TORONTO, July 24, 2000 -- Leading researchers in finance and accounting and a prestigious operations management professor are among nine new faculty members who have joined the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The July appointments bring an illustrious cross-section of senior and junior talent in marketing, operations management, accounting, finance, economics, and organizational behaviour to the University to support a period of rapid growth and change at its graduate business school.

"More and more top academic talent is being drawn to Canada and the Rotman School to help build one of the top ten business schools in the world," says Professor Peter Pauly, associate dean, research and academic resources. "As we reinvent business education by developing the world's first integrative business school curriculum, these new recruits will bring fresh perspectives to our faculty complement at one of the most exciting times in our history."

Jin-Chuan Duan joins Rotman as the Manulife Financial Chair in Financial Services and Professor of Finance. Previously, he was professor of finance and Senior Wei Lun Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. His research and teaching interests include derivative securities, and banking.

Jeffrey Callen joins the School as the Rotman Chair in Accounting having spent the last year in the same position as a visiting professor. He received his PhD in 1976 and his MBA in 1971 from the University of Toronto. Having taught at universities in Israel, Canada and the United States, Prof. Callen's research is focused on the interaction between accounting, finance, and economics. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, a top accounting research journal. Most recently, he was professor of accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Oded Berman, professor of operations management, has joined the Rotman School on a full-time basis. Previously, Prof. Berman was cross-appointed to the School from his primary appointment at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He has also served as Associate Dean, Programs at the Rotman School. Prof. Berman received his PhD in 1978 from MIT. He has published more than 100 articles and has contributed to several books in his field. He is an Associate Editor of the journals Management Science, Operations Research and Transportation Science and a member of the editorial board of Computers and Operations Research and the Journal of Service Research. His main research interests includes operations management in the service industry, logistics and software reliability.

Other appointments include:

• Igor Averbakh, is an associate professor of management at the University of Toronto at Scarborough and is also cross-appointed to the Rotman School. He received his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
• Walid Hejazi, a PhD graduate of the University of Toronto, joins the University of Toronto at Scarborough as an assistant professor of economics. He is cross-appointed to the Rotman School.
• Maria Rotundo holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota. She joins the Rotman School as an assistant professor of organizational behaviour. Her research is centered around human resources and industrial relations issues.
• Dan Segal is an assistant professor of accounting. He joins the Rotman School from the Stern School of Business where he is completing his PhD in Accounting.
• Ian W. Skurnik holds a PhD from Princeton and joins the Rotman School as an assistant professor of marketing.
• Ping Zhang joins the Rotman School as an associate professor of accounting. Previously, he was an associate professor of accounting at the University of Waterloo and an assistant professor of business at Wilfrid Laurier University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of financial accounting, managerial accounting and auditing.

Ken McGuffin
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Rotman School of Management
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