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PHBS Welcomes New Faculty
2015-08-28 16:37:01
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From left to right:  Jing Lei, Zixing Xiao, Soo Young Kwon;
Zilong Zhang, Jieying Lan, and Chia-Shang J. Chu
 
Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) welcomes six new faculty members who bring international educational experience to the campus this fall. They are Chia-Shang J. Chu, Jing Lei, Yingjie Lan , Soo Young Kwon, Zhixing Xiao,and Zilong Zhang.They all got their PHDs at the world’s top universities,  achieved academic excellence, and published papers in a number of key economic and management journals.
 
Chia-Shang J. Chu, professor of economics at PHBS, earned his Ph.D.in economics at the University of California, San Diego. Before joining PHBS, he taught at the University of Southern California, National Taiwan University, and Peking University National School of Development. Chu also serves as chief editor of China Economic Quarterly. His research interests focus on econometric theory, time series analysis and empirical finance. He has been published in a number of influential Journals, including Econometrica, Biometrika, and the Journal of Econometrics. His paper, “Panel Unit Root Test,” published in the Journal of Econometrics, has been cited nearly 1000 times and regarded as one of the classic works on unit root test. In statistics, a unit root test tests whether a time series is non-stationary using an autoregressive model. These tests use the existence of a unit root as the null hypothesis. If there is no unit root, the null hypothesis can be rejected.
 
Zhixing Xiao, PHBS professor, holds a Ph. D. in Management with a focus in organizational behavior from the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD). Prior to his hiring here, Xiao was an associate professor of management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS),and then served as the director of the China Research Institute at the George Washington University in the US. His research interests include social capital, social networks, comparative management, and social cognition. Xiao’s papers have been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others, and he is also a columnist for the Harvard Business Review (China), Chinese Entrepreneur ,and Business Review. Xiao is one of the founders of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR).  
                            
Jieying Lan, assistant professor, while new to teaching at PHBS , is hardly new to Peking University. He earned his B.A. in economics and M.S. in management at PKU in Beijing. After earning his Ph.D. at the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Lan was hired as an assistant professor at the PKU Guanghua School of Management. He has focused research on revenue management, operations management, logistics and supply chain management, and has published papers in several international academic journals, including Management Science, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management ( MSOM). Further, Lan has presented papers at numerous academic conferences, including the DSI Annual Meeting Baltimore, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference, and Sixth Annual Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering Conference.

Zilong Zhang, PHBS assistant professor, graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) with a Ph.D. in finance. He earned his M.A. in economics at National University of Singapore and B.A. in economics at Peking University. His research fields range from banking, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions to capital structure. Zhang also earned several academic honors, such as HKUST Dean’s Scholarship for Research Excellence and Best Paper Award in 2013 at the Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting.
 
Soo Young Kwon is a visiting professor at PHBS. He earned his Ph.D. in accounting at Washington University, and later joined the faculty at Korea University, where he also served for a year as vice president for administration and finance. He has also been affiliated with the University of Hawaii, University of Utah, and Nanyang Technological University. With research focused on financial accounting and auditing, Prof. Kwon has published papers in a number of accounting journals, such as Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies. He was honored with the 2005 Best Paper Award of the Korean Accounting Association and published his book Intermediate Accounting  (in Korean) in the same year. Last year, he launched his book Accounting Story, in Korean.
 
Jing Lei comes to PHBS as a visiting professor. She graduated from the University of Maastricht with a Ph.D. in marketing and has held teaching positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Lei’s research focuses on brand management and consumer psychology, and her papers have been published in key marketing journals, such as the Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Marketing. Lei has received multiple research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the University of Melbourne, and earned Dean’s Research Excellence Award of the University of Melbourne in 2012.
 
Since its foundation, PHBS has worked to integrate the best education resources by attracting talented faculty from home and abroad. Today, PHBS has 53 full-time professors, among which are 24 international faculty members.  With such diversity, PHBS is ready to empower its students to excel inside and outside the classroom and will attract more worlds’ best minds in the future.

By Jin
Edited by  P. Young