Exchange Magazine, Fall 2003 - Duke University's Fuqua School of ...

NEWS
Kim A. Wade-Benzoni
Tanya Chartrand
Gavan Fitzsimons
6 FUQUA EXCHANGE
The Fuqua School of Business
MANAGEMENT
Kim A. Wade-Benzoni
Title: Associate Professor of Management
Education: Ph.D. in organization behavior, Kellogg School
of Management, Northwestern University
Most recent employment:
Stern School of Business, New York University
Research interests: Intergenerational behavior, conflict
management, decision making, ethics and social
responsibility in business, inter-relationships between
organizational and societal interests
Hobbies: Raising two sons (i.e., uses up all the “hobby”
time); running (if time)
Favorite books: East of Eden, We the Living
Most important factor in teaching: Encouraging my
students to think critically and creatively through problems
and to make responsible decisions that take into account
the consequences of those decisions to other people and
society at large
MARKETING
Tanya Chartrand
Title: Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology
Education: Ph.D. in social psychology, New York University
Most recent employment: Ohio State University
Research interests: Nonconscious goal pursuit and
behavioral mimicry; consequences of automatic processes
for mood, cognition, judgment, motivation and behavior
Hobbies: Reading, travel, running
Favorite book: A Confederacy of Dunces
Most important factor in teaching: Interacting
with students and demonstrating concepts through
real-life examples
Gavan Fitzsimons
Title: Associate Professor of Marketing
Education: Ph.D. in marketing, Columbia University
Most recent employment: Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Unintended and nonconscious
consequences of marketing actions, decision making in
restricted choice environments
Hobbies: Snowboarding, surfing, motorcycling
Favorite book: 1984
Most important factor in teaching: To provide a classroom
tone and environment where having fun and learning are
not mutually exclusive
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Otis B. Jennings
Title: Assistant Professor of
Operations Management
Education: Ph.D. in industrial
engineering, Georgia Institute
of Technology
Most recent employment: Sloan
School of Management, MIT
Research interests: Stochastic
processes, queuing theory
Hobbies: Cooking, kickboxing,
Otis B. Jennings
snowboarding, yoga
Favorite books: The White Boy Shuffle; Siddhartha;
Fast Food Nation
Most important factor in teaching: The creation of peers
Gürhan Kök
Title: Assistant Professor of
Operations Management
Education: Ph.D. in operation
and information management,
University of Pennsylvania
Most recent employment:
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Retail operations
management, inventory management,
Gürhan Kök
analysis of production-inventory systems, management
of product variety in retail supply chains
Hobbies: Reading, basketball, running, hiking, playing
bridge, cooking Turkish/Mediterranean food
Favorite books: The Dispossessed; Mr. Vertigo;
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Most important factor in teaching: Helping students learn
by interacting with and transforming the class material
so that they make it personally meaningful and able to
regenerate and apply their learning in other contexts