The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University underscored its commitment to world-class teaching and research this summer through the addition of several new faculty members for the 2008-2009 academic year, as well as the appointment of two current faculty members to newly established leadership roles overseeing teaching and research at the institution.
The new hires bring with them valuable expertise in the fields of marketing, organizational behavior and theory, finance, operations management and manufacturing, and information systems.
“We are thrilled to welcome these outstanding researchers and educators to the Tepper School and look forward to their individual contributions to our tradition and high standards of academic excellence,” Dean Kenneth Dunn said in a statement.
The new members joining the Tepper faculty are Mustafa Akan, assistant professor of operations management and manufacturing; Laurence Ales, assistant professor of economics; Soo-Haeng Cho, assistant professor of operations and manufacturing; Rosalind Chow, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory; Kinshuk Jerath, assistant professor of marketing; Lars-Alexander Kuehn, assistant professor of finance; Param Vir Singh, assistant professor in information systems; and Anita Williams Woolley, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory. For more on their backgrounds and specific areas of research, click here.
Meanwhile, Tepper also has created two new leadership positions that will oversee the teaching and research areas of the institution. Tepper faculty members Robert Dammon and Richard Green have been named to new posts as associate deans, with three-year appointments that went into effect on July 1st.
Dammon and Green, both professors of financial economics, will serve as associate deans of education and research respectively. Dammon will oversee all educational programs offered by the school, and Green will lead the school’s research focus as well as oversee the development of tenure-track junior faculty.
“These particular faculty members reflect our high standards for producing world-class research and their many accomplishments reinforce our reputation as a business school that advances global business practice via relevant, path-breaking research,” Dean Dunn said in a statement announcing the appointments.
