Faculty

Accomplished researchers and dedicated teachers—our faculty work for your success.

Award winners, groundbreaking researchers, corporate board members, advisors to governments and central banks around the world, sought-after consultants, textbook authors. Their CVs make a strong first impression—but for our faculty it’s the impression that they make in the classroom that counts.

All of our faculty members bring their dedication to your education— here are highlights of just some of the professors you will work with during your time in the MBA Program.

Core Professors

Together, these professors team teach our Integrated Core, your first semester immersion into cross-functional business fundamentals.

 

The Core Faculty
	Kyle Cattani Associate Professor of Operations Management	“One of the reasons you become a professor is because you like to interact with students. We have students here with experience in all kinds of disciplines, who are smart and have insights to share.”
	H. Sebastian (Seb) Heese Associate Professor of Operations Management	“Our students are smart, focused, and interested in solving the challenges that confront business today. They’re not here for a grade. They’re here to see how much they can learn and to get as much out of the program as they can.”
	Arlen W. Langvardt Professor of Business Law, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics	“It’s always a pleasure to work with Kelley MBA students.  They are bright, perceptive, intellectually curious, and highly motivated.”
	Phil Powell Clinical Associate Professor of Business Chair, Kelley Direct	“Hearing individual stories of where students have come from, how they are experiencing the MBA, and where they want to go professionally is a rewarding part of my job."
	James Pratt Professor of Financial Accounting	"The Core builds a very strong culture among students and faculty. They get a rich multidimensional perspective on business—and we learn from their experiences and insight, too."
	Lopo Rego Associate Professor of Marketing	“The Core is integral to the MBA experience. I find it particularly rewarding to witness firsthand the remarkable transformations students’ undertake in such a short period of time—I have learned as much from students as they have learned from the Core.”
	Matthew Semadeni Associate Professor of Strategy	"It is a wonderful opportunity to interact with students so hungry for knowledge and so eager to make a difference in the organizations where they will work and in the world at large."
	Merih Sevilir Associate Professor of Finance	“I love teaching finance because it is so much about real life, and makes a difference in everybody's professional and personal life.”

	Matt Billett Professor Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance	“I am researching how customer passion for a company's products spills over into investor valuation. We find that companies with passionate customers associate with glamour stocks. Additionally, I am exploring how a firm's brand equity influences its capital structure decisions.”
	Sandeep Chandukala Assistant Professor of Marketing	“My main area of research is quantitative marketing. I am particularly interested in developing models of consumer and firm behavior related to advertising, promotions, and new product development.”
	Kelly Herd Assistant Professor of Marketing	“I’ve always been interested in creativity and design and what drives people to create. I get to focus on the underlying process of how things happen and why people think the way they do—it’s almost like a puzzle and I have to figure out what questions and experiments get at the underlying process.”
	Veronika Krepely Pool Assistant Professor of Finance	“I focus on hedge funds and mutual funds to ask what drives the decision-making of financial professionals. Answers to this question not only have direct welfare implications for investors, but they also determine how efficiently resources are allocated in the economy."
	Scott E. Yonker Assistant Professor of Finance	"I’m fascinated by how the characteristics and traits of managers influence their important economic decisions. My focus is on key market players—CEOs and investment managers. With a team, I investigate the importance of social interactions in the world of mutual fund investing."

	Robert Jennings Gregg T. and Judith A. Summerville Professor of Finance	“I am currently aiding non-Big-Four accounting firms with their valuation unit. Most of that work relates to either explicit or implicit derivative securities. On the explicit side, I might be asked to help value a firm's convertible debt. On the implicit side, I might be asked to value a guarantee that the firm issues to either a customer or an employee. ”
	Gregory F. Udell Professor Chase Chair of Banking and Finance	“I am currently an economic consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and San Francisco. I have worked as a consultant in residence at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. where I was involved in several historical policy issues. I have also consulted extensively with multinational organizations including the IFC, OECD, and World Bank, and with numerous foreign central banks.”