TCU Neeley Faculty Gains Eight New Business Professionls

The Texas Christian University – Neeley School of Business has recently added eight new faculty members to the TCU Neeley faculty, who will further strengthen their rigorous and committed curriculum.

Michael Hitt and Brad Harris will be joining the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Leadership as the Distinguished Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Management, respectively. Hitt comes from an intense background in strategic management as well as international strategy and entrepreneurship. His publications can be found in several prestigious journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Operations Management. Harris’ research focuses specifically on leadership, teamwork and organizational socialization. His work has been featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly, among others.

The Department of Marketing will receive two new skilled professors as well, Yashoda Bhagwat and Sarang Sunder, who will both serve as Assistant Professors of Marketing. Bhagwat’s research focuses on marketing strategy and customer relationship management, among others. Her teaching and research has received several honors, such as the 2014 Graduate Teaching Instructor Excellence Award and 2013 AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow. Sunder, who has been published in the Harvard Business Review and Journal of International Marketing, focuses his research on relationship management and diffusion modeling.

Jeremy (JJ) Kovach and Patti Jordan will both be joining the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain. Kovach, who will serve as Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, served as operations manager for Barricks Manufacturing and focuses his research on new product development and cross-functional project management. Jordan, whose experience includes more than thirty years in distribution operations, business planning and process engineering with Webco Industries, will serve as the Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Supply Chain.

Finally, Grant Farnsworth and Xiaoyan (Winnie) Wen will join Neeley as the Assistant Professor of Finance and Assistant Professor of Accounting, respectively. Farnsworth served for many years as a quantitative researcher and head of quantitative modeling and strategy before joining the academic field. Wen, previously a teacher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, focuses her research on financial reporting, earnings management and management forecast, among others.

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