Ph.D. placements
Placements
2025
Ryan Robinson
Dissertation: Did Critical Audit Matter Dry Runs Influence Management's Accounting
Initial Placement: University of Arkansas
2023
Ashleigh Bakke
Dissertation: Auditor Monitoring of Non-GAAP Earnings
Initial Placement: Oklahoma State University
Patience Constance
Dissertation: Saved by the CAM: Does CAM Disclosure Relatedness to Restatements Impact the Consequences of Restatement Announcements?
Initial Placement: University of West Florida
2022
Amy Garman
Dissertation: Does Blockchain Technology Constrain Real Earnings Management?
Initial Placement: Kansas State University
Chris Rossetti
Dissertation: Weathering the Storm: The Influence of Weather on Financial Reporting Quality
Initial Placement: University of Delaware
Courtney Yazzie
Dissertation: Spillover Effects in Board Structure: Evidence from SB 826
Initial Placement: Clemson University
2020
Yijun Li
Dissertation: The Economic Consequences of Tax Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from FIN 48
Initial placement: Erasmus University
Qiyang Lian
Dissertation: An Examination on Audit Office’s Client Portfolio Around Fraud Event
Initial placement: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Chenxi Lin
Dissertation: Do Misstatement Correction Disclosures Reflect Impaired Auditor Independence?
Initial placement: University of Oklahoma
2018
Feng Guo
Dissertation: Essays on Corporate Disclosure Policies
Initial placement: Iowa State University
John Conrad Naegle
Dissertation: The Determinants of the Existence and Extent of Delays in Naming a Successor Auditor
Initial Placement: Missouri State University
Zac Wiebe
Dissertation: Essays on Financial Reporting in Corporate Spinoffs
Initial placement: University of Arkansas
2016
Matt Sherwood
Dissertation: The Influence of Regulation of Audit Quality and Audit Fees
Initial placement: University of Massachusetts - Amherst
2015
Ken Dalton
Dissertation: The Joint Effects of Psychological Distance and Counterexplanation on Analysts' Forecast Optimism
Initial placement: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Elizabeth Fuerherm
Dissertation: Three Essays on Factors Impacting Audit Quality
Initial placement: Goldman Sachs
Christine Porter
Dissertation: Essays on the Audit Market for Banks
Initial placement: Wichita State University
2013
Juan Mao
Dissertation: Essays on U.S. Listed Chinese Reverse Merger Firms
Initial placement: University of Texas at San Antonio
Helen Janie Whiteaker-Poe
Dissertation: Three Essays On How U.S. Multinational Corporations Use Foreign Affiliated To Reduce Tax Burdens
Initial placement: Baylor University
2012
Sunita Rao
Dissertation: Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Investigation of Assurance Process, Assurance Characteristics and Assurance Frameworks Used
Initial placement: Park University
Yang Xu
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effect of Financial Expertise in Corporate Governance Restatements
Initial placement: University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
2010
Ying Huang
Dissertation: Three Essays on Characteristics and Consequences of Financial Statement Restatements
Initial placement: University of Louisville
2024
Lijun Chen
Dissertation: Bridging the Information Privacy Intention-Behavior Gap: Conscious and Non-conscious Intervention Processes”
Initial Placement: Appalachian State University
2023
Corban Allenbrand
Dissertation: Essays on Model Selection Uncertainty and Model Averaging: Computational and Empirical Work with Beta Regression, Multiple Linear Regression with ARMA Innovations, and the Minimum Description Length Principle.
Initial Placement: Quest Diagnostics
2020
Zheng Han
Dissertation: Payment and Pricing in Service Systems
Initial Placement: University of Science and Technology of China
Yi Tan
Dissertation: Essays on new methods for classification problems and applications
Initial placement: University of Alabama - Huntsville
Lu Wang
Dissertation: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Crowding on Service Systems
Initial placement: Ball State University
2018
Sumanta Singha
Dissertation: Three Essays on Feature and Model Selection for Classification and Regression Problems
Initial placement: Indian School of Business
2025
Ryan Clark
Dissertation: Deciphering Insider Trading: Information, Execution, and Disclosure
Initial Placement: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2024
Jihyeon "Emily" Kim
Dissertation: Innovation Spillovers from High-skilled Labor Stocks
Initial placement: California State University - San Marcos
Shuhua "Hazel" Zhang
Dissertation: Three Essays on Common Lender and Its Impact on Corporate Finance
Initial placement: Xi'an Jiatong - Liverpool University
Pei "Alex" Zhang
Dissertation: Risk and Portfolio Management Associate
Initial placement: Teacher Retirement System of Texas
2018
Joe Fairchild
Dissertation: Three Essays in Bank Risk Management
Initial placement: Bank of America
Yaoyi Xi
Dissertation: Manager Personal Traits and Financial Decisions
Initial placement: San Diego State University
2016
Zhao Zhao He
Dissertation: Talent, Innovation, and the U.S. Cash Hoards
Initial placement: University of New Hampshire
Minjie Huang
Dissertation: Essays on Executive Compensation
Initial placement: University of Louisville
Yeonju Jang
Dissertation: Three Essays on Commercial Bank Management and Its Impact on the Local Economy
Initial placement: Florida International University
Chao Jiang
Dissertation: Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Insider Trading
Initial placement: University of South Carolina
2015
Han Yu
Dissertation: Essays on Merger Gains and Short Seller Ahead of Going Concern Reports
Initial placement: Southern Connecticut State University
2013
Lijing Du
Dissertation: Essays on Market Efficiency and Distress Risk
Initial placement: Towson University
Jian Huang
Dissertation: Essays on Initial Public Offerings and the Disciplinary Effects of Proxy Contests
Initial placement: Towson University
Gokhan Torna
Dissertation: Three Essays on Traditional and Nontraditional Banking and Portfolio Decisions
Initial placement: Stony Brook University
2010
Shane Moser
Dissertation: Essays on Venture Capital Syndication and the Informational Efficiency of the Corporate Bond Market
Initial placement: University of Mississippi
2024
Mengwei Li
Dissertation: Organizational Implications on High Performance Work System in Small Firms: Contingencies of Top Executives’ Skill Sets
Initial placement: Tilburg University
Ilhwan "Ian" Na
Dissertation: Human Capital Sourcing Strategices of Lower-reputation Professional Service Firms
Initial placement: Troy University
Kristina Tirol-Carmody
Dissertation: All the Time, All at Once: A Person-Centered Analysis of Subjective Temporal FIt
Initial placement: Indiana University
2020
Jinhwan Jo
Dissertation: Toward a Theory of Voice Motives
Initial placement: Wright State University
2017
Dongni Wan
Dissertation: Value Creating or Value Capturing? An Examination of Human Capital Usage Flexibility
Initial placement: Missouri Western State University
2016
Pingshu Li
Dissertation: The Loss of Human Capital, Social Capital and Stars: Collective Turnover and Unit-Level Performance
Initial placement: University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Ken Ward
Dissertation: Can a Student Run Business Capstone Course Generate Relevant Forces That Last a Life Time - You Bet it Can.
Initial placement: University of Kansas
2014
Jan Super
Dissertation: Pay Dispersion: The Effect on Attitudes and Knowledge Sharing Behaviors
Initial placement: Murray State University
2013
Ghadir Ishqaidef
Dissertation: Disposable Workforce or Valuable Resources? Exploring the Role of Strategic Position and High Performance Work Systems in Temporary Staffing Firms,
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
2023
Hyoyeon "Summer" Kim
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Responses to (Un)Ethical Brand Behavior
Initial Placement: People Power Company
2022
Seyedjavad "Javad" Mousavi
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Interplay Between Online Reviews and Consumers
Initial Placement: University of Arkansas
2019
Luxi Chai
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Dark Side of Curiosity in Marketing Transactions
Initial placement: Missouri Southern State University
Bingqing "Miranda" Yin
Dissertation: Pre-Giving Incentives and Protagonist Foci: Two Essays on Charity Advertising Effectiveness
Initial placement: John Carroll University
2018
Amin Attari
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Judgment and Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
Initial placement: NEOMA Business School
Frank Cabano
Dissertation: Social Identity-Based Barriers to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior
Initial placement: University of Texas at El Paso
Marija Grishin
Dissertation: Communications and Health: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and Food Associations on Food Choice
Initial placement: University College Dublin
2016
Samer Sarofim
Dissertation: When I Believe, I Am Biased: Two Essays on When and How Consumer Beliefs Lead to Judgment Bias
Initial placement: University of South Dakota
2015
Minghui Ma
Dissertation: Two Essays on the Compensation of Marketing Agents
Initial placement: Appalachian State University
2014
Priyam Rangan
Dissertation: Impact of Death-Related Television Programming on Advertising Evaluation
Initial placement: The College at Brockport (SUNY)
2013
Jungsil Choi
Dissertation: Revisiting Positive and Negative Charity Appeal Effectiveness: Moderation Effect of Color and Victim-type
Initial placement: Cleveland State University
Duane Myer
Dissertation: Essays on the Reaction of Financial Markets to Two Marketing Investments: Sports Sponsorships and Sales Force Sizing
Initial placement: Pepperdine University
2012
Zelin Zhang
Dissertation: Design and Pricing of Probilistic Quality
Initial placement: Renmin University
2011
Pronobesh Banerjee
Dissertation: Impact Of Self And Temporal Construal On Brand Categorization And Extension Evaluation
Initial placement: Winston-Salem State University
2010
Ze Wang
Dissertation: Impact of Cultural Differences in Affect Valuation on Customer Decision Making
Initial placement: University of Central Florida
2021
Matt Deeg
Dissertation: The Support Provider Matters: Exploring the Influence of Support Provider Characteristics on Social Support Provision
Initial Placement: Abilene Christian University
2018
Jiatian Chen
Dissertation: Career Calling Climate: The Development and Investigation of a new Construct
Initial placement: California State University, Bakersfield
2016
Mark Geiger
Dissertation: Human Resource (HR) Outsourcing and Performance in Small Business: An Organizational Life-Cycle and Network Organization Perspective
Initial placement: Duquense University
2013
Young Kyun Chang
Dissertation: How and Why Employees Engage in Corporate Volunteering
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Carol Flinchbaugh
Dissertation: When the Job Gets Tough: Antecedents and Benefits of Restorative Psychological Resources
Initial placement: New Mexico State University
2012
Matt Luth
Dissertation: The Bright and Dark Sides of Empowerment: Linking Psychological Empowerment and Job Stressors to Proactive and Counterproductive Work Behaviors
Initial placement: Pacific Lutheran University
Preeti Wadhwa
Dissertation: The Relationship Between High Involvement Work Systems, Supervisory Support, and Organizational Effectiveness: Role of Employee Experiences at Work
Initial placement: California Polytechnic State University
2024
Jim Grabowski
Dissertation: Core-stigmatized Firms: An Examination of the Labor Market for Corporate Directors
Initial placement: University of Arkansas - Little Rock
Long Su
Dissertation: Innovation in Stigmatized Industries: Liability or Asset?
Initial placement: North Dakota State University
2023
Jukyeong "Judy" Han
Dissertation: Should Startups Pursue Rapid Growth?
Initial placement: McMaster University
2022
Juan Carlos Morales
Dissertation: Two Essays on Prior CEO Experience: Examining the Signaling Effects of Human, Social, and Reputational Capital and the Hiring Firms' Circumstances
Initial placement: West Texas A&M University
Christina Robichaud
Dissertation: CEO Self-Serving Attribution Bias: The Role of Organizational Identification and Consequences for Strategic Change
Initial placement: University of Montana
2020
Yan "April" Huang
Dissertation: Modeling a Multinational Firm’s Manufacturing Network as a Portfolio of Real Options
Initial placement: Iowa State University
2016
Zheng Cheng
Dissertation: Internalization Theory and the Asset Specificity and Measurement Branches of Transaction Cost Economics: Theoretical Relationships and Empirical Reexaminations
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Karl Kammerer
Dissertation: Heuristic Decision Making, Organizational Reputation and Stakeholder Perceptions of Reports Implicating Firms in Transgressions
Initial placement: Lindenwood University
Hilary Schloemer
Dissertation: Making Actionable Ideas: Linking Creativity, Creativity Management, and Innovation
Initial placement: Arkansas State University
David Wangrow
Dissertation: An Examination of CEOs’ Psychological and Relationship-Oriented Individual Traits Influencing Exhibited Managerial Discretion
Initial placement: Marquette University
2013
Won-Yong Oh
Dissertation: Three Essays on Traditional and Nontraditional Banking and Portfolio Decisions
Initial placement: University of Calgary
2012
DJ Schepker
Dissertation: The Role of Executive Capital And The Market For Alternative Candidates In CEO Dismissal And Labor Market Consequences For Dismissed Chief Executives
Initial placement: University of South Carolina
2011
Alex Martynov
Dissertation: Three Essays On The Choice of Decision-Making Structures In Alliances And Other Combined Ventures And The Performance Implications Of Such Choice At The Dyadic And Firm Levels
Initial placement: University of Houston-Clearlake