Students on the Job Market

All Wharton doctoral students build their own research interests on a foundation of rigorous research. By pushing the boundaries of understanding, they not only become experts in their fields, but also translate their research into practice, addressing relevant issues in the real world.

Doctoral Students and Research Interests

Note: If you are interested in students from a particular program, please contact the departments directly for more information.

STUDENT NAME

RESEARCH INTERESTS

JOB MARKET PAPER

FACULTY ADVISORS

Accounting

Applied Economics

Applied Economics PhD students on the job market are listed on the department website:
Applied Economics PhD Job Market Candidates

Finance

Finance PhD students on the job market are listed on the department website:
Finance PhD Job Market Candidates

Health Care Management & Economics

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Carson Young

Business ethics
Corporate social responsibility
Ethics and strategy
Sustainability

“Thinking strategically about CSR: The ethics of seeming to be ethical”

Management

Andrea Contigiani

Personal Website

Innovation
Technological Change
Entrepreneurship
Experimentation

“Experimentation, Learning, and Appropriability in Early-Stage Ventures: Evidence from the US Software Sector”

David Hsu (advisor)

Dan Levinthal (chair)

Alfonso Gambardella

Nicola Lacetera

Marketing

Suneal Bedi

Brand Equity
Consumer Behavior
Intellectual Property

“Measuring Trademark Dilution by Tarnishment”

David Reibstein

Celia Gaertig

Wharton Website

Personal Website

Consumer behavior
Judgment and decision making
Decision Making under Uncertainty

The two research papers that are the focus of my dissertation:

“Do People Inherently Dislike Uncertain Advise?” (recently published in Psychological Science)
“Why (and When) are Uncertain Price Promotions More Effective than Equivalent Sure Discounts?” (under review at the Journal of Marketing Research)

Jackie Silverman

Consumer Behavior
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation
Prosocial Behavior
Memory

“Off Track: How Highlighting Streaks Affects Future Behavior”

Takeaki Sunada

Quantitative marketing
Econometric modeling
Industrial organization
Information goods
Product design

“Customer Learning and Revenue Maximizing Trial Design”

Operations, Information and Decisions

Kaitlin Daniels

Service operations
Collaborative consumption and the sharing economy
Self-scheduling capacity
Contract design

“The Role of Surge Pricing: Managing Capacity and Competition on a Peer-to-Peer Service Network”

Xingwei Lu

Revenue Management
Supply Chain
Strategic Customers
Operations-Accounting

“Revenue Management with Loyalty Programs”

Statistics