Endowed Chairs

Discover how Endowed Chairs at the University of Miami Herbert Business School support world-class faculty research, drive academic excellence, and advance innovative business scholarship.

Yadong Luo

Yadong Luo

Professor, Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair in Management

Yadong Luo holds the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and is Professor of Management at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. Since the mid-1990s, Luo has established himself as a leading research scholar in international business. He has published over 200 articles, with more than 60 appearing in UTD-listed top journals. His areas of expertise include global business strategy, international management, joint ventures and alliances, multinational enterprises, and management in emerging economies.
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Nan Yang

Nan Yang

Professor, Leslie O. Barnes Professor
Nan Yang is the Leslie O. Barnes Professor of Management at Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami. Her research interests include supply risk management, integrated supply and demand management, pharmaceutical supply chain management, healthcare operations, and competition in supply chain.
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George Korniotis

George Korniotis

Professor, Bank of America Scholar
George Korniotis is a professor of finance and the Bank of America Scholar at Miami Herbert Business School. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research centers on topics of investment choice, behavioral finance, household finance, and the impact of macroeconomic conditions on asset prices.
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Paul Pavlou

Paul Pavlou

Dean, Leonard M. Miller University Chair Professor
Paul A. Pavlou is the Dean of the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School. His research has been cited more than 90,000 times by Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters recognized him among the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” based on an analysis of Highly Cited Researchers. His research interests include data science and AI, emerging technologies and digital transformation, digital business strategy, and research methods.
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Alok Kuma

Alok Kumar

Professor, Gabelli Asset Management Chair
Professor Alok Kumar is the Gabelli Asset Management Chair and a professor of finance at Miami Herbert Business School. Kumar's research interests lie at the intersection of economics, finance, and psychology. He is an expert in the area of behavioral finance, and his work has appeared in top finance, accounting, economics, and management journals.
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Terri Scandura

Terri Scandura

Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty, Warren C. Johnson Endowed Chair, Management Department, Ph.D. Coordinator
Terri Scandura's fields of interest include leadership, mentorship, and applied research methods. Scandura has authored or co-authored over two hundred presentations, articles, and book chapters.
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Wei Shi

Wei Shi

Professor, Cesarano Faculty Scholar, Academic Director of PhD Programs
Wei Shi is a Professor of Management and Cesarano Faculty Scholar at Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami. His primary research interest focuses on the influence of corporate governance actors and upper echelons on strategic decisions.
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Ola Henfridsson

Ola Henfridsson

Professor, Schein Family Endowed Chair, Associate Dean of Online Business Programs
Ola Henfridsson is the Schein Family Endowed Chair, Professor of Business Technology, and the Associate Dean of Online Business Programs at Miami Herbert Business School. His research interests relate to digital innovation, technology management, and decentralized platforms. Ola teaches executive and graduate courses related to blockchain, innovation, and product management.
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Javier Donna

Javier Donna

Associate Professor, Jeffrey L. Bewkes Family Endowed Chair
Javier Donna serves as Associate Professor and Jeffrey L. Bewkes Family Endowed Chair in the Department of Economics. Professor Donna's research focuses on empirical industrial organization and antitrust economics and has been published in leading academic journals. He regularly contributes to public outreach by writing general-press essays and op-eds for English- and Spanish-speaking audiences in leading outlets.
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Stefania Albanesi

Stefania Albanesi

Professor, Phillip K. Robins Chair in Economics
Stefania Albanesi is a professor of economics at Miami Herbert School of Business, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a CEPR Research Fellow. She is a macroeconomist whose research interests include the determinants and implications of various dimensions of inequality and the distributional implications of government policies.
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Kevin Hong

Kevin Hong

Professor, Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair, Associate Dean of Research
Dr. Kevin Hong is a Professor of Business Technology and Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair at Miami Herbert Business School. Dr. Hong currently serves as a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management and an Associate Editor of Information Systems Research. His research interests include the future of work, digital platforms, digital media, and human-AI interactions.
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DJ Nanda

DJ Nanda

Professor, Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair, Vice Dean of Faculty and Research
Dhananjay (DJ) Nanda is the Vice Dean of Faculty and Research, Herbert Centennial Chair, and Professor of Accounting at Miami Herbert Business School. His research focuses on the incentive aspects of performance evaluation and compensation systems as they relate to corporate financial reporting and disclosure activities. Nanda won several research and teaching awards, and his work has been recognized internationally.
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Michael Tsiros

Michael Tsiros

Professor, Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair
Michael Tsiros is the Centennial Endowed Chair and Professor of Marketing at Miami Herbert Business School. He is the Director of the Marketing Behavioral Lab and has served for over ten years as Chair of the Marketing Department and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research. His research focuses on the role of customer satisfaction and regret in decision making, behavioral pricing, symbolic brand associations, and cause-related Marketing.
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Lan Wang

Lan Wang

Professor, Department Chair of Management Science, Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair
Lan Wang is the Centennial Endowed Chair and Professor of Management Science at Miami Herbert Business School. Her research covers several interrelated areas: optimal personalized decision recommendations, quantile regression, high-dimensional statistical learning, and statistical applications. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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Noah Williams

Noah Williams

Professor, Miami Herbert Centennial Endowed Chair
Noah Williams is the Centennial Endowed Chair and a professor of economics at Miami Herbert Business School. Williams's research focuses on macroeconomics—particularly monetary policy, social insurance programs, and financial markets—as well as state economies, and he has co-authored several papers with Nobel Prize recipients Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent.
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