Goizueta Business School welcomed many new faculty members in the Fall 2015 including:
Suhas Sridharan
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Tenure Track
Suhas Sridharan completed her Ph.D. in business administration at Stanford University in 2013. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory University in 2015, Sridharan held a position as an assistant professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Sridharan’s primary research focus is on valuation in equity and options markets with a particular focus on how investors use corporate disclosures in their asset allocation decisions. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review.
Karen Ton
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Karen Ton completed her Ph.D. in Accounting at University of Southern California’s Leventhal School of Accounting in 2015. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Ton held positions at USC and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ton’s primary research focus is related to financial accounting, auditing, and corporate restructuring.
Gonzalo Maturana Falcone
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Gonzalo Maturana completed his Ph.D. in Finance at The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business in 2015. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Maturana held positions at the University of Chile and IM Trust, a Chilean investment bank. Maturana’s primary research focus is in corporate finance, securitization, and real estate. His recent research has been published in the Journal of Finance.
Michelle Andrews
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Michelle Andrews completed her Ph.D. in Marketing at Temple University in 2015. Andrews’ primary research focus is on mobile technologies and consumer insights. Her articles have been published in a number of leading journals including Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review.
Usha Rackliffe
Assistant Professor in the Practice of Accounting
Usha Rackliffe completed her J.D. at Georgia State University, College of Law in 1998. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Rackliffe held a full time faculty position at Georgia State University and has served as Chief Financial Officer for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. She has been published in the Journal of Accounting Education. She is a CPA and member of the bar.
Robert Lippert
Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management
Robert Lippert completed his Ph.D. in Finance and Economics at the University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business in 1992. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Lippert held faculty positions at USC, Georgia State University and Rutgers University. In addition to his career in academia, Lippert has served as CFO of a public company, a strategic consultant and executive development leader with Fortune 500 companies, and an executive education leader with Universities such as Duke, Emory and UCLA. Lippert’s research focuses on the intersection of corporate strategy and finance. His articles have been published in a number of leading journals including Business and Economic Review, the Journal of Financial and Strategic Decision Making, and Financial Management. He is also the coauthor of two books.
