The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Sergio Chayet, PhD., joins the Olin School of Business as assistant professor of operations and manufacturing management. Chayet previously served as assistant professor of operations management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business since 1999. He spent fall 2004 at Olin as a visiting professor. Chayet’s areas of expertise include stochastic modeling of production, service and inventory systems, operational design issues and problems at the interfaces of operations with marketing and other disciplines. His research focuses on queuing competition and managing process quality in decentralized supply chains.
Daniel Elfenbein, Ph.D., joins the Olin School of Business as assistant professor of organization and strategy. Once he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004, Elfenbein worked as a lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. From 2000-01, he served as staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, advising the Clinton Administration on industrial organization policy. Elfen-bein’s areas of expertise include business policy and strategy, organizational economics and technology management. His research centers on governance of complex transactions, markets for intellectual property, incentives in organizations and university-industry technology transfer.
Richard Frankel, Ph.D., comes to the Olin School of Business as associate professor of accounting. Frankel served as associate professor of accounting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School prior to joining Olin in 2005. Frankel’s areas of expertise include investor relations and valuation. His research focuses on investor relations strategy, working capital management and investment strategies based on behavioral biases. He teaches financial accounting and financial statement analysis.
Armando Gomes, Ph.D., is a new associate professor of finance at the Olin School of Business. Gomes was assistant professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania from 1997-2005. Gomes’ areas of expertise include corporate finance and microeconomic theory. His research focuses on corporate finance (empirical and theory), mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and economic theory. Gomes has received several awards, including the First Prize, Geewax, Terker & Company Prize for Financial Research (2004) and the NASDAQ Educational Foundation Research Fellowship (2004).