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Richard Alm serves as writer-in-residence for the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom. He was previously the senior economics writer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Alm has also worked for The Dallas Morning News, U.S. News & World Report and the Arizona Republic. He holds a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and Bachelor’s degree in economics from Florida State University. Alm has completed graduate studies in economics at Arizona State University. He is the co-author of the book Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We’re Better Off Than We Think. His co-authored opinion articles are frequently published in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Investor’s Business Daily.
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Indraneel Chakraborty, finance instructor, comes to the Cox School from the Wharton School of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. and currently holds his M.A. in finance. Chakraborty earned an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Tech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Chakraborty’s research interests include financial intermediation, corporate governance, applied econometrics, capital structure and investment policy, small business and entrepreneurship and contract theory. He is an inventor of six patents on methodology for managing power consumption in a wireless network for IBM Corporation.
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Hyungshin Park, assistant professor of accounting, comes to the Cox School from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. and Master’s in accounting. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. Park’s research interests include bias in analysts’ forecasts, earnings management and rational market pricing. He passed the CPA exam in Georgia and has work experience in international executive services for KPMG LLP.
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R. Canan Savaskan-Ebert joins the Cox School as an associate professor of information technology and operations management. Since 2000, she had been a tenure-track faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management. In 2009, she visited the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Savaskan-Ebert received her Ph.D. and M.S. in operations management from INSEAD, and her M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include sustainable operations, supply chain management, operations and marketing interface, and quality management. Savaskan-Ebert has been published in journals including Management Science, Transportation Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
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Morgan Ward comes to the Cox School as an assistant professor of marketing from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was named among the top two percent of Ph.D. students for academic excellence. She received her Ph.D. and MBA in marketing from UT’s McCombs School of Business and a B.S. in textiles and apparel from Cornell University. Ward’s research interests are consumer behavior, identity and gift-giving. Her teaching interests include consumer behavior, brand management, retail merchandising and marketing management.