Faculty Profile

Brad M. Barber
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Brad M. Barber

Distinguished Professor Emeritus | AAAS Fellow

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Expertise
Behavioral finance, asset pricing, gender, and private equity.

Teaching Expertise
Financial Theory and Policy

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Brad Barber is an internationally recognized authority on investor psychology, stock analyst recommendations, online trading, and mutual fund performance. His research includes the effect of expenses on money flowing into mutual funds, gender-related overconfidence in stock trading, the impact of coordinated trading by individual investors, and how

Mark Smith
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Mark Smith

Lecturer

Mark Smith is a UC Davis Graduate School of Management alum and Director of Public Policy, Western Region for Ducks Unlimited (DU). 

Smith’s primary responsibilities included managing federal and state government relations in 9 Western states (HI, AK, WA, OR, CA, AZ, NV, UT, ID). 

As a member of DU’s government relations team, Smith’s primary duties include policy advocacy with federal, state, and local elected officials, appointees, and regulatory bodies (Department of Interior, Natural Resources Agencies, Fish and Wildlife departments, others), managing DU’s coalition engagements, and

Joe DiNunzio
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Joe DiNunzio

Executive Director, Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Assistant Adjunct Professor

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1988
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Harvard University, 1984

Areas of Expertise 
Business Analytics, Management & Organizations, Technology Management

Joe DiNunzio is a senior executive with more than three decades of creative, technical, and business leadership creating new ventures and building successful organizations. He has extensive experience as a management consulting practice leader, a Fortune 100 senior operating executive, an entrepreneur, and an educator. 

DiNunzio is the President of Fido

Carissa Bouwer
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Carissa Bouwer

Lecturer

J.D., University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Carissa Bouwer is an associate at DLA Piper LLP in Sacramento. Bouwer assists clients in selecting, registering and protecting their trademarks and trade dress. She also advises clients on copyright issues, IP licensing, advertising, social media, sweepstakes, contests and gift card laws. Bouwer received her B.A. from George Washington University in Washington D.C. and her J.D. from University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law. She is on the Boards of the Sacramento County Bar Intellectual Property Section and Women Lawyers of Sacramento.

Robert Smelick
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Robert Smelick

Ciocca Visiting Professorship in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2014 Visiting Faculty, 2011 Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence

Managing Partner and CEO, Headland Ventures, San Francisco, Calif.

Adjunct faculty at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Visiting lecturer at University of Washington; Harvard University; Georgetown University; the University of San Francisco; Duke University; and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.

Served on the boards of several private and public companies, including Kaiser Steel, Willamette Industries, King Broadcasting and The Wine Group (one of the world’s largest wine companies).

Workshops Taught

Leadership Series

Degrees

MBA, Harvard Business School

Shannon Kahn
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Shannon Kahn

Lecturer

J.D., Columbia Law School

Shannon Kahn is currently an associate director for private sector counseling and programs at UC Berkeley School of Law. From 2015-2019, she was an associate director of career services at King Hall. She received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. During her six years at Debevoise, she represented public and private companies and private equity sponsors on

Cyrus Aram
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Cyrus Aram

Lecturer

MBA, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Lecturer Cyrus Aram brings over 20 years of private and public sector experience in the areas of customer strategy, business transformation, planning, program, change and quality management. He has domain level expertise in customer strategy, business process transformation, lean sigma, program and change management, performance management and business controls, and thought leadership. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Sacramento State College of Business Administration.

Aram has 18 years of experience working with progressively responsible

Paul Bianchi
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Paul Bianchi

2019 & 2020 Robert A. Fox Executive in Residence

Masters in Management, University of Kent, Canterbury
B.S., Managerial Economics, UC Davis

Paul Bianchi is an experienced and successful human capital executive and consultant with over 25 years of high-technology leadership experience from innovative companies like NeXT, Apple, Ask Jeeves, PeopleSoft and Illumina.

Bianchi is an alumnus of UC Davis and serves on the Graduate School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council and has been a mentor for students and spoken to students at career workshops and events, including a panel of prominent business leaders addressing ethics and values-based

Judith Kjelstrom
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Judith Kjelstrom

Lecturer

Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of California, Davis

Judy Kjelstrom (aka Dr. Judy) has a rich background in health science and biotechnology education and training, clinical laboratory science, microbiology, program administration, mentoring and leadership. From 2004 to 2018 she directed the UC Davis Biotechnology Program (est. 1986), a novel program that partners effectively across the campus and with the life sciences industry. Although the program is small in the number of personnel, it is involved in a large number of cross-disciplinary projects:

  • The NIH NIGMS T32 Biotechnology
Rachel Chen
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Rachel Chen

Professor

Ph.D., Cornell University

Research Expertise 
Operations and supply chain management, service operations and dynamic pricing

Professor Rachel Chen is an expert in operations research and supply chain management. Her work has been published in leading journals, including IIE Transactions, Management Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research Letters and Production and Operations Management.

Chen has presented her research widely in the U.S. and internationally, including the International Annual Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in

Kelly Wilson
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Kelly Wilson

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Yale University

Wilson is a principal in EY’s strategy practice with more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector in both consulting and industry roles. Wilson's consulting background includes a broad spectrum of banking, payment and technology functional domains including strategy formulation, business assessment, marketing, performance improvement, operations and technology. 

For nearly a decade she was a strategy partner with Accenture, and in industry she has served in SVP and CMO roles with Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Paradigm and

Charles Ansbach
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Charles Ansbach

Lecturer

Charles Ansbach has worked with major corporations nationally and internationally representing not only their interests in discussions as donors to major nonprofits/NGOs but also in appeals for support and partnership made by community groups. In those many interactions, he learned why most corporate CSR programs fail and how to fix them. Ansbach has learned what CSR directors must do to manage their programs inside corporate structures and the practical sides of serving effectively in that role. He also was an early adopter of social entrepreneurism in the 1970s before the name of the field

Amber Beckler
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Amber Beckler

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management

David S. Bunch
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David S. Bunch

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Rice University

Research Expertise: Marketing research, marketing science, decision and management sciences, consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction

Professor David Bunch is an internationally recognized expert on marketing research, marketing science and decision and management sciences. His research interests include consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction, travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles.

Bunch has consulted on transportation issues for public utilities, the Califo

Michelle Yetman
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Michelle Yetman

Professor

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

Research Expertise
Accounting, financial reporting and valuation

Professor Michelle Yetman's research interests are in financial reporting quality, governance and taxation. She expands beyond the boundaries of the commonly investigated U.S. for-profit corporation by investigating international and nonprofit settings. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, National Tax Journal, Management Science, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She

Julie Morris
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Julie Morris

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Harvard University

Julie Morris is an experienced technology executive with over 25 years in leadership roles ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies.  She is currently academic coordinator of the Food & Agriculture Industry Immersion at the Graduate School of Management, UC Davis, having previously served as director, technology innovation at the World Food Center at UC Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, Morris was with Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI), an ag biotech company based in Davis, California.  She was CFO of MBI from its

Hemant Bhargava
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Hemant Bhargava

Distinguished Professor, Jerome and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management | Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society

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Ph.D., The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Research Expertise
Technology management, management information systems, economics of information technology industry, pricing and product design decisions, management decision technologies

Distinguished Professor Hemant K. Bhargava is an academic leader in economic modeling and analysis of technology-based business and markets. His research focuses on decision analytics and how the distinctive characteristics of technology goods influences specific elements of operations, marketing, and competitive strategy, and the

Keith Weissglass
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Keith Weissglass

Lecturer

Keith Weissglass joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in Winter 2018. He brings to the GSM a wide range of marketing and consulting experience spanning the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Weissglass has served in foundational leadership roles at two high-growth B2B software companies, where he specializes in product marketing. He currently runs a consulting practice that provides business strategy and marketing services to early-stage technology startups and social businesses.

Weissglass previously served at Gartner Consulting in their State and Local Government

Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair
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Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair

Associate Professor and MSBA Academic Director

Associate Professor Ashwin Aravindakshan’s research interests center on learning how brands can better allocate their advertising resources (e.g., budgets, creatives, etc.) across different regions and/or multiple media over time. In addition to studying such dynamic advertising models, his research also investigates the dynamics of customer behavior and loyalty to help managers devise better communication and targeting policies in order to optimize their marketing mix at the individual level.

Mike Palazzolo
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Mike Palazzolo

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Expertise
Choice, causal inference, retail, nutrition

Mike Palazzolo's research lies at the intersection of marketing and policy. Recently he has been focused on consumer nutrition, in an effort to learn how marketers can encourage healthier food selection. 

Palazzolo teaches courses on causal inference and marketing analytics for the GSM's MBA programs.

Palazzolo earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and his MBA at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He received his B.S. in management science at UC San