Terrence Hendershott
Assistant Professor of Business

B.S. Miami University ’89
Ph.D. Stanford University ’99

Expertise: The role of information technology in financial markets; after-hours stock trading; electronic communications networks; competition between electronic markets and traditional businesses.

Christopher Hennessy
Acting Assistant Professor of Business

B.A. Swarthmore College ’92
Ph.D. Princeton University ’01

Expertise: Corporate finance, specifically how various financing methods and compensation schemes for corporations influence their investment decisions; analyzing how corporations decide between bank debt versus public debt.

Barbara Mellers
Professor of Business

B.A. UC Berkeley ’74
Ph.D. University of Illinois ’81

Expertise: Human judgment and decision making with a focus on the effects of emotions on choice; how and why people violate the principles of rational decision making.

Terrance Odean
Assistant Professor of Business.

B.A. UC Berkeley ’90
Ph.D. UC Berkeley ’97

Expertise: Behavioral finance and investor psychology.

Philip Tetlock
Assistant Professor of Business

B.A. University of British Columbia ’75
Ph.D. Yale University ’79

Expertise: How various types of people think about possible pasts and possible futures; systematic biases in human cognition and how they can most efficiently be corrected.