Nishant Dass, assistant professor
He received his PhD from INSEAD in 2007. His teaching interests are in corporate finance, and his research focuses on empirical corporate finance, banking, and international finance. His work has been accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies and cited in The New York Times. He has presented papers at conferences of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the World Bank.

Qinghai Wang, associate professor
He comes to Tech from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he was an assistant professor. Holding a PhD from Ohio State University, Wang focuses his teaching and research on theories and empirical methods of investment decision making and asset pricing. He has published research in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Major news publications such as The New York Times and CFO magazine have cited his work.

Information Technology Management

Chris Forman, assistant professor
He comes to Georgia Tech from Carnegie Mellon University. With a PhD from Northwestern University, Forman holds a Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship. His research interests include the geography of IT use, IT innovation, services outsourcing/offshoring, electronic commerce, and IT strategy. Associate editor of Information Systems Research and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Forman has studies published or forthcoming in such journals as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of Management Information Systems.

Sandra Slaughter, professor and Costley Chair in IT Management
She comes to Georgia Tech from Carnegie Mellon University. Holding a PhD from the University of Minnesota, she focuses her research on software, IT outsourcing, IT professionals, and IT project management. She has published more than 80 articles in leading research journals, conference proceedings, and books, as well as serving as a senior editor for Information Systems Research and Production and Operations Management. She was recently named departmental editor (information systems) of Management Science.

Eric Overby, assistant professor
Overby earned his PhD from Emory University in 2007. His research focuses on economic implications of the virtualization of business and society. He has research published or forthcoming in such journals as Organization Science and the European Journal of Information Systems. He has won research awards from such organizations as INFORMS and the Academy of Management. He is also an active contributor to the automotive industry, having presented his research to automotive executive audiences at the Conference of Automotive Remarketers and the National Auto Auction Association annual meeting.

Sam Bond, assistant professor
Bond earned his PhD in 2007 from Duke University. He studies how choices reflect a combination of both intuitive and rational approaches to decision making. He applies this perspective to a variety of topics, including decision making under risk and the formation of brand attitudes. He also investigates how consumers distort new information to support their tentative leanings. His work has been published in Management Science and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Atalay Atasu, assistant professor
Atasu received his PhD from INSEAD in 2007. He focuses his research on sustainable operations management, including design of closed-loop supply chains, strategic pricing and positioning of remanufactured and refurbished products, and design of environmental directives. He has published studies in such journals as Management Science and Production and Operations Management. He won the Wickham Skinner Award for best unpublished paper at the 2007 Production and Operations Management Meeting for Efficient Take-Back Legislation.

Jeongsik "Jay" Lee, assistant professor
Lee earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. His primary research interests include social networks and innovation. In particular, he focuses on the economics of exchange networks, innovation dynamics, and technology and innovation management. Prior to his academic career, he held positions in economic research and personnel management at the Bank of Korea in Seoul.

Jerry Thursby, professor and Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Commercialization
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Thursby was the Goodrich C. White Professor of Economics at Emory University. He earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include econometrics, international trade, and licensing of university technologies. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Technology Transfer and Global Business and Economics Review, and he has published research in numerous top journals.