Raymond T. Sparrowe
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, with tenure
PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago

Ray Sparrowe teaches leadership courses for MBA, PMBA, and BSBA students. His research focuses on leader-member exchange and social networks and his areas of interest include leadership, informal relationships in organizations, and group processes and outcomes. He has published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Sparrowe is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Conflict Management and Leadership Quarterly.

Before joining Olin in 2001, Sparrowe served as an assistant professor of management and labor relations at Cleveland State University. Prior to earning a PhD, Sparrowe was a foodservice design consultant who selected equipment, prepared specifications, and coordinated construction with architects, contractors, and foodservice equipment dealers for various cultural, educational, and health care institutions throughout the United States.

Lingxiu Dong
Associate Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD in industrial engineering, Stanford University

Lingxiu Dong joined Olin in 1999. Her areas of expertise include inventory and production planning, supply chain logistics, incentives and information in supply chains, risk pooling, e-marketplace, integrated risk management in supply chains, and multi-product management.

The Marcile and James Reid Chair

In 1993, Olin received a major endowment to establish the Marcile and James Reid Chair and the Reid Teaching Award - which honor teaching excellence at the business school. The Reid Chair is selected annually by a committee of senior faculty to recognize a junior faculty member with exceptional teaching ability. Olin students select and present the teaching awards annually to faculty members who have inspired them and enhanced their academic, professional and personal development.

Michael W. Faulkender: 2006-2007
Ohad Kadan: 2006-2007
Raymond T. Sparrowe: 2005-2006
Hong Liu: 2004-2005
Claus Langfred: 2004-2005

New Full-time Faculty Hires

Markus Baer
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
PhD expected 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Markus Baer is originally from Germany where he earned a Master’s in Psychology at the University of Giessen. His research interests focus on creativity and innovation in organizations considering a wide-range of determinants, such as personality, contextual forces and social relationships – including sibling relationships. He also has an interest in how firms deal with errors and has studied a particular approach to handling errors (i.e., error management) in companies across Europe.

Thomas D. Fields
Lecturer in Accounting
PhD 2004/ MS 1997, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
BA/BSBA 1991, Washington University in St. Louis

Prior to joining Olin's faculty, Thomas D. Fields taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Harvard Business School, and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Before returning to graduate school, he worked as a CPA for Price Waterhouse in St. Louis, performing audit services for a range of clients including Anheuser Busch, Union Electric (now Ameren Corporation), SSM Health Care, and a number of small manufacturers and non-profit organizations. Field's research interests involve the role of accounting information in contracting, particularly in the setting of accounting based covenants in debt contracts.

Radhakrishnan (Radha) Gopalan
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Radhakrishnan Gopalan’s research focus is on issues surrounding corporate governance. His research includes work relating to emerging markets and family-owned firms within those markets. He has also studied why public firms choose to go private and how institutional investors in the U.S. influence governance.

Todd Gormley
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Todd Gormley wrote his dissertation on banking and corporate finance in developing countries. His research interests focus on financial markets in poor and developing countries. Gormley was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund in April 2005.

Anne Marie Knott
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Anne Marie Knott served as visiting assistant professor of entrepreneurship and management at Olin last year. Prior to joining Olin, Knott held posts as visiting assistant professor at the R.H. Smith School, University of Maryland; assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and assistant professor of management at California State University, Northridge.

Knott's research examines the optimal environment and policies – economic, industrial and firm – for innovation. Her interest stems from earlier career experiences in defense electronics at Hughes Aircraft Company. Knott is a senior editor at Organization Science. She is also on the Executive Board for the Academy of Management, Business Policy & Strategy Division. Her honors include U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Best Student Paper, 2005, and Emerald Reviews Award of Distinction, 2004.

Ozge Turut
Assistant Professor of Marketing
DBA, Harvard Business School

Ozge Turut's work focuses on when firms go public with their innovations and when they chose to keep the innovation to themselves. She has also written about the role market research plays for firms in determining where to commit their R&D dollars: in innovation or imitation. Turut is originally from Turkey and received her undergraduate degree from Bogazici University in Istanbul in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She received an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Visiting Faculty

Chester Chambers, visiting assistant professor of operations and manufacturing management, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

Anchada Aida Charoenrook, visiting assistant professor of finance, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

Shawn Davis, visiting assistant professor of accounting

David Meyer, visiting professor, Brown University

Ying Xie, visiting assistant professor of marketing, Rutgers University