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Faculty N ews Giuseppe (Pino) Lopomo Assistant Professor, Economics Assistant professor Guiseppe (Pino) Lopomo jests that “no child will tell you he wants to become an economist when he grows up.” In his native Italy, college-bound students have to declare a major before they even start at their prospective universities. Instead of initially following a purely mathematical career path, Lopomo chose the field of economics because it embraced a strong mathematics curriculum combined with social science paradigms and rigorous thinking. Before accepting the Fuqua post, Lopomo held an assistant professor position in the economics department at New York University’s, Stern School of Business for six years. His decision to come to Fuqua was influenced by the Triangle’s familyfriendly environment and the opportunity to work with, in his opinion, a first-rate group of colleagues. His goal for his students is to instill in them the basic principles of microeconomics so they can eventually apply them in the real-life arena. “I want to tell them how I think the arena works and what the rules of the game are so they can start playing in it.” At Fuqua, Lopomo teaches a core microeconomics course in both The Duke MBA (daytime) and Cross Continent programs. As an undergraduate he attended Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and earned is Ph.D. in economic analysis and theory from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1994. His research interests include auction and bargaining theory, mechanism design and industrial organization. “Research is intriguing because you’re building mathematical models; so you are thinking about real problems, but you are using the language of math. That is the attracting feature to me.” 18I F u q u a / W i n t e r 2 0 0 1 strengthening Michael Mikhail Assistant Professor, Accounting Michael Mikhail, assistant professor of business administration, came to Fuqua in July from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. The opportunity to work with past colleagues and living closer to his family were the two motivating factors that brought Mikhail to Duke. He attended the University of Chicago with fellow Fuqua faculty members, Richard Willis and Qi Chen, and professor Katherine Schipper served as his dissertation adviser at Chicago. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then changed career paths and received his M.S. in accounting from Illinois, and an MBA and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. A certified public accountant in Illinois, Mikhail is an active member of the American Accounting Association, American Finance Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Business. At Fuqua, Mikhail teaches a core financial accounting course and a tax elective course in The Duke MBA (daytime) program. His primary teaching objective is to infuse in his students the basic accounting principles, regardless of what specialized field they eventually go into. His research focus falls into two categories: learning how different ownership structures affect how aggressive companies are when it comes to tax management and exploring the determinants of security analysts’ forecasting ability and stock recommendation profitability. His industry experience includes a senior consultant position at Arthur Andersen & Co. and a programmer position at IBM Corporation.
the Faculty Patricia Thornton Associate Professor, Practice of Business Administration Prior to coming to Fuqua, Patricia Thornton was an assistant professor in the sociology department at Duke University, where she developed the core entrepreneurship course and the venture capital capstone seminar for the undergraduate market and management studies program. Her courses and guest speaker series caught the eye of a group of Fuqua students who were leaders of the Duke University Network of Entrepreneurs (DUNE), a universitywide organization comprised of both graduate and undergraduate students. Feeling her expertise could fulfill a need, these students approached her to be a faculty adviser. Through a series of opportunities coupled with her collaborative relationships with the management area research faculty, Thornton joined the Fuqua faculty as an associate professor in September. At Fuqua, she is developing a course on evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities and environments for The Duke MBA (daytime) program. Her main objective is to give conceptual tools and experience with practitioners to her students to enable them to evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and to understand the environments in which such opportunities are likely to arise. Her research and teaching interests are in organization theory, entrepreneurship and strategy, with a focus on constructing and testing theories that provide a better understanding of the impact of institutional change on organization decisions. Thornton earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 1993. She recently received the W. Richard Scott award for her American Journal of Sociology article on how change in industry culture affects the sources of power that determine executive succession in organizations. She also has written the often-cited article, “The Sociology of Entrepreneurship,” featured in the Annual Review of Sociology. Fuqua’s New Look on the Web www.fuqua.duke.edu Development & Alumni Relations on the Web www.fuqua.duke.edu/admin/extaff/alumni [You will need your Fuqua World username and password to enter the site] E x c h a n g e / W i n t e r 2 0 0 1 I 19
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