AGSM's Newest Faculty Members
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Theodore J. (Ted) Mock, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as Distinguished Professor of Audit and Assurance. Prior to joining the faculty of AGSM he previously served as Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern California (USC) and professor of auditing research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. From 1982-2006 he served as Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor at USC. In 1983 he helped found the USC Audit Judgment Symposium (now the International Symposium on Audit Research). Professor Mock has visited many universities worldwide including the University of Otago in New Zealand as a Fulbright Scholar; the Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Bergen, Norway; Maastricht University as a Fulbright Scholar; Nanyang Technological University as Shaw Foundation Professor; The Australian National University; and The University of Melbourne. Professor Mock’s research interests lie primarily in the areas of audit judgment, assurance services, and evidential reasoning. In 1977-78, he was the first audit research fellow at KPMG in New York City. His AICPA research monograph with J. Turner on internal control evaluation was awarded the American Accounting Association Wildman Award and he was a co-author of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA) monograph on collaborative audit research that received the 1998 Joint AICPA/AAA Collaboration Award. In 2003 he received the American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section Outstanding Auditing Educator award, and in 2006 the AAA Accounting and Behavior and Organization Section’s Notable [Lifetime] Contribution Award.
Professor Mock's training includes degrees in mathematics and finance from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from The University of California, Berkeley. In addition to USC, he has held academic appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles, The Ohio State University, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business; Bond, Australian National, Griffith, Edith Cowan, Melbourne and Southern Cross Universities in Australia; the University of Otago in New Zealand; Maastricht University in The Netherlands, City University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore. Professor Mock has served in many positions within the American Accounting Association including editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Director of Research, and President of the Auditing Section. He also served as director of USC’s Ph.D. program in accounting for a dozen years. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Maastricht University Accounting & Auditing Research Center and the USC SEC & Financial Reporting Institute. Professor Mock is widely published and his work has appeared in such journals as the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Accounting, and Organizations and Society, among others. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, New Management, MIS Quarterly, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, The International Journal of Auditing, and The Australian Accounting Review, among others.
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Michael L. Moore, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as Professor of Accounting and Chairman of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. He earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Pennsylvania State University and a BA from University of Washington. He is a certified public accountant. After receiving his Ph.D., Michael joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin where he remained for eight years. He was recruited from Texas by the University of Southern California where he served on the faculty for 16 years, seven years as a professor and nine years as the Kenneth Leventhal Professor. He was also Director of the Masters of Business Taxation Program. He left USC to serve as Chairman of the Department of Accounting at Colorado State University from 1995-1997. In 1997 he left academia for public accounting practice where he was a partner with Hull, Ruhl & Moore for 10 years.
During his academic career he has taught accounting and taxation at the undergraduate and graduate level and has been involved with curriculum design and implementation. He has published extensively in taxation and accounting and has research interests on international topics. Dr. Moore is co-author of U.S. Tax Aspects of Doing Business Abroad, now in its sixth edition. His published work has appeared in the Journal of Accountancy, the Journal of the American Taxation Association, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the International Tax Journal, among others. He has twice been the recipient of the American Taxation Association’s Award for Best Tax Manuscript. He has served on numerous advisory boards and editorial review boards, including the International Tax Journal, and on a number of committees of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Taxation Association and other academic organizations. He is past president of the American Taxation Association. In addition to his experience in public accounting practice, he has been involved in litigation support services in tax and accounting matters and professional standards of practice. He is currently on the board of directors of two nonprofit organizations and has additional duties as Treasurer and Financial Officer. Michael is married with three children. His is an outdoor enthusiast and competes regularly in organized running and cycling events and triathlons.
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Richard L. Smith, Ph.D. Before joining AGSM as the Philip L. Boyd Chair and Professor of Finance and Management Science and Chairman of the Department of Finance and Management Science at UCR, Richard Smith held the Ralph W. Leatherby Chair of Entrepreneurship and Private Equity at Chapman University. He moved to Chapman from Claremont Graduate University, where he was Associate Dean and Professor of Financial Management at the Drucker Graduate School of Management and also served as Director of the Venture Finance Institute and of the School’s Financial Engineering Program. Before moving to Claremont, Professor Smith was on the finance faculty of Arizona State University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Finance. His teaching responsibilities have included corporate finance, new venture finance, financial derivatives, risk management, asset management, and emerging economy strategic risk management. At UCR, Professor Smith expects to focus his teaching on finance courses that will help advance AGSM’s growing emphasis on entrepreneurial management and venture finance. He received a PhD in Business Economics from UCLA in 1979, an MA in Economics from UCLA in 1978, an MBA in Finance from Washington University in 1973, and a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University in 1971.
Professor Smith is author of Entrepreneurial Finance (Wiley, 2004, 2ed.) and over 35 journal articles and other research papers on an array of finance and economics topics. His recent research has focused on initial public offerings and venture capital. His recent research also includes policy-oriented studies of retirement plan investment returns and asset allocation choices and the impact of the SEC’s Fair Value Standard to illiquid assets held by mutual funds. His record includes publications in all of the leading finance journals, including The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Management, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He served as Executive Editor for the Journal of Financial Research from 1986 through 1993.
From 1997 through 2000 and from 2004 to 2007, Professor Smith served on the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees of Claremont Graduate University. From 1991 through 1996, he served on the Investment Advisory Council of the Arizona State Retirement System. The IAC is responsible for directing the investments of the System’s multi-billion dollar Arizona State Retirement Fund. From 1995 to 1996, he served as Chair of the IAC and as a member of the ASRS Budget and Audit Committee. From 1986 through 1988, he served on the Investment Committee of Arizona State University. He has been engaged in financial economics consulting since 1981 and has consulted extensively on matters related to valuation, entrepreneurial finance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. His clients have included a number of Fortune 500 companies, several federal and state agencies, and foreign agencies. Professor Smith has lectured internationally on venture finance, fostering entrepreneurship, and the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth.
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Yunzeng Wang, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as a professor of Finance and Management Science and Dean's Distinguished Scholar in Supply Chain Management. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Professor Wang served as a faculty member at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, where he took leadership roles in the development of successful graduate programs in supply chain management.
Professor Wang's research interests focus on supply chain management. An internationally known scholar in the field, Professor Wang is a frequent speaker at leading research universities and professional organizations. He publishes widely and serves on the editorial boards of several major academic journals. His published research has appeared in such journals as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Operations Research, IEE Transactions, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, among others. He also serves as an editorial board member of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, as an associate editor of IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, as an associate editor of Decision Sciences, and as a member of the editorial boards of Production and Operations Management and the International Journal of Inventory. He has also consulted for many firms to improve the performance of their global supply chains. Dr. Wang was the 1998 recipient of the prestigious George Dantzig Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), for the theoretical contributions of his research and its relevance to management practice.
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Sattar Mansi, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as an Associate Professor of Finance and Management Science. He has over 20 years of research and private sector experience. Professor Mansi is well published in the most influential journals in Finance, Accounting, and International Business. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Financial Analyst Journal, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. His private sector experience includes working with Freddie Mac in the areas of risk management and securitization, and Unisys Corporation as a Product OEM engineer.
Professor Mansi taught finance classes at the Ph.D., M.B.A., and undergraduate levels in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance, fixed income securities, and investments. Previously, he held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, University of Arizona, Georgetown University, and Texas Tech University. He has presented his research work on founding-family ownership, internationalization, ownership structure, and state payout laws in the U.S. and Europe. Professor Mansi is recognized as an outstanding teacher and has conducted several corporate seminars and workshops for professional mangers and corporate executives. He is an active member of the American Finance Association, European Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and Western Finance Association. He has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Finance, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
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Long Gao, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as an assistant professor in supply chain management and management science. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Operations Research from Penn State University, and his M.E. and B.E. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghau University in Beijing, China. His research interests include supply chain management, stochastic modeling of manufacturing and service systems, MDP, and simulation. He has published in journals such as Management Science and Production and Operations Management. Besides research and teaching, he enjoys playing basketball.
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Rami Zwick, Ph.D. joins the AGSM faculty as Professor of Management and Marketing. Professor Zwick joins us after serving on the faculty and as associate dean and director of the Ph.D. program at the School of Business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has also served as the Director of the Center for Experimental Business Research at HKUST. He has previously served as a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Auckland. Professor Zwick holds a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from the University of Haifa, and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include consumer behavior, experimental and behavioral economics, negotiation and auctions, and neuroeconomics and neuromarketing.
Professor Zwick serves as a member of the executive board of the Economic Science Association and has previously served on the board of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He is a member of the editorial boards of Marketing Science, Experimental Economics, and the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising. Professor Zwick’s published work has appeared in such journals as Marketing Science, Management Science, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Economic Psychology, Experimental Economics, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Applied Psychological Measurement, and Games and Economic Behavior, among others. He has also contributed chapters to numerous books and papers to many national and international conferences. He has served as co-editor of three recent volumes of the series Experimental Business Research published by Springer. Professor Zwick has also received the HKUST Business School Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence in the MBA/MSc Elective Teaching Category on two occasions.
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Amnon Rapoport, Ph.D. joins the AGSM Faculty as Distinguished Professor of Management and Marketing. Professor Rapport has previously served on the faculties of the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Michigan, Haifa University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as Head of the Institute Information and Decision Processing and as Dean of the Graduate School at Haifa University. Professor Rapoport’s research focuses on individual decision-making and interactive decision making, as well as bargaining and negotiation, conflict and cooperation, social dilemmas, and behavioral game theory. Professor Rapoport received his B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the M.A. and Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Rapoport is the author of eight books and more than one hundred published papers and book chapters. His published research has appeared in such journals as Science, Management Science, Marketing Science, American Economic Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Psychological Science, Psychological Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others. He serves or has served as associate editor or as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Experimental Economics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Games and Economic Behavior. He is co-editor of the annual series, Experimental Business Research. Professor Rapoport has received numerous grants from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the Hong Kong Grants Research Grants Council, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the United States Air Force.
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Yun Liu joins the facult as an Acting Assistant Professor of Finance & Management Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University, and her B.Econ. in Money and Banking from Peking University.
Her primary research interests are corporate finance focusing on governance, compensation, mergers and acquisitions, and networks.
She has been awarded the Business Dean's Fellowship at the University of Maryland; the Graduate Fellowship at Simon Fraser University; and noted for Excellent Academic Performance, given an Advanced Student Award, and awarded the Sumitomo Bank Scholarship and the Motorola Scholarship at Peking University.
For her teaching, she was the 2006 Winner of the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2006 Winner of the Joseph Wikler Award for Teaching Excellence.
Thomas Kim joins the faculty of AGSM as Acting Assistant Professor of Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt University. He earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University.
His research interests include financial markets, investments, financial institutions, corporate finance, and derivatives.
He has industry experience as a fixed income securities dealer for Kookmin Bank in Seoul, Korea. He also has experience as an operation officer, 1st Lieutenant for the Republic of Korea Marine Corps.
He is a member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and Beta Gamma Sigma.
He is bilingual in English and Korean.