Mak Ahmad
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Mak Ahmad

Lecturer

Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Davis, In Progress
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Sonoma State University, 2017
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Electrical Engineering, UC Davis, 2004

Research Expertise
Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction

Areas of Expertise
Technology Management

Mak Ahmad has 20+ experience in the tech industry working as a software engineer and product manager for Instagram, Salesforce and Google. Among many products, he worked on Instagram Reels, Google partner platform, Istio and also co-founded aip.dev.

Ahmad is currently working on his Ph.D

Eamonn Dolan
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Eamonn Dolan

Lecturer and Former Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence

Master of Science (M.S.) in Management  - Concentration in Finance, MIT, 1985
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Managerial Economics, UC Davis, 1983

Research Expertise
Alternative investing, portfolio management, investment cycles, fixed income

Areas of Expertise
Finance

Eamonn Dolan served as chief investment officer and managing director of CM Capital (CMC), managing diversified portfolios emphasizing alternative investments. He was responsible for asset allocation, strategy formulation, manager selection, process design, and leading the investment team. Currently, he serves on CMC’s

Greta Hsu
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Greta Hsu

Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Greta Hsu is Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, M.S. in Statistics, and M.A. and B.A. Sociology from Stanford University. 

Through her research, Hsu develops understanding of how market categories are socially constructed, how they are used and strategically manipulated by market actors, and how they shape market evolution and competitive dynamics. Her work includes studies of industry dynamics in the cannabis, e-cigarette

Gary Katzenstein
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Gary Katzenstein

Lecturer

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University/Tepper School of Business

Gary Katzenstein’s career interests span the intersection of three areas:  leadership, design/innovation, and international business. Katzenstein teaches courses that include Leading People, Power and Politics, Applied Innovation, International Management/Strategy and International Business Development. Katzenstein has taught at the Haas School of Business/UC Berkeley, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the NYU Stern School of Business, the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, the Rady

Ayako Yasuda
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Ayako Yasuda

Professor, Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 2001

Research Expertise 
Technology Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurial Finance, Sustainable and Responsible Finance. 

Ayako Yasuda is a professor of finance at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, Fellow of the Muir Institute for the Environment, and Fellow of the Private Equity Research Consortium. In July 2024, she was named the Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance at UC Davis.

She earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 2001, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in quantitative

Shannon W. Anderson
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Shannon W. Anderson

Professor Emerita

Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Expertise
Empirical analysis of quantitative and qualitative field-based data as well as survey data to study performance management and cost accounting in and at the boundaries of the firm (e.g., lean production, supplier performance management, customer profitability and lean consumption), integration of strategy, operations management and management accounting practices, and design of cost accounting systems, cost allocation mechanisms, and cost-based transfer pricing policy

Professor Emerita Shannon Anderson is an expert on the design and implementation

Robert Yetman
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Robert Yetman

Professor

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Research Expertise
Accounting, response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives

Professor Robert Yetman is an expert on corporate tax, financial accounting, income tax, U.S. and international financial accounting, and nonprofit accounting and tax issues. His research concentrates on the effect of taxes on business decisions and the response of non-profit organizations to economic incentives. Yetman recently examined why some tax-exempt charities choose to be taxed on their unrelated business income, and how such behavior is not

Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang

Professor

Ph.D. Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Master of Arts (M.A.), Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Management Information Systems, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 1998

Research Expertise
Business analytics, big data analytics, predictive modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning

Professor Yinghui (Catherine) Yang focuses her research on business intelligence, big data, machine learning, data mining methods for

Gina Dokko
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Gina Dokko

Professor

Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Expertise 
Careers, job mobility, organization theory, organizational behavior, social networks, technology and innovation

Professor Gina Dokko’s primary research focus on the consequences of job mobility and careers. She studies how portable experience is, and how peoples’ job mobility and career histories enable and constrain learning, innovation, performance and social capital for both themselves and their employers. She has found that people’s career backgrounds affect not only the knowledge and skills they bring to new

Donald A. Palmer
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Donald A. Palmer

Professor

Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Research Expertise 
The causes, processes, and consequences of wrongdoing in and by organizations, and the role of power and politics in corporate decision making.

Consulting 
Community health needs assessments, group decision-making facilitation.

Professor Donald Palmer studies why otherwise law-abiding, ethical and socially responsible people participate in wrongful courses of behavior. His conclusions are based on an understanding of basic psychological, social psychological, and sociological processes that shape human behavior.

Palmer

Marybeth Kavanagh
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Marybeth Kavanagh

Lecturer

Marybeth Kavanagh joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in 2018 after spending 30 years with IBM Corporation leading numerous software development and technical consulting engagements. Kavanagh’s extensive experience working with clients to achieve critical business goals through technological improvement and organizational change strategies gives her an excellent foundation for advising MBA student teams’ Integrated Management Project consulting projects for client organizations.

Since her retirement from IBM, Kavanagh changed her professional focus and became a Licensed

Paul A. Griffin
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Paul A. Griffin

Emeritus Distinguished Professor

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1974

Research Expertise
Accounting, accounting and financial theory, evaluation of accounting methods, financial information and disclosures

Areas of Expertise
Accounting, Finance

Professor Paul Griffin is a leading international expert in accounting, financial information, and corporate disclosure.

He has published more than 80 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, five research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two case books on U.S. corporate financial reporting. His research has had a substantial impact on the

Mehul Rangwala
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Mehul Rangwala

Continuing Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronics Engineering, India

Lecturer Mehul Rangwala has nearly 20 years of experience in information technology and quantitative and qualitative data analysis. An information technology manager at the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District, Rangwala researches, plans and provides insights to the executive management on IT strategy and the latest technology trends while providing leadership in IT investments, cost/benefit analysis, asset management, IT operations and support.

Paul A. Wong
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Paul A. Wong

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Research Expertise
Financial reporting, financial analysts, corporate disclosures, auditor/audit firm networks and the role of the audit committee 

Assistant Professor Paul Wong joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in 2015 after having worked for Crowe Horwath (formerly Crowe Chizek) from 2007–2011 as a senior staff auditor in the not-for-profit and higher education group.

He served as a board member for Ledger & Quill, DePaul University’s accounting alumni association from 2007-2011 and New Moms Inc., a Chicagoland nonprofit, from 2009-2011. 

His

Marc Ross Manashil
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Marc Ross Manashil

Lecturer

Master in Public Administration (MPA), Harvard Kennedy School
Master of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Marc Ross Manashil is a consultant and educator specializing in leadership and organizational development. His background is in global health and philanthropy, having served in director roles with an international grant-making foundation, a medical relief organization, and an NGO preventing child mortality in West Africa. 

Manashil first studied adaptive leadership while pursuing an MPA

Robert Lorber
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Robert Lorber

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Research Expertise
Executive coaching, performance management, leadership, teamwork, life planning, corporate culture and developing strategy

Robert L. Lorber is the CEO of The Lorber Kamai Consulting Group, a firm formed in 1976. The organization has implemented productivity improvement systems for companies on five continents. The Lorber Kamai Consulting  Group’s client roster has included Kraft Foods, SantaFe International, Teichert Inc., Occidental Petroleum, Gillette, Sutter Health, American Express, Mattel, AlliedSignal, Raley’s, VSP, Teichert Inc

Elizabeth Pontikes
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Elizabeth Pontikes

Professor

Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business

Research Expertise
Category strategy, market evolution, stigma in markets

Elizabeth Pontikes is a professor of management at the University of California, Davis, which she joined in 2019. She was formerly on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as an associate professor and was a visiting associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management. She is an associate editor at Management Science and a senior editor at Strategy Science.

Pontikes studies market categorization, innovation, and technological change. She

Noah Gift
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Noah Gift

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of California, Davis
Master of Science (M.S.), Cal State Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Noah Gift is lecturer and consultant at UC Davis Graduate School of Management in the MSBA program. He is teaching graduate machine learning and consulting on Machine Learning and Cloud Architecture for students and faculty. He has published close to 100 technical publications including two books on subjects ranging from Cloud Machine Learning to DevOps. He is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect and has an MBA from

Chih-Ling Tsai
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Chih-Ling Tsai

Distinguished Professor of Management (Emeritus)

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Expertise 
Regression analysis, model selection, high-dimensional data, time series, biostatistics, application of statistics in business.

Teaching Field 
Statistics

Professor Chih-Ling Tsai is a recognized expert in the practical application of statistics in business, including regression analysis, model selection, high-dimensional data, time series and biostatistics. He has had more than 100 research papers published in academic journals relating to statistics, marketing, finance and biostatistics. He teaches courses on forecasting and managerial

Hollis Skaife
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Hollis Skaife

Professor

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Research Expertise 
International financial reporting issues and corporate governance, including the role of internal control and auditing in the development of high-quality financial information.

A former practicing Certified Public Accounting (CPA), Hollis Skaife earned her master's and Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Iowa. She has taught various accounting courses at the undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. levels and currently teaches financial accounting to Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) students