NEW FACULTY

The Mendoza College welcomed eight new faculty in August 2017.

Manuela Casti Yeagley

Management & Organization
Research assistant professor Ph.D., King’s College London M.A., King’s College London B.A., University of Florence (Italy)

“The Wellbeing at Work/Flourishing in Ministry Project focuses on developing research to support workers’ wellbeing. This mission fully reflects the University’s values and commitments, and my own.”

Joseph Cherian
Marketing
Teaching professor and assistant department chair Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin M.S., University of Missouri-Rolla B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

“I am fascinated by marketing because it examines customers in society, the Keystone resource for the modern corporation.”

Ruslan Goyenko
Finance
Visiting associate professor Ph.D., Indiana University M.A., Central European University (Hungary)  B.S., Donetsk State University (Ukraine)

“My current research focuses on equity options illiquidity, informational content of options trading, and understanding risks and costs that options market makers face while providing liquidity to customer order flows.”

Timothy Hubbard
Management & Organization
Assistant professor Ph.D., University of Georgia MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“Behavioral strategy excites me because it brings in the human element — both cognitively and socially — back into strategy, which helps us better explain firm performance.”

Jonathan Keeney
Management & Organization
Postdoctoral research associate Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MBA, Florida Atlantic University B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“My research focuses primarily on the psychology of ethical decision making and how those decisions are shaped and complicated by features of the organizational context.”

Dean Shepherd
Management & Organization
Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship Ph.D., Bond University (Australia) MBA, Bond University BAppSci, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)

“I am fascinated and excited to explore entrepreneurship because it often involves overcoming constraints, through creativity, to generate solutions that help people.”

Keith Urtel
Accountancy
Associate teaching professor B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology

“After a 35-year career, I retired from EY to focus on helping the next generation of accounting professionals become fluent in the language of business, especially regarding ethics.”

Ovunc Yilmaz
Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations
Assistant professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.S., Koc University (Turkey)

“I am passionate about understanding today’s sophisticated customers using big data and designing new programs/products which are beneficial for firms and customers.”