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Dear Friend, At the David Eccles School of Business, we help change lives. Our classroom and experiential learning opportunities, coupled with the entrepreneurial spirit of Utah, is part of something we call the Eccles Experience. A vitally important element of this experience is the opportunity for students to interact with our incredible faculty. These outstanding professors bring a variety of experience from internationally acclaimed universities to Fortune 100 companies. I encourage you to spend a few minutes getting to know some of our newest faculty members. We are proud of our new associates and the continued recognition we receive for our school. The Eccles Experience gets better every day. I wish you and your team the very best. Sincerely,
Dean Taylor Randall Taylor.Randall@Eccles.Utah.edu
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J AY B A R N E Y Presidential Professor of Strategic Management Jay Barney, one of the country’s leading experts on strategy and strategic management, joined the Eccles School faculty in 2012 as a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship. Barney, with more than 88,000 citations, is among the mostcited strategic management scholars in the world. His lifelong research has focused on the relationship between firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He has published more than 100 articles in a variety of journals — including Management Science, Sloan Management Review, and the Harvard Business Review — and has published six books. He has delivered scholarly papers at more than 70 universities around the globe, including the London Business School, Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business. Barney also has been given honorary doctorate degrees from Sweden’s Lund University, Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School and Spain’s Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.
E D U C AT I O N Ph.D. Administrative Sciences/Sociology, Yale University, 1982 M.A. Sociology, Yale University, 1978 B.S. Sociology, Brigham Young University, 1975 EXPERIENCE Professor of Strategy, Ohio State University, 1994-2012 Professor of Management, Texas A&M, 1986-1994
Barney leads an innovative program housed in the school’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute that provides students singular work experiences in impoverished countries around the world.
Assistant Professor of Management, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, 1980-1986
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TODD ZENGER Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy Todd Zenger is the N. Eldon Tanner Chair in Strategy and Strategic Leadership at the Eccles School. He started teaching at the Eccles School in 2014 after 24 years at Washington University in St. Louis. Zenger is a global expert on topics of corporate strategy, strategic leadership and organization design. He has lectured widely on these topics to academic audiences at most of the world’s leading business schools. He has broadly published in the leading academic journals in management and strategy, including Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Academy of Management Journal. He also serves, or has previously served, as an associate editor or editorial board member for Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Organization, Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science.
E D U C AT I O N Ph.D. Organization and Strategic Studies, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989 B.A. Economics with distinction, Stanford University, 1983 EXPERIENCE
Zenger is also active in consulting and executive teaching around the topics of strategy and strategic leadership. He has worked with dozens of clients, including Boeing, Monsanto and AT&T. He also writes and blogs for the Harvard Business Review on topics of strategy. Zenger has served in a variety of professional association roles including executive board member of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, and as chair of both the INFORMS College on Organization Science and the Strategic Human Capital division of the Strategic Management Society.
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Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University, 2004-2014 Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Olin Business School, Washington University, 2001-2003 Chaired Professor of Organization and Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University, 1989-2004 Post Doctoral Fellow in Institutional Economics, Walter A. Haas School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, Winter 1989 Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy, School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University, 1988-1989 Doctoral Fellow, John M. Olin Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986-1988
JEFFREY L. COLES Professor of Finance Jeffrey L. Coles joined the faculty as Professor of Finance and David Eccles Chair in 2014. His teaching and research interests reside in compensation, corporate control and governance, law and economics, asset pricing, organization structure and the utility industry.
E D U C AT I O N Ph.D. Stanford University, 1984 B.A. Economics and Mathematics with distinction, Pomona College, 1979 EXPERIENCE Francis J. and Mary B. Labriola Endowed Chair in Competitive Business, Arizona State University, 2000-2014 Chairman, Department of Finance, Arizona State University, 2004-2010 Professor, Department of Finance, Arizona State University, 1994-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Finance, University of Utah, 1983-1994 Visiting Associate Professor of Organizations and Markets, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, 1988-1989
He has published numerous academic papers in premier journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Coles is advisory editor of Financial Management, co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His work has been featured in a wide spectrum of business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, and Investor’s Business Daily, and in the broadcast media, including “Wall Street Week,” CNN News and National Public Radio. He has presented his work to numerous conferences, universities and industry groups.
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L U I S R AY O Professor of Finance Luis Rayo is an applied economic theorist specializing in incentive theory and information economics. He joined the faculty at the Eccles School in 2014 and holds the David Eccles Chair in Microeconomic Theory and Business Economics at the University of Utah. He is also a Research Fellow at the prestigious Centre for Economic Policy Research. Rayo publishes his research in leading international economics journals — including the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, and the American Economic Review — and has co-authored with leading economists, such as Douglas Bernheim (Stanford), Ilya Segal (Stanford), Luis Garicano (LSE), and the late Nobel Laureate Gary Becker.
E D U C AT I O N Ph.D. Economics, Stanford University, 2002 M.A., B.A. Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, 1998
His work covers a wide range of topics, including organizational economics, political economy, and the link between income and happiness. His research has been cited in leading media outlets such as the Washington Post, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has also been an invited speaker at every top-10 economics department and top-five business school worldwide.
EXPERIENCE Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Industrial Organization Programme, 2013-present Professor of Management, LSE Department of Management, 2012-2014 Affiliated Faculty, Theoretical Research in Neuroeconomic Decision-Making (TREND), 2011-present Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, 2002-2009 Chair, Department of Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Fall 2009 Visiting Scholar, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Summers 2003/2004/2007/2008, Fall 2009
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ADAM MEIROWITZ Professor of Finance Adam Meirowitz joined the Eccles School as a Professor of Finance in July 2015. Meirowitz will bring a unique perspective to the school with his background in both politics and economics. He has spent the past 14 years at Princeton University. Meirowitz’s research and teaching interests include positive political theory, game theory, social choice theory, information aggregation and learning, electoral politics, congressional politics, conflict and preference estimation. His research often focuses on the use of game theory and quantitative methods to study collective decision-making and political institutions. His research has been published in more than a dozen journals, including Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and Economics and Politics. His current research projects include: the study of bargaining and investing, limiting equilibria in voting games, arms sales and conflict, and vote-buying.
E D U C AT I O N Ph.D. Political Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2002 M.A. Economics, Stanford University, 2002 M.S. Public Policy Analysis, University of Rochester, 1997 B.A. Political Science and Economics, University of Rochester, 1996 EXPERIENCE Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 2001-2015 Director, Quantitative and Analytical Political Science Program, Princeton University, 2009-2015
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JASON SNYDER Assistant Professor of Management Jason Snyder joined the Eccles School faculty in July 2015 after seven years as an assistant professor in the Policy group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research interests include firm strategy, socially responsible business, and the political economy.
E D U C AT I O N M.A. Legal Studies, Northwestern University, 2008 Ph.D. Business and Public Policy, UC Berkeley, 2006 B.A. Applied Mathematics and Economics, UC Berkeley, 2000 EXPERIENCE
Snyder’s research focuses on how ethics are transmitted within firms, how competition influences socially responsible behavior, and how political power is passed along within families. His most recent research is forthcoming in Management Science and The Review of Economic Studies.
Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, 2008-2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University Law School & Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006-2008
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A B O U T T H E D AV I D E C C L E S S C H O O L O F B U S I N E S S
Founded in 1917 in Salt Lake City, the David Eccles School of Business educates students in the classroom and through engaged learning opportunities. The school offers eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, five other graduate programs, a Ph.D. program and executive education curricula. Experiential learning is central to the Eccles experience. As just one example, the school is home to the Student Investment Fund, which has outperformed the S&P 500 every year since the fund’s inception in 1999. The fund delivers hands-on investment experience to an accomplished cohort of the school’s top juniors and seniors. Approximately 4,500 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and executive degree programs, making the David Eccles School of Business one of the largest schools at the University of Utah. The Eccles School boasts internationally renowned faculty members who engage in cutting-edge business research that keeps them at the forefront of knowledge and trends. Their research is rooted in real-world business practices that translate to both the classroom and the boardroom. Combine that research with international business experience, and our students benefit greatly from faculty knowledge of the past alongside what research shows will happen in the future. Pa ge 1 2 | # E c c l e s E x p erience
Nestled in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, the Eccles School is within 30 minutes of seven ski resorts, and less than five hours from several national parks, delivering a student experience like no other. The University of Utah campus is perched above the blossoming Salt Lake City metropolitan area. Utah’s capital is a cultural hub of diverse nightlife, dining, art and music, and boasts a top-ranked business environment for U.S. job growth and economic prowess.
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