Program professors are tenured, full-time, or adjunct faculty members well respected for both their scholarship and frontline management expertise. They care passionately about their teaching and about making subject matter accessible to each student – through class discussions, case studies, simulations, guest lecturers, applied-learning projects, and one-on-one conversations.

Professors are known for their research productivity, with work that is widely published and cited in influential academic journals. More important, from your perspective, they bring their research and real-world business experience into the classroom. As a result, you’re exposed to new business thinking, practices, and trends ahead of the marketplace, a distinct competitive advantage for you and your organization in the marketplace.

Faculty

Stephen Ryan specializes in econometrics, environmental economics and health economics. His research spans industrial organization, applied microeconometrics, dynamic games and environmental regulation. He has published extensively in top-tier economic journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica and Journal of Econometrics. His notable works cover deman...

Stephen Ryan

Myron Northrop Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs

Prior to earning his doctorate, Professor Baer worked in the German automotive industry and was a member of the founding team of a university-affiliated start-up venture. His expertise lies in the areas of creativity and innovation.

Markus Baer

Knight Family Professor of Organizational Behavior;Vice Dean of Executive Education

Samuel Chun is a Professor of Practice in Marketing at the Olin Business School. He has taught graduate-level courses in: Sales & Marketing, Negotiation, Business Analytics, Strategy, Innovation, Decisions & Values, General Management & International Business, and others.Prior to Washington University, he served as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Busine...

Samuel Chun

Professor of Practice, Marketing

Peter Boumgarden joined the Olin faculty in 2018. His research focuses on the role of structure- both formally and informally- in shaping the innovation of groups, organizations, and broader network systems. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Boumgarden has consulted and run executive education programs with organizations across sectors, often focusing on refining their strategic direction, enh...

Peter Boumgarden

Koch Family Professor of Practice in Family Enterprise; Director of the Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise

A member of the faculty since 2005, Elfenbein is a leading scholar of entrepreneurial decision-making, organizational design, relational contracting, and the social and cultural foundations of market exchange. His research has been published in top journals including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, and the Review of Economic Studies and has earned mu...

Daniel W. Elfenbein

Vice Dean of Research

Professor Zhang received his Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He joined Olin Business School in July 2007. Prior to joining Olin, he was a professor at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Professor Zhang's research interests are in supply chain management, which primarily deals with how to match sup...

Fuqiang Zhang

The Dan Broida Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology

Dr. Meng Run currently serves as Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at Olin Business School. He oversees full-time MBA, specialized master’s, part-time EMBA programs, as well as non-degree training programs in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis and the Brookings Institution.Prior to joining Olin in 2017, he worked at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, where as Ass...

Patrick Moreton

Professor of Practice in Strategy and Management; Academic Director of the Global Pillar

Amr Farahat teaches business analytics and operations management courses at the graduate level. Before his current position at Olin, he served on the faculty and taught in the MBA and Specialized Masters Programs at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and MIT. His research develops mathematical models for pricing and inventory management especially in the presence of product substitution and competition. Hi...

Amr Farahat

Teaching Professor in Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology

Professor Argyres joined the Olin Business School faculty in 2008. He is currently the Vernon W. and Marion K.Piper Professor of Strategy. He has served as Chair of the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, and as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Olin School.

Nicholas Argyres

Vernon W. & Marion K. Piper Professor of Strategy

Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Minyuan’s research examines the interactions between firm strategy and external environment in a global context. Her work on multinational innovation and intellectual property (IP) strategies has been published in top journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal...

Minyuan Zhao

Associate Professor of Strategy

Gupta was appointed dean of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis in July 2005. He has served on the Olin faculty since 1990 and in 2004 was named the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management. Students have given him the Reid Teaching Award eight times since 2001. He was chosen the Marcile and James Reid Professor for 1996-1997. Gupta's ...

Mahendra Gupta

Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management and Former Dean

Tarek Ghani is an assistant professor of strategy at Washington University's Olin Business School and a nonresident fellow of the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program. During 2020-2021, he served as chief economist and Future of Conflict program director at the International Crisis Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Business & Public Policy from UC Berkeley's Haas...

Tarek Ghani

Assistant Professor of Strategy

Professor Feng Tianjun serves as Assistant Dean and Professor of Management Science at the School of Management, Fudan University, as well as Executive Director of the Center for Business Analytics and Operations Innovation and Deputy Secretary-General of the Behavioral Operations & Management Branch of the Operations Research Society of China. His research covers logistics, supply chain, serv...

Tianjun Feng

Assistant Dean and Professor of Management Science, School of Management, Fudan University

John was a Senior Expert in the Strategy Practice of McKinsey & Company, based out of the Washington, DC, office, before joining Olin. He spent most of his 9 years there working with clients on competitive strategy, war gaming workshops and corporate and business unit strategy across a variety of industries and geographies. John helped over 100 clients with war game workshops and developed a s...

John Horn

Professor of Practice in Economics

Professor Gorman joined the Olin Business School in 2020. Her PhD is in Economics and Strategy, augmenting her Masters work in Strategy and distinctive Undergraduate work in Mathematical Modeling. Since 1993 she has also been affiliated with Corporate and Executive Education Programs as a Faculty and Program Lead. She has worked with Executive Education Programs across the country, including Colum...

Patricia Gorman

Adjunct Instructor

Jeremy Bertomeu’s research specialization is in financial accounting, in particular, the valuation implications of the primary financial statements such as the balance sheet, the income statement, the statement of cash flows and the statement of stockholders' equity. His research aims at understanding the trade-offs involved in implementing more efficient accounting choices, and empirically m...

Jeremy Bertomeu

Professor of Accounting

Asaf Manela joined the Olin Business School in 2011. He received his PhD in Finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago in June 2011. He holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Boston University. Professor Manela conducts theoretical and empirical research in finance. His current work focuses on asset pricing, financial intermediation, machine learning, text analysis, and informati...

Asaf Manela

Associate Professor of Finance

Before joining Olin, Professor Hamilton was an Assistant Professor of Economics at McGill University for five years.

Barton Hamilton

Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Economics

Ling Dong’s research in supply chain management involves supply chain design and control, as well as the application of operational flexibility in diverse supply chain settings. Her latest research on integrated risk management combines operational and financial tools to mitigate supply chain risks, and advances technology-driven innovation and sustainability.Areas of Expertise: Management Scienc...

Lingxiu Dong

Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology; Frahm Family Chair of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology

Dr. Liang’s research focuses on the psychological aspect of entrepreneurship (e.g., founder characteristics and funding biases) as well as the impact of dark personality traits in the workplace. She has extensive experience teaching and consulting on topics such as developing an entrepreneurial mindset, leading high-performing teams, and exercising power and influence effectively within organizat...

Alyssa Liang

Visiting Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Huang Jianbing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance, School of Management, Fudan University. His research focuses on capital markets, corporate finance and investment management, covering both theoretical research and practical exploration in finance.With rich teaching experience, he delivers multiple core courses on finance and accounting. Rigorous in academic pursuit, he integr...

Jianbing Huang

Associate Professor, Department of Finance

Professor Yu Zhejun earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2010. His research focuses on sociology of religion, social philosophy and philosophy of social science.He is currently Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Deputy Director of the Department of Religious Studies at Fudan University. He also serves as Director and Deputy Secretary-General of t...

Zhejun Yu

Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Fudan University

Ren Mingchuan is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the School of Management, Fudan University. He serves as a member of the Professional Ethics Standards Committee of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) and holds a Doctorate in Accounting from the United Kingdom.He was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School (HBS). He is ...

Mingchuan Ren

Associate Professor of Accounting

Dennis Zhang joined the Olin business School in 2016. His research focuses on operations in innovative marketplaces and in the public sector. He built theoretical models to extract reliable insights from data and use data to improve existing models. Prior to joining the Olin faculty, Dennis finished his PhD from Northwestern University and worked at Google as a machine learning software engineer.

Dennis Zhang

Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology & Professor of Marketing

Professor Ge Jianxiong is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University. He is a member of the Fudan University Academic Committee and Deputy Director of its Humanities Sub-Committee, as well as a member of the University Academic Norms Committee. He formerly served as Librarian of Fudan University Library.Additionally, he holds multiple acade...

Jianxiong Ge

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University

Professor Bao Jiming holds a Doctorate in Management Science and serves as Professor of Business Administration at Fudan University. He previously served as Vice President and President of Overseas Companies, as well as Executive Director and Chairman of Overseas Companies at SIIC.His main research areas include corporate leadership, corporate organization and human resources, organizational behav...

Jiming Bao

Professor of Business Administration, Doctor of Management Science, Fudan University

Prof. Anyu Wang is Associate Professor of Management Science, Fudan University. He has a Doctor degree of Management Science, Fudan University. His research fields include R&D Organization and R&D Policy, Economic Analysis for Decision Making. 

Anyu Wang

Associate Professor of Management Science

Prof. Xiaozu Wang is Professor of Finance, Fudan University. He has a Ph.D degree of Economics from New York University. His research focuses on Corporate Finance, Capital Market, Transition Economy. During 2003 and 2004, he was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University. In 2005, Prof. Wang was awarded Fudan University Forward Faculty Scholarship for Outstanding Social Science Research Ind...

Xiaozu Wang

Professor of Finance,Fudan University