GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY U MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

An Introduction
to the New Faculty
And a Message from the Dean
South Side, Front

East Side
Office of the Dean
georgetown university
mcdonough school of business
washington, d.c.

Dear Friend,

This is an exciting time for Georgetown University’s McDonough School

of Business. We are taking important steps toward realizing our vision for
the school’s future, including the addition of 13 outstanding experienced
and new faculty and two associate deans to our roster. In the following
pages you have an opportunity to meet these people.

These faculty appointments coincide with the opening of our new

179,000-square-foot home, which will enhance learning and interaction.
The building will greatly expand the quantity and quality of the facilities
available to our students, faculty, and staff. Please see the back inside cover
of this booklet for details.

There is a high level of energy surrounding Georgetown’s McDonough

School of Business, and I invite you to take a close look at our school. We
will be hosting numerous events this year in our new home where we will
discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the business community.
For more information about our school and our programs, please visit
our newly redesigned Web site at www.msb.georgetown.edu.

Sincerely,

George Daly
Dean

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 William Baber
professor of accounting

William Baber’s areas of expertise include financial

and managerial accounting, as well as public policy
implications of accounting. Baber has more than 25
years of experience teaching at The George Washington
University, the University of Rochester, Dartmouth
College, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon
University, Duke University, and Columbia University.

Other Experience: Baber previously served as associate dean for research

and director of doctoral programs at The George Washington University
School of Business. Before joining the ranks of academia, he worked as an
auditor and a consultant with Arthur Young & Co., now Ernst & Young, in
Washington, D.C.

Research: Baber’s recent research has focused on the determinants of

executive compensation in both for-profit and not-for-profit contexts
and on issues surrounding the quality and announcement of earnings.
He has served on the editorial boards of and published widely in leading
academic accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal
of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Credentials: Baber received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from
Bucknell University.

Outside the Classroom: Baber lives in Alexandria, Va., with his wife and son.

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Volodymyr O. Babich
assistant professor of operations
and information management

Volodymyr O. Babich has served as an assistant professor

of industrial and operations engineering at the University
of Michigan since 2003. He previously worked as a
logistics engineer at Penske Logistics, a database developer
and programmer at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio.

Research: Babich’s research focuses on the interface between operations

and finance, supply risk management, supply chain management,
stochastic modeling, real options, and risk management.

Credentials: He holds a Ph.D. in operations research and M.S. degrees

in management science and mathematics, all from Case Western Reserve
University, as well as a B.S. in applied mathematics from Kiev Polytechnic
Institute, Kiev, Ukraine.

Outside the Classroom: Babich enjoys literature, films, traveling, and sports.

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 Kurt Carlson
assistant professor of marketing

Kurt Carlson most recently served as assistant professor of

marketing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business,
teaching market intelligence and marketing management.
He also conducted research at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison’s Center for Dairy Research and the Wisconsin
Milk Marketing Board.

Research: Carlson’s research interests include emerging or tentative

preferences, consumer choice processes, biased predecisional processing,
decision objectives, methods for measuring goals, and consumer predictions
of future behavior. By tracking the consumer choice process with a variety of
techniques, Carlson obtains detailed data on consumers’ actions, cognitions,
and desire to reveal how goal activation levels are influenced by choice
context (e.g., information order, presence of a dominated option, display
structure, etc.), choice progress, and chronic dispositions.

Credentials: Carlson earned a Ph.D. in management science from Cornell

University, and both an M.Sc. in agricultural and applied economics and a
B.Sc. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Outside the Classroom: Born and raised in Wisconsin, Carlson likes

cheese and bratwurst. He is a near-scratch golfer who enjoys listening
to NPR and singer-songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson. He is
married and has two children.

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Jacob Gramlich
assistant professor of strategy

Jacob Gramlich has taught at Yale University on the topics

of game theory, econometrics, microeconomics, and
econometrics and data analysis. Yale honored him with its
Raymond Powell Teaching Award in 2006–07.

Research: Gramlich’s research is in empirical industrial organization. He

studies product positioning, spatial agglomeration, and entry. He was
formerly a research associate at Charles River Associates in Boston, Mass.

Credentials: Gramlich will receive a Ph.D. in economics in 2009 from Yale

University, where he also received an M.Phil. and M.A. in economics. He
holds a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Virginia.

Outside the Classroom: Gramlich was born and raised in Alexandria, Va.
He spent a year in San Ignacio, Bolivia, as a youth minister and now
speaks fluent Spanish. He is married and likes cats, the metric system,
triathlons, and house guests.

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 Elizabeth Griffith
associate dean for the mba
evening program

Elizabeth Griffith develops and implements curriculum,

as well as provides faculty oversight to ensure the program
delivers consistent and outstanding education. She plays a
key role in enhancing the program as increasing numbers
of MBA candidates maintain a career while pursuing an
advanced degree.

Experience: Griffith spent 20 years in senior financial positions at

Monticello, the Phillips Collection, National Public Radio, and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most recently, Griffith was partner
at a consulting and executive services firm, where she managed nonprofit
clients and helped lead the nonprofit services group.
Griffith also has taught as an adjunct professor at the Darden School of
Business at the University of Virginia, Trinity University in Washington,
D.C., and in the Georgetown Liberal Studies Program and has served as
lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution on such topics as leadership and
business history.

Credentials: Griffith holds an MBA from the Darden School and an M.A.
in liberal studies from Georgetown University. She currently is a doctoral
candidate in the same program, with an interest in premodern business history.
She received a B.A. in English from Trinity College in Washington, D.C.

After Office Hours: Griffith loves art, music, theater, and history. She ran a
marathon in 2007.

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Victor Richmond Jose
assistant professor of operations
and information management

Victor Jose has taught courses in economics and statistics

at Duke University and Ateneo de Manila University.

Research: Jose’s research interests include decision analysis and

probabilistic modeling, particularly the use of Bayesian statistics and tools
of probability in prescriptive decision models.

Credentials: Jose received a Ph.D. in business administration from

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, he earned graduate units in
applied mathematics at the University of the Philippines – Diliman and
B.S. degrees in mathematics and management engineering at Ateneo de
Manila University, also in the Philippines.

Outside the Classroom: Jose enjoys traveling, photography, reading,

watching movies, and spending time with family and friends. In the next
five years, he hopes to have visited each of the 50 states.

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 Chris Long
assistant professor of management

Chris Long comes from Washington University in

St. Louis, where he was an assistant professor of
organizational behavior. Previous to that, he held an
academic appointment at Duke University.

Other Experience: Long consults with multi-national corporations on

issues of leadership, organizational design, and organizational change.
He currently also serves as an officer in the United States Army Reserve.
Previously, Long has held positions as a congressional aide to a member of
the U.S. House of Representatives and as a consultant to the Massachusetts
Office of Business Development.

Research: In his research, Long examines how leaders create contexts within
which individuals can achieve high levels of performance, satisfaction, and
commitment. Much of his current work focuses on how leaders balance their
efforts to promote organizational trust, fairness, and control.

Credentials: Long holds a Ph.D. in management from Duke University,

a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government, and an Honors B.A. in political science from the
University of Connecticut.

Outside the Classroom: Long enjoys cycling, running, politics, and film.
He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and has two daughters, Audrey and Ingrid.

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William D. Novelli
distinguished professor
of the practice

William D. Novelli will lead the school in developing

courses and programs in nonprofit management, social
responsibility, and social marketing for its undergraduate
and graduate students.

Why You Know His Name: Novelli previously served as co-founder and
president of Porter Novelli, one of the world’s largest public relations
agencies. He was named one of the 100 most influential public relations
professionals of the 20th century by the industry’s leading publication.

Other Experience: For the past eight years, Novelli served as CEO of
AARP. He also has been president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
and executive vice president of CARE, the world’s largest private relief
and development organization. He taught marketing management for
10 years in the University of Maryland’s MBA program and a course on
social responsibility at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business with
Professor Alan Andreasen.

Credentials: Novelli holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of

Pennsylvania and he pursued doctoral studies at New York University. He
has written numerous articles and chapters on marketing management,
marketing communications, and social marketing in journals, periodicals,
and textbooks.

Outside the Classroom: Novelli’s interests include working on health

and social issues, especially health promotion/disease prevention and end
of life. Family plays a big part in his life, including the many relatives in
Montana, where he and his wife have a house in Missoula.

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 Michael O’Leary
assistant professor of management

Michael O’Leary has served as an assistant professor of

organization studies at Boston College’s Carroll School of
Management since 2002. While there, he helped design a
first-year introductory course in leadership, management,
and ethics for all incoming students. He also was a member
of the committee to draw up the MBA leadership and
management specialization and on the committee to design
the undergraduate major in leadership and management.

Other Experience: O’Leary worked as a consultant for Coopers & Lybrand

and as a policy analyst at Pelavin Associates Inc., now part of American
Institutes of Research, where he worked on research for the U.S. Department
of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics.

Research: His research focuses on the implications of geographic

dispersion, new technologies, changing team membership dynamics, and
young leaders.

Credentials: O’Leary holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in public policy
from Duke University.

Outside the Classroom: O’Leary loves spending time with his family
on the beach. He enjoys skiing, cooking, traveling (40 countries and
counting), and playing soccer, racquetball, and tennis. He also is a history/
genealogy buff.

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Norean R. Sharpe
associate dean for the
undergraduate program and
adjunct professor of statistics

Norean R. Sharpe joined the McDonough School of

Business in June 2009 and is responsible for developing
curriculum, advising students, and implementing
academic policies and assessment initiatives for the
undergraduate program.

Experience: Sharpe’s career spans 20 years, with the last 14 at Babson

College, where she served as both a faculty member and an administrator.
She most recently was chair of the Division of Mathematics and Science.
In this role, she facilitated the revision of the undergraduate business
curriculum and improvement of the co-curricular experience of students.
She also developed a strategic plan for quantitative undergraduate
education, advised students, mentored faculty, and chaired multiple
task forces that examined the academic, social, and cultural issues facing
undergraduate business students. Babson, a stand-alone business school,
is noted for its outstanding teaching and focus on entrepreneurship.
Sharpe also is a professor of statistics and operations research, with
previous appointments at Bowdoin College and Yale University. She
recently published the textbook Business Statistics.

Credentials: Sharpe earned a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University

of Virginia, an M.S. in biomathematics from the University of North Carolina,
and a B.A. in mathematics and German from Mount Holyoke College.

After Office Hours: Sharpe loves languages. She speaks German and also
studied Dutch when she lived in The Netherlands in 2000-01. While living in
The Hague, she grew to appreciate cycling, tulips, cheese, windmills, and Dutch
art. As a result, she is a strong supporter of clean technology and wind power.

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 Bumjean Sohn
assistant professor of finance

Bumjean Sohn has taught courses on corporate finance

and fixed-income capital markets at the undergraduate
and graduate levels while pursuing his master’s and
doctoral degrees. He also worked at Samsung Securities Co.
Ltd. in the global investment banking and firm-wide risk
management departments. Additionally, he was a private
in the Republic of Korea Army.

Research: Sohn’s research interests include empirical asset pricing,

financial economics, and financial econometrics.

Credentials: Sohn received a Ph.D. from the Kenan-Flagler Business

School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds
an M.Sc. in financial mathematics from Stanford University, an M.Sc. in
econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of
Economics, and a B.S. in engineering from Seoul National University.

Outside the Classroom: Sohn enjoys fishing and crabbing. He also loves
traveling and has visited many countries in Asia and Europe.

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Phillip L. Swagel
visiting professor and director
of the center for financial
institutions, policy, and governance

While working at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2006

to 2009, former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy
Phillip L. Swagel advised Secretary Henry Paulson on all
aspects of economic policy, including current and prospective
macroeconomic developments and the development and
analysis of the administration’s economic initiatives. Previ-
ously, he was a resident scholar at the American Enter-
prise Institute, chief of staff at the White House Council of
Economic Advisers, and an economist at the Federal Reserve
Board and the International Monetary Fund.

Other Experience: Swagel has taught courses on macroeconomics and

international economics at Northwestern University and most recently on
money and banking at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In
teaching, Swagel looks to blend his policymaking experience with analytical
models to demonstrate the connections between theory and application.

Credentials: Swagel received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from

Harvard University and an A.B. in economics from Princeton University.
He has published widely in top academic journals, as well as in the
popular press.

Outside the Classroom: Having grown up in Southern California,

Swagel’s cultural references are predominantly related to mid-1980’s
cinema. He spends his free time coaching Little League baseball.

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 David Tan
assistant professor of strategy

Tan has taught the economic sociology of emerging

technology at Emory University. He was awarded a grant at
Emory to teach an interdisciplinary research methods course
as part of the Howard Hughes Teacher-Scholar program.

Research: His research focuses on the intersection of organization theory

and strategy, with an emphasis on how processes of differentiation shape
patterns of competition. He also studies product markets and technologies
in the semiconductor industry, with particular focus on how these
influence intellectual property practices.

Credentials: Tan will receive a Ph.D. in organization and management

from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in 2009. He holds a
B.S. in finance from Creighton University.

Outside the Classroom: Tan ran cross-country and sang in the chamber
choir in college. His favorite hobby is cooking, and he has lived in three
countries and in seven states in the United States.

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Mary “Meg”
VanDeWeghe
professor of the practice in finance

Meg VanDeWeghe is the former senior vice president for

finance at Lockheed Martin. In that role, she was responsible
for the company’s financial strategies and transactions related
to mergers and acquisitions, program finance and business
ventures, capital markets, banking, risk management, and
property management. She also was chairman of the board
for Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co.

Other Experience: VanDeWeghe began her career at J.P. Morgan and Co.
in 1983, rising to the position of managing director reporting to the chair-
man’s office. She also served for almost 10 years as CEO and president of Forte
Consulting Inc. While there, VanDeWeghe also was executive in residence and
finance professor at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business,
teaching graduate-level courses in investment management, equity analysis,
corporate finance, and entrepreneurship. She has been a guest lecturer at
Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University,
UCLA, the University of Chicago, and the University of Sydney, among others.
Additionally, she is a member of the board of directors for Brown Advisory, a
$14 billion investment management company.

Credentials: VanDeWeghe received an MBA in finance from Dartmouth

College’s Amos Tuck School of Business and a B.A. in economics from
Smith College.

Outside the Classroom: VanDeWeghe loves to play tennis and golf and
also to travel. She and her husband have traveled extensively around the
world. They have two children who live in Seattle and Denver.

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 Jie Yang
research fellow

Jie Yang will teach finance at Georgetown’s McDonough

School of Business.

Experience: Yang has served as a research assistant at Duke University’s

Fuqua School of Business since 2004 and previously in the Economics
Department and at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her paper also has
been presented at the Western Finance Association, the European Finance
Association, and several universities, including the University of Chicago,
Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University.

Credentials: Yang will receive a Ph.D. in finance from Duke University in

2010, and she holds a B.S. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.

Outside the Classroom: Yang likes Latin and ballroom dancing. She also
enjoys discovering local restaurants and cafes, and perusing bookstores
for biographies and humorous, psychology, economics, and finance
nonfiction books. Additionally, she loves puzzles and games such as
sudoku and always has a 1,000-piece puzzle spread out at home.

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The new home of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business provides a 179,000-
square-foot, five-story environment for teaching, learning, interaction, and collaboration for students,
faculty, and staff. The facility houses 15 classrooms; 34 breakout rooms, complete with data ports,
flat-screen video monitors, and white boards; 120 faculty offices; 11 interview rooms in the MBA Career
Management Office plus 15 conference rooms throughout the building; a 400-seat auditorium;
a technology center; and undergraduate and graduate student common areas.
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For more information, please contact:

DEAN GEORGE DALY

Georgetown University
McDonough School of Business
Rafik B. Hariri Building
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057

(202) 687-3883
MSBDean@georgetown.edu
www.msb.georgetown.edu