PhD Placements
The Leeds PhD program prepares graduates for academic careers at great universities all over the U.S. and the world. Here is a sampling of recent placements in the areas ofAccounting, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Information Systems,and Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations.
- Jacqueline Wegner
PhD: 2024
Placement: University of Southern California
Dissertation: The Information Gatekeeping Role of Search Engines: Evidence from Investor Trading - Scott Robinson
PhD: 2025
Placement: University of Oregon
Dissertation: Environmental Disclosure in Proxy Statements: Evidence from Shareholder Voting in Contentious Director Elections - Jesse Glaze
PhD: 2022
Placement: University of Texas, El Paso
Dissertation: Fast-Thinking Attention and the Disposition Effect - Nicholas Jasa
PhD: 2020
Placement: University of Nebraska Omaha
Dissertation: Risk Disclosure and Event Impact Mitigation: Evidence from Security Breaches - Tongqing Ding
PhD: 2019
Placement: University of Melbourne
Dissertation: Understanding Heterogeneous Board Busyness: Determinants and Implications - Nikki Skinner
PhD: 2019
Placement: University of Georgia
Dissertation: Changing the Channel: The Relation between Information Complexity and Disclosure Channel Richness - Leah Baer
PhD: 2018
Placement: University of Missouri at Columbia
Dissertation: Are All Interim CEOs Created Equal? Evidence from Investor Perceptions and CEO Behavior - Caleb Rawson
PhD: 2018
Placement: University of Arkansas
Dissertation: Who Let the Secrets Out? Overconfidence and the disclosure of proprietary information - Judith Hermis
PhD: 2017
Placement: Naval Postgraduate School
Dissertation: Corporate Political Influence and Contract Risk: Evidence from Federal Procurement - Andrea Pawliczek
PhD: 2017
Placement: University of Missouri at Columbia
Dissertation: The Effect of Performance Shares on Executive Incentives - Jonathan Black
PhD: 2015
Placement: Purdue University
Dissertation: Assessing the Impact of Credit Derivative Seller Disclosure - Adam Bordeman
PhD: 2015
Placement: California Polytechnic State University
Dissertation: The Effects of Discretion in Accounting Standards on Financial Reporting Comparability - Jessica Weber
PhD: 2014
Placement: University of Nevada, Reno
Dissertation: Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Level, External Assurance and Cost of Equity Capital - Marc Cussatt
PhD: 2014
Placement: University of Washington, Pullman
Dissertation: The Usefulness of Pension Obligation Estimates – Evidence from the Post-Financial Crisis Era - Jeremy Michels
PhD: 2014
Placement: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Essays on Disclosure - Paige Patrick
PhD: 2013
Placement: University of Washington
Dissertation: Essays in Executive Compensation - Troy Pollard
PhD: 2013
Placement: University of Alabama
Dissertation: Sneaking in the Back Door? An Evaluation of Reverse Mergers and IPOs - Kristin Luttecke
PhD: 2012
Placement: University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dissertation: Expectations Management Around Fixed Date Stock Option Grants - Sanghyuk Byun
PhD: 2012
Placement: Sogang University, Korea
Dissertation: Determinants and Implications of Executive Pay Dispersion and Compensation to Investor Relations Officers - Brian Burnett
PhD: 2011
Placement: Indiana University, Bloomington
Dissertation: Essays on Disclosure and Legal Origin - Curtis Nicholls
PhD: 2010
Placement: Bucknell University
Dissertation: The Impact of Accounting & Auditing Enforcement Actions on Firm’s Cost of Equity Capital - Qiuhong Zhao
PhD: 2010
Placement: University of Missouri at Columbia
Dissertation: Credit Rating Agency Efficiency: Credit Watch, Monitoring Role, and Effects of Earnings Management - Greg Martin
PhD: 2009
Initial Placement: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Current Placement: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Dissertation: Shareholder Rights’ Relation to Earnings Management: A Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Examination - Boo Chun Jung
PhD: 2007
Placement: University of Hawaii, Manoa
Dissertation: Information Asymmetry and the Relations between Dividend Increases, Risk and Expected Future Earnings Changes - Stephan Fafatas
PhD: 2006
Placement: Washington & Lee University
Dissertation: Audit Failure, Auditor Reputation, and Risk Management Strategies - Yanhua “Sunny” Yang
PhD: 2006
Initial Placement: University of Texas, Austin
Current Placement: University of Connecticut
Dissertation: Earnings Management as a Response to the Threat of Exchange Delisting - Ran Zhang
PhD: 2006
Placement: Peking University
Dissertation: Cash Flow Management and Its Market Pricing - Veronda Willis
PhD: 2005
Placement: University of Texas - San Antonio - David Paul Weber
PhD: 2005
Placement: University of Connecticut - Jialin Kevin Sun
PhD: 2005
Placement: University of Hawai at Manoa - Sung Wook Yoon
PhD: 2004
Placement: Winona State University - Rafael Lara
PhD: 2003
Placement: Concordia University - Montreal Canada - Dov Fischer
PhD: 2003
Placement: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C.
- Sasha Lien
PhD: 2024
Cold Snaps and Frothy Markets: The Price Implications of Weather Driven Wealth Shocks - Xiaowen Hu
PhD: 2022
Placement: Southern Methodist University
Dissertation: Three Chapters in Finance: New Advancements in Financial Narratives, Investor Incentives, and Consumer Biases - Khaled Alsabah
PhD: 2020
Placement: Kuwait University
Dissertation: Essays on Financial Regulation and Corporate Finance - Subhiksha Swamy
PhD: 2018
Placement: Market Force Information
Dissertation: Essays on Capital Reallocation - Jordan Martel
PhD: 2018
Placement: Indiana University (visiting professor)
Dissertation: Essays in Real Estate Economics - Gustaf Bellstam
PhD: 2018
Placement: Remitly
Dissertation: Essays on Financial Information in Text - Saad Alnahedh
PhD: 2017
Placement: Kuwait University
Dissertation: Essays on Banking and Finance - Bharadwaj Kannan
PhD: 2016
Placement: Colorado State University
Dissertation: Essays on Labor and Finance - Michael Manser
PhD: 2015
Placement: Promontory Financial Group
Dissertation: Competitive Consequences and Effectiveness of Bank Regulatory Intervention - John Jason Lunn
PhD: 2014
Placement: Penn State University
Dissertation: Competition and Corporate Investment Policy - AbdulRahman Al-Taweel
PhD: 2014
Placement: Kuwait University
Dissertation: Corporate Governance and Employee Pensions - David Brown
PhD: 2014
Placement: University of Arizona
Dissertation: Investing in Security Price Informativeness: The Role of IPO Underpricing - Nhan Le
PhD: 2012
Placement: Post Doc at Mannheim Business School, Germany
Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance - Ying Xiao
PhD: 2011
Placement: Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY
Dissertation: Essays in Pre-IPO R&D and Growth - Yang Ho Park
PhD: 2011
Placement: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Dissertation: Two Essays on Options Market - Jun Lu
PhD: 2011
Placement: Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China
Dissertation: Size, Leverage and Risk-taking of Financial Institutions - Jeffrey Merrell
PhD: 2011
Placement: United States Air Force Academy
Dissertation: Essays on Legal Origin and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Louisiana and Quebec - Surasak Ngammekchai
PhD: 2008
Placement: Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China
Dissertation: How to Human Capital Assets Affect Cumulative Abnormal Returns During Merger and Acquisition? - Wei Wang
PhD: 2008
Placement: University of New Orleans
Dissertation: Two Essays on IPO Information Revelation - Moonsoo Kang
PhD: 2007
Initial Placement: Loyola College
Current Placement: Iona College
Dissertation: Does More Informed Trading Necessarily Lead to Higher Expected Returns - Stefan Platikanov
PhD: 2007
Placement: Suffolk University
Dissertation: Essays on Firm Investments and Financial Constraints - Brian Bolton
PhD: 2006
Initial Placement: University of New Hampshire
Current Placement: Portland State University
Dissertation: Corporate Governance and Firm Performance - Gitit Gur-Gershgoren
PhD: 2006
Placement: Ben-Gurion University - Guoming (Alan) Huang
PhD: 2005
Placement: University of Waterloo - Michael Loroz
PhD: 2004
Placement: No information provided - Jing Yang
PhD: 2003
Placement: California State University – Fullerton
- Aakash Saxena
PhD: 2020
Placement: Sykes Enterprises, Inc.
Dissertation: A Method to Extract Context-Sensitive Semantics of a Concept Using Word-Embedding Space and Its Application - Jeffrey Sweeney
PhD: 2016
Placement: Erasmus University
Dissertation: On Value Creation from Knowledge Management Systems - Jose Ramirez
PhD: 2015
Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point
Dissertation: Essays on Military and Civilian Manpower Planning - Mark Zais
PhD: 2014
Placement: Office of the Secretary of Defense
Dissertation: Simulation-Optimization, Markov Chain and Graph Coloring Approaches to Military Manpower Modeling and Deployment Sourcing - Subhamoy Ganguly
PhD: 2013
Placement: Indian Institute of Management – Udaipur
Dissertation: Essays in Scheduling: Applications in Health Care and Manufacturing - Jingjing Li
PhD: 2013
Placement: University of Virginia
Dissertation: Addressing Information Proliferation: Applications of Information Extraction and Text Mining - Michele Samorani
PhD: 2012
Placement: University of Alberta, Canada
Dissertation: Data Mining For Enhanced Operations Management Decision Making: Applications in Health Care - Tomasz Miaskiewicz
PhD: 2010
Initial Placement: The New University of Lisbon
Current Placement: NOVA School of Business and Economics
Dissertation: Bridging the Gap Between Consumers and Designers: The Role of Accurate and Effective Personas - Harald Reinertsen
PhD: 2010
Placement: Smith Stål Øst AS, Norway
Dissertation: Optimization of the Industrial Cutting Stock Problems – Production Scheduling in a Dynamic Stochastic Environment - Zainab AlQenaei
PhD: 2009
Placement: Kuwait University
Dissertation: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Consumer Mental Health Recovery Measures and Clinicians’ Reports Using Multivariate Analysis of the Singular Value Decomposition of a Textual Corpus - Marco Better
PhD: 2007
Placement: OptTek Systems, Inc.
Dissertation: Data Mining Techniques for Prediction in Discrete Data Applications - Fang Liang
PhD: 2007
Placement: PROS Pricing Solutions
Dissertation: The Hyperplan-Based Classification Techniques - Dirk Hovorka
PhD: 2006
Placement: Bond University, Australia
Dissertation: Information Systems Foundations: Four Research Essays - Rahul Patil
PhD: 2006
Placement: Indian Institute of Management
Dissertation: Improved Techniques for Due Date Quotation in Realistic Production Environments - Emilio Collar
PhD: 2005
Placement: Western Connecticut State University
Dissertation: An Investigation of Programming Code Textbase Readability Based on a Cognitive Readability Model - Younghwa Lee
PhD: 2005
Placement: University of Kansas
Dissertation: Developing Theoretical Models of Website Usability - Mark W.S. Chun
PhD: 2003
Placement: Pepperdine University
Dissertation: Embedded Knowledge, Embedded Information Systems: A Resource-Based Perspective on the System Integration Process During a Corporate Merger
- Matthew Meister
PhD: 2023
Placement: University of San Francisco
Dissertation: Inherent Issues with User-Generated Star Ratings - Nicholas Light
PhD: 2021
Placement: Portland State University
Dissertation: Less Is More? Two Essays on Consumer Perceptions of Simplicity and Complexity - Joseph Harvey
PhD: 2020
Placement: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Dissertation: A Limited Attention Account of Information Overload, Adaptive Consumer Attention, and Annuity Decisions - Sharaya Jones
PhD: 2020
Placement: George Mason University
Dissertation: Two Essays Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Shared (vs. Individual) Consumption - Justin Pomerance
PhD: 2020
Placement: University of New Hampshire
Dissertation: Two Essays Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Pain of Paying - Lauren Min
PhD: 2018
Placement: University of Kansas
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumer Curation - Andrew Long
PhD: 2018
Placement: Louisiana State University
Dissertation: There’s No Accounting for Taste: The Role of Unique Features and Explanations in Perceived Product Differentiation - Erin Percival Carter
PhD: 2017
Placement: University of Maine
Dissertation: A Dynamic and Multi-Dimensional Approach to Consumer Well-Being - Julie Schiro
PhD: 2016
Placement: University College Dublin
Dissertation: Using Humor to "Sell" Good Life Choices - Christina Kan
PhD: 2015
Placement: Texas A&M University
Dissertation: Two Essays on Coping with Constraint - An Tran
PhD: 2014
Placement: Drexel University, Sacramento
Dissertion: Consequences and Causes of Broad or Narrow Categories in Budgeting and Planning - Bridget Leonard
PhD: 2014
Placement: Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Dissertation: Stereotype Transfer in Advertising: Process and Moderators - Abby Schneider
PhD: 2014
Placement: Regis University
Dissertation: Message in a Bottle: What Anthropomorphized Package Designs Tell Consumers About Themselves - Ji Hoon Jhang
PhD: 2013
Placement: Oklahoma State University
Dissertation: Two Essays on Consumers' Goal Proximity and Inter-temporal Choice - Kelly Herd
PhD: 2011
Placement: Indiana University, Bloomington
Dissertation: Identity and Product Design - Ethan Pew
PhD: 2010
Initial Placement: American University
Current Placement: Stony Brook University
Dissertation: Regulatory Fit Can Be More Than a