Alan Eisner received his Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He has a B.S. in operations research and industrial engineering and a M.Eng. in engineering management, both from Cornell University. Eisner has published more than 30 articles in leading journals including the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Advances in Strategic Management,…

Hong Zhou teaches finance and quantitative methods in business at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, and executive compensation. Her work primarily explores corporate governance structures — specifically, how firms leverage corporate social responsibility-related initiatives, and the relevant corporate outcomes. Zhou’s research work has been published in the…

Atefeh Yazdanparast studies social psychology of consumer decision making. Her research focuses on sensory marketing and the interplay of consumers and digital technology. She studies how digital technology is changing, shaping, and challenging traditional consumer decision making. Her current research focuses on ways to compensate for the lack of haptic information in digital contexts and…

Hamidreza (Hamid) Ahady Dolatsara is awarded his Ph.D. degree from Auburn University. He is a data scientist with research interests in health care analytics, finance, and transportation. Using data-driven studies, he employs and improves state-of-the-art, machine learning-based approaches to developing decision-support systems. As one example, he investigated the long-term financial well-being of companies and their…