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A place to discover new perspectives
PhD programme overview
The PhD curriculum
PhD programme conference presentations
Placement highlights
Subjects in focus
School faculty, academic year 2013/14
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Our PhD students work closely with faculty on cuttingedge research that spans a broad range of disciplines and
topics. Through rigorous coursework and supervised and
joint research, our students are equipped to work at
the frontiers of knowledge in their chosen subject area.
Our graduates have developed intellectually and
financially rewarding careers in major business schools
and research institutes around the world. Their research
has a profound impact on the thoughts and actions of
academics, business leaders and policy makers.
My colleagues and I look forward to welcoming
exceptional candidates to the next generation of business
scholarship at London Business School.
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Jean-Pierre Benot,
Professor of Economics; PhD Programme Chair
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A place to discover
new perspectives
London Business School is ranked as one
of the best business schools in the world,
recognised as much for its cutting-edge
research as for its diversity and global outlook
The vision of London Business School
is to have a profound impact on the way
the world does business. Our faculty
and students come from all over the
world. Here, cultural diversity is not
just an aspiration, but a reality, and our
perspective is truly international.
The School, founded in 1964, has three
main areas of activity: postgraduate
degree programmes (Masters and PhD),
Executive Education programmes, and
innovative, high-impact research. It is,
however, the students, faculty and staff
involved in all these activities who give the
School its character and vibrancy. Of more
than 2,000 degree students studying at the
School each year, most are drawn from
outside the UK, from over 100 different
countries. Similarly, 85% of the Schools
faculty are non-UK citizens.
London Business School has a global
presence, with programmes and
partnerships in Dubai, Hong Kong and
New York. We are located in the heart
of London, with offices and lecture
theatres spread between a magnificent
19th-century Nash terrace building
overlooking Regents Park, and a
neighbouring, state-of-the-art building.
The latter houses the Schools library the
best-resourced business library in London
and our Fitness Centre, including a
25-metre swimming pool.
Consistently among
the best international
business schools,
according to
Bloomberg
Businessweek and
the FT
Profile of recent
PhD intake
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34%
women
66%
men
23-45
age range*
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Hong Kong
Asia 39%
European Union 37%
The Americas 15%
Russia 5%
Rest of the World 4%
Asia 39%
European Union 37%
The Americas 15%
Russia 5%
Rest of the World 4%
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Years 1 and 2
The academic year begins in early
October, and is divided into three,
ten-week terms. Students receive a
thorough training in relevant research
methods and their subject areas
core topics.
During the first two years, students are
normally required to take at least 12
courses. Additional courses may be taken
as electives. As well as PhD courses,
students can sometimes choose MBA
elective courses (depending on availability)
and some courses at other colleges within
the University of London, such as London
School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE) and University College
London (UCL). In some cases, students
can write course waiver exams.
Most subject areas require students
to satisfactorily complete a specialist
comprehensive or field exam and a firstand/or second-year research paper. As
part of their training, each PhD student
also aids faculty with 40 days worth of
assistance on research papers, case
writing, tutoring and grading.
Compulsory courses
All students
Foundations of Business Research
Accounting, Economics and Finance
Econometrics
Microeconomics II
Organisational Behaviour and Strategy
and Entrepreneurship
Basic Readings in Business
Statistical Research Methods
Microeconomics I
Research Design
Years 3 and 4
Specialised courses
Course offerings vary from year to year.
The list below includes some of the
courses commonly offered by the
seven subject areas. Students select
from these, based on their chosen
specialisation:
PhD Seminars in Accounting I - IV
Queuing Theory
Time Series Analysis
Political Economy
Advanced Optimisation
Inventory Theory
Demand and Revenue Management
Financial Economics I Asset Pricing
Financial Economics II Empirical
Finance
Financial Economics III Corporate
Finance
Continuous Time Finance
Analytical Marketing Models
Marketing Management and Strategy
Behavioural Research: Experiments
and Theory
Probability Models in Marketing
Dynamic Programming and
Optimal Control
Micro Organisational Behaviour
Macro Organisational Behaviour
Social Psychology of Organisations
Topics in Econometrics
Topics in Microeconomics
Advanced Macroeconomics
Strategy Process
Strategy Content
Advanced Research Methods
in Strategy
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PhD programme
conference presentations
Recent conference presentations by our PhD students
reflect not only the strength of ideas that emerge from
London Business School but also our cultural diversity
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Placement
highlights
Your PhD programme
is based in London
but our roster of
placements takes you
across the world to the
most highly regarded
business schools
2012
Amandine Ody-Brasier
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Yale
Rellie Derfler-Rozin
Organisational Behaviour, Maryland
2010
2011
Eva Ascarza
Marketing, Columbia University
Martin Schweinsberg
Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Amanda Ferguson
Organisational Behaviour, Northern Illinois
University
Ramin Baghai
Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Ramya Ranganathan
Organisational Behaviour, IIM Bangalore
Yangjie Gu
Marketing, Tilburg University
Elena Simintzi
Finance, University of British Columbia
Marko Coh
Strategy and Entrepreneurship,
London School of Economics
Jungsuk Han
Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Irina Zviadadze
Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Andrea M. Buffa
Finance, University of Boston
Theodosios Dimopoulos
Finance, HEC Lausanne
Nishant Mishra
Management Science and Operations,
Erasmus University
Clemens Otto
Finance, HEC Paris
Marc Gabarro
Finance, Erasmus University
Yun Lou
Accounting, HEC Paris
Jikyung Kim
Marketing, Instituto de Empresa (IE)
University
2013
Marlo Raveendran
Strategy and Entrepreneurship,
UC Riverside
Yvetta Simonyan
Marketing, University of Birmingham
Lora Dimitrova
Finance, University of Exeter
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Amit Kakkad
Management Science and Operations,
University of San Diego
Chris Parker
Management Science and Operations,
Pennsylvania State University
Oleg Shibanov
Finance, Warwick University
Onal Vural
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Instituto de
Empresa (IE) University
Oguzhan Karakas
Finance, Carroll School of Management,
Boston College
Mihaela Stan
Strategy and Entrepreneurship,
University College London
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2009
Georgy Chabakauri
Finance, London School of Economics
Xi Li
Accounting, Fox School of Business,
Temple University
Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Management Science and Operations,
Darden School of Business
Li Zhang
Accounting, Rutgers Business School
Stefano Sacchetto
Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
Ming Gao
Economics, Tsinghua University
Bart Vanneste
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, INSEAD
Heidi Gardner
Organisational Behaviour, Harvard
Business School
Kai-Yu Hsieh
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, National
University of Singapore
Felipe Monteiro
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania
Jason Sturgess
Finance, McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University
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Subjects in focus
Learn more about each of the specialist areas
of PhD study offered at London Business School
PhD Programme in
Accounting
The objective of the PhD Programme in
Accounting is to train students to conduct
original academic research dealing with the use
of accounting information. The coursework and
structure is similar to top US accounting PhD
programmes. While the students focus on
examining contemporary accounting research
topics, they are provided with rigorous training
in microeconomics, information economics,
corporate finance, asset pricing, game theory,
and econometric methods in the first two years
of the programme.
Recent theses
Causes and Consequences of Corporate
Financial Reporting (Li)
Accounting Information and Debt Markets
(Lou)
The Interaction between Mandatory
Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure and
their Relevance to Equity Market and Credit
Market (Zhang)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Irem Tuna,
Associate Professor of Accounting
BSc (METU) MAS (Illinois) PhD (Michigan)
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PhD Programme in
Economics
The Economics programme is a near-unique
offering and is designed around two key features
a small number of focused courses provided
in areas in which the subject area specialises,
and a small cadre of students who form a close
working relationship both amongst themselves
but also importantly with the Economics faculty.
A feature of our programme is the very high
faculty-student ratio and this is encouraged
through our selection process by choosing
students who express a mature interest in
working in an area in which faculty specialise.
Students work closely with their supervisor, gain
access to leading international conferences and
are closely monitored and assisted through the
all-important job market experience.
In their first two years, students take six internal
economics courses covering micro, macro and
econometrics. The aim of these courses is to
equip students with advanced technical skills
with which to pursue their studies and to give
them access to the current frontiers of research.
These courses are taught by our own faculty and
also by visitors. Past visitors have included
Acemoglu (MIT), Canova (UPF), Gourinchas
(UC Berkeley), Marcet (LSE), Rigobon (MIT),
Leeper (Indiana) and Sargent (NYU). There is
also the option to take courses from other
subject areas at London Business School,
as well as courses offered at LSE and UCL.
While pursuing their coursework students
are encouraged to begin their research in
their chosen area.
The Economics subject area has an outstanding
international reputation in key areas of research
such as game theory and decision theory,
industrial economics, political economy,
international macroeconomics and finance,
Recent theses
Economic Behaviour and Decision Making
(Gao)
Essays on International Macroeconomics
and Corporate Finance (Huang)
Structural Estimation of Takeover Contests
(Sacchetto)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Paolo Surico,
Associate Professor of Economics
MA (Pompeu Fabra) PhD (Bocconi)
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PhD Programme in
Finance
The Finance Department is the Schools largest
group, with 23 full-time faculty members
undertaking both theoretical and empirical
research, in all of the following areas: asset
pricing (equity, fixed income and derivatives);
behavioural finance; corporate finance and
corporate governance; investment; and market
microstructure.
Students are encouraged to think in a creative
way, with an emphasis on formal rigour and
techniques. The first year provides students with
an understanding of the theory and the tools
needed to conduct theoretical and applied
research. The core courses include Asset
Pricing, Corporate Finance, Empirical Finance,
Continuous-Time Finance, Microeconomics, and
Econometrics. Students are required to write a
second year research paper.
Recent theses
E
ssays in Asset Pricing with Market
Imperfections (Buffa)
E
xecutive Compensation and Corporate
Governance (Otto)
E
ssays in Financial Economics (Simintzi)
S
ources of Risk in the Foreign Exchange
Market (Zviadadze)
E
ssays on Acquisitions of Private
Companies (Dimitrova)
Informality, Default Risk and Asset Prices
(Poiatti)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Vikrant Vig,
Professor of Finance,
MSc MBA (Illinois) PhD (Columbia)
PhD Programme in
Management Science
and Operations
The Management Science and Operations
(MSO) concentration is designed to train
scholars in the analysis of important business
problems through quantitative modelling in a
variety of areas including operations, finance,
marketing, and innovation.
The first programme component is an extensive
and rigorous curriculum of graduate-level
courses providing strong methodological
foundations in optimisation, stochastic
modelling, statistics, econometrics,
microeconomics and game theory. In addition,
students participate in research seminars,
reading groups, international workshops and
conferences, and have the opportunity to
engage closely with practice when developing
their research.
The second programme component is a close
mentoring relationship with one or several
members of the MSO faculty, a prestigious
group of leading academics combining scholarly
and practical impact. This relationship involves
intense collaborative research work culminating
in the writing and defence by students of a
doctoral dissertation. Reflecting the widely
recognised expertise of the faculty, examples of
possible research areas include: pricing and
revenue management, supply chain
management, health care delivery, information
technologies, humanitarian logistics, electricity
and energy economics, portfolio management,
finance, retail operations, stochastic modelling,
optimisation, service operations, decision
analysis, simulation, project management, and
Recent theses
An Empirical Investigation of Unsolicited
Customer Input as a Driver of Service
Innovation (Kakkad)
Revenue Management in Online
Advertising (Najafi-Asadolahi)
Essays on the Effect of Technological
Innovation on Markets in Developed
and Developing Economies (Parker)
Competition and Stochastic Demand in
Network Revenue Management:
A Mathematical Programming Approach
(Mishra)
Faculty PhD Coordinators
Nitin Bakshi,
Assistant Professor of Management Science
and Operations,
BTech (IIT) MS (Stanford) PhD (Wharton)
Jrmie Gallien,
Associate Professor of Management Science
and Operations,
EngD (Ecole des Mines de Paris) PhD (MIT)
London Business School has all the key elements to help you
succeed in the PhD programme: day-to-day interaction with
the world-renowned faculty members and their mentorship,
rigorous coursework, and the support of the programme
office that helps you fully focus on your research. Consistently
successful placements of alumni simply prove the point.
Furthermore, the school is in the heart of the greatest city in
the world with cultural and social activities on your doorstep.
London Business School offers the best of both worlds.
Woonam Hwang PhD2009, Management Science and Operations
BS MS (KAIST)
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Subject areas
PhD Programme in
Marketing
The Marketing PhD Programme trains scholars
who will conduct research to advance the
frontiers of the discipline of marketing, teach
marketing at premier universities around the
world, and prepare the next generation of
marketing doctoral students. Students in the
Marketing PhD Programme have direct access
to, and work closely with, London Business
Schools world-renowned marketing faculty.
Marketing is an exciting discipline that offers a
wide range of areas in which to conduct
research and teach. Research topics in
Marketing cover the gamut from explaining
consumer behaviour to the development of
mathematical models to understand and predict
firm behaviour and improve marketing practice.
Researchers apply a variety of approaches, from
experimental tests of psychological theories to
econometric models of firm behaviour. The job
market for PhDs in marketing is quite attractive,
and the ratio of job openings to job candidates is
several times higher than that in most academic
areas, including economics, psychology, finance,
operations, and engineering.
Recent theses
M
odelling Customer Behaviour in
Contractual Settings (Ascarza)
R
etail Product Availability: Empirical and
Theoretical Issues (Bruno)
A
n Analysis of the Concentration of
Consumer Purchasing in FMCG Markets
(Kim)
M
emory-based Models for Predicting
Inferences about Product Quality
(Simonyan)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Oded Koenigsberg,
Associate Professor of Marketing,
BSc (Technion) MEng (Cornell) PhD (Duke)
PhD Programme in
Organisational Behaviour
The mission of the Organisational Behaviour
subject area is to be the most creative,
top-quality OB group in the world, through its
distinctive high-profile research agenda,
teaching portfolio, and executive education
involvement. Current work engages with issues
such as leadership, top management teams,
ethics and morality, cross-cultural dynamics,
family firms, HR/careers, negotiations, decision
making, networks, and organisational design,
considering how these relate to business
performance and entrepreneurship.
Our work is both theory-driven and close to
practice, taking advantage of our position in the
heart of London as a leading global centre for
business. Faculty in the Organisational
Behaviour group are focused on both Micro
Organisational Behaviour the study of
individual and group behaviour in an
organisational context, and Macro Organisational
Behaviour the study of how institutional
and social forces affect organisations and the
people in them. We draw heavily on theory
from psychology and sociology, and often
publish in discipline-based, as well as
management journals.
We expect PhD students to take four years to
complete their degree, during which they will
learn to conduct original empirical research, tutor
and teach, and internalise the professional
values and traditions of the field.
Recent theses
Slipping Down the Ladder: The Individual
and Social Consequences of Status Loss
(Carson Marr)
Preference for Rule-based vs. Discretionary
Allocation Systems: A Threat Perspective
(Derfler-Rozin)
When Outsiders Come In: An IdentityBased View of Group Boundary Work and
Effectiveness (Ferguson)
The Mirage at the Top: Why Forecasters
Seek Status in the Wrong Place
(Schweinsberg)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Gillian Ku,
Associate Professor of Organisational
Behaviour,
AB (Harvard) MS PhD (Northwestern)
What attracted me to
the programme was how
approachable the faculty
is and their willingness to
help us as we become
academics. The whole
atmosphere is supportive
and eager to facilitate
our learning and
development.
Shruti Bhutada PhD2011,
Organisational Behaviour,
BComm (Nagpur)
MA (Teachers College, Columbia University)
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Subject areas
PhD Programme
in Strategy and
Entrepreneurship
Research in this area focuses on understanding
how organisations create and sustain superior
competitive performance, as well as on the
processes by which economic value is created
and distributed in markets. This interdisciplinary
field draws on concepts and theories from
economics, sociology and psychology, and
addresses a wide variety of topics that have
direct or indirect implications for organisational
effectiveness.
We emphasise real world relevance as a core
value. Our students should be committed to
conducting rigorous research, but also to
addressing questions that have significant
implications for firms and markets. Students can
specialise in the following areas:
Competitive strategy
Corporate strategy
Strategy and organisation
Technological change and innovation
Entrepreneurship
International management
Structure of market competition
Recent theses
R
elational Structure of Competition in the
Executive Labor Market (Coh)
E
xploring Market Processes Through the
Lens of Identity: Essays on the
Determinants and Price Consequences of
Contested Actions (Ody-Frasier)
C
oordination and Collaboration Within and
Across Organizations: The Role of
Experience and Knowledge on Innovation
(Vural)
T
he Effects of History on Organisation
Design (Raveendran)
F
irm Heterogeneity, Innovation, and Value
Capture: Three Essays (Tae)
Faculty PhD Coordinator
Donal Crilly,
Assistant Professor of Strategy and
Entrepreneurship,
BA (Dublin City) MBA (Hitotsubashi, Tokyo)
PhD (INSEAD)
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School Faculty,
Academic Year 2014/15
Our faculty are actively engaged in, and passionate about
advancing the research and relevance of their subjects.
Guided by their world-class thinking, leadership and
integrity, students benefit from their global outlook
and our unique learning environment in London
Accounting
Economics
Maria Correia
MA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Jean-Pierre Benoit
BA (Yale) PhD (Stanford)
Professor of Economics
Emmanuel De George
B.Com (University of Melbourne) PhD (University of Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Frederic Malherbe
PhD (ECARES, Universit Libre de Bruxelles)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Francesca Franco
BA (Bocconi) PhD (University of Padova)
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Joo Montez
BA (Nova Lisbon) MA (Toulouse) PhD (Lausanne)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Chris Higson
BA MSc PhD (London) FCA
Associate Professor of Accounting Practice
David P Myatt
BScEcon (London School of Economics)
DPhil (Oxford)
Professor of Economics
Emre Ozdenoren
PhD (Northwestern)
Associate Professor of Economics
Elias Papaioannou
BA (University of Athens) MPA (Columbia)
PhD (London Business School)
Associate Professor of Economics
Richard Portes
BA (Yale) MA DPhil (Oxford) CBE FBA
Professor of Economics
Lucrezia Reichlin
PhD (New York)
Professor of Economics
Hlne Rey
BS (cole Nationale de la Statistique et de lAdministration
Economique) MS (Stanford) PhD (London School of
Economics) PhD (cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences
Sociales)
Professor of Economics
Andrew Scott
MSc (London) MA DPhil (Oxford)
Professor of Economics
Oktay Urcan
BA (Bogazici) PhD (Texas)
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Vania Stavrakeva
PhD (Harvard)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Florin Vasvari
MA PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professor of Accounting
Paolo Surico
BA (Bari) Masters (UPF) PhD (Bocconi)
Associate Professor of Economics
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Finance
Suleyman Basak
BSc (University College London) MS PhD (Carnegie Mellon)
Professor of Finance
Joo Cocco
BA (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) MA PhD (Harvard)
Professor of Finance
Ian Cooper
MA (Cambridge) MBA PhD (North Carolina)
Professor of Finance
Francesca Cornelli
BA (Bocconi) PhD (Harvard)
Professor of Finance
James Dow
MA (Cambridge) PhD (Princeton)
Professor of Finance
Alex Edmans
MA (Oxford) PhD (MIT)
Professor of Finance
Peter Feldhtter
BA PhD (Copenhagen)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Julian Franks
BA (Sheffield) MBA (Columbia) PhD (London)
Professor of Finance
Vito D Gala
BA (Bocconi) MBA PhD (Chicago)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Francisco Gomes
BA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) MA PhD (Harvard)
Professor of Finance
Alexander Gorbenko
MA (NES, Russia) PhD (Stanford GSB)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Christopher Hennessy
PhD (Princeton)
Professor of Finance
Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen
MSc (Cass Business School) PhD (Norwegian School of
Management, BI)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Nicholas Hirschey
BA (Grinnell College) PhD (University of Texas)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Brandon Julio
BA (Brigham Young) MS (South Carolina) MS PhD (Illinois)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Samuli Knpfer
BSc MSc Econ PhD (Helsinki School of Economics)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Ralph S J Koijen
MA PhD (Tilburg University)
Professor of Finance
Stefan Lewellen
BBA (University of Texas at Austin) MBA PhD (Yale)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Narayan Naik
BTech (IIT, Bombay) MBA (IIM, Ahmedabad) PhD (Duke)
Professor of Finance
Anna Pavlova
MSc (Moscow State University) MA (New Economic School)
PhD (Pennsylvania)
Associate Professor of Finance
Stephen Schaefer
MA (Cambridge) PhD (London)
Professor of Finance
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Henri Servaes
BBA (European University) MSIA PhD (Purdue)
Professor of Finance
Rui Silva
BA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) MA PhD (University of
Chicago)
Assistant Professor of Finance
Vikrant Vig
MSc MBA (Illinois) PhD (Columbia)
Associate Professor of Finance
Paolo Volpin
BA (Bocconi) MA PhD (Harvard)
Associate Professor of Finance
Anja Lambrecht
Diplom-Kauffrau and Maitrise des Sciences de Gestion
(Goethe University and Universit Paris-Dauphine) PhD
(Goethe University)
Assistant Professor of Marketing
John Mullins
BA (Lehigh) MBA (Stanford) PhD (Minnesota)
Associate Professor of Management Practice in Marketing
and Entrepreneurship
John Roberts
BA MComm (Melbourne) SM PhD (MIT)
Professor of Marketing
Nader T Tavassoli
BA MBA (Syracuse) MPhil PhD (Columbia)
Professor of Marketing
Nitin Bakshi
B.Tech (IIT, Bombay) MS (Stanford) PhD (Wharton)
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations
Naufel Vilcassim
PhD (Cornell)
Professor of Marketing
Derek Bunn
MA (Cambridge) MSc PhD (London)
Professor of Decision Sciences
Organisational Behaviour
Victor DeMiguel
MSc (Madrid) MSc PhD (Stanford)
Professor of Management Science and Operations
Jrmie Gallien
EngD (cole des Mines de Paris) PhD (MIT)
Associate Professor of Management Science and
Operations
Vasiliki Kostami
BSc (Athens) MSc (AUEB) PhD (Southern California)
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations
Kamalini Ramdas
MS (Delaware) PhD (Wharton)
Professor of Management Science and Operations
Gabrielle Adams
BA (Colby College) PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Raina Brands
MA BPsychSci (University of Queensland) MPhil PhD
(Cantab.)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Dan Cable
BA (Pennsylvania State University) MS PhD (Cornell)
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Daniel Effron
BA (Yale) PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Nicos Savva
BA MPhil PhD (Cambridge)
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations
Lynda Gratton
BA PhD (Liverpool)
Professor of Management Practice in Organisational
Behaviour
Gah-Yi Vahn
BSc (Sydney) MSc MA PhD (UC Berkeley)
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations
Ena Inesi
BSE (Duke) PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Selin Kesebir
BA (Ko) MA (Northwestern University) PhD (Virginia)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Marketing
Gillian Ku
AB (Harvard) MS PhD (Northwestern)
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Marco Bertini
BA BCom (Melbourne) MBA (IESE Business School) DBA
(Harvard)
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Celia Moore
BA (McGill) MPA (Columbia) PhD (Toronto)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Simona Botti
BBA (Bocconi, Milan) MBA PhD (Chicago)
Associate Professor of Marketing
Nigel Nicholson
BA (Cardiff) PhD (Wales) CPsychol FBPsS FBAMFIAAP
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Rajesh Chandy
PhD (Southern California)
Professor of Marketing
Margaret Ormiston
BA (California) MS (Berkeley) PhD (HAAS)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
David Faro
MSc (London) PhD (Chicago)
Associate Professor of Marketing
Randall Peterson
BS MA (Minnesota) PhD (UC Berkeley)
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Bruce Hardie
BCom MCom (Auckland) MA PhD (Pennsylvania)
Professor of Marketing
Madan Pillutla
BE (BITS, Pilani) PGDM (XLRI, Jamshedpur) PhD (British
Columbia)
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Oded Koenigsberg
BSc (Technion) MEng (Cornell) PhD (Duke)
Associate Professor of Marketing
Nirmalya Kumar
BCom (Calcutta University) MCom (Shivaji University) MBA
(Illinois) PhD (Northwestern)
Professor of Marketing
Stefan Thau
Diploma (University of Mannheim) PhD (University of
Groningen)
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Xi Zou
BBA (Lingnan University) MPhil (The Chinese University of
Hong Kong) MPhil PhD (Columbia)
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Aneeta Ratan
BA (Columbia) PhD (Stanford)
Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour
Niro Sivanathan
BA MSc (Queens) PhD (Northwestern)
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
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Programme leadership
PhD Committee
Jean-Pierre Benot
PhD Programme Committee
Chair. The committee comprises
representatives from each of
the seven subject areas, and
members of the administrative team.
PhD Programme Office
Judith Fry
Director, PhD Programme,
and Deputy Director, Research
and Faculty Office. Judith has
overall responsibility for the
development and management of the
PhD Programme, as well as Research and
Faculty Office administration duties.
Nicola Hann
Programme Manager Nicola
is responsible for the dayto-day administration of the
PhD Programme, including
course timetabling, co-ordinating the
application, interview and offer process,
thesis examination matters, and student
pastoral care.
Vaishali Jagjivan
Administrator Vaishali is
the first point of contact for
internal and external PhD
enquiries. She is also
responsible for issuing promotional
information about the PhD Programme
and the initial processing of applications.
She maintains student and applicant
information on the Schools database and
assists with the organisation of various
programme events.
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