The Moore School welcomes 12 new faculty members in fall 2008.
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Dr. Allen Berger, a
longtime senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System who is also a
Senior Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center of the University of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed the H. Montague Osteen, Jr. Professor in Banking and Finance at the Moore School.
One of the country’s most-published and most-cited authors on a variety of topics related to
financial institutions, Dr. Berger currently serves on the editorial boards of five professional
economics and finance journals. He is past editor of the
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, has co-edited six special issues of various
journals, and is currently co-editing the
Oxford Handbook of Banking. He is an Extramural Fellow at CentER, the business and
economics research institute at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and secretary/treasurer of the
Financial Intermediation Research Society. Dr. Berger earned a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of California, Berkeley. |
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Dr. Yongqiang Chu,
assistant professor of finance, currently focuses his research on asset pricing, commercial real
estate, and the interaction of macroeconomy and housing. He has published in the Journal
of Real Estate Finance and Economics and has taught undergraduate-level real estate
finance. Dr. Chu earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Allison Conley,
lecturer of management, teaches Professional Communication. Previously, she taught for USC’s First
Year English program and has also taught business and technical writing courses for the English
department. Her recent research, funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, examines
the relationship between learning technical writing skills and learning content material in the
area of nanotechnology. She co-authored an article published in
The New Jersey Communication. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the field of
human resources.
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Dr. Stephen
Finger, assistant professor of economics, teaches Principles of Microeconomics and
Industrial Organization. His research areas include industrial organization, economics of
innovation, and applied microeconomics. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University,
where he earned a Faculty Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award in Spring 2005. He previously
served as a senior investment banking analyst with Raymond James and Associates in St. Petersburg,
Florida. |
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Dr. Marco Habermann,
assistant professor of management science, teaches graduate courses in operations and decision
analysis. He previously taught operations courses at the University of Minnesota, where he earned
his Ph.D. and where he was the 2006 recipient of the Carlson School of Management Teaching Award
for Excellence in Teaching. His primary research interests are in the areas of supply chain
disruptions and risk management. He has served as referee for leading journals in these areas and
is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Decision Sciences
Institute, INFORMS, and the Production and Operations Management Society. Prior to academia, he
worked in consulting, investment banking, and economic research. |
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Dr. Gerald
McDermott, associate professor of international business, previously taught at The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the areas of
institutional change and development, origins and change in networks, multinational
management/international business, comparative management, comparative political economy, and
economic and political development. He is the author of
Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Post-Communism (2002
finalist, American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, Best Book on
Government, Politics, or International Affairs), and numerous articles in leading journals. He is a
member of a number of professional organizations, including the Academy of International Business,
the Academy of Management, and the Council for European Studies. Dr. McDermott has also consulted
for the multilateral lending institutions and the governments of the Czech Republic and
Argentina. He lived in Prague for more than four years and in Buenos Aires for more than six
years, and became fluent in both Czech and Spanish. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Dr. Alokparna Monga,
assistant professor of marketing, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she earned
a Lieberman award for teaching excellence. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina, she
taught international marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests
lie in the area of consumer behavior, broadly focusing on how consumers respond to branding
activities (e.g., brand extensions, co-branding) as a function of individual characteristics such
as analytic or holistic processing styles, interpretation, or cultural orientation. Her teaching
interests include marketing strategy, principles of marketing, international marketing, and brand
management. |
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Dr. Ashwani Monga,
assistant professor of marketing, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming
to the University, he taught courses in consumer behavior as a Ph.D. student at the University of
Minnesota and later as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His
research is in the area of consumer judgment and decision making, and his articles have appeared in
the
Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal
of Marketing Research, and Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes. |
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Dr. Anthony Nyberg,
assistant professor of management, earned a Ph.D. in management and human resources from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught courses in Negotiations, Human Resource
Management, and Introduction to Management. His research interests include strategic human
resources, compensation, turnover, and entrepreneurship. Among his previous accomplishments, he was
a managing partner and co-founder with MPAC Capital Partners LP, in San Francisco. |
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Dr. Chandini
Sankaran, clinical assistant professor of economics, taught previously at the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she received an Outstanding Faculty
Contribution-Excellence in Scholarship award. Her research interests are in the areas of economic
development (particularly international and sustainable development), income and education
inequalities, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from
Kansas State University. |
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Warren
"Stan" Smith, lecturer of accounting, holds a master of professional accountancy
degree from Georgia State University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has worked for 34
years as a practicing accountant with tenures at Lockheed, Chemical Waste Management, and Southwire
Corporation, and in private consulting. He previously served as a full-time faculty member at
Midlands Technical College and has adjunct teaching experience at Kennesaw State University and
Columbia College. He has taught courses in management accounting, financial reporting and analysis
auditing, finance, and individual taxation. |
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Dr. Jennifer Winchel
is an assistant professor of accounting. She joins the Moore School after serving one
year as a visiting instructor at Georgia State University. She holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the
University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests are judgment and decision making as
it relates to financial accounting and reporting settings. She is particularly interested in how
nonprofessional investors use financial accounting information to make investment decisions. Prior
to her academic career, she was manager in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in
Chicago. |
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--Gail Crouch
September 2008
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