Biography Rick Andrews is a professor of marketing in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Delaware. He has served as deputy dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics since 2009, and he also served as chair of the Department of Business Administration from 2006-2011. He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Delaware in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in marketing at Virginia Tech. His research interests include the...
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Biography Meszaros holds an undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and a masters and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She teaches classes for in-service and pre-service teachers in economics and how to teach it in grades K-12. In her work at the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, Bonnie offers economic education programs that emphasize standards-based instruction, higher-order thinking skills and integration of economics and entrepreneurship across the...
Appointments College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Applied Economics & Statistics; profile page Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, Department of Economics Biography Kent Messer is the S. Hallock du Pont Professor of Applied Economics and the director of the Center for Experimental & Applied Economics at the University of Delaware. He also co-directs the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research (CBEAR), a USDA Center of Excellence....
Biography Dr. Scott Jones is a professor of accounting at the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and is an affiliated faculty member of the University of Delaware College of Engineering’s Center for Composite Materials. Dr. Jones is chairman of the board of directors of the Delaware Innovation Fund, an early stage venture capital fund in Wilmington Delaware. He is a member of the board of directors and chair of the Audit Committee of Junior Achievement of...
Biography Adrienne Lucas is a professor of economics in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a faculty affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and a research network member of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). She is a development economist specializing in the economics of education and...
Biography Jennifer R. Joe, Ph.D., CPA (NY, inactive), is the Whitney Family Professor of Accounting and Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity at the University of Delaware. She is an award-winning researcher whose work examines how key institutional factors impact the quality of corporate financial reporting including audit litigation, regulations, audit quality and data analytics tools, and the role of cognition in decisions using accounting information. Jennifer is actively engaged with...
Education Ph.D. in accounting, University of Maryland at College Park M.S. in accounting, University of Delaware B.S. in accounting, University of Delaware Select Publications "The Impact of Arbitrage Costs on Intemporal Changes in the Earnings Response Coefficient" (with Uma Velury), 2008, Forthcoming in Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Accounting and Finance. "The Effect of Institutional Ownership on the Informativeness of Discretionary Accruals" (with Uma Velury), 2008, Corporate...
Biography Dan Freeman (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is director of the Horn Program in Entrepreneurship and associate professor of marketing at the University of Delaware. Since his appointment as director in 2011, Dan has transformed the Horn Program into the Mid-Atlantic’s preeminent entrepreneurial education provider, helped to raise almost $4MM and co-founded Start It Up Delaware. Dan is currently responsible for all of the University’s entrepreneurship-related academic programs...
Biography Jing He is an assistant professor of accounting at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. Dr. He's research focuses primarily on financial reporting and corporate disclosure. Her research develops novel disclosure measures, examines the influence of managerial incentives on financial reporting, investigates capital market consequences of corporate reporting and disclosure and applies machine learning in analyzing financial documents. She...
Education Ph.D. in decision sciences and information systems, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY MBA, Suffolk University, Boston, MA B. Eng. in computer engineering and control systems, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia Select Publications The Role of Technological Know-How in C-Commerce Success, Decision Support Systems, 51 (1), 2011, pp. 77-87 with Clyde W. Holsapple, and Haihao Jin The Role of the Quality of Shared Information in Interorganizational Systems Use, International...
Education Ph.D. in accounting, University of Houston, TX MBA, accounting, Tulane University, LA B.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania Select Publications “The Search for Undisclosed Assets: Using Tax Returns When Investigating Divorce Settlements (with J. Wragge), forthcoming in Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting. “Prenuptial Agreements: An Effective Tax and Financial Planning Tool” (with L. Johnson), Journal of Forensic Accounting, Special Supplement Forensic Accounting In...
Education Ph.D. in accounting information systems, Free University Brussels, Belgium B.A. in economics, Free University Brussels, Belgium Select Publications “A Supply Chain of Things: The Eaglet Ontology for Highly Visible Supply Chains” Decision Support Systems, forthcoming (with Dan O’Leary). “Integrating Information Technology Into Accounting Research” Accounting Horizons, forthcoming (with Lynford Graham, Elaine Mauldin, William McCarthy, and Vernon Richardson). “Ontology Driven Business...
Biography Xiao Fang is Professor of MIS and JPMorgan Chase Senior Fellow at Lerner College of Business & Economics and Institute for Financial Services Analytics, University of Delaware. His current research focuses on financial technology, social network analytics and health care analytics with methods and tools drawn from reference disciplines including computer science (e.g., machine learning) and management science (e.g., optimization). He has published in business journals including...
Education Ph.D. in management information systems, University of Pittsburgh, PA M.S. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada B.Comm., Concordia University, Montréal, Canada B.A., Université de Montréal, Canada Select Publications Everard, Andrea, St. Pierre, Kent, and Jean Heck “Contributors to the High-Impact IS Journals (1977-2014): An Aid for Setting Research Standards,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 40. McCoy, Scott, Everard, Andrea, Dennis Galletta and Gregory...
Education M.S. in accounting, University of Delaware B.S. in mathematics, Salisbury University, MD Certified Public Accountant (Maryland) Awards & Honors University Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014 Student Choice Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005, 2010, 2015 Lester W. Chadwick Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013 Nominated for University Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016 Faculty advisor for Delta Sigma Pi: Colony 2006...
Biography John D’Arcy is a professor of management information systems (MIS) in the Department of Accounting & MIS at the University of Delaware. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration from Temple University with a specialization in MIS. John teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cybersecurity and IT risk management. His research focuses on cybersecurity management, including behavioral factors and firm-level causes and consequences of IT security failures, such as data...
Biography Amanda M. Convery is an assistant professor in the department of accounting & MIS and a Women’s Leadership Initiative Fellow. Dr. Convery’s research interests are in financial reporting for corporate and governmental sectors. Specifically, she examines the processes through which accounting standards are created, maintained and enforced. Dr. Convery’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals including Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons and...
Biography Jinwei Cao is an Associate Professor of MIS and Director of MS Business Analytics and Information Management in the Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on social computing, technology mediated learning and knowledge management. She has published in scholarly journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Business Research and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. She has also...
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Education Ph.D., Washington State University M.A., University of Virginia B.A., Bilkent University, Turkey Select Publications Long, J., Basoglu, A., 2016. “Impact of Task Interruption on Tax Accountants’ Professional Judgement,” Accounting, Organizations, and Society, 55, pp. 96-113. Cao, J., Basoglu, A., Sheng, H., & Lowry, P. 2015. “A Systematic Review of Social Networks Research in Information Systems: Building a Foundation for Exciting Future Research,” Communications of the...
Education Ph.D. in business administration, major: computer applications & information systems, minor: organizational behavior, New York University M Phil., New York University BSBA in MIS & quantitative methods, Boston University Select Publications Serva, M., Benamati, J. and Blue, J. Baroudi, J., “In Times of Stress, Be Bold and Valiant”: A Preliminary Exploration of the Psychosocial and Physiological Measures of Stress and Suggestions for Future MIS Research,” 2011 SIGMIS...
Biography Fei Xie is the Chaplin Tyler Professor of Finance and Iannaccone Faculty Fellow at the University of Delaware. He is also a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and serves on the Editorial Board of the ECGI Corporate Governance and Stewardship Blog. Professor Xie’s research interests are in empirical corporate finance with focuses on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. Within this general field, his work covers a wide range of topics...
Education Ph.D. in finance, Kent State University, 1992 MBA with major in finance, Middle Tennessee State University, 1987 BBA in accounting, Middle Tennessee State University, 1984
Education Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1988 MBA, Xavier University, 1983 A.B., University of Cincinnati Curriculum Vitae Download Paul Laux's CV (PDF)
Education MSF with major in finance, University of Delaware B.S. in hotel, restaurant and institutional management, University of Delaware Certified financial planner Chartered financial analyst AACSB bridge program Series 7, 65, and 63 licensed Awards & Honors 2011 Student Choice Excellence in Teaching Award Website Visit Richard Jakotowicz Jr.'s Personal Website
Education Ph.D. in finance, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) M.S. in quantitative and computational finance, MBA, Georgia Institute of Technology M.S. in industrial engineering and business administration, University of Technology, Berlin, Germany Curriculum Vitae Download Matthias Fleckenstein's CV (PDF).
Education Ph.D. in business administration – finance, minors: accounting and management science, Virginia Tech, 1982 Master of accountancy, Virginia Tech, 1980 MBA, Virginia Tech, 1977 B.S. in business administration, minors: journalism and political science, James Madison University, 1975 Select Publications "The Effect of Chernobyl on Electric Utility Stock Prices" (with V. Janjigian), Journal of Business Research, Vol. 18:1, January 1989, pp. 81-87. Awards & Honors Who’s Who among...
Education Ph.D. in finance, University of California, Los Angeles M.B.A., University of California, Los Angeles B.A. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles Select Publications “Bucking the Trend: Why Do IPO Firms Choose Controversial Governance Structures and Why Do Investors Let Them?” with Michelle Lowry, 2022, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. “At the Table, But Can’t Break Through the Glass Ceiling: Board Leadership Positions Elude Diverse Directors,” with Matthew...
Education Ph.D. in finance, Arizona State University, 1995 Select Publications "Limited Attention and the Allocation of Effort in Securities Trading," with Shane Corwin, forthcoming, Journal of Finance, 2007. Awards & Honors WFA-NYSE Best Paper Award for "Limited Attention and the Allocation of Effort in Securities Trading," with Shane Corwin, WFA Conference, 2006
Education Ph.D., major: business administration and financial economics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998 MBA, Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, 1994 B.S. in economics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991 Select Publications "Venture capitalist involvement and the long-term performance of IPOs" (with M. Frye), 2006. Journal of Private Equity 10 7-17. “Incentive compensation for bank directors: The impact of deregulation” (with D. Becher and M. Frye),...
Biography Dr. Matthew J. Robinson is a full professor and the Area Head of the Sport Management Program in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. Dr. Robinson is the author of the highly successful sport management texts: Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals: The People Who Make the Games Happen and Sport Club Management and has authored over 25 articles and has made over 100 national and international scholarly and professional presentations. In...
Biography Jing Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. in hospitality and tourism management from Purdue University. Dr. Ma has experience in the foodservice industry across the globe. She worked closely with a number of restaurant chains in China as well as health departments and several restaurants/restaurant chains in the United...
Biography Saul D. Hoffman is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Delaware. He served as department chair from 2001-2012. With co-author Susan Averett (Lafayette College), he is the author of Women and the Economy: Family, Work, and Pay, a textbook for undergraduate courses on Women and the Economy or Economics of the Family. An improved third edition was published by Palgrave MacMillan in December, 2015. With UD colleague Larry Seidman, he is the author of Helping Working...
Biography Sheryl F. Kline is the deputy dean of Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and the Aramark Chaired Professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management at the University of Delaware. Before joining UD, she served as interim dean and associate dean in the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Dr. Kline developed her research interests while at Purdue University where she held...
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Chicago, Dec. 1984 M.A. in economics, University of Chicago, Mar. 1981 B.A. in economics, history, and philosophy, University of Washington, Dec. 1977 Select Publications Farley Grubb, “Colonial Monetary Systems,” in Diebolt, C., Haupert, M. (eds) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_116-1. Online publication Aug. 3, 2023: ISBN 978-3-642-40458-0. The Continental Dollar: How the American...
Biography Olga Gorbachev is an associate professor of economics at the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. Her research centers on understanding the impact economic instability has on household welfare. Economic insecurity is also linked to economic inequality. It plays a major role in household decision-making and in the response of public policy that insures individual livelihoods from exposure to risk. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, she was...
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Minnesota, 1979 M.A. in economics, University of Minnesota, 1975 B.A. in economics, University of Chicago with General Honors, 1973 Select Publications "Labor Supply and Rainfall Shocks in Rural Ethiopia," Journal of Developing Areas, (forthcoming). "Children’s School Attendance, Work, Health and Rainfall Shocks in Ethiopia" Applied Economics, 50, 40 (2023), pp. 4609-4624. "Hours by Type of Work and Schooling in Ethiopia: Nonparametric and Parametric...
Biography Nicholas Waller, CPCE, is a hospitality professional with over 35 years of experience in fine establishments throughout the world. He was classically trained at the venerable Savoy Hotel in London, after which he spent time working for Rosewood Hotels and the Freeman Group, where he conducted training seminars and created standards of performance for top-quality properties both domestically and internationally. Nick spent nine years as director of restaurants at Hotel du Pont in...