Kogod Adds Five New Faculty Members to its Ranks
American University’s Kogod School of Business welcomed five new faculty to its ranks this semester. The new hires include two finance professors, one marketing professor, and two executives-in-residence in the management department.
Professor Jeffrey Harris joins Kogod’s finance department as the first Gary D. Cohn Goldman Sachs Chair. Professor Harris, who researches market microstructure and executives’ responses to rule changes, served as chief economist at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2007-2010. This fall, Kogod MBA students had the option of enrolling in Harris’s Financial Management course. Assistant Finance Professor Todd Prono also comes to Kogod from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he worked as a financial economist. Prono’s scholarship focuses on asset pricing and financial econometrics and he will offer courses on the undergraduate level this fall.
Assistant Professor Nelson Amaral entered Kogod’s marketing department directly from his doctoral program. Amaral researches the ethics of marketing behaviors and branding. Amaral will initially teach introductory, undergraduate marketing courses, but hopes to become an established business scholar and mentor at Kogod, instructing students at all levels of business study.
Finally, William Bellows and Tommy White have joined Kogod’s management department as executives-in-residence. Bellows is the co-founder of OneWhitePixel, a mobile applications developer, while White, a Kogod MBA alum, co-founded and chaired the Institute for Public-Private Partnerships. Both Bellows and White previously served as adjunct lecturers at Kogod and even co-taught an entrepreneurship course last year. White will continue to teach his MBA-level entrepreneurship course this fall along with some introductory business courses while Bellows will focus strictly on undergraduate business courses.
