Alumni Awards

  • PhD Distinguished Alumni Award: Michael Tsiros, PhD ’97, Patrick J. Cesarano Professor and Chair of the Department of Marketing, University of Miami
  • PhD Alumni Leadership Award: Shmuel Hauser, PhD ’86, Professor of Finance, Ben-Gurion University in Israel
  • Outstanding Early-Career Award: Sabrina Volpone, PhD ’13, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business
  • Executive DBA Alumni Leadership Award: Shawn Edwards, DBA ’21, Chief Inclusive Excellence Officer, The Citadel
  • Executive DBA Alumni Research Award: John Alarcon, DBA ’18, Founder and Principal of BEARN

Meet our 2022 honorees. 

  • PhD Distinguished Alumni Award: Yadong Luo, PhD ’96, Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of Management, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami
  • PhD Alumni Leadership Award: Christopher Fiorentino, PhD ’88, President, West Chester University
  • PhD Alumni Outstanding Early-Career Award: Sangwon Park, PhD ’12, Professor, Smart Tourism Education Platform, College of Hotel and Tourism Management, Kyung Hee University
  • Executive DBA Alumni Leadership Award: Darrell Edwards, DBA ’17, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, La-Z-Boy Incorporated
  • Executive DBA Alumni Research Award: Thomas Stone, DBA ’18, Associate Teaching Professor, Business Program Chair, Penn State Abington
  • PhD Distinguished Alumni Award: Jeong Bon Kim, PhD ’86, Chair Professor and head of the Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong
  • PhD Alumni Leadership Award: Thomas Monahan, PhD ’81, John M. Cooney Endowed Professor of Accounting and Information Systems and Dean Emeritus, Villanova University
  • PhD Alumni Outstanding Early-Career Award: Yili (Kevin) Hong, PhD ’14, professor in the Department of Decision and Information Systems, University of Houston
  • Executive DBA Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award: Kevin Mahoney, DBA ’18, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Executive DBA Alumni Outstanding Early-Career Research Award: Ofra Bazel-Shoham, DBA ’17, research assistant professor in the Department of Finance, Temple University

Meet our 2020 honorees. 

  • PhD Alumni Diamond Award: Rita Cheng, PhD ’88, Northern Arizona University
  • PhD Alumni Leadership Award: Donna De Carolis, PhD ’95, Drexel University
  • PhD Distinguished Alumni Award: Vikas Mittal, PhD ’97, Rice University
  • PhD Outstanding Early-Career Alumni Award: Gordon Burtch, PhD ’13, University of Minnesota

Recent Placements

The Fox School prepares PhD graduates to lead their fields of academic research. An education at the Fox School will prepare you to assume research and teaching responsibilities at top research universities around the world. This commitment to interdisciplinary education prepares graduates from all concentrations to tackle problems at the cutting edge of business and management research, something recent graduates demonstrate with their highly productive publication records.

Year First Name Last Name Department Placement
2019 Zhi Cheng MIS London School of Economics
2019 Soojung Han HRM California State University, Los Angeles
2019 Biyun Hu HRM Shanghai International Studies University
2019 Matthew Imes Finance Stetson University
2019 Wonsok Jee Tourism & Sport St. Joseph’s College, New York
2019 Joshua Khavis Accounting University of Buffalo
2019 Jang Wook Lee Accounting Monmouth University
2019 Shinjini Nandi Statistics New York University
2019 Shuting Wang MIS Baruch College
2019 Yuan Wang Tourism & Sport East China Normal University
2018 Ahmad Alothman Statistics Kuwait University
2018 Scott Bruce Statistics George Mason University
2018 Laura Gasiorowski SGM University of Delaware
2018 Ming Ju Finance Louisiana Tech University
2018 Minsun Kim Tourism & Sport Louisiana State University Shreveport
2018 Ji Mi Kim IB/SGM University of New South Wales
2018 Yeil Kwon Statistics University of Central Arkansas
2018 Mi Ae Lee Tourism & Sport Farmingdale State College, SUNY
2018 Zeda Li Statistics Baruch College, City University of New York
2018 Neal VandenBerg Accounting Grand Valley State University
2018 Sangsuk Yoon Interdisciplinary Studies University of Dayton
2018 Xiaochen Zhou Tourism & Sport East Stroudsberg University
2018 Ermira Zifla MIS University of New Hampshire
2017 Bruno Barreto de Goes SGM Florida International University
2017 Mark Diehl Tourism & Sport Coastal Carolina University
2017 James Du Tourism & Sport Florida State University
2017 Wenjie Du Tourism & Sport Florida State University
2017 Johnny Graham Marketing Howard University
2017 Ni Huang Marketing Arizona State University
2017 Jessica Keech Marketing Franklin & Marshall College
2017 Gyu Dong Kim RIHM Korea Insurance Research Institute
2017 Ahreum Lee SGM State University of New York at Oswego
2017 Ezgi Ottolenghi Finance Texas Tech University
2017 Han-Up Park Accounting University of Saskatchewan
2017 Lauren Spirko Statistics Temple University
2017 Jason Stienmetz Tourism & Sport University of Surrey
2017 Shuai Wang Finance Cleveland State University
2017 Shuang Yang RIHM Central University of Finance and Economics
2017 Chi Zhang Finance University of Massachusetts, Lowell
2016 Tom Adams Accounting University of Connecticut
2016 Prince Afriyie Statistics California State Polytechnic University
2016 Euikyu Choi Finance West Chester University
2016 Thomas Craig SGM DeSales University
2016 Kartik Ganju MIS McGill University
2016 Elizabeth Gilbert Statistics Worcester State University
2016 Byung Hoon Jin Accounting Marist College
2016 So Yean Kwack Accounting City University of Hong Kong
2016 Bu Hyoung Lee Statistics Loyola University
2016 Jaeseok Lee Tourism & Sport Antalya International University
2016 Sophie Liang Accounting Binghamton University
2016 Won Kyung Min SGM Fordham University
2016 Sung Namkung SGM Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2016 Michael Puleo Finance Fairfield University
2016 Ryann Reynolds-McIlnay Marketing Oregon State University
2016 Ivan Stetsyuk Finance Universite du Quebec a Montreal
2016 SungYong Um MIS National University of Singapore
2016 Jamie Weathers Finance Western Michigan University
2016 Christine Wegner Tourism & Sport University of Florida
2016 Jingbo Yu Finance Financial Risk Group
2016 Daqun Zhang Accounting Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
2016 Zhewei Zhang MIS Brunel University London
Year First Name Last Name Department Placement
2019 Douglas MacArthur Fletcher II Statistics US Army (Army Cyber Institute)
2019 Ying Peng RIHM Prudential
2019 Xiaoxuan Wu Marketing Charles River Associates
2019 Lili Zhu Statistics Bristol/Myers/Squibb
2018 Samuel Ackerman Statistics IBM Research
2018 Hang Chu Kim Statistics Daishin Securities
2017 Qi Xia Statistics Boehringer Ingelheim
2017 Yongxu Zhang Statistics JP Morgan & Chase
2016 Dwaine Banton Statistics Johnson & Johnson
2016 Aiying Chen Statistics Sanofi Pasteur
2016 Andrew Gehman Statistics Glaxosmithkline
2016 TJ Hannigan SGM Dropbox
2016 Yanping Liu Statistics Merck
2016 Ashley Masterson Marketing Independence Blue Cross
2016 Angela Minster Statistics Earnix, Inc
2016 Jing Xiao Statistics Merck
2016 Chaozheng Yang Statistics AstraZeneca