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.
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Doctoral Students and Research Interests
Note: If you are interested in students from a particular program, please contact the departments directly for more information.
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
Healthcare Management and Economics
Sarah Schutz
- Links: Email; School Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Innovation
- Job Market Paper: “Mergers, Prices, and Innovation: Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Abby Alpert, Atul Gupta, Claudio Lucarelli
Ethics & Legal Studies
Management
JACOB LEVITT
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Hierarchy and emotions at work, leadership and leader emotions, group and team dynamics
- Job Market Paper: “Leader Emotional Accountability: A Framework for Managing the Impact of Leader Emotions in Organizations”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Nancy Rothbard, Adam Grant
Marketing
MINGYUNG KIM
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Marketing analytics, Statistical methods, Machine learning
- Job Market Paper: “A Bayesian Dual-Network Clustering Approach for Selecting Data and Parameter Granularities”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Eric T. Bradlow, Raghuram Iyengar
YU ZHAO
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Information economics, digital economy, public policy
- Job Market Paper: “Company Branding and Job Ads”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Pinar Yildirim
Operations, Information and Decisions
CHRISTIAN KAPS
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Renewable Energies, Energy Storage, Sustainable Operations
- Job Market Paper: “Privately-Owned Battery Storage – Re-Shaping the Way We Do Electricity”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Serguei Netessine, Simone Marinesi, Santiago Gallino
KATIE MEHR
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Consumer Behavior
- Job Market Paper: “How Does Rating Specific Features of an Experience Alter Consumers’ Overall Evaluations of That Experience?”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Joseph Simmons
Statistics & Data Science
EMILY DIANA
- Links: Email; Website; Personal Website
- Research Interests: Algorithmic fairness, statistical learning, differential privacy
- Job Market Paper: “Minimax Group Fairness: Algorithms and Experiments”
- Faculty Advisor(s): Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth
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