Goizueta Business School
Sundar G. Bharadwaj
Ph.D., Professor of Marketing
Sundar Bharadwaj earned his Ph.D. in Marketing from Texas A&M University (1994). He joined the Emory faculty in 1993 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1999. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at Singapore Management University in 2005-2006. Dr. Bharadwaj's research focuses on business problems relating to current and long-term returns and risks to marketing investments in brands, customers, innovation, and marketing strategy. He received an Early Career Award from the American Marketing Association and was a finalist for the Maynard Award for Theoretical Contributions in 2007. His work has been featured in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science.
Ramnath K. Chellappa
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management
Ramnath Chellappa received his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Texas at Austin (1997-98). Upon graduation he joined the faculty of the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He joined the Emory faculty in 2005 as a Visiting Associate Professor and transitioned to an untenured Associate Professor the following year. He holds a background in engineering, including both Mining Engineering (1987-91) and Petroleum Engineering (1991-93), and he has worked as a Unix and networks administrator. Dr. Chellappa's current research focuses on economic, behavioral and technical aspects of electronic markets. In particular, he aims to understand how the adoption of the Internet by both consumers and vendors has changed conventional views of products and business transactions. He currently teaches in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs at Goizueta and offers technically oriented courses for the undergraduate program.
Ilia D. Dichev
Ph.D., Professor of Accountingn
Ilia Dichev earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington (1995). He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003, and to Professor in 2008. A noted scholar of accounting and finance, Dr. Dichev has garnered the attention of many notable media, including The New York Times, with his work on the impact of accounting information on the behavior of decision-makers. His research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review (2007), Accounting Review (1997, 2002, 2008), and the Journal of Accounting & Economics (2009). Dr. Dichev comes to Emory from the University of Michigan Business School, where he served as an associate professor and the director of graduate studies in accounting.
Sandy D. Jap
Ph.D., Professor of Marketing
Sandy Jap earned a B.S. (with honors) in Marketing from the University of Florida (1989) and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Florida (1995). She joined the Goizueta Business School in 2001 after teaching at the Sloan School of Management (MIT); she earned tenure in 2003. Dr. Jap's research focuses on the development and management of inter-organizational relationships, including how to balance risks and rewards and share the payoffs of close collaborations. In 2003 she was named one of twenty potential leaders of the next generation of marketing academics by the Marketing Science Institute, and in 2004 she became a Caldwell Research Fellow, an award for research excellence. In 2007 she received the Lou Stern Award for her article examining marketing channels and distribution. Her current work examines the world of online reverse auctions.
Jill E. Perry-Smith
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Organization and Management
Jill Perry-Smith joined the Goizueta Business School faculty after completing her Ph.D. in management in the College of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology (2002). She studies the effects of informal social networks on creativity and the impact of work-life initiatives on firm and individual performance. Dr. Perry Smith is an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management. Prior to her academic career, she oversaw large refinery expansion projects across the United States. She currently teaches the core organization and management course in the BBA program, a creativity and innovation elective, as well as an organizational behavior seminar in the Ph.D. program.
