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August 31, 2007|Volume 36, Number 1|Two-Week Issue


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Five new faculty members
begin teaching this fall

The Yale School of Management (SOM) is welcoming five new faculty members this year, according to Dean Joel M. Podolny.

Andrew Metrick, formerly associate professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has joined the SOM faculty as a professor of finance. Also joining SOM are four assistant professors: Daylian Cain in organizational behavior, Merle Ederhof in accounting, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak in economics, and Oliver Rutz in marketing.


Professor of finance

Metrick joined the faculty at Wharton in 1999 and received tenure in 2003. Prior to Wharton, he spent five years teaching economics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching have focused on venture capital, private equity, corporate governance and decision-making under uncertainty.

“Andrew is an exceptional scholar, with important, creative contributions in a number of areas of finance,” says Podolny. “He is also an outstanding teacher. In his years at Wharton and Harvard, students have consistently recognized him for his teaching excellence, and our students will be equally enthusiastic to learn from him.”

In his most recent research, Metrick created a method that makes it easier for venture capitalists to calculate realistic valuations of start-ups, high-growth companies and IPOs. The model is outlined in his book “Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation,” which was the foundation of the course of the same title that he taught at Wharton. His other research has examined the relationship between shareholder rights and company performance; the economics of private equity funds; how the structure of employers’ retirement plans affect employee participation; and the relationship between insider ownership and firm value.

Metrick has been honored with more than a dozen teaching awards and distinctions, including two years (2003 and 2007) as the highest-rated professor in the Wharton M.B.A. program. In 1998, he received the highest teaching honor at Harvard College, the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award, and in 2005, he received the highest teaching honor at the University of Pennsylvania, the Lindback Award.

He holds a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in economics and mathematics from Yale, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Metrick said of his decision to join the Yale faculty: “I am thrilled to be joining Yale at such an exciting time. Dean Podolny has made the school a destination for faculty who want to engage in cutting-edge research and teaching, and I look forward to working with a fantastic group of colleagues and students.”

Metrick’s appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2008.


Assistant professors

Cain, assistant professor of organizational behavior, joins Yale from Harvard University’s Economics Department, where he was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on decision-making, combining psychology, decision theory and philosophy, and he is an expert on how people think through conflicts of interest. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy, ethics, and organizational behavior, and received a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

Ederhof, assistant professor of accounting, is from the doctoral program in accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received an M.A. in accounting science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ederhof’s research focuses on managerial accounting issues, executive compensation, incentive contracts and corporate governance.

Mushfiq Mobarak, assistant professor of economics, comes to Yale from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was an assistant professor of economics. He has also held positions at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A developmental economist, Mushfiq Mobarak’s recent research has included the functioning of marriage markets in developing countries, the contributions of foreign students in the United States, and how to induce people in developing countries to adopt new environmental and health improving technologies. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Rutz, assistant professor of marketing, joins Yale from the doctoral program in marketing at the University of California-Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, where he also received his M.B.A. Prior to earning his Ph.D, Rutz was a consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he conducted projects in banking, telecommunications, and other industries. His current research focuses on internet advertising and search engine marketing.


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