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Kinda Hachem

Kinda Hachem

Morris Plan Associate Professor of Consumer Credit

An expert in banking, macroeconomics and monetary economics, Hachem’s research explores the implications of bank decision-making, the unintended consequences of financial regulation and the effect of central bank communication on expectations. In addition to her role as a member of the Darden faculty, she serves as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Prior to joining Darden’s Global Economies and Markets area, Hachem taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before earning her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Toronto, she worked at RBC Financial Group and the Bank of Canada.

B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto

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Joseph W. Harder

Joseph W. Harder

Adjunct Associate Professor

Harder’s research interests encompass leadership, organizational change and reward systems. In particular he studies procedural justice in organizations, the effects of perceived injustice on individual performance, perceptions and effects of leadership, and pay-for performance systems; his dissertation topic was “Pay and Performance in Professional Sports.” 

Active in Executive Education as well as the MBA program, he has taught all over the world. Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Harder taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Santa Clara University. 

He is a passionate baseball fan and has attended 11 San Francisco Giants fantasy camps. 

B.S., Bethel College; MBA, Santa Clara University; Ph.D., Stanford University

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Jared Harris

Jared D. Harris

Samuel L. Slover Associate Professor of Business Administration

Harris is an expert on both ethics and strategic management. His research centers on the interplay between ethics and strategy, with a particular focus on the topics of corporate governance, business ethics and interorganizational trust. Harris has written extensively on the topics of executive compensation and other governance-related topics.

Harris worked as a certified public accountant and consultant for several leading public accounting firms in Boston and Portland, Oregon, and served as the CFO of a small technology firm in Washington, D.C. He consults with several top financial services companies on the topics of strategic management, ethics and compliance.

He recently published The Strategist’s Toolkit, a primer on strategic thinking, with Darden Professor Mike Lenox. He also co-authored the recently published paper “Model-Theoretic Knowledge Accumulation: The Case of Agency Theory and Incentive Alignment” in the Academy of Management Review and a forthcoming paper titled “A Comparison of Alternative Measures of Organizational Aspirations” for the Strategic Management Journal.

B.S., M.Acc., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

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Mark Haskins

Mark E. Haskins

Landmark Communications Professor of Business Administration

Haskins is an expert in the fields of performance management/measurement, corporate financial reporting, talent development and the design of effective learning experiences.

He has written extensively on these subjects and has taught Executive Education programs in these areas for global audiences at such companies as: AES Corporation, IBM, INTELSAT, MCI, Coopers & Lybrand, Aetna Insurance, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Messer Grieshem, Rolls Royce NA, Air Liquide America, MassMutual, Harris Corporation, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force.

Haskins is also author of the The Secret Language of Financial Reports and co-author of Teaching Management: A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants and Corporate Trainers.

B.B.A., University of Cincinnati; MBA, Ohio University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

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Ed Hess

Edward D. Hess

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus

Hess is a top authority on organizational and human high performance. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership.

Hess has authored 13 books, including The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System and Processes, co-authored by Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka; Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial BusinessesLearn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization and Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age (January 2017), co-authored by Katherine Ludwig. His newest book is Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt at the Speed of Change (September, 2020). He has written more than 160 practitioner articles and 60 Darden cases, and his work has appeared in more than 400 global media publications.

B.S., University of Florida; J.D., University of Virginia; LLM, New York University

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Justin Hopkins

Justin J. Hopkins

J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. Associate Professor of Business Administration

Hopkins’ research interests include the effects of regulation on financial reporting, governance and economic outcomes. He focuses on securities and income tax regulation.

Prior to joining Darden, Hopkins worked as an auditor for Ernst & Young LLP and consulted for the Justice Department and Asian Development Bank. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from the Dominican Republic.

B.S., M.P.Acc., Montana State University; Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Alec Horniman

Alexander B. Horniman

Killgallon Ohio Art Professor Emeritus of Business Administration; Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics

Horniman has wide-ranging expertise in the fields of business ethics, developing personal leadership, executive behavior, managerial psychology, diverse work groups, managing personal and organizational change, and motivating to increase performance.

He is a senior fellow at Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and served as founding director of the center — one of the first university-based ethics centers. Horniman’s current teaching and research interests focus on the areas of strategy, leadership, individual and organizational change, high performance and the moral and ethical issues of leadership.

He has served as a consultant for many companies, including IBM, Babcock and Wilcox Company, Irwin Union Bank and Trust, and Sewell Automotive. He has authored numerous case studies and articles about high performance and leadership challenges.

A.B., Middlebury College; MBA, University of California at Los Angeles; DBA, Harvard University

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Young Hou

Young Hou

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Young Hou is a professor in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at Darden, where he teaches core Strategy and Corporate Strategy in the full-time MBA program.

Hou’s research focuses on the dynamic interplay between firm positioning and firm resources in market and nonmarket settings. In particular, he examines how firms reposition themselves to enhance their competitiveness and increase the value of their resources. His work employs computationally scalable machine learning techniques to analyze high-dimensional data, field experiments and interviews.

Prior to joining Darden, Hou worked as a fixed income derivatives trader with PnL responsibilities at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He holds degrees in economics and engineering, statistics, and business administration in strategy.

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard Business School

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Ray Charles “Chuck” Howard

Ray Charles “Chuck” Howard

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Dr. Ray Charles ‘Chuck’ Howard is an Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business. His research on heuristics and biases seeks to advance our understanding of when and why we make suboptimal decisions, and how our decision-making can be improved. As an example, his research on financial decision-making answers questions like: Why do we underpredict future expenses and overpredict future income? How can we make more accurate financial predictions? How can we stay on budget and avoid overspending? 

Dr. Howard’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Service Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has received awards from the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard University. Dr. Howard’s research findings have reached a global audience, including executives, policymakers, and academics in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and his commentary has been featured by CNN, NPR Marketplace, The Conversation, The Brainy Business Podcast, The Morning Beat Podcast, Wallethub, Money Geek, and KBTX News. 

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