Yatish Hegde is a lecturer in the A. B. Freeman School of Business. He has a wealth of experience leading the system development for research projects in machine learning, natural language processing and information systems domains. Hegde received his MS in information management and CAS in data science from Syracuse University.
Simin Li joins A. B. Freeman School of Business from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where she earned her PhD in operations management in 2020. Her research interests lie in empirical service operations, focusing on addressing the operational challenges and innovations in service industries and how service providers could use wisely designed business models and service systems to induce preferable customer behaviors, and therefore manage demand and optimize revenue. Prior to pursing her doctoral studies, she worked as a data scientist at Microsoft.
Sean Flynn joins the A. B. Freeman School of Business from Colorado State University, where he spent the last three years as an assistant professor. Prior to that he completed his PhD in finance at Arizona State University. Flynn teaches fixed income, and his research interests include corporate finance (primarily financial intermediation and regulation) and real estate capital markets. Prior to his doctoral studies Flynn worked at the Federal Reserve Board in both research and bank supervision capacities.
Mathias Kronlund joins the A. B. Freeman School of Business from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he served as an assistant professor. He will teach Financial Management at the Freeman School. Kronlund earned his PhD in finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research interests include corporate investments, payout policy, executive compensation, bond markets, credit ratings and mutual funds. His articles have been published in leading journals in the field, featured in major media outlets, and cited by both U.S.
Mauricio Gonzalez has over 30 years of teaching, consulting and university administration experience working in Mexico for Tecnologico de Monterrey and in the United States for Tulane University. Gonzalez has taught courses in over 12 countries on three continents.
Anyi Ma teaches negotiations at the A. B. Freeman School of Business. She comes to Freeman from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she earned her PhD in management. Her research concerns the topic of agency: Organizations often tell employees to take charge and assert themselves – or to be agentic – at work. She studies how agentic employees are perceived by others and the implications of these perceptions for gender and leadership.
Jake Krupa joins the A. B. Freeman School from the University of Miami, where he earned his PhD in business administration. He teaches advanced financial accounting in the Master of Accounting program, and his research primarily focuses on corporate disclosure and information intermediaries, using textual analysis methodologies to analyze how information transfers between corporations and external stakeholders. He has published his research in the Review of Accounting Studies.
Charles Connaughton joins the A. B. Freeman School of Business from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. His research examines how firms can best create and benefit from breakthrough inventions. He utilizes machine learning in his research to bring a broader perspective to previously intractable research questions. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he founded several startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, and maintains an entrepreneurial approach to his academic work as well.
