Haas Newsroom
Media Guide to Haas Faculty Experts
Profit center; international, strategic & forensic accounting |
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Accounting fraud |
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Managerial performance measure; executive compensation; economic value added accounting; value-based management |
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Capital Markets. Financial Statement Analysis. Valuation. Usefulness of accounting information through its links to macroeconomics (e.g., overall inflation; industry inflation; GDP) and valuation (e.g., cost of capital; asset pricing) |
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Accounting for mergers & acquisitions; employee stock options |
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Financial statement analysis & valuation; supply chain relationships & collaboration; financial reporting standards |
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Accounting & stock returns; earnings management; role of analysts & auditors |
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Accounting standards, distortion & fraud; mergers & acquisitions |
Antitrust/Intellectual Property
Open innovation; technology-based spinoffs & corporate venture capital; managing intellectual property |
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Intellectual property licensing; cooperative research & development |
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| Carl Shapiro | Antitrust economics; intellectual property licensing; product standards & compatibility; on leave at the US Dept of Justice |
Global marketplace competition; industry innovation & organization; domestic & international policy; intellectual property, telecommunications; antitrust & energy; technological change & strategic management |
Role of technology in financial markets |
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Insurance; banking; mortgage markets |
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Behavioral finance; financial institutions & markets; corporate finance; competitive strategy |
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Investing; pension funds; retirement |
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Behavioral finance; investor & gender |
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Regulation; mergers and acquisitions; Federal Reserve policies; impact of banking/finance on economic growth and income inequality; international capital flows |
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Credit markets, risk management |
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Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets |
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Financial crisis; finance and politics, consumer credit, banking |
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Behavioral finance; investor & gender |
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Market design; asset pricing; contract design in debt markets |
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Banking: mergers and acquisitions, cost reductions by consolidation, lending and bank capital, effects of economic conditions on banks, small business and banking; Business conditions: Federal Reserve monetary policy and interest rates, unemployment and inflation, consumer spending, outlook for the economy; Conversions: mutual-to-stock conversions of financial institutions, credit union failures and losses, credit union cost and profit performance |
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Credit markets; risk management |
Corporate governance; executive compensation; economics of leadership; competitive strategy |
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Organizational misconduct & wrongdoing; ethics & leadership |
Energy & climate change policy; oil pricing & competition; electricity deregulation |
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Political economy; democratic institutions & decision making; influence & corruption; coercion; conflict |
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Regulation of energy markets; environmental policy |
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| Nicholas Economides | Network economics; electronic commerce and public policy; industrial organization; structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems; antitrust |
Health management |
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Corporate governance; executive compensation; economics of leadership |
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California economic impacts on development and land use |
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Macroeconomics; labor markets; incentives; executive compensation |
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Financial regulation; Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, central bank policies; exchange rates |
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Creating and sustaining economic mobility; tax policy; economic mobility |
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Internet pricing strategies; online auctions, competition in online markets; elections |
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Management of technological change; international trade policy; US technology policy |
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Federal Reserve, monetary policy, international trade & banking, exchange rates |
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Corporate social responsibility |
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Regulatory issues: airlines, telecommunications, energy, developing countries |
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Global market place competition; industry innovation & organization; domestic & international policy: intellectual property, telecommunications, antitrust & energy; technological change and strategic management |
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Domestic and global economy; emerging market economies, US trade policy |
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| Catherine Wolfram | Clean energy; electricity industry restructuring |
Education; labor markets; long-run development, with special interest in China's development. |
Energy & climate change policy; oil pricing and competition; electricity deregulation |
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Regulation of energy markets; environmental policy |
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Marketing for high-tech entrepreneurs; energy; sustainability & business innovation |
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| Renewable energy and power project development and finance | |
| Competition in Technology Dependent Markets; Carbon Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainable Food Systems; Innovation | |
| Domestic and international energy policy | |
| Catherine Wolfram | Clean energy; electricity industry restructuring |
Ethics/Corporate Social Responsibility
Political economy; democratic institutions & decision making; influence & corruption; coercion; conflict |
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Corporate social responsibility |
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Business lobbying & political activity; corporate social responsibility; consumer & environmental regulation in the U.S, Europe, & globally |
Health management |
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Financing underserved populations; Medicaid; maternal/child healthcare |
Subprime mortgages; outsourcing impact on US jobs & economy |
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Subprime mortgage market; urban economics |
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| Insurance; banking; mortgage markets | |
California economic impacts on development & land use |
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Mortgage markets |
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Housing & commercial markets |
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Treasury & NY federal housing consultant; pricing models; mortgage-backed securities |
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Real estate finance; commercial mortgage-backed securities; development |
Innovation/Technology Management
Innovation & design management; new product development; operations strategy; environmental supply chain management |
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Open innovation; technology-based spinoffs; corporate venture capital; managing intellectual property |
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Management of technological change; international trade policy; US technology policy |
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Economics of organization; procurement contracting; contract theory |
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Global marketplace competition; industry innovation & organization; domestic & international policy; intellectual property, telecommunications, antitrust & energy; technological change & strategic management |
| Nicholas Economides | Network economics; electronic commerce and public policy; industrial organization; structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems; antitrust |
Economic performance in developed and developing economies; international banking and securities markets |
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(in Japan) |
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International trade & banking, exchange rates |
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Global market place competition; industry innovation & organization; domestic & international policy: intellectual property, telecommunications, antitrust & energy; technological change & strategic management |
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| Paul Tiffany | Emerging economies in Asia, focus on China & Thailand |
Education; labor markets; long-run development, with special interest in China's development. |
International finance; leadership strategies |
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Corporate governance; executive compensation; economics of leadership |
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Negotiations; leading high-impact teams; leadership |
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Overconfidence in leaders; leadership; conflict of interest and disclosure; decision-making; negotiations; conflict management |
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Corporate strategy, focus on US-based firms; role of leadership; American economic & business history |
Management/Jobs/Labor Relations
Negotiation and conflict resolution; power & politics |
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Leading high tech knowledge workers; info technology & organization; teamwork |
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Culture; motivation; fit; innovation |
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| Laura Kray | Negotiations; leading high-impact teams; leadership |
Ethics; labor; affirmative action |
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Health; labor management |
Comparative gender inequality in the workplace; Hiring; Promotions; Wages; Quantitative methods |
Organizational misconduct and wrongdoing; ethics & leadership |
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Global market place competition; industry innovation & organization; domestic & international policy: intellectual property, telecommunications; antitrust & energy; technological change and strategic management |
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Executive education & management training |
Self-insight and overconfidence; biasing influences on consumer decisions; psychology and consumer behavior/public policy debates |
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Retail industry pricing; bundling strategies; customer value analysis |
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| Ganesh Iyer | Marketing strategy; coordination & contractual issues in distribution channels; internet competition |
Internet pricing strategies; online auctions; competition in online markets |
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Consumer decision making; consumer well-being; intuition; preferences |
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Online & search advertising; social network marketing; business-to-business marketing |
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Pricing; information strategies; incentives; consumer choice; competitive strategy; market analytics; industrial organization; customer relationship management |
Startups/Entrepreneurship/Venture Capital
| Startups, entrepreneurship, startup teams, history of Silicon Valley, venture capital, regional clusters, customer development, lean startups | |
| Start-up companies; venture competition | |
| Mark Coopersmith | Entrepreneurship; corporate entrepreneurship; branding; brand strategy |
| Jerome Engel | Venture capital; private equity, tech management practices in emerging enterprise |
Battery technology/markets/industry; material science for renewable energy; cleantech/materials startups & entrepreneurship; lab/university technology transfer |
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Marketing for high-tech entrepreneurs; energy, sustainability & business innovation |
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Entrepreneurial traits; the returns to entrepreneurship |
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Social entrepreneurship; innovation in the nonprofit sector; social ventures |
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Entrepreneurship, Corporate Finance |
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| Toby Stuart | Social networks; entrepreneurship; innovation; organizational design and new venture formation in established firms; venture capital networks; the role of networks in the creation of new firms. |
Transportation/Telecommunications
US and international airline competition |
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Auto industry; Japanese industry |
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Regulator issues; airlines, telecommunications; energy; developing countries |
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| Telecommunications; domestic and international policy |
