Profiles in Leadership - UW-Milwaukee

New Faculty Join Lubar School
The Lubar School of Business welcomes the following new faculty members, who joined us this fall:
22 OUTLOOK
Xiang Fang
Assistant Professor of
Production & Operations
Management
PhD – Case Western Reserve
University
Dr. Fang’s areas of expertise
include supply chain
management, production and
inventory management,
stochastic models, applied
game theory, and operationsmarketing
interfaces.
Maria Goranova
Assistant Professor of
Organizations and Strategic
Management
PhD – Syracuse University
Dr. Goranova focuses on
corporate governance,
ownership, executive
compensation, mergers and
acquisitions and corporate
diversifi cation. She has
examined how ownership
portfolios affect mergers and
acquisitions outcomes, as well
as the interrelationship between
corporate governance, executive
compensation and fi rm
diversifi cation.
Scott Hsu
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD – University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Hsu’s primary teaching
interest is in the area of
corporate fi nance. His current
research is focused on initial
public offerings, venture
capital and entrepreneurial
fi nance, corporate governance
and industrial organization.
Sali Li
Assistant Professor of
Organizations & Strategic
Management
PhD – University of Utah
Dr. Li specializes in technology
management and multinational
strategy. His current research
interests include the phenomenon
of technological resource
abandonment in innovation
management, the application
of comparative advantage
theory in strategic management,
and Chinese entrepreneurship.
Cathy Poliak
Lecturer in Production &
Operations Management
PhD – Northern Illinois
University
Dr. Poliak specializes in
statistics. Her area of expertise
is bootstrap techniques and
how these techniques relate to
regression analysis.