
- Service businesses
- Corporate culture
- Organizational change
- Harassment in the workplace
Denise M. Rousseau, H.J. Heinz II University, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy
- Diversity
- Psychological contract
- Human resources strategy
- Employee relationships
- Aging workforce
- Leadership
- Idiosyncratic deals
- Organizational culture
- Change management
- Evidence-based practice
- Managerial decisions
Anita Williams Woolley, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
- Collective intelligence
- Social intelligence
- Social dynamics of women in business
- Women on boards and in committees
- Social perceptiveness
- Team dynamics
- Business social skills
- Offensive vs. defensive business team strategy
- Virtual teams
- Team performance
- Team collaboration
- Artificial intelligence and teams
- Remote workforce and teleworking
- Open office concepts
Machine Learning
Fatma Kilinç-Karzan, Associate Professor of Operations Research
- Convex optimization
- Business analytics
- Online learning
- Machine learning
- Integer programming
- Assortment optimization
- Large-scale computational game theory
- Compressed sensing
- High-dimensional statistical estimation
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Structured nonconvex optimization
Javier Peña, Bajaj Family Chair in Operations Research
- Financial engineering
- Data science
- Business analytics
- Convex optimization
- Statistics
- Data mining
Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Bosch Associate Professor of Business Technologies
- Deep learning
- Machine learning
- Social media
- Social networks
- FinTech
- Digital marketing
- Sharing economy
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer vision
- Data science
Marketing
Peter Boatwright, Allan D. Shocker Professor of Marketing and New Product Development
- Marketing new products and services
- Product and service innovation
- Qualitative and analytical marketing
- Millennials, segments of millennials
Tim Derdenger, Associate Professor of Marketing and Strategy
- High-tech marketing
- Marketing strategies in product lines
- Sports marketing
- Pricing and branding
- Sponsorships and celebrity endorsements
- Streaming industry
- Angel investors
- Technology management
- Video games
- Antitrust issues
- Platform markets
Jeffrey Galak, Associate Professor of Marketing
- Marketing
- Consumer behavior
- Decision-making
- Satiation
- Sentimental value
- Hedonic adaptation
- Variety seeking
- Affective forecasting
- Expectation updating
- Fluency effects
Alan Montgomery, Professor of Marketing
- Marketing
- Electronic marketing
- Clickstream analysis
- Price optimization
- Bayesian statistics
- Machine learning
- Business analytics
- Decision theory
- Price optimization for retailing
- Profiling consumers using clickstream data
- Integrating managerial knowledge with business
- Analytics through Bayesian statistics and decision theory
- Analytical modeling of consumer financial transaction data
Christopher Olivola, Assistant Professor of Marketing
- Judgment and decision-making
- Behavioral economics
- Consumer behavior
- Appearances and voting
- Face perception and first impressions
- Consumer/household financial decision-making
- Consumer attitudes toward taxes
- Charitable giving and prosocial behavior
- Consumer reactions to deadly events and humanitarian disasters
- How consumers trade off spending (or saving) time and money
Product Management
Bob Monroe, Associate Teaching Professor of Business Technologies, Co-Director of the MS in Product Management Program
- Product development
- Product management
- Technology-enhanced education
- Better business through computing technology