Academics

Department Focus

Faculty members' research and consulting expertise is wide-ranging. A sample of their focus areas includes corporate governance, capital market efficiency, the effects of performance measurement, protection of shareholder rights, managerial risk and decision-making, strategic sourcing and standards for e-commerce collaboration. Many MBA students work as paid graduate assistants, helping faculty with aspects of their research.

Among The Broad School's research strengths, by department:

Accounting

  • The effects of performance measurement on competition, strategy, regulation, technology, learning, innovation, trust, fairness and information sharing.
  • Optimal organizational design
  • Corporate governance
  • Capital market efficiency/inefficiency
  • Information production/dissemination
  • Standard-setting issues
  • Management of effective tax rates
  • Book/tax accounting differences

Finance

  • Money and capital markets
  • Corporate governance
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Executive compensation
  • Corporate structure
  • Protection of shareholder rights
  • Transparency
  • IPOs
  • Habit formation
  • Price bubbles
  • Incentive problems in teams
  • Strategic interaction in product markets
  • Effects of regulation

Management

  • HRM-selection/compensation
  • Job analysis and work design
  • OB teams
  • Leaders & performance negotiations
  • MDM
  • Strategic management & corporate governance
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • TMTs
  • Management risk and decision-making
  • OT theory and environmental effects

Marketing

  • Marketing—New product development
  • Marketing technology
  • Globalization and international business

Supply Chain Management

  • Supply Chain design
  • Strategy and integration
  • Operations strategy
  • Logistics strategy
  • Strategic sourcing

Information Technology

  • Standards for e-commerce collaboration
  • Knowledge management systems
  • Design and support of distributed information sharing/decision-making
  • Evaluation of technology adoption, use and success
  • Effective management and organizational decision support
Graduates at ceremony

“I consider my teaching style to be intense yet friendly. The primary intent is to train students to raise the level of their analysis and interpretation way beyond the ordinary. While it is rare to understand any phenomenon perfectly, it is critical to understand it better than our competitors.”
NAVEEN KHANA
PROFESSOR, A.J. PASANT ENDOWED CHAIR IN FINANCE