Welcoming New Research Talent

With strong and growing demand for business education, the Lundquist College of Business is growing its tenure-track faculty, with ten new hires this year in key strategic growth areas.

The college has long celebrated its leadership in academic research in accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations and business analytics. Recent tenure-track faculty hires are growing and expanding our expertise in such areas as real estate finance, the intersection of law and finance, entrepreneurship, consumer behavior, supply chain, and financial reporting and disclosures.

In recent years, our management department has specifically focused on making us one of the top business schools in the study of entrepreneurship and innovation. Three new hires this year build on this strength.

• Geoff Borchhardt, Assistant Professor of Management, studies entrepreneurship's role in people’s careers, often focusing on emerging economies.
• Innessa Colaiacovo, Assistant Professor of Management, studies how entrepreneurs search for employees and choose compensation.
• Sung Park, Assistant Professor of Management, studies the impact of data-driven technologies on new ventures.

In our operations and business analytics department, two pivotal hires bring new layers of mastery and specialized expertise to the program in the areas of consumer behavior and the challenges of modern supply chains.

• Yuanyuan Ding, Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, studies behavioral operations with an emphasis on using insights from consumer behavior, econometrics, and behavioral sciences to enhance operational decisions in the retail sector.
• Xiaoyue Yan, Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, is unraveling the emerging challenges of modern supply chains, focusing primarily on risk management and data-driven decision-making.

Thanks to increased emphasis on introductory courses and targeted events for prospective students, our School of Accounting is increasing in majors while many other accounting programs across the nation are seeing declines. Newly added hires for the School of Accounting this year help meet new student demand and also bring scholarly focus on financial reporting and firm disclosures.

• Derek Christensen (scheduled to start in fall 2025), Assistant Professor of Accounting, focuses on the intersection of technical accounting and internal controls, including examining how financial reporting creates operational and capital market consequences for firms..
• Scott Robinson, Assistant Professor of Accounting, researches the role of capital market intermediaries in determining firm disclosures and financial disclosure choice.

Interest in finance continues to be high as well and we are pleased to welcome three new members to the finance department.

• Yuchi Yao, Assistant Professor of Finance, researches IPOs (initial public offerings), SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies), director networks, entrepreneurship, financial networks, financial intermediation, investment banking, Bayesian uncertainty, and learning.
• Calvin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Finance, joins us from the Federal Reserve and has expertise in mortgage markets, banking, financial markets, consumer finance, and the economics of real estate.
• Jane Danyu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Finance, studies household finance and behavioral finance, and has a particular interest in financial intermediation, asset management, sustainable finance, and the intersection between law and finance.

University of Oregon President Karl Scholz and Provost Christopher Long have identified accelerating innovation and research impact as one of the fundamental pillars of the Oregon Rising strategic plan. These game-changing hires benefit not only the Lundquist College of Business, but will have a far-reaching impact across campus and beyond, meeting larger goals set by university leadership while enhancing the student experience and creating a flourishing community for learning and collaboration.