New Faculty Set To Join Smeal
New Faculty Set To Join Smeal
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 13, 2005)—Twelve new faculty members have been hired to join Penn State's Smeal College of Business during the next academic year, marking one of the most successful hiring periods in the history of the college. Included among the new faculty will be:
Brent W. Ambrose
King Faculty Fellow in Business and Professor of Real Estate
Ambrose is director of the Center for Real Estate Studies and professor of finance at the University of Kentucky. His areas of research include Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), loss mitigation programs associated with mortgage default and foreclosure, Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), and fixed-income securities. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and Real Estate Economics, and is on the advisory board of the Real Estate Research Institute. He will join Smeal in summer 2006.
Raghu Garud
Professor of Management and Research Director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Garud was an associate professor of management at New York University. His areas of research expertise include modularity, emerging industries, entrepreneurship, knowledge intensive firms, technological change and innovation, and path creation. Garud has co-written and co-edited numerous books and he also serves as the associate editor of the journal Management Science.
Timothy Lowe
Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Chaired Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
Formerly the C. Maxwell Stanley Professor of International Operations Management at the University of Iowa, Lowe has teaching and research interests in the areas of operations management and management science. He has published more than 70 papers in leading journals in his field and has served as an editor for a variety of academic journals. Lowe has also worked as a project/process engineer for Exxon and has served on the faculties of the University of Florida and Purdue University.
Others joining the Smeal faculty include:
Peter Ebbes
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Deborah Ettington
Clinical Professor of Management
Guojin Gong
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Oleysa Grishchenko
Assistant Professor of Finance
Zan Huang
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
Kelley Delaney-Klinger
Assistant Professor of Management
Andrew Leone
Associate Professor of Accounting
Amy Sun
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Jeff Tew
Clinical Professor of Supply Chain & Information Systems
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
