New faculty: Olin’s newest instructors and researchers

Thirteen new faculty members have joined Olin in the past year in accounting, finance, operations, strategy, and marketing.

Tenure-track faculty

SETH CARNAHAN, Associate professor of strategy
PhD: Strategy, 2013, University of Maryland
Prior to Olin: Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Assistant Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan
Research Interests: Firm strategy, entrepreneurship, and human capital; how competition for human capital affects firm performance; why individuals create startup firms

XIANG HUI, Assistant professor of marketing
PhD: Economics, 2016, Ohio State University
Prior to Olin: Postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Design of digital platforms and economics of digitization, how consumers’ experience with service providers on such platforms could be enhanced through platform policies and strategies that improve information or other aspects

MARYJANE RABIER, Assistant professor of accounting
PhD: Accounting, 2014, University of Maryland
Prior to Olin: Assistant professor of accounting, McGill University
Research Interests: Recent research, “Value is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Relative Valuation Roles of Earnings and Book Value in Merger Pricing,” was published in the Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2018

Visiting professors

ABER ELSALEIBY, Visiting assistant professor of operations and manufacturing management
PhD: Manufacturing and technology management, 2015, University of Toledo
Prior to Olin: Lecturer of operations management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Manufacturing and service operations management, healthcare operations management/analytics, supply chain network design

*ILIAS FILIPPOU, Visiting assistant professor of finance
PhD: Finance, 2015, The University of Warwick
Prior to Olin: Assistant professor of financial economics, Warwick Business School
Research Interests: Asset pricing, international finance, macro-finance

MENG LIU, Visiting assistant professor of marketing
PhD: Economics, 2015, Clemson University
Prior to Olin: Postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Auctions and mechanism design, specifically in the contexts of government procurement contracts; the emerging sharing economy of the digital era; The impact of Uber on the traditional taxi industry

Yaron Leitner, Visiting professor of finance
PhD: Finance, 2001, Northwestern University
Prior to Olin: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Research Interests: Banking and financial institutions, information economics

ALESSIO SARETTO, Visiting assistant professor of finance
PhDs: Finance, 2006, University of California, Los Angeles; mathematical finance, 2002, University of Brescia
Prior to Olin: Assistant professor of finance and managerial economics, University of Texas at Dallas
Research Interests: Empirical asset pricing, capital structure, credit risk, and structured finance. Saretto has been published in Management Science, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Fixed Income, and the Journal of Financial Markets

Professors of practice

PETER BOUMGARDEN, Professor of practice, organizational behavior
PhD: Organizational behavior/strategy, 2010, Washington University in St. Louis
Prior to Olin: Associate professor of management, Hope College
Research Interests: Researches, consults and facilitates executive education in the private and nonprofit sectors on topics of innovation, corporate strategy, marketing strategy and leadership development. Clients include Herman Miller, Edward Jones, Charles Schwab, Oracle and others

JEREMY DEGENHART, Professor of practice, finance
BSBA: 2000, Washington University in St. Louis.
Prior to Olin: Adjunct professor of finance, Olin Business School
Research Interests: Global Impact Investing Network, Advantage Capital, Solar Energy Industries Association

TIMOTHY SOLBERG, Professor of practice, finance
MBA: 1982, University of Chicago
Prior to Olin: Olin faculty advisor and lecturer, Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education Forum
Research Interests: Economic development, health economics, international economics, banking and financial institutions, corporate governance

MICHAEL WALL, Professor of practice, marketing
BA: 2001, Indiana University
Prior to Olin: Adjunct lecturer, Olin Business School
Research Interests: Innovation, digital marketing, leadership

Research scholar

DAVID SOVICH, postdoc for finance
PhD: Finance, 2018, Washington University in St. Louis
Prior to Olin: PhD intern, Equifax Inc.
Research Interests: Empirical household finance, real effects of financial markets

*Not pictured. Pictured above, from left, first row: Yaron Leitner, MaryJane Rabier, Alessio Saretto, Timothy Solberg, Seth Carnahan. Second row: Peter Boumgarden, Meng Liu, David Sovich, Aber Elsaleiby. Third row: Xiang Hui, Jeremy Degenhart, Michael Wall.