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Rob Salomon

Dean, Stern at NYUAD
Professor of International Management, NYU Stern School of Business
NEC Faculty Fellow, NYU Stern School of Business

Email rms220@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Strategy and International Business, NYU Stern School of Business
  • MPhil, Strategy and International Business, NYU Stern School of Business
  • BBA, Finance, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Research areas

  • International Expansion and Governance
  • Foreign Entry and Location Decisions
  • Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer
  • International Trade
  • Globalization

Rob Salomon is the Dean of Stern at NYUAD. In addition to his deanship, he is also Professor of International Management and NEC Faculty Fellow of International Management at the NYU Stern School of Business. He held previous appointments as a Visiting Professor at the IESE Business School in Spain, and as an Assistant Professor at the USC Marshall School of Business.

He is an award-winning scholar and educator who has been teaching and conducting research on globalization and global strategy for nearly 20 years. He has been recognized as an outstanding educator and has received more than 10 commendations for “Excellence in Teaching” at NYU Stern. He was nominated for NYU Stern Professor of the Year, awarded the NYU Stern Faculty Leadership Award, and was named a NYU Stern Faculty Scholar in recognition of his outstanding teaching and dedication to student mentorship. He was named a “Favorite Business School Professor” in Poets and Quants and has been described in The Wall Street Journal as an educator who provides “brilliant distilled advice on business strategy.”

In addition to being a leading educator, he is also an award-winning management researcher. In 2019, the Academy of International Business awarded him the Silver Medal for exceptional intellectual contributions to the field of international business. He received the Emerald Citations of Excellence Award in 2015. He won the 2006 IABS Best Article Award, the 2003 Haynes Best Paper Prize, the 2003 William H. Newman Award, and the 2002 Barry M. Richman Prize. He was nominated for the Richard N. Farmer Award; was a finalist for the Gunnar Hedlund Medal; and was runner-up in the 2001 INFORMS Dissertation Competition. His research articles have been nominated four times for Best Paper at the Academy of Management meetings. Members of the International Division of the Academy of Management recognized him as a “Thought Leader” in 2013, and again in 2019.

Jemima A. Frimpong Associate Dean of Programs

Jemima A. Frimpong

Vice Dean of Programs, Stern at NYUAD
Associate Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email jafrimpong@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Managerial Science and Health Care, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • MSc, Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • MPH, Health Administration and Policy, University of Arizona
  • BS, Public Health, Rutgers University
  • BA, English Literature, Rutgers University

Research areas

  • Adoption of Innovation
  • Decision Making
  • Health Care Organizations
  • Organizational Behavior

Jemima A. Frimpong is Vice Dean of Programs and Associate Professor of Management at NYU Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is also Program Head and Associate Professor of Business, Organizations and Society at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Her research examines organizational structures and processes, and the interaction of these factors on performance and performance improvement. She has worked extensively on several new strategies to accelerate the adoption of innovations in healthcare organizations, especially in programs that provide substance use disorder treatment services. She has also studied how decision-making processes and related attributes of managers in healthcare organizations affect access and quality of services.

Prior to joining NYUAD, she was Associate Professor of Management and Organization at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University. She has taught courses including “Strategic Management,” “Corporate Strategy,” “Management Capstone,” and “Managerial and Organizational Behavior.”

She has received multiple distinguished grants and awards for her research and teaching. She has served as principal investigator on several major grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and from philanthropic organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation. She has also received the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence at the Carey Business School, and the Atlantic Alliance Fellowship for Public Health research from Columbia University (in collaboration with École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique in France and the University of Granada Andalusian School of Public Health in Spain). In addition to her academic leadership roles, she has relevant industry expertise in the public and private sectors: she was a business analyst with United Health Group and a systems analyst with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Jeffrey Timmons

Vice Dean of Faculty, Stern at NYUAD
Associate Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email jft3@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Political Science, University of California San Diego
  • MSc, Economic History, London School of Economics
  • BA, Government, Dartmouth College

Research areas

  • Business and Politics
  • Public Finance
  • Economic Development
  • Labor Markets
  • Inequality

Jeffrey Timmons is Vice Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Management at NYU Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi.

He joined NYU Abu Dhabi in 2015 as a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science before his appointment to Stern at NYUAD in 2023. He teaches courses in business, politics and society, and international politics. His research engages a variety of political economy topics, notably the relationships between firms and politicians, public finance (taxes/spending), and economic development.

Over the past eight years, Timmons has held a number of management and faculty leadership posts at NYUAD, including Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs for Social Science, Political Science Program Head, and Chair of the Faculty Governance Committee. He was also the architect of NYUAD’s Business, Organizations and Society major.

Before coming to NYUAD, he worked as an Associate Professor of Strategy at IE Business School in Spain, a Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and a Visiting Assistant Professor and Global Fellow at UCLA. He has received multiple awards, including Best Professor of the International MBA Program at IE Business School, the Best Dissertation Award from the Western Political Science Association, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Jean Fort Award from the University of California San Diego.

Timmons has served as an external consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Andean Development Bank (CAF), and Harstad Strategic Research (polling for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign). Before graduate school, he worked as a journalist in Venezuela, writing about politics and economics for the Economist Intelligence Unit. In addition to the UAE, he has lived in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, the UK, Brazil, and Spain.

Stern at NYUAD Faculty

Bernardo Bortolotti
Executive Director, Transition Investment Lab, Stern at NYUAD

Email bb134@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • PhD, Economics, Università degli Studi di Siena
  • Msc, Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • BA, Economics, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Research Areas

  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate governance
  • Sustainable Finance

Bernardo Bortoloti is Professor in economics at the University of Turin and Executive Director of the Transition Investment Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research focuses on the complex relationships between state and markets, with special emphasis on state ownership of firms, regulation, corporate finance, corporate governance, and sustainable finance.

He is one of the leading international experts in privatization, state-assets management and divestiture, and sovereign wealth funds. His work appeared in major academic economics and finance journals, and he has published two books with Oxford University Press. He has been Executive Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has advised the World Bank, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Italian Ministry of the Economy as secretary of the Global Advisory Committee on Privatization, the Italian Audit Office, listed firms and public and private financial institutions.

He received his PhD in economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Odhrain (Oran) McCarthy 

Assistant Professor of Finance, Stern at NYUAD

Email otm210@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Economics, New York University
  • MSc, Economics, London School of Economics 
  • BA, Mathematics and Economics, Trinity College Dublin  

Research Areas

  • Asset Pricing 
  • Behavioral Finance 
  • Innovation and Education Economics

Odhrain (Oran) McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research primarily focuses on asset pricing and behavioral finance, particularly return predictability, the determinants of stock price fluctuations, and the formation of investor expectations. 

His work has highlighted the value of using survey data on investor beliefs to explain overall stock market fluctuations. He has also developed a forward price ratio that outperforms traditional trailing price ratios in predicting stock market returns, revealing the limitations of using GAAP earnings for company valuation. Recently, his work shows how investor biases are linked to sentiment, indicating that these processing biases are dynamic. His research has been featured at leading conferences such as the “NBER Behavioral Finance,” the “WFA Macro-Finance Meeting,” and the “EFA Annual Meeting,” including receiving the ‘WFA Brattle Group PhD Award for Outstanding Research.’

He holds a PhD in Economics from New York University, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Trinity College Dublin where he graduated with summa cum laude honors. He worked in the financial industry prior to his PhD studies.

Ezgi Ozgumus

Assistant Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email eo864@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Organizational Behavior, London Business School
  • MS, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
  • BA, Tourism Administration, Bogazici University

Research Areas

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
  • Organizational behavior
  • Sexism and bias in the workplace
  • Growth Mindset
  • Intersectionality theory

Ezgi Ozgumus is an Assistant Professor of Management at Stern at NYUAD. In her research, she is primarily interested in understanding the myriad ways in which women’s disproportionate responsibilities in the home hinder their advancement at work. 

In one research stream, she uncovers how modern social roles come to be infused into people’s sense of self-worth, and how this psychological process puts women at a unique disadvantage relative to men. In another stream, she studies how men’s lay beliefs about gender roles get in the way of rational decision-making around workplace family leave policies in the United States. In a third stream, she examines organizations’ diversity data practices from an intersectionality-informed lens. Finally, she is also interested in exploring the structures of women’s social networks in the domain of entrepreneurship. 

She is deeply committed to transparency and reproducibility in methods and open science, and has expertise in advanced statistical methods, such as multilevel modeling and multivariate analyses. Her research work has been published in leading psychology and management journals, including Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Laurent Pauwels

Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics, at Stern at NYUAD

Email llp9748@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, International Economics, The University of Geneva and The Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
  • MA, International Relations, The University of Geneva and The Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)

Research Areas

  • Statistical modeling
  • Forecasting
  • Financial risk
  • Global value chains
  • International macroeconomics

Laurent Pauwels researches statistical modeling, forecasting, econometrics, financial risk, global value chains, and international macroeconomics.

Presently, his work focuses on evaluating the impact of risks, interdependence, exposure, and shock propagation in economic networks and global value chains. Additionally, he is involved in developing forecasting methods applied to financial data. His academic work is published in journals such as Economic Policy, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the International Journal of Forecasting. His research has been cited in media outlets, including The Economist, Bloomberg, and El País among others.

Before joining Stern in Abu Dhabi, he held positions at NYU Abu Dhabi, The University of Sydney, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. He has also consulted for policy institutions, including the European Central Bank, the National Bank of Belgium, and the UN University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

Barbara Scheck

Clinical Associate Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email bcs7910@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Entrepreneurial Finance, Technical University Munich
  • MSc, International Business Administration, ESCP- European School of Management
  • BA,  Public Administration, University of the German Foreign Office

Research Areas

  • (Social) entrepreneurship
  • Impact investing
  • Women in leadership

Barbara Scheck researches the intersection of entrepreneurship and social impact, focusing on the financing of social enterprises, impact investing, and the evaluation of social outcomes.

As a recognized expert in social entrepreneurship, Scheck co-founded the European Center for Social Finance, which supports research and provides technical assistance to foster the growth of impact investing and social finance in Europe.

She has published widely on these subjects, authoring numerous articles and books that explore innovative financial models and strategies for social enterprises.

Prior to joining NYUAD, Scheck was Professor for Entrepreneurship at Munich Business School and Associate Professor for Social Investment at Hamburg University. She held visiting faculty positions at National University Singapore and Kedge Business School in Bordeaux. Scheck is a member of Mirova’s MILE Private Equity Impact Fund Impact Committee.

She has worked in banking with Credit Suisse and insurance with Allianz SE. At Allianz she co-founded Germany’s largest Corporate Volunteering Initiative and served as the subsidiary’s CEO. Scheck has been awarded several research grants on the topics of (social) entrepreneurship and impact finance, amongst others from the European Commission, OECD, EEA Norway Grants, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Anisa Shyti

Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Stern at NYUAD

Email as9193@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Management Sciences, HEC Paris 
  • Laurea Magistrale (cum Laude) MSc equivalent, in Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

Research Areas

  • Decisions Under Uncertainty
  • Ambiguity and Risk
  • Entrepreneurial and Managerial Decisions
  • Decision Biases and Overconfidence

Anisa Shyti specializes in decision-making under uncertainty within business environments where probabilities are challenging to quantify. Her studies delve into managerial and entrepreneurial compensation in connection to risk and uncertainty premia as well as human capital or skill premia. Building on contemporary decision theories under ambiguity and psychology, she conducts lab and field experiments to provide valuable insights into how people choose between employment options, how managers select projects based on risk information, or how entrepreneurs deal with ambiguous time. Her work also explores behavioral aspects of decision making, investigating how overconfidence or entrepreneurial intention shape attitudes towards uncertainty that derives from specific sources. Her work also extends to managerial decisions within and between organizations, and how accounting practices influence decisions like outsourcing, dropshipping, and other manufacturing and logistics strategies within sectors like in fashion, luxury, design, arts, and crafts.

She has a keen interest in startup ecosystems and new venture topics, including innovation, entrepreneurial finance, and the dynamics of the creative economy. She thinks that accounting is not just a financial tool but a critical instrument for startups and entrepreneurs to generate value from creative ideas, to promote sustainability, and foster growth. Her research and teaching together emphasize the practical and theoretical applications of accounting and decision-making in complex and uncertain business environments.  She regularly presents her research at international conferences, including the “Academy of Management,” “Economic Science Association,” “DTEA,” “Foundations of Utility and Risk,” “IZA Institute for the Study of Labor,” “DRUID,” and “Strategic Management Society,” among others. 

She started her career as an Assistant Professor in the Accounting and Control Department at IE University in Madrid, Spain, where she taught accounting in the International MBA, TechMBA, and Master in Management programs. Additionally, She has held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University in Abu Dhabi and has lectured at prestigious institutions including Bocconi University in Milano, Italy, ESCP Europe and IESEG School of Management, in Paris, France.

Jeff Steiner

Clinical Associate Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email js14177@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School
  • BBA, Management and Psychology, University of Miami

Research Areas

  • Work and Well-Being 
  • The Employee Experience (“EX”)
  • Leadership

Jeff Steiner is a Clinical Associate Professor of Management at the NYU Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi. His consulting, coaching, teaching, and research interests lie at the intersection of work and well-being. He has studied, worked, volunteered, and lived internationally, galvanizing his interest in studying issues of work and well-being across vastly different cultural contexts. He is motivated by the belief that improving the modern Employee Experience (“EX”) is imperative to foster greater well-being across societies.

He teaches management and leadership courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive levels. At Stern at NYUAD, he teaches Leadership in Organizations, Professional Responsibility, and Managing Change, and co-teaches its flagship Stern Signature Projects course. He has previously taught Management & Organizations and Managerial Skills at NYU Stern in New York, as well as Work & Well-Being at the Harvard Extension School.

His research spans individual, managerial, and organizational levels of analysis. At the individual level, his work focuses on how people think about what it means to live a good life, and how they come to view the role of their work and career in pursuing it. In addition, he studies managerial and organizational practices aimed at safeguarding and supporting employee well-being, such as initiatives concerning employee mental health.

He was previously an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York, an Executive Coach for Harvard Business School Executive Education, and a Lecturer at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to pursuing his academic career, he was the COO of Global Talent Development at Morgan Stanley, as well as a Research Associate to Professor Teresa Amabile at Harvard Business School.

He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School.

Anna Szerb

Assistant Professor of Management, Stern at NYUAD

Email aas10460@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Strategic Management, INSEAD
  • MSc, International Health Policy and Health Economics, LSE
  • BSc, European Studies (German), King’s College London

Research Areas

  • Sustainability
  • Social impact
  • Stakeholder perspective
  • Field experiments
  • Text analysis

Anna Szerb researches how corporations balance social impact goals with market-driven objectives, examining the trade-offs companies navigate between advancing social welfare and achieving business outcomes. Her dissertation specifically investigates the benefits and challenges of corporate social actions on employee outcomes, shedding light on the internal dynamics that accompany these efforts.

Before joining academia, she worked as a management consultant in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, advising on pricing, market access, and portfolio strategies. This experience led to her interest in the role of business in society and inspired her current research on how companies can align social impact with financial performance.

Building on her healthcare consulting background, she also explores healthcare-related social challenges in South Africa. Her research investigates how innovative organizational models, such as social franchising and cross-sector partnerships, can address these pressing issues. Her findings so far have been published in Journal of Organization Design and INSEAD Knowledge.

Cynthia Zeng

Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, Stern at NYUAD

Email cz938@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • BA, Mathematics, Imperial College London 

Research Areas

  • Multimodal machine learning
  • weather forecasting
  • climate finance

Cynthia Zeng’s research addresses the challenges of climate adaptation and promotes sustainable development through technological innovation. Her work primarily involves developing artificial intelligence solutions to forecast and manage extreme weather events. Zeng completed her PhD in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dissertation titled “Multimodal Machine Learning for Climate Adaptation.” Alongside her academic pursuits, she gained valuable industry experience as a quantitative analyst at BlackRock in San Francisco and London, and at the SoftBank Vision Fund in Shanghai

Zeng has published in several leading academic journals, including AMS Weather and Forecasting, Nature Digital Medicine, and Healthcare Management Science. Her collaborative work with OCP Group, the world’s largest phosphate producer, has been successfully implemented to achieve a 50% reduction in air pollution from industrial activities in Morocco. She has received numerous awards, including the William Pierskalla Paper Award, the MIT Future of Computing Prize, and the INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Prize.

Zeng is also deeply committed to public engagement, having presented her research on platforms such as TEDx and MIT Horizon. She is a frequent speaker at prominent academic and professional venues, including the Stanford Energy Seminar and the Stanford Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue.

NYU Stern School of Business Faculty and Global Collaborators

Adam Brandenburger

J.P. Valles Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Email adam.brandenburger@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Economics, University of Cambridge
  • MPhil, Economics (with Distinction), Trinity College, University of Cambridge
  • BA, Natural Sciences and Economics, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge

Research areas

  • Game Theory
  • Information Theory
  • Business Strategy

Adam Brandenburger holds appointments at New York University as J.P. Valles Professor at the Stern School of Business, Distinguished Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, Faculty Director of the NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity + Innovation, and Global Network Professor.

He was a professor at Harvard Business School from 1987 to 2002. He received his BA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He researches in the areas of game theory, information theory, and business strategy.

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Sam Chandan

Director, NYU Stern Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance

Clinical Professor, Department of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

Academic Dean and Silverstein Chair, NYU SPS Schack Institute

Education

  • PhD, Applied Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • MSc, Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
  • MA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
  • BSc, Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Research areas

  • Real Estate and Urban Economics: Commercial Real Estate Finance, Housing Markets, Real Estate Applications
  • Epidemiology: Urban Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Sam Chandan is Director of the Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, home to the school’s applied real estate research initiatives, industry and policy engagement, and undergraduate and MBA real estate programs.

Prior to joining Stern in February 2022, he was the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the Schack Institute of Real Estate at the NYU School of Professional Studies. He is also founder of Chandan Economics, an economic advisory and data science firm serving the institutional real estate industry, a contributor to Forbes, and host of the Urban Lab on Apple Podcasts.

A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), and the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), and a contributing member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), his multifaceted applied research interests address real estate capital market, urban epidemiology, and the preparedness of global cities and other systemically important urban areas in managing and mitigating novel public health threats.

Prior to founding Chandan Economics, he was the global chief economist at Real Capital Analytics (RCA). During his tenure as chief economist at Reis, now part of Moody’s Analytics, he was part of the executive team that took the company public.

Naomi Diamant Academic Director, EMBA Programs

Naomi Diamant

Academic Director, EMBA Programs, NYU Stern School of Business
Assistant Dean, NYU Stern Executive Programs, NYU Stern School of Business
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communications, NYU Stern School of Business

Email nd21@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
  • MA, English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel
  • BA, English, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Naomi Diamant joined New York University Stern School of Business in January 2012 as Deputy Dean for TRIUM, Assistant Dean of NYU Stern Global Degree Programs and Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communications. She oversees academic planning and delivery for NYU Stern’s global programs, and teaches courses in business communication. Prior to joining Stern, she served as Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives at New York University.

She received her BA in English from the University of Cape Town, South Africa; her MA in English from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel; and her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

Alex Dontoh Professor of Accounting

Alex Dontoh

Professor of Accounting, NYU Stern School of Business

Email ad3@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Accounting, New York University
  • MBA, Accounting/Finance, California, Berkeley

Research areas

  • Analytical Issues in Demand and Supply of Accounting Information
  • Capital Market Research

Alex Dontoh is a Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program. Professor Dontoh holds a PhD from New York University, an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BSc in Business administration from the University of Ghana.

His research focuses on analytical aspects of the economics of information. He has investigated a number of analytical and empirical issues in accounting related to effects of mandated and discretionary accounting disclosures, their effects on managerial decision making, and on firm market value. He has published a number of articles in a wide range of journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies and other leading research journals in accounting. He is a member of several academic associations.

He teaches Managerial and Financial Accounting mostly in the undergraduate program at the NYU Stern School of Business. As the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Accounting, he is responsible for overseeing development of the undergraduate curriculum in accounting which has been consistently rated in top 10 accounting programs in the country.

Jennifer Gootman

Global Head of Sustainability and ESG Strategy, Tory Burch

Advisor to NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business

 

Education

  • MBA, Social Innovation and Impact, Management, and Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
  • BA, History and Women’s Studies, Harvard University

Research areas

  • Sustainability
  • ESG Issues
  • Supply Chain Management

Jennifer Gootman is a sustainability and ESG strategy executive with in-depth understanding of supply chain ESG issues. In late 2022 she joined lifestyle brand Tory Burch as the Global Head of Sustainability and ESG Strategy. Prior, she was the Head of Sustainability & Social Impact for Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSI), leading social and environmental strategy and programming across the company’s eight brands.

Under her leadership, WSI launched the first Fair Trade-Certified factory program in home retail and was a founding partner of the Nest Standard for Ethical Handcraft. She built on Williams-Sonoma, Inc.’s leadership in responsible materials and ethical production to launch a comprehensive climate strategy, including the announcement of the company’s Science-Based Target for carbon reduction across the entire value chain. These efforts earned WSI a spot on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list for 5 years running.

Prior to joining WSI in 2013, she spent more than a decade with nonprofits and social enterprises in New York, Nicaragua, and India, working within design-driven industries to create impact through supply chain innovation. She is an Aspen Institute First Movers fellow and an advisor to NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business.

Brian Hanssen

Director of the Management Communication Program, NYU Stern School of Business

Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication, NYU Stern School of Business

Email bh849@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • Columbia University
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Research areas

  • Business and Society
  • Business Communication
  • Communication
  • Managerial Skills
  • Organizational Communication and its Social Context

Brian Hanssen is the Director of the Management Communication Program and a Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication. He joined New York University Stern School of Business as an adjunct professor in 2009 and was a Visiting Associate Professor of Management Communication from 2015-2019. He joined Stern full-time in 2019.

Prior to teaching in both the undergraduate and MBA programs at NYU Stern and NYU Shanghai, he held a global management position at Intralinks, a leading technology provider of secure collaboration solutions. He is also a former management consultant in the field of organizational development (OD), specializing in the effective corporate communication of large-scale change initiatives. His experiences encompass organizational restructuring, system-wide IT implementations, learning management and the development of social impact and corporate shared-value programs across the globe. Past clients include UBS, General Electric, Citi, Total Oil and the Republic of Kenya. He also worked in the non-profit sector as the director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) and was a high school administrator and teacher in Los Angeles.

He also runs a non-profit organization, Social Impact Scholars, and consults regularly in the private sector.

Jessy Hsieh

Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication, NYU Stern School of Business

Email jh1626@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  • MPhil, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  • MBA, NYU Stern School of Business
  • BA, Columbia University

Research areas

  • Andragogy
  • Creativity and strategy
  • Digital sociology
  • Philosophy of education

Jessy Hsieh is Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communication. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Professor Hsieh joined Stern in 2010 as a Junior Research Scientist in the Center for Digital Economy Research and began teaching as an adjunct instructor in 2013. In 2018, she was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor.

She also served in several administrative capacities, including roles as the Senior Associate Director for Innovation and Associate Director for Graduate Education. Prior to joining Stern, she was an Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank, where she was responsible for investigating and reporting international money laundering trends.

Jean Imbs

Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi

Email jmi5@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Economics, New York University
  • MSc, Business Economics, HEC School of Management
  • BA, Business Economics, HEC School of Management

Research areas

  • Macroeconomics
  • International Finance and Macroeconomics
  • International Trade

Jean Imbs is a Professor of Economics. Before joining NYU Abu Dhabi, he was a Professor at the Paris School of Economics and a Research Director at France’s CNRS. He received a Master’s degree in International Business from HEC Paris, and a PhD in Economics from New York University. Until 2010, he was a Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Lausanne.

His research focuses on international macroeconomics, with an interest in the consequences of microeconomic complexity for macroeconomic phenomena. He currently works on the rising importance of global supply chain and their global consequences. He has published in the major professional journals in Economics, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of International Economics.

He consults regularly with major policy institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the Bank of England, the UK Treasury, and many other central banks around the world. He teaches a broad range of classes in macroeconomics, including international finance, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy, to graduate, undergraduate, and executive audiences. He has taught among others at Princeton University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York University, HEC Paris, and INSEAD.

Anat Lechner Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations

Anat Lechner

Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations, NYU Stern School of Business

Email al74@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Rutgers University
  • MBA, Rutgers University
  • BS, Tel-Aviv University

Research areas

  • Leadership in Organizations
  • Managing Change

Anat Lechner is a Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Stern. Professor Lechner earned her PhD in Organization Management from Rutgers University in 2000. She is also the recipient of the GE Teaching Excellence award.

Her research focuses on how organizations can best structure to develop innovation capabilities and outcomes. Her research encompasses various areas including the effective leverage of multidisciplinary teams, leading adaptive change, and the development of workplace environments supportive of creativity and innovation.

Her current work looks at the complexities of managing high performance cross-functional teams, and the ways by which physical workplace environments enable organization members to cope with uncertainty, change, and the demand for increased innovativeness.

She is also involved in Management Consulting and Senior Executive Action Learning. A former Research Fellow at McKinsey & Co. and the founder of a boutique management consulting firm, her client list includes Fortune 500 firms in the Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Energy, Food, High Tech and Retail industries.

Her teaching portfolio includes a great variety of organization management courses including Managing Change, Managing High Performing Teams, Managing Organizations, Collaboration, and Strategy in the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs at the Stern School.

Carol E. Newell

Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Email cn25@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, English, Emory University
  • West Indian literature and history, University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados
  • BA, English and Southern Studies, Amherst College

Research areas

  • Professional Responsibility
  • Leadership
  • Social Impact

Carol Newell joined New York University Stern School of Business in 2008 as an Adjunct Professor. She teaches courses in the undergraduate Social Impact Core at Stern, including Business and Its Publics and Professional Responsibility and Leadership.

Prior to teaching at Stern, she was a Lawrence C. Gallen Fellow in Villanova University’s Center for Liberal Education (VCLE). There she taught the Augustine and Culture Seminars, “Traditions in Conversation from Antiquity through the Renaissance” and “Modernity and Its Discontents,” and served as the leader of the VCLE’s Environmental Learning Community.

She graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a BA in English and Southern Studies, studied West Indian literature and history at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, and earned a PhD in English from Emory University in post-Civil War American literature, particularly focusing on literature of the US South, African American literature, and Modernism. She continues to pursue research on ecology in southern literature and Modernism in the American South. She also works as a freelance editor for McGraw-Hill Higher Education Division.

Glenn A. Okun

Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, NYU Stern School of Business
Professor of Management Practice, NYU Stern School of Business
Adjunct Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

Email gao2@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • JD, Harvard Law School
  • MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
  • BA, Government, Wesleyan University

Research areas

  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Patterns of Entrepreneurship
  • Technology and Innovation
  • Venture Capital Financing

Glenn A. Okun is a Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at New York University Stern School of Business where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance and investment management. He advises corporations on financial and investment matters. Professor Okun was President of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, a merchant bank and broker dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California from 1998 to 2001. He previously served as a Director of Allen & Company Incorporated in New York.

He invested in early and later stage financings of private companies in various industries. He also ran a small capitalization emerging growth stock hedge fund and a special situations portfolio. He has advised corporate clients on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and has underwritten public offerings and private placements of securities. He began his investment career at the IBM Retirement Fund where he invested in mezzanine private placements, real estate, public emerging growth equities and oil and gas assets. He holds JD and MBA degrees from Harvard University and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

Ernesto Reuben

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Societal Impact, NYU Abu Dhabi

Program Head of Business, Organizations, and Society, NYU Abu Dhabi

Professor of Economics and Business, Organizations and Society, NYU Abu Dhabi

Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID)

Email ereuben@nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Amsterdam
  • MPhil, Tinbergen Institute
  • BA, University of Maryland

Research areas

  • Determinants of labor-market outcomes
  • Social norms
  • Gender
  • Stereotypes
  • Behavioral Public Policy

Ernesto Reuben’s research interests fall within behavioral economics and public policy. In particular, he focuses on the emergence and enforcement of prosocial norms, the behavioral determinants of labor market outcomes, and the effect of biases on discrimination. He is one of the founding researchers of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design.

Anjolein Schmeits

Email as3631@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Finance, University of Amsterdam
  • MSc, Economics, Tilburg University
  • BS, Economics, Tilburg University

Research areas

  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Intermediation/Banking
  • Corporate Governance
  • Information Economics and Financial Contracting

Anjolein Schmeits joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance in September 2005 and became a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance in September 2008. She is now a Clinical Professor of Finance. She teaches “Corporate Finance” in Stern’s full-time MBA program and the Langone program, and “Valuation” and “Corporate Finance” in the Executive MBA program.

Her research focuses on the interface between financial intermediation and corporate finance. In particular, she examines the economic role of financial intermediaries such as banks and credit rating agencies, and analyzes how the organization and competitive structure of the financial sector affect contract design and firms’ financing choices. In addition, she is interested in the design of effective corporate governance arrangements within firms and industries. Her research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Intermediation and other journals. She has participated in several policy-oriented research and consulting projects on the functioning of banks and capital markets in the Netherlands and on the financing of the Dutch corporate sector, and has co-authored a book and many studies on these topics.

Before joining NYU Stern, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis, where she taught advanced corporate finance courses in the undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA programs. She has received several teaching awards, most recently the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award in Stern’s Executive MBA program.

Thomai Serdari

Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business

Email ts307@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Art History and Archaeology, NYU
  • MBA, Business Administration, NYU Stern School of Business
  • MA, Media Studies, The New School for Social Research
  • MA, Architecture, The National Technical University of Athens

Research areas

  • Luxury Marketing
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New Business Models in Fashion, Art, Media, and Entertainment

Thomai Serdari, PhD, is a strategist in luxury marketing and branding. She helps clients launch, grow, and successfully manage luxury brands. She is an expert on luxury and actively studies, values, and reports on companies or funds that operate and invest within the luxury goods market.

She has been teaching at New York University since 2004 and at Stern since 2012. She developed the core courses for the MBA Business: Luxury & Retail specialization among others and became Academic Director of MBA Business: Luxury & Retail in 2019.

Originally trained as an architect at the National Technical University of Athens, she received her doctorate in Art History & Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2005. She also holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, with a specialization in corporate and quantitative finance (2009).

Heavily drawing on her interdisciplinary training, she heads Brand(x)Lux, a brand consultancy that uses critical, business and design thinking to help brands interpret culture, the questions that define it and the trends that will impact the future of business.

She often contributes to Luxury Daily, VOGUE Business, The New York Times, Le Monde and is the editor of the first academic interdisciplinary journal Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption published by Taylor & Francis. She is also the host of POPULUXE, a bi-weekly podcast that explores the desire for luxury through stories told around unique objects chosen by the podcast guests, creative professionals from across ages, cultures, and professions.

Amal Shehata

Email ats1@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • MS, Accounting, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillBS, Business Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillResearch areas
  • Accounting and the Blockchain
  • Auditing
  • Financial Accounting

As the recipient of the 2021 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2018 Stern Distinguished Teaching Award and named “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors” by Poets & Quants, Amal Shehata is passionate about teaching. She joined New York University Stern School of Business as a full-time faculty member in September 2015, after having been an adjunct professor at the School since 2008. She serves as Academic Director of the BS/MS Dual Degree CPA Program at Stern. She teaches residential and online courses in Financial Accounting and Auditing in the undergraduate and graduate schools. She has recently created a new course, Accounting and the Blockchain, for which she was awarded the NYU Curricular Development Grant.

She began her career in public accounting as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Washington DC. During her 11 years at PwC, she worked in several divisions, including Assurance, Internal Firm Services and the Office of the Vice-Chairman. After leaving PwC, she worked as Director of Sales and Operations for a privately held company. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

She received her BS in Business Administration and her MS in Accounting from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ingo Walter Professor Emeritus of Finance

Ingo Walter

Professor Emeritus of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

Email iw1@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Economics, New York University
  • MS, Business/Economics, Lehigh University
  • BA in Economics, Lehigh University

Research areas

  • The Global Financial Services Industry
  • Global Investment
  • Trade and Monetary Issues
  • Corporate Governance
  • Conducts and Ethics

Ingo Walter has been on the faculty at New York University since 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and subsequently served a number of terms as Chair of International Business and Chair of Finance. Subsequently he served as Director of the New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions from 1990 to 2003 and Director of the Stern Global Business Institute from 2003 to 2006 and the Stern Infrastructure Finance Initiative from 2017 to 2020. He served as Dean of the Faculty of the Stern School from 2008 to 2012.

He has had visiting professorial appointments at the Free University of Berlin, University of Mannheim, University of Zurich, University of Basel, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, IESE in Spain, University of Western Australia and various other academic and research institutions. He also held a joint appointment as Professor of International Management at INSEAD in France and Singapore from 1986 to 2005, and remains a Visiting Professor there.

His current areas of academic activity include international financial intermediation and banking and infrastructure finance. He has published papers in many of the professional journals in international economics and finance, and is the author, co-author or editor of 28 books, most recently Bridging the Gaps: Public Pension Funds and Infrastructure Finance (London: 2019).

He has served as a consultant to various corporations, banks, government agencies and international institutions, and has held a number of board memberships.

Tensie Whelan Clinical Professor of Business and Society

Tensie Whelan

Clinical Professor of Business and Society, NYU Stern School of Business
Director, Center for Sustainable Business, NYU Stern School of Business

Email hhw2013@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • MA, International Communication, American University
  • BA, Political Science, New York University

Research areas

  • ESG Investing
  • Sustainable Business
  • Business Ethics
  • Ecofriendly Tourism

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to work with Rainforest Alliance. She transformed the Rainforest Alliance into an internationally recognized and credible brand. Her previous work included serving as Executive Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, Managing Editor of Ambio, a journal of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a journalist in Latin America.

Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and was a Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and currently serves on the advisory boards of ALO Advisors, Buzz on Earth, Edelman, Giant Ventures, Inherent Group and Nespresso. She was most recently appointed to the board of Emerald SPAC, and is an Advisor to the Future Economy Project for Harvard Business Review. Tensie holds a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from American University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management (OPM) Program. She was awarded the Stern Faculty Excellence Award in 2020.

Russell Winer Professor of Marketing

Russell Winer

William H. Joyce Professor of Marketing, ​​NYU Stern School of Business
Deputy Chair, Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business

Email rsw5@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
  • MS, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BA, Economics, Union College

Research areas

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Consumer Choice Models
  • Psychological Aspects of Price
  • Use of Information Technology in Marketing

Russell S. Winer is the William Joyce Professor of Marketing and Deputy Chair of the Department of Marketing at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received a B.A. in Economics from Union College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been on the faculties of Columbia and Vanderbilt universities and the University of California at Berkeley. He has written three books, Marketing Management, Analysis for Marketing Planning and Product Management, a research monograph, Pricing, and has co-edited The History of Marketing Science and The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing. He has authored over 80 papers in marketing on a variety of topics including consumer choice, marketing research methodology, marketing planning, advertising, and pricing. Professor Winer has served two terms as the editor of the Journal of Marketing Research, is Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, has been a Senior Editor for Marketing Science and the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and is currently the co-editor of Marketing Letters. He is a past Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Winer is a founding Fellow of both the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science and the American Marketing Association and is the 2011 recipient of the American Marketing Association/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator award.

Wenqiang Xiao

Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, ​​NYU Stern School of Business

Email wx2@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Decision, Risk & Operations, Columbia University
  • PhD, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • BS, Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University

Research areas

  • Supply chain contracting
  • Marketing-operations interface
  • E-commerce pricing
  • Production a inventory planning

Wenqiang Xiao joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences in July 2006.

His research interests are primarily focused on designing and evaluating incentive contracts under supply chain settings and more generally, the principal-agent framework. In particular, he is interested in investigating incentive conflicts among parties with asymmetric information.

He received his PhD in Decision, Risk and Operations from Columbia Business School.

Jeffrey J. Younger

Clinical Professor of Management Communication, ​​NYU Stern School of Business

Email jjy3@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • MS, Education, Brooklyn CollegeBA, Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Research areas

  • Virtual team communication

Jeffrey J. Younger joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communication in September 2007. He specializes in business writing, public speaking, team dynamics and critical thinking and has worked for more than 26 years in the field of entertainment, media and corporate communications.

Prior to his appointment, he taught advanced business writing courses at Cornell University’s Off Campus College Program. He has developed workplace education courses for corporate clients such as American Express, Morgan Stanley, the New York City Transit Authority and the New York City Department of Education. He also works with an international team of instructors from various business universities across the world to teach a course that combines all of the business students in an online real time business simulation called VIBu RealGame.

He received his BA in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and his Master’s in Education from Brooklyn College.

Jiawei Zhang Professor in Business and Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences

Jiawei Zhang

Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, NYU Stern School of Business
Michael Armellino Professor in Business, NYU Stern School of Business

Email jz31@stern.nyu.edu

Education

  • PhD, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
  • MS, Operations Research, Tsinghua University, China
  • BS, Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China

Research areas

  • Business Analytics and Optimization
  • Machine Learning
  • Robust Optimization
  • Health Care Operations
  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Pricing and Revenue Management

Jiawei Zhang is the Michael Armellino Professor in Business and Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He joined NYU Stern’s Operations Management Group in September 2004. He serves as the academic director of the Master of Science in Data Analytics & Business Computing program.

His primary research interests include business analytics and optimization, machine learning, supply chain and inventory management, pricing and revenue management, and health care operations. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Manufacturing and Service Operations, Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Computing,, etc.

He received Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and his Master of Science degree in Operations Research from Tsinghua University, China, and his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.


*The above faculty list is a sample list and may be subject to slight changes for each intake.