The A. B. Freeman School of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of 11 new faculty members for the 2023–24 academic year. The appointments, which were effective July 1, include the following:
Yi-Jen “Ian” Ho, Associate Professor of Management Science
Previous: assistant professor, Penn State University
Research Interests: Location-based services and advertising, online platforms, artificial intelligence
Chris Hydock, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Previous: assistant professor, California Polytechnic State University
Research Interests: Brand activism, consumer reviews, behavior in queues, retail pricing
Benjamin King, Assistant Professor of Management
Previous: postdoc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Non-pecuniary incentives as independent motivators for entering entrepreneurship, employee mobility, individual and firm-level investments into human capital development
Fariba Farajbakhsh Mamaghani, Assistant Professor of Management Science
Previous: visiting assistant professor, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Research Interests: Sustainable operations management, renewable energy and environmental policy, energy economics
Chris Lipp, Professor of Practice in Business and Legal Studies and Director of Management Communication
Previous: lecturer, Rice University
Research Interests: Persuasion, startup pitches, power dynamics
Larry Merington, Professor of Practice in Management
Previous: adjunct professor, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Teaching Interests: Marketing, merger and acquisition, operations, organizational structuring, finance, project management, engineering, new product development
Christopher Otten, Professor of Practice in Business and Legal Studies
Previous: adjunct lecturer, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Teaching Interests: Insurance coverage, professional liability, LGBT issues
Eric Poché, Professor of Practice in Business and Legal Studies
Previous: writing instructor, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Teaching Interests: Interpersonal and cross-cultural communication
Debra Salbador, Professor of Practice in Accounting
Previous: visiting lecturer, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Research Interest: Taxation
Jeff Salyers, Professor of Practice in Marketing
Previous: visiting lecturer, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Teaching Interest: Consumer packaged goods marketing
Brandon Soltwisch, Professor of Practice in Management
Previous: associate professor, University of Northern Colorado
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, innovation, decision-making styles
“Our faculty is truly the backbone of this institution, so it gives me great pleasure to welcome these outstanding educators and scholars to the A. B. Freeman School of Business,” said Dean Paulo Goes. “I look forward to following their careers
and sharing in their
