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University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business Announces Slate of New Faculty

Submitted by: John Warner on Sep 21, 2010 at 8:02 am Tagged with: Academia Source: Darla Moore School of Business

New scholars bolster school’s academic strengths in management, accounting, finance, marketing and economics

COLUMBIA, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business today announced the addition of seven new faculty members - building on its core academic strengths in management, accounting, finance, marketing and economics.

“We are pleased to welcome a distinguished group of new faculty as we begin the new academic year,” said Moore School Dean Hildy Teegen. “In particular, we are continuing to build our academic strengths around the areas that will be critical to creating economic value in the future – including the management of human resources, behavioral decision-making and the management of risk and financial resources.”

The Moore School’s new faculty:

• Dr. Thomas Kramer (Associate Professor of Marketing) received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his MBA and Bachelor's degree from Baruch College, CUNY. His research has appeared in top marketing and decision-making journals, including Journal of Consumer Research and Marketing Science.

• Dr. Tanakorn Makaew (Assistant Professor of Finance) received his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Maryland, and his M.A. at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He has held various research positions at the IMF, the Congressional Budget Office, and the World Bank Group. His research interests are in international corporate finance and computational economics with a focus on the dynamics of international mergers and acquisitions.
• Dr. Alexander Matros (Associate Professor of Microeconomics) earned his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. He also earned an M.A. from the New Economic School, Moscow and a Ph.D. in economics from Stockholm School of Economics. Matros was a Research Fellow at the University College London. His research interests include (evolutionary, experimental) game theory, contests, and industrial organization.
• Dr. Ingrid Fulmer (Associate Professor of Management) received her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University and her master of Tax Accounting at the University of Alabama. She was previously affiliated with Georgia Institute of Technology and Michigan State University, and focuses on the areas of human resource management, organizational behavior and business ethics.
• Dr. Ling Harris (Assistant Professor of Accounting) holds a master of Accounting Science and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests are judgments and decision-making related to accounting information.
• Dr. Marsha Keune (Assistant Professor of Accounting) received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Keune holds a B.S. in Accounting from Butler University and an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Central Florida. Her research examines the effects of auditors' social interactions on audit judgment quality with an emphasis on auditors' materiality judgments. Dr. Keune was an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.
• Dr. Tim Keune (Assistant Professor of Accounting) holds a B.S. in Accounting from Butler University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on management accounting, and is interested in issues related to incentive compensation, relative performance evaluation, and budgeting. Dr. Keune previously worked as a Controller for Pulte Homes and an auditor for Ernst & Young LLP.

About the Darla Moore School of Business

The Darla Moore School of Business is among the highest-ranked business schools in the world for international business education and research. Founded in 1919, the school has a history of innovative educational leadership, blending academic preparation with real-world experience through internships, consulting projects, study-abroad programs, and entrepreneurial opportunities. The Moore School offers undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees, as well as distinctive executive education programs. In 1998, the school was named for South Carolina native and New York financier Darla Moore, making the University of South Carolina the first major university to name its business school after a woman.