Emeritus Distinguished Professor
2025-2026 Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1974
Research Expertise
Accounting, accounting and financial theory, evaluation of accounting methods, financial information and disclosures
Areas of Expertise
Accounting, Finance
Professor Paul Griffin is a leading international expert in accounting, financial information, and corporate disclosure.
Lecturer
Marybeth Kavanagh joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in 2018 after spending 30 years with IBM Corporation leading numerous software development and technical consulting engagements. Kavanagh’s extensive experience working with clients to achieve critical business goals through technological improvement and organizational change strategies gives her an excellent foundation for advising MBA student teams’ Integrated Management Project consulting projects for client organizations.
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Research Expertise
The causes, processes, and consequences of wrongdoing in and by organizations, and the role of power and politics in corporate decision making.
Consulting
Community health needs assessments, group decision-making facilitation.
Professor
Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Expertise
Careers, job mobility, organization theory, organizational behavior, social networks, technology and innovation
Professor
Ph.D. Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Master of Arts (M.A.), Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Management Information Systems, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 1998
Research Expertise
Business analytics, big data analytics, predictive modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning
Professor Yinghui (Catherine) Yang focuses her research on business intelligence, big data, machine learning, data mining methods for business applications, online shopping patterns analysis, user profiling, etc. Her research has been published in top-tier journals in Information Systems, Marketing and Computer Science, including Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Expertise
Accounting, response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives
Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Expertise
Empirical analysis of quantitative and qualitative field-based data as well as survey data to study performance management and cost accounting in and at the boundaries of the firm (e.g., lean production, supplier performance management, customer profitability and lean consumption), integration of strategy, operations management and management accounting practices, and design of cost accounting systems, cost allocation mechanisms, and cost-based transfer pricing policy
Professor, Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 2001
Research Expertise
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Sustainable Finance, Institutional Investing, Entrepreneurial Finance, Technology Finance
Ayako Yasuda is a professor of finance at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, where she holds the Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance. She is a senior fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) and a fellow of the Private Equity Research Consortium.
Lecturer
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University/Tepper School of Business
Professor
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Robert W. Glock and Miriam R. Glock Endowed Chair in Management
Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Greta Hsu is a professor of management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, M.S. in Statistics, and M.A. and B.A. Sociology from Stanford University. In July 2025, she was named the Robert W. Glock and Miriam R. Glock Endowed Chair in Management.
Through her research, Hsu develops understanding of how market categories are socially constructed, how they are used and strategically manipulated by market actors, and how they shape market evolution and competitive dynamics. Her work includes studies of industry dynamics in the cannabis, e-cigarette, wine, film, book publishing, global fashion, and high-tech industries. She has published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, and the British Medical Journal.
Hsu is an associate editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and co-editor of Research in Organizational Behavior. She was formerly a department editor and associate editor at Management Science, senior editor at Organization Science, and co-editor of the Culture and Economic Life book series at Stanford University Press.
Courses Taught
The Individual and Group Dynamics, Managing People in High-Performance Organizations, Strategy and Structure, People Analytics
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