Jessica Siegel Christian teaches Leading and Managing, Negotiations, and Groups and Teams in the Undergraduate Business and full-time MBA Programs.
Her research interests include team dynamics, negotiations, counterproductive workplace behaviors and employee turnover. She has examined:
- Team responses to unfair treatment and how emotions and retaliatory behaviors are “transferred” between team members
- How team compositional dynamics are differentially effective depending on the team’s task
- The role of team cognition in successful team adaptation
- Workplace relationships affected by turnover intentions
Dr. Christian is working in-depth studying how teams successfully adapt to different types of changes.
She has published her research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice and the book “The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century Workplace.”
She received her PhD from the University of Arizona and her BA from Tulane University
Andrew Boysen’s research focuses on technology competition and value-based strategy.
His dissertation research looked at competition and indirect complementarity between substitute technologies. Indirect complementarity occurs when technologies that would seem to compete act as complements in the presence of a third, such as when the adoption of streaming video increases the use of antennas for broadcast television because the combination is a strong substitute for cable. He uses formal modeling to develop theory, and large data sets to test new ideas.
Dr. Boysen teaches courses in technology strategy, business strategy and corporate strategy.
His dissertation work was recognized with the Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award from the Academy of Management.
Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Oracle, in roles spanning software and hardware business practices, and leading the North America operations team for the contracting division. In these roles he helped open a shared service center in Costa Rica, worked on post-merger integration, and approved pricing and licensing strategies for transactions with customers.
He received his PhD and MS in strategy and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and his BS in business administration from Babson College.
Elad Sherf researches the causes and consequences of feeling fairly treated in the workplace and especially on why many supervisors fail to act fairly towards their subordinates. He also studies why employees frequently remain silent – instead of speaking up – about issues, ideas and concerns in the workplace.
His teaching interests include organizational behavior, teams, leadership and organizational fairness/justice.
Leading management and psychology journals have published his research, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a contributing editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Prior to pursuing his PhD, he served in the Israeli Air Force for four years, and practiced law in Israel for three years.
He received his PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Maryland, his MBA from the AGSM MBA Program at the University of South Wales in Australia, and his LLB, BA and LLM from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
Sajad Modaresi uses analytical modeling and statistical and machine-learning tools to provide insights into operational decision problems and design implementable solutions. His research mainly focuses on data analytics in retail operations, online personalization, and data-driven approaches to decision-making under uncertainty. He is particularly interested in settings where estimation and optimization are integrated to make dynamic operational decisions.
His teaching interests are business analytics, retail operations, data-driven decision-making and operations management.
His article “A Dynamic Clustering Approach to Data-Driven Assortment Personalization” is forthcoming at Management Science. He and his co-authors received second prize in the 2013 INFORMS JFIG paper competition for their paper “Learning in Combinatorial Optimization: What and How to Explore.”
Dr. Modaresi received his PhD in operations management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his master of science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
Chloe Kim Glaeser uses empirical methods to address challenges faced by omni-channel retailers. Her research interests include empirical operations, omni-channel retailing, data-driven decision making and consumer behavior.
Her teaching interests are closely connected with her research: big data analytics, data-driven decision making, retail operations and operations management and logistics.
Dr. Glaeser’s forthcoming article “Optimal Retail Location: Empirical Methodology and Application to Practice” was a finalist for the 2017 M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition.
She worked as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch and OpenText, and as a project advisor at the Centre for Operations Excellence at the University of British Columbia, where she advised graduate students on industry consulting projects.
She received her PhD from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her master of management in operations research from the University of British Columbia and her bachelor of commerce and bachelor of arts in mathematics from Queen’s University in Canada.
Stephanie Mahin examines how organizations, for better or worse, use social media and social networks to mobilize stakeholder groups from purchase interest to protest.
She teaches public relations, media relations and crisis communication.
Dr. Mahin comes to UNC Kenan-Flagler from the University of Indianapolis where she was a communication professor and taught public relations.
She began her career as a television reporter and received National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award in 2014 and 2015. She worked for nearly 15 years in public relations for the UNC Health Care System before she began her academic career.
She is a member of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, National Association of Communication and International Association of Communication.
Dr. Mahin received her PhD from the UNC School of Media and Journalism, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow. She earned her MS from N.C. State University and her BS from Butler University.
Labor and finance, innovation and entrepreneurship are among the research interests of Elena Simintzi. Her work crosses the borders between finance and labor economics and emphasizes the importance of labor market frictions in the corporate environment.
Her recent research revisits the heated debate on pay inequality through the lens of the firm and examines how within firm disparities affect firm and employee outcomes.
Dr. Simintzi’s work has been published in academic journals in finance and economics such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics and the American Economic Review.
She teaches courses in corporate finance.
She joined UNC Kenan-Flagler from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. She worked as an economic analyst for the EFG Group before she began her academic career.
She received her PhD in finance from London Business School and her M.Sc. in economics and finance from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.
Wayne F. (Frank) McVeigh is an experienced educator with more than 10 years of experience as an accounting educator.
A seasoned financial executive, he brings his experience in planning, budgeting, financial reporting and financial forecasting to the classroom.
Professor McVeigh’s teaching and research interests include activity based cost management, linking corporate strategy to operational planning and budgeting, and analyses and interpretation of financial data.
His senior financial management experience with Fortune 500 firms includes roles at Quintiles/IQVIA, Progress Energy and General Motors.
He received his MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, BS in accounting with distinction from Clarkson College and AAS in accounting with highest honors from State University of New York Canton.
Stephen Glaeser researches issues at the intersection of accounting and economics. He studies how innovative firms trade-off the benefits of communicating with investors against the costs of publicly revealing information about partially non-excludable innovations. He also is interested in how taxation affects real decisions and how imperfect information gives rise to agency conflicts.
Professor Glaeser teaches courses in managerial and financial accounting.
The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting and Economics have published his research.
He worked as an assistant vice president at Citi Hedge Fund Services and an internal audit team leader at Huntington National Bank.
He is completing his PhD in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his MBA and BA from the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University.